Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics 2016: Data and Development Economics

The Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE), organized by the World Bank Development Economics (DEC) Vice Presidency, is one of the world’s best known series of conferences for the presentation and discussion of new knowledge on development. The conference aims to promote the exchange of cutting-edge research among researchers, policymakers, and development practitioners. The next conference will take place on June 20-21, 2016 at World Bank Headquarters in Washington, D.C. The theme of the conference will be “Data and Development.”

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Monday, June 20, 2016
	Preston Auditorium
08:00–09:00	Registration and Breakfast
09:00–09:15	Opening Remarks Kaushik Basu (Senior Vice President and Chief Economist, World Bank)
09:15–10:15	Keynote Address 1: Big Data and Economic Measurement: What a Billion Prices say about Inflation and Exchange Rates? Chair: Haishan Fu (Director, Development Data Group, World Bank) Speaker: Roberto Rigobón (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States) DOWNLOAD:
10:15–10:30	Coffee
	Sessions 1A-1D
10:30–12:30	Session 1A Poverty and Inequality in High and Low Definition\| Room MC 6-100 Chair: Francisco Ferreira (World Bank)
	“” \| Ryan Engstrom (George Washington University, United States), Jonathan Hersh (Boston University, United States), and David Newhouse (World Bank)
	“” \| Roy van der Weide, Christoph Lakner, and Elena Ianchovichina (World Bank)
	“” Prabhat Barnwal (Michigan State University, United States)
	“” \| Philippe De Vreyer (Université Paris-Dauphine and DIAL, France) and Sylvie Lambert (Paris-School of Economics-INRA, France) Discussant: Vijayendra Rao (World Bank)
	Session 1B Data for Development \| Room MC 7-100 Chair: Amparo Ballivian (World Bank)
	“” \| Arun Jacob (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, UNCTAD and The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Switzerland)
	“" \| Shohei Nakamura, Rawaa Harati, Somik V. Lall, Yuri M. Dikhanov, Nada Hamadeh, William Vigil Oliver, Marko Olavi Rissanen, and Mizuki Yamanaka (World Bank)
	“”&苍产蝉辫;触&苍产蝉辫; Gabriel Pestre (Data-Pop Alliance, United States), Emmanuel Letouzé (Data-Pop Alliance, United States), and Emilio Zagheni (University of Washington, United States)
	Session 1C Adoption of Agricultural Technology and Fertilizers \| Room MC 8-100 Chair: Melissa Johns (World Bank)
	“” \| Saher Asad (Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan)
	“” \| Kyle Emerick (Tufts University, United States), Alain de Janvry (University of California, Berkeley, United States), Elisabeth Sadoulet (University of California, Berkeley, United States), and Manzoor H. Dar (International Rice Research Institute)
	“” Ulrik Beck (University of Copenhagen, Denmark), Saurabh Singhal (UNU-WIDER, Finland), and Finn Tarp (University of Copenhagen and UNU-WIDER) Discussant: Daniel Ayalew Ali (World Bank)
	Session 1D Development, Colonial Rule, Ethnic Diversity, and Genes \| Room MC 9-100 Chair: Albert Zeufack (World Bank)
	“” \| Boris Gershman and Diego Rivera (American University, United States)
	“” \| Marie Lechler (Munich Graduate School of Economics, Germany) and Lachlan McNamee (Stanford University, United States)
	“” Belinda Archibong (Barnard College, United States)
	“” \| Robert Klitgaard (Claremont Graduate University, United States), Johannes W. Fedderke (Pennsylvania State University, United States), and Valerio Napolioni (Stanford University, United States) Discussant: Rishabh Sinha (World Bank)
12:30–14:00	Lunch \| James D. Wolfensohn Atrium
14:00–15:00	Keynote Address 2: Machine Learning and Development \| Preston Auditorium Chair: William Maloney (World Bank) Speaker: Sendhil Mullainathan (Harvard University, United States) DOWNLOAD:
15:00–15:15	Coffee
15:15–17:15	Sessions 2A-2D
	Session 2A Survey and Administrative Data: Big and Small \| Room MC 6-100 Chair: Tariq Khokhar (World Bank)
	“” Germán Reyes (World Bank)
	“What are the Limitations of Survey Data versus Administrative Data in Impact Evaluation? The Case of an SMS Campaign” César Huaroto (Universidad de Los Andes, Argentina), Andrea Cornejo (Columbia University, United States), and Luis Baiocchi (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú)
	“” Robert Garlick (Duke University, United States), Kate Orkin and Simon Quinn (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
