Program on Children Meeting
Organized by Anna Aizer and Janet Currie
March 11-12, 2021
on Zoom.us
Thursday, March 11
1:00 pm

Fictional Money, Real Costs: Impacts of Financial Salience on Disadvantaged Students

Claire Duquennois, University of Pittsburgh
1:45 pm
Break
1:50 pm

Wheels of Change: Transforming Girl's Lives with Bicycles

Nishith Prakash, Northeastern University
Nathan Fiala, University of Connecticut
kritika narula, Yale University
Ana Garcia-Hernandez, University of Rosario
2:35 pm
Break
2:55 pm

'We Are Not Guinea Pigs': The Effects of Negative News on Vaccine Compliance

Belinda Archibong, Johns Hopkins University and NBER
Francis Annan, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
3:40 pm
Break
3:45 pm

Family Spillover Effects of Marginal Diagnoses: The Case of ADHD

Petra Persson, Stanford University and NBER
Xinyao Qiu, Stanford University
Maya Rossin-Slater, Stanford University and NBER
4:30 pm
Adjourn
Friday, March 12
1:00 pm

Impacts on Economic Well Being of an Unconditional Cash Transfer during a Child’s First Year: Findings from the Baby’s First Years Study

Lisa Gennetian, Duke University and NBER
Katherine Magnuson, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Kimberly Noble, Columbia University
Greg Duncan, University of California, Irvine
Nathan Fox, University of Maryland, College Park
Sarah Halpern-Meekin, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Hirokazu Yoshikawa, New York University
1:45 pm
Break
1:50 pm

Parental Responses to Children’s Achievement Test Results (slides)

Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, The University of Sydney
Tiffany Ho, The University of Sydney
Nicolás Salamanca, University of Melbourne
2:35 pm
Break
2:55 pm

Investing in the Next Generation: The Long-Run Educational Impacts of a Liquidity Shock

Patrick Agte, Stockholm School of Economics
Arielle Bernhardt, New York University
Erica M. Field, Duke University and NBER
Rohini Pande, Yale University and NBER
Natalia Rigol, Harvard University and NBER
3:40 pm
Break
3:45 pm

Reducing the Academic Achievement Gap through a Summer Pre-Kindergarten Program

Roland G. Fryer Jr, Harvard University
Steven D. Levitt, University of Chicago and NBER
John A. List, University of Chicago and NBER
Anya Samek, University of California, San Diego and NBER
4:30 pm
Adjourn