Children and Families Program Meeting
Organized by Anna Aizer and Janet Currie
April 30 - May 1, 2026
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Illinois Room, 230 South LaSalle Street, Chicago, IL and Zoom
Format: Authors will be given the full 45 minutes of each session, with questions during the presentation.
Thursday, April 30
9:30 am
Continental Breakfast
10:00 am

Creating High-Opportunity Neighborhoods: Evidence from the HOPE VI Program

Raj Chetty, Harvard University and NBER
Rebecca Diamond, Harvard University and NBER
Thomas B. Foster, U.S. Census Bureau
Lawrence F. Katz, Harvard University and NBER
Sonya Porter, U.S. Census Bureau
Matthew Staiger, Harvard University
Laura Tach, Cornell University
10:45 am

From Better Neighborhoods to Better Futures: Tax Credits and Intergenerational Opportunity

Jacob Bastian, Rutgers University and NBER
Leah Clark, U.S. Census Bureau
11:30 am
Break
11:45 am
10-minute Egg Timer Sessions:

Sibling Spillovers and Free Schooling

João R. Ferreira, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Wayne A. Sandholtz, Nova School of Business and Economics

Understanding Mental Health Differences Between Cisgender and Gender Minority Youth: Evidence from Within-Family Comparisons

Christopher S. Carpenter, Vanderbilt University and NBER
Donn L. Feir, University of Victoria and NBER
Krishna Pendakur, Simon Fraser University
Casey Warman, Dalhousie University and NBER

Social Networks and Early Childhood Investment: Evidence from Refugees in Denmark

Teresa Freitas-Monteiro, CERGE-EI
Reem Zaiour, Vanderbilt University

Non-Toxic Peers: Long-Run Returns from an Anti-Bullying Program

Tabea Braun, University of Zurich
Ana Costa-Ramón, University of Zurich
Ana Rodriguez-Gonzalez, University of Barcelona
Ursina Schaede, Tufts University

The Rise of the Modern Hospital and Early-Life Health: Evidence from the Hill-Burton Act

Jason Fletcher, University of Wisconsin - Madison and NBER
Owen Thompson, Williams College and NBER
Karin Wu, National Taiwan University

Eradicating the Disease of the Empty Granary: Health, Structural Transformation, and Intergenerational Spillovers in Ghana

Conor Carney, University of Chicago
Jon Denton-Schneider, Clark University
12:45 pm
Lunch
1:45 pm

Criminal Records, Family Formation and Violence Against Women

Jeffrey Grogger, University of Chicago and NBER
Hans Grönqvist, Linnaeus University
Susan Niknami, Stockholm University
2:30 pm

Learning to Harm: The Intergenerational Transmission of Gender-Based Violence

Bilge Erten, Northeastern University
Emily E. Nix, University of Southern California and NBER
Susan Niknami, Stockholm University
Anna Sandberg, Stockholm University
3:15 pm

Ten Years of Relational Power: The Long-Run Effects of Teaching Negotiation Skills to Adolescent Girls

Nava Ashraf, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Natalie Bau, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Corinne Low, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Xiaoyue Shan, National University of Singapore
4:00 pm
Break
4:15 pm

More Hours, More Work: Head Start Expansions Boost Maternal Employment

Chloe Gibbs, University of Notre Dame and NBER
Esra Kose, University of California, Merced
Maria Rosales-Rueda, University of Delaware and NBER
5:00 pm
Adjourn
6:00 pm
Group Dinner
One North Kitchen & Bar, 1 North Wacker Drive, Chicago, IL
Friday, May 1
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
9:00 am

The Intergenerational Persistence of Child Maltreatment

E. Jason Baron, Duke University and NBER
Ezra Goldstein, Georgia Institute of Technology
Christopher J. Mills, University of Notre Dame
9:45 am

Institutional Variation in Child Maltreatment Reporting

Brian Jacob, University of Michigan and NBER
E. Jason Baron, Duke University and NBER
Maria D. Fitzpatrick, Cornell University and NBER
Joseph J. Doyle Jr., Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Micah Y. Baum, University of Michigan
10:30 am
Break
10:45 am

The Production of Health from Cradle to Grave: Evidence from Sweden

Timothy Halliday, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Martin Karlsson, University of Duisburg-Essen
Adriana Lleras-Muney, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Bhashkar Mazumder, University of California, Irvine and NBER
Martin Fischer, Lund University
11:30 am

The Effects of Immigration Enforcement on Student Outcomes in a New Era of Immigration Policy in the United States

David N. Figlio, University of Rochester and NBER
Umut Özek, Independent Researcher
12:15 pm
Adjourn