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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

 

Childrens Program Meeting

May 15, 2014

Janet Currie, Organizer

 

Education Program Meeting

May 16, 2014

Caroline Hoxby, Organizer

 

NBER

Feldstein Conference Room – 2nd Floor

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

 

THURSDAY, MAY 15:

 

 

CHILDRENS PROGRAM MEETING

 

 

8:30 am

Bus Departs from the Royal Sonesta Hotel for the NBER

 

 

9:00 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

9:30 am

Prashant Bharadwaj, University of California at San Diego and NBER

 

Health Endowments and Unemployment during Macroeconomic Crises

 

 

10:30 am

Break

 

11:00 am

Anna Aizer, Brown University and NBER

Adriana Lleras-Muney, University of California at Los Angeles and NBER

Joseph Ferrie, Northwestern University and NBER

Shari Eli, University of Toronto

 

The Long Run Impact of Cash Transfer Programs to Poor Families

 

 

12:00 n

Lunch

 

1:00 pm

Snaebjorn Gunnsteinsson, University of Maryland

Achyuta Adhvaryu, University of Michigan

Parul Christian and Alain Labrique, Johns Hopkins University
Jonathan Sugimoto, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Abu A. Shamim, Jivita Bangladesh
Keith P. West, Jr, Johns Hopkins University

 

Vitamin A and Resilience to Early Life Shocks

 

 

2:00 pm

Paul Gertler, University of California at Berkeley and NBER

James Heckman, University of Chicago and NBER

Rodrigo Pinto and Arianna Zanolini, University of Chicago

Christel Vermeersch,The World Bank

Sally Grantham-Mcgregor, Institute of Child Health

Susan Walker, The University of The West Indies

 

Labor Market Returns to a Early Childhood Stimulation Intervention in Jamaica

3:00 pm

Break

 

 

3:15 pm

Petra Persson, Stanford University

Maya Rossin-Slater, University of California at Santa Barbara

 

Family Ruptures and Intergenerational Transmission of Stress

 

4:15 pm

Lena Edlund, Columbia University and NBER

Paola Valenti, Columbia University

 

Should I Stay or Should I Go? Single Motherhood Revisited

 

 

5:15 pm

Adjourn

 

 

5:30 pm

Bus Departs from the NBER for the Royal Sonesta Hotel

 

 

6:15 pm

Group Dinner
Bambara Restaurant at the Hotel Marlowe
(across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel)

 

 

FRIDAY, MAY 16:

 

 

EDUCATION PROGRAM MEETING

 

 

8:00 am

Bus Departs from the Royal Sonesta Hotel for the NBER

 

 

8:15 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

8:45 am

Christopher R. Walters, University of California, Berkeley

 

Inputs in the Production of Early Childhood Human Capital: Evidence from Head Start

 

 

9:45 am

Maria Fitzpatrick, Cornell University and NBER

Intergovernmental (Dis)incentives, Free-Riding, Teacher Salaries and Teacher Pensions

 

10:45 am

Break

 

11:00 am

Rebecca Dizon-Ross, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

How Do School Accountability Reforms Affect Teachers? Evidence from New York City

 

 

12:00 n

Lunch

 

 

1:00 pm

Rajeev Darolia and Cory Koedel, University of Missouri
Francisco Martorell and Katie Wilson, RAND Corporation

 

Do Employers Prefer Workers Who Attend For-Profit Colleges? Evidence from a Field Experiment

2:00 pm

Break

 

 

2:15 pm

Lesley Turner, University of Maryland
Ben Marx, Columbia University

 

Borrowing Trouble? Student Loans, the Cost of Borrowing, and Implications for the Effectiveness of Need-Based Grant Aid

 

 

3:15 pm

Francisco Martorell, RAND Corporation
Isaac McFarlin, University of Michigan
Kevin M. Stange, University of Michigan and NBER

Investing in Schools: Capital Spending, Facility Conditions, and Student Achievement

4:15 pm

Adjourn