Program

08:00 Shuttle bus transfer from Park Avenue Rochester hotel to NUS LT12 (Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore, 119246)

08:30 - 09:00 Coffee, registration, welcome (Imran Rasul, Joris Mueller, Johannes Haushofer)

Session A

Chair: Joris Mueller

09:00 - 10:00 Sagar Saxena: "Distributional Effects of Agricultural Interventions in India

10:00 - 10:30 Anirudh Tagat: "Beyond School: Life skills training, socio-emotional development, and school outcomes in India"

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break

Session B

Chair: Martin Mattsson

11:00 - 12:00 Dev Patel: "Learning About a Warming World: Attention and Adaptation in Agriculture"

12:00 - 12:30 Masyhur Hilmy: "Remittances, Education Investment, and Economic Development"

Session C

Chair: Yogita Shamdasani

14:00 - 15:00 Ada Gonzalez-Torres: "Monitoring Harassment in Organizations"

15:00 - 16:00 Fan Wang: "Timing lumpy investments with informal bridge loans and clunky formal loans: Evidence from Thailand"

16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break

Session D

Chair: Johannes Haushofer

16:30 - 18:00 Keynote (Abhijit Banerjee)

18:00 Shuttle bus transfer from NUS LT12 (Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore, 119246) to Si Chuan Dou Hua restaurant (80 Raffles Place, #60-01 UOB Plaza 1, Singapore 048624)

19:00 Official conference dinner, with dinner speech by Albert Park (Asian Development Bank) Si Chuan Dou Hua restaurant (80 Raffles Place, #60-01 UOB Plaza 1, Singapore 048624)

21:30 Shuttle bus transfer from Si Chuan Dou Hua restaurant to Park Avenue Rochester hotel (31 Rochester Drive Park, Singapore 138637)

08:00 Shuttle bus transfer from Park Avenue Rochester hotel to NUS LT12 (Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore, 119246)

08:30 - 09:00 Coffee, registration, welcome (Joris Mueller)

Session E

Chair: Siddharth George

09:00 - 10:00 Travis Baseler: "Can Redistribution Change Policy Views? Aid and Attitudes Toward Refugees"

10:00 - 10:30 Yu-Hsiang Lei: "Cross-border Spillover Effects of Dams along International Rivers"

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break

Session F

Chair: Naila Shofia

11:00 - 12:00 Yutaro Takayasu: "A Rise of New Elites? The Role of Secondary Schools in Early Development"

12:00 - 13:00 Jean Lee: "Selecting Experimental Sites for External Validity"

Session G

Chair: Xiaoyue Shan

14:30 - 15:00 Yiqian Wang: "Trust or Stigmatize? Evidence From Reducing Anonymity on Chinese Social Media"

15:00 - 15:30 Armand Sim: "Sink or Swim: Testing the Roles of Science and Religion in Raising Environmental Awareness in Indonesia"

15:30 - 16:30 Ronak Jain: "Entrepreneurs of Emotions: Evidence from Street Vending in India"

16:30 Conclusion

17:00 Shuttle bus transfer from NUS LT12 (Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore, 119246) to Park Avenue Rochester hotel (31 Rochester Drive Park, Singapore 138637)

18:00 – 19:00 Optional social program: Singapore River Cruise (Clarke Quay Jetty)

19:00 - 21:30 Optional dinner (at own expense, Senor Taco Clark Quay, 3C River Valley Rd, #01 09a, Singapore 179022 )

Local organizer contacts:

Joris Mueller, +65 9295 6505 (phone, WhatsApp)

Johannes Haushofer, +65 8825 9515 (phone, WhatsApp, iMessage)

Chunbing Cai, +65 8668 9538 (phone, WhatsApp)