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Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics 2023: Growth and Resilience

June 5-6, 2023

Preston Auditorium, Washington, DC & Virtual

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Woman working in a small shope in Ghana — Woman works in a small shop. Ghana. Photo: © Arne Hoel/The World Bank

The 2023 Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE) will focus on "Growth and Resilience" and will be held June 5–6, 2023, in Washington, D.C. Participants may join either in person and online.

The ABCDE is organized by the World Bank's Development Economics (DEC) Vice Presidency, and it is one of the world's best-known conferences for the presentation and discussion of new knowledge on social and economic development. The conference aims to promote the exchange of cutting-edge knowledge among researchers, policymakers, and development practitioners.

Monday, June 5, 2023
08:00 – 09:00	Registration and Breakfast
09:00 – 09:15	Opening Remarks Indermit S. Gill (Senior Vice President of Development Economics and Chief Economist of the World Bank Group)
09:15 – 10:30	Session 1: World Development Report 2024 Chair: Manuela Francisco (World Bank) "Economic Growth through Creative Destruction" Ufuk Akcigit (University of Chicago) "Intergenerational Mobility Around the World" John Friedman (Brown University) “The Plant-Level View of Korea's Growth Miracle” Yongseok Shin (Washington University in St Louis) “The Transition in the Economics and Policies of Energy Transition” Michael Grubb (University College London)
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee
11:00 – 12:30	Session 2: Growth and Convergence Chair: Jonathan Ostry (Georgetown University) Discussant: Chris Papageorgiou (International Monetary Fund) “Unequal Global Convergence” Shoumitro Chatterjee (Johns Hopkins University), Elisa Giannone (CREi, Barcelona), and Kan Kuno (Penn State) “The Global Race for Talent: Brain Drain, Knowledge Transfer, and Growth” Marta Prato (Yale University) “The Long-Run Development Impacts of Agricultural Productivity Gains: Evidence from Irrigation Canals in India” Alison Campion (Development Data Lab), Sam Asher (Imperial College Business School), Douglas Gollin (University of Oxford), and Paul Novosad (Dartmouth College)
12:30 – 13:30	Lunch
13:30 – 14:30	Keynote Address 1: Sectoral, Structural, and Spatial Transformations: New Directions in Development Economics Speaker: Douglas Gollin (University of Oxford) Chair: Deon P. Filmer (World Bank)
14:30 – 16:00	Fast and Furious 1: Innovations in Data and Methods Chair: Haishan Fu (World Bank) “Agricultural Productivity Growth in Africa: New Evidence from Microdata” Philip Wollburg (World Bank), Douglas Gollin (University of Oxford), Yuchen Lu (Rice University), Thomas Bentze (Rice University), and Christopher Udry (Northwestern University) “Cadasters and Economic Growth: A Long-Run Cross-Country Panel” Ola Olsson (University of Gothenburg), Michelle D'Arcy (Trinity College Dublin) and Marina Nistotskaya (University of Gothenburg) “AI and Services-Led Growth: Evidence from Indian Job Adverts” Katherine Stapleton (World Bank), Alex Copestake (International Monetary Fund), Max Marczinek (University of Oxford), and Ashley Pople (University of Oxford) “Using Neural Networks to Predict Microspatial Economic Growth” Arman Khachiyan (University of San Francisco), Anthony Thomas (University of California San Diego), Huye Zhou (University of California San Diego), Gordon Hanson (Harvard University), Alex Cloninger (University of California San Diego), Tajana Rosing (University of California San Diego), and Amit Khandelwal (Columbia Business School, and NBER) “Improving Estimates of Mean Welfare and Uncertainty in Developing Countries” David Newhouse (World Bank) and Josh Merfeld (KDI School of Public Policy and Management and IZA)
16:00 – 16:30	Coffee
16:30 – 18:00	Session 3: Structural Transformation and Labor Markets Chair: Hana Brixi (World Bank) Discussant: Aart Kraay (World Bank) “Capital Embodied Structural Change” Julieta Caunedo (University of Toronto) and Elisa Keller (University of Exeter) "Foreign Direct Investment and Structural Transformation in Africa" Bernard Hoekman (European University Institute and CEPR), Marco Sanfilippo (University of Turin and Collegio Carlo Alberto), and Margherita Tambussi (University of Turin) “Gender Barriers, Structural Transformation and Development” Gaurav Chiplunkar (University of Virginia) and Tatjana Kleineberg (World Bank)
18:00	Cocktail Reception

