Thursday, April 12
Childrens Program Meeting
8:00 am
Continental Breakfast
8:30 am

Closing the Gap: The Impact of the Medicaid Primary Care Rate Increase on Access and Health

Diane E. Alexander, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Molly Schnell, Northwestern University and NBER
9:20 am

Family Income and the Intergenerational Transmission of Civic Participation: Evidence from a Cash Transfer Program and Parent and Child Voting Behaviors

Emilia Simeonova, Johns Hopkins University and NBER
Randall Akee, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Elizabeth Costello, Duke University
William Copeland, Duke University
John B. Holbein, Brigham Young University
10:10 am
Break
10:30 am

Multi-generational Impacts of Childhood Access to the Safety Net: Early Life Exposure to Medicaid and the Next Generation's Health

Chloe N. East, University of Colorado Denver and NBER
Marianne E. Page, University of California, Davis and NBER
Sarah Miller, University of Michigan and NBER
Laura R. Wherry, New York University and NBER
11:20 am

Intergenerational Health Mobility in the US

Timothy Halliday, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Bhashkar Mazumder, University of California, Irvine
Ashley Wong, Tilburg University
12:10 pm
Lunch
1:40 pm

Parental Monitoring and Children's Internet Use: The Role of Information, Control, and Cues

Francisco Gallego, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
Ofer Malamud, Northwestern University and NBER
Cristian Pop-Eleches, Columbia University and NBER
2:30 pm
Break
2:50 pm

Prep School for Poor Kids: The Long-Run Impacts of Head Start on Human Capital and Self-Sufficiency

Martha J. Bailey, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Shuqiao Sun, The World Bank
Brenden D. Timpe, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
3:40 pm

Reshaping Adolescents' Gender Attitudes: Evidence from a School-Based Experiment in India

Diva Dhar, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Tarun Jain, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad
Seema Jayachandran, Princeton University and NBER
4:30 pm
Adjourn - Shuttle Vans Depart from the NBER for the Royal Sonesta Hotel
5:30 pm
Group Dinner - Hotel Marlowe, Muse Salon, 25 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA (across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel)
Friday, April 13
Economics of Education Program Meeting
8:00 am
Continental Breakfast
8:30 am

Where Do Students Go when For-Profit Colleges Lose Federal Aid?

Stephanie Cellini, The George Washington University and NBER
Rajeev Darolia, University of Kentucky
Lesley J. Turner, University of Chicago and NBER
9:25 am

Better Together? Social Networks in Truancy and the Targeting of Treatment

Peter S. Bergman, University of Texas at Austin and NBER
Magdalena Bennett Colomer, University of Texas at Austin
10:20 am
Break
10:35 am

Tags and a Leaky Pipeline in School Districts' Allocations to Students

Rebecca A. Johnson, Princeton University
Dalton Conley, Princeton University and NBER
11:30 am

Understanding the Flailing State: Experimental Evidence from a Large-Scale School Governance Improvement Program in India

Karthik Muralidharan, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Abhijeet Singh, Stockholm School of Economics
12:25 pm
Lunch
1:25 pm

Fairness in College Admission Exams: From Test Score Gaps to Earnings Inequality

Evan Riehl, Cornell University and NBER
2:10 pm

Parental Human Capital Traits and Autism Spectrum Disorder in Children

Meltem Daysal, University of Copenhagen
Todd Elder, University of Michigan
Judith K. Hellerstein, University of Maryland and NBER
Scott A. Imberman, Michigan State University and NBER
Chiara Orsini, London School of Economics
3:05 pm
Adjourn