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November1213,2011,EconomicGrowthCenter,YaleUniversity,WLHarknessHall,100WallStreet&SSS Eachpaperisallotted25minutes:15forthepresentation,5forthediscussant,5forquestions.Presentersindicatedinboldformulti authoredpapers.Pleaseemailneudc2011@yale.eduifyouhaveanyquestionsorifyouhavenotyetconfirmedattendance/presenters. SATURDAY,NOVEMBER12,2011 Breakfast&Registration 8:009:00AM Location:Commons,168GroveStreet SECTION1 9:0010:40AM SESSION1:HEALTH:INCENTIVES,CHAIR: Location:RoomWLH116 Paper Authors Discussant AClusterRandomizedTrialofProvider SeanSylvia;UniversityofMaryland IncentivesforAnemiaReductioninRural China PerformancePayandInformation: ReducingChildMalnutritioninUrbanSlums DoPublicHealthInterventionsCrowdOut PrivateHealthInvestments?Malaria ControlPoliciesinEritrea IntegrationofMicrofinanceandHealth Education:EvidencefromaRandomized ControlledTrialinRuralIndia SESSION2:SOCIALCAPITAL,CHAIR: Location:RoomWLH119 Paper TheDiffusionofMicrofinance PrakarshSingh;AmherstCollege PedroCarneiro;UCL,AndreaLocatelli; UniversityCollegeLondon JoaoMontalvao;UniversityCollege London

NetworkEffectandTechnologyAdoption: AntiMalarialbednetsandInsecticide TreatmentsinOrissa,India SOCIALINTERACTIONSANDINDIVIDUAL REPRODUCTIVEDECISIONS ToleranceandCompromiseinSocial Networks

Authors AbhijitBanerjee;MIT,Arun Chandrasekhar;MIT,EstherDuflo; MassachusettsInstituteofTechnology MatthewO.Jackson;Stanford University ChutimaTontarawongsa;Duke University MuthoniNgatia;YaleUniversity GaranceGenicot;Georgetown University

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SESSION3:EDUCATIONIMPACTEVALUATION,CHAIR: Location:RoomWLH114 Paper TheSearchfortheRightIncentive:ResponsetoChangesin theIncentiveSchemeofParticipantsinConditionalCash TransferPrograms TheShortTermImpactsoftheOneLaptopperChild Program:ARandomizedEvaluation

Authors GuadalupeBedoya;UniversityofChicago

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TestingforHeterogeneousTreatmentEffectsin ExperimentalData:FalseDiscoveryRisksandCorrection Procedures AssessingtheLongtermEffectsofConditionalCash TransfersonHumanCapital:EvidencefromColombia

JulianCristia;InterAmericanDevelopment Bank,PabloIbarraran;InterAmerican DevelopmentBank,SantiagoCueto;GRADE, AnaSantiago;InterAmericanDevelopment Bank,EugenioSeverin;InterAmerican DevelopmentBank GuntherFink;HarvardUniversity MargaretMcConnell;HarvardUniversity, SebastianVollmer;HarvardUniversity AdrianaCamacho;UniversidaddelosAndes, JavierBaez;TheWorldBank

 SESSION4:INTRAHOUSEHOLD,CHAIR: Location:RoomWLH117 Paper IslamicInheritanceLaw,SonPreference andFertilityBehaviorofMuslimCouplesin Indonesia GrandfathersandGrandsons:Shouldcash transfersbetargetedtowomen?

Authors ElianaCarranza;HarvardUniversity

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SiblingRivalryinEducation:Estimationof IntrahouseholdTradeoffsinHuman capitalInvestment Iscouple'sjointdecisionmakingassociated withfavorablehouseholdconsumption patternsforchildren?EvidencefromCebu, Philippines SESSION5:SELFEMPLOYMENT,CHAIR: Location:RoomWLH207 Paper SelfEmploymentinDevelopingCountries:a SearchEquilibriumApproach SelfemploymentandInformalityinAfrica: PanelEvidencefromSatisfactionData

EmilioGutierrezFernandez;ITAM LauraJuarez;InstitutoTecnologico AutonomodeMexico,AdrianRubli; ITAM SleshShrestha;UniversityofMichigan

JohnMichaelIanSalas;Universityof California,Irvine

Authors RenataNarita;UCL

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Determinantsofincomeininformalself employment:newevidencefromalong Africanpanel LearningaboutComparativeAdvantagein Entrepreneurship:EvidencefromThailand

