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Monday, June 20, 2016 |
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| Preston Auditorium | |
| 08:00–09:00 | Registration and Breakfast |
| 09:00–09:15 | Opening Remarks Kaushik Basu (Senior Vice President and Chief Economist, World Bank) |
| 09:15–10:15 | Keynote Address 1: Big Data and Economic Measurement: What a Billion Prices say about Inflation and Exchange Rates? Chair: Haishan Fu (Director, Development Data Group, World Bank) Speaker: Roberto Rigobón (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States) DOWNLOAD: Presentation |
| 10:15–10:30 | Coffee |
| Sessions 1A-1D | |
| 10:30–12:30 | Session 1A Poverty and Inequality in High and Low Definition| Room MC 6-100 Chair: Francisco Ferreira (World Bank) |
| “Poverty in HD: What Does High Resolution Satellite Imagery Reveal about Economic Welfare?” | Presentation Ryan Engstrom (George Washington University, United States), Jonathan Hersh (Boston University, United States), and David Newhouse (World Bank) |
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| “Is Inequality Underestimated in Egypt? Evidence from House Prices” | Presentation Roy van der Weide, Christoph Lakner, and Elena Ianchovichina (World Bank) |
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| “Curbing Leakage in Public Programs with Direct Benefit Transfers Evidence from India’s Fuel Subsidies and Black Markets” Prabhat Barnwal (Michigan State University, United States) |
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“Intrahousehold Inequalities and Poverty in Senegal” | Presentaton Discussant: Vijayendra Rao (World Bank) |
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Session 1B Data for Development | Room MC 7-100 Chair: Amparo Ballivian (World Bank) |
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| “Mind the Gap: Analyzing the Impact of Data Gap in Millennium Development Goals’ (MDGs) Indicators on the Progress towards MDGs” | Presentation Arun Jacob (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, UNCTAD and The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Switzerland) |
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| “Is Living in African Cities Expensive?" | Presentation Shohei Nakamura, Rawaa Harati, Somik V. Lall, Yuri M. Dikhanov, Nada Hamadeh, William Vigil Oliver, Marko Olavi Rissanen, and Mizuki Yamanaka (World Bank) |
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| “The ABCDE of Big Data: Assessing Biases in Call-detail Records for Development Estimates” | Presentation Gabriel Pestre (Data-Pop Alliance, United States), Emmanuel Letouzé (Data-Pop Alliance, United States), and Emilio Zagheni (University of Washington, United States) |
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Session 1C Adoption of Agricultural Technology and Fertilizers | Room MC 8-100 Chair: Melissa Johns (World Bank) |
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| “The Crop Connection: Impact of Cell Phone Access on Crop Choice in Rural Pakistan” | Presentation Saher Asad (Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan) |
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| “Identifying Early Adopters, Enhancing Learning, and the Diffusion of Agricultural Technology” | Presentation Kyle Emerick (Tufts University, United States), Alain de Janvry (University of California, Berkeley, United States), Elisabeth Sadoulet (University of California, Berkeley, United States), and Manzoor H. Dar (International Rice Research Institute) |
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“Coffee Price Volatility and Intra-household Labour Supply: Evidence from Vietnam” Discussant: Daniel Ayalew Ali (World Bank) |
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Session 1D Development, Colonial Rule, Ethnic Diversity, and Genes | Room MC 9-100 Chair: Albert Zeufack (World Bank) |
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| “Subnational Diversity in Sub-Saharan Africa: Insights from a New Dataset” | Presentation Boris Gershman and Diego Rivera (American University, United States) |
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| “Decentralized Despotism: How Indirect Colonial Rule Undermines Contemporary Democratic Attitudes” | Presentaton Marie Lechler (Munich Graduate School of Economics, Germany) and Lachlan McNamee (Stanford University, United States) |
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| “Where Local Kings Rule: Long-Term Impacts of Precolonial Institutions and Geography on Access to Public Infrastructure Services in Nigeria” Belinda Archibong (Barnard College, United States) |
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“Development Given Geography, Climate, and Genes” | Presentation Discussant: Rishabh Sinha (World Bank) |
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| 12:30–14:00 | Lunch | James D. Wolfensohn Atrium |
| 14:00–15:00 | Keynote Address 2: Machine Learning and Development | Preston Auditorium Chair: William Maloney (World Bank) Speaker: Sendhil Mullainathan (Harvard University, United States) DOWNLOAD: Presentation |
