Third Meeting

Keynote Speakers

• David Card (University of California, Berkeley) 
  
  The Effectiveness of Active Labor Market Programs: What Have We Learned

Selected Papers

• Betania Totino Peixoto (João Pinheiro Foundation (FJP), Brazil) 
  
  Preventing Criminality: An Economic Evaluation of a Brazilian Program
  
  Comments by Edgar Villa (Universidad Javeriana) 
• Ligia Vasconcelos (Banco Itau – Unibanco) 
  
  Evaluating the Impact of Participation in the Brazilian Public School Mathematical Olympiad on Math Scores in Students’ Standardized Tests
  
  Comments by Juan Saavedra (Universidad de los Andes) 
• Oscar A. Mitnik (University of Miami) 
  
  Evaluating Nonexperimental Estimators for Multiple Treatments: Evidence from Experimental Data
  
  Comments by tba 
• Diego Aycinena (Francisco Marroquin University) 
  
  Remittances and the Problem of Control: A Field Experiment Among Migrants from El Salvador
  
  Comments by Marcela Melendez (Fedesarrollo) 
• Xavier Giné (Development Economics Research Group - World Bank) 
  
  Identification Strategy: A Field Experiment on Dynamic Incentives in Rural Credit Markets
  
  Comments by Mauricio Santamaría (Fedesarrollo) 
• James Berry (Cornell University) 
  
  Child Control in Education Decisions: An Evaluation of Targeted Incentives to Learn in India
  
  Comments by Anna Crespo (IADB) 
• Sandra Garcia Jaramillo (Universidad de los Andes) 
  
  The Impact of Conditional Cash Transfers on Children’s School Achievement: Evidence from Colombia
  
  Comments by Juan Vargas (Universidad del Rosario)  

Third Meeting Organizing Committee

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