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Conference September 26-27, 2008

Fourteenth BREAD Conference on Development Economics
Chicago, Illinois

Sponsored by: Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago

Conference location: University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

Conference Program

Friday, September 26, 2008

Pre conference

8:00–9:30 am
Gleacher Center, 450 N. Cityfront Plaza Drive

Myron Scholes Global Markets Forum

The Growth Report: Strategies for Sustained Growth and Inclusive Development
Speakers: Danny Leipziger, Abhijit Banerjee, and Raghuram Rajan
9:30–11:30 am
To attend, please contact Jennifer Williams.

BREAD Conference

1:00–2:15 pm
Shawn Cole (Harvard Business School), Xavier Gine (World Bank), Jeremy Tobacman (Oxford University and Wharton), Petia Topalova (IMF), Rob Townsend (MIT), James Vickery (New York Fed)
"Barriers to Household Risk Management: Evidence from India"

2:15–3:30 pm
Michael Faye (Harvard University), Sendhil Mullainathan (Harvard University)
"Demand and Use of Credit in Rural India: An Experimental Analysis"

4:00–5:15 pm
Esther Duflo (MIT), Pascaline Dupas (UCLA), Michael Kremer (Harvard)
"Peer Effects and the Impact of Tracking: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Kenya"

5:15–6:30 pm
Rob Jensen (UCLA), Nolan Miller (Harvard University)
"Do Consumer Price Subsidies Really Improve Nutrition?"

Conference dinner

Saturday, September 27, 2008

8:00–9:15 pm
Gustavo Bobonis (Toronto)
"Endowments, Coercion and the Historical Containment of Education "

9:15–10:30 pm
Gael Raballand (World Bank), Patricia Macchi (World Bank)
"Transport Prices and Costs: The Need to Revisit Donors' Policies in Transport in Africa"

11:00–12:15 pm
Yuriy Gorodnichenko Berkeley), Enrique G. Mendoza (Maryland), Linda L. Tesar (Michigan)
"The Finnish Great Depression: From Russia with Love"

12:15–1:30 pm
Hongbin Li (Tsinghua University), Mark Rosenzweig (Yale University), Junsen Zhang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
"Altruism, Favoritism, and Guilt in the Allocation of Family Resources: Sophie's Choice in Mao's Mass Send Down Movement"

Call for Papers

The Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD) is pleased to announce the 14th BREAD conference will be hosted by the University of Chicago on Friday September 26 - Saturday September 27, 2008. You are invited to submit a paper for the conference. The deadline for submissions is July 27, 2008. Please submit your papers by sending an email with your paper as an attachment to BREAD.Conf@gmail.com.

All papers presented at the conference will be selected through this open submissions process. Please note that we will have time for only a very small number of presentations. The conference lasts about a day and a half, there are no parallel sessions, and we allow ample time for discussion of the research. The program will be chosen by Marianne Bertrand and Chang-Tai Hsieh. For all enquiries about registration, travel and accommodation, please send an email to Christine at BREAD@duke.edu.