Program on Children Meeting
Organized by Anna Aizer and Janet Currie
March 2-3, 2023
Royal Sonesta Hotel, Riverfront Room
Thursday, March 2
9:15 am
Continental Breakfast
10:00 am

Peer Effects and Marriage Formation

Michael T. Baker, United States Military Academy
Susan P. Carter, United States Military Academy
Abigail K. Wozniak, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
10:50 am
Break
11:00 am

Estimating the Impact of the Age of Criminal Majority: Decomposing Multiple Treatments in a Regression Discontinuity Framework

Michael G. Mueller-Smith, University of Michigan and NBER
Benjamin Pyle, Boston University
Caroline Walker, U.S. Census Bureau
11:50 am

Long-Term Impacts of Mentoring for Disadvantaged Youth

Alex Bell, Georgia State University
Neviana Petkova, U.S. Department of the Treasury
12:40 pm
Lunch
1:40 pm

Burying the Lead: Effects of Public Lead Service Line Replacements on Blood Lead Levels and Property Values

Michelle M. Marcus, Vanderbilt University and NBER
2:30 pm
Break
2:50 pm

Can Pollution Cause Poverty? The Effects of Pollution on Educational, Health and Economic Outcomes

Claudia Persico, American University and NBER
3:40 pm

Ashes to Ashes: The Lifelong Consequences of Early-Life Wildfire Exposure

Samuel W. Arenberg, University of Houston
Seth Neller, University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UT)
4:30 pm
Adjourn
5:00 pm
Group Dinner at the Royal Sonesta Hotel, Room Charles B
Friday, March 3
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
9:00 am

Income and Child Maltreatment: Evidence from a Discontinuity in Tax Benefits

Katherine P. Rittenhouse, University of Texas at Austin
9:50 am

Violent Discipline and Child Behavior: The Short- and Medium-term Effects of Virtual Parenting Support to Caregivers in Jamaica (slides)

Lelys I. Dinarte Diaz, The World Bank
Saravana Ravindran, National University of Singapore
Manisha Shah, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Shawn M. Powers, The World Bank
Helen Baker-Henningham, Bangor University
10:40 am
Break
11:00 am

Nudging or Nagging? Conflicting Effects of Behavioral Tools (slides)

Ariel Kalil, University of Chicago
Haoxuan Liu, University of Chicago
Susan Mayer, University of Chicago
Derek Rury, University of California, Davis
Rohen Shah, Yale University
11:50 am
Lunch
1:00 pm

Early Childhood Human Capital Formation at Scale

Johannes Bos, American Institute for Research
Abu S. Shonchoy, Florida International University
Saravana Ravindran, National University of Singapore
Akib Khan, Stockholm School of Economics
1:50 pm

The Scale and Nature of Neighborhood Effects on Children: Evidence from a Danish Social Housing Experiment

Stephen B. Billings, University of Colorado Boulder
Mark Hoekstra, Baylor University and NBER
Gabriel Pons Rotger, The Danish Center for Social Science Research
2:40 pm
Adjourn