Development economics.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings - Brief article

The NBER's Program on Development Economics met in Cambridge on October 10-11, 2014. Program Director Duncan Thomas of Duke University, and NBER Research Associates Seema Jayachandran of Northwestern University and Benjamin Olken of MIT organized the meeting. These papers were discussed:

* David Atkin, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER; Benjamin Faber, University of California, Berkeley and NBER; and Marco Gonzalez-Navarro, University of Toronto, "Retail Globalization and Household Welfare: Evidence from Mexico"

* Samuel Bazzi, Boston University; Arya Gaduh, University of Arkansas; Alexander Rothenberg, RAND Corporation; and Maisy Wong, University of Pennsylvania, "Skill Transferability, Migration, and Development: Evidence from Population Resettlement in Indonesia"

* Rebecca Dizon-Ross, MIT, "Parents' Perceptions and Children's Education: Experimental Evidence from Malawi"

* Adnan Khan, London School of Economics; Asim Khwaja, Harvard University and NBER; and Benjamin Olken, "Tax Farming Redux: Experimental Evidence on Performance Pay for Tax Collectors"

* Abhijit Banerjee, MIT and NBER; Xin Meng, Australian National...