BobRijkers;WorldBank,PaoloFalco; OxfordUniversity,CentrefortheStudy ofAfricanEconomies,WilliamMaloney; WorldBank,MauricioSarrias; UniversidadCatolicadelnorte PaoloFalco;OxfordUniversity,Centre fortheStudyofAfricanEconomies AnantNyshadham;YaleUniversity

SESSION6:POLITICALECONOMY:NETWORKS,CHAIR: Location:RoomWLH208 Paper Authors CORPORATENETWORKSANDPEEREFFECTS ManasaPatnam;Universityof INFIRMPOLICIES:EVIDENCEFROMINDIA Cambridge Lawandidentitymanipulation:evidence GuilhemCassan;ParisSchoolof fromanaturalexperiment. Economics Whyarelandreformsgrantingcomplete AlaindeJanvry;UniversityofCalifornia propertyrightspoliticallyrisky?Electoral atBerkeley,MarcoGonzalezNavarro; outcomesofMexico ssecondland UniversityofToronto,Elisabeth reform Sadoulet;UniversityofCaliforniaat Berkeley

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 SESSION7:CORRUPTION,CHAIR: Location:RoomWLH113 Paper CanDevelopingCountriesExport Corruption?EvidencefromCorporateTax EvasionintheUnitedStates AuditRiskandRentExtraction:Evidence fromaRandomizedEvaluationinBrazil InstitutionalCorruptionandElectionFraud: EvidencefromaFieldExperimentin Afghanistan OneMandarinBenefitstheWholeClan: PanelDataEvidencefromHometown InfrastructureinanAutocracy 10:4011:00AM BREAK 11:0012:40PM SECTION2 SESSION8:AGRICULTURE,CHAIR: Location:RoomWLH119 Paper EstimationofaDynamicAgricultural ProductionModelwithObserved, SubjectiveDistributions Howaccurateisrecalldata?Evidencefrom coastalIndia TheImpactofReceivingPriceandWeather InformationinColombiasAgricultural Sector SESSION9:TRADE,CHAIR: Location:RoomWLH208 Paper InformationFrictionsinTrade Exportmarkets,householdbusinesses,and formaljobs:EvidencefromtheU.S. VietnamBilateralTradeAgreement MultiProductFirmsandExchangeRate Fluctuations ExportCompetitivenessofDeveloping CountriesandUSTradePolicy SESSION10:CONFLICT,CHAIR: Location:RoomWLH117 Paper IncitingRiots:TestingWhetherRainfallisa ValidInstrumentwhenlookingatCivil Conflict LostinTransition?HowCivilWarViolence CanImpairtheFoundationsforMarket Development TargetsofViolence:EvidencefromIndia's NaxaliteConflict Altitude,GenesandTownNames:AStudy ofHistoricalInfluenceandPolitical Mobilization

Authors NgocAnhTran;IndianaUniversity

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StephanLitschig;UniversitatPompeu Fabra,YvesZamboni;Controladoria GeraldaUniao MichaelCallen;UCSD,JamesLong; UCSD KieuTrangNguyen;IndianaUniversity QuocAnhDo;SingaporeManagement University,AnhTran;IndianaUniversity

Authors BrianDillon;CornellUniversity

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FrancescadeNicola;IFPRI XavierGine;TheWorldBank AdrianaCamacho;Universidaddelos Andes.EmilyConover;HamiltonCollege

Authors TrebAllen;YaleUniversity BrianMcCaig;AustralianNational University.NinaPavcnik;Dartmouth College RafaelDixCarneiro;Universityof Maryland ShushanikHakobyan;Middlebury College

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Authors HeatherSarsons;HarvardUniversity

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PaulineGrosjean;UniversityofNew SouthWales OliverVandenEynde;LSE ChristopherPaik;PrincetonUniversity

 SESSION11:CHILDRENSHUMANCAPITAL,CHAIR: Location:RoomWLH114 Paper Authors OportunidadesanditsImpactonChild GabrielaFarfan;DukeUniversity Nutrition SonPreference,GenderDifferentialsin AlokKumar;UniversityofVictoria ChildLaborandSchooling,andEfficiency LEADEXPOSUREANDITSEFFECTSON TomasRau;UniversidadCatlicade ACADEMICACHIEVEMENT:EVIDENCE Chile,LoretoReyes;MinistryofFinance, FROMANENVIRONMENTALNEGLIGENCE SergioUrzua;UniversityofMaryland LaborMarketOpportunitiesand(Sex Specific)InvestmentinChildren'sHuman Capital:EvidencefromMexico KavehMajlesi;UniversityofTexasat Austin

