India-China Conference 2019
India-China Conference 2019
Friday 14 Jun 2019The Centre for Competitive Advantage will be host the 2019 India - China Conference 1st - 2nd July 2019 at Radcliffe Conference Centre, The University of Warwick (Invitation Only).
Academic organiser: Clement Imbert
Programme:
CEPREMAP India-China Conference @ Warwick
Monday, 1st July and Tuesday, 2nd July 2019
Monday 1st July 2019
8.30 – 9.00 Registration and Coffee
9.00 – 9.15 Introduction: Clement Imbert
Session 1 Chair: Thomas Vendyes
9.15 – 10.00 Robin Burgess (London School of Economics)
“Social Proximity and Bureaucrat Performance: Evidence from India” (with Marianne Bertrand and Guo Xu)
Discussant: Anandi Mani (University of Oxford)
10.00 – 10.45 Yu Zheng (Queen Mary University)
“A Model of Tournament Incentives with Corruption” (with Bin Wang)
Discussant: Maitreesh Ghatak (London School of Economics)
10.45 – 11.15 Coffee Break
Session 2 Chair: Oliver Vanden Eynden
11.15 –11.45 Karmini Sharma (University of Warwick)
“Tackling Sexual Harassment: Evidence from India”
11.45–12.15 Veronique Gille (IRD)
“Female labour, Status and Decision Power”
12.15 – 13.30 Lunch
Session 3 Chair: Clement Imbert
13.30 – 14.15 Rossella Calvi (Rice University)
"Sharing the Pie: Undernutrition, Intra-household Allocation, and Poverty”Link opens in a new window
Discussant: Maelys De La Rupelle (University of Cergy-Pontoise)
14.15 –15.00 Sylvie Demurger (GATE Lyon)
“Employer Learning and the Dynamics of Returns to Universities: Evidence from Chinese Elite Education during University Expansion” (with Eric Hanushek, and Lei Zhang)
Discussant: Abhijeet Singh (Stockholm School of Economics)
15.00 –15.30 Tea Break
Session 4 Chair: Maelys de la Ruppelle
15.30 –16.15 Amrit Amirapu (University of Kent)
“Child Marriage Law, Gender Norms and Marriage Customs”
Discussant: Siwan Anderson (University of British Columbia)
16.15 –17.00 Lingwei Wu (University of Bonn)
“The Economic Motives for Foot-binding” (with Xinyu Fan)
Discussant: Debraj Ray (New York University)
19.00 Conference Dinner
Tuesday 2nd July 2019
Session 5 Chair: Clement Imbert
9.15 – 10.00 Patrick François (University of British Columbia)
“Reservations and the Politics of Fear”
Discussant: Oliver Vanden Eynden (Paris School of Economics)
10.00 – 10.45 Rikhil Bhavani (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
“Does Affirmative Action Worsen Bureaucratic Performance? Evidence from the Indian Administrative Service”
Discussant: Subhasish Dey (University of Warwick)
10.45 –11.15 Coffee Break
Session 6 Chair: Maelys de la Rupelle
11.15 –11.45 Nitin Kumar (Paris School of Economics)
“Wealth Inequality, Caste and Class in India 1961-2012”
11.45 –12.15 Clement Imbert (University of Warwick)
“Migration in India: Ticket to Evidence”
12.15 –13.15 Lunch
Session 7 Chair: Oliver Vanden Eynden
13.15 –14.00 Marlon Seror (University of Bristol)
“Random River: Trade and Rent Extraction in Imperial China”
Discussant: James Fenske (University of Warwick)
14.00 –14.45 Yu-Hsiang Lei (Yale-NUS College)
“How Does Communication Infrastructure Affect Markets? Evidence from the Telegraph Network in China”
Discussant: Thomas Vendryes (ENS Cachan)
14.45 –15.15 Tea Break
Session 8 Chair: Thomas Vendryes
15.15 –16.00 Chris Woodruff (University of Oxford)
“The Health Effects of Urban Industrial Employment” (with Abu Shonchoy)
17.30 Drinks
