May 1-2, 2009 McNamara Alumni Center -- University of Minnesota, USA |
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“Preliminary” PROGRAM
Session Topics:
Return to Conference Home PageFriday, 9:30-11:30 a.m., 2 sessions:Agriculture & Rural Development in Johnson Great Room
● A Hard Row to Hoe: Farming on the Brazilian Amazon Frontier under Incomplete
Property Rights
● Producer networks and technology adoption in Ghana
● Household Attitudes to Price Risk with Multiple Commodities: Evidence from Rural
Ethiopia
● Do the Biggest Aisles Serve a Brighter Future? Global Retail Chains and Their
Implications for Romania
● Is Skill Diversity a Source of Productivity and Exports in Developing Countries?
● FDI Spillovers and the Role of Local Financial Markets: Evidence from Mexico
Friday, 1:15-3:15 p.m., 3 sessions:Education I in Johnson Great Room
● The Impact of Child Labor and School Quality on Academic Achievement in Brazil
● The Contribution of Education to Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa:
A Review of the Evidence
● Identifying the determinants of mathematical achievement in 6th grade pupils
across Southern and Eastern Africa
Economic Growth in Heritage Gallery
● Adjustment under trade liberalization, labor market segmentation, and informal
employment: A dynamic general equilibrium analysis of a three-sector-open economy
● Public Investment and Corruption in an Endogenous Growth Model
● Health Expenditures and Externalities: Their Contribution to Economic Growth
● Remittances and poverty: who benefits in the household?
● Poverty measures in India
● Objective versus Subjective Poverty: Relative Deprivation Matters
Friday, 3:30-5:30 p.m., 3 sessions:Conditional Cash Transfers and Randomized Evaluations in Johnson Great Room
● Evaluating Human Capital Accumulation Policy in Developing Countries: Conditional
Cash Transfer Programs and Spillover Effects within Households
● The Impact of a Conditional Cash Transfer Program for Schooling on the Sexual
Behavior of Young Women in Malawi
● Educational and Health Impact of Two School Feeding Schemes: Evidence from a
Randomized Trial in Rural Burkina Faso
Political Economy in Ski-U-Mah
● Alluvial Diamonds: A New Resource Curse Theory
● Gender Dfferences in Labour Market Participation During Conflict: Evidence from
Displaced People's Camps in Northern Uganda
● Disaster and Decentralization
Social Networks in Heritage Gallery
● Risk Sharing Versus Non-Reciprocated Sharing in Social Networks
● Understanding the Role of Social Learning, Imitation and Social Norms in
Bacillus thuringiensis Cotton Technology Adoption Decisions
● Neighbors, Social Interactions, and Learning HIV Results
Saturday, 8:30-10:30 a.m., 2 sessions:Education II in Johnson Great Room
● Promotion with and without Learning: Effects on Student Enrollment and Dropout
Behavior
● The Effects of School Quality on Fertility in a Transition Economy
● Koranic Schools in Senegal: An actual barrier to formal education?
Health & Fertility in Ski-U-Mah
● Corruption in Health Sector: Evidence from Unofficial Consultation fees in
Bangladesh
● A New Approach to Estimate the Effect of Family Size on Child Development
● It Takes a Farmers’ Group to Raise a Child: The Impacts of Local Social
Networks on Child Health Outcomes in Ugandan Internally Displaced Persons Camps
Saturday, 10:45 a.m.-12:45 p.m., 2 sessions:
● High Unemployment Yet Few Small Firms: The Role of South African Labor
Regulations
● Assessing Labor Statistics in Sub-Saharan Africa, A Survey Experiment
● The Impact of Internal Migration on Local Labor Markets: Evidence from
Internally Displaced Populations in Colombia
● Returns to Education and Increasing Wage Inequality in Latin America
● Positional Spending and Status Seeking in Rural China
● Violent Conflict and Inequality
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