NEUDC 2000 Conference Schedule
A: Friday (10/6) 11:00am - 12:40pm
Session I: Credit and Lending I
Mary Kay Gugerty, Harvard University: Good Money at a Go: Strategic Commitment and the Design and Performance of Roscas in Kenya
Philip Bond, Northwestern University, & Ashok Rai, Harvard University: Banks, Moneylenders and Transparency
Raymond Fisman, Columbia University: Ethnic Enclaves and Communal Enforcement: Evidence from Trade Credit Relationships
Gwendolyn Alexander, University of Maryland: A Multi-Period Model of Microenterprise Finance: Using Dynamic Incentives to Induce Repayment
Ghazala Mansuri, The World Bank: Credit Layering in Informal Financial Markets
Session II: Education I
Tom Hertz, University of Massachusetts - Amherst: "Education, Employment and Poverty: Models and Estimates for South Africa"
Petra Todd, Jere Behrman, & Yingmei Cheng, University of Pennsylvania: "Evaluating Preschool Programs when Length of Exposure to the Program Varies: A Nonparametric Approach"
Peter F. Orazem, Iowa State University, Elizabeth M. Paterno, University of the Philippines - Mindanao, & Leah C. Gutierrez, Syracuse University: Teacher Attendance, Student Attendance, and Student Achievement in Northwest Frontier Province, Pakistan
Peter Glick, & David E. Sahn, Cornell University: Primary Schooling Demand in Rural Madagascar: Price Quality, and the Choice Among Public and Private Alternatives
Saqib Jafarey, University of Wales - Swansea, & Sajal Lahiri, University of Essex: Food for Education and Funds for Education Quality: Policy Options to Reduce Child Labor
Session III: Poverty and Inequality I
Gaurav Datt, & Hans Hoogeveen, The World Bank: EL Nino or El Peso? Crisis, Poverty and Income Distribution in the Philippines
David Sahn, & David Stifel, Cornell University: Exploring Alternative Measures of Welfare in the Absence of Expenditure Data
Paul Glewwe, University of Minnesota and The World Bank, & Phone Nguyen, General Statistical Office, Vietnam: Economic Mobility in Vietnam in the 1990s
Chris Elbers, The Free University, Amsterdam, Jean O. Lanjouw, Yale University, & Peter Lanjouw, The World Bank: "Welfare in Villages and Towns: Micro-Level Estimation of Poverty and Inequality"
Shenggen Fan, IFPRI, Xiaobo Zhang, IFPRI, & Linxiu Zhang, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science: Growth and Poverty in Rural China: The Role of Public Investments
Session IV: Labor and Demographics
Shekhar Aiyar, Brown University: The Human Capital Constraint: Increasing Returns, Education Choice and Coordination Failure
Sonia Laszlo, University of Toronto: Labour Supply and the Household Enterprise: The Case of Non-Farm Self-Employment in Rural Peru
Imran Rasul, LSE: Fertility Outcomes When Parental Preferences Conflict
Susan W. Parker, Progresa & Emmanuel Skoufias, IFPRI: Job Loss, Change in Marital Status and the Allocation of Time within Families: Evidence from Urban Mexico
Djavad Salehi-Isfahani & Ajay Tandon, Virginia Tech: Fertility Transition or Intertemporal Substitution in Post-Revolution Iran? Evidence from Household Data
B: Friday (10/6) 1:30pm - 3:40pm
Session I: Applied Theory
Deepali Singhal Kohli, National Council of Applied Economic Research, India, & Nirvikar Singh, University of California - Santa Cruz: Tax-Subsidy Policy, Informational Cascades, and the Diffusion of Technology
Kurt Annen, Washington University and U. of Fribourg, Switzerland: Social Capital Governance and Membership Assignment in Social Networks
Gary W. Anderson, Jr., ITAM: Multinational Corporations and Developing Countries: Entry Mode, Performance Requirements and Technology Transfer
Margaret S. McMillan, Tufts University, & Ann E. Harrison, Columbia Business School: Does Direct Foreign Investment Affect Domestic Firms Credit Constraints?
