NBER Development Economics/BREAD.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings

The NBER Development Economics Program met jointly with the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD) on December 8-9 in Cambridge. Research Associates Raymond Fisman of Boston University, Pinelopi K. Goldberg of Yale University, Rema Hanna of Harvard University, Michael Kremer of Harvard University, and Program Director Duncan Thomas of Duke University organized the meeting. These researchers' papers were presented and discussed:

* Aran Advani, University of Warwick, "Insurance Networks and Poverty Traps"

* Imran Rasul, University College London; Oriana Bandiera and Robin Burgess, London School of Economics; and Vittorio Bassi, University of Southern California, "Tackling Youth Unemployment: Evidence from a Labor Market Experiment in Uganda"

* Kelsey Jack, Tufts University and NBER; Gunther Fink, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute; and Felix Masiye, University of Zambia, "Seasonal Liquidity, Rural Labor Markets and Agricultural Production: Evidence from Zambia"

* Lorenzo Casaburi, University of Zurich, and Jack J. Willis, Harvard University, "Time vs. State in Insurance: Experimental Evidence from...