Children Program Meeting

Anna Aizer and Janet Currie, Organizers

May 2-3, 2019

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

Conference Code of Conduct

Thursday, May 2
8:00 am
Continental Breakfast
8:30 am

Pollution and the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital: Evidence from the 1970 Clean Air Act
9:20 am

The Causal Impact of Socio-Emotional Skills Training on Educational Success
10:10 am
Break
10:30 am

Social Signaling and Childhood Immunization: A Field Experiment in Sierra Leone
11:20 am

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

Brain vs. Brawn: Child Labor, Human Capital Investment, and the Role of Dynamic Complementarities
2:50 pm

Fertility Trends in the United States, 1980-2017: The Role of Unintended Births
3:40 pm
Break
4:00 pm

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

The Causal Impact of Removing Children from Abusive and Neglectful Homes
9:20 am

Brothers Increase Women's Gender Conformity
10:10 am
Break
10:30 am

Female Officers, Gender Violence and Children: Evidence from Women Justice Centers in Peru
11:20 am

Curriculum Reforms and Infant Health
12:10 pm
Adjourn