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HSS BuildingSan Francisco State University1600 Holloway Ave, San Francisco, CAXth Annual Pacific Conference for Development EconomicsMarch 9, 2013Organized byAnoshua Chaudhuri, San Francisco State UniversityEdward Miguel, UC BerkeleyBruce Wydick, University of San FranciscoLisa Chen, CEGA, UC BerkeleySponsorDepartment of Economics0 PageCollege of BusinessSan Francisco State University
PACDEV 2013 Program,8‐8.45 amHSS 1428.45 am‐10.15amSession 1AHSS 101Session 1BHSS 102Session 1CHSS 104March 9th 2013, HSS Building, San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Ave, San Francisco, CARegistration & CoffeeSession 1Programs and Household BehaviorChair: Bruce Wydick, USF"Got Milk? The Impact of Heifer International’s Livestock DonationPrograms in Rwanda""How does improving access to rural water supply change household timeuse in Ethiopia?""Learning About Electricity: Demand for Formal and Informal ElectricConnections in El Salvador""Remittances and Measurement Error: Evidence from India""The Dirty Business of Open Defecation: Lessons from a SanitationIntervention"Child SchoolingChair: Edward Miguel, UC Berkeley"A vaccination for education ‐ the ICDS and the education of older girls inrural India""Bridging the Gender Gap in Developing Country Education: The Role ofFemale Teachers""Cycling to School: Increasing Secondary School Enrollment for Girls inIndia""Like Father, Like Son? Intergenerational Education Mobility in India"Trade, Growth and DevelopmentChair: Michael Bar, SFSU"Business Cycle Accounting of the BRIC Economies""Colonial Investments and Long‐Term Development in Africa: Evidencefrom Ghanaian Railroads""The global convergence of income distribution""Urbanization without Structural Transformation: Evidence from Sub‐Saharan Africa""What Drives Free Trade with the Developing World? AnalyzingCongressional Voting on Trade Agreements with Colombia, Panama, andRosemary RawlinsSvetlana PimkinaJoseph CookUSFManuel BarronUniversity ofWashingtonUC BerkeleyRandall AkeeManisha ShahUCLAUCLAMonica JainIFPRIKetki ShethUC San DiegoKarthik MuralidharanUC San DiegoMehtabul AzamOklahoma State UnivSuparna ChakrabortyAlexander MoradiUSFUniversity of SussexJohn GallupRemi JedwabPortland State UnivGeorge WashingtonUniversityUSFJohn Dellipriscoli1 Page
South Korea"Session 1DHSS 107Session 1EHSS 15110.15‐10.45am10.45am‐12pmSession 2AHSS 101Session 2BHSS 102ExperimentalChair: Kirill Chernomaz, SFSU"A Laboratory Test of the Resource Curse Hypothesis""Conditional Cash Transfers and Civil Conflict: Experimental Evidencefrom the Philippines""Self‐Control in Teams: Evidence from a Field Experiment of CommitmentContracts and Team Incentives for Smoking Cessation""The Effects of Savings on Risk‐Taking and Intertemporal Choice Behavior:Evidence from a Randomized Experiment"HealthChair: Anoshua Chaudhuri, SFSU"Nudging to Use: Achieving Safe Water Behaviors in Kenya andBangladesh""Paying for Performance When Health Care Production is Multi‐Dimensional: The Impact of Rwanda's National Program on RewardedServices, Multitasking and Health Outcomes""The Consumption Smoothing Benefits of Health Insurance: Evidencefrom the Mexican Health Care Evaluation ""The Effectiveness of Environmental Alerts: Evidence from Santiago,Chile"Coffee breakJohn LynhamJustin WhiteUniv of Hawaii /StanfordUniv of ColoradoDenverUC BerkeleyLeandro CarvalhoRANDDavid LevineUC BerkeleyManoj MohananDuke UniversityHeidi SchrammUniversity of VirginiaJamie MullinsUC San DiegoBenjamin CrostSession 2HIVChair: Claus Portner, Seattle University“Rational Fatalism”: Non‐Monotonic Choices in Response to Risk""Corruption and the Impact of Imported Antiretroviral Drugs in AvertingHIV Deaths""Fertility Responses to Prevention of Mother‐to‐Child Transmission ofHIV""Parental Health, Child Labor and Schooling Outcomes: Evidence fromTanzania"Early Exposure and Later Life OutcomesChair: John Strauss, USCJason KerwinWilla FriedmanUniv of MichiganUC BerkeleyNicholas WilsonWilliams College/UC BerkeleyUniversity ofWashingtonShamma Alam2 Page
