Featured Speakers

NEUDC 2024

November 2-3

Featured Speakers

Ritam Chaurey

Assistant Professor of Economics, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies

Ritam Chaurey is an Assistant Professor in the International Economics Program at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University and an MA (Cantab.) from Cambridge University, following his BA (Hons) in Economics from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi. Professor Chaurey’s research specializes in development economics and applied microeconomics, with a particular focus on firm behavior and entrepreneurship in developing countries, especially India and Indonesia.
Melissa Dell

Andrew E. Furer Professor of Economics, Harvard University

Melissa Dell is the Andrew E. Furer Professor of Economics at Harvard University. She is the 2020 recipient of the John Bates Clark Medal, awarded each year to an American economist under the age of forty who is judged to have made the most significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge. Professor Dell is a senior scholar at the Harvard Academy for Area and International Studies and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Iqbal Dhaliwal

Global Executive Director of JPAL

Iqbal Dhaliwal is the Global Executive Director of JPAL. He leads policy initiatives, liaising with global policymakers and overseeing field evaluations. Dhaliwal, a former Indian Administrative Service officer, holds a BA from the University of Delhi and a Masters from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School.
Esther Duflo

Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics, MIT

Esther Duflo is the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at MIT and the co-founder and co-director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL). In 2019, Esther Duflo was jointly awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences alongside Abhijit Banerjee and Michael Kremer “for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.”
Deon P. Filmer

Director, Development Research Group, The World Bank

Deon Filmer is Director of the Research Group at the World Bank. He was previously Co-Director of the World Development Report on education, Learning to Realize Education’s Promise, and was Lead Economist in the Human Development department of the Africa Region. His research focuses on issues of human capital and skills, service delivery, and the impact of policies and programs to improve human development outcomes.
Andrew Foster

George and Nancy Parker Professor of Economics, Brown University

Andrew Foster is the George and Nancy Parker Professor of Economics at Brown University. He is an empirical microeconomist with primary interests in economic development, population and the environment. He serves as the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Development Economics and is currently the Director of the Social Science Research Institute at Brown.
Rema Hanna

Jeffrey Cheah Professor of South-East Asia Studies, Harvard Business School

Rema Hanna is the Jeffrey Cheah Professor of South-East Asia Studies and Chair of the International Development Area at the Harvard Kennedy School. She serves as the co-Scientific Director of J-PAL South-East Asia in Indonesia and the co-Scientific Director of the Social Protection Initiative, a joint initiative of J-PAL and CID in Morocco.
Vinayak Iyer

Scientist/Machine Learning Engineer at Uber

Vinayak Iyer is a Scientist/Machine Learning Engineer at Uber working on problems related to efficient incentive budget allocation and optimal structural pricing. He completed his PhD in Economics from Columbia University where he worked at the intersection of Industrial Organization and Urban Economics with a focus on the economics of ridesharing markets. Prior to his PhD, he completed his M.A. in Economics at the Delhi School of Economics.
Ajinkya Keskar

Professor in Economics at Binghamton University (SUNY)

Ajinkya is an assistant professor of economics at Binghamton University (SUNY) and an invited researcher at J-PAL South Asia. He is a development economist focusing on family economics, marriage, and education. Ajinkya received his PhD from Rice University in 2022 and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) from 2022 to 2023.
Shantanu Khanna

Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Economics, Northeastern University

Shantanu Khanna is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Economics at Northeastern University. He is a Research Affiliate at IZA, and a Research Fellow at the GLO. His primary fields of interest are labor economics, development economics, and public economics. His research focuses on inequality, discrimination, and place-based policies. Shantanu holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Irvine.
Aparna Mathur

Senior Research Manager in Economics, Amazon

Aparna Mathur is a Senior Research Manager in Economics at Amazon and a former Senior Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center, where she researched safety net issues. Previously, she was a Senior Economist at the Council of Economic Advisers during the COVID-19 crisis and a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, where she directed the AEI-Brookings Project on Paid Family and Medical Leave. Her research focuses on income inequality, tax policy, labor markets, and small businesses. Mathur holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Maryland and serves on several boards, including the National Academy of Social Insurance.
Madeline McKelway

Assistant professor of Economics, Dartmouth College.

