Program Schedule
8:30 - 8:50 am: Coffee, Registration and Welcome Remarks
8:50 - 9:15 am: The Price Penalty for Migrant Entrepreneurs: Evidence from a Field Experiment in South Africa
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Shreya Kankanhalli, Cornell University (with Rupali Kaul and Iris Steenkamp)
9:15 - 9:40am: Nationwide Diffusion of Technology: Experimental Evidence from Multiple Networks
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Deivy Houeix, Harvard University
9:40 - 10:00 am: Firm Networks and Mobility
- Carolyn Pelnik, World Bank Development Research Group (with Anna Vitali)
10:00 - 10:25 am: Selection and Sorting when Supervisors have Discretion: Experimental Evidence from a Tanzanian Factory
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Yuen Ho, Trinity College Dublin (with Yihong Huang)
10:25 - 10:50 am: Break
10:50 - 11:15 am: The Local Advantage: Firm Selection under Weak Institutions
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Jonah Rexer, The World Bank (with Utsoree Das and Erik Katovich)
11:15 - 11:35 am: Won’t You Hire Your Neighbor? Experimental Evidence on Small Firm Consolidation
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Jiayue Zhang, University of Chicago (with Morgan Hardy and Jamie McCasland)
11:35 am - 12:00 pm: Direct and Spillover Effects of a Business Support Program: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
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Golvine de Rochambeau, IFC (World Bank Group) and CEPR (with Anubhav Agarwa and Roberto Sormani)
12:00 - 1:00 pm: Lunch (joint with Firms, Trade, and Development Conference)