PSE-CEPR Policy Forum 2024 | June 7
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Friday June 7 | Global Poverty
Chair: Sylvie Lambert (PSE, National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment)
09.15-09:30 - Introduction - Research Session
Abhijit Banerjee (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, CEPR)
09:30-10:30 - Invited research paper
Social Protection: Evidence from Indonesia
Rema Hanna (Harvard Kennedy School, CEPR)
Discussant: Luc Behaghel (PSE, National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment)
10:30-11:00 - Coffee break
11:00-12:00 - Invited research paper
Unconditional Cash Transfers: A Bayesian Meta-Analysis of Randomized Evaluations in Low and Middle Income Countries
Dean Karlan (Northwestern University, USAID, CEPR)
Discussant: Karen Macours (PSE, National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment, CEPR)
12:00-13:00 - Presentations by PhD students selected by the CEPR call for papers
A Travesty of Justice: Unintended Consequences of Anti-Corruption Efforts
Ali Bakhtawar (Aix-Marseille School of Economics)
Subsidy, Shirking, and Strategy: Assessing the Effects of Consumption Subsidies on Worker Effort and Intervening Strategies
Ratchanon Chotiputsilp (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Heterogeneous Impacts of Education Policies by Gender and Culture
Kotaro Fujisaki (UCL - London’s Global University)
Closing the Gender Gap: Evidence from Private School Participation in Free Secondary Education in Uganda
Simeon Lauterbach (Geneva Graduate Institute)
Campaign Finance Quotas and Descriptive Representation: Evidence from Brazil, 2002-2022
Felipe Lauritzen (Sciences Po)
Scorching Heat and Shrinking Horizons: The Impact of Rising Temperatures on Marriages and Migration in Rural India
Manisha Mukherjee (Maastricht University, UNU-MERIT)
13:00-14:15 - Lunch break and Poster Session by PhD students
14:15-15:15 - Invited research paper
Should cash transfers be universal, basic, or income?
Paul Niehaus (UC San Diego)
Discussant: Liam Wren-Lewis (PSE, National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment)
15:15-16:00 - Coffee break and Poster Session by PhD students
16:00-17:00 - Keynote Lecture
Abhijit Banerjee (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, CEPR)
17:00-18:00 - Policy Conversation
- Iffath Sharif (Global Director for Social Protection and Jobs at the World Bank)
- Abhijit Banerjee (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, CEPR)
- Moderated by Thomas Melonio (Agence Française de Développement)
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Day 1: Wednesday, June 5, 2024
Day 2: Thursday, June 6, 2024
Organizers:
Edouard Challe (PSE, CNRS, CEPR)
Esther Duflo (PSE, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, CEPR)
Jean-Olivier Hairault (PSE, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Francesco Pappadà (PSE, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)
Beatrice Weder di Mauro (Geneva Graduate Institute, INSEAD, CEPR)