Raja Kali, University of Arkansas: Business Groups, the Financial Market and Modernization
Joo Kyung Ree, Cornell University: Zero Required Reserve - Better Justified Under Freer Competition? (Incomplete Preliminary Draft)
Marcel Fafchamps, Oxford University, & Forhad Shilpi, The World Bank: The Spatial Division of Labor in Nepal
Session II: Education II
Marigee Bacolod, UCLA, & Elizabeth M. King, The World Bank: The Effects of Family Background and School Quality on Low and High Achievers: Determinants of Academic Achievement in the Philippines
Russell D. Murphy, Jr. & Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, Virginia Tech: Testing: Observability and Investment in Human Capital
Sudhanshu Handa & Kenneth R. Simler, IFPRI: Quality or Quantity? The Supply Side Determinants of Primary Schooling in Rural Mozambique
Diana Loubaki, Université de Paris 1: Education, Technological Change & Growth
Norbert R. Schady, The World Bank: Education that does (and does not) Pay: Non-Linear Returns to Schooling in the Philippines
Geeta Kingdon, Oxford Uinversity, & Jean Dreze: School Participation in Rural India
Diana E. Clark, University of California - Berkeley, & Chang-Tai Hsieh, Princeton University: Schooling and Labor Market Impact of the 1968 Nine-Year Education Program in Taiwan
Session III: Agriculture & Agarian Relations
Theresa Osborne, Hunter College: Imperfect Competition in Agricultural Markets: Evidence from Ethiopia
Wayne A. Grove, Syracuse University: A Climatic Explanation for Plantation Cotton Production in the U.S. South versus the Use of Causal Labor in the West: 1800-1945
Sanjaya DeSilva, Yale University: Skills, Partnerships and Tenancy in Sri Lankan Rice Farms
Jaideep Roy & Konstantinos Serfes, SUNY - Stony Brook: Farming with Optimists and Pessimists
Douglas Gollin, Williams College, Stephen L. Parente, University of Illinois, & Richard Rogerson, University of Pennsylvania: Farm Work, Home Work and International Productivity Differences
Jonathan H. Conning, Williams College, & James A. Robinson, UC - Berkeley: Land Reform and the Political Organization of Agriculture
Tridip Ray, Hong Kong UST, & Nirvikar Singh, UC - Santa Cruz: Limited Liability, Contractual Choice, and the Tenancy Ladder
Session IV: Transfers and Welfare
Christopher B. Barrett, Cornell University, & Daniel C. Clay, Michigan State University: "Self-Targeting Accuracy in the Presence of Imperfect Factor Markets: Evidence From Food-for-Work in Ethiopia"
Menno Pradhan, Cornell University, & Laura B. Rawlings, The World Bank: The Nicaraguan Emergency Social Investment Fund: Poverty Targeting and Impact on Beneficiaries
Kristen Mammen & Doug Miller, Princeton University: Household Composition Responses to Large Pension Receipts in South Africa
Cagla Okten, Louisiana State University, & Una Okonkwo Osili, Indiana University - Purdue University of Indianapolis: Giving to the Community: Private Transfers to Community Groups and Organizations in Indonesia
Dave Coady & Rebecca Lee Harris, IFPRI: A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Cash Transfers Within a General Equilibrium Framework: Simulations Based on Mexico's PROGRESA Cash Transfers
David Coady & Emmanuel Skoufias, IFPRI: Evaluating the Efficiency of Cash Transfer Programs [or: the Decomposition of the Lambdas]
Pushkar Maitra, Monash University, & Ranjan Ray, University of Tasmania: The Effect of Transfers on Household Expenditure Patterns and Poverty in South Africa
C: Friday (10/6) 4:00pm - 5:20pm
Session I: International Issues
Ravi A. Yatawara, University of Delaware: Timing is Everything: On the Determinants of Commercial Policy Switches
Andreas Waldkirch, Boston College: Foreign Direct Investment in Mexico and NAFTA - An Empirical Assessment
Beatriz Gaitan, University of Minnesota, & Ferdinand Pavel, Humboldt University: Is "Getting the Prices Right" always Right?, How Trade Liberalization can Fail
Eckhard Siggel, Concordia University, G. Ikiara & B. Nganda, University of Nairobi: Policy Reforms, Competitiveness and Prospects of Kenya's Manufacturing Industries: 1984-97 and Comparisons with Uganda"
Session II: Mobility and Migration
Ira Gang, Rutgers University, Thomas Bauer, IZA, Bonn and CEPR, London, & Gil S. Epstein, Bar-Ilan Univesity, CEPR, London, & IZA, Bonn: Immigrant Clustering: Herd Behavior and Network Migration
John Maluccio, Duncan Thomas & Lawrence Haddad, IFPRI: The Mobility of Adults in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Levels, Determinants, and Consequences
John Giles, Michigan State University: Risk, Shock and Weak-Property Rights in the Migration Decision of Rural Chinese Households
David Newhouse, Cornell University: Who's moving up, who's falling down and how? A four country comparison of household income dynamics.
