SATURDAY
Northeast Universities Development Consortium Conference
Program
NEUDC conference materials are available in electronic format, it is anticipated that participants will download papers they need.
The NEUDC Conference sessions will be held in Williams College's Griffin Hall, Williamstown, MA.
Saturday, October 26, 2002
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Session II 8:15-10:15 am
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| Chairperson: Andrew Warner, Harvard University | |
| Khan, Faruk (Williams College) |
Technology Transfer with Competitive Markets in the South |
| Tadesse, Bedassa (Western Michigan University) |
The FDI-Trade Relationship: Are Developing Countries Different? |
| Waldkirch, Andreas (Oregon State University) |
Foreign Direct Investment in a Developing Country: An Empirical Investigation |
| Discussants: James Feyrer, Dartmouth College Andrew Warner, Harvard University Patricia Jones, Vassar College |
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| Chairperson: Douglas Gollin, Williams College | |
| Wantchekon, Leonard (New York University) |
Clientelism and Voting Behavior: A Field Experiment in Benin |
| Foster, Andrew (Brown University) | Democratization, Decentralization and the Distribution of Local Public Goods in a Poor Rural Economy |
| Mobarak, A. Mushfik (University of Colorado) | Democracy and Economic Performance: Micro evidence from Brazil |
| Discussants: Christopher Kilby, Vassar College & Haverford
College David McKenzie, Stanford University |
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| Chairperson: Albert Park, Kennedy School of Government | |
| Newhouse, David (Federal Trade Commission) |
Do Negative Income Shocks Last Longer, and Do They Hurt the Poor More? Evidence from Rural Indonesia |
| Olken, Ben (Harvard University) |
Revealed Community Equivalence Scales |
| Simler, Kenneth (IFPRI) |
Poverty, Inequality, and Geographic Targeting: Evidence from Small-Area Estimates in Mozambique |
| Kurosaki, Takashi (Hitotsubashi University) |
Consumption Vulnerability and Dynamic Poverty in the Northwest Frontier Province, Pakistan |
| Discussants: John Strauss, Michigan State University Garth Frazer, Yale University Nicholas Minot, IFPRI |
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| Chairperson: Anna Paulson, Northwestern University | |
| Gine, Xavier (The World Bank) |
Financing a New Technology in Small-scale Fishing: the Dynamics of a Linked Product and Credit Contract |
| Karaivanov, Alexander (University of Chicago) |
Financial Contracts Structure and Occupational Choice |
| Rai, Ashok (Yale University) |
Collateral Substitutes in Microfinance |
| Hogset, Heidi (Cornell University) |
Traditional Insurance and Adoption of a Lumpy New Technology with Delayed and Uncertain Benefits |
| Discussants: Loic Sadoulet, Free University of
Brussels Pierre Dubois, University of Toulouse Stephan Ambec, Universite Pierre Mendes France Sanjay Jain, University of Virginia |
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| Chairperson: Eli Berman, Rice University, NBER | |
| Jensen, Robert (Kennedy School of Government) | Fertility Preferences and Excess Female Mortality: Equal Treatment, Unequal Outcomes |
| Pop-Eleches, Cristian (Harvard University) | The Supply of Birth Control Methods, Education, and Fertility: Evidence from Romania |
| Stepanyan, Ara (Rice University) | Fertility and Education in Religious Sects: Evidence from Asia |
| Discussants: Eli Berman, Rice University, NBER Jere Behrman, University of Pennsylvania |
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Session III 10:30-12:30
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| Chairperson: T. Paul Schultz, Yale University | |
| Miller, Doug (UC Davis) |
The South African Pension Program and the Health of the Elderly and Their Families |
| Schultz, T. Paul (Yale University) |
Health and Labor Force Participation of the Elderly in Taiwan |
| Elkins, Jules Reinhart (UC Berkeley) |
Is Economic Growth Bad for Your Health? Industrial Pollution Versus Industrial Growth in Indonesia |
| Maitra, Pushkar (Monash University) |
Parental Bargaining, Health Inputs and Child Mortality in India |
| Discussants: Robert Jensen, Harvard University Lara Shore-Sheppard, Williams College Kenneth Leonard, Columbia University |