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SESSION12:PROPERTYRIGHTS,CHAIR: Location:RoomWLH207 Paper Authors States,Law,andPropertyRightsinWest RyanBubb;NYUSchoolofLaw Africa LandPropertyRightsandInternational MicheleValsecchi;Universityof Migration:EvidencefromMexico Gothenburg VillagePoliticalEconomy,LandTenure JohnGiles;WorldBank,RenMu;Texas InsecurityandtheRuraltoUrbanMigration A&MUniversity Decision:EvidencefromChina SESSION13:POLITICALECONOMY:ELECTIONS,CHAIR: Location:RoomWLH113 Paper Authors Thelocalelectoralimpactsofconditional JulienLabonne;OxfordUniversity cashtransfers.Evidencefromafield experiment DeterringorDisplacingElectoral Irregularities?SpilloverEffectsofObservers inaRandomizedFieldExperimentinGhana IncentivestoVote,PoliticalPreferences andInformation:Evidencefroma RandomizedExperimentinPeru Provisionofinfrastructureandelectoral support:Experimentalevidencefromstreet pavement MatthiasSchundeln;GoetheUniversity Frankfurt GianmarcoLeon;Departmentof AgriculturalandResourceEconomics, UCBerkeley MarcoGonzalezNavarro;Universityof Toronto

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SESSION14:PROBLEMSOFCREDITMARKETS,CHAIR: Location:RoomWLH116 Paper Authors WhatDoesDebtReliefDofor Development?EvidencefromaLargeScale PolicyExperiment StrategicDefaultinjointliabilitygroups: EvidencefromanaturalexperimentinIndia ImpactAssessmentofanAssetTransfer ProgramtotheUltraPoor ExternalValidityandPartnerSelectionBias MartinKanz;TheWorldBank ChristopherRobert;HarvardUniversity XavierGine;TheWorldBank KarunaKrishnaswamy;CGAP AlejandroPonce;WorldJusticeProject ShamikaRavi;IndianSchoolofBusiness HuntAllcott;NewYorkUniversity SendhilMullainathan;Harvard University

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 12:402:00PM LUNCH 12:402:00PM NEUDCCOMMITTEEMEETING Location: 2:003:40PM SECTION3 SESSION15:HISTORY&DEVELOPMENTI,CHAIR: Location:RoomWLH207 Paper Authors WhyisPolygynyMorePrevalentinWestern JohnDalton;WakeForestUniversity Africa?AnAfricanSlaveTradePerspective BordersthatDivide:EducationandReligion DenisCogneau;ParisSchoolof inGhanaanditsNeighborssinceColonial Economics,AlexanderMoradi; Times UniversityofSussex TheLastingImpactofColonialEducational PoliciesinNigeria:EvidencefromaPolicy ExperimentonMissionaryActivity SlaveTradeandPolygynyinAfrica SESSION16:SAVINGS,CHAIR: Location:RoomWLH208 Paper CommitmentstoSave:AFieldExperiment inRuralMalawi RevisingCommitments:TimePreference andTimeInconsistencyintheField HoracioLarreguyArbesu;(PhDstudents at)MIT LenaEdlund;ColumbiaUniversity HyejinKu;CornellUniversity

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Authors DeanYang;UniversityofMichigan XavierGine;TheWorldBank JessicaGoldberg;Universityof Maryland,DanSilverman;Universityof Michigan,DeanYang;Universityof Michigan SilviaPrina;CaseWesternReserve University KarenKaiser;BancodeMexico CarlosLever;BancodeMexico AlejandrinaSalcedo;BancodeMexico

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DoSimpleSavingsAccountsHelpthePoor toSave?EvidencefromaFieldExperiment inNepal OntheImpactofMandatoryBasic AccountsonFinancialDevelopment: EvidencefromMexico SESSION17:GROWTH,CHAIR: Location:RoomWLH119 Paper GrowthandFactorMisallocations: QuantifyingandDecomposingAggregate AllocativeEfficiency HeterogeneousMarkUpsandEndogenous Misallocation HowSubstitutableareFixedFactorsin Production?EvidencefromPreIndustrial England India'sMysteriousManufacturingMiracle

Authors AjayShenoy;UniversityofMichigan

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MichaelPeters;MIT JoshuaWilde;BrownUniversity

