NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

India Working Group Meeting

Mihir Desai, Organizer

December 16, 2005

NBER

2nd Floor Conference Room

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

PRELIMINARY	PROGRAM

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16:

8:00 am	Continental Breakfast

8:30 am	ABHIJIT BANERJEE, MIT

SHAWN COLE, Harvard University

ESTHER DUFLO, MIT and NBER

LEIGH LINDEN, Columbia University

Remedying Education: Evidence from Two Randomized Experiments in India

9:20 am	ESTHER DUFLO, MIT and NBER

REMA HANNA, New York University

Monitoring Works: Getting Teachers to Come to School

10:00 am	Coffee Break

10:20 am	JAGADEESH SIVADASAN, University of Michigan

JOEL SLEMROD, University of Michigan and NBER

Tax Law Changes, Income Shifting and Measured Wage Inequality:

Evidence from India

11:10 am	KALPANA KOCHHAR, UTSAV KUMAR, ARVIND SUBRAMANIAN and

IOANNIS TOKATLIDIS, International Monetary Fund

RAGHURAM RAJAN, International Monetary Fund and NBER

India's Pattern of Development: What Happened, What Follows

12:00 pm	Lunch

12:45 pm	SIDDHARTHA DASTIDAR, Columbia University

RAYMOND FISMAN, Columbia University and NBER

TARUN KHANNA, Harvard University

Limits to Policy Reversal: Privatization in India

1:35 pm	I. SERDAR DINC, University of Michigan

NANDINI GUPTA, Indiana University

The Decision to Privatize: The Role of Political Competition and Patronage

2:15 pm	Coffee Break

2:30 pm	ERIC EDMONDS and NINA PAVCNIK, Dartmouth College and NBER

PETIA TOPALOVA, Yale University

Trade Liberalization, Child Labor, and Schooling: Evidence from India

3:20 pm	KAIVAN MUNSHI, Brown University and NBER

MARK ROSENZWEIG, Yale University

Why is Mobility in India so Low? Social Insurance, Inequality, and Growth

4:10 pm	MARIANNE BERTRAND, University of Chicago and NBER

SIMEON DJANKOV, The World Bank

REMA HANNA, New York University

SENDHIL MULLAINATHAN, MIT and NBER

Is Corruption Efficient? Getting a Driving License in New Delhi

5:00 pm	Adjourn

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