Development economics.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings - Conference news

The NBER's Program on Development Economics, directed by Duncan Thomas of Duke University, met in Cambridge on October 11 and 12, 2013. NBER researchers Pascaline Dupas of Stanford University, Frederico Finan of the University of California, Berkeley, and Sebastian Galiani of the University of Maryland organized the meeting. The meeting was held jointly with the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development. These papers were discussed:

* Mark Rosenzweig and Christopher Udry, Yale University and NBER, "Forecasting Profitability" (NBER Working Paper No. 19334)

* Anandi Mani, University of Warwick; Sendhil Mullainathan, Harvard University and NBER; Eldar Shafir, Princeton University; and Jiaying Zhao, University of British Columbia, "Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function"

* Karthik Muralidharan, University of California, San Diego and NBER, and Venkatesh Sundararaman, The World Bank, "The Aggregate Effects of School Choice: Evidence from a Two-Stage Experiment in India" (NBER Working Paper No. 19441)

* Pedro Carneiro and Hugo Reis, University College London, and Jishnu Das, The World Bank, "Parental Valuation of School Attributes in Developing Countries: Evidence from Pakistan"

* Arthur Blouin and Rocco...