AlbertBollard;StanfordUniversity PeterKlenow;StanfordUniversity GunjanSharma;Univ.ofMissouri

SESSION18:MIGRATION&MOBILITY,CHAIR: Location:RoomWLH116 Paper MagicalTransition?Intergenerational EducationalandOccupationalMobilityin RuralChina:19882002 DeclineinSocialMobility:Unfulfilled AspirationsamongEgypt'sEducatedYouth MexicansinAmerica

Authors M.ShaheEmran;GeorgeWashington University,YanSun;George WashingtonUniversity ChristineBinzel;DartmouthCollege MariaGenoni;DukeUniversity,Luis Rubalcava;CIDE,GracielaTeruel;Calif. CenterforPopulationResearch DuncanThomas;DukeUniversity JoyceChen;TheOhioStateUniversity

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ChineseImmigrationtotheUnitedStates: History,SelectivityandHumanCapital SESSION19:HEALTH:OUTCOMES,CHAIR: Location:RoomWLH113 Paper TheEffectofAccesstoAIDSTreatmenton EmploymentOutcomesinSouthAfrica ExploitingExternalitiestoEstimatethe LongTermEffectsofEarlyChildhood Deworming EarlyLifeHealthandEducational Performance:EvidenceFromRainfall FluctuationsintheBrazilianNortheast HealthInvestmentandAgricultural Productivity:EvidencefromaCluster randomizedControlledTrialinKatete District,Zambia SESSION20:EDUCATION,CHAIR: Location:RoomWLH117 Paper AreReturnstoEducationontheDeclinein VenezuelaandDoesMissionSucreHavea RoletoPlay? PublicEducationQualityandPrivateSchool Enrollment BuyMore,PayLess:Measuringthe PerformanceofPakistaniContractTeachers ExamversusDistrictBasedSelection: ImplicationsonHouseholdSortingand IntergenerationalMobility SESSION21:LABOR:INCENTIVES,CHAIR: Location:RoomWLH114 Paper Efficientnonmarketinstitutionwith imperfectlabormarket:cooperative sharingfortropicalforestclearing Biddingupagriculturalwages:publicworks andrurallabormarkets IncentivesandSocialPreferencesina TraditionalLaborContract:Evidencefrom RicePlantingFieldExperimentsinthe Philippines DoWomeninChinaCompeteJustasmuch asMen?ExperimentalEvidencefroma CulturalLaboratory

Authors ZoeMcLaren;UniversityofMichigan OwenOzier;UniversityofCalifornia, Berkeley RudiRocha;PUCRio,RodrigoSoares; PUCRio GuntherFink;HarvardUniversity FelixMasiye;UniversityofZambia

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Authors RuthUwaifoOyelere;GeorgiaInstitute ofTechnology FernandaEstevan;UniversityofOttawa NatalieBau;HarvardUniversity JishnuDas;WorldBank YongSukLee;BrownUniversity

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Authors YoshitoTakasaki;UniversityofTsukuba, OliverCoomes;McGillUniversity, ChristianAbizaid;UniversityofToronto, StephanieBrisson;McGillUniversity ClementImbert;ParisSchoolof Economics JunGoto;UniversityofTokyo TakeshiAida;UniversityofTokyo KeitaroAoyagi;UniversityofTokyo YasuyukiSawada;UniversityofTokyo JaneZhang;UCBerkeley

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 3:404:00PM BREAK SECTION4 4:005:40PM SESSION22:POLITICALECONOMY,CHAIR: Location:RoomWLH113 Paper RedistributivePoliticsandCashTransfer Programs PoliticalConnectionandGovernment Patronage:EvidencefromChinese ManufacturingFirms PoliticalReformandElitePersistence:Term LimitsandPoliticalDynastiesinthe Philippines ElectoralCompetitionandDeforestation: MicroEvidencefromKenya

Authors MatteoBobba;ParisSchoolof Economics BeiQin;StockholmUniversity

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PabloQuerubin;Massachusetts InstituteofTechnology AmeetMorjaria;HarvardUniversity

SESSION23:HEALTH:LEARNING&BELIEFS,CHAIR: Location:RoomWLH207 Paper Authors Mother'sEducationandInfantHealth: ShuangZhang;CornellUniversity EvidencefromClosureofHighSchoolsin China HowPerceptionsofHIVRiskExposure AffectLifeCycleFertility:Evidencefrom RuralMalawi Learning,Misallocation,andTechnology Adoption:EvidencefromNewMalaria TherapyinTanzania RiskCompensation,Beliefs,andMale Circumcision:ExperimentalEvidencefrom Kisumu,Kenya SESSION24:RISK,CHAIR: Location:RoomWLH119 Paper IncentivizingCalculatedRiskTaking GilShapira;TheWorldBank