	“” \| Thomas Joseph (IIM Udaipur, India), Yaw Nyarko (New York University, United States), and Shing-Yi Wang (Wharton, United States) Discussant: Katie Simmons (Pew Research Center)
	Session 2B Trade, E-Trade, and Networks \| Room MC 7-100 Chair: Deepak Mishra (World Bank)
	“” \| Daniel Bj?rkegren (Brown University, United States)
	“” Jingting Fan (University of Maryland, United States), Lixin Tang (Shanghai University, China), Weiming Zhu (University of Maryland, United States), and Ben Zou (Michigan State University, United States)
	“” Cathy Ge Bao and Maggie X. Chen (George Washington University, United States)
	“” Sami Bensassi (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom), Joachim Jarreau (University of Paris-Dauphine, France), and Cristina Mitaritonna (CEPII, France)
	Session 2C Training and Managerial Skills \| Room MC 8-100 Chair: Caio Piza (World Bank)
	“” Wyatt Brooks, Kevin Donovan, and Terence R. Johnson (University of Notre Dame, United States)
	“” \| Adriana Kugler (Georgetown University, United States), Maurice Kugler (IMPAQ International LLC, United States), Juan Saavedra (University of Southern California, United States), and Luis Omar Herrera Prada (Inter-American Development Bank)
	“” \| Yuki Higuchi (Nagoya City University, Japan) and Tetsushi Sonobe (National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Japan) Disussant: Paulo Bastos (World Bank)
	Session 2D Crime, Civil Wars, and Hotspots \| Room MC 9-100 Chair: Yujin Jeong (American University, United States)
	“” \| Ricardo Maertens (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)
	“” \| Toni Oki (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
	“” Andrey Bogomolov (University of Trento, Italy), Andrés Clavijo (Data Pop Alliance, United States), Gabriel Pestre (Data Pop Alliance, United States), Joan Serrà (Telefónica Barcelona, Spain), Natalie Shoup (Data Pop Alliance, United States), Alvaro Ramirez Suarez (Telefónica Colombia, Colombia), Emmanuel Letouzé ( Data Pop Alliance, United States), Bruno Lepri (University of Trento, Italy), and Nuria Oliver (Telefónica Barcelona, Spain)
	“” \| Kristen Himelein (World Bank), Stephanie Eckman (RTI International), Siobhan Murray (World Bank), and Johannes Bauer (University of Munich, Germany) Discussant: Julian Jamison (World Bank)
Tuesday, June 21, 2016
	Preston Auditorium
08:00–09:00	Registration and Breakfast
09:00–10:00	Keynote Address 3: Thick Description in Empirical Economics Chair: Asli Demirguc-Kunt (Director, Development Research Group, World Bank) Speaker: Jonathan Morduch (New York University, United States) DOWNLOAD:
10:00–10:15	Coffee
10:15–12:15	Sessions 3A-3D
	Session 3A Banking, Financial Inclusion and Borrower Data \| Room MC 6-100 Chair: Tatiana Didier (World Bank)
	“” Asli Demirguc-Kunt, Leora Klapper, Dorothe Singer, and Peter Van Oudheusden (World Bank)
	“” \| Xiaowen Dong (MIT Media Lab, United States), Eaman Jahani (MIT Media Lab. United States), Alfredo Morales-Guzman (MIT Media Lab and New England Complex Systems Institute, United States), Bur?in Bozkaya (Sabanci University, Turkey), Bruno Lepri (MIT Media Lab and Fondazione Bruno Kessler), and Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland (MIT Media Lab, United States)
	“” \| Sinja Buri (IFC), Robert Cull (World Bank), Xavier Giné (World Bank), and Sven Harten (IFC)
	“” Jaap Bos (Maastricht University, The Netherlands), Ralph De Haas (EBRD and Tilburg University, The Netherlands), and Matteo Millone (VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Disussant: Martin Cihak (International Monetary Fund)
	Session 3B Political Power, Media, and Favoritism \| Room MC 7-100 Chair: Claudia Sepulveda (World Bank)
	“” Rikhil Bhavnani (University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States) and Gareth Nellis (Yale University, United States)
	“Social Ties and Favoritism in Chinese Science” Raymond Fisman (Boston University, United States), Jing Shi (RMIT University, Australia), Yongxiang Wang (University of Southern California, United States), and Rong Xu (Renmin University of China, China)
	“” Cesi Cruz (University of British Columbia, Canada), Philip Keefer (Inter-American Development Bank), and Julien Labonne (Yale-NUS College, United States)
	“” \| Sabrin Beg (University of Delaware, United Sates) Discussant: Luis-Felipe Lopez Calva (World Bank)
