Friday, September 9th
LOCATION: Taylor Hall Room 203
12:00-1:00pm Registration and Lunch
1:00:1:15 Introduction
1:15-2:45 Session 1: Behavioral
Chair: Emily Conover (Hamilton)
| Author | Title | Discussant | |
| 1 | Erick Gong (Middlebury) | Mental Accounting and Mobile Banking: Can Labeling an M-PESA Account Increase Savings? | Ben Ho (Vassar) |
| 2 | Prakarsh Singh (Amherst) | Impact of Caregiver Incentives on Child Health | Subha Mani (Fordham) |
| 3 | Carolina Castilla (Colgate) | What’s Yours is Mind and What’s Mine is Mine, Bargaining Power and Income Concealing Between Spouses in India | Gisella Kagy (Vassar) |
2:45-3:15 Coffee Break
3:15-4:45 Session 2: Household Bargaining/Gender
Chair: Sukanya Basu (Vassar)
| Author | Title | Discussant | |
| 1 | Amy Damon (Macalester) | Favoritism and Farming, Agricultural Productivity and Polygyny in Tanzania | Dylan Fitz (Davidson) |
| 2 | Anja Tolonen (Barnard) | Local Industrial Shocks and Endogenous Gender Norms | Melanie Khamis (Wesleyan) |
| 3 | Tanya Byker (Middlebury) | Causes and Consequences of Teen Childbearing, Evidence from a Reproductive Health Intervention in South Africa | Martin Abel (Kennedy School) |
5:00-6:00pm Keynote Talk- Robert Jensen (Wharton, University of Pennsylvania)
6:30-8:00pm Conference Dinner Alumnae House
Saturday, September 10th
LOCATION: New England
8:00-9:00am Breakfast
9:00-10:30 Session 3: Education
Chair: Melanie Khamis (Wesleyan)
| Author | Title | Discussant | |
| 1 | Tamara McGavock (Grinnell) | The Short End of the Deal, Crisis, Dropout and Sibling Inequality | Dan LaFave (Colby) |
| 2 | Mahdi Majbouri (Babson) | Sir! I’d rather go to school Sir! | Steve Nafziger (Williams) |
| 3 | Subha Mani (Fordham) | Cognitive, Non-Cognitive and Behavioral Returns to College Quality, Evidence from India | Johannes Norling (Mt. Holyoke) |
10:30-11:30 Teaching Session- Classroom Innovations in Development Economics
| Author | Title | Discussant | |
| 1 | Simon Halliday (Smith) | Data Literacy in Development Economics | All |
| 2 | Prakarsh Singh (Amherst) | Dream Experiment publication | All |
11:30-12:30 Lunch
12:30-2pm Session 4
Chair: Sarah Pearlman (Vassar)
| Author | Title | Discussant | |
| 1 | Julia Berazneva (Middlebury) | Allocation and Valuation of Non-marketed Crop Residues in Smallholder Agriculture | Paul Ruud (Vassar) |
| 2 | Evan Plous (Oberlin) | The Buck Stops Where, Federalism and Investment in the Brazilian Water and Sanitation Sector | Dustin Frye (Vassar) |
| 3 | Hillary Caruthers (Lawrence) | The Role of Risk Management in Household Rural/Urban Migration Decisions | Aine Seitz- McCarthy (Lewis & Clark) |