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Fifth Meeting

• Joshua Angrist (MIT)

  • Instrumental Variables “Instrumental Variables in Action: Sometimes You get What you Need” .

  • IV Application: “Explaining Charter School Effectiveness” .

  • Regression Discontinuity Designs “Overview” .

  • RD Application: “The Elite Illusion” .

• Marco Manacorda (Queen Mary University of London; CEP, London School of Economics; CEPR; IZA)
  Social Assistance and Labor Market Outcomes: Lessons from the evaluation of the Uruguayan PANES .

• Carlos Leite Corseuil (IPEA)
  Disentangling Stigma from Firm Effect on Wage Losses for Laid-off Workers .

  Comments by Edgar Villa (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana)

• Patrick McEwan (Wellesley College)
  The heterogeneous Impact of Conditional Cash Transfers in Honduras .

  Comments by Guillermo Cruces (CEDLAS-CONICET)

• Jose Rosero, University of Amsterdam
  The ABC of Housing Strategies. Are Housing Assistance Programs Effective to Enhance Children’S Well Being? .

  Comments by Javier Baez (World Bank)

• Edgar Villa, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
  Do Bans on Carrying Firearms Work for Violence Reduction? Evidence from a Department-level Ban in Colombia .

  Comments by Yuri Soares (IADB)

• Muthoni Ngatia (Yale University)
  Social Interactions and Individual Reproductive Decisions .

  Comments by Maria Laura Alzua (CEDLAS-Universidad Nacional de La Plata)

• Stanislao Maldonado (UC Berkeley)
  Resource Windfall and Corruption: Evidence from Peru .

  Comments by Oscar Mitnik (University of Miami)

• Emily Conover (Hamilton College)
  Effects of Colombia's Social Protection System on Workers' Choice between Formal and Informal Employment .

  Comments by Ana Santiago (IADB)

• Jose Cuesta (J-Pal)
  Effects of Short-Term Tutoring on Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Chile .

  Comments by Jorge Streb (UCEMA)

• Juan Bonilla (University of Maryland)
  Contracting Out Public Schools for Academic Achievement: Evidence from Colombia .

  Comments by Adriana Camacho (Universidad de los Andes)

Fifth Meeting Organizing Committee