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2019 Conference on Behavioral Economics and Development

Event Details:

Friday, January 25, 2019 - Saturday, January 26, 2019

The Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD) and the Stanford Center on Global Poverty and Development are pleased to have hosted the Conference on Behavioral Economics and Development on Friday January 25 and Saturday January 26, 2019 at Stanford University. 

Keynote speakers at the conference included Nava Ashraf (London School of Economics), Stefano DellaVigna (UC Berkeley), and Muriel Niederle (Stanford University).

The Scientific Organizers of the Conference were: Marcel Fafchamps (Stanford University), Ray Fisman (Boston University), Pamela Jakiela (University of Maryland) and Gautam Rao (Harvard University).

Please note that this conference was only open to faculty, current PhD students, and postdocs.

Schedule

Friday, January 25, 2019

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    Registration and breakfast

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    Matrilineal Kinship and Spousal Cooperation: Evidence from the Matrilineal Belt

    Sara Lowes

    Read the paper

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    Gendered Language

    Pamela Jakiela and Owen Ozier

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    Session break / Coffee and tea

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    Keynote: A Gender Agenda or From the Lab to the Field to Policy

    Muriel Niederle

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    Lunch

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    Scabs: The Social Suppression of Labor Supply

    Emily Breza, Supreet Kaur, and Nandita Krishnaswamy

    View slides

    Read the paper

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    More Money, More Problems: Expectations, Wage Hikes, and Worker Voice

    Achyuta Adhvaryu, Teresa Molina, and Anant Nyshadham

    Read the paper

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    Session break / Coffee and Tea

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    A Cross-Societal Comparison of Cooperative Dispositions and Norm Enforcement

    Till Olaf Weber, Simon Gachter, Benjamin Beranek, Fatima Lambarraa, and Jonathan Schulz

    View slides

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    Keynote: Behavioral Experiments with Work Effort: Needing a Piece-Rate Metric

    Stefano DellaVigna

    View slides

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    Faculty, Postdoc, and Presenter Dinner

Saturday, January 26, 2019

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    Panel: Behavioral Economics and Development

    Breakfast and discussion panel

    View slides

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    Session break / Coffee and tea

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    When Nudge Comes to Shove: Demand for Commitment in Microfinance Contracts

    Uzma Afzal, Giovanna d'Adda, Marcel Fafchamps, Simon Quinn, and Farah Said

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    The Endowment Effect and Collateralized Loans

    Kevin Carney, Xinyue Lin, Michael Kremer, and Gautam Rao

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    Lunch

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    What Motivates Health Behavior: Preferences, Constraints, or Beliefs? Evidence from Psychological Interventions in Kenya

    Johannes Haushofer, Anett John, and Kate Orkin

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    Keynote: Frontiers of Behavioral Economics and Development: Learning about Preferences and Beliefs

    Nava Ashraf

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    Session break / Coffee and tea

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    Motivating Bureaucrats with Non-monetary Incentives When State Capacity is Weak: Evidence from Large-scale Field Experiments in Peru

    Andrew Dustan, Stanislao Maldonado, and Juan Manuel Hernandez-Agramonte

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    Motivating Political Candidacy and Performance: Experimental Evidence from Pakistan

    Saad Gulzar and Muhammad Yasir Khan

    Read the paper

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