Madeline McKelway is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at Dartmouth College. Before joining Dartmouth, she was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford’s King Center on Global Development. She received her PhD in economics from MIT in 2020. Her research is in development economics, focusing in particular on women’s employment and empowerment.
Mushfiq Mobarak

Jerome Kasoff’54 Professor of Management and Economics, Yale University

Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak is the Jerome Kasoff’54 Professor of Management and Economics at Yale University with concurrent appointments in the School of Management and in the Department of Economics (Faculty of Arts and Sciences). Mobarak is the founder and faculty director of the Yale Research Initiative on Innovation and Scale (Y-RISE).
Debi Prasad Mohapatra

Assistant professor of Resource Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Debi Prasad Mohapatra is an assistant professor in the Department of Resource Economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His research interests lie in empirical Industrial Organization, with a particular focus on markets in developing countries. Debi’s work spans pharmaceutical markets in Ecuador and India, as well as the telecommunications market in India. Additionally, he has worked on policy issues in the U.S. pharmaceutical markets, the U.S. microwavable popcorn market, and Chile’s fish export industry.
Karthik Muralidharan

Professor of Economics at the University of California, San Diego

Karthik Muralidharan is a Professor of Economics and co-chair of the Education program at J-PAL. He is a Research Associate at NBER, a Fellow at BREAD, and an Affiliate at CEGA and IPA. He holds an A.B. in Economics (summa cum laude) from Harvard, an M.Phil. from Cambridge (UK), and a Ph.D. from Harvard. His research spans development, public, and labor economics, with a particular focus on education, health, social protection, and improving the effectiveness of public spending in developing countries.
Owen Ozier

Associate Professor, Williams College

Owen Ozier is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Williams College. He was previously a Senior Economist in the World Bank’s Development Research Group. He received his M.Eng. and B.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and in Brain and Cognitive Sciences from MIT, and his Ph.D. in Economics from UC Berkeley. His published and current research projects include studies in Kenya, Nigeria, and Rwanda. His work focuses on health, education, and economic decisions in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Ishita Rajani

Vice President, Analysis Group

Ishita Rajani is Vice President at Analysis Group, specializing in the application of microeconomics and econometrics to complex antitrust and competition litigation. She has worked across industries including agriculture, digital platforms, and pharmaceuticals, focusing on both civil and criminal cases involving price-fixing, monopolization, and class certification. Dr. Rajani holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University.
Laura Schechter

Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Laura Schechter is the Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor and the Olav F. and Elsie de Noyer Anderson-Bascom Professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Professor Schecter specializes in Development Economics, Behavioral and Experimental Economics, and Risk Analysis.
Tavneet Suri

Louis E. Seley Professor of Applied Economics, MIT

Tavneet Suri is the Louis E. Seley Professor of Applied Economics and a Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Tavneet Suri is an editor at the Review of Economics and Statistics; Co-Chair of the Agricultural Technology Adoption Initiative at J-PAL; Co-Chair of the Digital Identification and Finance Initiative at J-PAL Africa; a member of the Executive Committee at J-PAL; and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Eric Verhoogen

Professor of Economics and International and Public Affairs, Columbia University

Eric Verhoogen is a Professor in the Department of Economics and the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, where he also serves as Co-Director of the Center for Development Economics and Policy. His research primarily focuses on industrial development, exploring topics such as firms, innovation, productivity, trade, and labor markets in developing countries. He has contributed significantly to understanding the process of quality upgrading in firms, particularly in the context of selling to wealthier markets. Currently, his work includes studies on technology adoption and productivity estimation.
Anjali Verma

Economist II, Amazon

Anjali is an Economist at Amazon, where she works on empirical economic research in the People eXperience and Technology Central Science Team (PXTCS). She earned a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Texas at Austin, with her dissertation focusing on the intersection of Labor and Development Economics. Anjali’s research spans gender and racial disparities in outcomes, school disciplinary policies and peer effects, job-to-job transitions, skills matching, and upward mobility.

Session Schedule

The program schedule for the NEUDC 2024 is available at
http://editorialexpress.com/conference/NEUDC2024/program/NEUDC2024.html

If you are presenting and need to upload a new version of your paper or add co-authors, visit https://editorialexpress.com/conference/NEUDC2024

Registration is open at https://commerce.cashnet.com/SFNEUDC

The registration opened on July 1st and ends on October 15, 2024.

The following sessions, showcasing our featured speakers, will all take place in the ISEC 102 Auditorium.