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AchyutaAdhvaryu;YaleUniversity

NicholasWilson;WilliamsCollege WentaoXiong;HarvardBusinessSchool

AreIndividualRiskPreferencesTime Inconsistent?TemporalConstrualand TimedependentChangesinRisk Preference. HowDoesRiskManagementInfluence ProductionDecisions?Evidencefroma FieldExperiment RiskandReciprocityOvertheMobilePhone Network:EvidencefromRwanda

Authors ShawnCole;HarvardBusinessSchool MartinKanz;TheWorldBank LeoraKlapper;TheWorldBank PlamenNikolov;HarvardUniversity

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ShawnCole;HarvardBusinessSchool XavierGine;TheWorldBank JamesVickery;FederalReserveBankof NewYork JoshuaBlumenstock;UCBerkeley NathanEagle;SantaFeInstitute MarcelFafchamps;OxfordUniversity

SESSION25:FIRMS,CHAIR: Location:RoomWLH117 Paper SuccessandfailureofAfricanexporters TransportCostsandEconomicGeography: EvidencefromIndonesia'sHighways CanMinimumWagesCauseaBigPush? EvidencefromIndonesia SchumpeterianGrowthforMicro EnterprisesinDevelopingCountries: EvidencefromPhoneCardWholesalersin Mongolia SESSION26:MIGRATION,CHAIR: Location:RoomWLH208 Paper UndocumentedMigrationwithEndogenous CoyotePrices TransnationalTrafficking,LawEnforcement andVictimProtection:AMiddlemans Perspective RemittancesandRashomon Mobilesandmobility:TheEffectofMobile PhonesonMigrationinNiger

Authors LeonardoIacovone;WorldBank AlexanderRothenberg;Universityof California,Berkeley JeremyMagruder;UCBerkeley

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MongoljinBatsaikhan;BrownUniversity

Authors AureodePaula;Universityof Pennsylvania,TimothyHalliday; UniversityofHawaiiatManoa RandallAkee;TuftsUniversity

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DeveshKapur JennyAker;TuftsUniversity,Centerfor GlobalDevelopment,MichaelClemens; CenterforGlobalDevelopment ChristopherKsoll;UniversityofOxford

SESSION27:INSTITUTIONS,CHAIR: Location:RoomWLH114 Paper EmpoweringWidowsthroughLand Inheritance:TheEffectonWomen's MarriageMigrationinRuralTanzania CrimeandMicroenterpriseGrowth: EvidencefromMexico GroupSizeandCooperation:Theoryand EvidencefromNepal ProtectionthroughProofofAge.Birth RegistrationandChildLaborinEarly20th CenturyUSA. SESSION28:POVERTY,CHAIR: Location:RoomWLH116 Paper MultidimensionalPovertyandInterlocking PovertyTraps:FrameworkandApplication toEthiopianHouseholdPanelData CanSocialBenefitsReachthePoorest Families? CanEmploymentProgramsReducePoverty andSocialInstability?Experimental evidencefromaUgandanaidprogram SupplyandDemandConstraintson EducationalInvestment:Evidencefrom GarmentSectorJobsandtheFemale StipendPrograminBangladesh

Authors YUYAKUDO;InstituteofDeveloping Economies(IDEJETRO) ArielBenYishay;UniversityofNew SouthWales,SarahPearlman;Vassar College JamesChoy;YaleUniversity SonjaFagernas;UniversityofSussex

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Authors SungilKwak;GeorgeWashington university,StephenSmith;George WashingtonUniversity MichaelAmior;UCL,PedroCarneiro; UCL,EmanuelaGalasso;TheWorld Bank,RitaGinja;UppsalaUniversity ChristopherBlattman;YaleUniversity NathanFiala;WorldBank,Sebastian Martinez;WorldBank RachelHeath;UniversityofWashington andtheWorldBank

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DINNER&POSTERSESSION Authors BorisGershman;BrownUniversity EmilyBreza;MIT,ArunChandrasekhar;MIT,Horacio LarreguyArbesu;(PhDstudentsat)MIT PaoloCasini;KULeuven,LoreVandewalle;FUNDP LenaEdlund;ColumbiaUniversity ElaineLiu;UniversityofHouston JinTanLiu;NationalTaiwanUniversity TianranDai;BrownUniversity

