Session Title:  Microfinance, Poverty and Women’s Empowerment

JEL Code: O1

Presiding:    Fahad Khalil, University Of Washington
Email:  khalil@u.washington.edu

 

Paper Titles, Authors and Presenters (in bold):

 

“Behavioral Economics and Economics of Poverty”

Abhijit V. Banerjee, MIT

 

“Behavioral Foundations of Microcredit: Experimental and Household Survey Evidence”

Michal Buer, Charles University, and NYU
Julie Chytilova, Charles University, and NYU
Jonathan Morduch, NYU

 

“Microfinance, Missing Markets, and Property Rights” 

M. Shahe Emran, George Washington University
Forhad Shilpi, World Bank
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Columbia University

 

“Women’s Empowerment and the Labor Supply”

Kaushik Basu, Cornell University