| 15:00–15:15 | Coffee |
| 15:15–17:15 | Sessions 2A-2D |
Session 2A Survey and Administrative Data: Big and Small | Room MC 6-100 Chair: Tariq Khokhar (World Bank) |
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| “Understanding Non-Response Rates: Insights from 600,000 Opinion Surveys” Germán Reyes (World Bank) |
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| “What are the Limitations of Survey Data versus Administrative Data in Impact Evaluation? The Case of an SMS Campaign” César Huaroto (Universidad de Los Andes, Argentina), Andrea Cornejo (Columbia University, United States), and Luis Baiocchi (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú) |
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| “Call Me Maybe: Experimental Evidence on Using Mobile Phones to Survey African Microenterprises” Robert Garlick (Duke University, United States), Kate Orkin and Simon Quinn (University of Oxford, United Kingdom) |
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“Asymmetric Information and Remittances: Evidence from Matched Administrative Data” | Presentation Discussant: Katie Simmons (Pew Research Center) |
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Session 2B Trade, E-Trade, and Networks | Room MC 7-100 Chair: Deepak Mishra (World Bank) |
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| “The Adoption of Network Goods: Evidence from the Spread of Mobile Phones in Rwanda” | Presentation Daniel Björkegren (Brown University, United States) |
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| “The Alibaba Effect: Spatial Consumption Inequality and the Welfare Gains from e-Commerce” Jingting Fan (University of Maryland, United States), Lixin Tang (Shanghai University, China), Weiming Zhu (University of Maryland, United States), and Ben Zou (Michigan State University, United States) |
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| “Foreign Rivals are Coming to Town: Responding to the Threat of Foreign Multinational Entry” Cathy Ge Bao and Maggie X. Chen (George Washington University, United States) |
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| “Determinants of Informal Trade: The Case of Benin” Sami Bensassi (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom), Joachim Jarreau (University of Paris-Dauphine, France), and Cristina Mitaritonna (CEPII, France) |
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Session 2C Training and Managerial Skills | Room MC 8-100 Chair: Caio Piza (World Bank) |
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| “The Dynamics of Inter-Firm Skill Transmission among Kenyan Microenterprises” Wyatt Brooks, Kevin Donovan, and Terence R. Johnson (University of Notre Dame, United States) |
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| “Long-Term Direct and Spillover Effects of Vocational Training: Experimental Evidence from Colombia” | Presentation Adriana Kugler (Georgetown University, United States), Maurice Kugler (IMPAQ International LLC, United States), Juan Saavedra (University of Southern California, United States), and Luis Omar Herrera Prada (Inter-American Development Bank) |
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“Short and Longer Run Impacts of Kaizen Management Training: The Case in Tanzania” | Presentation Disussant: Paulo Bastos (World Bank) |
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Session 2D Crime, Civil Wars, and Hotspots | Room MC 9-100 Chair: Yujin Jeong (American University, United States) |
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| “Adverse Rainfall Shocks and Civil War: Myth or Reality” | Presentation Ricardo Maertens (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain) |
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| “Bandits on Patrol: An Analysis of Petty Corruption on West African Roads” | Presentation Toni Oki (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom) |
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| “Identifying Crime Hotspots Using Mobile Phone Data: Bogota: a Case Study” Andrey Bogomolov (University of Trento, Italy), Andrés Clavijo (Data Pop Alliance, United States), Gabriel Pestre (Data Pop Alliance, United States), Joan Serrà (Telefónica Barcelona, Spain), Natalie Shoup (Data Pop Alliance, United States), Alvaro Ramirez Suarez (Telefónica Colombia, Colombia), Emmanuel Letouzé ( Data Pop Alliance, United States), Bruno Lepri (University of Trento, Italy), and Nuria Oliver (Telefónica Barcelona, Spain) |
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“Second Stage Sampling for Conflict Areas: Methods and Implications” | Presentation Discussant: Julian Jamison (World Bank) |
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Tuesday, June 21, 2016 |
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| Preston Auditorium | |
| 08:00–09:00 | Registration and Breakfast |
| 09:00–10:00 | Keynote Address 3: Thick Description in Empirical Economics DOWNLOAD: Presentation |
