Sharing Strategies, Sharing Solutions: A Policy Institute for Innovations in Public Services

10:00am Welcoming Remarks

Ernesto Dal Bó, Phillips Girgich Professor of Business, Haas School of Business, UC-Berkeley

10:45am Brief Overview of the EDI Programme’s Approach to Policy Uptake

11:00am Frontiers in Evidence-based Policy: Evaluating National-Scale Reforms and Citizen Engagement in Sierra Leone

11:45am Frontiers in Evidence-based Policy: Using Mobile Money to Fight Corruption in Afghanistan

Michael Callen, Assistant Professor of Economics and Strategy Management, UC-San Diego

2:00pm Priorities for Investment, Strategies for Action: Open Government and Evidence-based Policy

3:45pm Frontiers in Open Government: Open Policy Analysis and Opportunities to Collaborate

Fernando Hoces de la Guardia, Research Fellow, Center for Effective Global Action, UC-Berkeley

4:30pm Concluding Session

10:00am Welcoming Remarks

Ernesto Dal Bó, Phillips Girgich Professor of Business, Haas School of Business, UC-Berkeley

10:15am The State of Science: Evidence on Policy Reform

The Judiciary – Efficiency, Access, Equity

11:15am The State of Science: Evidence on Policy Reform

The Bureaucracy – More Effective and Accountable Public Institutions and Services

Ernesto Dal Bó, Phillips Girgich Professor of Business, Haas School of Business, UC-Berkeley
Frederico Finan, Associate Professor, Economics and Haas School of Business, UC-Berkeley

1:45pm Rountable Discussion: Policy Challenges, Research Priorities

3:30pm Rountable Discussion: Policy Challenges, Research Priorities (continued)

4:15pm Closing Session

9:30am Welcoming Remarks

Mark Henstridge, Chief Economist, Oxford Policy Management
Fred Finan, Associate Professor, Economics and Haas School of Business, UC-Berkeley

10:15am Taxation

Pierre Bachas (World Bank): “Audit Selection under Weak Fiscal Capacity (Senegal)”
Justine Knebelmann (Paris School of Economics): “Measuring the Effect of Technological Improvements and Compliance Nudges on Property Taxes: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Senegal”
Shekhar Mittal and Aprajit Mahajan (UC Berkeley): “Who is Bogus? Catching Fraudulent Firms in India”

11:30am Courts

Joyce Sadka and Enrique Seira (ITAM): “Improving the Effectiveness of Labor Courts through Information and Conciliation (Mexico)”
Bilal Siddiqi (World Bank): “Using Administrative Data Systems to Improve Court Efficiency: Multi- Country Study (Kenya, Tanzania, India)”
Virginia Nelder (Senior Legal Researcher, Kenya Law Reform Commission): “Judicial Decisions as Public Goods (Kenya)” on behalf of J. Andrew Harris (NYU-Abu Dhabi)

12:15pm Rights & Access to Legal Protection

Eric Arias (Princeton): “Community Policing and Public Trust: A Field Experiment in Colombia”
Kate Vyborny (Duke): “Institutional Reform and de facto Women’s Rights (Pakistan)”
Michael O’Sullivan (World Bank): “Relaxing Credit Constraints and Tenure Insecurity in Imperfect Markets (Uganda)”

2:30pm Bureaucracy & Public Goods

Edward Miguel (UC Berkeley): “The Political Economy and Governance of Rural Electrification”
Erika Deserranno (Northwestern) and Gianmarco Leon (Universitat Pompeu Fabra): “Performance- Based Incentives in Multi-Layered Organizations: Evidence from Sierra Leonean Community Health Workers”

3:30pm Bureaucracy & Public Goods

Andrew Zeitlin (Georgetown): “Recruitment, Effort, and Retention Effects of Performance Contracts for Civil Servants: Experimental Evidence from Rwanda Primary Schools”
Katherine Casey (Stanford): “Politician Entry, Selection, and Performance in Sierra Leone”
Charity Troyer Moore (Harvard): “Using Digital Trails to Improve Management and Accountability for Public Service Delivery (India)”

4:15pm Closing Remarks

Ernesto Dal Bó, Phillips Girgich Professor of Business, Haas School of Business, UC-Berkeley

9:15am Research Feedback Sessions
11:30am Research Feedback Sessions (cont’d)