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Fifth Development Workshop
Program
When: January 13, 2017, from 9:00 until 18:00.
Location: Room 113, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Administrativas, Pontificia Universidad
Católica de Chile. Located on the Campus San Joaquín, Metro station San Joaquín, Line 5.
8:40
Registration
9:00
Welcome: Marcela Perticará (Universidad Alberto Hurtado)
9:05
Pablo Celhay (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile), “Can Small Incentives Have
Large Payoffs? Health Impacts of a National Conditional Cash Transfer Program in
Bolivia”
Discussant: Jeanne Lafortune (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and JPAL)
10:15 Keynote presentation, Taryn Dinkelman (Dartmouth), ​“​Reducing parent-school
information
gaps and improving education outcomes: Evidence from high frequency
text messaging in Chile”
11:25 Coffee Break
11:40 Barbara Flores (UCL), “Spillovers in Social Program Participation: Evidence from Chile”
Discussant: Claudia Martínez (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and JPAL)
12:50 Lunch
14:15 Keynote presentation, Bilal Zia (World Bank), “​Pathway to Profits: Identifying separate
channels of small firm growth through business training​”
15:25 Coffee Break
15:40 Eugenio Giolito (Universidad Alberto Hurtado), “Starting off on the right foot: Impact of
better elementary school”
Discussant: Esteban Puentes (Universidad de Chile)
16:50 Diego Ubfal (Bocconi), “Banking the Unbanked? Evidence from Three Countries”
Discussant: José Tessada (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and FinanceUC)
18:00: Adjourn
Time: 45 minutes for presentation, 15 for discussant, 10 for open discussion. 60 minutes for
presentation for keynote speaker and 10 for open discussion.
We thank funding from the Vicerrectoría de Investigación and the Instituto de Economía of the
Pontificia Universidad Católica, and from Conicyt through Fondecyt Regular nº 1140914.