Conference Schedule
The PacDev 2018 Conference will be held on Saturday, March 10 on the UC Davis campus. Sessions and events will run from 8:00am - 6:30pm and be held at the International Center (map below).
Downloadable Conference Schedule8:00 - 9:30 a.m. : Breakfast and Registration
9:30 - 10:50 a.m.: Concurrent Sessions I
Session 1A: Women's Empowerment: Political & Institutional Change
Moderator: Beth Katz, University of San Francisco (Room 1213)
- Marriage Markets and the Rise of Dowry in India
- Gaurav Chiplunkar and Jeffrey Weaver
- Closing the Gender Gap in Leadership Positions: Can Expanding the Pipeline Increase Parity?
- Ryan Brown, Hani Mansour and Stephen O’Connell
Session 1B: Hope, Hopelessness & Poverty
Moderator: Bruce Wydick, University of San Francisco (Room 1206)
- Developing Educational and Vocational Aspirations through International Child Sponsorship: Evidence from Kenya, Indonesia, and Mexico
- Phillip H. Ross, Paul Glewwe, Daniel Prudencio and Bruce Wydick
- Can Hope Elevate Microfinance? Evidence from Oaxaca, Mexico
- Ruben Irvin Rojas Valdes, Bruce Wydick and Travis J. Lybbert
- Violence & The Formation of Hopelessness in Colombia
- Andres Moya and Michael R. Carter
Session 1C: Local Governance & Participation
Moderator: Arman Rezaee, UC Davis (Room 1204)
- Targeting Credit Through Community Members
- Diego A. Vera-Cossio
- Rescuing Autocracy from Itself: China's Anti-Corruption Campaign
- Xi Lu and Peter Lorentzen
- Voice and Action: Can Communities Change Education Outcomes? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Pakistan
- Salman Asim and Amina Riaz
Session 1D: Risk Sharing, Savings & Investment
Moderator: Monica Singhal, UC Davis(Room 1208)
- In-Kind Transfers as Insurance
- Lucie Gadenne, Samuel Norris, Monica Singhal and Sandip Sukhtankar
- The Long-Term Effects of Temporary Incentives to Save: Evidence from a Prize-Linked Savings Experiment in Mexico
- Paul Gertler, Sean Higgins, Aisling Scott and Enrique Seira
Session 1E: Structural Change & Resource (Mis)Allocation
Moderator: Ashish Shenoy, UC Davis (Room 1210)
- At What Price? Price Supports, Agricultural Productivity, and Misallocation
- Nandita Krishnaswamy
10:50 - 11:15 a.m.: Coffee Break
11:15 a.m. - 12:25 p.m.: Concurrent Sessions II
Session 2A: Women's Decisionmaking Power: Economics, Law and Domestic Violence
Moderator: Michael Carter, UC Davis (Room 1213)
- Domestic Violence, Decision-Making Power and Female Employment in Colombia
- Johanna Fajardo-Gonzalez
- Divorce Laws and Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence from Mexico
- Aixa Garcia-Ramos
- Competing for the Benefit of Offspring Eliminates the Gender Gap in Competitiveness
- Alessandra Cassar, Feven Wordofa and Y. Jane Zhang
Session 2B: Health & Behavioral Economics
Moderator: Nick Magnan, University of Georgia (Room 1206)
- Does Children’s Education Matter for Parents’ Health and Cognition in Old Age? Evidence from China
- Mingming Ma
- Reflecting on Major Life Decisions: Changing Your Mind and Not Recalling It
- Jennifer Johnson-Hanks, Joan Hamory-Hicks, Edward Miguel and Maximilian W. Mueller
- The Role of Social Signaling in Community Deworming: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Kenya
- Anne Karing and Karim Naguib
Session 2C: Quality & Delivery of Public Services
Moderator: Monica Singhal, UC Davis (Room 1204)
- Political Opposition, Politician Performance, and Public Service Delivery: Evidence From Brazil
- Alexander Poulsen
- Outsourcing Service Delivery in a Fragile State: Experimental Evidence from Liberia
- Mauricio Romero, Justin Sandefur and Wayne Aaron Sandholtz
- Teacher Wages, the Recruitment of Talent, and Academic Achievement in Rural Peru
- Camila Alva, Matteo Bobba, Gianmarco Leon, Christopher A. Neilson and Marco Nieddu
Session 2D: Impacts of Shocks on Behavior & Personality: Junior Researchers' Work
Moderator: Steve Boucher, UC Davis (Room 1208)
- Economic Valuation of Biodiversity: Measuring Willingness-to-Pay for Quinoa Conservation in Peru
- Craig Scott and Sarah Elmes
- Shocks And Personality
- Shikhar Mehra
Session 2E: Industrialization & Industrial Organization
Moderator: Gaurav Khanna, UC San Diego(Room 1210)
- Structural Transformation and Spillovers from Industrial Areas
- David Blakeslee, Ritam Chaurey, Ram Fishman and Samreen Malik
- Industrialization from Scratch: The 'Third Front' and Local Economic Development in China's Hinterland
- Jingting Fan and Ben Zou
- Insecurity and Industrial Organization: Evidence from Afghanistan