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| Chairperson: A. Mushfik Mobarak, University of Colorado | |
| Mookherjee, Dilip (Boston University) |
The Environmental Impact of Poverty: Evidence from Firewood Collection in Rural Nepal |
| Nankhuni, Flora (Pennsylvania State University) |
Human Capital Investment in Children, the Environment, and Children's Work Burdens in Malawi |
| Barham, Bradford (University of Wisconsin) |
Activity Choices and Livelihoods in Tropical Forests: Can Reservation Price Data Guide Conservation and Development Efforts? |
| Lybbert, Travis (Cornell University) |
Intestines or Computers: On Climate Forecasting and African Pastoralists' Asymmetric Updating of Rainfall Beliefs |
| Discussants: Alex Pfaff, Columbia University A. Mushfik Mobarak, University of Colorado Daniel Gilligan, University of Maryland Sanjaya DeSilva, Bard College |
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| Chairperson: John Gibson, University of Waikato | |
| Quisumbing, Agnes (IFPRI) |
Food Aid and Child Nutrition in Rural Ethiopia |
| Horowitz, Andrew (University of Arkansas) |
Household Size and the Demand for Food: A Puzzle Resolved? |
| Vakis, Renos (UC Berkeley) |
Transactions costs and the role of bargaining and information: evidence from Peru |
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Discussants: Lucie Schmidt, Williams College |
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| Chairperson: Alan de Brauw, Williams College | |
| Grimard, Franque (McGill University) |
Asset Inequality without Markets: Evolution of Household Land Holding in a Peasant Community, Peruvian Amazon |
| Ravallion, Martin (The World Bank) & van de Walle, Dominique (The World Bank) |
Land-Market Adjustment During Economic Transition: A Case Study for Vietnam |
| Boucher, Stephen (UC Davis) |
"Market-Friendly" Reforms and the Operation of Land Markets in Central America |
| Discussants: Hsin-yu Tseng, University of Chicago Andrew Foster, Brown University Lakshmi Iyer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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| Chairperson: Elaina La Ferrara, Bocconi University | |
| Ozler, Berk (The World Bank) |
Crime and Local Inequality in South Africa |
| Msangi, Siwa (UC Davis) |
Institutional Transformation of Surface Water Irrigation Management in Northern China |
| Berman, Eli (Rice University, NBER) | Hamas, Taliban and the Jewish Underground: An Economist's View of Radical Religious Militias |
| Discussants: Abigail Barr, Oxford University Ghazala Mansuri, The World Bank Peter Just, Williams College |
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| Lunch 12:30-1:45 | Boxed Lunches Will Be Available |
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Session IV 1:45-3:45 |
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| Chairperson: T. Paul Schultz, Yale University | |
| Shilpi, Forhad (The World Bank) |
Gender, Generations, and Non-Farm Participation |
| Macours, Karen (UC Berkeley) | Comparing a Direct with an Indirect Approach to Collecting Household Level Data: Who tells the Truth? |
| Brown, Philip (University of Michigan) |
Dowry and Intrahousehold Bargaining: Evidence from Rural China |
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Discussants: Kelly Hallman, Population Council |
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| Chairperson: Eliana La Ferrara, Bocconi University | |
| Bose, Pinaki (University of Memphis) |
The Pitfalls of a Partially Honest Bureaucracy: Bribery, Inefficiency, and Bureaucratic Delay |
| Azfar, Omar (University of Maryland) |
Transparency, Wages and the Separation of Powers: An Experimental Analysis of the Causes of Corruption |
| Yang, Dean (Harvard University) |
How Easily do Lawbreakers Adapt to Increased Enforcement? Philippine Smugglers' Responses to a Common Customs Reform |
| Giovannoni, Francesco (University of Newcastle) |
The Looting |
| Discussants: Omar Azfar, University of Maryland Mattia Romani, Oxford University Dean Karlan, Princeton University Quy-Toan Do, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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| Chairperson: John Strauss, Michigan State University | |
| McKenzie, David (Stanford University) |
