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EUDN/CEPR joint Conference on Development Economics

AfD rue Roland Barthes,
75598 Paris Cedex 12

Organized by European Development Research Network (EUDN)
and Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

In collaboration with

Agence française de Développement (AfD) 

Programme
Monday, November 6th

 

09.00 – 10.15 Development at the Border

Denis Cogneau (DIAL)

 

10.15 – 11.30 Family Networks and Schooling Outcomes: Evidence from Randomized Social Experiments

Imran Rasul (University College of London)

 

11.30 – 12.00  Coffee Break

12.00 – 13.15 Do Television and Radio Destroy Social Capital?

Ben Olken (Harvard University)

 

13.15 – 14.30 Lunch Break

14.30 – 15.45 Political Connection and Preferential Access to Finance : the Role of Campaign Distribution

Erik Feijen (World Bank)

 

15.45 – 17.00 Infrastructure and Public Utilities Privatization in Developing Countries

Emmanuelle Auriol (Toulouse University)

 

Tuesday, November 7th

09.00 – 10.15 The Long Run Health and Economic Consequences of Famine on Survivors: China’s Great Famine

Nancy Qian (Brown University)

 

10.15 – 11.30 Class Size and Sorting in Market Equilibrium Theory and Evidence

Eric Verhoogen (Columbia University)

 

11.30 – 12.00  Coffee Break

12.00 – 13.15 Power to People: Evidence from Randomized Experiment of a Citizen Report Card Project in Uganda

Martina Bjorkman (Bocconi University)

 

13.15 – 14.30 Lunch Break

14.30 – 15.45 Contractual Institutions, Financial Development and Vertical Institutions: Theory and Evidence

Rocco Macchiavello (Nuffield College – Oxford University)

 

15.45 – 17.00 Regional Specialization in the Long Run

Guy Michaels (London School of Economics)

 

17.30 - 19.00 EUDN member meeting