SI 2024 Children and Families
Organized by Janet Currie and Anna Aizer
July 25-26, 2024
Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA and Zoom

Thursday, July 25

8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

9:00 am

The Intergenerational Effects of Permanent Legal Status

Elizabeth U. Cascio, Dartmouth College and NBER
Paul Cornell, Dartmouth College
Ethan G. Lewis, Dartmouth College and NBER

9:45 am

Managing Migration Crises: Evidence from Surge Facilities and Unaccompanied Minor Children Flows

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, University of California, Merced
Jose R. Bucheli, University of Texas at El Paso
Mary Lopez, Occidental College

10:30 am

Break

11:00 am

Birth Order in the Very Long-run: Estimating First-born Premiums between 1850 and 1940

Krzysztof Karbownik, Emory University and NBER
Angela Cools, Davidson College
Siobhan M. O'Keefe, Davidson College
Joseph Price, Brigham Young University and NBER
Anthony Wray, University of Southern Denmark
Jared Grooms, Brigham Young University

11:45 am

Egg Timers

11:45 am

Maternal Dismissals during Pregnancy and the Health of Newborns

Stefano Cellini, University of Surrey
Martin Foureaux Koppensteiner, University of Surrey
Livia Menezes, University of Birmingham

11:55 am

Long-term Pre-conception Exposure to Local Violence and Infant Health

Eunsik Chang, Mississippi State University
Sandra Orozco-Aleman, Mississippi State University
María Padilla-Romo, University of Tennessee and NBER

12:05 am

Intergenerational Effects of Opioid Exposure and Child Health, Human Capital, and Well-being Using Linked Microdata (slides)

Jeffrey Hicks, University of Toronto
Gaëlle Simard-Duplain, Carleton University
Jonathan Zhang, Duke University and NBER
Angela Zheng, McMaster University

Lunch

Egg Timers

1:15 pm

The Effects of Lump-Sum Food Vouchers on Spending, Hardship and Health

Lauren L. Bauer, The Brookings Institution
Krista J. Ruffini, Georgetown University and NBER
Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, Georgetown University and NBER

1:25 pm

Effects of Intra-Couple Bargaining Power on Maternal and Neonatal Health

Krzysztof Zaremba, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)

1:35 pm

Alcohol in the Family: How an Anti-alcohol Campaign Transformed Marriage and Childbearing (slides)

Elizabeth Brainerd, Brandeis University
Olga Malkova, University of California, Irvine

1:45 pm

The Intergenerational Impact of Financial Reparations: Evidence from the Cherokee Nation (slides)

Achyuta Adhvaryu, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Randall Akee, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Alexander J. Fertig, University of Michigan
Emilia Simeonova, Johns Hopkins University and NBER
Huayu Xu, University of Michigan

Break

3:00 pm

Access to Abortion Care and Low-Income Women’s Health: Evidence from Medicaid Beneficiaries (slides)

Katja Hofmann, Stanford University
Caitlin K. Myers, Middlebury College and NBER
Maya Rossin-Slater, Stanford University and NBER
Becky Staiger, University of California, Berkeley

3:45 pm

The Negligible Effect of Free Contraception on Fertility: Experimental Evidence from Burkina Faso

Pascaline Dupas, Princeton University and NBER
Seema Jayachandran, Princeton University and NBER
Adriana Lleras-Muney, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Pauline Rossi, CREST - Ecole Polytechnique

Adjourn

Friday, July 26

Coffee and Pastries

9:00 am

Effects of a Monthly Unconditional Cash Transfer Starting at Birth on Family Investments Starting at Birth Among U.S. Families with Low Income: Four Year Follow-Up Findings from the Baby's First Years Study

Lisa A. Gennetian, Duke University and NBER
Greg Duncan, University of California, Irvine
Katherine Magnuson, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Kimberly Noble, Columbia University
Nathan A. Fox, University of Maryland, College Park
Sarah Halpern-Meekin, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Hirokazu Yoshikawa, New York University

9:45 am

In-Kind Transfers and Early Childhood Development: Evidence from a Housing Assistance Lottery

Robert Collinson, University of Notre Dame and NBER
Chloe Gibbs, University of Notre Dame and NBER

Break

10:45 am

Work Requirements with No Teeth Still Bite: Disenrollment and Labor Supply Effects of SNAP General Work Requirements

Jason B. Cook, University of Utah
Chloe N. East, University of Colorado Denver and NBER

11:30 am

Sent Away: The Long-Term Effects of Slum Clearance on Children (slides)

Fernanda Rojas-Ampuero, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Felipe Carrera, Reed College

Lunch

Egg Timers

1:15 pm

Minimum Wage, Worker Quality, and Consumer Well-Being: Evidence from the Child Care Market

Jessica H. Brown, University of South Carolina - Columbia
Chris M. Herbst, Arizona State University

1:25 pm

Casting Roles, Casting Votes: Lessons from Sesame Street on Media Representation and Voting

Claire Duquennois, University of Pittsburgh
Jiangnan Zeng, University of Pittsburgh

1:35 pm

Backcasting Population Data for Children in the 1960s with Supervised Learning

Esra Kose, University of California, Merced
Henry Manley, Stanford University
Douglas L. Miller, Cornell University and NBER

1:45 pm

Do Enrollment Gains From Conditional Cash Transfers Sustain Disruption? Evidence From Mexico

Fernanda Marquez-Padilla, El Colegio de Mexico
Susan W. Parker, University of Maryland, College Park
Tom Vogl, University of California, San Diego and NBER

1:55 pm

Where the Rubber Meets the Road: Examining Inequities in Summer Youth Employment Programs

Alicia S. Modestino, Northeastern University
Mindy Marks, Northeastern University
Hanna G. Hoover, University of Michigan

2:15 pm

A Matter of Time? Measuring Effects of Public Schooling Expansions on Families’ Constraints

Chloe Gibbs, University of Notre Dame and NBER
Jocelyn S. Wikle, Brigham Young University
Riley Wilson, Brigham Young University

3:00 pm

Adjourn