CEPREMAP India-China Conference – Programme
4th and 5th May 2017 Venue : PSE – 48 Boulevard Jourdan – 75014 Paris
Thursday 4 May
9h30 - 10h15 Abhijeet Singh (UCL) / Liam Wren-Lewis
Disrupting Education? Experimental evidence on technology-aided education in India
Co-authors: Karthik Muralidharan, Alejandro J. Ganimian
10h15 - 11h00 Alessandro Tarozzi (UPF) / Paola Villar
An Evaluation of Alternative Strategies to Increase Demand for and Responses to Information on Arsenic-contaminated Tubewell Water in Bangladesh
Co-authors: Ricardo Maertens, Kazi Matin Ahmed and Lex van Geen
11h00 - 11h30 Break
11h30 - 12h30 Keynote 1: Pranab Bardhan (UC Berkeley)
China and India: Comparative Governance Issues
12h30- 13h30 Lunch
13h30 - 14h15 Francesca Jensenius (NUPI) / Oliver Vanden Eynde
Party-candidate linkages and Anti-Incumbency Voting: Evidence from the Indian States
Co-authors: Pavithra Suryanarayan
14h15 - 15h00 Maiting Zhuang (PSE) / Thomas Vendryes
Intragovernmental Conflict and Media Censorship – Evidence from Newspaper Reports on Corruption Scandals in China
15h00 - 15h30 Break
15h30 - 16h15 Terry Sicular (Western University) / Maelys de la Rupelle
Declining Inequality in China? Recent Evidence from the China Household Income Project
Co-authors: Luo Chuliang and Li Shi
16h15 - 17h00
Sylvie Démurger (GATE-LSE) / Clément Imbert
Unequal urban gains in China
Co-authors: Pierre-Philippe Combes, Li Shi & Wang Jianguo
17h00 - 18h00
Panel Discussion : Joel Ruet (CNRS and Paris 13), Pranab Bardhan, Lina Song, and Barry Naughton
19.00 Dinner (location TBC)
Friday 5 May
9h30 - 10h15 Lina Song (Nottingham) / Maiting Zhuang
Truth-telling in the midst of corruption.
Co-authors: Dr Alessio Gaggero, Dr Simon Appleton
10h15 - 11h00 Sam Asher (World Bank) / Jonathan Lehne
Dirty Politics: Mining Booms and Politician Behavior in India.
Co-authors: Paul Novosad
11h30 - 12h30 Keynote 2 : Barry Naugton (UCSD)
The End of the High Speed Growth Era in China: Policy Dilemmas and Choices.
13h30 - 14h15 Lucie Gadenne (Warwick) / Lucas Chancel
Taxation and supply chains: evidence from Value-Added Taxes in West Bengal
Co-authors: T. Nandi and R. Rathelot.
14h15 - 15h00 Xu Jianwei (Breughel) / Paul Dutronc
Trade with China and Manufacturing Employment in the European Union
Co-authors: Mi Dai & Yalin Liu
15h00 - 15h30 Break
15h30 - 16h15 Sanchari Roy (Sussex) / Guilhem Cassan
Women’s Inheritance Rights and Child Education in India
16h15 - 17h00 Yang Huang (PSE) / François Libois
Children Left Behind in China: The Role of School Fees
Co-authors: Harris Selod and Hai-Anh Dang
17h00 - 17h15 Break
17h15 - 18h00 Marie Sophie Van Damme (Namur) / Véronique Gille
The Target Rule and its Household Size Effect to Explain Excess Under Five Girl Mortality in India