May 1, 2026 - Portland, Oregon
2026 NORTHWEST DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP
Oregon State University Portland Center
May 1, 2026
PROGRAM
8:30 - 9:00 Continental breakfast on site
9:00 - 9:10 Opening remarks
9:10-10:40 Session 1: 30 minute presentations
Alfredo Burlando, University of Oregon: “Increasing adoption of financial services in rural areas: is there a role for traditional leaders?”
Patrick Emerson, Oregon State University: “Does School Quality Reduce Child Labor? Evidence from Brazil’s Rural Electrification Program”
Fenet Bedaso, Africa Development and Research Center: “Occupational Segregation and the Gender Wage Inequality in Ethiopia: A Distributional Analysis”
10:40 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:00 Session 2: 30 minute presentations
Hoang Pham, Oregon State University: “Exports and Informality: The Indirect Effects of Trade Reform on the Allocation of Workers in a Low-Income Country̳”
Fernando Aragon, Simon Fraser University: “First Nations and the Reserve Penalty: Sorting or Location Effects?”
12:00 - 1:20 Lunch (not hosted)
1:20 - 2:50 Session 3: 30 minute presentations
Shankha Chakraborty, University of Oregon: “Caste and Dowry in Arranged Marriage”
Talha Naeem, University of British Columbia: “Environmental Risk and Collateralized Credit”
Rafia Nisat, University of Washington: “Weather Shocks and the Religious Margin of Adaptation”
2:50 - 3:10 Break
3:10 - 4:50 Session 4: 20 minute presentations
Abdul Ilman, Oregon State University: “The Effects of Electricity Subsidy Reform: Evidence from Indonesia’s 2017 Tariff Adjustment̳”
Jiayuan Wang, University of Washington: “Breaking boundaries: Effects of a counter-stereotyping intervention on Nigerian schoolgirls”
Jaichung Lee, University of Oregon: “Explaining the Fertility Crunch: The Roles of Intergenerational Income Mobility and Shifting”
Rachad Bani Samari, Oregon State University: “Burning under the Sun: Heterogeneous Effects of Climate Change on Vulnerability to Poverty Among Construction Workers in Egypt”
Tynan Challenor and Eric Wang, University of Washington: Flat or Flats? The Effect of Up-Zoning on Informality and Child Mortality in Delhi
4:50 - 5:00 Closing remarks
5:00 - Happy Hour (not hosted)
DEPARTURE -- 15th Floor, OSU Portland Center building