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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2013

Development Economics Workshop

Duncan Thomas, Esther Duflo, and Christopher Udry, Organizers

July 25-26, 2013

Royal Sonesta Hotel
University BC Meeting Room
40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard
Cambridge, Massachusetts

PROGRAM

WEDNESDAY, JULY 24:
6:00 pm	Clambake, Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Boulevard, Cambridge, MA
THURSDAY, JULY 25:
8:15 am	Coffee and Pastries
8:45 am	Vivi Alatas, The World Bank Abhijit Banerjee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Arun G. Chandrasekhar, Microsoft Research New England Rema Hanna, Harvard University and NBER Benjamin A. Olken, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Network Structure and the Aggregation of Information: Theory and Evidence from Indonesia
9:45 am	Break
10:00 am	Jing Cai, University of Michigan Alain de Janvry, University of California at Berkeley Elisabeth Sadoulet, University of California at Berkeley Social Networks and the Decision to Insure
11:00 am	Break
11:15 am	Brian Greaney, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Joseph P. Kaboski, University of Notre Dame and NBER Eva Van Leemput, University of Notre Dame Can Self-Help Groups Really Be 'Self-Help'?
12:15 pm	Lunch
	Joint session with the Childrens and Labor Studies Groups
1:15 pm	Orazio Attanasio, University College London and NBER Sarah Cattan, University of Chicago Emla Fitzsimons, Institute for Fiscal Studies Costas Meghir, Yale University and NBER A Production Function for Child Development
2:15 pm	Taryn Dinkelman, Dartmouth College and NBER Can Spatial Mobility Insure Families against Long-term Impacts of Economic Shocks? Evidence from Drought and Disability in South Africa
3:15 pm	Break
3:45 pm	Erlend Berg, University of Oxford Maitreesh Ghatak, London School of Economics Manjula Ramachandran, Institute for Social and Economic Change Rajasekhar Durgam, Institute for Social and Economic Change Sanchari Roy, University of Warwick Motivating Knowledge Agents: Can Incentive Pay Overcome Social Distance?
4:45 pm	Adjourn
FRIDAY, JULY 26
8:00am	Coffee and Pastries
8:30 am	Anton Cheremukhin, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Mikhail Golosov, Princeton University and NBER Sergei Guriev, New Economic School Aleh Tsyvinski, Yale University and NBER Was Stalin Necessary for Russia's Economic Development?
9:30 am	Break
9:45 am	Daron Acemoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Tristan Reed, Harvard University James A. Robinson, Harvard University and NBER Chiefs: Economic Development and Elite Control of Civil Society in Sierra Leone
10:45	Break
11:00 am	Ganesh Seshan, Georgetown University Dean Yang, University of Michigan and NBER Transnational Household Finance: A Field Experiment on the Cross-Border Impacts of Financial Education for Migrant Workers
12:00 n	Lunch
1:00 pm	Melanie Morten, Yale University Temporary Migration and Endogenous Risk Sharing in Village India
2:00 pm	Break
2:15 pm	Aprajit Mahajan, University of California at Los Angeles and NBER Alessandro Tarozzi, UPF and Barcelona GSE Time Inconsistency, Expectations and Technology Adoption
3:15 pm	Break
3:30 pm	Martina Bjorkman-Nyqvist, Stockholm School of Economics Jacob Svensson, Stockholm University David H. Yanagizawa-Drott, Harvard Kennedy School The Market for (Fake) Antimalarial Medicine: Evidence from Uganda
4:30 pm	Adjourn