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ASWEDE Conference on Development Economics
!Funded by the Nordic Africa Institute
Stockholm School of Economics & SITE, Room 750, Sveavägen 65 28-29 November 2014
PROGRAM Friday 28 November
Pre-conference
09:00 – 09:20 Abhimanyu Arora (Namur) Food prices and social unrest: Local impact across Asia and Africa
09:20 – 09:40 Sebastian Axbard (Uppsala University) Income Opportunities and Sea Piracy in Indonesia
09:40 – 10:00 Olivia Bertelli (Paris School of Economics) Fertility, food security and agriculture production in times of climate shocks
10:00 – 10:20 Fernando Fernandez (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) Temptation goods and conditional cash transfers in Peru
10:20 – 10:40 Coffee Break
10:40 – 11:00 Andrea Guariso (Leuven) Effect of a micro entrepreneur-based community health delivery program on child mortality in Uganda: a cluster-randomized controlled trial
11:00 – 11:20 Nathan Lane (IIES, Stockholm University) Unbalanced Growth Revisited:
Industrialization and the Authoritarian Big Push in South Korea
11:20 – 11:40 Melissa Rubio (Gothenburg University) The Effect of Armed Conflict on Social Capital in Colombia
11:40 – 12:00 Miri Stryjan (IIES, Stockholm University) Preparing for Genocide: Community Work in Rwanda
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch, Terassrummet and annual meeting of ASWEDE
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Conference session 1
13:00 – 14:00 Niklas Bengtsson (Uppsala University) Efficient Informal Trade: Theory and Field Experimental Evidence
14:00 – 15:00 Kjetil Bjorvatn (NHH Norwegian School of Economics) Ethnicity and cooperation: Experimental evidence from Kenya and Tanzania
15:00 – 15:20 Coffee Break
15:20 – 16:20 Tessa Bold (IIES, Stockholm University) Technology Adoption in Agriculture:
Extent and impact of counterfeit and substandard agricultural inputs
16:20 – 17:20 Stephan Litschig (IAE and Barcelona GSE) Monitoring Public Procurement Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design in Chile
17:20 – 18:20 Anders Olofsgård (SITE and Stockholm School of Economics) Can the Poor Be Organized? Public Goods and Collective Action in Rural India
19:00 Conference dinner, Birger Jarl
Saturday 29 November Conference session 2
09:30 – 10:30 Vincent Somville (Chr. Michelsen Institute, Bergen) Saving by default:
Evidence from a field experiment in rural India 10:30 – 10:50 Coffee Break
10:50 – 11:50 Måns Söderbom (Gothenburg University) Social networks and the diffusion of airtime transfers in Rwanda
11:50 – 12:50 Anna Tompsett (Stockholm University) The Lazarus Drug The economic impact of the expansion of anti-retroviral therapy for HIV/AIDS
12:50 – 13:50 Lunch, Terassrummet
