SUNDAY
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.
Sunday, October 27, 2002
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Session VI 8:30-10:30 am
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| Chairperson: Stephen Smith, George Washington University | |
| Villanger, Espen (Norwegian School of Economics) |
Company Interests, and Foreign Aid Policy: Playing Donors Out Against Each Other |
| Kilby, Christopher (Vassar College and Haverford
College) |
Donor Influence in MDBs: The Case of the Asian Development Bank |
| Matheson, Victor (Williams College) |
Mega-Sporting Events in Developing Nations: Playing the Way to Prosperity? |
| Fruttero, Anna (New York University) |
What to Expect from Development NGOs: Location Decisions and Impact in Rural Bangladesh |
| Discussants: Anand Swamy, Williams College Victor Matheson, Williams College Stephen Smith, George Washington University M. Shahe Emran, Stanford University |
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| Chairperson: Asim Khwaja, Harvard University | |
| DeSilva, Sanjaya (Bard College) |
Returns to Schooling through Marriage: A Study of Two Philippine Provinces |
| Finan, Frederico (UC Berkeley) |
Transfers to the Poor Increase the Schooling of the Non-Poor: The Case of Mexico's PROGRESA program. |
| Kingdon, Geeta Gandhi (Oxford University) | Does Performance Related Pay for Teachers Improve Student Performance? Some Evidence from India |
| Park, Albert (Kennedy School of Government) |
Do Teachers Affect Learning in Developing Countries? Evidence from Matched Student-Teacher Data from China |
| Discussants: Dean Yang, Harvard University Asim Khwaja, Harvard University Stephen Sheppard, Williams College John Giles, Michigan State University |
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| Chairperson: Ashok Rai, Yale University | |
| Ambec, Stefan (University of Grenoble) |
Roscas as Financial Agreements to Cope with Social Pressure |
| Sadoulet, Loic (Free University of Brussels) |
Learning from Visa? Incorporating Insurance Provisions in Microfinance Contracts |
| Klonner, Stefan (Yale University) |
Understanding Chit Funds: Price Determination and the Role of Auction Formats in Rotating Savings and Credit Associations |
| McIntosh, Craig (UC Berkeley) |
The Impact of Reforms to a Ugandan Microfinance Lender |
| Discussants: Sanjay Jain, University of Virginia Ashok Rai, Yale University Alexander Karaivanov, University of Chicago Nidhiya Menon, Brandeis University |
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| Chairperson: Andrew Horowitz, University of Arkansas | |
| Chaudhuri, Ananish (Wellesley College) | Gender Differences in Trust and Reciprocity |
| Barr, Abigail (Oxford University) | Do Men Really Have No Shame? |
| Karlan, Dean (Princeton University) | Can the Trust Game Measure Social Capital and Predict Financial Decisions? |
| Romani, Mattia (Oxford University) | Love Thy Neighbor? Evidence from Ethnic Discrimination in Information Sharing Within Villages in Cote d'Ivoire |
| Discussants: Bradford Barham, University of Wisconsin Andrew Horowitz, University of Arkansas Raja Kali, University of Arkansas Suman Ghosh, ITAM Business School |
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Session VII 10:45 am - 12:15 pm
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| Chairperson: Anand Swamy, Williams College | |
| Emerson, Patrick (University of Colorado) |
Birth Order, Child Labor and School Attendance in Brazil |
| La Ferrara, Eliana (Bocconi University) |
Descent Rules and Inter Vivos Transfers |
| Portner, Claus (Georgetown University) |
Birth Order and the Intrahousehold Allocation of Time and Education |
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Discussants: John Maluccio, IFPRI |
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| Chairperson: Xavier Gine, The World Bank | |
| Dehejia, Rajeev (Columbia University) |
Why Does Financial Development Matter? The United States from 1900 to 1940 |
| Mian, Atif (University of Chicago) |
Domestic and Foreign Banks in Africa: Some New Evidence |
| Khwaja, Asim (Harvard University) |
"Phantom" Markets: How Do Equity Markets Not Function? |
| Discussants: Amir Sufi, Massachusetts Institute
of Technology Craig McIntosh, UC Berkeley Raja Kali, University of Arkansas |
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| Chairperson: John Giles, Michigan State University | |
| Fafchamps, Marcel (University of Oxford) |
Wages and Worker Supervision in African Manufacturing |
| Smith, Stephen (George Washington University) |
An Endogenous Group Formation Theory of Cooperative Networks: Theory, Empirical Illustrations, and Implications for Developing Countries |
| Gilligan, Daniel (University of Maryland) |
The Determinants of Agricultural Labor Exchange: Theory and Evidence from Indonesia |
| Discussants: Desire Vencatachellum, University
of Montreal Christopher Kingston, Amherst College Albert Park, Kennedy School of Government |
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| Chairperson: Anandi Mani, Williams College | |
| Do, Quy-Toan (MIT) | Institutions, Institutional Change, and the Distribution of Wealth |
| Konya, Istvan (Boston College) |
Endogenous Mobility, Human Capital, and Trade |
| Dessy, Sylvain (University of Laval) |
Endogenous Mobility and the Emergence of Mandatory Education |
| Discussants: Anandi Mani, Williams College M. Shahe Emran, Stanford University Heidi Hogset, Cornell University |
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