EGAP 8: Palo Alto, November 2012

Dates: November 2 – 3, 2012
Host: Stanford University
Location: Palo Alto, California, USA
Theme: Plenary Meeting

Plenary Meeting: Papers & Research Designs
Friday, November 2
Holger Kern: On Politicians’ Office-Seeking Behavior: Evidence from a Pair of Field Experiments in Brazil

Ruben Enikolopov: Institutional Competition and Governance Quality (Results from the Afghanistan NDP program)

Saturday, November 3
Kosuke Imai: Covariate Balancing Propensity Score

Pascaline Dupas: School Governance, Teacher Incentives, Pupil Teacher Rations: Experimental Evidence from Kenyan Primary Schools

Jack Molyneaux and Anu Rangajaran: Findings from the Evaluation of the Rwanda Threshold Program

Linda Stern, Alison Miranda, and Susan Hyde: Evaluating NDI’s Constituency Dialogue Program in Cambodia

Elisabeth King: A review of CDD/R in conflict-affected states

Participants:
EGAP Network Members
Ana De La O
Anu Rangarajan
Brian Scholl
Catherine Eckel
Craig McIntosh
DFID/Mark Robinson
Guy Grossman
Hewlett/Kevin Bohrer
Holger Kern
IRC/Elisabeth King
IRC/Sheree Bennet
Jack Molyneaux
Jeremy Weinstein
Kate Casey
Kosuke Imai
Macartan Humphreys
Mike Findley
NDI/Linda Stern
Peter Loewen
Peter John
Richard Sedlmayr
Rick Wilson
Social Impact/Olga Rostapshova.
Susan Hyde
Thad Dunning

Additional Guests:
Val Martinez Ebers
Anette Brown
Pascaline Dupas
Simon Jackman
Keith Krehbiel
Alison Miranda