Session III: Politics and Society
Karla Hoff, The World Bank, & Joseph E. Stiglitz, Stanford University: The Logic of Political Constraints and Reform with Applications to Strategies for Privatization
Christian Ahlin, University of Chicago: Corruption, Aggregate Economic Activity and Political Organization
Pranab Bardhan, UC- Berkeley, & Dilip Mookherjee, Boston Unoversity: Corruption and Decentralization of Infrastructure Delivery in Developing Countries
Jeff Dayton-Johnson, Dalhousie university: What Does Social Cohesion Contribute to the Rural Economy? A Tale of Four Countries
Session IV: Political Economy
Richard E. Schuler, Cornell University: Regulation and Infrastructure: Connections Between Markets and Politics
M. Govinda Rao & Nirvikar Singh, UC - Santa Cruz: The Political Economy of Center-State Fiscal Transfers in India
Anandi Mani, Vanderbilt University, & Sharun W. Mukand, Tufts University: Democracy and Visibility: The Political Economy of Public Good Provision
Leonard Wantchekon, Yale University: Why do Resource Dependent Countries Have Authoritarian Governments
Friday (10/6) 7:00pm - 9:00pm: Banquet & Lecture: George Akerlof
D: Saturday (10/7) 9:00am - 10:40am
Session I: Poverty and Inequality II
Christian Morrison, OECD Development Center Paris, Erik Thorbecke, Cornell University, H. Guilemeau & C. Linskens, OECD Development Center Paris: Poverty and Malnutrition in Sub-Saharan Africa
Kenneth R. Simler, Rasmus Heltberg, Cristina Matusse, Finn Tarp & Gabriel Dava, IFPRI: Cost of Whose Basic Needs? Testing the Robustness of Poverty Comparisons in Mozambique
Berk Ozler, The World Bank: Is Census Income an Adequate Measure of Household Welfare? Combining Census and Survey Data to Construct a Poverty Map of South Africa
Jean-Yves Duclos, Université Laval, David Sahn & Stephen Younger, Cornell University: Making Multidimensional Poverty Comparisons
Debajyoti Chakrabarty, Rutgers University: Poverty Traps and Growth in a Model of Endogenous Time Preference
Session II: Growth & Human Capital
Steven N. Durlauf , University of Wisconsin: Econometric Analysis and the Study of Economic Growth: A Skeptical Perspective
William Masters, Harvard University & Purdue University, & Margaret S. McMillan, Tufts University: Climate and Scale in Economic Growth
Guido Cozzi, Cornell University: Social Capital in the Weightless Economy a Growth Model
Randa El Khechen Sab & Stephen C. Smith, George Washington University: On Human Capital Convergence
Ysabel Nauwelaerts, University of Antwerp: Re-appraising the Factor Theory with Human Capital and Technology: An Application to Textile Specialisation Patterns Worldwide (Table)
Session III: Theory I
Indranil Dutta, UC - Riverside, Prasanta K. Pattanaik, UC - Riverside, & Yongsheng XU, Georgia State University & University of Nottingham: "On Measuring Multi-dimensional Deprivation on the Basis of Aggregate Data"
Priyodorshi Banerjee, Boston University: Partial Enforceability and Perverse Supply Responses in Apprenticeship Contracts
Rachel E. Kranton, University of Maryland, & Deborah F. Minehart, Boston University: A Theory of Buyer-Seller Networks
Pertti Haaparanta & Mikko Puhakka, Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration: Development Traps: Investing in Patience
Patrick Francois, Queens University, & Jan Zabojnik, Queens University and University of Southern California: Why Doesn't Development Always Succeed? The Role of a Work Ethic
Session IV: Risk and Sharing
Sanjay Banerji , McGill University: Consumption Smoothing and Risk-taking Activities Under Moral Hazard
Mariassunta Giannetti, Banca d'Italia: Risk Sharing and Firm Size: Theory and International Evidence
Pierre Dubois, INRA ESR Toulouse and UC -Berkeley: Consumption Insurance with Heterogeneous Preferences. Can Sharecropping Help Complete Markets
Maitreesh Ghatak, University of Chicago, Tahir Andrabi, Pomona College, & Asim Khwaja, Harvard University: Contractors for Tractors: A Study of Industrial Subcontracting in a Developing Country
Jaideep Roy & Konstantinos Serfes, SUNY - Stony Brook: Strategic Choice of Contract Lengths in Agriculture
E: Saturday (10/7) 11:00am - 12:20pm
Session I: Child Labor I
Clive Bell & Hans Gersbach, University of Heidelberg: Child Labor and the Education of a Society
Patrick M. Emerson, Cornell University & University of Colorado at Denver, & Andre P.F. de Souza, Cornell University: Is There a Child Labor Trap? Inter-Generational Persistence of Child Labor in Brazil
Eric V. Edmonds, Dartmouth College: The Effect of Sibling Sex Composition on Child Labor and Schooling
John Cockburn, Nuffield College: Child Labour Versus Education: Poverty Constraints or Income Opportunities
Session II: Conflict and Resolution
Mary Arends-Kuenning, University of Illinois, Carol E. Kaufman & Ben Roberts: The Effect of the End of Apartheid on Women's Work, Migration, and Household Composition in KwaZulu-Natal
Yoshito Takasaki, University of Wisconsin: Unifying Household Models of Deforestation and Land Degradation in Swidden-Fallow Agriculture
Arijit Sen, Indian Statistical Institute, & Anand V. Swamy, Williams College: Auction as Taxation: An Analysis of Fund-Raising by Indian Guilds
Asim Ijaz Khwaja, Harvard University: Decomposing collective action - how much does social capital really matter? Learning from maintenance of rural infrastructural projects.
