Friday, December 5 –
Saturday, December 6, 2014
McKinney Conference Room
Registration required, email watsonevents@brown.edu.
The conference seeks to call attention to both the achievements and failings of lower and middle-income democracies in attaining government accountability for the effective and equitable delivery of public goods and services to citizens. The conference will bring together economists and political scientists to present theoretical and empirical work on government accountability with applications to democracies in Latin America, Africa, and South and Southeast Asia.
Schedule:
Friday, December 5th
9:30-11:15: Panel 1 Service Delivery (I)
Andrew Foster, Chair
Sri Nagavarapu, Brown: Short-term Service Delivery Improvements and Mobilization for Reforms: Evidence from Punjab's Public Distribution System
Ben Olken, MIT: Information is Power: Identification Cards and Food Subsidy Programs in Indonesia
Dan Posner, UCLA: (Under What Conditions) Do Politicians Reward their Supporters? Evidence from the Spatial Allocation of Constituency Development Funds in Kenya
11:30-1:15: Panel 2 Service Delivery (II)
Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro, Chair
Jennifer Bussell, Berkeley: Representation Between the Votes: Informal Citizen-State Relations in India
Daniel Keniston, Yale: Making Police Reform Real: The Rajasthan Experiment
Martin Rossi, U San Andres: First-Day Criminal Recidivism
2:15-4pm Panel 3: Horizontal Accountability (I)
Rich Snyder, Chair
Daniel Hidalgo, MIT: Can Politicians Police Themselves? Natural Experimental Evidence from Brazil’s Audit Courts
Rohini Pande, Harvard: E-governance and Accountability: Experimental Evidence from a Financial Reform of India's Employment Guarantee Program
Matthew Winters, UI-UC: Foreign Aid and Government Legitimacy: Field Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh
4:15-6pm Panel 4, Voters and Accountability
Andrew Schrank, Chair
Carlos Pereira, FGV-Rio: Tolerance of Corruption or Ideological Blindness?
Fred Finan, UC Berkeley: Misallocation of Political Capital
Prerna Singh, Brown: Retrospective voting in two Indian states
Saturday, Dec 6
9:00-10:45 Panel 5, Horizontal Accountability (II)
Thad Dunning, Chair
Ana De la O, Yale: The Effect of Federal and State Audits on Municipal Accountability: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
Julio Rios, CIDE: Justice System Institutions and Corruption Control: Evidence from the Mexican States
Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro, Brown: Overseeing oversight: The logic of appointments to Brazilian state audit courts
11-12:45 Panel 6, Local Governance
Jesse Shapiro, Chair
Kate Baldwin, Yale: Custom vs. Rule of Law: An Experiment on Increasing Informal Accountability of Customary Leaders in Zimbabwe
Fabiana Machado, IADB: Decentralization and Accountability: The Curse of Local Underdevelopment?
Ryan Sheely, Harvard: Politicians’ Preferences and the Provision of Local Public Goods: Evidence from Kenya