Econ @ SFSU - Pacific Conference for Development Economics

Conference Program

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Pacific Conference for Development Economics Program Saturday, March 14^th, 2009 Cesar Chavez Student Center (CCSC), San Francisco State University main campus, 1600 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94132
Welcome and Registration: 8:00 – 8:30 am
Registration/Continental Breakfast	Rosa Parks Foyer	Please check in at the registration table to pick up your name tag and conference material. (Rosa Parks Conference Rooms are in CCSC lower level)
Session 1: 8:30 – 9:30 am
Panels	Location	Paper
1:Africa's Development Challenges Chair: Michael Kevane, Santa Clara University	Rosa Parks D	Measuring Ethno-Linguistic Affinity Between Nations Olaf J. de Groot, Bocconi University Africa’s Past Economic Development and its Determinants Javier Birchenall, UCSB
2:Trade Chair: Bruce Wydick, USF	Rosa Parks E	Regional Labor Market Effects of Trade Policy: Evidence from Brazilian Liberalization. Brian Kovak, University of Michigan Accounting for City Real Exchange Rate Changes in India AKM Mahbub Morshed, Southern Illinois University Carbondale The OECD Anti-Bribery Convention: Changing the Currents of Trade Anna D Souza, UCLA
3:Firm Behavior Chair: Jennifer Alix-Garcia, USF	Rosa Parks F	Distortionary Policies and the Size Distribution of Firms Shanthi Nataraj, UC Berkeley Innovative Firms or Innovative Owners? Determinants of Innovation in Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises Christopher Woodruff, UCSD
Coffee Break: 9:30 – 9:40 am
Coffee/Tea Break		Rosa Parks Foyer
Session 2: 9:40 – 10:40 am
Panels	Location	Paper
1:Cognitive Functioning and Development (organized by Tania Barham) Chair: John Strauss, USC	Rosa Park BC	Brains versus Brawn: Labor market returns to Intellectual and Physical Human Capital in a Poor Developing Country John Maluccio, Middlebury College Cash Transfers, Behavioral Changes, and Cognitive Development in Early childhood: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment Karen Macours, Johns Hopkins University Effects of Family Planning and Child Health on Cognitive Functioning: Evidence from Bangladesh Tania Barham, UC Boulder
2:Crime and Corruption Chair: Ted Miguel, UC Berkeley	Rosa Parks D	Can Integrity replace institutions? Theory and Evidence Gilad Aharonovitz, Washington State University Corruption in Health Sector: Evidence from Unofficial Consultation fees in Bangladesh Wahid Abdallah, University of Washington
3:Macro Chair: Michael Bar, SFSU	Rosa Parks E	Do the Effects of Free Trade vary by Gender? CAFTA and the rural Dominican Republic Mateusz J. Filipski, UC Davis The Exogenous oil shocks to China and Other countries Ambrose Lee, SFSU
4:Income Inequalities and Household Welfare Chair: Anil Deolalikar, UC Riverside	Rosa Parks F	Positional Spending and Status Seeking in Rural China Phil Brown, Colby College The Impact of Labor Migration and Remittances on Household Income and Welfare in Nepal Mahesh Kumar Subedi, Tokyo International University Rural Out-Migration and Farm Asset Accumulation: the Case of Guatemala Felipe Dizon, USF
Coffee Break: 10:40 – 10:50 am
Coffee/ Tea Break		Rosa Parks Foyer
Session 3: 10:50 – 12:20 am
Panels	Location	Paper
1:Social Interactions and Development (Organized by Giacomo De Giorgi) Chair: Pascaline Dupas, UCLA	Rosa Parks BC	Insurance and Investment in the Extended Family Giacomo De Giorgi, Stanford University Networks and Social Capital in Peruvian Shantytowns Adam Szeidl, UC Berkeley Social Networks in ITN adoption in India Patricia Foo, Stanford University The Value of Social Networks in Rural Paraguay Ethan Ligon, UC Berkeley
