DAY 1 (6th October 2017)

07:30 AM – 08:00 AM Registration and Breakfast

OPENING REMARK

08:00 AM – 08:15 AM Jeremy Teitelbaum, Interim Provost & Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, University of Connecticut

KEYNOTE LECTURE – I

08:15 AM – 09:45 AM Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, Yale University

No Shit: Demand Estimation with Strategic Complementarities

09:45 AM – 10:00 AM COFFEE AND REFRESHMENT BREAK

SESSION 1: Corruption

10:00 PM – 11:00 AM Paul Niehaus, University of California San Diego

Authentication and Targeted Transfers: Experimental Evidence from India

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Raymond Fisman, Boston University Social Ties and the Selection of China’s Political Elite

12:00 PM – 01:00 PM LUNCH

SESSION 2: Human Capital Investments – Part I

01:00 PM – 02:00 PM S Anukriti, Boston College

Dowry: Household Responses to Expected Marriage Payments

02:00 PM – 03:00 PM Tom Vogl, Princeton University

Agriculture, Fire and Infant Health

03:00 PM – 03:15 PM COFFEE AND REFRESHMENT BREAK

SESSION 3: External Validity in Randomized Control Trials (RCTs)

3:15 PM – 4:15 PM Emily Oster, Brown University Weighting for External Validity

4:15 PM – 5:15 PM Amanda E. Kowalski, Yale University How to Examine External Validity within an Experiment

5:15 PM – 5:30 PM COFFEE AND REFRESHMENT BREAK

SESSION 4: Human Capital Investments – Part II

5:30 PM – 6:30 PM Eric Edmonds, Dartmouth

Parenting Adolescents

6:30 PM – 9:00 PM DRINKS AND DINNER

DAY 2 (7th October 2017

08:00 AM – 08:30 AM Breakfast

KEYNOTE LECTURE – II

08:30 AM – 10:00 AM Duncan Thomas, Duke University

Long Term Impacts of a Natural Disaster

SESSION 4 (Contd.): Human Capital Investments – Part II

10:00 AM – 11:00 AM Achyuta Adhvaryu, University of Michigan Helping Children Catch Up: Early Life Shocks and the Progresa Experiment

11:00 AM – 11:15 AM COFFEE AND REFRESHMENTS BREAK

SESSION 5: State Capacity and Governance

11:15 AM – 12:15 PM Sandip Sukhtankar, University of Virginia General Equilibrium Effects of (Improving) Public Employment Programs: Experimental Evidence from India

12:15 PM – 1:15 PM Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay, Indian Statistical Institute (Delhi) Efficiency Consequences of Affirmative Action in Politics: Evidence from India

1:15 PM – 2:15 PM LUNCH BOX

SESSION 6: Behavioral Development Economics

2:15 PM – 3:15 PM Gautam Rao, Harvard University Self-Control and Demand for Preventive Health: Evidence from Hypertension in India

3:15 PM – 4:15 PM Frank Schilbach, MIT

TBD

4:15 PM – 4:30 PM Vote of Thanks: Professor Duke Kao, University of Connecticut