PacDev 2022 Conference Schedule

CEGA, along with the University of San Francisco, is excited to host the 15th annual Pacific Conference for Development Economics (PacDev), one of the major annual conferences dedicated to development economics. This event will bring together researchers and practitioners to present and discuss work that enhances our understanding of economic development, advances theoretical and empirical methods, and improves development interventions and policy.

9:00 – 9:15 am PDT: Introductions from USF and CEGA

9:15 – 10:45 am PDT: Concurrent Sessions I

Session 1A: Political Economy & Institutions I | Unprincipled Agents

Economic and Political Effects of Fiscal Rules: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Colombia
Luis Martinez
Do Political Motivations Affect Recovery From Hazards? Analysis of floods in India
Tarana Chauhan
Career Incentives and Judicial Independence: Evidence from the Indian Lower Judiciary
Jun Goto
Visual Nudges: How Deterrence and Equity Shape Tax Compliance Attitudes and Behaviour in Rwanda
Fabrizio Santoro

Session 1B: Credit & Savings

Keeping Up With the Joneses: Economic Impacts of Overconfidence in Micro-Entrepreneurs
Julia Seither
Intervention Size and Persistence
John Loeser
At the Right Time: Modifying Repayment and Disbursement Schedule in Microcredit
Hisaki Kono
Impact of informal networks on adoption of formal public health insurance
Titir Bhattacharya

Session 1C: Technology I

Impact of Market Information on Cashew Producers in Guinea-Bissau
Giulio Schinaia
Steered Away from the Fields: Short-Term Impacts of Oxen on Agricultural Production and Intra-Household Labor Supply
Andrew Brudevold-Newman
The Monetary Value of Externalities: Experimental Evidence from Ugandan Farmers
Benedetta Lerva
Subsidies and Product Assurance: Evidence from Agricultural Technologies
Dan Gilligan

Session 1D: Health I | Nutrition

Intra-Household Inequality in Poverty and Diets in the Philippines
Anna Josephson
Caste Differences in Child Growth: Disentangling Endowment and Investment Effects
Jingyan Guo
Interactions between nutrition, poverty, and natural areas at a district level in Lao PDR
Diana Garcia
The Impact of Rising Ocean Salinity on Early Life Health Outcomes: Evidence from Bangladesh
Amanda Guimbeau

Session 1E: Psychology & Behavior I

Getting on the Wagon: Alcohol and Productivity in Rural Kenya
David Murphy
The Psychological Toll of Food Insecurity
Jeffrey Bloem

Psychology, Skills, or Cash?
Megan Lang
Cash Transfers and Women’s Economic Inclusion: Experimental evidence from Zambia
Silvio Daidone

Session 1F: Labor Markets I

Jobs for Thee but Not for She: the Gendered Impact of COVID-19 on Skilled Ugandan Workers
Livia Alfonsi
Balancing Work and Childcare: Evidence from COVID-19 School Closures and Reopenings in Kenya
Pierre Biscaye
The Incidence of Payroll Taxation
Felipe Lobel
Returns to Job Search on Platforms
Nivedhitha Subramanian

Session 1G: Trade and Development

Entitled to Property: Inheritance Laws, Female Bargaining Power, and Child Health in India
Md Shahadath Hossain
Father of the Bride, or Steel Magnolias? Targeting Men, Women or Both to reduce Child Marriage
Rachel Cassidy
Access to Finance and Women’s Employment: Evidence from Self-Help Groups in Rural Bihar
Vaishnavi Surendra
Displacement, a step on women’s marriage? Natural disasters and cultural norms
Laura Muñoz Blanco

10:40 – 11:00 am PDT: Break

11:00 am – 12:00 pm PDT: Concurrent Sessions II

Session 2A: Political Economy & Institutions II | Reaching Citizens

Technology and the State: Building Tax Capacity via Text
Isabelle Cohen
How much do our neighbors really know?: The limits of community-based targeting
Carly Trachtman
The Legacy of Authoritarianism
Pramod Kumar

Session 2B: Education I

Marrying Young: The Surprising Effect of Education
Sayli Javadekar
Birth Order Effects, Parenting Style, and Son Preference
Jun Hyung Kim
Complementarities and Intergenerational Educational Mobility: Theory and Evidence from Indonesia
Shahe Emran

Session 2C: Technology II

A National Information Campaign Encouraging Financial Technology Use in Ghana
Emma Riley
Irrigation and the Spatial Pattern of Local Economic Development in India
Aaditya Dar
Digital divides and tax compliance: Adoption and impacts of e-services in Rwanda
Fabrizio Santoro

Session 2D: Health II | COVID and Vaccination

Social Protection Amid a Crisis: New Evidence from South Africa’s Older Person’s Grant
Mo Alloush
Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy: Survey and Experimental Evidence from Papua New Guinea
Terence Wood
The (Temporary) COVID-19 Baby Bust in Mexico
Adan Silverio-Murillo

Session 2E: Psychology & Behavior II

Income Taxpayers Are Not All the Same A Behavioural Letter Experiment in Eswatini
Fabrizio Santoro
Nutrition, Labor Supply, and Productivity: Evidence from Ramadan in Indonesia
Zhiwen Wang
Urban Labor Supply Responses to Adverse Weather Shocks for Ugandan Uber Drivers
Aleksandr Michuda

Session 2F: Trade and Development

Farm to Firm: Clustering and Returns to Scale in Agricultural Value Chains
James Sayre
Poverty Traps, Structural Transformation, and Rural Land Concentration in India
Manaswini Rao
Local or Imported? Input Sourcing in Lopsided Low-income Economies
Alan Griffith

Session 2G: Gender and Development II

Reconsidering Gender Bias in Rural India
Abdul Raheem Shariq Mohammed
Discrimination and Access to Capital: Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia
Shanthi Manian
In-group bias in the Indian judiciary: Evidence from 5 million criminal cases
Aditi Bhowmick