Ninth BREAD Conference on Development Economics
New Haven, Connecticut

Sponsored by: Yale University

Conference location: Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

Conference Programme

All events will be held at Henry R. Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue, unless otherwise noted.

October 20, Friday

12-1 Registration and catered lunch

1-2.15 Emily Oster (University of Chicago), "HIV and Sexual Behavior Change: Why Not Africa?"

2.15-3.30 A. Mushfig Mobarak, Randall Kuhn, and Christina Peters (University of Colorado at Boulder), "Marriage Market Effects of a Wealth Shock in Bangladesh"

3.30-4 Break

4-5.15 Garth Frazer and Johannes Van Biesebroeck (University of Toronto), "Trade Growth Under the African Growth and Opportunity Act"

5.15-6.30 George Judge (University of California at Berkeley) and Laura Schechter (University of Wisconsin at Madison), "Detecting Problems in Survey Data Using Benford's Law"; César Martinelli (Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México) and Susan Parker (Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas), "Deception and Misreporting in a Social Program"

6.30-7.15 Reception

7.30 Dinner (Pacifico Restaurant, 220 College Street)

October 21, Saturday

9-9.30 Continental Breakfast

9.30-10.45 Miguel Urguiola and Eric Verhoogen (Columbia University), "Class Size and Sorting in Market Equilibrium: Theory and Evidence"

10.45-12 Tahir Andrabi (Pomona College), Jishnu Das (World Bank), and Asim Ijaz Khwaja (Harvard University), "Students Today, Teachers Tomorrow?  The Rise of Affordable Private Schools"

12-1 Catered Lunch

Call for Papers:

The Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD) will host its Ninth BREAD Conference on Development Economics on October 20-21, 2006. You are invited to submit a paper for the conference.  The deadline for submissions is September 8, 2006.

Please submit your papers via email to BREAD@lse.ac.uk.

While all papers presented at the conference will be selected through this open submissions process, please note that we will have time for a very small number of presentations. The conference lasts only 2 days, there will be no parallel sessions, and we plan to leave ample time for discussion.

The programme will be chosen by Chris Udry (Yale) and Mark Rosenzweig (Yale).