Children Program Meeting
Organized by Anna Aizer and Janet Currie
May 2-3, 2019
NBER, 2nd Floor Conference Room, 1050 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA
Thursday, May 2
8:00 am
Continental Breakfast
8:30 am

Pollution and the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital: Evidence from the 1970 Clean Air Act

Jonathan M. Colmer, University of Virginia
John L. Voorheis, U.S. Census Bureau
9:20 am

The Causal Impact of Socio-Emotional Skills Training on Educational Success

Giuseppe Sorrenti, University of Lausanne
Ulf Zoelitz, University of Zurich
10:10 am
Break
10:30 am

Social Signaling and Childhood Immunization: A Field Experiment in Sierra Leone

Anne Karing, University of Chicago
11:20 am

Beyond Treatment Exposure: The Timing of Early Interventions and Children's Health

Jonas Lau-Jensen Hirani, University of Copenhagen
Hans Henrik Sievertsen, The Danish Center for Social Science Research
Miriam Wüst, University of Copenhagen
12:10 pm
Lunch
Speaker: John Gabrieli, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Environmental Influences on the Development of the Human Brain
2:00 pm

Brain vs. Brawn: Child Labor, Human Capital Investment, and the Role of Dynamic Complementarities

Natalie Bau, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Martin Rotemberg, New York University
Manisha Shah, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Bryce Steinberg, Brown University and NBER
2:50 pm

Fertility Trends in the United States, 1980-2017: The Role of Unintended Births

Kasey Buckles, University of Notre Dame and NBER
Melanie E. Guldi, University of Central Florida
Lucie Schmidt, Smith College and NBER
3:40 pm
Break
4:00 pm

The Effect of Income During Infancy: Evidence from the EITC (slides)

Andrew C. Barr, Texas A&M University and NBER
Alexander A. Smith, United States Military Academy at West Point
4:50 pm
Adjourn
6:30 pm
Dinner
Bambara Restaurant
(across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel)
25 Edwin H. Land Blvd.
Cambridge, MA
Friday, May 3
8:00 am
Continental Breakfast
8:30 am

The Causal Impact of Removing Children from Abusive and Neglectful Homes

Anthony Bald, California State University - Fullerton
Eric Chyn, University of Texas at Austin and NBER
Justine S. Hastings, University of Washington
Margarita Machelett, Bank of Spain
9:20 am

Brothers Increase Women's Gender Conformity

Anne Ardila Brenoe, University of Zurich
10:10 am
Break
10:30 am

Female Officers, Gender Violence and Children: Evidence from Women Justice Centers in Peru

Maria Micaela Sviatschi, Princeton University and NBER
Iva Trako, The World Bank
11:20 am

Curriculum Reforms and Infant Health

Bahadir Dursun, Newcastle University
Ozkan Eren, University of California, Riverside
My T. Nguyen, Louisiana State University
12:10 pm
Adjourn