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Childrens Program Meeting

 

10-May-12

 

Janet Currie, Organizer

 

 

Education Program Meeting

 

11-May-12

 

Caroline Hoxby, Organizers

 

 

NBER

 

Feldstein Conference Room – 2nd Floor

 

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

 

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

 

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

 

 

THURSDAY, MAY 10:

 

 

CHILDRENS PROGRAM MEETING

 

 

9:30 a.m.

Continental Breakfast

 

 

10:00 a.m.

Elizabeth Ananat, Duke University and NBER

 

Anna Gassman-Pines, Duke University

 

Dania V. Francis, Duke University

 

Christina M. Gibson-Davis, Duke University

 

Children Left Behind: The Effects of Statewide Job Loss on Student Achievement

 

 

11:00 a.m.

Break

 

 

11:15 a.m.

Maya Rossin-Slater, Columbia University

 

Engaging Absent Fathers: Lessons from Paternity Establishment Programs

 

 

12:15 p.m.

Lunch

 

 

1:15 p.m.

Jorge Aguero, University of California at Riverside

 

Anil Deolalikar, University of California, Riverside

 

Late Bloomers? Identifying Critical Periods in Human Capital Accumulation. Evidence from the Rwanda Genocide

 

 

2:15 p.m.

Achyuta Adhvaryu, Yale University

 

Anant Nyshadham, Yale University

 

Endowments and Investments within the Household: Evidence from Iodine Supplementation in Tanzania

 

 

3:15 p.m.

Break

 

 

3:30 p.m.

Emla Fitzsimons, Institute for Fiscal Studies

 

Marcos Vera-Hernández, University College London

 

Breastfeeding and Children's Development

 

 

4:30 p.m.

Sara Borelli, IMPAQ International

 

Robert Kaestner, University of Illinois and NBER

 

Long Term Effects of Abortion Parental Involvement Laws

 

 

5:30 p.m.

Adjourn

 

 

6:30 p.m.

Group Dinner – The Loft Room at Le Meridien Hotel Cambridge-MIT, 20 Sidney Street, Cambridge, MA

 

 

FRIDAY, MAY 11:

 

 

EDUCATION PROGRAM MEETING

 

 

8:00 a.m.

Continental Breakfast

 

 

8:30 a.m.

Kalena Cortes, Texas A&M University

 

Joshua Goodman, Harvard University

 

Takako Nomi, University of Chicago

 

Doubling Up: The Long Run Impacts of Remedial Algebra on High School Graduation and College Enrollment

 

 

9:25 a.m.

Break

 

 

9:40 a.m.

Lesley Turner, Columbia University

 

The Incidence of Student Financial Aid: Evidence from the Pell Grant Program

 

 

10:35 a.m.

Brian Jacob, University of Michigan and NBER

Brian McCall, University of Michigan

Kevin Stange, University of Michigan

The Consumption Value of Postsecondary Education

11:30 a.m.

Lunch

 

Lunch Presentation:

Hiromi Ono, Institute for Education Sciences

Tom Weko, National Center for Education Statistics

Ed Pacchetti, Office of Postsecondary Education

Tom Bailey, Teachers College and National Center for Analysis of

Postsecondary Education and Employment (CAPSEE)

1:00 p.m.

David Deming,  Harvard University

Steve Billings, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Jonah E. Rockoff. Columbia University and NBER

School Segregation, Educational Attainment, and Crime:  Evidence from the end of Busing in Charlotte-Mecklenburg

1:55 p.m.

Break

2:10 p.m.

Matthew Wiswall, New York University

Basit Zafar, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Determinants of College Major Choice: Identification using an Information Experiment

3:05 p.m.

Dan Goldhaber, University of Washington

Duncan Chaplin, Mathematica Policy Research

Assessing the "Rothstein Test" Does It Really Show Teacher Value-Added Models Are Biased?

4:00 p.m.

Adjourn