Session 2CHSS 104Session 2DHSS 107Session 2EHSS 151Session 2FHSS 130"Can the Major Public Works Policy Buffer Negative Shocks in EarlyChildhood? Evidence from Andhra Pradesh, India""Heat Waves at Conception and Later Life Outcomes""Long Term Consequences of Early Life Health Shocks: Evidence from the1980s Peruvian Crisis""The Persistent Effects of in Utero Nutrition Shocks over the Life Cycle:Evidence from Ramadan Fasting in Indonesia"Agricultural EconomicsChair: Elisabeth Sadoulet, UC Berkeley"Farmer Crop Choice and Short‐Run Weather Expectations""Flood‐tolerant rice expected to decrease yield variability, especially forsocially disadvantaged groups in India""The Impact of Insurance Provision on Households’ Production andFinancial Decisions"Impact of Cash TransfersChair: Karthik Muralidharan, UCSD"Agricultural Spillover Effects of Cash Transfers: What Does LEWIE Haveto Say?""Cash Transfers and Child Schooling: Evidence from a RandomizedEvaluation of the Role of Conditionality""The impact of cash and food transfers: Evidence from a randomizedintervention in Niger"Gender DifferencesChair: Anjini Kochar, Stanford University"Gender and Competition""Gender Differences in College Applications: Evidence from theCentralized system in Turkey""Oil and Female Labor Force Participation""The Grammatical Origins of Gender Roles"Corruption, Crime & EnforcementChair: Jesse Cunha, Naval PostGraduate School"Factors Influencing The Propensity To Bribe And Size Of InformalPayments: Evidence From Formal Manufacturing Firms In Nigeria""Regulated legalization when enforcement is corrupt""The Impact of Crime on Trust in Institutions in Mexico"Aparajita DasguptaUC RiversideJoshua WildeFederico GutierrezUniv of South FloridaVanderbilt UniversityMuhammad MajidUC RiversideBenjamin MillerKyle EmerickUC San DiegoUC BerkeleyJing CaiUniv of MichiganMateusz FilipskiUC DavisHarounan KaziangaOklahoma State UniversJoanna UptonCornell UniversityFeven WordofaPerihan Ozge SayginUSFUniv of MannheimMahdi MajbouriEstefania Santacreu‐VasutBabson CollegeESSEC BusinessSchool and THEMAFola MalomoUniversity Of SussexAlfredo BurlandoLuisa BlancoUniversity of OregonPepperdine Univ/3 Page
12‐1pm1‐2pm"The Political Economy of Health Worker Absence: Experimental Evidence Michael Callenfrom Pakistan"Lunch BreakBoxed lunch available at LIBRARY 121. Please have your name badges with you.Plenary session‐ HSS 130RANDUC Los Angeles"Understanding African Development: Trends and Prospects"Robert Bates, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government Comparative, Harvard UniversityEdward Miguel, Oxfam Professor in Environmental and Resource Economics and Faculty Director of the CEGA, UC BerkeleyModerator: Bruce Wydick, USF2‐2.30pm2.30pm‐3.45pmSession 3AHSS 101Session 3BHSS 102Session 3CHSS 104Break (no‐host refreshments available at various cafes and vending machines)Session 3Financial EmpowermentChair: Alessandra Cassar, USF"Business literacy and development: Evidence from a randomizedcontrolled trial in rural mexico""Group lending with heterogeneous types""Incentives and Support Groups to Improve Economic Conditions: A FieldExperiment in Medellin, Colombia ""Women's