Saturday, November 2

10:50 am – 12:30 pm: Accelerating India’s Development: A State-Led Roadmap for Effective Governance

Session Chair: Karthik Muralidharan, UCSD

Discussants:
Ajinkya Keskar, Binghampton University (SUNY)

Iqbal Dhaliwal, JPAL, MIT

Ritam Chaurey, Johns Hopkins SAIS

1:30 pm – 3:30 pm: Poverty and Mental Health

Discussants:
Manuela Angelucci, University of Texas
Frank Schillbach, MIT

3:50 pm – 5:30 pm: Publishing in Economics

Session Chairs
Debi Prasad Mohapatra, University of Massachusetts
Maddie McKelway, Dartmouth

Discussants:
Melissa Dell, Harvard University
Andrew D. Foster, Brown University
Laura Schechter, UW Madison
Tavneet Suri, MIT
Maddie McKelway, Dartmouth

Sunday, November 3, 2024

8:30 am – 10:30 am: The Changing Landscape of Development Economics: Research Priorities and Prospects

Session Chair:

Ahmed Mobarak, Yale University

Discussants:
Esther Duflo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Emily Breza, Harvard University
Rema Hanna, Harvard University
Eric Verhoogen, Columbia University

10:50 am – 12:30 pm: Jobs Outside Academia

Session Chairs:
Shantanu Khanna, Northeastern University
Anjali Verma, Univesity of Texas at Austin

Discussants:
Deon Filmer, World Bank
Ishita Rajani, Analysis Group
Aparna Mathur, Amazon

Contact neudc@northeastern.edu if you have any questions.

Frequently Asked Questions

Are Hotel blocks reserved?

We do not have a block of rooms reserved at any hotels. We recommend the following hotels in close proximity to NU

Will childcare be provided?

Childcare will not be provided by the conference organizers. We recommend using Care.com to find local options. If you are in need of childcare during the event, please contact the organizing team at neudc@northeastern.edu.

What meal will be served?

On Saturday, attendees will be offered breakfast, coffee breaks, lunch, and appetizers during the social hour. On Sunday, the conference will begin with breakfast and include a coffee break. Please refer to the conference agenda for specific times.

Are travel subsidies or grants available?

Unfortunately, we are unable to promise any subsidies or grants at this point. However, all LMIC-based researchers who are accepted to present a political economy and governance-focused paper at NEUDC will be automatically considered for a grant to cover their travel and other conference expenses through J-PAL’s Governance Initiative. More broadly, if you need a travel subsidy, please let us know by emailing neudc@northeastern.edu, and we will reach out to you if any additional funding becomes available. As a reminder, if you are a resident of an LMIC, you can make use of the discounted registration.

Is refund available if I can’t make it?

About GAP

The GAP Initiative at Northeastern University is committed to creating a diverse, inclusive space where participants of all identities and from all backgrounds feel welcomed, supported, and encouraged to engage in the free and open exchange of ideas without expectation of discrimination or harassment. Conference participants were expected to uphold these values of mutual respect in all their interactions during the conference.

Featured Speakers

NEUDC 2024

November 2-3

Featured Speakers

Ritam Chaurey

Assistant Professor of Economics, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies

Melissa Dell

Andrew E. Furer Professor of Economics, Harvard University

Iqbal Dhaliwal

Global Executive Director of JPAL

Esther Duflo

Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics, MIT

Deon P. Filmer

Director, Development Research Group, The World Bank

Andrew Foster

George and Nancy Parker Professor of Economics, Brown University

Rema Hanna

Jeffrey Cheah Professor of South-East Asia Studies, Harvard Business School

Vinayak Iyer

Scientist/Machine Learning Engineer at Uber

Ajinkya Keskar

Professor in Economics at Binghamton University (SUNY)

Shantanu Khanna

Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Economics, Northeastern University

Aparna Mathur

Senior Research Manager in Economics, Amazon

Madeline McKelway

Assistant professor of Economics, Dartmouth College.

Mushfiq Mobarak

Jerome Kasoff’54 Professor of Management and Economics, Yale University

Debi Prasad Mohapatra

Assistant professor of Resource Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Karthik Muralidharan

Professor of Economics at the University of California, San Diego

Owen Ozier

Associate Professor, Williams College

Ishita Rajani

Vice President, Analysis Group

Laura Schechter

Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Tavneet Suri

Louis E. Seley Professor of Applied Economics, MIT

Eric Verhoogen

Professor of Economics and International and Public Affairs, Columbia University

Anjali Verma

Economist II, Amazon

Session Schedule

The program schedule for the NEUDC 2024 is available athttp://editorialexpress.com/conference/NEUDC2024/program/NEUDC2024.html

Saturday, November 2

Sunday, November 3, 2024

Frequently Asked Questions

About GAP

Conference Organizers

Nishith Prakash

Professor of Public Policy and Economics

Silvia Prina

Professor of Economics

Sponsors

The program schedule for the NEUDC 2024 is available at
http://editorialexpress.com/conference/NEUDC2024/program/NEUDC2024.html