Time

Section

Speaker

Session Chair

8:00 – 8:30 am

Registration 

8:30 – 8:40 am

Welcome Remarks

Francis Lui,

Albert Park

Session One: Health

8:40 – 9:05 am

Talk: Worms at Work

Michael Kremer

Albert Park

9:05 - 9:35

Discussion

Paul Glewwe

9:35 – 10:00 am

Talk: Why Are Indian Children

Shorter than African Children?

Seema

Jayachandran

10:00 – 10:30 am

Discussion

Jere Behrman

10:30 – 10:50 am

Refreshments / Group Photo

10:50 –  11:15 am

Talk: Shocking Impact: The

Effect of a Large Natural

Disaster on Child Health and

Education

Jishnu Das

Albert Park

11:15 –  11:45 am

Discussion

Satoru

Shimokawa

11:45 am – 1:15 pm

Lunch

Session Two: Early Childhood

1:15 – 2:20 pm

Talk: Modeling and Improving

Development in the Early

Years: Evidence from a

Stimulation Intervention in

Colombia

Orazio Attanasio,

Costas Meghir

Junsen Zhang

2:20 – 2:50 pm

Discussion

Mark Rosenzweig

Session Three: Education Interventions

2:50 – 3:15 pm

Talk: Improving Early-Grade

Literacy in East Africa:

Experimental Evidence from

Kenya and Uganda

Patrick McEwan

Francis Lui

3:15 – 3:45 pm

Discussion

Pascaline Dupas

3:45 – 4:05 pm

Refreshments

4:05 – 4:30 pm

Talk: Replacing a Shove with a

Nudge: A "Labeled Cash

Transfer" for Education

Pascaline Dupas

Francis Lui

4:30 – 5:00 pm

Discussion

Hongliang Zhang

5:00 – 5:20 pm

Talk: Incentivized Peer

Interactions: Evidence from a

Randomized Trial

Li Han

5:20 – 5:35 pm

Discussion

Patrick McEwan

Time

Section

Speaker

Session Chair

Session Four: Teacher and School Incentives

8:40 – 9:05 am

Talk: Aligning Learning

Incentives of Students and

Teachers: Results from a Social

Experiment in Mexican High

Schools

Jere Behrman

Sujata

Visaria

9:05 – 9:35 am

Discussion

Sujata Visaria

9:35 – 10:00 am

Talk: Does School Autonomy

Make Sense Everywhere?

Panel Estimates from PISA

Eric Hanushek

10:00 – 10:30 am

Discussion

Karthik

Muralidharan

10:30 – 10:55 am

Refreshments

10:50 – 11:15 am

Talk: The Aggregate Effect of

School Choice: Evidence from a

Two-Stage Experiment in India

Karthik

Muralidharan

Sujata

Visaria

11:15 – 11:45 am

Discussion

Miguel Urquiola

11:45 am –  12:10 pm

Talk: Leveraging the Private

Sector to Improve Primary

School Enrollment: Evidence

from a Randomized Controlled

Trial in Pakistan

Leigh Linden

12:10 –  12:40 pm

Discussion

Albert Park

12:40 – 2:10 pm

Lunch

Session Five: Policy

2:10 – 3:40 pm

Panel Discussion on Education

Research and Development

Policy

Paul Atherton,

Jishnu Das,

Michael Kremer,

Eric Hanushek

Paul

Glewwe

3:40 – 4:00 pm

Refreshments

Session Six: Learning and Motivation in China

4:00 – 4:25 pm

Talk: Computer Assisted

Learning (CAL) and Learning in

China’s Poor Rural/Migrant

Areas

Scott Rozelle

Paul Glewwe

4:25 – 4:55 pm

Discussion

Leigh Linden

4:55 – 5:20 pm

Talk: Can Experimental

Economics Explain

Competitive Behavior Outside

the Lab?

Jane Zhang

5:20 – 5:30 pm

Discussion

Scott Rozelle

Time

Section

Speaker

Session Chair

Session Seven: Labor Markets

8:40 – 9:05 am

Talk: College Reputation and

Labor Market Outcomes

Miguel Urquiola

Siu Fai Leung

9:05 – 9:35 am

Discussion

Costas Meghir

9:35 – 10:00 am

Talk: Cognitive Skills,

Noncognitive Skills, and the

Employment and Wages of

Young Adults in Rural China

Paul Glewwe,

Albert Park

10:00 – 10:30 am

Discussion

Orazio Attanasio

10:30 – 10:50 am

Refreshments

10:50 – 11:15 am

Talk: Rainfall Insurance and the

Agricultural Labor Market

Mark Rosenzweig

Siu Fai Leung

11:15 – 11:45 am

Discussion

Seema

Jayachandran

11:45 am –  12:10 pm

Talk: Intergenerational

Mobility in China: Patterns and

Determinants

Junsen Zhang

12:10 –  12:40 pm

Discussion

Noam Yuchtman

12:40 – 2:00 pm

Lunch