Program on Children Meeting

Anna Aizer and Janet Currie, Organizers

March 2-3, 2023

Royal Sonesta Hotel, Riverfront Room

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, Stockholm School of Economics 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