SESSION DETAILS

Session 1: 9:30 - 11:00 am           Public Goods and Collective Action
Chair: TCA Anant

CONTRIBUTION TO A PUBLIC GOOD UNDER SUBJECTIVE UNCERTAINTY
Anwesha Banerjee (Aix Marseille School of Economics) and Nicolas Gravel (Centre for
Social Sciences and Humanities, New Delhi)

INEQUALITY AVERSION AND MARGINAL INCOME TAXATION
Thomas Aronsson (Umeå University)  and Olof Johansson-Stenman (University of Gothenburg)

TRIGGERING COOPERATION
Martin Dufwenberg (Bocconi University), Gunnar Kohlin, Peter Martinsson and Hailese-
lassie Medhim (University of Gothenburg)

Session 2, 11:30 am - 01:00 pm           Agriculture
Chair : Sudipto Mundle

UNEVEN GROWTH IN THE EXTENSIVE MARGIN:
EXPLAINING THE LAG OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMIES
Guzman Ourens (CORE, Belgium)

THE RISKS THAT FARMERS TAKE: AN EXPERIMENT ON EXTERNALITIES WITH INDIVIDUAL
THRESHOLDS INSPIRED BY FERTILIZER USE
Andreas Lange,  (University of Hamburg)

REVERSE ENDOWMENT EFFECT FOR A NEW PRODUCT
Abhijit Banerji (Delhi School of Economics) and Jeevant Rampal (Indian Institute of
Management Ahmedabad)

Session 3, 02:00 - 03:30 pm               Redistributive Policy
Chair : Anirban Kar

PREFERENCE RESPONSIBILITY VS POVERTY REDUCTION IN THE TAXATION OF LABOR INCOMES
Lancelot Henry de Frahan (University of Chicago) and Francois Maniquet (CORE, Belgium)

MERITOCRACY IN THE FACE OF GROUP INEQUALITY
Rajiv Sethi (Columbia University) and Rohini Somanathan (Delhi School of Economics)

BELIEFS ABOUT BEHAVIORAL RESPONSES TO TAXATION
Alexander W. Cappelen, Ingar K. Haaland and Bertil Tungodden (NHH Norwegian School
of Economics)

Thematic Group Discussions, 04:00 - 05:00 pm

THEMES:
SOCIAL PREFERENCES, EDUCATION AND HEALTH, POVERTY AND INEQUALITY, INSTITU-
TIONS AND GROWTH, ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE CHANGE

Data and Governance, 05:00 - 05:30 pm

A session delivered by
Atul Kumar Tiwari (Joint Secretary, Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India)

March 21

Session 4, 9:30 - 11:00 am               Institutions and Inequality
Chair : Parikshit Ghosh

COERCIVE INSTITUTIONS AND FEMALE EMPOWERMENT:
LEGACIES OF A COLONIAL EXPERIMENT ON JAVA
Simon Felgendreheri, Ola Olsson and Michele Valsecchi (University of Gothenburg)

EVOLUTION OF INCOME POVERTY UNDER UNEQUAL GROWTH:
SETTLING THE DISPUTE BETWEEN ABSOLUTISTS AND RELATIVISTS
Benoit Decerf and Mery Ferrando (CORE, Belgium)

REVISITING THE ANNUITY ROLE OF ESTATE TAXES
Monisankar Bishnu (Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi), Nick L. Guo (University of
Wisconsin), and Cagri Kumru (Australian National University)

Session 5, 11:30 am - 01:00 pm               Environment
Chair : Shreekant Gupta

INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT IN A MULTI-REGION WORLD WITH MULTIPLE ENERGY SOURCES
AND ENDOGENOUS TECHNICAL CHANGE
Per Krusell (Stockholm University), Conny Olovsson (Sveriges Riksbank), John Hassler
(Stockholm University), and Michael Reiter (Institite for Advanced Studies(IHS))

TEMPERATURE EFFECTS ON MORTALITY RATE IN CHINA
Min Wang  (Peking University)

SOCIAL COSTS OF POWER FROM COAL AND RENEWABLES IN INDIA
Shoibal Chakravarty (Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment) and
E. Somanathan(Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi)

Session 6, 02:00 - 03:00 pm              Health and Education
Chair : Mausumi Das

REDUCING CHILD MORTALITY IN THE LAST MILE:
A RANDOMIZED SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP INTERVENTION IN UGANDA
Andrea Guariso (Trinity College Dublin), Martina Bjorkman Nyqvist (Stockholm School of
Economics), Jakob Svensson (Stockholm University), and David Yanagizawa-Drott (Uni-
versity of Zurich)

MISSING FEMALE PATIENTS:
AN ANALYSIS OF GENDER DISCRIMINATION AMONG TERTIARY CARE PATIENTS IN INDIA
Deepak Agarwal (AIIMS), Randeep Guleria (AIIMS), Mudit Kapoor (Indian Statistical
Institute, New Delhi), Shamika Ravi (Brookings, India), and Ambuj Roy (AIIMS)

Panel Discussion, 03:30 - 05:00 pm

INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON PUBLIC SERVICES DELIVERY
with Emmanuel Jimenez (International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3IE)), Riju
Bafna (Govt. of Madhya Pradesh), Jintao Xu (Peking University)
and Jakob Svensson (Stockholm University)
Moderated by Bharat Ramaswami (Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi)