Hour

December 3rd

BY:

9:00 - 9:30

REGISTRATION

9:30 - 10:00

WELCOMING REMARKS

María Laura Alzua, CEDLAS, Universidad Nacional de la Plata.
Ana Santiago, IADB: Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo.
Ana María Ibáñez, Directora del CEDE, Facultad de Economía, Universidad de los Andes.

10:00 - 10:30

Preventing Criminality: an Economic Evaluation of a Brazilian program

Betania Totino Peixoto, Researcher of João Pinheiro Foundation (FJP) - Brazil.

10:30 - 10:40

Discussant

Edgar Villa, Universidad Javeriana.

10:40 - 11:10

Evaluating the impact of participation in the Brazilian Public School Mathematical Olympiad on math scores in students’ standardized tests.

Ligia Vasconcelos, Banco Itau –Unibanco.

11:10 - 11:20

Discussant

Juan Saavedra, Universidad de los Andes.

11:20 - 11:30

QUESTIONS FROM PARTICIPANTS

11:30 - 11:45

COFFEE BREAK

11:45 - 12:15

The Impact of Conditional Cash Transfers on Children’s School Achievement: Evidence from Colombia

Sandra García Jaramillo, Universidad de los Andes.

12:15 - 12:25

Discussant

Juan Vargas, Universidad del Rosario.

12:30 - 14:20

LUNCH

14:30 - 15:00

Remittances and the Problem of Control: A Field Experiment Among Migrants from El Salvador

Diego Aycinena, Francisco Marroquin University.

15:00 - 15:10

Discussant

Marcela Melendez, Fedesarrollo.

15:10 - 15:40

Identification Strategy: A Field Experiment on Dynamic Incentives in Rural Credit Markets

Xavier Giné, Development Economics Research Group, World Bank.

15:40 - 15:50

Discussant

Ximena Peña, Universidad de los Andes.

15:50 - 16:00

QUESTIONS FROM PARTICIPANTS

16:00 - 16:30

COFFEE BREAK

16:30 - 17:00

Child Control in Education Decisions: An Evaluation of Targeted Incentives to Learn in India

James Berry, Cornell University.

17:00 - 17:10

Discussant

Anna Crespo, IADB.

17:10 - 17:40

Evaluating Nonexperimental Estimators for Multiple Treatments: Evidence from Experimental Data

Oscar A. Mitnik, University of Miami.

17:40 - 17:50

Discussant

Hugo Ñopo, IADB.

17:50 - 18:00

QUESTIONS FROM PARTICIPANTS

18:00 - 19:00

Keynote speaker

David Card, Berkeley University.

19:00 - 19:10

QUESTIONS FROM PARTICIPANTS

9:10 – 19:25

CLOSING REMARKS

Felipe Barrera, Red de Desarrollo Humano, World Bank.