PEPA Workshop: Informing Policy for Development
Date:
31/05/2013 - 01/06/2013
Organised by:
Programme Evaluation for Policy Analysis (PEPA)
Presenter:
Petra Todd and Ken Wolpin
Level:
Intermediate (some prior knowledge)
Contact:
Kylie Groves, enquiries@pepa.ac.uk
Description:
This is a free PEPA workshop organised by Monica Costa Dias (IFS), Marcos Vera-Hernandez (UCL) and Richard Blundell (IFS and UCL) .
Programme
DAY 1: Friday 31 May 2013
10.30am
Registration and coffee
10.50am
Opening Remarks
11:00am
Costas Meghir (Yale) “The Design and Impact of Early Childhood Interventions: Results from Colombia” (with Orazio Attanasio, Sarah Cattan, Emla Fitzsimons, Camila Fernandez, Sally Grantham-McGregor, Costas Meghir, Marta Rubio-Codina)
11.50am
Gharad Bryan (LSE) “Seasonal Migration in Bangladesh”
12.40pm
Lunch
1.40pm
Cynthia Kinnan (Northwestern) “The miracle of microfinance? Evidence from a randomized evaluation”(with Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Rachel Glennerster)
2.30pm
Ethan Ligon (California) “Structural experimentation to distinguish between different models of risk-sharing” (with Laura Schechter)
3.20pm
Coffee break
3.40pm
Greg Fischer (LSE) paper title tba
4.30pm
Ken Wolpin (Pennsylvania) “Estimating a Coordination Game in the Classroom: Understanding the Low Mathematics Performance of Mexican High School Students” (with Petra Todd)
5.20pm
Finish
DAY 2: Saturday 1 June 2013
8.45am
Coffee
9.00am
Pierre Dubois (Toulouse) “Intrahousehold Risk Sharing, Incentives and Nutrition: Evidence from the Philippines” (with Ethan Ligon)
9.50am
Marcos Vera Hernandez (UCL) “Social Interactions, Network Size, and Risk Sharing” (with Emla Fitzsimons and Bansi Malde)
10.40am
Coffee break
11.00am
Alessandro Tarozzi (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) “Micro-loans, Insecticide-Treated Bednets and Malaria: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Orissa (India)” (with Aprajit Mahajan, Brian Blackburn, Dan Kopf, Lakshmi Krishnan and Joanne Yoong)
11.50am
Michael Kremer (Harvard) “Worms at Work” (with Sarah Baird, Joan Hamory Hicks and Edward Miguel)
12.40pm
Lunch (1.40pm finish)
(Download programme with links to papers here - http://www.ifs.org.uk/docs/Programme_informing%20policy.pdf
Cost:
Free
Website and registration:
Region:
Greater London
Keywords:
Evaluation Research, Structural equation models, Development policy evaluation
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