Program on Children Meeting
Organized by Anna Aizer and Janet Currie
May 12-13, 2022
Cambridge, MA and on Zoom.us
Thursday, May 12
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
9:00 am

The Impact of the COVID-19 School Closure on Adolescents’ Use of Mental Healthcare Services in Sweden

Helena Svaleryd, Uppsala University
Evelina Björkegren, Stockholm University
Jonas Vlachos, Stockholm University
9:50 am

School and Crime

Todd R. Jones, Mississippi State University
Ezra Karger, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
10:40 am
Break
11:00 am

Can Restorative Justice Conferencing Reduce Recidivism? Evidence From the Make-it-Right Program

Yotam Shem-Tov, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Steven Raphael, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Alissa Skog, University of California, Berkeley
11:50 am

From Retributive to Restorative: An Alternative Approach to Justice

Anjali Adukia, University of Chicago and NBER
Benjamin Feigenberg, University of Illinois Chicago and NBER
Fatemeh Momeni, University of Chicago
12:40 pm
Lunch
1:40 pm

Targeting Precision Medicine: Evidence from Prenatal Screening

Peter Conner, Karolinska Institutet
Liran Einav, Stanford University and NBER
Amy Finkelstein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Petra Persson, Stanford University and NBER
Heidi L. Williams, Dartmouth College and NBER
2:30 pm
Break
2:50 pm

Tribal Casinos, Economic Wellbeing, and Intergenerational Mobility

Randall Akee, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Maggie R. Jones, U.S. Census Bureau
Emilia Simeonova, Johns Hopkins University and NBER
3:40 pm

The Intergenerational Transmission of Employers and the Earnings of Young Workers

Matthew Staiger, Harvard University
4:30 pm
Adjourn
5:30 pm
Reception and Group Dinner - Longfellow A
Friday, May 13
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
9:00 am

The Long Run Impacts of Child Health on Parents’ Economic and Mental Wellbeing

Achyuta Adhvaryu, University of California, San Diego and NBER
N. Meltem Daysal, University of Copenhagen
Snaebjorn Gunnsteinsson, Juno Insurance Group, PBC
Teresa Molina, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Herdis Steingrimsdottir, Copenhagen Business School
9:50 am

Is There a Foster Care-To-Prison Pipeline? Evidence from Quasi-Randomly Assigned Investigators

E. Jason Baron, Duke University and NBER
Max Gross, University of California, Los Angeles
10:40 am
Break
11:00 am

Legal Aid in Child Welfare: Evidence from a Randomized Trial of Mi Abogado (slides)

Ryan Cooper, University of Chicago
Joseph J. Doyle Jr., Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Andrés P. Hojman, Universidad Catolica de Chile
11:50 am
Lunch
1:00 pm

When Bootstraps Aren’t Enough: Demand, Supply, and Learning in a Very Low-Income Context

Alex Eble, Columbia University and NBER
Maya Escueta, American Institutes for Research
1:50 pm

"There She Is, Your Ideal" : Negative Social Comparisons and Health Behaviors

Christopher S. Carpenter, Vanderbilt University and NBER
Brandyn F. Churchill, American University and NBER
2:40 pm
Adjourn