Bristol Workshop of Development Economics
Venue: Arts Complex Lecture Theatre 2 (7 Woodland Road, BS8 1TB)
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| Day 1: May 7th | |
| 09:00-09:30 |
Coffee and welcome |
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Session 1 |
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| 10:00 - 10:30 |
Alberto Ciancio (Glasgow)– Surviving Bad News: Health Information Without Treatment Options |
| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Ranjeeta Thomas (LSE)– Risk beliefs, intensive information and demand for preventative health care: Experimental evidence from Zimbabwe |
| 11:00 - 11:30 |
Coffee/Tea Break |
| Session 2 | |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Samuel M Marshall (Warwick)– Labor Market Power in Sub-Saharan Africa |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Apurav Yash Bhatiya (Birmingham)– Expected Benefits and Costs of Migration for Rural Youth: Experimental Evidence from India |
| 12:30 - 14:00 |
Lunch |
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Session 3 |
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| 14:00 - 14:30 |
Abhijeet Singh (Stockholm)– The incidence of affirmative action: Evidence from quotas in private schools in India |
| 14:30 - 15:00 |
Weilong Zhang (Cambridge)– Shaping Tomorrow: The Medium- and Longer-run Impacts of Mexico's Universal Preprimary Mandate |
| 15:00 - 15:30 |
Coffee |
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Session 4 |
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| 15:30 - 16:00 | Yan Hu (Edinburgh)– The roadblock effect |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Mahreen Mahmud (Exeter)– “We’re All in This Together”: Addressing Poverty in Village Economies |
| 17:00-18:00 | Keynote: Cynthia Kinnan (Tufts)– Financial Access in Development: Heterogeneity and Indirect Effects |
| 18:30 | Dinner at Lido (Oakfield Pl, Clifton,Bristol BS8 2BJ) |
Day 2: 8th May
| 09:30 - 10:30 |
Coffee |
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Session 5 |
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| 10:00 - 10:30 |
Rebecca De Simone (LBS)– Opening the Brown Box: Production Responses to Environmental Regulation |
| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Daksh Walia (Oxford)– The Unintended Impacts of Legislating to Handle Workplace Sexual Harassment |
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Session 6 |
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| 11:30 - 12:00 |
Selim Gulesci (Trinity College Dublin)– Changing Harmful Norms through Information and Coordination: Experimental Evidence from Somalia |
| 12:00 - 12:30 |
Abu Siddique (Royal Holloway)– Leveraging Edutainment and Social Networks to Foster Interethnic Harmony. |
| 12:30 - 14:00 |
Lunch |
Contact information
Please contact the organisers for any remaining questions:
m.haseeb@bristol.ac.uk, christine.valente@bristol.ac.uk or alma.wright@bristol.ac.uk