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
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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
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More Money, More Problems: Expectations, Wage Hikes, and Worker Voice
Achyuta Adhvaryu, Teresa Molina, and Anant Nyshadham
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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
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Keynote: Behavioral Experiments with Work Effort: Needing a Piece-Rate Metric
Stefano DellaVigna
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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
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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
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