The Economics of Caregiving

Claudia Goldin, Claudia Olivetti, Rohini Pande, and Alessandra Voena, Organizers

June 4, 2021

Conference Code of Conduct

Monday, May 11
Bilge Erten, Northeastern University
Pinar Keskin, Wellesley College
Silvia Prina, Northeastern University

Social Distancing, Stimulus Payments, and Domestic Violence: Evidence from the U.S. during COVID-19
Friday, June 4
9:00 am
Opening remarks
MORNING SESSION
9:05 am
Nicole Maestas, Harvard University and NBER
Matt Messel, Social Security Administration
Yulya Truskinovsky, Wayne State University

Caregiving and Labor Force Participation: New Evidence from Administrative Data (slides)
9:30 am
Q&A for Maestas et al.
9:40 am
Break
9:55 am
Karen Shen, Harvard University

Who Benefits from Public Financing of Home Care for Low-Income Seniors?
10:20 am
Kuan-Ming Chen, National Taiwan University

Understanding Adult Children's Labor Supply Responses to Parents' Long-Term Care Needs
10:45 am
Q&A for Shen and Chen papers
11:00 am
Break
11:15 am
Pierre Pora, Insee - Crest

Keep Working and Spend Less? Collective Childcare and Parental Earnings in France
11:40 am
Kjetil Bjorvatn, Norwegian School of Economics
Denise Ferris, BRAC
Selim Gulesci, Trinity College Dublin
Arne Nasgowitz, Norges Handelshøyskole
Vincent Somville, Norges Handelshøyskole
Lore Vandewalle, Graduate Institute, Geneva

Childcare and Cash Grants for Labor Supply and Wellbeing: Experimental Evidence from Uganda
12:05 pm
Q&A for Pora and Bjorvatn et al. papers
12:20 pm
"Lunch" or "Dinner" Break
SPECIAL SESSION:
1:20 pm
Victimization, Gender, and Covid-19 Grant Recipients (6-minute) Egg-Timers
(See Small Grants page for Abstracts)
Amalia R. Miller, University of Virginia and NBER
Carmit Segal, University of Zurich
Melissa Spencer, University of Richmond

Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Domestic Violence in US Cities
Keith Finlay, U.S. Census Bureau
Michael G. Mueller-Smith, University of Michigan and NBER
Brittany Street, University of Missouri

The Determinants and Aftermath of Victimization in U.S. Households and the Implications of Covid-19
Erica M. Field, Duke University and NBER
Ursula T. Aldana, Institute for Peruvian Studies

The Impact of Covid-19 on Intimate Partner Violence in Urban Peru
Rebecca Thornton, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Scott Cunningham, Baylor University
Gregory DeAngelo, Claremont Graduate University
Yunie Le, Claremont Graduate University
Anuar Assamidanov, Claremont Graduate University

Covid-19, Shelter-in-Place, and Domestic Violence
Sarah J. Baird, The George Washington University
Manisha Shah, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

The Shadow Pandemic: COVID-19 and Violence against Adolescent Girls in LMICs
Bilge Erten, Northeastern University
Pinar Keskin, Wellesley College
Silvia Prina, Northeastern University

Social Distancing, Stimulus Payments, and Domestic Violence: Evidence from the U.S. during COVID-19
AFTERNOON SESSION
2:20 pm
Pelin Akyol, e61 Institute
Zeynep Yilmaz, Bilkent University

Effects of Grandmothers' Proximity on Mothers' Labor Force Participation
2:45 pm
Madhulika Khanna, Georgetown University
Divya Pandey, University of Virginia

Reinforcing Gender Norms or Easing Housework Burdens? The Role of Mothers-in-Law in Determining Women’s Labor Force Participation
3:10 pm
Q&A for Akyol-Yilmaz and Khanna-Pandey papers
3:25 pm
Break
3:40 pm
Orazio Attanasio, Yale University and NBER
Ricardo Paes de Barros, Insper
Pedro Carneiro, University College London
David K. Evans, Center for Global Development
Lycia Lima, Fundação Getulio Vargas - Sao Paulo School of Economics
Pedro Olinto, World Bank
Norbert Schady, The World Bank

Public Childcare, Child Development, and Labor Market Outcomes
4:05 pm
Q&A for Attanasio et al.
4:15 pm
María José Prados, University of Southern California
Gema Zamarro, University of Arkansas

School Re-openings, Childcare Arrangements, and Labor Outcomes During COVID-19
4:40 pm
Q&A for Prados et al.
4:50 pm
Adjourn