| 10:00–10:15 | Coffee |
| 10:15–12:15 | Sessions 3A-3D |
Session 3A Banking, Financial Inclusion and Borrower Data | Room MC 6-100 Chair: Tatiana Didier (World Bank) |
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| “The Global Findex Database 2014 Measuring Financial Inclusion around the World” Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Leora Klapper, Dorothe Singer, and Peter Van Oudheusden (World Bank) |
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| “Purchase Patterns, Socioeconomic Status, and Political Inclination” | Presentaton Xiaowen Dong (MIT Media Lab, United States), Eaman Jahani (MIT Media Lab. United States), Alfredo Morales-Guzman (MIT Media Lab and New England Complex Systems Institute, United States), Burçin Bozkaya (Sabanci University, Turkey), Bruno Lepri (MIT Media Lab and Fondazione Bruno Kessler), and Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland (MIT Media Lab, United States) |
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| “Banking with Agents: Experimental Evidence from Senegal” | Presentation Sinja Buri (IFC), Robert Cull (World Bank), Xavier Giné (World Bank), and Sven Harten (IFC) |
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“Show Me Yours and I’ll Show You Mine: Sharing Borrower Information in a Competitive Credit Market” Disussant: Martin Cihak (International Monetary Fund) |
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Session 3B Political Power, Media, and Favoritism | Room MC 7-100 Chair: Claudia Sepulveda (World Bank) |
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| “Politics, Government-Controlled Media, and Women’s Fertility Preferences: Evidence from India” Rikhil Bhavnani (University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States) and Gareth Nellis (Yale University, United States) |
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| “Social Ties and Favoritism in Chinese Science” Raymond Fisman (Boston University, United States), Jing Shi (RMIT University, Australia), Yongxiang Wang (University of Southern California, United States), and Rong Xu (Renmin University of China, China) |
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| “Incumbent Advantage, Voter Information and Vote Buying” Cesi Cruz (University of British Columbia, Canada), Philip Keefer (Inter-American Development Bank), and Julien Labonne (Yale-NUS College, United States) |
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“Traditional Elites: Agricultural Productivity and the Persistence of Political Power” | Presentation Discussant: Luis-Felipe Lopez Calva (World Bank) |
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Session 3C Measuring Employment, Time, and Women's Agency | Room MC 8-100 Chair: Nada Hamadeh (World Bank) |
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| “Not Your Average Job: Irregular Schedules, Recall Bias, and Farm Labor Measurement in Tanzania" Vellore Arthi (University of Oxford, United Kingdom), Kathleen Beegle (World Bank), Joachim De Weerdt (University of Antwerp and KU Leuven, The Netherlands) and Amparo Palacios-Lopez (World Bank) |
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| “Measuring Women’s Agency” Jeannie Annan (International Rescue Committee), Aletheia Donald (World Bank), Kathryn Falb (International Rescue Committee), Gayatri Koolwal ( World Bank and UN Foundation) and Markus Goldstein (World Bank) |
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| “Measuring Time Use in Development Settings” Greg Seymour, Hazel Malapit, and Agnes Quisumbing (International Food Policy Research Institute) |
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“Measuring Employment in Developing Countries: Evidence from a Survey Experiment” Discussant: Margaret McMillan (Tufts University, United States and International Food Policy |
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Session 3D Disease Prevalence, Disease Targeting, and Health Costs | Room MC 9-100 Chair: Eeshani Kandpal (World Bank) |
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| “The Health Costs of Ethnic Distance: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa” Joseph Gomes (University of Navarra, Spain) |
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| “A New Method for Estimating Disease Prevalence Rates Using Big Data: An Application to Multi-Drug Resistant Tuberculosis” Zoë McLaren (University of Michigan, United States) and Rulof Burger (University of Stellenbosch, South Africa) |
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“Using Cell Phone Data to Improve Disease Targeting and Mitigate the Negative Externality of Internal Population Movement” Discussant: Owen Ozier (World Bank) |
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| 12:15–12:30 | Brown Bag Lunch | Preston Lounge |
| 12:30–14:00 | Panel: The Science and Economics of Data | Preston Auditorium Chair: Shanta Devarajan (Chief Economist, Middle East and North Africa Region,World Bank) |
| 14:00–14:15 | Coffee |
| 14:15–16:15 | Sessions 4A-4D |