Session III: Health and Nutrition
Pierre Dubois & Ethan Ligon, UC - Berkeley: Efficiency Wages for Rotten Kids: Intra-Household Consumption and Nutrition in the Phillipines
Kelly K. Hallman, IFPRI: Nuptials and Nutrition: Wedding Payments, Resources, and Boy/Girl Anthropometrics in Bangladesh
Alok Bhargava, University of Houston, Howarth E. Bouis, IFPRI, & Nevin S. Scrimshaw, Intl. Nutrition Foundation: Modeling the Proximate Determinants of Hemoglobin Concentration of Bangladeshi Women: Is Iron Fortification of Rice & Viable Strategy for Reducing Iron Deficiencies?
Barry Popkin, Sue Horton, University of Toronto, & Soowon Kim: The Nutrition Transition and Diet-Related Chronic Disease in Asia Economic Issues
Session IV: Environmental
Shanti Rabindran, Rockefeller University: Forest and Land Fires in Indonesia: The Role of large Landholders and Shifting Cultivators A GIS - econometrics analysis of satellite and land use data
Rajshri Jayaraman, Cornell University, & Peter Lanjouw, The World Bank: Small-Scale Industry, Environmental Regulation and Poverty: The Case of Brazil
Arnab K. Basu, College of William and Mary, Nancy H. Chau, Cornell University, & Ulrike Grote, University of Bonn: Market Access, Environment and Eco-labeling
Roy Boyd, Ohio University, & Maria Eugenia Ibarraran V., Universidad de las Americas - Puebla, Mexico: Carbon Taxes and the Mexican Economy: The Impact of Compliance with Global Warming Restriction on Mexico
F: Saturday (10/7) 1:20pm - 3:20pm
Session I: Capital and Labor
Yoshito Takasaki, University of Wisconsin, Bradford L. Barham, University of Wisconsin, & Oliver T. Coomes, McGill University: Wealth Accumulation and Activity Choice Evolution Among Amazonian Forest Peasant Households
Yong Jin Kim, LSE: Liquidity Constraints in the Vintage Human Capital Model
Robert E. Evenson, Yale University, & Ayal Kimhi, Hebrew University, & Sanjaya DeSilva, Yale university: Supervision and Transaction Costs: Evidence from Rice Farms in Bicol, the Philippines
Robert S. Chase, Johns Hopkins SAIS: Labor Market Discrimination During Post-Communist Transition: A Monopsony Approach to the Status of Latvia's Russian Minority
J.S. Butler, Cornell University, Andrew W. Horowitz, University of Arkansas: Labor Supply and Wages Among Nuclear and Exended Households: The Surinamese Experiment
Xiaobo Zhang & Shenggen Fan, IFPRI: How Productive is Infrastructure? New Approach and Evidence from Rural India
Session II: Applied Economics
Jishnu Das, Harvard University: "Do Households Learn about Doctor Quality"
Nauro F. Campos, CERGE-EI, Pregue, University of Michigan and CEPR: Never Around Noon: On the Nature and Causes of the Transition Shadow
Trish Kelly, Quinnipiac College, & Meenakshi Rishi, Ohio Northern University: Spin-Off Effects of Military Expenditures During the 1980s
Albert Park, University of Michigan, & Sangui Wang, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences: Will Greater Credit Access Help the Poor? Evidence from China
Phil Brown & Albert Park, University of Michigan: Education and Poverty: The Effects of Credit Constraints, Intra-Household Decision Making, and School Quality on Educational Attainment in China's Poor Areas
Clive Bell, University of Heidelberg, & Pinaki Bose, University of Memphis: Trade Credit, Asset Specificity and the Holdup Problem
Session III: Credit and Lending II
Nidhiya Menon, Brown University: Micro Credit, Consumption Smoothing, and Impact on Repayment Behavior: An Euler Equation Approach