Poster TheTwoSidesofEnvy MobilizingInvestmentThroughSocialNetworks: EvidencefromaLabExperimentintheField PublicGoodProvisioninIndianRuralAreas:the ReturnstoCollectiveActionbySelfHelpGroups AForeignAffair:FertilityandDivorceResponsesof LocalWomenDuetotheInfluxofForeignBrides TheImpactofYoungCohortSizeonAdultEducational Upgrading:EvidencefromPopulationControlPolicies inChina LessGuns,MoreCrime:EvidencefromDisarmament inUganda TheImpactofDrinkingWaterInfrastructureonLabor AllocationandFarmProduction:Evidencefromthe KyrgyzRepublic AreSurveyMeasuresofTrustCorrelatedwith ExperimentalTrust?EvidencefromCameroon DoesAttendingaMoreSelectiveSchoolImprove StudentOutcomes? TESTINGMODELSOFSOCIALLEARNINGON NETWORKS:EVIDENCEFROMAFRAMEDFIELD EXPERIMENT TheEffectofTradeLiberalizationonChildMortality andSexRatios:EvidencefromRuralIndia LocalGovernmentCapabilityandPublicSpending Efficacy:EvidencefromaDecentralizedGovernment TransferPrograminIndonesia TheBargainingPowerofMissingWomen:Evidence fromIndianSanitationPolicy ElNioandMexicanchildren:Mediumtermeffects ofearlylifeweathershocksoncognitiveandhealth outcomes

Lauraralston;MIT RobynMeeks;Harvard

AlvinEtangNdip;YaleUniversity KehindeAjayi;BostonUniversity JuanXandri;MIT,ArunChandrasekhar;MIT,Horacio LarreguyArbesu;(PhDstudentsat)MIT SAnukriti;ColumbiaUniversity ToddKumler;ColumbiaUniversity ChikakoYamauchi;AustralianNationalUniversity

YanivStopnitzky;YaleUniversity ArturoAguilarEsteva;HarvardUniversity,Marta Vicarelli;YaleUniversity

SUNDAY,NOVEMBER13,2011 BREAKFAST 8:009:00AM 9:0010:40AM SECTION5 SESSION29:LABORMARKETS,DISASTER&RISK,CHAIR: Location:RoomWLH117 Paper Authors NaturalDisastersandLaborMarkets MartinaKirchberger;Universityof Oxford TheImpactofDisasterAidQuality:Job ManabuNose;WorldBank ChoiceafteraNaturalDisaster JobUncertainty:Theimplicationsof SusanGodlonton;Universityof uncertainemploymentinadevelopment Michigan setting ChildrenoftheRevolution:FetalandChild ChristineValente;Universityof HealthamidstViolentCivilConflict Sheffield

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 SESSION30:POLITICALECONOMY&DECENTRALIZATION,CHAIR: Location:RoomWLH211 Paper Authors Decentralization,CollusionandCoalmine RuixueJia;StockholmUniversity DeathsinChina TheAdverseEffectsofSunshine:Evidence EdmundMalesky;UCSD fromaFieldExperimentonLegislative NgocAnhTran;IndianaUniversity TransparencyinanAuthoritarianAssembly TaxMe,ButSpendWisely:ThePolitical LucieGadenne;ParisSchoolof EconomyofTaxes,TheoryandEvidence Economics fromBrazilianLocalGovernments Politicsandthegeographicallocationof publicfundsinasemidemocracy.Thecase ofGhana,19962004. PierreANDRE;UniversityofCergy Pontoise SandrineMespleSomps;DIAL,IRDParis

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SESSION31:HEALTH:LONGRUNINVESTMENT,CHAIR: Location:RoomWLH208 Paper Authors Height,HeightShrinkageandHealthat OlderAges:EvidencefromChina WeiHuang;PekingUniversityand Harvard,XiaoyanLei;PekingUniversity GeertRidder;UniversityofSouthern California,JohnStrauss;Universityof SouthernCalifornia,YaohuiZhao; PekingUniversity JenniferMeredith;Universityof Washington,JonathanRobinson;UC SantaCruz,SarahWalker;Universityof WisconsinBruceWydick;Universityof SanFrancisco KatrinaKosec;IFPRI AvaGailCas;DukeUniversity

