2017 Program
8:30-9:00 - Breakfast
9:00 - Welcome Remarks - Fernando Aragon
Session 1: Determinants of Development
9:00-9:40
Cognitive and Economic Development - John Luke Gallup (Portland State U.)
9:40-10:20
Macroeconomic Conditions and Child Schooling in Turkey - Pinar Gunes (U. Alberta)
10:20-10:40 - Break
Session 2: Rural Economies
10:40-11:20
Spatially Heterogeneous Effects of a Public Works Program - Joshua Merfeld (U. Washington)
11:20-12:00
Climate Change and Agriculture in a Developing Country: Farm-level Responses to Extreme Heat - Fernando Aragon (Simon Fraser U.)
12:00-1:30 - Lunch
Short Paper Session 1: Long-run Outcomes
1:30-2:00
The Destruction of the Bison, Treaty Making, and Reversals of Fortune in the Great Plains - Donna Feir (U. Victoria)
2:00-2:30
Kinship Taxation as a Constraint to Microenterprise Growth: Experimental Evidence from Kenya - Munir Squires (U. British Columbia)
2:30-3:00
Policy Distortions and Cross-Country Differences in Productivity - Yaser Sattari (Simon Fraser University)
3:00-3:20 - Break
Short Paper Session 2: Human Capital
3:20-3:50
Welfare Analysis of the Universal Health Care Program in Thailand - Natt Hongdilokkul (Simon Fraser U.)
3:50-4:20
Improving Access and Quality in Early Childhood Development Programs: Experimental Evidence from the Gambia - Todd Pugatch (Oregon State U.)
4:20-4:50
Quantity-quality fertility responses to gendered schooling policies: Evidence from Uganda - Alfredo Burlando (U. Oregon)
4:50 - Concluding remarks - Fernando Aragon
Logistics
1. Workshop venue
The workshop will take place in the Sauder Industry Policy Room (room 2270) at SFU's Harbour Centre.
Harbour Centre is located at 555 W Hastings St.
You can find a map with the workshop and dinner venue here
2. Parking
Harbour Centre does not provide parking, and street parking is quite limited. There are, however, several pay parking lots around.
3. Meals
We will offer breakfast (from 8:30-9 am), coffee breaks, and lunch at the workshop venue.
Dinner will be partially subsidized.
We have a reservation at 6:30 pm at Kamei Royale Japanese Restaurant (1066 W Hastings St)
The restaurant is walking distance from the workshop venue.
5. PC and projector
We will provide a laptop and projector. Please bring your presentation in a USB drive or send by email to (put email address here)
NWDW 2017 Organizing Committee:
Fernando Aragon, Simon Fraser University
Alfredo Burlando, University of Oregon
Rachel Heath, University of Washington
Todd Pugatch, Oregon State University
Nicholas Wilson, Reed College