ECON835 Conference 2011
10.00 am, March
30:
Patricia Elhatton-Lake:
"Powerful Women: Does
Exposure Reduce Bias?" by Lori Beaman,
Raghabendra Chattopadhyay, Esther Duflo, Rohini Pande and Petia Topalova (2011), MIT Working Paper.
Maxine Cunningham: "Must
Conditional
Cash
Transfer Programs be conditioned to be effective? The
impact of conditioning transfers on school enrollment in Mexico" by
Alan de Brauw and John Hoddinott (2009), International Food Policy
Research
Institute.
10.00 am, March 31:
Veronique Fournier: “When
could
payments
for environmental services benefit the poor?” by D. Zilberman, L. Lipper, and N. McCarthy (2008), Environment
and
Development
Economics, vol. 13, pp. 255–278.
Blair Long: "Differences
in
digitalization
levels:
a
multivariate
analysis
studying
the global
digital divide" by Margarita Billon, Fernando Lera-Lopez and Rocio
Marco (2010), Review of World
Economics, vol. 146 p. 39-73.
10.00 am, April 6:
Veronica
Meffe: "Aid,
Policies
and
Growth:
Revisiting
the
Evidence," by Burnside and
Dollar (2004), World Bank Policy Research Paper 3251.
Gaetan Dormoy: "Labor
Reallocation
in
Response
to
Trade
Reform"
by Naercio Aquino
Menezes Filho and Marc-Andreas Muendler (2007), University
of San Diego Working Paper 2007-02
10.00 am, April 7:
Nicole McCallum: "Can
good
projects succeed in Bad Communities?" by Asim Ijaz Khwaja
(2009),
Journal of Public Economics,
vol.
93(7-8), pp. 899-916.
David Rose: "Competition
in
bureaucracy and corruption" by Mikhail Drugov (2010), Journal of Development Economics,
vol. 92(2), pp. 107-114
10.00 am, April 8:
Sylvia Blom: "Disease
and Development: Evidence from Hookworm Eradication in the American
South" by Hoyt Bleakley (2007), The
Quarterly
Journal of Economics, vol. 122 (1), pp. 73-117.
Stephenson Strobel: "Parasite
prevalence and the world-wide distribution of cognitive ability" by
Christopher Eppig, Corey L. Fincher and Randy Thornhill (2010), Proceedings of the Royal Society of
Biological Sciences.