Session 4A Teachers Pay, Teachers Productivity, and School Fees | Room MC 6-100 Chair: Halsey Rogers (World Bank) |
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| “The Misallocation of Pay and Productivity in the Public Sector: Evidence from the Labor Market for Teachers” | Presentation Natalie Bau (University of Toronto, Canada) and Jishnu Das (World Bank) |
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| “Through the Looking Glass: Can Classroom Observation and Coaching Improve Teacher Performance in Brazil?” Barbara Bruns (Center for Global Development), Leandro Costa (World Bank), and Nina Cunha (Stanford University, United States) |
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| “What Do Teachers Know and Do" Tessa Bold (Stockholm University, Sweden), Deon Filmer (World Bank), Gayle Martin (World Bank), Ezequiel Molina (World Bank), Brian Stacy (World Bank), Christophe Rockmore (World Bank), Jakob Svensson (Stockholm University, Sweden), and Wally Wane (World Bank) |
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| "Combining Administrative and Survey Data for Better Program Evaluation: A Case Study of School Fee Reforms in South Africa” Robert Garlick (Duke University, United States) |
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Session 4B Decentralization, Development Projects, and Corruption | Room MC 7-100 Chair: David Rosenblatt (World Bank) |
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| “Decentralizing Corruption? Irrigation Reform in Pakistan's Indus Basin” | Presentation Freeha Fatima, Hanan G. Jacoby, and Ghazala Mansuri (World Bank) |
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| “Decentralization Without Representation (Or Mobility): Implications for Rural Public Service Delivery” Katrina Kosec and Tewodaj Mogues (International Food Policy Research Institute) |
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| “Local Government Proliferation, Diversity, and Conflict” Samuel Bazzi (Boston University and BREAD, United States) and Matthew Gudgeon (Boston University, United States) |
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“The Political Economy of Unfinished Development Projects: Corruption, Clientelism, or Collective Choice?” Discussant: Paolo Mauro (Peterson Institute for International Economics, United States) |
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Session 4C Structural Transformation, Taxes and Subsidies: Evidence from Firms | Room MC 8-100 Chair: Poonam Gupta (World Bank) |
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| “Out with the Old and Unproductive, In with the New and Similarly Unproductive: Microenterprise Dynamics in a Growing Low-Income Economy" Brian McCaig (Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada) and Nina Pavcnik (Dartmouth College, United States) |
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| “Can Wage Subsidies Boost Employment in the Wake of an Economic Crisis? Evidence from Mexico” Miriam Bruhn (World Bank) |
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| “Taxation, Information, and Withholding: Evidence from Costa Rica” Anne Brockmeyer and Marco Hernandez (World Bank) |
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“Economic Transformation in Africa from the Bottom Up: Macro and Micro Evidence from Tanzania” Discussant: Mary Hallward-Driemeier (World Bank) |
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Session 4D Random Control Trials, Lab Experiments, and External Validity | Room MC 9-100 Chair: David Evans (World Bank) |
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| “Do Rewards Work to Maintain and Increase Tax Compliance? Evidence from the Randomization of Public Goods” | Presentation Paul Carrillo (George Washington University, United States), Edgar Castro and Carlos Scartascini (Inter-American Development Bank) |
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| “Income Hiding and Informal Redistribution: A Lab-in-the-Field Experiment in Senegal” | Presentation Marie Boltz (Paris School of Economics, France), Karine Marazyan (University of Paris 1, France), and Paola Villar (Institut National d’Etudes Demographiques (INED) and Paris School of Economics, France) |
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| “Women's Empowerment, Sibling Rivalry and Competitiveness: Evidence from a Lab Experiment and a Randomized Control Trial in Uganda“ Niklas Buehren (World Bank), Markus Goldstein (World Bank), Kenneth Leonard (University of Maryland, United States), Joao Montalvao (World Bank), and Katya Vasilaky (Columbia University, United States) |
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“Balancing External Validity and Networked Interference in Large-Scale Rural Experiments” | Presentation Discussant: Pamela Jakiela (University of Maryland, United States) |
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| Session 2A Survey and Administrative Data: Big and Small | Room MC 6-100 |
| Session 2A Survey and Administrative Data: Big and Small | Room MC 6-100 |