	Session 3C Measuring Employment, Time, and Women's Agency \| Room MC 8-100 Chair: Nada Hamadeh (World Bank)
	“" Vellore Arthi (University of Oxford, United Kingdom), Kathleen Beegle (World Bank), Joachim De Weerdt (University of Antwerp and KU Leuven, The Netherlands) and Amparo Palacios-Lopez (World Bank)
	“” Jeannie Annan (International Rescue Committee), Aletheia Donald (World Bank), Kathryn Falb (International Rescue Committee), Gayatri Koolwal ( World Bank and UN Foundation) and Markus Goldstein (World Bank)
	“” Greg Seymour, Hazel Malapit, and Agnes Quisumbing (International Food Policy Research Institute)
	“” Rachel Heath (University of Washington, United States), Ghazala Mansuri, Dhiraj Sharma, Bob Rijkers, and William Seitz (World Bank) Discussant: Margaret McMillan (Tufts University, United States and International Food Policy Research Institute \|
	Session 3D Disease Prevalence, Disease Targeting, and Health Costs \| Room MC 9-100 Chair: Eeshani Kandpal (World Bank)
	“” Joseph Gomes (University of Navarra, Spain)
	“” Zo? McLaren (University of Michigan, United States) and Rulof Burger (University of Stellenbosch, South Africa)
	“” Sveta Milusheva (Brown University, United States) Discussant: Owen Ozier (World Bank)
12:15–12:30	Brown Bag Lunch \| Preston Lounge
12:30–14:00	Panel: The Science and Economics of Data \| Preston Auditorium Chair: Shanta Devarajan (Chief Economist, Middle East and North Africa Region,World Bank) Panelists: Pieter Everaers (Director of A- Cooperation, European Statistical System, Eurostat), Haishan Fu (Director, Development Data Group, World Bank), and Justin Wolfers (Professor, University of Michigan, United States)
14:00–14:15	Coffee
14:15–16:15	Sessions 4A-4D
	Session 4A Teachers Pay, Teachers Productivity, and School Fees \| Room MC 6-100 Chair: Halsey Rogers (World Bank)
	“” \| Natalie Bau (University of Toronto, Canada) and Jishnu Das (World Bank)
	“” Barbara Bruns (Center for Global Development), Leandro Costa (World Bank), and Nina Cunha (Stanford University, United States)
	“" Tessa Bold (Stockholm University, Sweden), Deon Filmer (World Bank), Gayle Martin (World Bank), Ezequiel Molina (World Bank), Brian Stacy (World Bank), Christophe Rockmore (World Bank), Jakob Svensson (Stockholm University, Sweden), and Wally Wane (World Bank)
	"” Robert Garlick (Duke University, United States)
	Session 4B Decentralization, Development Projects, and Corruption \| Room MC 7-100 Chair: David Rosenblatt (World Bank)
	“” \| Freeha Fatima, Hanan G. Jacoby, and Ghazala Mansuri (World Bank)
	“Decentralization Without Representation (Or Mobility): Implications for Rural Public Service Delivery” Katrina Kosec and Tewodaj Mogues (International Food Policy Research Institute)
	“” Samuel Bazzi (Boston University and BREAD, United States) and Matthew Gudgeon (Boston University, United States)
	“” Martin J. Williams (Oxford University, United Kingdom) Discussant: Paolo Mauro (Peterson Institute for International Economics, United States)
	Session 4C Structural Transformation, Taxes and Subsidies: Evidence from Firms \| Room MC 8-100 Chair: Poonam Gupta (World Bank)
	“" Brian McCaig (Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada) and Nina Pavcnik (Dartmouth College, United States)
	“” Miriam Bruhn (World Bank)
	“” Anne Brockmeyer and Marco Hernandez (World Bank)
	“” Xinshen Diao (International Food Policy Research Institute), Josaphat Kweka (Trademark East Africa), Margaret McMillan (Tufts University, United States and International Food Policy Research Institute), and Zara Qureshi (International Food Policy Research Institute) Discussant: Mary Hallward-Driemeier (World Bank)
	Session 4D Random Control Trials, Lab Experiments, and External Validity \| Room MC 9-100 Chair: David Evans (World Bank)
	“” \| Paul Carrillo (George Washington University, United States), Edgar Castro and Carlos Scartascini (Inter-American Development Bank)
	“” \| Marie Boltz (Paris School of Economics, France), Karine Marazyan (University of Paris 1, France), and Paola Villar (Institut National d’Etudes Demographiques (INED) and Paris School of Economics, France)
	““ Niklas Buehren (World Bank), Markus Goldstein (World Bank), Kenneth Leonard (University of Maryland, United States), Joao Montalvao (World Bank), and Katya Vasilaky (Columbia University, United States)
	“” \| Alejandro Noriega and Alex (Sandy) Pentland (MIT, United States) Discussant: Pamela Jakiela (University of Maryland, United States)

