Workshop on Networks and Development
Workshop on Networks and Development
Organized by LEAP with Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, CSEF (Center for Studies in Economics and Finance) and the World Bank.
Program:
DAY 1: Thursday 21 April 2022
8.45-9.15: Registration
9.15-10.45: Session 1
Learning from Self and Learning from Others: Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh
Maria Jones (World Bank), Florence Kondylis (World Bank), John Loeser (World Bank), Mushfiq Mobarak (Yale), Daniel Stein (IDinsight)
The Sustainable Quality Program in the Colombia Coffee Chain
Rocco Macchiavello (LSE), Pepita Miquel-Florensa (TSE)
Motivating Farmer Trainers. Experimental Evidence from Rural Uganda
Olivia Bertelli (Paris Dauphine), Fatou Fall (Paris Dauphine)
10.45-11.15: Poster Session I & Coffee
An Aspiring Friend Is a Friend Indeed: School Peers and College Aspirations in Brazil
Jessica Gagete-Miranda (Bicocca)
Social Networks and Immigrant Integration: Experimental Evidence from Sweden
Olle Hammar (IFN), Mounir Karadja (Uppsala), Akib Khan (Uppsala)
Public Goods Game on Network with Kantian Agents
Kohmei Makihara (Aix-Marseille), Sebastian Bervoets (Aix-Marseille)
Financial Contagion in Inter-Bank Lending Network With Overlapping Portfolios
Emmanuel Caiazzo (University of Naples Federico II)
11.15-12.15: Session 2
The Monetary Value of Externalities: Experimental Evidence from Ugandan Farmers
Benedetta Lerva (World Bank)
Land Rental Markets: Experimental Evidence from Kenya
Michelle Acampora (Zurich), Lorenzo Casaburi (Zurich), Jack Willis (Columbia)
12.15-13.15: Keynote: Eliana La Ferrara
13.15-14.15 Lunch break
14.15-16.15: Session 3
Peer Networks and Entrepreneurship: a Pan-African RCT
Fernando Vega Redondo (Bocconi), Paolo Pin (Siena), Diego Ubfal (World Bank), Cristiana Benedetti-Fasil (EUI), Charles Brummit (Columbia), Gaia Rubera (Bocconi), Dirk Hovy (Bocconi), Tommaso Fornaciari (Bocconi)
Know-how and Know-who: Effects of a Randomized Training on Network Changes among Small Urban Entrepreneurs
Mattea Stein (University of Naples Federico II and CSEF)
Who knows? The Effect of Information Access on Social Network Position
Laura Derksen (Toronto), Pedro CL Souza (QMUL)
Bring a Friend: Strengthening Women’s Social Networks and Reproductive Autonomy in India
S Anukriti (World Bank), Catalina Herrera-Almanza (Illinois), Mahesh Karra (BU)
16.15-16.45: Coffee break
16.45-18.15: Session 4
Affinity, Trust, and Information
Luigi Guiso (EIEF), Alexey Makarin (EIEF)
Learning About Opportunity: Spillovers of Elite School Admissions in Peru
Ricardo Estrada (CAF-Dev. Bank LA), Jeremie Gignoux (PSE), Agustina Hatrick (CAF-Dev. Bank LA)
Urban Public Works in Spatial Equilibrium: Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia
Girum Abebe (Westminster), Simon Franklin [QMUL], Clement Imbert (Warwick), and Carolina Mejia-Mantilla (World Bank)
20.00-23.00: Social Dinner
DAY 2: Friday 22 April 2022
8.30-10.00: Session 1
Coordination and the Poor Maintenance Trap: an Experiment on Public Infrastructure in India
Alex Armand (NovaSBE), Britta Augsburg (IFS), Antonella Bancalari (St. Andrews)
Big Push Pro-poor Policies and the Economic Preferences of the Rich and Poor
Nicolas Cerkez (UCL), Adnan Q.Khan (LSE), Imran Rasul (UCL), Anam Shoaib (CERP)
Political Reservations as Term Limits
Caitlin Brown (Manchester), Garance Genicot (Georgetown), Nishtha Kochhar (Georgetown)
10.00-10.30: Poster session II & Coffee
(Posters: see Poster session I)
10.30-11.30: Session 2
Flexible Microcredit: Effects on Loan Repayment and Social Pressure
Kristina Czura (Groningen), Anett John (Birmingham), Lisa Spantig (Essex)
The Role of Family Networks in First-Credit Access
Miguel A. Carpio (Lima), Lorena Keller (UPenn), Alessandro Tomarchio (Peru Central Bank)
11.30-12.30: Keynote: Orazio Attanasio
12.30-13.30: Lunch
13.30-15.00: Session 3
Who Gives, Who Cares
Yann Bramoullé (Aix-Marseille), Rahul Deb (Toronto), Ludovic Renou (QMUL)
The Limits of Local Insurance
Johannes Gierlinger (Carlos III), Pau Milán (UAB)
Diffusion of Rival Information in the Field
Ines Vilela (Royal Holloway)
15:00-15.30: Coffee break
15.30-17.00: Session 4
Input Sourcing in Lopsided Low-income Economies
Alan Griffith (Washington), Jonas Hjort (Columbia), Yue Yu (Toronto)
Production Networks and War
Vasily Korovkin (CERGE-EI), Alexey Makarin (EIEF)
Worker Mobility and Domestic Production Networks
Marvin Cardoza (DGII Dominican Rep.), Francesco Grigoli (IMF), Nicola Pierri (IMF), Cian Ruane (IMF)