Academic Day: London Business School / Regent's Park / London NW1 4SA / Ratcliffe Building / Lecture Theatre 9
08:00 to
19:00
v LT9
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Registration and coffee
09:00 to
09:45
v R1 Lounge
Welcome by the Wheeler Institute for Business and Development
09:45 to
10:00
v LT9
Speakers:
Rajesh Chandy.
Professor of Marketing.
London Business School.
Elias Papaioannou.
Professor of Economics.
London Business School.
Amelia Whitelaw.
Executive Director.
Wheeler Institute for Business and Development.
Social ties and delivery development programmes
10:00 to
10:30
v LT9
Speaker:
Oriana Bandiera.
Professor of Economics.
London School of Economics and Political Science.
Discussion: Social ties and delivery of development programmes
10:30 to
10:45
v LT9
Speaker:
Tarun Jain.
Assistant Professor.
Indian School of Business.
Internal migration in Africa
10:45 to
11:15
v LT9
Speaker:
Sebastian Hohmann.
Researcher.
Stockholm School of Economics.
Discussion: Internal migration in Africa
11:15 to
11:30
v LT9
Speaker:
Francesco Fasani.
Reader.
Queen Mary University of London.
Break
11:30 to
11:45
v R1 Lounge
Historical warfare and long-run development in India
11:45 to
12:15
v LT9
Speaker:
James Fenske.
Professor of Economics.
University of Warwick.
Discussion: Historical warfare and long-run development in India
12:15 to
12:30
v LT9
Speaker:
Giorgio Chiovelli.
Research Fellow.
London Business School.
Lunch Talk: Reasons for conflict
12:30 to
14:15
v Garden Room
Speaker:
Christopher Blattman.
Professor of Economics.
University of Chicago.
Human capital accumulation for women in a time of crisis: evidence from a field experiment in Sierra Leone during Ebola crisis
14:15 to
14:45
v LT9
Speaker:
Imran Rasul.
Professor of Economics.
University College London.
Discussion: Human capital accumulation for women in a time of crisis
14:45 to
15:00
v LT9
Speaker:
Christopher Blattman.
Professor of Economics.
University of Chicago.
Worker uprising and productivity
15:00 to
15:30
v LT9
Speaker:
Christopher Woodruff.
Professor of Development Economics.
University of Oxford .
Discussion: Worker uprising and productivity
15:30 to
15:45
v LT9
Speaker:
Rajesh Chandy.
Professor of Marketing.
London Business School.
Break
15:45 to
16:15
v R1 Lounge
Social structure and conflict
16:15 to
16:45
v LT9
Speaker:
Nathan Nunn.
Professor of Economics.
Harvard University.
Discussion: Social structure and conflict
16:45 to
17:00
v LT9
Speaker:
Pierre-Louis Vezina, PhD.
Lecturer.
Kings's College London.
Can development programmes counter insurgency? Evidence from a field experiment in Afghanistan
17:00 to
17:30
v LT9
Speaker:
Ruben Enikolopov.
Rector and Professor of Economics.
New Economic School .
Discussion: Can development programmes counter insurgencies?
17:30 to
17:45
v LT9
Speaker:
Stathis Kalyvas.
Gladstone Professor of Government.
University of Oxford.
Closing remarks
17:45 to
18:00
v LT9
Speakers:
Amelia Whitelaw.
Executive Director.
Wheeler Institute for Business and Development.
Rajesh Chandy.
Professor of Marketing.
London Business School.
Elias Papaioannou.
Professor of Economics.
London Business School.
Dinner (Invitation only)
18:00 to
22:00
v Opso Restaurant, 10 Paddington St, London W1U 5QL