Tercer encuentro anual

Impact Evaluation Network (IEN) at LACEA.
Diciembre 3 en el Salón ML 512 desde las 9:00 am.
Program
Hour | December 3rd | BY: |
9:00 - 9:30 | REGISTRATION | |
9:30 - 10:00 | WELCOMING REMARKS | María Laura Alzua, CEDLAS, Universidad Nacional de la Plata. |
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. |