41st BREAD Virtual Conference on Development Economics
May 6, 7, and 8, 2021
Hosted by New York University’s Development Research Institute
Co-sponsored by NYU’s C.V. Starr Center for Applied Economics
Scientific committee: Siwan Anderson (UBC), Rajeev Dehejia (NYU, Chair), Oeindrila Dube (Chicago), Rohini Pande (Yale), Debraj Ray (NYU), Martin Rotemberg (NYU) and Maria Micaela Sviatschi (Princeton).
The conference will take place virtually. Please see below for live stream details.
All times are in Eastern Daylight Time.
For any queries, email dri@nyu.edu.
Thursday, 6 May 2021: Day 1
10:30am – 12:10pm Session 1
Erika Deserranno, Stefano Cario, Philipp Kastrau, Gianmarco Leon-Ciliotta; Financial Incentives in Multi-layered Organizations: An Experiment in the Public Sector
Diana Moreira; Santiago Pérez; Civil Service Reform and Organizational Practices: Evidence from the Pendleton Act
Sangyoon Park; Zhaoneng Yuan; Hongsong Zhang; Technology Training, Buyer-Supplier Linkage, and Quality Upgrading in an Agricultural Supply Chain
Wendy Wong; Optimal Monitoring and Bureaucrat Adjustments
12:10pm -1:10pm: BREAK
1:10pm – 2:30pm Session 2
Francesco Agostinelli, Ciro Avitabile, Matteo Bobba; Enhancing Human Capital at Scale
Julieta Caunedo; Namrata Kala; Haimeng Zhang; Economies of Density and Congestion in Capital Rental Markets
Michael Olabisi; Alexander Persaud; Are the Poor Missing Out on Bulk Discounts for Food? Evidence from Tanzania
2:40pm – 3:40pm Session 3
Teresa Molina; Joaquim Vidiella-Martin; Conditional Cash Transfers and Labor Market Conditions
Onur Altindag; Stephen D. O'Connell; Unconditional cash-based assistance to the poor: What do at-scale programs achieve?
Arlen Guarin; Juliana Londoño-Vélez; Christian Posso; Reparations as Development: Evidence from the Victims of the Colombian Armed Conflict
Recording of Day 1:
Friday, 7 May 2021: Day 2
10:30am – 11:30am Session 1
Shaoda Wang; David Y. Yang; The Political Economy of Policy Experimentations in China
11:30am – 12:30pm Session 2
Simon Franklin; Clement Imbert; Girum Abebe; Carolina Mejia-Mantilla Urban Public Works in Spatial Equilibrium: Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia
12:30pm – 1:30pm BREAK
1:30pm – 2:30pm Session 3
Abhijit Banerjee; Rema Hanna; Benjamin A. Olken; Elan Satriawan; Sudarno Sumarto; Food vs. Food Stamps: Evidence from an At-Scale Experiment in Indonesia
Recording of Day 2:
Saturday, 8 May 2021 : Day 3
10:30am – 11:30am Session 1
Achyuta Adhvaryu; Jean-Francois Gauthier; Anant Nyshadham; Jorge Tamayo; Absenteeism, Productivity, and Relational Contracts Inside the Firm
11:30am – 12:30pm Session 2
Zach Y. Brown; Eduardo Montero; Carlos Schmidt-Padilla; Maria Micaela Sviatschi; Market Structure and Extortion: Evidence from 50,000 Extortion Payments
12:30pm – 1:30pm BREAK
1:30pm – 2:30pm Session 3
Nina Buchmann; Pascaline Dupas; Roberta Ziparo; Investment Decisions with Endogenous Budget Share Allocations Inside the Household
Recording of Day 3: