Thursday, July 23

8:30 am

Do-Gooders and Go-Getters: Career Incentives, Selection and Performance in Public Service Delivery

Nava Ashraf, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Oriana Bandiera, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Scott S. Lee, Harvard University

9:20 am

The Long Run Effects of Labor Migration on Human Capital Formation in Communities of Origin

Taryn Dinkelman, University of Notre Dame and NBER
Martine Mariotti, The Australian National University

10:30 am

Why Do Wealthy Parents Have Wealthy Children?

Andreas Fagereng, BI Norwegian Business School
Magne Mogstad, University of Chicago and NBER
Marte Rønning

11:20 am

The Great Escape: Intergenerational Mobility Since 1940

Nathaniel Hilger, Brown University

1:15 pm

Nature versus Nurture in the Intergenerational Transmission of Health: Lessons from a Large Sample of Adoptees

Mikael Lindahl, University of Gothenburg
Evelina Lundberg, Uppsala University
Mårten Palme, Stockholm University
Emilia Simeonova, Johns Hopkins University and NBER

2:05 pm

On The Origins of Risk-Taking

Sandra Black, Columbia University and NBER
Paul J. Devereux, University College Dublin
Petter Lundborg, Lund University
Kaveh Majlesi, Monash University

3:10 pm

The Gendered Impact of Young Children's Health on Human Capital: Evidence from the Turkish National Immunization Campaign

Marcella Alsan, Harvard University and NBER

4:00 pm

Bride Price and the Returns to Education for Women

Nava Ashraf, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Natalie Bau, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Nathan Nunn, University of British Columbia and NBER
Alessandra Voena, Stanford University and NBER

Friday, July 24

8:30 am

Canary in a Coal Mine: Impact of Mid-20th Century Air Pollution on Infant Mortality and Property Values

Karen Clay, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
Joshua A. Lewis, University of Montreal
Edson R. Severnini, Boston College and NBER

9:20 am

Lead Exposure and Racial Disparities in Test Scores

Anna Aizer, Brown University and NBER
Janet Currie, Princeton University and NBER
Peter Simon

10:30 am

Is the Cure Worse than the Disease? Unintended Consequences of Fraud Reduction in Transfer Programs

Katherine H. Meckel, University of California, San Diego and NBER

11:20 am

Fertility Responses of High-Skilled Native Women to Immigrant Inflows

Delia Furtado, University of Connecticut

1:10 pm

Sex, Drugs, and ADHD: The Effects of ADHD Pharmacological Treatment on Teens' Risky Behaviors

Anna V. Chorniy, Northwestern University
Leah Kitashima, Clemson University