Pacific Conference for Development Economics

University of San Francisco

2005

Session 1: 8:15AM – 10:00AM

A: Behavior and Institutions

(Chair: Craig McIntosh, UCSD)

1.) Craig McIntosh, UCSD “Beliefs and Relief: The impact of political uncertainty on small business behavior in Uganda”

2.) Gustavo Bubonis, UC Berkeley "Income Transfers, Marital Dissolution and Intra-household Allocation"

3.) Leonard Kang, USF “Trust Games and Group Lending: An experiment from the Philippines”

4.) Peter Lorentzen, Stanford University “Regularized Rioting: Bureaucratic Monitoring in an Authoritarian State”

B: Land Reform and Tenure

(Chair: Ravi Bhandari, St. Mary’s College)

Discussant: Alain de Janvry, UC Berkeley

1.) Jennifer Alix, UC Berkeley “Seeing the forest from the trees: A spatial analysis of common property deforestation”

2.) Aaron Bobrow-Strain, Whitman College “(Dis) Accords: The Politics of Market-Assisted Land Reform in Chiapas, Mexico”

3.) Ravi Bhandari, St. Mary’s College “A Theoretical, Historical, and Empirical Critique of Land Reforms: The Case of Nepal”

4.) Karen Macours, Johns Hopkins University “Ethnic Divisions, Contract Choice and Search Costs in the Guatemalan Land Rental Market”

C: Development and Migration

(Chair: Ed Taylor, UC Davis)

1.) Kim Singer, USF “Female Migration Issues — Study of the Philippines”

2.) Elizabeth Havice, UC Berkeley “Free trade of labor? The relationship among free trade, migration, and development in rural Mexico”

3.) Maurice Kugler, University of Southampton, (with Hillel Rapoport) "Skilled Emigration, Business Networks and FDI inflows"

4.) Jorge Mora, El Colegio de Mexico, and Ed Taylor, UC Davis “Remittances, Inequality and Poverty: Evidence from Rural Mexico”

Session 2: 10:15AM – 12:00PM

A: Poverty Studies

(Chair: Ted Miguel, UC Berkeley)

1.) Ted Miguel, UC Berkeley “The Long Run Impact of Bombing Vietnam”

2.) Steven Helfand, UC Riverside “The Impact of Policy Reforms on Rural Poverty in Brazil:

Evidence from Three States in the 1990s "

3.) Sebastian Martinez, UC Berkeley “BONOSOL in Bolivia”

B: Households, Gender, and Development

(Chair: Elizabeth Katz, USF)

1.) Sriniketh Nagavarapu, Stanford University “The Effect of Parental Schooling on Child Schooling Decisions Before and After the Argentine Financial Crisis”

2.) Diana Fletschner, University of Washington “Constructing and Reconstructing Gender: Credit
Supply and Women's Demand for Entrepreneurial Capital”

3.) Manisha Shah, UC Berkeley “Regulating sex work: Evidence from Mexico”

4.) Claus Portner, University of Washington “Risk and Household Structure: Another look at the determinants of fertility”

C: Development and Governance

(Chair: Aprajit Mahajan, Stanford University)

1.) Saumitra Jha, Stanford University "Ancient privileges confront New World challenges: overseas expansion and the foundations of liberal governance in early modern England"

2.) Frederico Finan, UC Berkeley “Political Patronage and Local Development”

3.) David Kauper, UC Riverside “Dynamic Efficiency and Corruption”

LUNCHEON: 12:00PM – 1:30PM

Host:

Bruce Wydick, University of San Francisco

Panel Presentation:

"The Contribution of Development Economics to Economic Development: Shaping our Research Agenda in the Context of World Poverty"

Panelists:

Alain de Janvry, UC Berkeley

Anjini Kochar, Stanford University

Ronald McKinnon, Stanford University

Jeff Nugent, USC

Session 3: 1:45PM – 3:30PM

A: Empirical Studies

(Chair: John Strauss, USC)

1.) Tania Barham, UC Berkeley “Providing a healthier start to life: The impact of conditional cash transfers on infant mortality”

2.) Tomoki Fujii, UC Berkeley “Micro-level estimation of child malnutrition indicators and its application in Cambodia”

3.) Grigor Sukiassyan and Jeffrey B. Nugent, USC “Efficiency of the Legal System, Regulation Costs and Small Firm Strategies for Achieving Formality”

B: Asian Development Issues and Impacts

(Chair: David Levine, UC Berkeley)

1.) David I. Levine, UC Berkeley “Industrialization and Infant Mortality” (with Maya Federman)

2.) Hyeok Jeong and Yong Kim, USC “A Theory of Modern Transition with Application to Thailand"

3.) Lopamudra Banerjee, UC Riverside "Impacts of Floods on Agricultural Wage Rate Formation in Bangladesh: Empirical Evidence from the Recent Past"

C: African Political Economy

(Chair: Michael Kevane, Santa Clara University)

Discussant: Tetteh Kofi, USF

1.) Mary Kay Gugerty, University of Washington “NGO Collective Action and the Political Economy of NGO-State Relationships in East Africa”

2.) Melissa Gonzales-Brenes, UC Berkeley "Domestic Violence and Household Decision-making: Evidence from East Africa"

3.) Christopher Blattman, UC Berkeley "Coups, Conflict and Commodities: New Questions and Answers"

4.) Michael Kevane, Santa Clara University "Nation-building, multi-culturalism, and economic growth in Africa: An analysis of imagery on postage stamps"

Session 4: 3:45PM – 5:30PM

A: Development Programs

(Chair: Elizabeth Sadoulet and Alain de Janvry, UC Berkeley)

1.) Lai Fang, UC Berkeley “The Impact of School Quality on Educational Performance: A Study of Middle School Education Reforms in Beijing's Eastern City District”

2.) Chikako Yamauchi, UCLA “Evaluating a Non-Random Poverty Alleviation Program: Methodological and Empirical Evidence from Indonesia”

3.) Elisabeth Sadoulet, UC Berkeley “Can conditional cash transfer programs improve social risk management? Lessons for education and child labor outcomes”

B: Microfinance and Credit Institutions

(Chair: Bruce Wydick, USF)

1.) Catherine Guirkinger and Steve Boucher, UC Davis "Risk, wealth, and sectoral choice in rural credit markets"

2.) Tomoya Matsumoto, USC “ROSCA’s Participation and Intra-household Resource Allocation in Indonesia"

3) Andrew McKim, UC Berkeley “Staff incentive policies for credit officers in microfinance institutions”

4.) Adel Varghese, Texas A&M University “Can moneylenders link with banks?”

C: Political Economy

(Chair: Jeff Nugent, USC)

1.) Elizabeth M. Caucutt, University of Western Ontario, and Krishna B. Kumar, USC “Evaluating Explanations for Stagnation”

2.) Joanne Yoong, Stanford University “An Empirical Analysis of Corporate and Social Responsibility”

3.) Nauro Campos, University of Newcastle, Cheng Hsiao and Jeffrey B. Nugent, USC “Trade and Labor Market Reforms, Political Instability, Institutions and Growth”

4.) Gerard Roland, UC Berkeley, TBA