SESSION VII 8:30-10:30 am |
| Section VII-A Investment in Children; Luce Hall #202 |
| Chairperson: Eric Edmonds |
Paper: |
Discussant: |
| Brown, Philip H. |
Parental
Education and Child Learning: Investing in Goods and Time |
Eric Edmonds |
| Kingdon, Geeta Gandhi |
Gender-bias in the intra-household allocation of educational
expenditure in rural India |
Nistha Sinha |
| Osili, Una Okonkwo and Long, Bridget Terry |
Universal Primary Education and Fertility: A Nigerian
Experiment |
Adebayo Armoloran |
| Yang, Dennis Tao and Zhu, Xiaodong |
Household
Production and Parental Investments in Children |
Alan deBrauw |
| Session VII-B AIDS; Luce Hall #203 |
| Chairperson: Emily Oster |
Paper: |
Discussant: |
| Aggarwal, Rimjhim M. and Rous, Jeffrey J. |
"Know AIDS for No AIDS": Determinants of Knowledge
about AIDS among Women in India |
Damien de Walque |
| Gertler, Paul; Shah, Manisha; and Bertozzi, Stefano M. |
Risky
Business: The Market for Unprotected Commercial Sex |
Emily Oster |
| Kelly, Kevin and Vencatachellum, Desire |
Sexual Activity, Safe Sex and HIV/AIDS: Evidence from
South Africa |
Harsha Thirumirthy |
| deWalque, Darien |
How Does the Impact of an HIV/AIDS Information Campaign Vary
with Educational Attainment? Evidence from Rural Uganda |
Kenneth Leonard |
| Session VII-C Risk Sharing; 28 Hillhouse #Tobin Lounge |
| Chairperson: Petia Topalova |
Paper: |
Discussant: |
| Barr, Abigail |
Risk
Pooling, Commitment, and Information: An Experimental Test of Two Fundamental Assumptions |
Petia Topalova |
| Schechter, Laura |
Traditional Trust Measurement and the Risk Confound: An
Experiment in Rural Paraguay |
Lance Howe |
| Kazianga, Harounan |
Motives for Household Private Transfers in Rural Burkina
Faso |
Hema Swaminathan |
| Session VII-D Reform; 28 Hillhouse #B8 |
| Chairperson: T.N. Srinivasan |
Paper: |
Discussant: |
| Emran, M. Shahe and Stiglitz, Joseph E. |
Price-Neutral
Tax Reform with an Informal Economy |
David Coady |
| Emran, M. Shahe; Alam, M.
Imam; and Shilpi, Forhad |
After the 'License Raj': Economic Liberalization and Aggregate
Private Investment in India |
Abhijit Banerjee |
| Mukand, Sharun and Rodrik, Dani |
In Search of the Holy Grail: Policy Convergence,
Experimentation, and Economic Performance |
T.N. Srinivasan |
| SESSION VIII 10:45 am -
12:45 pm |
| Session VIII-A Poverty, Risk and Targeting;
Luce Hall #202 |
| Chairperson: Christopher Kilby |
Paper: |
Discussant: |
| Boozer, Michael and Goldstien, Marcus |
Poverty Measurement and Dynamics |
Jishnu Das |
| Charness, Gary and Genicot, Garance |
An Experimental Test of Risk-Sharing Arrangements |
Stefan Klonner |
| Coady, David; Grosh, Margaret; and Hoddinott,
John |
Targeting
Outcomes, Redux |
Christopher Kilby |
| Session VIII-B Governance and Corruption; Luce Hall #203 |
| Chairperson:
Vijayendra Rao |
Paper: |
Discussant: |
| Søreide, Tina and Bjorvatn, Kjetil |
Corruption and Market Reform |
Marieke Huysentruyt |
| Che, Jiahua |
Running
"Dinosaurs": A Political Economy Model of Soft Budget Constraints |
Sandeep Mohapatra |
| Olken, Benjamin A. |
Corruption
and the Costs of Redistribution |
John Gibson |
| Reinikka, Ritva and Svensson, Jakob |
The Power of Information: Evidence From a Campaign to Reduce
Capture |
Vijayendra Rao |
| Session VIII-C Power within Households; 28 Hillhouse #Tobin Lounge |
| Chairperson: David Stifel |
Paper: |
Discussant: |
| Lancaster, Geoffrey; Maitra, Pushkar; and Ray, Ranjan |
Endogenous Power, Household Expenditure Patterns and New Tests
of Gender Bias: Evidence from India |
David Stifel |
| Varadharajan, Sowmya |
The Pitfalls of Proxies of Power in Intra-household
Analysis |
Diana Fletschner |
| Osborne, Theresa |
Health and "Poverty Traps" in Rural Developing
Economies |
Jesper Kuhl |
| Session VIII-D Randomized Evaluation; 28 Hillhouse #B8 |
| Chairperson: Marcel Fafchamps |
Paper: |
Discussant: |
| Banerjee, Abhijit; Cole,
Shawn; Duflo, Esther; and Linden, Leigh |
Remedying
Education: Evidence from Two Randomized Experiments in India |
Justine Hastings |
| Djebbari, Habiba |
Nutrition and Income: Evidence from an Experiment in a
Developing Country |
Paul Schultz |
| Wantchekon, Leonard |
Ethnicity, Gender, and the Demand for Public Goods:
Experimental Evidence from Benin |
Marcel Fafchamps |
| Session VIII-E Labor Markets; 28 Hillhouse #106 |
| Chairperson: Jonathon Conning |
Paper: |
Discussant: |
| Jain, Sanjay and Mukand, Sharun |
Economic
Policy Reform under Political Constraints: Labor Reallocation and Compensatory
Redistribution |
Jonathon Conning |
| Mesnard, Alice and Ravallion, Martin |
Wealth Distribution and Self-Employment in a Developing
Economy |
Anna Maria Mayda |
| Motiram, Sripad |
A Model of Mobility of Attached Laborers with Evidence From
India |
Ravi Shamika |