Children and Families Program Meeting
Organized by Anna Aizer and Janet Currie
April 3-4, 2025
Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA (Parkview Room) and Zoom
Format: Authors will be given the full 45 minutes of each session, with questions during the presentation.
Thursday, April 3
9:30 am
Continental Breakfast
10:00 am

Inclusive Teaching: Spotting Social Isolation in the Classroom

Michela Carlana, Harvard University and NBER
Sule Alan, Cornell University
Marinella Leone, University of Pavia
10:45 am

The Short- and Long-Run Effects of Gender Discrimination in the Courthouse

Ozkan Eren, University of California, Riverside
Randi Hjalmarsson, University of Gothenburg
Orgul Ozturk, University of South Carolina - Columbia
11:30 am
Break
11:45 am
10-minute Egg Timer Sessions:

Housing and Fertility

Janis Skrastins, University of Utah
Dimas M. Fazio, National University of Singapore
Bernadus Doornik, Banco Central do Brasil
Tarun Ramadorai, Imperial College London

The Hidden Toll of Airborne Lead: Infant Mortality Impacts of Industrial Lead Pollution (slides)

Karen Clay, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
Edson R. Severnini, Boston College and NBER
Xiao Wang, Hunan University

The Motherhood Training Penalty

Xiao Ma, Peking University
Camila Navajas-Ahumada, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella
Alejandro Nakab, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella
Daniela Vidart, University of Connecticut

Long-Term and Multi-Generational Impacts of Skilled Birth Attendance

Meiping Sun, Columbia University
Yiying Yang, Fordham University

Effective Families or Effective Schools? Experimental Evidence on Fostering Children’s Numeracy

Alessandro Toppeta, Stockholm University
Samuel Berlinski, Inter-American Development Bank
Michele Giannola, University of Naples Federico II
12:45 pm
Lunch - Somerset Room
1:45 pm

When Parents Work from Home (slides)

Pascal Achard, Center for Research in Economics and Statistics (CREST)
Michele Belot, Cornell University
Arnaud Chevalier, Royal Holloway, University of London (RH)
2:30 pm

Parental Minimum Wages, Children's Education, and Racial Inequality

Luyang Chen, University of Nottingham
Hans Henrik Sievertsen, The Danish Center for Social Science Research
Christine Valente, University of Bristol
3:15 pm

Who You Gonna Call? Gender Inequality in External Demands for Parental Involvement

Kristy Buzard, Syracuse University
Laura K. Gee, Tufts University
Olga B. Stoddard, Brigham Young University and NBER
4:00 pm
Break
4:15 pm

Clean Rides, Healthy Lives: The Impact of Electric Vehicle Adoption on Air Quality and Infant Health

Cavit Baran, Sabanci University
Janet Currie, Yale University and NBER
Bahadir Dursun, Newcastle University
Erdal Tekin, American University and NBER
5:00 pm
Adjourn
6:00 pm
Group Dinner at Monteverdi (Royal Sonesta Hotel)
Friday, April 4
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
9:00 am

The Effects of Eviction on Children

Robert Collinson, University of Notre Dame and NBER
Deniz Dutz, University of Chicago
John Eric Humphries, Yale University and NBER
Nicholas S. Mader, NORC at the University of Chicago
Daniel I. Tannenbaum, University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Winnie van Dijk, Yale University and NBER
9:45 am

Child Maltreatment Investigations and Family Wellbeing

Katherine Rittenhouse, University of Texas at Austin
David Simon, University of Connecticut and NBER
Lindsey Lacey, Allegheny County Department of Human Services
10:30 am
Break
10:45 am

Multiple Safety Net Program Participation: Incidence and Impacts from Reducing Administrative Burdens

Neil A. Cholli, Cornell University
Derek Wu, University of Virginia
11:30 am

Multigenerational Benefits of Women's Education

Na'ama Shenhav, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
12:15 pm
Adjourn