Fourth BREAD Conference on Development Economics
Washington, D.C.

Sponsored by: Brookings Institution, the MacArthur Network on the Costs of Inequality, and the Center for Global Development.

Conference location: Center for Global Development, 1776 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Washington, DC 

Conference Schedule

Friday, April 16th

12:00 noon--1:00 PM -  Lunch 

1:00 PM--2:15 PM  - Christian Ahlin and Rob Townsend, "Using Repayment Data to Test Across Models of Joint Liability Lending" 

2:15 PM--3:30 PM   - Nava Ashraf, Dean Karlan, and Wesley Yin, "Getting Odysseus to Save: Evidence from a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines" 

3:30 PM--4:00 PM  - Break 

4:00 PM--5:15 PM  - Marcos Rangel, "Alimony Rights and Intrahousehold Allocation of Resources: Evidence from Brazil"

Saturday, April 17th 

8:30 AM--9:00 AM  - Continental breakfast

 9:00 AM--10:15 AM  - Christopher Kingston, "Social Structure, Collective Action, and Corruption: Theory, and Evidence from India" 

10:15 AM--11:30 AM  - Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, Andrew Sunil Rajkumar, and Maureen Cropper, "The Political Economy of Health Services Provision and Access in Brazil" 

11:30 AM--11:45 AM  - Break 

11:45 AM--1:00 PM  - Mary Kay Gugerty and Michael Kremer, "The Rockefeller Effect"