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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).

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8:00 - 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

Policy or Perception? Women’s Political Liberalization and Sex-selection in India: Nabaneeta Biswas

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

Income, Psychological Well-being, and the Dynamics of Poverty: Evidence from South Africa: M Alloush

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

Resistance is Futile? Institutional and Geographic Factors in China's Great Famine: Elizabeth Gooch

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

Imperfect Monitoring and Informal Risk Sharing: The Role of Social Ties: Prachi Jain

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

Structural Change with Input-Output Linkage: Hang Hu

Allocation of Female Talent and Cross-Country Productivity Differences: Munseob Lee

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)

Impacts of Frequent Weather Shocks on Peruvian Farmers’ Conservation Behavior: Heleene Tambet

Economic Valuation of Biodiversity: Measuring Willingness-to-Pay for Quinoa Conservation in Peru: Craig Scott and Sarah Elmes

Drawings from Syria's Lost Generation: Psychological Impacts of the Refugee Crisis: Rafael Panlilio

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