Program on Children Meeting

Anna Aizer and Janet Currie, Organizers

March 2-3, 2023

Royal Sonesta Hotel, Riverfront Room

Conference Code of Conduct

Thursday, March 2
9:15 am
Continental Breakfast
10:00 am
Michael T. Baker, United States Military Academy
Susan P. Carter, United States Military Academy
Abigail K. Wozniak, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

Peer Effects and Marriage Formation
10:50 am
Break
11:00 am
Michael G. Mueller-Smith, University of Michigan and NBER
Benjamin Pyle, Boston University
Caroline Walker, US Census Bureau

Estimating the Impact of the Age of Criminal Majority: Decomposing Multiple Treatments in a Regression Discontinuity Framework
11:50 am
Alex Bell, Georgia State University
Neviana Petkova, Department of the Treasury

Long-Term Impacts of Mentoring for Disadvantaged Youth
12:40 pm
Lunch
1:40 pm
Michelle M. Marcus, Vanderbilt University and NBER

Burying the Lead: Effects of Public Lead Service Line Replacements on Blood Lead Levels and Property Values
2:30 pm
Break
2:50 pm
Claudia Persico, American University and NBER

Can Pollution Cause Poverty? The Effects of Pollution on Educational, Health and Economic Outcomes
3:40 pm
Samuel W. Arenberg, University of Houston
Seth Neller, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Ashes to Ashes: The Lifelong Consequences of Early-Life Wildfire Exposure
4:30 pm
Adjourn
5:00 pm
Group Dinner at the Royal Sonesta Hotel, Room Charles B
Friday, March 3
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
9:00 am
Katherine P. Rittenhouse, University of Texas at Austin

Income and Child Maltreatment: Evidence from a Discontinuity in Tax Benefits
9:50 am
Lelys I. Dinarte Diaz, The World Bank
Saravana Ravindran, National University of Singapore
Manisha Shah, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Shawn M. Powers, The World Bank
Helen Baker-Henningham, Bangor University

Violent Discipline and Child Behavior: The Short- and Medium-term Effects of Virtual Parenting Support to Caregivers in Jamaica (slides)
10:40 am
Break
11:00 am
Ariel Kalil, University of Chicago
Haoxuan Liu, University of Chicago
Susan Mayer, University of Chicago
Derek Rury, University of California at Davis
Rohen Shah, University of Chicago

Nudging or Nagging? Conflicting Effects of Behavioral Tools (slides)
11:50 am
Lunch
1:00 pm
Johannes Bos, American Institute for Research
Abu S. Shonchoy, Florida International University
Saravana Ravindran, National University of Singapore
Akib Khan, Uppsala University

Early Childhood Human Capital Formation at Scale
1:50 pm
Stephen B. Billings, University of Colorado
Mark Hoekstra, Baylor University and NBER
Gabriel Pons Rotger, The Danish Center for Social Science Research

The Scale and Nature of Neighborhood Effects on Children: Evidence from a Danish Social Housing Experiment
2:40 pm
Adjourn