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Session 2A Survey and Administrative Data: Big and Small | Room MC 6-100

Shanta Devarajan

Chief Economist, Middle East and North Africa, World Bank
Shanta Devarajan is the Chief Economist of the World Bank’s Middle East and North Africa Region. Since joining the World Bank in 1991, he has been a Principal Economist and Research Manager for Public Economics in the Development Research Group, and the Chief Economist of the Human Development Network, the South Asia Region and Africa Region. He was the director of the World Development Report 2004, Making Services Work for Poor People. Before 1991, he was on the faculty of Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. The author or co-author of over 100 publications, Mr. Devarajan’s research covers public economics, trade policy, natural resources and the environment, and general equilibrium modeling of developing countries. Born in Sri Lanka, Mr. Devarajan received his B.A. in mathematics from Princeton University and his Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley.
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Pieter Everaers

Director of A- Cooperation, European Statistical System, Eurostat
Pieter Everaers (1954) is Director of Directorate A- Cooperation in the European Statistical System; International Cooperation; Resources at DG Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Commission. Since 2012 he is in this position managing the human and financial resources and the legal affairs, the planning and evaluation of the statistical programme as well as the governance in the European Statistical System. In this position he is also responsible for the support program to Greek statistics. This position also involves the responsibility for the cooperation in statistics with other European and non-European Third Countries and with International Organisations. He joined Eurostat in May 2004, closing a 20 years career at Statistics Netherlands (CBS). Before 2012 he was in Eurostat as director responsible for International Trade and Population statistics, Agricultural Statistics, Environment, Energy and Transport, Business statistics, as well as Dissemination and Indicators. He has a PhD in Spatial Sciences at the University of Utrecht and had his original training in Human Geography and Mathematical Sociology.
Haishan Fu

