Pacific Conference for Development Economics

Santa Clara University

March 4, 2006

Coffee and Continental breakfast

(Williman Room, Benson Center) 8:00-8:30

Session 1:  8:30am-9:45am

Panel A (Location: Kenna Hall Room 104)

Chair: Michael Kevane (Santa Clara University)

Presenters:           

Chikako Yamauchi (The Australian National University)    

Governance and Delivery of Anti-Poverty Program

David Zetland (University Of California, Davis)

Don't Shoot the Middleman! Explaining Efficiency in International Aid

Hyeok Jeong (University of Southern California) 

Complementarity and Transition to Modern Economic Growth

Panel B (Location: Benson Center Parlor B)

Chair: Bruce Wydick (University of San Francisco)

Presenters:           

Christopher Blattman  (University of California, Berkeley)

What's special about being a child soldier? Estimating the labor market impact of involuntary military service using surveys of youth ex-combatants in Uganda

Anita Alves Pena (Stanford University)

Determinants of Destination Decisions of Documented and Undocumented Migrants: The Case of Mexican Agricultural Workers in the U.S.

Coffee break (Williman Room, Benson Center)

Session 2:  10:00am-10:50pm

Panel A (Location: Kenna Hall Room 104)

Chair: Ed Taylor  

Presenters:           

Ravi Bhandari (St. Mary’s College)         

Searching for A Weapon of Mass Production in Nepal: Unsound Arguments for Market-Assisted Land Reform

Aslihan Arslan (University of California, Davis)

Why do farmers continue to cultivate seemingly non-profitable crops? The case of traditional maize varieties in Mexico

Panel B (Location: Benson Center Parlor B)

Chair: David Levine (University of California, Berkeley)

Presenters:           

Elizabeth Long (University of San Francisco)

HIV and Poverty: Is there really a link?

Andrea Anderson (Umeå University, Sweden)

AIDS - The nemesis of economic development? A long run CGE analysis of the Malawian Economy

Coffee break (Williman Room, Benson Center)

Session 3:  11:05am-11:55pm

Panel A (Location: Kenna Hall Room 104)

Chair: Aprajit Mahajan (Stanford University)

Presenters:           

Catherine Guirkinger (University of California, Davis)         

Credit Constraints and Productivity in Peruvian Agriculture

Bruce Wydick (University of San Francisco)

Social Networks, Neighborhood Effects, and Access to Credit: Evidence from Guatemala

Panel B (Location: Benson Center Parlor B)

Chair: Anoshua Chaudhuri                (San Francisco State University)

Presenters:           

Diana Fletschner (University of Washington, Seattle)         

Intrahousehold Effects Of Non-Price Credit Rationing

Lea Prince (University of San Francisco)

The Impact Of Household Electrification On Women's Time Allocation In Rural Bolivia

Lunch 12:00-1:30   (Location: Adobe Lodge)

Daniel Sumner (University of California, Davis)            

Effects of farm subsidies on poor farmers: roles of WTO litigation and negotiation

Session 4:  1:40pm-3:00pm

Panel A (Location: Adobe Lodge)

Chair: John Strauss (University of Southern California)

Presenters:           

Alessandro Tarozzi (Duke University)    

Child Nutrition in India in the Nineties: A Story of Increased Gender Inequality?

David I. Levine, with Bernard Yeung, Jean Yeung, and Yaohui Zhao (University of California, Berkeley)

Did Industrialization Promote Children’s Health And Education? Evidence from China

Meherun Ahmed, with Kazi Iqbal (University of Washington)

Mother’s Education and Child Health: Is There Any Threshold?

Panel B (Location: Benson Center Parlor B)

Chair: Ted Miguel (University of California, Berkeley)

Presenters:           

Emi Uchida and Hirotsugu Uchida, with Chorching Goh (University of California, Davis)

Depending on forest resources for livelihood: Cambodia’s rural poor

Claus Portner (University of Washington)

Gone With the Wind? Hurricane Risk, Fertility and Education

Tahir Andrabi (Pomona College)

StudentsToday, Teachers Tomorrow? The Rise of Affordable Private Schools in Pakistan

Coffee break (Adobe Lodge)

Session 5:  3:20am-4:35pm

Panel A (Location: Kenna Hall Room 104)

Chair: Claus Portner (University of Washington)

Presenters:           

Latika Chaudhary (University of California, Los Angeles)

Social Divisions and Public Goods Provision: Evidence from Colonial India

Kris Mitchener (Santa Clara University)

Trade and Empire

Ted Miguel and John Bellows (University of California, Berkeley)

War and Institutions in Sierra Leone

Panel B (Location: Benson Center Parlor B)

Chair: Elizabeth Katz (University of San Francisco) 

Presenters:           

Craig McIntosh, with Gordon Hanson (University of California, San Diego)

The Bi-National Fertility Effects of Mexico-US Migration

John Giles (Michigan State University)

Migrant Opportunity and the Educational Attainment of Youth in Rural China

Francisca M. Antman  (Stanford University)

The Intergenerational Effects of Paternal Migration on Schooling

5:00-5:20

Conference debriefing meeting by organizers

(Location: Benson Center Parlor B)