Draft Conference Programme

Session 1A – Female Empowerment

Room E13

Session 1B – State Bureaucracy and Justice

Room Camille Joset

 LP: "Female Representation Uganda"

Siwan Anderson and Martina Björkman

LP: “Improving labor courts: the effect of publicly provided lawyers

and information”

Joyce Sadka and Christopher Woodruff

LP: “Women's Inheritance and Female Empowerment”        

LP: “Using Administrative Data Systems to Improve Court Efficiency”

Bilal Siddiqi

Session 1A – Female Empowerment

Room E13

Session 1B – State Bureaucracy and Justice

Room Camille Joset

Chair: Jean-Marie Baland

LP: “Caste and Gender Based Discrimination”

Devesh Rustagi, Emilia Soldani

and Rajesh Ramachandran

LP: “Gang of Medellin”

LP: “Women’s Promotions and Intra-

household Bargaining”

LP: “Judicial Independence in Pakistan”

Sultan Mehmood and Avner Seror

SP: “Child marriage law, gender norms

and marriage customs”

Zaki Wahhaj

SP: “Political Uncertainty, Market Structure,

and the Forms of Elite Capture”

Leonard Wantchekon

Session 2A – Networks and Clans

Room E13

Chair: Elisabeth Sadoulet

Session 2B – State Bureaucracy

Room Camille Joset

LP: "Networks of Power and Crony Capitalism

in Myanmar"

LP: “Using digital trails to improve

management accountability or public

service delivery”

Yusuf Neggers

LP: “TBA”

LP: “Audit Selection under Weak

Fiscal Capacity”

LP: “Firms, Kinship and Economic Growth”

Paul Dower, Ted Gerber and Shlomo Weber

SP: “Measuring the effect of technological

improvements and compliance nudges

on property taxes”

TBC (PSE)

SP: “Civil Service Reform in Ghana”

Imran Rasul and Stefan Dercon

Session 2A – Networks and Clans                   

Room E13

Chair: Elisabeth Sadoulet

Session 2B – State Bureaucracy

Room Camille Joset

SP: “Economic role of clans: Linking past

and present”

Catherine Guirkinger and Gani Aldashev

SP: “Is Knowledge Power?: Civic Training,

Women’s Political Representation,

and Local Governance in India”

Soledad Artiz Prillaman

LP: “Economic role of clans:  religion,

politics and clans in Pakistan”

Jean-Philippe Platteau, Adeel Malik and

Rinchan Mirza

SP: “Beyond the Paycheck – Motivational

tools

for public school teachers”

 Zahra Mansoor

SP: “Can Transparency Improve

Preferences and Norms in the Public Sector?”

Session 4A – State and Governance

Room E13

Session 4B – Private Sector Development

Room Camille Joset

LP: “Strategic Game Military and Clerics”

Emmanuelle Auriol, Jean-Philippe Platteau and Thierry Verdier

LP: “Ownership Changes, Management and

Efficiency: Evidence from Rwanda’s

Coffee Industry”

 Rocco Macchiavello

LP: “Land Reform: Political Economic Theory”

Karl Moene, Ragnar Torvik and Halvar Mehlum

LP: “Understanding the role of information,

quality signaling, and third-party certification in building a marketplace for professional

services in Nigeria”

 David McKenzie

LP: “The Impact of Malapportionment on

Media Consumption: Quasi-experimental

evidence and new data from India"

Guilhem Cassan

LP: “Relaxing credit constraints and

tenure insecurity in imperfect markets”

Markus Goldstein and Christopher Udry

Session 4A – State and Governance

Room E13

Session 4B – Private Sector Development

Room Camille Joset

LP: “Community Policing and Public Trust:

A Field Experiment in Colombia”

LP: “Performance-Based Incentives in

Multi-Layered Organizations: Evidence

from Sierra Leonean Community Health Workers”

 Erika Deserranno

LP: “Governance of forest in Nepal: from

centralized control to local users cooperatives”

Francois Libois and Jean-Marie Baland

LP: “Material Incentives and Effort Choice:

Evidence from an Online Experiment

Across Countries”

Marcel Fafchamps

LP: “Social structures, political accountability,

and effective public goods provision”

 Nathan Nunn

LP: “Supporting Leadership: Family and

Soft Skills as Ingredients of Successful Managers”