Skip to main content Skip to secondary navigation
Main content start

2021 Conference on Behavioral Economics and Development

Event Details:

Thursday, January 28, 2021 - Friday, January 29, 2021

Location

Virtual Event

This event is open to:

Faculty/Staff
Students

The Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD) and the Stanford King Center on Global Development are pleased to announce the third Conference on Behavioral Economics and Development from January 28-29, 2021.

The scientific organizers of the conference were Rebecca Dizon-Ross (University of Chicago), Marcel Fafchamps (Stanford University), Supreet Kaur (UC Berkeley), and Jeremy Magruder (UC Berkeley).

The conference took place online in two half day sessions. Non-BREAD members were welcomed to attend. 

Call for Papers submission deadline was October 25, 2020. 

Admission: Zoom registration was open to academics and researchers working in these fields. Any interested students were able to watch the Live Stream that was available during the conference. 

Schedule

Thursday, January 28, 2021

  • -

    Attention as Human Capital

    Christina Brown (UC Berkeley), Kaur (UC Berkeley), Geeta Kingdon (UCL), Heather Schofield (University of Pennsylvania)

  • -

    Anticipation and Consumption

    Neil Thakral (Brown University), Linh Tô (Boston University)

    Read the paper

  • -

    Break

  • -

    Short Format Presentations

    Economic and Psychological Constraints to Women's Empowerment
    Mahreen Mahmud
     (University of Exeter), Kate Orkin (University of Oxford), Emma Riley (University of Oxford) Read the Abstract

    Does Wealth Reduce Support for Redistribution? Evidence from an Ethiopian Housing Lottery
    Asbjorn G. Andersen (The Frisch Centre), Simon Franklin (Queen Mary University London), Tigabu Getahun (EDRI), Andreas Kotsadam (The Frisch Centre), Vincent Somville (NHH Norwegian School of Economics), Espen Villanger (Chr. Michelsen Institute) Read the Paper

    Worth your weight: Experimental Evidence on the Benefits of Obesity in Low-Income Countries
    Elisa Macchi
     (University of Zurich) Read the Paper

  • -

    Paper Discussions

    Optional breakout rooms to discuss short format papers with authors.

  • -

    Keynote Presentation

    Jane Risen (Chicago Booth)

    Watch the presentation

  • -

    Valuing the Time of the Self-Employed

    Daniel Agness (UC Berkeley), Travis Baseler (University of Rochester), Sylvain Chassang (Princeton), Pascaline Dupas (Stanford), Erik Snowberg (UBC)

    Read the Paper

Friday, January 29, 2021

  • -

    Misconduct and Reputation under Imperfect Information

    Francis Annan (Georgia State University), Aly Sanoh (World Bank)

    Read the Paper

  • -

    Reporting Peers’ Wrongdoing: Experimental Evidence on the Effect of Financial Incentives on Morally Controversial Behavior

    Sterfano Fiorin (Bocconi University)

    Read the Paper

  • -

    Break

  • Short Format Presentations

    Bilinguals in the Lab: (Why) Does Randomising Language Affect Cooperation?
    Paul Clist (University of East Anglia, UK), Joshua Hill (University of East Anglia, UK) Read the Paper

    Inducing Positive Sorting through Performance Pay: Experimental Evidence from Pakistani Schools
    Christina Brown
     (UC Berkeley), Tahir Andrabi (Pomona College) Read the Paper

    Can information about jobs improve the effectiveness of vocational training? Experimental evidence from India
    Bhaskar Chakravorty, Wiji Arulampalam, Clement Imbert (University of Warwick), Roland Rathelot (University of Warwick) Read the Paper

     

  • -

    Paper Discussions

    Optional breakout rooms to discuss short format papers with authors.

  • -

    Keynote Presentation

    Matthew Rabin (Harvard University)

    View the presentation slides

  • -

    Endogenous Institutions: a network experiment in Nepal

    Giulio Iacobelli (Paris School of Economics), Juni Singh (Paris School of Economics)

    Read the Paper

Related Topics

Explore More Events