Thursday, July 28

8:30 am

Cool to be Smart or Smart to be Cool? Understanding Peer Pressure in Education

Leonardo Bursztyn, University of Chicago and NBER
Georgy Egorov, Northwestern University and NBER
Robert T. Jensen, Yale University and NBER

9:20 am

The Impact of Extended Reproductive Time Horizons: Evidence from Israel's Expansion of Access to IVF

Corinne S. Low, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Naomi Gershoni, Ben Gurion University of the Negev

10:30 am

Children and Gender Inequality: Evidence from Denmark

Henrik Kleven, Princeton University and NBER
Camille Landais, London School of Economics
jakob sogaard, University of Copenhagen and CEBI

11:20 am

Welfare Reform and the Intergenerational Transmission of Dependence

Robert Paul Hartley, University of Kentucky
Carlos Lamarche, University of Kentucky
James P. Ziliak, University of Kentucky

1:15 pm

Is there an Nth of the Month Effect? The Timing of SNAP Issuance, Food Expenditures, and Grocery Prices

Jacob S. Goldin, University of Chicago and NBER
Tatiana Homonoff, New York University and NBER
Katherine H. Meckel, University of California, San Diego and NBER

2:05 pm

Moved to Opportunity: The Long-Run Effect of Public Housing Demolition on Labor Market Outcomes of Children

Eric Chyn, University of Texas at Austin and NBER

3:10 pm

The Impact of Scheduling Birth Early on Infant Health

Cristina Borra, Universidad de Sevilla

4:00 pm

The Effect of Childhood Savings Accounts on Household Spending

Katie Fitzpatrick, University of Seattle

Friday, July 29

8:30 am

Workfare and Human Capital Investment: Evidence from India

Manisha Shah, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Bryce Millett Steinberg, Brown University and NBER

9:20 am

Are Different Early Investments Complements or Substitutes? Long-Run and Intergenerational Evidence from Denmark

Maya Rossin-Slater, Stanford University and NBER
Miriam Wüst, University of Copenhagen

10:30 am

Supplemental Security Income and Child Outcomes: Evidence from Birth Weight Eligibility Cutoffs

Melanie E. Guldi, University of Central Florida
Amelia A. Hawkins, Brandeis University
Jeffrey Hemmeter, Social Security Administration
Lucie Schmidt, Smith College and NBER

11:20 am

The Impact of Women’s Health Clinic Closures on Fertility

Yao Lu, Analysis Group, Inc.

1:10 pm

The Effects of a Universal Child Care Reform on Child Health - Evidence from Sweden

Gerard van den Berg, University of Groningen
Bettina Siflinger, Tilburg University

2:00 pm

Economic Growth and Childbearing in the Short- and Long-Run

Shoumitro Chatterjee, Johns Hopkins University
Tom Vogl, University of California, San Diego and NBER

3:20 pm

The Lasting Legacy of Seasonal Influenza: In-utero Exposure and Human Capital Development.

Hannes Schwandt, Northwestern University and NBER

4:10 pm

When It Rains It Pours: The Long-run Economics Impacts of Salt Iodization in the United States

Achyuta Adhvaryu, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Steven A. Bednar, Elon University
Teresa Molina, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Quynh T. Nguyen, World Bank
Anant Nyshadham, University of Michigan and NBER