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KeepingtheDoctorAway:Experimental EvidenceonInvestmentinPreventative HealthProducts

TheChildHealthImplicationsofPrivatizing theUrbanWaterSupplyinAfrica LongrunCognitiveandEducationImpacts ofEarlyLifePublicHealthIntervention: EvidencefromaSafeMotherhoodProgram inIndonesia SESSION32:MICROCREDIT,CHAIR: Location:RoomWLH119 Paper FundingMicrofinanceunderAsymmetric Information DoesflexibilityinMicrofinancepayoff? Evidencefromarandomizedevaluationin ruralIndia OntheImpactofMicrocredit:Evidence fromaRandomizedInterventioninRural Ethiopia SexandCredit:IsThereaGenderBiasin Microfinance?

Authors EricVanTassel;FloridaAtlantic University KristinaCzura;GoeteUniversity Frankfurt,DeanKarlan;YaleUniversity SendhilMullainathan;Harvard University jaikishandesai;ChildrenandYouth Unit,HumanDevelopmentNetwork KristinJohnson;DukeUniversity AlessandroTarozzi;DukeUniversity ThorstenBeck;TilburgUniversity PatrickBehr;BrazilianSchoolofPublic andBusinessAdministration AndreasMadestam;BocconiUniversity

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 SESSION33:NATURALRESOURCES,CHAIR: Location:RoomSSS114 Paper TheEvolvingImpactoftheOgallalaAquifer: AgriculturalAdaptationtoGroundwater andClimate EvolvingPatternsofFirewoodCollectionsin Nepal:AHouseholdPanelAnalysis1995 2003 ForestConservationandSlippage:Evidence fromMexico'sNationalPaymentsfor EcosystemServicesProgram NaturalResourcesandLocalCommunities: EvidencefromaPeruvianGoldMine SESSION34:INEQUALITY,CHAIR: Location:RoomWLH207 Paper ConsumptionandSocialIdentity:Evidence fromIndia TheConditionalGini:Estimationand ApplicationtotheRelationshipbetween Wealth,FinancialUse,andIncome Inequality MeasuringRiskbyLookingatChangesin Inequality It'sAllAboutMeE

Authors RichardHornbeck;HarvardUniversity andNBER,PinarKeskin;Wellesley College jeanmariebaland;departmentof economics,FrancoisLibois;University ofNamur,DilipMookherjee;Boston University JenniferAlixGarcia;Universityof Wisconsin,ElizabethShapiro;Duke University,KatharineSims;Amherst College FernandoAragonSanchez;Simon FraserUniversity,JuanPabloRud;Royal Holloway,UniversityofLondon

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Authors ZahraSiddique;IZA ChristianAhlin;MichiganState University

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EthanLigon;UniversityofCalifornia, Berkeley LantPritchett;HarvardKennedySchool ofGovernment SalimahSamji

SESSION35:HISTORY&DEVELOPMENTII,CHAIR: Location:RoomWLH116 Paper Authors WhyIsAfricaUrbanizedDespiteBeing RemiJedwab;LondonSchoolof Poor?EvidenceFromGhanaandIvory Economics/PSE Coast ShadowsofTheCaptainoftheMenof SoniaBhalotra;UniversityofBristol Death:LongRunImpactsofEarlyLife PneumoniaExposure WarandInquisition:socialcontrolinthe JordiVidalRobert;BostonUniversity Spanishempire 10:4011:00AM BREAK

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 11:0012:40PM YaleEconomicGrowthCenter50thAnniversaryPlenarySessionLocation:RoomSSS114 Location:RoomSSS114 WhatHaveWeLearnedfromDevelopmentEconomics? Speakers:DaronAcemoglu,AbhijitBanerjee,AngusDeaton,andAlaindeJanvry 12:402:00PM LUNCH SECTION6 2:003:40PM SESSION36:FIRMS&CAPITAL,CHAIR: Location:RoomSSS114 Paper Authors Discussant OwnershipStructureandEconomic SendhilMullainathan;Harvard Outcomes:TheCaseofSugarcaneMillsin University,SandipSukhtankar; India DartmouthCollege Experimentalvs.StructuralEstimatesofthe ReturntoCapitalinMicroenterprises CreditMisplaced?TestingforHousehold levelFinancialConstraintstoEnterprise Activity SESSION37:MIGRATION&RISK,CHAIR: Location:RoomWLH207 Paper LaborMarketChangesinResponseto Immigration:EvidencefromInternal MigrationDrivenbyWeatherShocksin Indonesia DoNaturalDisastersReallyLeadtoForced Migration?EvidencefromIndonesia MigrationandRiskSharingNetworks UnderinvestmentinProfitable TechnologieswhenExperimentationis Costly:EvidencefromaMigration ExperimentinBangladesh DanielKeniston;Yale RussellToth;CornellUniversity

