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Second AMID Summer School
"EMPIRICAL METHODS FOR DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH"
23-26 June 2010, LSE, London
Location: R505, Lionel Robbins Building (R), 10 Portugal Street http://www2.lse.ac.uk/mapsAndDirections/findingYourWayAroundLSE.aspx
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Lecturers
Esther Duflo (MIT)
Greg Fischer (LSE)
Radha Iyengar (LSE)
Eliana La Ferrara (Bocconi)
Organizers
Oriana Bandiera (LSE)
PROGRAMME
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WEDNESDAY 23RD JUNE
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10:00 - 10:10
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Welcome and Introduction to the
Summer School
Oriana Bandiera (LSE)
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10:10 - 13:00
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Lecture Session
Radha Iyengar (LSE)
Methods for observational data
I: panels, IV, DiD. (Slides)
Tea break -11:30
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13:00 -13:30
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Lunch
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Students Presentations
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13:30 - 13:55
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International migration, health
knowledge and fertility in Mexico: focus on female teenagers (Abstract, Slides)
Marianna Battaglia
(Bocconi University)
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13:55 - 14:20
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Migration and market access:
evidence from Brazil (Abstract, Slides)
Laura Hering
(European University Institute)
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14:20 - 14:45
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The duration of China's internal
migration - What makes migrants stay away longer? (Abstract, Slides)
Hui Xu
(GATE Lyon Saint-Etienne)
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14:45 - 15:10
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The incidence of inter-municipal
migrations and changes in family structure on school achievement of
students in Colombia (Abstract, Slides)
Lina María
Sánchez Céspedes
(University of Essex)
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15:10 -15:30
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Tea Break
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Students Presentations
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15:30 - 15:55
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Testing paternalism: cash vs.
in-kind transfers in rural Mexico (Abstract, Slides)
Jesse Cunha (Stanford
University)
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15:55 - 16:20
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Distributional effects of
natural disasters (Abstract, Slides)
Martina Kirchberger
(University of Oxford)
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16:20 - 16:45
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Tracking versus mixing in
secondary education: implications on intergenerational mobility and sorting
in South Korea (Abstract, Slides)
Yong Suk
Lee (Brown University)
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16:45 - 17:10
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Identifying the effects of CCTs
on academic performance: evidence from the Mexican PROGRESA-Oportunidades
poverty program (Abstract, Slides)
Carlos
Rodríguez Castelán (Cornell University)
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THURSDAY 24TH JUNE
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10:00 - 13:00
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Lecture Session
Eliana
La Ferrara (Università Bocconi
and CEPR)
Methods for observational data
II: RDD, event studies (Slides 1, Slides 2)
Tea break -11:30
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13:00 -13:30
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Lunch
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Students Presentations
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13:30 - 13:55
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'Big data' for development (Abstract, Slides)
Daniel Björkegren
(Stanford University)
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13:55 - 14:20
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Give and take: the political
economy of public finance in local governments. Evidence from a tax
capacity program in Brazil (Abstract, Slides)
Lucie
Gadenne (Paris School of Economics)
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14:20 - 14:45
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Social Status and Inequality
Persistence : the Long Term Effect of Mao's Land Reform in China (Abstract, Slides)
Maëlys De La Rupelle (Paris School of
Economics and Università Bocconi)
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14:45 - 15:10
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Does the rotten child spoil his
companion? Spatial peer effects among children in rural India
(Paper)
Manasa Patnam
(University of Cambridge)
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15:10 -15:30
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Tea Break
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Students Presentations
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15:30 - 15:55
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Assessing the success of
positive discrimination in education: evidence from a natural experiment in
India (Abstract, Slides)
Guilhem Cassan (Paris School of
Economics)
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15:55 - 16:20
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Cash crop windfalls and
development: on cocoa and cities in Ivory Coast and Ghana (Abstract, Slides)
Remi Jedwab
(Paris School of Economics)
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16:20 - 16:45
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Intra-household bargaining and
income concealment: theory and evidence from urban Benin (Abstract, Slides)
Vincent Somville
