Pacific Development
Conference 2010
BREAKFAST and REGISTRATION:
8:00 - 8:30 AM Taper Hall Second Floor Foyer and
Room 208
ROOM
THH 210
SESSION 1: 8:30 - 9:30 AM
Health Outcomes I
Chair: John Strauss
Authors
Affiliation
HIV Testing & Risky Sexual Behavior: The effect of being
Erick Gong
UC Berkeley
Melissa Hidrobo
UC Berkeley
James Ng
University of Southern California
surprised by your HIV status
The effect of Ecuador's economic crisis on child health
and cognitive development
Estimating the Returns to Health: Instrumental Variable
Evidence from Indonesia
THH 212
International Trade and FDI
Authors
Affiliation
Seema Sangita
UC Santa Cruz
Luisa Blanco
Pepperdine University
Gilad David Aharonovitz and James Miller
Washington State University
Ioana Petrescu
American Enterprise Institute
Chair: Anita Chaudhry
Authors
Affiliation
Natural Resources and Institutions in East Asia and Latin America
Luisa Blanco & Josephine Huang
Pepperdine University
Oil Price Shocks and Labor Exports
A.K.M. Mahdub Morshed & Basharat A. Pitafi
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
Addressing Water Security, Economic Development and Climate
Sarah H. Olmstead
RAND
Anita Chaudhry and Edward Barbier
Cal State-Chico and University of Wyoming
Chair: Gilad David Aharonovitz
The Effect of Diasporic Business Networks on International Trade
and Investment Flows
New Trends in Latin America and their Implications for Foreign
Direct Investment
Are Net FDI Flows and Reversals of Capital Flows a Result of
Output Growth?
Rethinking Economic Sanction Success: Sanctions as Deterrents
THH 214
Natural Resource
Change in Central Asia
Water and Growth in an Agricultural Economy
THH 215
Regulatory Reform
Chair: Jeffrey B. Nugent
Single Window Clearance Reforms, Entry and Growth
Authors
Elizabeth Brown, Krishna Kumar, Neeraj Sood,
Todi Mengistu, &
Affiliation
In Indian Manufacturing
Joanne Young
Firing Costs and Flexibility: Evidence from Firms' Employment
Achyuta Adhvaryu, A.V. Chari, & Siddharth
Sharma
Yale, Cornell, & World Bank
Grigor Sukiassyan & Jeffrey B. Nugent
University of Southern California
RAND
Responses to Shocks in India
Firm Litigation in Commercial Disputes: Who Litigates,
When and Why? Any Role for Institutional Influences?
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SESSION 2: 9:45 -10:45AM
Health Outcomes II
Chair: Jeff Nugent
Authors
Affiliation
Elderly in China: Evidence from the CHARLS Pilot
John Strauss, Xiaoyan Lei, Albert Park, Yan
Shen,
Yan Shen, James P. Smith, Zhe Yang, & Yaohui
Zhao
Does Adult Child Migration Affect Elderly Parent Health? Evidence
from Mexico
Francisca Antman
University of Colorado
Midwives and Maternal Mortality: How Effective Has
Shailender Swaminathan, Tomoya Matsumoto,
Brown, USC, and University of Tokyo
Indonesia's Village Midwife Program Been?
& Jeffrey B. Nugent
The Effects of Healthcare Choice on Health Outcomes:
Achyuta Adhvaryu & Anant Nyshadham
Yale University
Chair: Michael R. Carter
Authors
Affiliation
Institutions and Inequality: Reassessing the Relationship Between
Shuyang Sheng
University of Southern California
Urban-Rural Living Standard Inequality in Vietnam, 1993-2006
Huong Thu Le & Alison Booth
Australian National University
Poverty Traps and Social Protection
Christopher B. Barrett, Michael R. Carter &
Munenobu Ikegami
Cornell University & Univ. of Wisconsin
Poverty and Inequality in Rural Brazil: Analysis of the Recent Decline
Steven Helfand, Rudi Rocha and Henrique
Vinhais
University of California, Riverside,
Catholic University of Rio and University of Sao Paulo
Health Outcomes and Socio Economic Status Among the
University of Southern California
Evidence from Tanzania
THH 212
Inequality and Poverty
Growth and Inequality
THH 215
Governments and Firms
Chair: Dan Bogart
Authors
Affiliation
Private to Public Ownership: A Historical Perspective
Dan Bogart & Latika Chaudhary
UCI & Scripps College
The Effect of State Policies on Low-Income Entrepreneurship in India
Elizabeth Brown, Krishna Kumar, Todi
Mengistu, Neeraj Sood, & Joanne Yoong
RAND
Electricity Subsidies, Elections, Groundwater Extraction and
Reena Badiani & Katrina K. Jessoe
Yale & UC Davis
Chair: Claus C. Pörtner
Sex Selective Abortion in India
Authors
Shatanjaya Dasgupta
Affiliation
University of Colorado, Boulder
The Determinants of Sex Selective Abortions
Claus C. Pörtner
University of Washington
The Impact of a Ban on Sex-selective Abortion on the Juvenile Sex
Ratio in India: Evidence from a Policy Change
Arindam Nandi
University of California, Riverside
from Indian Railways
Industrial Growth in India
BREAK: 10:45-11:15
ROOM
THH 210
SESSION 3: 11:15 - 12:15PM
Sex Selective Abortion
THH 212
Firm Dynamics and Management
Chair: Aprajit Mahajan
Patterns of Business Creation, Survival, and Growth: Evidence
Authors
Leora Klapper & Christine Richmond
Affiliation
World Bank & UCLA
Management Matters: Evidence from India
Nicholas Bloom, Benn Eifert, Aprajit Mahajan,
David McKenzie, & John Roberts
Stanford, SCID, Stanford, NBER,
& World Bank
Culture, Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth
Shankha Chakraborty & Etienne Yehoue
University of Oregon & IMF
Are Foreign Firms Greener? Evidence from the manufacturing
firms in Vietnam
Emma Aisbet and Ben Methakullawat
Australian National University
Intrahousehold Behavior, Gender and Norms
Chair: Robert Jensen
The Returns to Human Capital and Gender Bias: An Experimental
Test for India
Authors
Robert Jensen
Affiliation
UCLA
Desired Fertility in China: Determinants and Dynamics
Fei Wang
University of Southern California
Female Political Leadership and the Prevalence of Water Borne
Diseases: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in India
Ambrish Dongre
UC Santa Cruz
from a Developing Country
THH 214
THH 215
Micro Outcomes of Aid and Infrastructure Investment
Chair: Jeff Nugent
Aid Allocation, Incentives, and Occupational Mobility in
Post-Tsunami Aceh: Evidence from Field Survey Data
Slum Upgrading: Short Term Results from an Urban Road Pavement
Experiment in Mexico
Dams and Child Nutrition
12:15-1:15 LUNCH: THH 208
THH 201
1:15-2 SPEAKER: Professor Chris Udry-Yale
University THH 201
Authors
Manabu Nose
Affiliation
Brown University
Marco Gonzalez-Navarro & Climent
Quintana-Domeque
UC Berkeley and Universitat di Alicante
Eric A. Strobl & Abdoulaye Sy
Ecole Polytechnique & UC Berkeley
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SESSION 4: 2:00 – 3:00 PM
Poverty and Inequality Mapping
Chair: John Strauss
Of safety nets and safety ropes: An evaluation of Indonesia's
unconditional cash transfer program
Estimating Poverty for Indigenous Groups in Chile by Matching
Census and Survey Data
Estimation of Poverty Transition Matrices with Noisy Data
Cutting the costs of attrition: Results from the Indonesia
Family Life Survey
THH 212
Microfinance and Behavior
Chair: Erica Field
Does Microfinance Repayment Flexibility Affect Entrepreneurial
Behavior and Loan Default?
Do Risky Borrowers Really Invest in Risky Projects? A Test of
Stiglitz and Weiss with Bolivian Microfinance
Choose your Poison: Transportation Risk and the Value of Life
Effects of Confilct on Children’s Formation of Social Preferences:
Experimental Evidence from Georgia
Authors
Samuel Bazzi, Sudarno Sumarto, & Asep
Suryahadi
Affiliation
UCSD and SMERU
Claudio A. Agostini, Philip H. Brown, &
Andrei Roman
Ilades-Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Colby College
Nayoung Lee, Geert Ridder and John Strauss
Chinese University of Hong Kong and USC
Duncan Thomas, Firman Witoelar, Elizabeth
Frankenberg,
Bondan Sikoki, John Strauss, Cecep Sumantri,
&Wayan Suriastini
Duke University
Author
Erica Field, Rohini Pande, & John Papp
Affiliation
Harvard University & Princeton University
Eliana Zeballos, Alessandra Cassar, & Bruce
Wydick
University of San Francisco
Gianmarco León & Edward Miguel
UC Berkeley
Michael Bauer, Alessandra Cassar and Julie
Chytilova
University of San Francisco
THH 214
Rural Markets and Behavior
Chair: Alain de Janvry
Seasonal Market Usage in rural Ethiopian Teff Markets
Authors
Emma Stephens
Affiliation
Pitzer College
Alain de Janvry, Craig McIntosh, & Elisabeth
Sadoulet
UC Berkeley
Are Irrigation Rehabilitation Projects Good for Poor Farmers in Peru?
Gayatri Datar & Ximena V. Del Carpio
World Bank
Political Economy of Social Programs
Chair: Christine Richmond
Local Electoral Rewards from Centralized Social Programs: Are
Mayors Successful at Credit Claiming?
Authors
Lourdes Rodriguez-Chamussy
Affiliation
UC Berkeley
The Political Economy of LDC Firm Size
Christine Richmond & Leora Klapper
UCLA & World Bank
Competition in Ethnic Politics
Katherine Casey
Brown University
Peacekeeping: What Is It Good For?
