Conference Information

The 19th Midwest International Economic Development Conference will be held Friday, April 1 and Saturday, April 2 at the McNamara Alumni Center.

Full list of updated papers are available here

Session II (2): Friday, April 1, 1:15 p.m.

2A. Migration and Refugees (Chair: Ragui Assad)

• Julia Garlick: Internal Migration and Labour Market Outcomes in South Africa (Discussant: Thomas Ginn)

• Thomas Ginn: Can Aid Change Attitudes toward Refugees? Experimental Evidence from Microentrepreneurs in Urban Uganda (Discussant: Andre Groeger)

• Andre Groeger: Immigration, Labor Markets and Discrimination: Evidence from the Venezuelan Exodus in Perú (Discussant: Julia Garlick)

2B. Gender and Education (Chair: Seth Gitter)

• Tamara McGavock: No Parent Present: Evidence on Child Fostering in Sub-Saharan Africa from 30 years of Household Surveys and Weather Shocks (Discussant: Seth Gitter)

• Seth Gitter: Marriage Age, Education, and Employment in Africa, Middle East, and Central Asia (Discussant: Natasha Jha)

• Natasha Jha: Dowry and Human Capital Formation: Evidence from India (Discussant: Tamara McGavock)

2C. Political Economy (Chair: Moogdho Mahzab)

• Moogdho Mahzab: Dishonesty and Public Goods Provision: A Tale of Tax-Evading Politicians (Discussant: Joris Mueller)

• Joris Mueller: China’s Foreign Aid: Political Determinants and Economic Effects (Discussant: Levi Boxell)

• Levi Boxell: Taxing Dissent: The Impact of a Social Media Tax in Uganda (Discussant: Moogdho Mahzab)

Session III (3): Friday, April 1, 3:30 p.m.

3A. Agriculture II: Technology, Subsidies, and Tenure (Chair: Aine McCarthy)

• Jeffrey Michler: Privacy Protection, Measurement Error, and the Integration of Remote Sensing and Socioeconomic Survey Data (Discussant: Aine McCarthy)

• Aine McCarthy: Pastoralists and Power: The Impact of a Food Security Program on Women’s Agency in Northern Tanzania (Discussant: Jeffrey Micheler)

• Naureen Karachiwalla: Subsidies and Product Assurance: Evidence from Agricultural Technologies (Discussants: Jeffrey Micheler/ Aine McCarthy)

3B. Firms (Chair: Waldo Ojeda)

• Waldo Ojeda: Why are firms slow to adopt profitable opportunities (Discussant: Brian Cevallos Fujiy)

• Brian Cevallos Fujiy: Production Networks and Firm-level Elasticities of Substitution (Discussant: Pablo Garriga)

• Pablo Garriga: Firms as Tax Collectors (Discussant: Waldo Ojeda)

3C. Labor (Chair: Jason Kerwin)

• Leah Lakdawala: All Show and No Go: The Elusive Effects of Child Labor Legislation (Discussant: Robert Garlick)

• Robert Garlick: Returns to Job Search on Platforms (Discussant: Carlos Schmidt-Padilla)

• Carlos Schmidt-Padilla: Gangs, Labor Mobility, and Development (Discussant: Leah Lakdawala)

Session IV (4): Saturday, April 2, 8:30 a.m.

4A. Agriculture III: Climate Change and Risk (Chair: Marc Bellemare)

• Chris Boyd-Leon: Urgent Yet Ineffective? The Welfare Impacts of a Potato Price Support in Peru (Discussant: Molly Ingram)

• Molly Ingram: Contract Farming: Selection and Spillovers (Discussant: Aaditya Dar)

• Aaditya Dar: Irrigation and the Spatial Pattern of Local Economic Development in India (Discussant: Chris Boyd-Leon)

4B. Health (Chair: David Murphy)

• Jason Kerwin: Appointments: A More Effective Commitment Device for Health Behaviors (Discussant: Ruchi Mahadeshwar)

• Ruchi Mahadeshwar: Overcoming information gaps and the risk-income tradeoff in transactional sex with HIV self-tests: behavioral responses to new diagnostics (Discussant: David Murphy)

• David Murphy: Getting on the Wagon: Alcohol, Productivity, and Intrahousehold Trust in Rural Kenya (Discussant: Jason Kerwin)

4C. Trade (Chair: Alan Griffith)

• Anh Nguyen: Trade Liberalization and Children’s School-Work Choice: Evidence from Vietnam (Discussant: Sunghun Lim)

• Sunghun Lim: Global Agricultural Value Chains and Employment Growth (Discussant: Alan Griffith)

• Alan Griffith: Local or Imported? Input Sourcing in Lopsided Low-income Economies (Discussant: Anh Nguyen)

Session V(5): Saturday, April 2, 10:45 a.m.

5A. Gender and Fertility (Chair: Gaurav Chiplunkar)

• Gaurav Chiplunkar: Gender Barriers, Structural Transformation and Economic Development (Discussant: David Sungho Park)

• David Sungho Park: Reducing Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence from a Multifaceted Female Empowerment Program in Urban Liberia (Discussant: Celine Zipfel)

• Celine Zipfel: Defusing a Population Explosion? Jobs and Fertility in sub-Saharan Africa (Discussant: Gaurav Chiplunkar)

5B. Environment (Chair: Jaqueline Oliveira)

• Jaqueline Oliveira: Adaptation to Climate Change in a Spatial Equilibrium Model (Discussant: Shatanjaya Dasgupta)

• Shatanjaya Dasgupta: Hidden Costs of Industrial Disasters: Marriage Market Consequences of the Bhopal Gas Disaster (Discussant: Protensia Hadunka)

• Protensia Hadunka: Staple crop pest damage and natural resources exploitation: fall army worm infestation and charcoal production in Zambia (Discussant: Jaqueline Oliveira)

5C. Poverty and Inequality (Chair: Marieke Kleemans)

• Federico Haslop: The Real Effects of Climate Change in Poor Countries: Evidence from the Permanent Shrinking of Lake Chad (Discussant: Marieke Kleemans)

• Marieke Kleemans: Kin Transfers as Safety Nets in Response to Idiosyncratic and Correlated Shocks (Discussant: Federico Haslop)