- Joshua Blumenstock, Tarek Ghani, Sylvan Herskowitz, Ethan B. Kapstein, Thomas Sherer and Ott Toomet
12:30 - 1:15 p.m.: Lunch
1:15 - 2:00 p.m.: Keynote Speaker: Paul Niehaus
2:10 - 3:30 p.m.: Concurrent Sessions III
Session 3A: Education
Moderator: Diana Moreira, UC Davis (Room 1213)
- Increasing Students' Aspirations: The Impact of Queen of Katwe on Students' Educational Attainment
- Emma Riley
- Tackling Youth Unemployment: Evidence from a Labor Market Experiment in Uganda
- Livia Alfonsi, Oriana Bandiera, Vittorio Bassi, Robin Burgess, Imran Rasul, Munshi Sulaiman and Anna Vitali
- Trickle-Down Education? Effects of Elite Public Colleges on Primary and Secondary Schooling Markets in India
- Maulik Jagnani and Gaurav Khanna
Session 3B: Violence & Conflict
Moderator: Arman Rezaee, UC Davis (Room 1206)
- The Reach of Radio: Ending Civil Conflict through Rebel Demobilization
- Alex Armand, Paul Atwell and Joseph Gomes
- Conflict and Trade: Evidence from Russian-Ukranian Trade Transactions
- Vasily Korovkin and Alexey Makarin
- Losing your Cool: Psychological Mechanisms in the Temperature-Crime Relationship in Mexico
- Gordon C. McCord and Aleister Montfort
Session 3C: Political Economy: Social and Geographic Distance & Bureaucratic Turnover
Moderator: Steven Helfland, UC Riverside (Room 1204)
- Social Proximity and Bureaucrat Performance: Evidence from India
- Guo Xu, Marianne Bertrand and Robin Burgess
- Political Turnover, Bureaucratic Turnover, and the Quality of Public Services
- Mitra Akhtari, Diana Moreira and Laura Trucco
- The Cost of Distance: Geography and Governance in Rural India
- Sam Asher, Karan Nagpal and Paul Novosad
Session 3D: Assets & Technology Adoption in Agriculture
Moderator: Steve Boucher, UC Davis (Room 1208)
- Short-term Impacts of a Pay-it-Forward Livestock Transfer and Training Program in Nepal
- Sarah Janzen, Nicholas Magnan and William M. Thompson
- Locus of Control and Investment Behavior Among Smallholding Maize Farmers: An Empirical Study from Mozambique and Tanzania
- Jonathan Malacarne
Session 3E: Firm Productivity & Wage Work
Moderator: Ashish Shenoy, UC Davis (Room 1210)
- Environmental Regulation and Firm Productivity in China: Estimates from a Regression Discontinuity Design
- Guojun He, Shaoda Wang and Bing Zhang
- Microenterprises and the Lure of Wage Work: Theory and Evidence from Mexican Export Manufacturing
- Michael Koelle
3:30 - 4:00 p.m.: Break
4:00 - 5:20 p.m.: Concurrent Sessions IV
Session 4A: Political Economy: Information, Entry & Elections
Moderator: Arman Rezaee, UC Davis (Room 1213)
- Barriers to Political Entry: Experimental Evidence from Local Government Elections in Pakistan
- Saad Gulzar and Muhammad Yasir Khan
- Can More Information Lead to More Voter Polarization? Experimental Evidence from Turkey
- Ceren Baysan
- Information, Accountability, and Public Goods: Evidence from Three Linked Field Experiments in Liberia
- Mauricio Romero, Justin Sandefur and Wayne Aaron Sandholtz
Session 4B: Satellite & Other Big Data to Measure Poverty, Competition & Economic Activity
Moderator: Travis Lybbert, UC Davis (Room 1206)
- Poverty Mapping Using Convolutional Neural Networks Trained on High and Medium Resolution Satellite Images, With an Application in Mexico
- Boris Babenko, Jonathan Hersh, David Newhouse, Anusha Ramakrishnan, and Tom Swartz
- Properties of Satellite Imagery for Measuring Economic Activity at Small Geographies
- Ran Goldblatt, Kilian Heilmann, Yonatan Vaizman
- Scoping for Competition in Network Industries: Evidence from Mobile Telecommunications in Rwanda
- Daniel Bjorkegren
Session 4C: Tax Compliance
Moderator: Diana Moreira, UC Davis (Room 1204)
- Enforcement and Compliance with Labour Legislation
- Clemente Pignatti
- Tax Audits as Scarecrows: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment
- Marcelo L. Bergolo, Rodrigo Ceni, Guillermo Cruces, Matias Giaccobasso and Ricardo Perez-Truglia
- Wealth Taxation and Evasion: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Colombia
- Juliana Londono-Velez and Javier Avila
Session 4D: Environment and Development
Moderator: Steve Boucher, UC Davis (Room 1208)
- Volcanic Risk and Social Behaviors: Evidence from Ecuador
- Victor Stephane
- The Ecological Footprint of Transportation Infrastructure
- Sam Asher, Teevrat Garg and Paul Novosad
- Water When it Counts: Reducing Water Scarcity Through Irrigation Monitoring in Central Mozambique
- Paul Christian, Florence Kondylis, Valerie Mueller, Astrid Zwager and Tobias Siegfried