Empowerment, Gender Bias, and Susu Collection in Ghana"Politics and Institutional OutcomesChair: Jesse Antilla‐Hughes, USF"Ethnic Favoritism""One Mandarin Benefits the Whole Clan: Hometown Favoritism in anAuthoritarian Regime""Vote Suppression and Insecure Property Rights"Risk & InsuranceChair: Alain de Janvry, UC Berkeley"Basis Risk and Compound‐Risk Aversion: Evidence from a Willingness‐to‐Pay Experiment in Mali"Jesse CunhaManuel HernandezLauren SkoraKweku Opoku‐AgyemangNaval PostgraduateSchool and UCSCIFPRIUSFUniv of Wisconsin‐MadiEdward MiguelAnh TranUC BerkeleyIndiana University BlooPaul CastañedaDowerSIEPR, Stanford/New EconomicSchoolGhada ElabedUC Davis4 Page
Session 3DHSS 107Session 3EHSS 1513.45‐4.15pm4.15‐5.15pmSession 4AHSS 101Session 4BHSS 102"Moral Hazard, Risks and Index Insurance in the Rural Credit Market: ALan ChengFramed Field Experiment in China""Risk and Economic Under‐Specialization: Why the Pin‐Maker GrowsAjay ShenoyCassava on the Side"Old Age SecurityChair: Manisha Shah, UCLA"Intergenerational Co‐residence and Schooling"Anjini Kochar"Marriage as Women's Old Age Insurance: Evidence from Migration andYuya KudoLand Inheritance Practices in Rural Tanzania""Socio‐economic and Gender Inequalities in Health Status, Health AccessAnoshua Chaudhuriand Health Expenditures among Elderly in India""The Effects of a Non‐Contributory Pension Program on Labor ForceTobias PfutzeParticipation: The Case of 70 y Mas in Mexico"Drugs, Violence and CrimeChair; Ravi Bhandari, St. Mary’s College"Guns and Butter? Fighting Violence with the Promise of Development"Gaurav Khanna"Hate Crimes in India: An Economic Analysis of Violence and Atrocitiesagainst Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes"Smriti Sharma"Homicide and Work: The Impact of Mexico’s Drug War on Labor MarketParticipation"Sarah Pearlman"Living on the Edge: Youth Entry, Career and Exit in Drug‐Selling Gangs"Leandro CarvalhoBreak (no‐host refreshments available at various cafes and vending machines)Session 4Family Planning and FertilityChair: Manoj Mohanan, Duke University"Consequences of withdrawal: Free condoms and birth rates in theJ.M. Ian SalasPhilippines"Claus Portner"Family Planning and Fertility: Estimating Program Effects using Cross‐sectional Data""Family Planning Policy in China: Measurement and Impact on Fertility"Fei WangTechnology AdoptionChair: Ed Taylor, UC Davis"Do Safety Nets Promote Technology Adoption? Panel Data Evidence fromEthiopia""Leveling with Friends: Social Networks and Indian Farmers’ Demand forAgricultural Custom Hire Services"Yonas AlemNicholas MagnanUC DavisUniv of MichiganStanford UniversityIDE‐JETROSFSUOberlin CollegeUniv of MichiganDelhi Schoolof EconomicsVassar CollegeRANDUC IrvineSeattle UniversityUSCUniv of Gothenburg/UC BerkeleyUniv of Georgia5 Page
Session 4CHSS 104Session 4DHSS 107Session 4EHSS 151"The Role of Price Information in Agricultural Markets: ExperimentalEvidence from Rural Peru"Firm BehaviorChair: Suparna Chakraborty, USF"Environmental Regulation and Industrial Performance: Evidence fromUnexpected Externalities in China""Why do Firms Hire Using Referrals? Evidence from Bangladeshi GarmentFactories"Marriage MarketChair: Yaniv Stopnitzky, USF"Lucky Late Bloomers: The Impact of Early Marriage on Adult Outcomes inWestern Kenya""Male Earnings Inequality and the Age at Marriage of Women in India"Natural DisastersChair: Elizabeth Katz, USF"Destruction, Disinvestment, and Death: Economic and Human LossesFollowing Environmental Disaster""Organization of Disaster Aid Delivery: Spending Your Donations""The Impact of Microinsurance on Asset Accumulation and Human CapitalInvestments: Evidence from a Drought in Kenya"Eduardo NakasoneUniv of Maryland/IFPRIShinsuke TanakaTufts UniversityRachel HeathUniv of WashingtonDaniel HicksUniv of OklahomaSinduja SrinivasanRand CorporationJesse Anttila‐HughesYong Suk LeeUSFWilliams CollegeSarah JanzenUC Davis6 Page
