Friday, October 7, 2005

MIT Sloan Building E51-095

8:15 - 9 AM

breakfast

9 - 10:45

Glenn Loury and Roland Fryer:
"Affirmative Action and its Mythology"

10:45 - 11:15

coffee

11:15 - 1 PM

Mahzarin Banaji:
"Mental Threats to Equality"

Background papers:

"The Role of Social Groups in the Persistence of Learned Fear" (co-authors A. Olsson, J. Ebert, and E. Phelps); and

"American=White?" (co-author Thierry Devos)

1 - 2:30 PM

lunch

2:30 - 4:15

Karla Hoff (co-authors M. Das Gupta and P. Pandey):
"Institutional Inertia in Local Government: Evidence from an Indian Village with Mandated Political Reservations"

4:30 - 5:30

Abhijit's documentary film:
"The Name of the Disease"

7 PM

Group Dinner
The Elephant Walk Restaurant
2067 Massachusetts Avenue; tel 617-492-6600

Saturday, October 8, 2005

MIT Sloan Building E51-095

8:15 - 9 AM

breakfast

9 - 10:45

Roland Benabou (co-author J. Tirole):
"Incentives and Pro-social Behavior"

10:45 - 11:15

coffee

11:15 - 1 PM

Esther Duflo (co-authors W. Gale, J. Liebman, P. Orszag and E. Saez):
"Saving Incentives for Low- and Middle-Income Families:
Evidence from a Field Experiment with H&R Block"

1 - 2:00 PM

lunch

2:00 - 3:45 PM

Dilip Mookherjee (co-author U. Lilienfeld-Toal):
"Bankrupcy Law, Bonded Labor, and Inequality"

3:45 - 5:30 PM

Philippe Aghion (co-authors L. Boustan, C. Hoxby, J. Vandenbussche):
"Exploiting States' Mistakes to Identify the Causal Impact of Higher Education on Growth"

5:45 - 6:30 PM

(Network Members only) Meeting

Sunday, October 9, 2005

MIT Sloan Building E51-095

8 - 8:30 AM

breakfast

8:30 - 10:15 AM

Michael Kremer (co-authors E. Bloom, I. Bhusban, D. Clingingsmith, R. Hong, E. King, B. Loevinsohn, and J. B. Schwartz):
"Contracting for Health Services: Evidence from Cambodia"

10:15 - 10:30

coffee

10:30 - 12:15 PM

Karl Ove Moene
"The Narcotic State of Afghanistan"