Childrens and Economics of Education Program Meetings

Anna Aizer, Janet Currie, and Caroline M. Hoxby, Organizers

April 12-13, 2018

NBER, 2nd Floor Conference Room, 1050 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA

Thursday, April 12
	Childrens Program Meeting
8:00 am	Continental Breakfast
8:30 am	Diane E. Alexander, University of Pennsylvania and NBER Molly Schnell, Northwestern University and NBER Closing the Gap: The Impact of the Medicaid Primary Care Rate Increase on Access and Health
9:20 am	Emilia Simeonova, Johns Hopkins University and NBER Randall Akee, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER Elizabeth Costello, Duke University William Copeland, Duke University John B. Holbein, Brigham Young University Family Income and the Intergenerational Transmission of Civic Participation: Evidence from a Cash Transfer Program and Parent and Child Voting Behaviors
10:10 am	Break
10:30 am	Chloe N. East, University of Colorado Denver and NBER Marianne E. Page, University of California, Davis and NBER Sarah Miller, University of Michigan and NBER Laura R. Wherry, New York University and NBER Multi-generational Impacts of Childhood Access to the Safety Net: Early Life Exposure to Medicaid and the Next Generation's Health
11:20 am	Timothy Halliday, University of Hawaii at Manoa Bhashkar Mazumder, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Ashley Wong, Tilburg University Intergenerational Health Mobility in the US
12:10 pm	Lunch
1:40 pm	Francisco Gallego, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile Ofer Malamud, Northwestern University and NBER Cristian Pop-Eleches, Columbia University and NBER Parental Monitoring and Children's Internet Use: The Role of Information, Control, and Cues
2:30 pm	Break
2:50 pm	Martha J. Bailey, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER Shuqiao Sun, The World Bank Brenden D. Timpe, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Prep School for Poor Kids: The Long-Run Impacts of Head Start on Human Capital and Self-Sufficiency
3:40 pm	Diva Dhar, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Tarun Jain, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad Seema Jayachandran, Princeton University and NBER Reshaping Adolescents' Gender Attitudes: Evidence from a School-Based Experiment in India
4:30 pm	Adjourn - Shuttle Vans Depart from the NBER for the Royal Sonesta Hotel
5:30 pm	Group Dinner - Hotel Marlowe, Muse Salon, 25 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA (across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel)
Friday, April 13
	Economics of Education Program Meeting
8:00 am	Continental Breakfast
8:30 am	Stephanie Cellini, George Washington University and NBER Rajeev Darolia, University of Kentucky Lesley J. Turner, University of Chicago and NBER Where Do Students Go when For-Profit Colleges Lose Federal Aid?
9:25 am	Peter S. Bergman, University of Texas at Austin and NBER Magdalena Bennett Colomer, University of Texas at Austin Better Together? Social Networks in Truancy and the Targeting of Treatment
10:20 am	Break
10:35 am	Rebecca A. Johnson, Princeton University Dalton Conley, Princeton University and NBER Tags and a Leaky Pipeline in School Districts' Allocations to Students
11:30 am	Karthik Muralidharan, University of California, San Diego and NBER Abhijeet Singh, Stockholm School of Economics Understanding the Flailing State: Experimental Evidence from a Large-Scale School Governance Improvement Program in India
12:25 pm	Lunch
1:25 pm	Evan Riehl, Cornell University and NBER Fairness in College Admission Exams: From Test Score Gaps to Earnings Inequality
2:10 pm	Meltem Daysal, University of Copenhagen Todd Elder, University of Michigan Judith K. Hellerstein, University of Maryland and NBER Scott A. Imberman, Michigan State University and NBER Chiara Orsini, London School of Economics Parental Human Capital Traits and Autism Spectrum Disorder in Children
3:05 pm	Adjourn