Workshop on Macro-Development

2017 Workshop

June 18-20, 2017

Location:

Notre Dame Global Gateway at Trafalgar Square

1 Suffolk St

London SW1Y 4HX, UK

Program:

Sunday, 18 June

7:00. Opening reception at the Admiralty Pub (66 Trafalgar Square)

Monday, 19 June

10:00 - 11:00. Doug Gollin (Oxford) and Chris Udry (Yale). "Heterogeneity, Measurement Error, and Misallocation: Evidence from African Agriculture."

11:15 - 12:15. Wyatt Brooks (Notre Dame) and Kevin Donovan (Notre Dame). "Eliminating Uncertainty in Market Access: Evidence from New Bridges in Rural Nicaragua."

1:30 - 2:30. Agha Ali Akram (Yale), Shyamal Chowdhury (Sydney), and A. Mushfiq Mobarak (Yale). "Effects of Emigration on Rural Labor Markets."

3:00 - 4:00. David Lagakos (UC San Diego), A. Mushfiq Mobarak (Yale), and Michael Waugh (NYU). "The Welfare Effects of Encouraging Rural-Urban Migration."

4:30 - 5:30. Bart Hobijn (Arizona State) and Todd Schoellman (FRB Minneapolis). "Structural Transformation by Cohort."

6:30. Conference dinner

Tuesday, 20 June

9:00 - 10:00. Wyatt Brooks (Notre Dame), Joe Kaboski (Notre Dame), and Yao Amber Li (HKUST). "Growth Policy, Agglomeration, and (The Lack of) Competition."

10:15 - 11:15. Victor Couture (UC Berkeley), Benjamin Faber (UC Berkeley), Yizhen Gu (Jinan University), and Lizhi Liu (Stanford). "E-Commerce Integration and Economic Development: Evidence from China."

11:30 - 12:30. Johannes Boehm (Sciences Po) and Ezra Oberfield (Princeton). "Misallocation in the Market for Inputs: Enforcement and the Organization of Production."

2:00 - 3:00. Suresh de Mel (University of Peradeniya), David McKenzie (World Bank), and Chris Woodruff (Oxford). "Labor Drops: Experimental Evidence on the Return to Additional Labor in Microenterprises."