Second Meeting

Keynote Speakers

• Sebastián Galiani (Washington University in St. Louis)
  
  Some Reflections on the Practice of Program Evaluation in LAC
• Michael Kremer (Harvard University)
  
  Improving Education in the Developing World: What Have We Learned from Randomized Evaluations?
• Mauricio Cárdenas (Fedesarrollo-LACEA)
  Closing Remarks

Selected Papers

• Felipe Barrera (World Bank)
  
  Evaluating a Test-Based Public Subsidy Program for Low-Cost Private Schools: Regression-Discontinuity Evidence from Pakistan
   
  Comments by Guillermo Cruces (CEDLAS-UNLP)
• Tomás Rau Binder (Universidad de Chile) 
  
  Tournaments, Gift Exchanges, and the Effect of Monetary Incentive for Teachers: the Case of Chile
   
  Comments by Mariana Alfoso (RES-IADB)
• María Isabel Santana (Universidad de Santo Domingo) 
  
  An Evaluation of The Impact of South Africa’s Child Support Grant on School Attendance
   
  Comments by Alessandro Maffioli (OVE-IADB)
• Guillerme Hirata (UNDP Poverty Center and IPEA) 
  
  Achievements and Shortfalls of Conditional Cash Transfers: Impact Evaluation of Paraguay’s Tekoporã Programme
  
  Comments by Edgar Villa (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana)
• Matteo Bobba (Paris School of Economics) 
  
  Scaling-up Effects in Experimental Policy Evaluations. Evidence from Progresa/Oportunidades in Mexico
  
  Comments by Vincenzo Di Maro (UCL)
• Martin Valdivia (GRADE) 
  
  Teaching Entrepreneurship: Impact of Business Training on Microfinance Clients and Institutions
   
  Comments by Mateo Bobba (Paris School of Economics)
• Joao M. P. de Mello (PUC Brazil) 
  
  Dry Laws and Homicides: Evidence from the São Paulo Metropolitan Area
   
  Comments Tomas Rau (Universidad de Chile) 

Organizing Committee

• María Laura Alzua (CEDLAS-Universidad Nacional de La Plata)
• Felipe Barrera-Osorio (Human Development Network-The World Bank)
• Ana Santiago (Vice-Presidency of Sectors–Inter-American Development Bank)