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Friday, October 16, 2009
 
1:00 - 2:00

Lunch: Faculty House. Skyline level (fourth floor) (reservation under "Peter van der Windt")

   
2:00 - 2:15 Welcome: Faculty House. Garden Room 1 (Macartan)
   
2:15 - 3:30 Session 1 (Chair: Don)
"Public Information and Local Government's Electoral Returns, Evidence from an Information Dissemination Campaign in the Mexican 2009 Municipal Elections"
Ana De La O (Yale University)
   
3:45 - 5:00 Session 2 (Chair: Macartan)
"A Reasoned Basis for Inference: Randomization and Design Justifying Estimation and Testing"
Jake Bowers (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
   
5:15 - 6:45 Business Meeting (Chair: Devra)
   
7:00 Dinner: Bar Bao (reservation under " Mac Humphreys")
   
 
Saturday, October 17, 2009
 
8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast
   
9:00 - 10:15 Session 3 (Chair: Don)
"Rehabilitation of Street Youth in Monrovia"
Chris Blattman (Yale University)
   
10:30 - 11:45 Session 4 (Chair: Macartan)
Experimental Identification of Causal Mechanisms.
For more related research see here.
Kosuke Imai (Princeton University)
   
12:00 - 1:30 Lunch: Faculty House
   
1:30 - 2:45 Session 5 (Chair: Devra)
"The Social and Political Effects of Electricity: A Regression Discontinuity Design in Uganda"
Daniel Rubenson (Ryerson University)
   
3:00 - 4:15-ish Session 6 (Chair: Don)
"Report on Proposal From Standards Committee"
Alan Gerber (Yale University)
Please see the Consort Form.
See also this paper by Isabelle Boutron, Peter John and David Torgerson.
   
7:00 Dinner: Henry's (reservation under "Peter van der Windt")
   
9:30 Event: Eric Reed Quartet at Smoke Jazz Club (reservation under "Peter van der Windt")
Eric Reed (piano), Seamus Blake (saxophones), Barak Mori (bass), and McClenty Hunter (drums)