November 4-5, 2011

Schedule

 

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4

Venue: MIT Faculty Club
50 Memorial Drive, Bldg. E52 — 6th Floor, Cambridge, MA 02139
(Map of MIT's East Campus)

8:00am-8:30am
Breakfast, Catered at Faculty Club

8:30am-9:00am
Welcome and Current Research from Members

9:00am-10:30am
Leonard Wantchekon
“Deliberative Campaign Strategies and Transition from Clientelism, Experimental Evidence from Benin.”

10:30am-10:45am
Coffee Break

10:45am-12:15pm
Rohini Pande (with Esther Duflo, Michael Greenstone and Nicholas Ryan)
“Can Improved Economic Incentives Fix a Failed Third-Party Audit Market?”
[No paper will be circulated]

12:15pm-1:30 pm
Lunch, Catered at MIT Faculty Club

1:30pm-3:00pm
Ben Olken (with Junko Onishi and Susan Wong)
“Should Aid Reward Performance? Evidence from a Field Experiment on Health and Education in Indonesia.”

3:00pm-3:15pm
Coffee Break

3:15pm-4:45pm
Danila Serra (with Abigail Barr and Truman Packard)
"Is turning out to vote a public good contribution? Evidence from Albania."

7:30pm (arrive by 7:15pm if possible)
Dinner:
Rendezvous, 502 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139-4029 (Map)

 

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5

Venue: MIT Building E51, Room 372
Entrance at 2 Amherst Street
Cambridge, MA 02139
(Map of MIT's East Campus)

9:00am-10:00am
Breakfast, Catered in E51 Reception area

10:00am-12:00pm
Methods Panel

Jake Bowers
“Reasoning about Interference Between Units: Statistical Inference for Spillover and Interference in Randomized Experiments”

Kosuke Imai
“Understanding and Improving Fixed Effects Regression Models for Causal Inference”

Ryan Moore
“Blocking for Sequential Political Experiments”

12:00pm-1:30pm
Lunch, Catered in E51 Reception Area

1:30pm-3:00pm
Devra C Moehler (with Jeffrey Conroy-Kurtz and Rosario Aguilar-Pariente)
“Parties on the Ballot: Visual Cues and Voting Behavior in Uganda”

3:00-3:15pm
Coffee Break

3:15pm-4:15pm
Business Meeting

7:30pm (arrive by 7:15pm if possible)
Dinner:
John Harvard's Brew House, 33 Dunster Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 (Map)