Eva Vivalt
UC Berkeley
Fair Trade and Free Entry: Generating Benefits from a
Disequilibrium Market
THH 215
BREAK: 3:00 - 3:15PM
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SESSION 5: 3:15 - 4:15PM
Community Participation and Its Effects
Chair: Edward Miguel
Motives for Community Participation: Evidence from Natural
Authors
Masahiro Shoji, Keitaro Aoyagi, Ryuji
Kasahara, Yasuki Sawada,
Affiliation
and Field Experiments
and Mika Ueyama
Rewarding Work: Experimental Evidence of Self-Serving
Pamela Jakiela, Edward Miguel, & Vera L. te
Velde
Washington University, St. Louis, UC Berkeley
How Effective is Community Driven Development in Sierra Leone?
Katherine Casey, Rachel Glennerster, &
Edward Miguel
Brown, MIT, UCB
Do government social development programs create or destroy
Arya Gaduh
University of Southern California
Chair: Ravi Bhandari
Authors
Affiliation
Migrant Remittances and Household Labor Supply
Patricia Justino & Olga N. Shemyakina
Georgia Institute of Technology & Harvard
Jeffrey C. Tanner
Pardee RAND
Education and Migration
Benjamin Bottoroff
University of San Francisco
A History of Violence: Testing the 'Culture of Honor'
Pauline Grosjean
University of San Francisco
Seijo University, University of Tokyo, JICA
Sharing Norms
social capital? Evidence from Indonesia
THH 212
Migration Effects
in the Post-Conflict Tajikistan
Smart Choices? The Effect of Paternal Trans-National Migration
on Cognition of Children Left Behind in Mexico
THH 214
Agricultural Technology
Chair: Pascaline Dupas
Authors
Affiliation
Can a Small Push Change Farming? Evidence from an Experimental
Tomoyo Matsumoto & Takashi Yamano
NGIPS & FASID
Travis J. Lybbert & Adrian Bell
UC Davis
Nicholas Magnan & Douglas Larson
UC Davis
Authors
Trong-Ha Nguyen, Amy Y.C. Liu, & Deborah
A. Cobb-Clark
Affiliation
Australian National University
Aprajit Mahajan & Alessandro Tarozzi
Stanford & Duke University
Jesse M. Cunha
Stanford University
Intervention in Maize Production in Uganda
Stochastic Benefit Streams, Learning and Technology Diffusion:
Why Drought Tolerance is not the new Bt
Can the implicit value of crop stubble prevent poor cereal farmers
from adopting high value crops and pro-poor technologies?
Evidence from Morocco
THH 215
Health Inputs
Chair: Aprajit Mahajan
The economics of not using health insurance benefits: a case study
of Vietnam
Time Inconsistency, Expectations and Technology Adoption:
The Case of Insecticide Treated Nets
Testing Paternalism: Cash vs. In-kind Transfers in Rural Mexico
BREAK: 4:15-4:30
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SESSION 6: 4:30 - 5:30PM
Risk and Behavior
Chair: Manisha Shah
Affiliation
Risk, Trust and Reciprocity in Post-Tsunami Thailand
Authors
Alessandra Cassar, Andrew Healy, Joseph
Tuan Ahn Phan and Carl von Kessler
Weather-Indexed Insurance in Mexico: Productivity
Alan Fuchs and Hendrik Wolff
UC Berkeley and U of Washington
Sheetal Sekhri & Adam Storeygard
University of Virginia and Brown University
Lisa Cameron & Manisha Shah
University of Melbourne & UCI
Chair: Michael Clemens
Authors
Individual Ability and Selection into Migration in Kenya
Joan Hamory Hicks & Edward Miguel
Affiliation
Center for the Evaluation of Global Action and
University of California, Berkeley
The Globalization of Household Production
Michael Kremer & Stanley Watt
Harvard University
How visas affect skilled labor: A randomized natural experiment
Michael A. Clemens
Center for Global Development
University of San Francisco and Loyola Marymount
and Risk Management
The Impact of Climate Variability on Vulnerable Populations:
Evidence on Crimes against Women and Disadvantaged Minorities
in India
Do Natural Disasters Shape Risk Attitudes?
THH 212
Determinants of Migration, Credit Restraints
THH 214
Investments in Schooling
Chair: David Evans
The Impact of Distributing School Uniforms on Children's
Authors
David Evans, Michael Kremer, & Muthoni
Ngatia
Affiliation
Subha Mani, John Hoddinott, & John Strauss
Fordham, IFPRI, & USC
Jorge M. Aguero & Maithili Ramachandran
UC Riverside
World Bank ,Harvard, & Yale University
Education in Kenya
Long-term impact of investments in early schooling-- Empirical
evidence from rural Ethiopia
The Intergenerational Effects of Increasing Parental Schooling:
Evidence from Zimbabwe
The Role of School Quality in the Mexico City Choice-Based
Tracking System
THH 215
Alain de Janvry, Andrew Dustan, and
UC Berkeley
Elisabeth Sadoulet
Firms and Corruption
Chair: Anna D'Souza
Authors
Affiliation
Exposing violators in the news: Evidence from the Mexican
Santiago Guerrero
UC Berkeley
Anna D'Souza & Daniel Kaufmann
USDA & Brookings Institution
Wahid Abdallah
University of Washington
Gasoline Market
Who Bribes in Public Contracting and Why? Worldwide Evidence
from Firms
Corruption and Inspection in electricity sector in Bangladesh