2:Child Welfare Chair: Elisabeth Sadoulet, UC Berkeley	Rosa Parks D	Is Credit the Answer? The Effects of Credit Constraints, Loans and Productivity Shocks on Child Labor Leah Nelson, UCSD Infant Mortality in India: District-Level Variations and Correlations Shruti Kapoor, UC Riverside The Child Health Effects of Water Sector Policies in Africa Katrina Kosec, Stanford University Land Endowments, Child Labor, and the Development of Public Schooling: Evidence from the Early 20th Century United States Jeffrey Greenbaum, UC Berkeley
3:Natural Resource Economics Chair: Phil King, SFSU	Rosa Parks E	Household and Argan Forest Impacts of Morocco’s Argan Oil Bonanza Nicholas Magnan, UC Davis Effects of China’s Sloping Land Conversion Program on Non-farm Labor Market Participation: Separating Substitution and Income Effects using the Timing of Participation Peter Kelly, UC Berkeley Development and Deforestation in Rural Mexico: Impacts using the discontinuity in Eligibility for Oportunidades Jarrod Welch, UCSD Payments For Environmental Services And Their Impact On Forest Transition In Costa Rica Rodrigo Arriagada, Arizona State University
4: Experimental Chair: Alessandra Cassar, USF	Rosa Parks F	Warm Glow, Information and Inefficient Charitable Giving Clair Null, UC Berkeley Is Group Lending A Good Enforcement Scheme for Achieving High Repayment Rates? Evidence from Framed Field Experiments in Vietnam Kono Hisaki, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan Does Social Capital Matter? Evidence from a Five-Country Group Lending Experiment Bruce Wydick, USF How Fair Shares Compare: Experimental Evidence from Two Cultures Pamela Jakiela, Washington University
Lunch and Panel: 12:30 – 2:00 pm
Jack Adams Hall CCSC Terrace Level	“Is current Economics research adequately addressing health disparities in the developing world?” Speakers: John Strauss, Professor of Economics, University of Southern California Michael Kremer, Gates Professor of Developing Societies, Department of Economics, Harvard University Chair: Anil B. Deolalikar, Professor of Economics, UC Riverside
Session 4: 2:10 – 3:10 pm
Panels	Location	Paper
1:International Political Economy Chair: Ted Miguel, UC Berkeley	Rosa Parks E	The Cooption of Revolutionary Movements into Criminal States Mike Hanlon, University of Washington The Humanitarian Impact of Economic Sanctions Ioana M. Petrescu, American Enterprise Institute, Washington DC
2:Community-based Development Chair: Steve Boucher, UC Davis	Rosa Parks D	Targeting in a Community-Driven Development Program: Power to the People? Craig McIntosh, UCSD Why do NGOs go where they go? Evidence from Kenya Jennifer Brass, UC Berkeley Pro-poor targeting and electoral rewards in making communities responsible for the provision of local public goods in rural Zambia Hideyuki Nakagawa, UC Berkeley
3:Health I Chair: Aprajit Mahajan, Stanford University	Rosa Parks F	The Determinants of Preventative Health Investments in Busia, Uganda Sarah Demmel and Sarah Walker, USF Food Aid and Adult Nutrition Nzinga H. Broussard, Clarement McKenna College A Randomized Health Education Intervention and Subjects’ Propensity to Learn Jennifer Murphy, USF
4: Household Impacts of Natural Disasters and Climate Change Chair: John Maluccio, Middlebury College	Rosa Parks BC	Household Adjustment to Natural Disasters: How Persistent are the Changes? Evidence from Nicaragua following Hurricane Mitch Edward Funkhouser, CSU Long Beach Natural Hazards and Child Health Claus Portner, University of Washington Climate Change and Inequality in India Jennifer M Alix-Garcia, USF
Break: 3:10 – 3:20 pm
Coffee Break	Coffee/Tea will be served in Rosa Parks A.