Authors MariekeKleemans;U.C.Berkeley JeremyMagruder;UCBerkeley

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ChunWingTse;BostonUniversity

MelanieMorten,YaleUniversity GharadBryan;LSE,Shyamal Chowdhury;UniversityofSydney AhmedMobarak;Schoolof Management

SESSION38:POLITICALECONOMY&ECONOMICPERFORMANCE,CHAIR: Location:RoomWLH208 Paper Authors RevisitingAfricanAgriculture:Institutional RobertBates;HarvardUniversity ChangeandProductivityGrowth StevenBlock;TuftsUniversity Commontongue:Theimpactoflanguage TarunJain;IndianSchoolofBusiness oneconomicperformance TheEconomicandSpilloverEffectsof MelissaDell;MIT OrganizedCrime:Evidencefromthe MexicanDrugWar LongrunEffectsofVillagizationinTanzania PhilipOsafoKwaako;Harvard University

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 SESSION39:HEALTH:HIV/FERTILITY,CHAIR: Location:RoomWLH211 Papers FertilityResponsestoPreventionof MothertoChildTransmission(PMTCT) ScaleUpinZambia IncomeShocksandHIV

Authors NicholasWilson;WilliamsCollege

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UsingpaneldatatopartiallyidentifyHIV prevalencewhenHIVstatusisnotmissing atrandom EvaluatingtheMexicoCityPolicy:How internationalaidaffectsfertilityoutcomes inGhana

ErickGong;MiddleburyCollege KellyJones;IFPRI&UCBerkeley MarshallBurke;BerkeleyorStanford BrunoArpino;BocconiUniversity ElisabettaDeCao;BocconiUniversity FrancoPeracchi;TorVergataUniversity KellyJones;IFPRI&UCBerkeley

SESSION40:EDUCATIONTRANSITIONS,CHAIR: Location:RoomWLH117 Paper Authors SelectiveSchoolsandEducationDecisions: JacobusdeHoop;TinbergenInstitute EvidencefromMalawi BumpyRides:SchooltoWorkTransitionsin ToddPugatch;UniversityofMichigan SouthAfrica CreditConstraintsforHigherEducation AlexSolis;UniversityofCalifornia Berkeley CrossingBoundaries:Gender,Casteand HananJacoby;TheWorldBank SchoolinginRuralPakistan GhazalaMansuri;TheWorldBank SESSION41:INSURANCE,CHAIR: Location:RoomWLH119 Paper Authors SocialNetworksandtheDevelopmentof InsuranceMarket:Evidencefrom RandomizedExperimentsinChina DoesAfricaNeedaRottenKinTheorem? ExperimentalEvidencefromVillage Economies SocialNetworks,FinancialLiteracyand IndexInsurance EvaluatingSeasonalFoodSecurity ProgramsinEastIndonesia JingCai;UCBerkeley

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PamelaJakiela;WashingtonUniversity inSt.Louis,OwenOzier;Universityof California,Berkeley XavierGine;TheWorldBank DeanKarlan;YaleUniversity MuthoniNgatia;YaleUniversity KarnaBasu;HunterCollege,CUNY MaisyWong;UniversityofPennsylvania

SESSION42:IMPROVINGCREDITMARKETS,CHAIR: Location:RoomWLH116 Paper Authors PromiscuousPrediction:ApplyingProject ChristopherRobert;HarvardUniversity FinanceModelsinLowincomeSettings TheRoleofAccountantsinIndianSelfHelp LoreVandewalle;FUNDP Groups:TheRiskofAppropriatingUnequal SharesofBankLoans. FromLoanstoLabor:Microcredit, LeahNelson;UniversityofCalifornia EntrepreneurshipandChildLabor SanDiego UnpackingtheCausalChainofFinancial FenellaCarpena;Universityof Literacy California,Berkeley,ShawnCole; HarvardBusinessSchool,Jeremy Shapiro;YaleUniversity,BilalZia;World Bank

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FromLoanstoLabor:Microcredit, EntrepreneurshipandChildLabor