Debajyoti Chakrabarty, Rutgers University, & Ananish Chaudhuri, Washington State University: Formal and Informal Sector Credit Institutions and Interlinkage
Sanjay Jain, George Washington University, & Ghazala Mansuri, The World Bank: A Little Bit at a Time: The Use of Regularly Scheduled Repayments in Microfinance Programs
Stefan Klonner, University of Heidelberg: Rotating Savings and Credit Associations as Insurance
Parikshit Ghosh & Genevieve Verdier, UBC: The Advantage of Joint Liability: Group Lending, Marketing Cooperatives and Interlinkage
Siwan Anderson, Tilburg University, & Jean-Marie Baland, University of Namur: The Economics of Roscas and Intra-Household Resource Allocation
Session IV: Theory II
Magnus Hatlebakk, University of Bergen: A New Robust Subgame Perfect Equilibrium in Basu's Model of Triadic Power Relations
Rabi N. Bhattacharya & Mukul Majumdar, Cornell University: On Characterizing the Probability of Survival in a Large Competitive Economy
Marcel Fafchamps, Oxford University, & Garance Genicot, UC - Irvine: Risk-Sharing Patronage and Private Accumulation
Gautam Bose, University of New South Wales: Fragmented Reputation and the Decline of Public Morality
Boyan Jovanovic & Peter L. Rousseau, Vanderbilt University: Vintage Organization Capital
Timothy N. Cason, Purdue University, & Vai-Lam Mui, University of Notre Dame: Fairness and Sharing in Innovation Games: A Laboratory Investigation
G: Saturday (10/7) 3:40pm - 4:40pm
Session I: International Trade
Yongmiao Hong, Maului Lau & Henry Wan, Cornell University: "A Panel Data Analysis of the Convergence Hypothesis and the Trade-Growth Nexus"
Marcella Vigneri, Oxford University: Has Trade Liberalization Revitalized Export Production? Contrasting Ghana's and Uganda's Responsiveness to Price Incentives
Hadi Salehi Esfahani & Stephanie Leaphart, University of Illinois: Estimating Trade Policy Models: An Empirical Study of Protection Polilcy in Turkey
Session II: Gender and Power
Kaushik Basu, Cornell University, & James Foster, Vanderbilt University: Household Decision-Making, Gender and the Balance of Power
Jonna P. Estudillo, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Agnes R. Quisumbing, IFPRI & Harvard Center for Population & Development Studies, & Keijiro Otsuka, Tokyo Metropolitan University: The Implications of Gender Differences in Land Inheritance and Schooling on Lifetime Incomes: Evidence from the Rural Philippines
Amy Y.C. Liu, Australian National University: Are Women Still Holding up Half of Heaven* in Vietnam? The Gender Wage Gap
Session III: Child Labor II
Sylvain Dessy, Université Laval, & Stephane Pallage, Université de Quebec - Montréal: Child Labor and Coordination Failures
Luis F. Lopez Calva, El Colegio de Mexico, & Luis A. Rivas, Banco Centra de Nicaragua: Capital Accumulation and Child Labor: Can Compulsory Schooling be Counterproductive?
Pushkar Maitra, Monash University, & Ranjan Ray, University of Tasmania: A Multinomial Logit Approach to Jointly Estimating Child Participation in Employment and Schooling: Comparative Evidence from Two Continents
Session IV: Financial Crises and Inflation
Andre Portela F. de Souza, Cornell University: How Does Inflation Affect Inequality? Assessing the Role of Formal Indexation in Brazil
Marialuz Moreno-Badia, Boston University: Confidence Crises Revisited: Is Short-term Debt a Curse or a Blessing
Kwan S. Kim, University of Notre Dame: The 1997 Financial Crisis and Economic Goverance; Case of South Korea
Saturday (10/7) 5:00pm - 7:00pm:
Reception in Honor of Erik Thorbecke.
Speakers: Alain de Janvry and Paul Streeten.