Disentangling Age, Cohort, and Time Effects in the Additive Model |
| Dubois, Pierre (University of Toulouse) |
Risk Sharing With Formal and Informal Contracts: Theory, Semi-Parametric Identification and Estimation |
| Gibson, John (University of Waikato) |
Is a Picture Worth a Thousand Unit Values? Price Collection Methods, Poverty Lines, and Price Elasticities in Papua New Guinea |
| Discussants: Peter Pedroni, Williams College Stefan Klonner, Yale University Berk Ozler, The World Bank |
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| Chairperson: Marcel Fafchamps, Oxford University | |
| Ghosh, Suman (ITAM Business School) |
The Dynamics of Firm-Supplier Relationships in a Less Developed Economy: Theory and Evidence |
| Paulson, Anna (Northwestern University) |
The Dynamics of Entrepreneurship |
| Erickson, Lennart (Brown University) |
Informality, Firm Size, and Growth: Testing the de Soto Hypothesis |
| Kali, Raja (University of Arkansas) |
The Nature of the Business Group: Power, Relational Contracts and Scope |
| Discussants: Xavier Gine, The World Bank Marcel Fafchamps, Oxford University Lisa Daniels, Washington College Stefan Ambec, Universite Pierre Mendes France |
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| Session V 4:00-5:30 pm | |
| Chairperson: Vijayendra Rao, The World Bank | |
| Edmonds, Eric (Dartmouth College) |
Is Child Labor Inefficient? Evidence from Large Cash Transfers |
| Hallman, Kelly (Population Council) |
Child Care, Mothers' Work, and Earnings: Findings from the Urban Slums of Guatemala City |
| Beegle, Kathleen (The World Bank) |
Do Households Resort to Child Labor to Cope with Income Shocks? |
| Discussants: Andrew Foster, Brown University Vijayendra Rao, The World Bank John Strauss, Michigan State University |
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| Chairperson: Gwendolyn Alexander, Fordham University | |
| Pallage, Stephane (University of Quebec) |
Gender Discrimination, Human Capital, and Marriage |
| Maza Duerto, Octavio (Virginia Tech) |
Oil Shocks, Inter-Temporal Substitution of Births, and Fertility: Evidence from Venezuela |
| Kyeongwon Yoo (Michigan State University) |
Precautionary Behavior and Household Consumption and Saving Decisions: An Empirical Analysis of Using Household Panel Data from Rural China |
| Discussants: Claus Portner, Georgetown University Ara Stepanyan, Rice University Gwendolyn Alexander, Fordham University |
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| Chairperson: Peter Montiel, Williams College | |
| Tsangarides, Charalambos (George Washington University) |
Is Growth Enough? Macroeconomic Policy and Poverty Reduction |
| Warner, Andrew (Harvard University) |
Institutions, Geography, Regions, Countries, and the Mobility Bias |
| Pedroni, Peter (Williams Collge) | Are China's Post-Reform Provincial Income Levels Diverging? |
| Discussants: Peter Montiel, Williams College Andreas Waldkirch, Oregon State University Judith Dean, US International Trade Commission |
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| Chairperson: Dilip Mookherjee, Boston University | |
| de Brauw, Alan (Williams College) |
Household Investment through Migration in Rural China |
| Vencatachellum, Desire (University of Montreal) |
An Empirical Analysis of Compulsory and Voluntary Remittances Among Domestic Workers in Tunisia |
| Pozo, Susan (Western Michigan University) |
Remittances and Insurance: Evidence from Mexican Migrants |
| Discussants: Richard Akresh, Yale University Craig McIntosh, UC Berkeley Siwa Msangi, UC Davis |
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| Chairperson: Stephen Boucher, UC Davis | |
| Iyer, Lakshmi (MIT) |
Land Rights and Economic Development: Evidence from Vietnam |
| Tseng, Hsin-Yu (University of Chicago) |
Land Ownership Transfer and Productivity: Evidence from Taiwan |
| Mansuri, Ghazala (World Bank) |
Incomplete Contracts and Investment: A Study of Land Tenancy in Pakistan |
| Discussants: Karen Macours, UC Berkeley Bradford Barham, University of Wisconsin Stephen Boucher, UC Davis |
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| DINNER AND PLENARY LECTURE (Lasell Gym), 6:30-9:30 p.m. | |
| (Martin Ravallion of the World Bank, "Targeted Transfers in Poor Countries: Revisiting the Trade-Offs and Policy Options") | |