Development.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings - Conference news - Brief article

The NBER's Program on Development Economics met in Cambridge on December 9-10. Research Associates Esther Duflo of MIT, Richard Hornbeck of the University of Chicago, Rohini Pande of Harvard University, Duncan Thomas of Duke University, and Eric Verhoogen of Columbia University organized the meeting. These researchers' papers were presented and discussed:

* Adnan Khan, London School of Economics; Asim Ijaz Khwaja, Harvard University and NBER; and Benjamin A. Olken, MIT and NBER, "Making Moves Matter: Experimental Evidence on Incentivizing Bureaucrats through Performance-Based Transfers"

* Michael C. Best, Stanford University; Jonas Hjort, Columbia University and NBER; and David Szakonyi, George Washington University, "Individuals and Organizations as Sources of State Effectiveness, and Consequences for Policy Design"

* Tommaso Porzio, University of California, San Diego, "Cross-Country Differences in the Optimal Allocation of Talent and Technology"

* Emily Breza, Harvard University and NBER, and Cynthia Kinnan, Northwestern University and NBER, "Measuring the Equilibrium Impacts of Credit: Evidence from the Indian...