Tuesday, June 6, 2023
08:00 – 09:00	Registration and Breakfast
09:00 – 10:30	Session 4: Governance and Institutions Chair: Arturo Herrera Gutierrez (World Bank) Discussant: Raj M Desai (Brookings Institution and Georgetown University) “Democratization, Elite Capture and Economic Development” Mark Rosenzweig (Yale University), and Andrew D. Foster (Brown University) “Trust and Democracy: Political Stability in Times of Economic Crisis” Jaya Wen (Harvard Business School), Nancy Qian (Northwestern University), and Nathan Nunn (Harvard University) “What Makes Local Governments in Autocracies Accountable? Evidence from China” Daniel Berkowitz (University of Pittsburgh), Yi Lu (Tsinghua University), and Mingqin Wu (South China Normal University)
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee
11:00 – 12:30	Session 5: Conflict and Migration Chair: Soukeyna Kane (World Bank) Discussant: Quy-Toan Do (World Bank) “Rebel Governance and Development: The Persistent Effects of Distrust in El Salvador” Sandra Rozo (World Bank), Micaela Sviastchi (Princeton University), Antonella Bandiera (Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México), Lelys Dinarte (World Bank), and Juan Miguel Jimenez (University of British Columbia) “War, Collateral Damage, and Firm-Level Consequences” Solomiya Shpak (Kyiv School of Economics), John S. Earle (George Mason University), Scott Gehlbach (University of Chicago), and Mariia Panga (George Mason University) “On the Push and Pull Forces of Migrant Border Crossing: The Role of Networks” Nancy Chau (Cornell University) and Filiz Garip (Princeton University)
12:30 – 13:30	Lunch
13:30 – 14:30	Keynote Address 2: Hours Worked across the World Speaker: Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln (Goethe University Frankfurt and CEPR) Chair: Kathleen G. Beegle (World Bank)
14:30 – 16:00	Fast and Furious 2: Field Experiments on Supporting Entrepreneurship Chair: Susan Lund (IFC) “Female Entrepreneurship and Professional Networks” Monica Lambon-Quayefio (University of Ghana), Edward Asiedu (University of Ghana), Francesca Truffa (Stanford University), and Ashley Wong (Stanford University) “Capacity Building as a Route to Export Market Expansion: A Six-Country Experiment in the Western Balkans” Ana Cusolito (World Bank), David McKenzie (World Bank), and Ornella Darova (University of Pennsylvania) “Local Infrastructure and the Development of the Private Sector: Evidence from a Randomized Trial” Daniel Rogger (World Bank), Leonardo Iacovone (World Bank), Craig McIntosh (UCSD), and Luis F. Sanchez-Bayardo (World Bank) “Opportunities and Entrepreneurship: Evidence on Advanced Labor Market Experience” Hamilton Taveras (Ministry of Finance, Dominican Republic), Carlos Scchmidt-Padilla (University of Pennsylvania), and Matthew Pecenco (UC Berkeley) “Inputs delays, Firm Dynamics, and Misallocation in Sub-Saharan Africa” Immo Schott (Université de Montréal and CIREQ) and Idossou Marius (Université de Montréal and CIREQ)
16:00 – 16:30	Coffee
16:30 – 18:00	Session 6: Resilience to climate change Chair: Indermit S. Gill (World Bank) “Can Insurance Markets Build Household Resilience and Reduce the Cost of Social Protection? Theoretical Hypotheses and Empirical Methods for Moving Forward” Michael Carter (University of California, Davis) "Private Investment and Government Protection Against Rising Climate Risks" Matthew Kahn (University of Southern California) “Inclusive Insurance in a Changing Climate” Carolyn Kousky (Environmental Defense Fund) “Mobilizing the Private Sector to Reduce the Financial Protection Gap of Vulnerable Countries” Ekhosuehi Iyahen (Secretary General, Insurance Development Forum)

Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln
PROFESSOR OF MACROECONOMICS AND DEVELOPMENT
Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln is programme director of the macroeconomics and growth programme at the CEPR, chairwoman of the Review of Economic Studies, and elected fellow of the Econometric Society. She received the 2018 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the German Science Foundation, the highest scientific award in Germany, and the 2016 Gossen Prize of the German Economic Association. In 2018, she was also awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant, and in 2010 an ERC Starting Grant. She is a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action and of the Franco-German Council of Economic Experts. She holds many affiliations in international research networks.
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Doug Gollin
PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS
Doug Gollin is Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at Oxford University. His research focusses on economic development and growth, with particular interests in agriculture and structural transformation. His work brings a general equilibrium perspective to issues such as: sectoral differences in productivity; the impacts of agricultural technologies; the role of transport costs in shaping spatial patterns of development; the importance of small firms and self employment in poor countries; and the macroeconomic effects of disease.
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Paul Christian
ECONOMIST
Paul Christian is an Economist in the Development Impact Evaluation unit of the of the World Bank. His research on agriculture and food security programs focuses on targeting and management of irrigation projects. He has led impact evaluations in India, Nepal, Mozambique, Liberia, and Ghana. Dr. Christian holds a PhD and MA in Economics from Brown University, and a BA in Economics from the University of Notre Dame. Prior to joining the impact evaluation unit he worked as a research associate in the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University where he helped lead Cornell’s involvement in the Structural Transformation of African Agriculture and Rural Spaces (STAARS) project.
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Nona Karalashvili
ECONOMIST
Nona Karalashvili is an Economist at the Enterprise Analysis unit of the World Bank. She has overseen several Enterprise Surveys and other data collection efforts of the team. Before joining the Enterprise Analysis unit, she worked as a research assistant at the University of Maryland, College Park, and in the Development Research Group at the World Bank. Her experience includes work in various key advising positions in the government of Georgia. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Maryland, College Park, and a Master's degree in Economics from the Central European University. Her research interests span the fields of economics, psychology, and anthropology, with a focus on institutional economics.
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Talip Kilic
SENIOR PROGRAM MANAGER
Talip Kilic is the Senior Program Manager for the Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS), the World Bank’s flagship household survey program housed at the Development Data Group. He was also a core team member for the World Development Report 2021: Data for Better Lives.

In his managerial role, Talip oversees the extensive LSMS portfolio of face-to-face and phone survey data production; methodological and policy research; and capacity development activities. As a researcher, he focuses on poverty, agriculture, labor, and gender in low- and middle-income countries, as well as survey methodology and data integration to improve the quality, timeliness, and policy-relevance of household and farm surveys.

Talip is originally from Istanbul, Turkey, and have a Ph.D. in Economics from American University in Washington, DC, and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and International Relations from Knox College in Galesburg, IL.
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Tatjana Kleineberg
ECONOMIST
Tatjana Kleineberg is an Economist in the Macroeconomics and Growth team of the World Bank’s Research Department. Her research is at the intersection of Macroeconomics, Inequality, Economic Development, and Urban Economics. She holds a Bachelor from Sciences Po Paris and a PhD in Economics from Yale. Prior to her PhD, she worked at the World Bank’s Research Department (2012-2013) and at the strategy consulting firm Oliver Wyman (2011-2012).
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