Plenary SpeakersRobert BatesEaton Professor of the Science of Government Comparative, Harvard UniversityRobert H. Bates is Eaton Professor in the Department of Government, a Faculty Fellow of the Institute for InternationalDevelopment, and a member of the Department of African and African‐American Studies. He also serves as Professeur associe,Department of Economics, University of Toulouse. After rising to Full Professor at the California Institute of Technology, hebecame the Henry R. Luce Professor of Political Science and Economics at Duke University, where he also directed its Centerfor Political Economy. Born in Brooklyn, New York, he received his B. A. from Haverford in 1964 and his Ph.D. from M.I.T. in1969. He is the author of numerous books, including Markets and States in Tropical Africa (1981), Beyond the Miracles of theMarket (1989), Open Economy Politics (1997), Analytic Narratives (1998), Prosperity and Violence (2002) and When ThingsFell Apart (2008). He is also co‐author and co‐editor of the 2 volume study of the Political Economy of Economic Growth inAfrica, 1960‐2000 (2008). Bates has undertaken extensive fieldwork in Colombia, Brazil and several nations in Africa. Amonghis fields of interest are political economy; political development; political violence; and African politics. He has served as President of the ComparativePolitics Section of the American Political Science Association, Vice President of the Association and a member of the board of the African StudiesAssociation. He presently serves as a member of the Political Instability Task Force of the United States governmentand as a consultant at the World Bank.Edward MiguelOxfam Professor in Environmental and Resource Economics and Faculty Director of the Center for EffectiveGlobal Action at the University of California, BerkeleyHe earned S.B. degrees in both Economics and Mathematics from MIT, and received a Ph.D. in Economics from HarvardUniversity, where he was a National Science Foundation Fellow. Ted's main research focus is African economicdevelopment, including work on the economic causes and consequences of violence; the impact of ethnic divisions onlocal collective action; and interactions between health, education, environment, and productivity for the poor. He hasconducted field work in Kenya, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, and India. Ted is a Faculty Research Associate of the NationalBureau of Economic Research, Associate Editor of the Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Development Economics and Review of Economics andStatistics, recipient of the 2005 Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, and winner of the 2005 Kenneth J. Arrow Prize awarded annually by the International HealthEconomics Association for the Best Paper in Health Economics. He is a recipient of the 2012 U.C. Berkeley campus‐wide Distinguished Teaching Award.Miguel is author with Ray Fisman of Economic Gangsters: Corruption, Violence and the Poverty of Nations (Princeton University Press 2008), andauthor of Africa's Turn? (MIT Press 2009).7 Page
1 Page PACDEV 2013 Program, March 9th 2013, HSS Building, San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Ave, San Francisco, CA 8‐8.45 am HSS 142 Registration & Coffee 8.45 am‐10.15 am Session 1 Session 1A HSS 101 Programs and Household Behavior
