Program on Children Meeting

Anna Aizer and Janet Currie, Organizers

May 12-13, 2022

Cambridge, MA and on Zoom.us

Thursday, May 12
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	Helena Svaleryd, Uppsala University Evelina Björkegren, Stockholm University Jonas Vlachos, Stockholm University The Impact of the COVID-19 School Closure on Adolescents’ Use of Mental Healthcare Services in Sweden
9:50 am	Todd R. Jones, Mississippi State University Ezra Karger, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago School and Crime
10:40 am	Break
11:00 am	Yotam Shem-Tov, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER Steven Raphael, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Alissa Skog, University of California, Berkeley Can Restorative Justice Conferencing Reduce Recidivism? Evidence From the Make-it-Right Program
11:50 am	Anjali Adukia, University of Chicago and NBER Benjamin Feigenberg, University of Illinois Chicago and NBER Fatemeh Momeni, University of Chicago From Retributive to Restorative: An Alternative Approach to Justice
12:40 pm	Lunch
1:40 pm	Peter Conner, Karolinska Institutet Liran Einav, Stanford University and NBER Amy Finkelstein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Petra Persson, Stanford University and NBER Heidi L. Williams, Dartmouth College and NBER Targeting Precision Medicine: Evidence from Prenatal Screening
2:30 pm	Break
2:50 pm	Randall Akee, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER Maggie R. Jones, U.S. Census Bureau Emilia Simeonova, Johns Hopkins University and NBER Tribal Casinos, Economic Wellbeing, and Intergenerational Mobility
3:40 pm	Matthew Staiger, Opportunity Insights The Intergenerational Transmission of Employers and the Earnings of Young Workers
4:30 pm	Adjourn
5:30 pm	Reception and Group Dinner - Longfellow A
Friday, May 13
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	Achyuta Adhvaryu, University of California, San Diego and NBER N. Meltem Daysal, University of Copenhagen Snaebjorn Gunnsteinsson, Juno Insurance Group, PBC Teresa Molina, University of Hawaii at Manoa Herdis Steingrimsdottir, Copenhagen Business School The Long Run Impacts of Child Health on Parents’ Economic and Mental Wellbeing
9:50 am	E. Jason Baron, Duke University and NBER Max Gross, Mathematica Is There a Foster Care-To-Prison Pipeline? Evidence from Quasi-Randomly Assigned Investigators
10:40 am	Break
11:00 am	Ryan Cooper, University of Chicago Joseph J. Doyle Jr., Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Andrés P. Hojman, Universidad Catolica de Chile Legal Aid in Child Welfare: Evidence from a Randomized Trial of Mi Abogado (slides)
11:50 am	Lunch
1:00 pm	Alex Eble, Columbia University and NBER Maya Escueta, American Institutes for Research When Bootstraps Aren’t Enough: Demand, Supply, and Learning in a Very Low-Income Context
1:50 pm	Christopher S. Carpenter, Vanderbilt University and NBER Brandyn F. Churchill, American University "There She Is, Your Ideal" : Negative Social Comparisons and Health Behaviors
2:40 pm	Adjourn