These are 2008 AEA Conference Papers; please see also the full 2008 ASSA Preliminary Program Schedule.
Conference papers will be uploaded as they become available from the authors.

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Karla Hoff (World Bank)

Friday, January 4, 2:30 PM

Friday, January 4, 2:30 PM
Session: Psychology and Development: Theory and Experimental Evidence (AEA)
Presiding: Sendhil Mullainathan (Harvard University)

How high are rates of return to fertilizer: Evidence from field experiment in Western Kenya
Esther Duflo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Michael Kremer (Harvard University)
Jonathan Robinson (UCSC)
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Climbing out of Poverty: Long Term Decisions under Income Stress
Abhijit Banerjee (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Sendhil Mullainathan (Harvard University)

Norm Enforcement under Social Discrimination: An Experimental Investigation in India
Ernst Fehr (University of Zurich)
Karla Hoff (World Bank)
Mayuresh Kshetramade (Affinnova, Inc.)

Saturday, January 5, 2:30 PM

Saturday, January 5, 2:30 PM
Session: Economics and Social Identity (AEA)
Presiding: Catherine Eckel (University of Texas at Dallas)

Identity Signaling: Explaining Conformity and Abandonment
Jonah Berger (Stanford University)
Chip Heath (Stanford University)
Benjamin Ho (Cornell University)

Group Identity and Social Preferences
Yan Chen (University of Michigan at Ann Arbor)
Sherry Xin Li (University of Texas at Dallas)

Health Behaviors and Identity Formation: The Case of Smoking
Jason Fletcher (Yale University)

Does Social Hierarchy Affect Social Preferences? Simple Tests in Village India
Karla Hoff (World Bank)
Priyanka Pandey (World Bank)


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