Rural Productivity Growth, Structural Transformation and Development, the 2017 Agriculture and Development Conference
March 31 - April 1, 2017 | 165 Whitney Avenue, New Haven, Connecticut (Room 4200)
Friday, March 31
8:00 am - 8:55 am
Breakfast
8:55 am
Opening Remarks
* A. Mushfiq Mobarak
Yale University
Session 1: Misallocation
9:00 am - 9:45 am
Doug Gollin
Oxford University
* Chris Udry
Yale University
Agricultural Productivity Gaps in Africa [Paper]
9:45 am - 10:30 am
Joan Hamory Hicks
University of California Berkeley
* Marieke Kleemans
University of Illinois
Nicholas Y. Li
University of California Berkeley
Edward Miguel
University of California Berkeley
Reevaluating Agricultural Productivity Gaps with Longitudinal Microdata [Paper]
Session 2: Infrastructure
11:00 am - 11:45 am
Wyatt Brooks
Notre Dame University
* Kevin Donovan
Notre Dame University
Eliminating Uncertainty in Market Access: The Impact of New Bridges in Rural Nicaragua [Paper]
11:45 am - 12:30 pm
* Anjali Adukia
University of Chicago
* Sam Asher
The World Bank
* Paul Novosad
Dartmouth College
Educational Investment Responses, Structural Transformation and Rural Roads
[2 papers combined] [Paper]
Session 3: Migration
1:45 pm - 2:30 pm
* Taryn Dinkelman
Dartmouth College
Grace Kumchulesi
African Institute for Development Policy
Martine Mariotti
Australian National University
Labor Migration, Capital Accumulation, and the Structure of Rural Labor Markets [Paper]
2:30 pm - 3:15 pm
A. Ali Akram
Evidence Action
Shyamal Chowdhury
University of Sydney
* A. Mushfiq Mobarak
Yale University
Effects of Emigration on Rural Labor Markets [Paper]
3:15 pm - 3:30 am
Session 4: Property Rights
3:30 pm - 4:15 pm
* Alain de Janvry
University of California Berkeley
Eduardo Montoya
University of California Berkeley
* Elisabeth Sadoulet
University of California Berkeley
Property Rights Reform, Migration, and Structural Transformation in Mexico [Paper]
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm
Amalavoyal (A.V.) Chari
University of Sussex
Elaine M. Liu
University of Houston
* Shing-Yi Wang
University of Pennsylvania
Yongxiang Wang
University of Southern California
Property Rights, Misallocation and Agricultural Efficiency in China [Paper not available]
Saturday, April 1
Session 5: Productivity
9:00 am - 9:45 am
* Andrew Foster
Brown University
* Mark Rosenzweig
Yale University
Input Transaction Costs, Mechanization, and the Mis-allocation of Land: The Irrelevance of the IR [Paper]
9:45 am - 10:30 am
* Clément Imbert
University of Warwick
* Marlon Seror
Paris School of Economics
Yifan Zhang
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Yanos Zylberberg
University of Bristol
Rural Emigration and Urban Firm Growth: Evidence from China [Paper]
Session 6: Technology Adoption
11:00 am - 11:45 am
Tanguy Bernard
Paris School of Economics
Sylvie Lambert
Paris School of Economics
* Karen Macours
Paris School of Economics
* Margaux Vinez
Paris School of Economics
Adoption of Improved Seeds and Land Allocation, Evidence from DRC [Paper]
11:45 am - 12:30 pm
* C. Austin Davis
University of Michigan
Why Did Sugarcane Growers Suddenly Adopt Existing Technology? [Paper]