(University of Namur and Paris School of Economics)
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16:45 - 17:10
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Firewood collection in rural
Nepal: a panel approach (Abstract, Slides)
François Libios
(University of Namur)
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17:10 - 17:35
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Informal risk sharing mechanisms
in post-war Rwanda (Abstract, Slides)
Ombeline De Bock (University of Namur)
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FRIDAY 25TH JUNE
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10:00 - 13:00
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Lecture Session
Greg Fischer (LSE)
Field experiments and randomized
evaluations: introduction (Slides 1,
Slides 2)
Tea break -11:30
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13:00 -13:30
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Lunch
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Students Presentations
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13:30 - 13:55
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The impact of microfinance: a
study of self-help groups in India (Abstract, Slides)
Timothée Demont (University of
Namur)
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13:55 - 14:20
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Does relationship to guarantor
matter for individual borrower's repayment performance? Evidence from
Uganda (Abstract, Slides)
Anni Heikkilä
(Helsinki School of Economics)
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14:20 - 14:45
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Impact of universal health
coverage on household precautionary savings in Thailand (Abstract, Slides)
Phatta Kirdruang
(University of Minnesota)
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14:45 - 15:10
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TBA (Abstract, Slides)
Plamen V. Nikolov
(Harvard Univeristy)
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15:10 -15:30
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Tea Break
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15:30 - 15:55
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The impact of third-party
quality assessment and verification on investment in the dairy industry:
evidence from a field experiment (Abstract, Slides)
Christoph Saenger
(Georg-August University of Goettingen)
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15:55 - 16:20
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Economic and spatial mobility in
Madagascar (Abstract, Slides)
Julia Vaillant
(University of Paris-Dauphine)
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16:20 - 16:45
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The Impact of foster-children
supply on host children education demand: some evidence from Cameroon and
Senegal (Abstract, Slides)
Karine Marazyan
(University of Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne)
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16:45 - 17:10
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Impact on a public employment
program on private sector wages: evidence from India (Abstract, Slides)
Clément Imbert (Paris school of
economics)
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17.10- 17:35
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Micro-finance lifespans: a study of attrition and exclusion in
self-help groups in India (Abstract, Slides)
Lore Vandewalle
(University of Namur)
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SATURDAY 26TH JUNE
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10:00 - 13:00
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Lecture Session
Esther Duflo (MIT)
Field experiments and randomized
evaluations: advanced topics. (Slides 1, Slides 2)
Tea break -11:30
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13:00 -13:30
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Lunch
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Students Presentations
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13:30 - 13:55
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Measuring the impact of
microfinance in Italy using a randomized evaluation (Abstract, Slides)
Giorgia Barboni (Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies)
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13:55 - 14:20
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The evolution of subjective
distributions: evidence from Tanzania (Abstract, Slides)
Brian Dillon (Cornell
University)
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14:20 - 14:45
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The impact of the South African
child support grant on young women's labour force
participation (Abstract, Slides)
Eva Kløve
(University of Oslo)
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14:45 - 15:10
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Clearing the land for what?
Evaluation of the Indonesian palm oil expansion (Abstract, Slides)
Outi Korkeala
(University of Sussex)
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15:10 -15:30
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Tea Break
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Students Presentations
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15:30 - 15:55
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Equal access to education: an
evaluation of a Roma teaching assistant programme
(Abstract, Slides)
Lara Lebedinski
(Università Bocconi)
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15:55 - 16:20
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A tuition exemption experiment
of rural high schools in China (Abstract, Slides)
Di Mo (Katholieke
Universiteit Leuven)
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16:20 - 16:45
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Community mobilization and
individual agency: evidence from a cluster-randomized controlled trial in
rural India (Abstract, Slides)
Joao Montalvao
(University College London)
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