34th BREAD Conference and 4th joint NBER/BREAD Conference on Economic Development

The National Bureau for Economic Research (NBER) Development Economics Program (DEV) and the Bureau for Research in the Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD) are pleased to announce their joint Fall 2017 meeting which will be held in Cambridge, MA, on 8-9 December, 2017.

You are invited to submit your research for presentation at the conference. The deadline for submissions is 6 am EST on Friday, 29 September. Only completed papers will be considered for the program.

The program will be selected by Ray Fisman, Penny Goldberg, Rema Hanna, Michael Kremer and Duncan Thomas. All papers presented at the conference will be selected through this open submissions process. The conference will last about a day and a half, there will be no parallel sessions and presentations will follow a standard seminar format. There will not be formal discussants but there will be ample time for discussion of the research during the presentations. As a result, there will only be a small number of presentations.

Travel and hotel expenses will be covered for one author per paper that is presented at the conference, for members of the NBER Development Economics program and for BREAD Fellows. All reimbursements will follow NBER travel reimbursement guidelines.