WADES Program

WADES Conference 2022, University of Virginia Friday, April 29

1pm-2pm Md Amzad Hossain (UVA): “Performance Gains from Gender Match in Higher Education: Evidence from a Setting with Entrenched Gender Stereotypes.” Discussant: Jessica Goldberg (Maryland)

2pm-2:45pm Shareen Joshi (Georgetown): “Just Water? Environmental Jurisprudence, Water Quality and Infant Mortality in India.”

2:45pm-3:15pm Coffee Break

3:15pm-4:15pm Anusuya Sivaram (Maryland): “Consanguinity and Marital Transfers in Egypt.”
Discussant: Benjamin Avuwadah (GWU)

4:15pm-5pm Omar Garcia Ponce (GWU): “The Legacy of Mexico's Drug War on Political Attitudes.”

6pm Dinner

Saturday, April 30

8am-8:30am Breakfast

8:30am-9:15am Gaurav Chiplunkar (UVA), “Gender Barriers, Structural Transformation and Economic Development.”

9:15am-10:15am Carolina Concha-Arriagada (Georgetown) “Should They Stay or Should They Go? High School Students' Responses to College Admissions Policies.”
Discussant: Sheetal Sekhri (UVA)

10:15am-10:45am Coffee Break

10:45am-11:45am Ebad Ebadi (GWU) – “Adapting to Sanctions: Evidence from Firm Response and Market Reallocation in Iran.”
Discussant: Andrew Zeitlin, Georgetown

11:45am-12:30pm Susan Parker (Maryland), “Do Schooling Gains Sustain Disruption? Studying the Rollback of a Successful CCT in Mexico.”

12:30pm Box lunch