Session 5: 3:20 – 4:20 pm
Panels	Location	Paper
1:Income ,Technology and Sexual Behavior Chair: Anoshua Chaudhuri (co-listed with Women’s History Month Events on SFSU Campus)	Rosa Parks BC	The Impact of a Conditional Cash Transfer Program for Schooling on the Marital Choices, Fertility and Sexual Behaviour of Young women in Malawi Sarah Baird, UCSD The Impact of Income Shocks on Sexual Behavior in the Commercial Sex Market: Evidence from Kenya’s Post-Election Violence Jon Robinson, UC Santa Cruz Determinants of Technology Adoption: Private Value and Peer Effects in Menstrual Cup Take-Up Emily Oster, University of Chicago
2:Risk management Chair: Diana Fletschner, University of Washington	Rosa Parks D	What do cropping choices reveal about risk tolerance? Yoko Kusunose, UC Davis Estimating risk preferences in the presence wealth dynamics: Do we attribute dynamic risk responses to static risk aversion? Travis J. Lybbert, UC Davis Choices Under Risk in Rural Peru Francisco B. Galarza, University of Wisconsin
3:Economic History & Development Chair: Steve Boucher, UC Davis	Rosa Parks E	The Role of Geography and History in Cultural Diffusion: A Gravity Approach Pauline Grosjean, UC Berkeley Historical Underpinnings of Institutions: Evidence from the Neolithic Revolution Christopher Paik, Stanford University Against the Wind: The Labor Force Participation of Women in Iran Mahdi Majbouri, USC
4: Economics of Family Chair: Claus Portner, University of Washington	Rosa Parks F	A New Approach to Estimate the Effect of Family Size on Child Development Jorge Aguero, UC Riverside Breastfeeding and Desired Fertility: A "Mechanical" Quality-Quantity Tradeoff Seema Jayachandran, Stanford University Growing Up Together: effects of child age-distribution within a household Kelly Jones, UC Berkeley
Break: 4:20 – 4:30 pm
Coffee Break	Coffee/Tea will be served in Rosa Parks A.
Session 6: 4:30 – 6:00 pm
Panels	Location	Paper
1:Health II Chair: Tania Barham, UC Boulder	Rosa Parks BC	Social Protection Programs and Employment: The Case of Mexico's Seguro Popular Program Melissa Knox, University of Washington Effects of Targeted Health Programs in Developing Countries – Evidence from Vietnam. Ha Nguyen, UC Berkeley The Impact of Temporary Subsidies on Willingness to Pay for Preventative health Products: Evidence from a field experiment in Kenya Pascaline Dupas, UCLA A rigorous evaluation of micro-health insurance in Cambodia David Levine, UC Berkeley
2:Methodological advances Chair: Travis Lybbert, UC Davis	Rosa Parks D	Measurement Error and Its Impact on Estimates of Income and Consumption Dynamics Nayoung Lee, USC Human Development Index: Are Developing Countries Misclassified? Hendrik Wolff, University of Washington High Unemployment Yet Few Small Firms: The Role of South African Labor Regulations Jeremy Magruder, UC Berkeley Hydro-Economic Modeling with Minimum Data requirements: An application to the Sao Francisco River Basin, Brazil Stephen Vosti, UC Davis
3: Political Economy Chair: Craig McIntosh, UCSD	Rosa Parks E	Governance from below in Bolivia: A theory of local government with two empirical tests Jean Paul Faguet, London School of Economics/UC Berkeley Gender, Caste, and Public Goods Provision in Indian Village Governments Kiran Gajwani, Scripps College Government Transfers and Political Support Edward Miguel, UC Berkeley
4:Education Chair: Sarah Baird, UCSD	Rosa Parks F	Incentive to discriminate? An experimental investigation of teacher incentives in India Tarun Jain, University of Virginia Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital: Empirical Evidence from Egypt Mohammad Saleh, USC Strategic Behavior and Revealed Preferences: Lessons from School Choice and Student Selection in Ghana Kehinde Ajayi, UC Berkeley Cost-effectiveness of a summer reading program in community libraries in Burkina Faso Michael Kevane, Santa Clara University
Planning Meeting: 6.00-6.15pm
Rosa Parks A		Conference Debriefing and 2010 planning meeting
Dinner
For Dinner suggestions for those staying in town	.	Please ask at the registration table in the morning.