Program on Children Meeting

Anna Aizer and Janet Currie, Organizers

March 11-12, 2021

on Zoom.us

Conference Code of Conduct

Thursday, March 11
1:00 pm
Claire Duquennois, University of Pittsburgh

Fictional Money, Real Costs: Impacts of Financial Salience on Disadvantaged Students
1:45 pm
Break
1:50 pm
Nishith Prakash, Northeastern University
Nathan Fiala, University of Connecticut
kritika narula, Yale University
Ana Garcia-Hernandez, University of Rosario

Wheels of Change: Transforming Girl's Lives with Bicycles
2:35 pm
Break
2:55 pm
Belinda Archibong, Johns Hopkins University and NBER
Francis Annan, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

'We Are Not Guinea Pigs': The Effects of Negative News on Vaccine Compliance
3:40 pm
Break
3:45 pm
Petra Persson, Stanford University and NBER
Xinyao Qiu, Stanford University
Maya Rossin-Slater, Stanford University and NBER

Family Spillover Effects of Marginal Diagnoses: The Case of ADHD
4:30 pm
Adjourn
Friday, March 12
1:00 pm
Lisa Gennetian, Duke University and NBER
Katherine Magnuson, University of Wisconsin
Kimberly Noble, Columbia University
Greg Duncan, University of California, Irvine
Nathan Fox, University of Maryland
Sarah Halpern-Meekin, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Hirokazu Yoshikawa, New York University

Impacts on Economic Well Being of an Unconditional Cash Transfer during a Child’s First Year: Findings from the Baby’s First Years Study
1:45 pm
Break
1:50 pm
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, University of Sydney
Tiffany Ho, University of Sydney
Nicolás Salamanca, University of Melbourne

Parental Responses to Children’s Achievement Test Results (slides)
2:35 pm
Break
2:55 pm
Patrick Agte, Yale University
Arielle Bernhardt, New York University
Erica M. Field, Duke University and NBER
Rohini Pande, Yale University and NBER
Natalia Rigol, Harvard University and NBER

Investing in the Next Generation: The Long-Run Educational Impacts of a Liquidity Shock
3:40 pm
Break
3:45 pm
Roland G. Fryer Jr, Harvard University
Steven D. Levitt, University of Chicago and NBER
John A. List, University of Chicago and NBER
Anya Samek, University of California, San Diego and NBER

Reducing the Academic Achievement Gap through a Summer Pre-Kindergarten Program
4:30 pm
Adjourn