2018 Schedule @ Middlebury College

SUBJECT TO CHANGE

Friday, September 14^th

LOCATION: Axinn 219

12:00-12:45 Registration and Lunch @ Abernethy Room

12:45-1:00 Introduction

1:00-2:30 Session 1: Policy impacts, Chair: Martin Abel

2:30-3:00 Coffee Break

3:00-4:30 Session 2: Firms and industries, Chair: Amy Damon

5:00-6:00pm Keynote Talk by Rohini Pande, Rafik Hariri Professor of International Political Economy at Harvard Kennedy School

6:30-9:00pm Conference Dinner @ American Flatbread

Saturday, September 15^th

LOCATION: Axinn 219

8:30-9:00am Coffee @ Abernethy Room

9:00-11:00 Session 3: Lightning Session – Early-Stage work, Chair: John Maluccio

11:00-11:30 Appetizer break and discussion of early-stage work

11:30-1:00 Lunch and Publishing Panel with Jeff Carpenter, James Jermain Professor of Political Economy at Middlebury College

and Eric Edmonds, Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College

1:00-2:30pm Session 4: Experiments in East Africa, Chair: Erick Gong

Full paper sessions: Each of the three full-paper sessions will have three papers and run for 90 minutes. Presenters will each have 20 minutes, discussants will have 5 minutes, and we will have 5 minutes for questions.

Early-stage work session: There will be 6 presenters in the session on early-stage work and the session will run for 2 hours. Each presenter will have 10-12 minutes to present followed by 8-10 minutes for questions from the audience (no formal discussants). There will be an appetizer/coffee break directly after the session so that conversation about presentations can continue.