Children Program Meeting

Anna Aizer and Janet Currie, Organizers

May 2-3, 2019

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

Thursday, May 2
8:00 am	Continental Breakfast
8:30 am	Jonathan M. Colmer, University of Virginia John L. Voorheis, U.S. Census Bureau Pollution and the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital: Evidence from the 1970 Clean Air Act
9:20 am	Giuseppe Sorrenti, University of Amsterdam Ulf Zoelitz, University of Zurich The Causal Impact of Socio-Emotional Skills Training on Educational Success
10:10 am	Break
10:30 am	Anne Karing, University of Chicago Social Signaling and Childhood Immunization: A Field Experiment in Sierra Leone
11:20 am	Jonas Lau-Jensen Hirani, University of Copenhagen Hans Henrik Sievertsen, The Danish Center for Social Science Research Miriam Wüst, University of Copenhagen Beyond Treatment Exposure: The Timing of Early Interventions and Children's Health
12:10 pm	Lunch Speaker: John Gabrieli, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Environmental Influences on the Development of the Human Brain
2:00 pm	Natalie Bau, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER Martin Rotemberg, New York University Manisha Shah, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Bryce Steinberg, Brown University and NBER Brain vs. Brawn: Child Labor, Human Capital Investment, and the Role of Dynamic Complementarities
2:50 pm	Kasey Buckles, University of Notre Dame and NBER Melanie E. Guldi, University of Central Florida Lucie Schmidt, Smith College and NBER Fertility Trends in the United States, 1980-2017: The Role of Unintended Births
3:40 pm	Break
4:00 pm	Andrew C. Barr, Texas A&M University and NBER Alexander A. Smith, West Point The Effect of Income During Infancy: Evidence from the EITC (slides)
4:50 pm	Adjourn
6:30 pm	Dinner Bambara Restaurant (across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel) 25 Edwin H. Land Blvd. Cambridge, MA
Friday, May 3
8:00 am	Continental Breakfast
8:30 am	Anthony Bald, Harvard University Eric Chyn, University of Texas at Austin and NBER Justine S. Hastings, University of Washington Margarita Machelett, Bank of Spain The Causal Impact of Removing Children from Abusive and Neglectful Homes
9:20 am	Anne Ardila Brenoe, University of Zurich Brothers Increase Women's Gender Conformity
10:10 am	Break
10:30 am	Maria Micaela Sviatschi, Princeton University and NBER Iva Trako, World Bank Female Officers, Gender Violence and Children: Evidence from Women Justice Centers in Peru
11:20 am	Bahadir Dursun, Newcastle University Ozkan Eren, University of California at Riverside My T. Nguyen, Louisiana State University Curriculum Reforms and Infant Health
12:10 pm	Adjourn