Director, Development Economics Data Group, World Bank
Ms. Haishan Fu is the Director of the Development Data Group, in the Development Economics Vice Presidency, at 木瓜影院. Previously, she had held positions as Director, Statistics Division of United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP); Chief of Statistics at the Human Development Report Office of United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Senior Research Associate at the Guttmacher Institute in New York and Population Affairs Officer at the United Nations Population Division. Ms. Fu had also worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania and Visiting Research Collaborator at the Office of Population Research, Princeton University. She is a former member of the Executive Committee of IAOS, the Advisory Committee on Ethics of ISI and the Statistical Advisory Panel of the Human Development Report (HDR) of UNDP. Ms. Fu has published a number of research papers in leading academic journals, and contributed as core team member, team leader or executive editor to major international and regional reports. A native of China, Ms. Fu holds a doctoral degree in Demography from Princeton University and a bachelor degree in Economics from Peking University.
Jonathan Morduch

Professor of Public Policy and Economics NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and Managing Director, Financial Access Initiative
Jonathan Morduch is Professor of Public Policy and Economics at the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University. Morduch’s research focuses on poverty and finance. His current work studies the financial lives of low-income families in the United States, a focus that extends the approach of Portfolios of the Poor: How the World's Poor Live on $2 a Day (Princeton 2009). Morduch is the co-author of The Economics of Microfinance (MIT Press 2010) and Economics, an introductory text from McGraw-Hill. He is a coeditor of Banking the World: Empirical Foundations of Financial Inclusion (MIT Press). Morduch is also a founder and Executive Director of the NYU Financial Access Initiative. He has taught on the Economics faculty at Harvard, and has held visiting positions at Stanford, Princeton, Hitotsubashi University and the University of Tokyo. Morduch received a BA from Brown and a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard. He was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Free University of Brussels for his work on microfinance. In 2016-17, Morduch is at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, focusing on the economics of social business.
Sendhil Mullainathan

Robert C. Waggoner Professor of Economics, Harvard University
Sendhil Mullainathan is the Robert C. Waggoner Professor of Economics in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. He has worked on poverty, behavioral economics and a wide variety of topics such as: the impact of poverty on mental bandwidth; whether CEO pay is excessive; using fictitious resumes to measure discrimination; showing that higher cigarette taxes makes smokers happier; modeling how competition affects media bias; and a model of coarse thinking. His latest research focuses on using machine learning to better understand human behavior.
Roberto Rigobon

Society of Sloan Fellows Professor of Applied Economics, Sloan School of Management, MIT
Roberto Rigobon is the Society of Sloan Fellows Professor of Applied Economics at the Sloan School of Management, MIT, a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a member of the Census Bureau’s Scientific Advisory Committee, and a visiting professor at IESA.
Justin Wolfers

Professor of Economics and a Professor of Public Policy, University of Michigan
Justin Wolfers is a Professor of Economics and a Professor of Public Policy at the University of Michigan and a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. He is also an editor of the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, a member of the Congressional Budget Office Panel of Economic Advisers, a Visiting Professor of Economics at the University of Sydney, a Research Associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research; a Non-Resident Senior Fellow with the Brookings Institution, a Research Fellow with the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn; a Research Affiliate with the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London; an International Research Fellow with the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, and a Fellow of the CESifo, in Munich. He was previously a Visiting Professor at Princeton, an Associate Professor at Wharton, an Assistant Professor at Stanford Graduate School of Business, and an economist with the Reserve Bank of Australia

VENUE
Preston Auditorium
World Bank Headquarters | Main Complex
1818 H Street, NW, Washington, DC, 20433

The Conference

REGISTRATION AND SECURITY

Registration will open at 8 a.m. on Monday, June 20, 2016.

For security reasons, all visitors to the World Bank are required to pass through a metal detector and all visitors’ bags are X-rayed.

On arrival at the World Bank, please enter through the main entrance of the Main Complex (1818 H Street, NW). There will be a security guard and signage to guide you. As you pass through security, you will be directed to the ABCDE registration tables (after the metal detectors). Here you will register and pick up your World Bank visitor’s pass (which will grant you access to World Bank buildings until 6 p.m. on June 21), as well as a conference badge and materials.

木瓜影院

Monday, June 20, 2016

Tuesday, June 21, 2016

Shanta Devarajan

Pieter Everaers

Haishan Fu

Jonathan Morduch

Sendhil Mullainathan

Roberto Rigobon

Justin Wolfers

ABCDE 2016: Data and Development

Photos

Photos taken during the conference