Saturday, April 20, 2019
8:30 am to 5:30 pm
260 Savery Hall
University of Washington
Preliminary Schedule
8:30
Breakfast, Coffee
9:00
Welcome and Overview for the Day
9:15
Nicholas Wilson (Reed College), “Child Marriage Bans and Female Schooling and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Natural Experiments in 17 Low- and Middle-Income Countries”
10:00
Andres Sanchez-Jabba (UW), “Returns to Habitat in Rural Columbia”
10:45
Coffee Break
11:00
Maggie E.C. Jones (UVic), “The Determinants and Impacts of Historical Treaty-Making in Canada”
11:25
Iffat Chowdhury (UW), “News Reports on Sexual Assault and Labor Supply: Evidence from Bangladesh”
11:50
Shanthi Manian (WSU), “Reducing Gender Gaps and Increasing Entrepreneurship: Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia”
12:15
Kedar Kulkarni (OSU), “Quantifying Vulnerability and Risks using Partial and Quantile Moments: An Application to Indian Agriculture”
12:40
Lunch (provided)
2:00
Ayala Wineman (UW-Evans), “Characteristics and Spillover Effects of Medium-Scale Farms in Tanzania”
2:45
Richard A. Iles (WSU), “Poverty, A Heuristic and Economic Decision-Making: A Quasi-Natural Experiment from Rural Kenya”
3:30
Break
3:50
Ketki Sheth (UC-Merced), “Getting Girls Back in School: The Returns to Alternative Eduation”
4:15
Srabashi Ray (OSU), “Impact of Input Subsidy Packages (ISPs) on Farm Household Production and Food Security in Tanzania”
4:40
Tobias Sytsma (U of O), “Rules of Origin Liberalization with Multi-Product Firms: Evidence and Theory from Bangladeshi Apparel Exporters”
5:05
John Gallup (Portland State University) "Added-Variable Plots for Panel Data: The Effect of Health on Economic Growth"
5:30
Conclusion, Leave for Drinks and Dinner (not provided)
2019 Organizing Committee
Rachel Heath (rmheath@uw.edu)
Alan Griffith (alangrif@uw.edu )
Melissa Knox (knoxm@uw.edu)