SI 2016 Children

Janet Currie and Anna Aizer, Organizers

July 28-29, 2016

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Thursday, July 28
8:30 am	Leonardo Bursztyn, University of Chicago and NBER Georgy Egorov, Northwestern University and NBER Robert T. Jensen, Yale University and NBER Cool to be Smart or Smart to be Cool? Understanding Peer Pressure in Education
9:20 am	Corinne S. Low, University of Pennsylvania and NBER Naomi Gershoni, Ben Gurion University of the Negev The Impact of Extended Reproductive Time Horizons: Evidence from Israel's Expansion of Access to IVF
10:30 am	Henrik Kleven, Princeton University and NBER Camille Landais, London School of Economics jakob sogaard, University of Copenhagen and CEBI Children and Gender Inequality: Evidence from Denmark
11:20 am	Robert Paul Hartley, University of Kentucky Carlos Lamarche, University of Kentucky James P. Ziliak, University of Kentucky Welfare Reform and the Intergenerational Transmission of Dependence
1:15 pm	Jacob S. Goldin, University of Chicago and NBER Tatiana Homonoff, New York University and NBER Katherine H. Meckel, University of California, San Diego and NBER Is there an Nth of the Month Effect? The Timing of SNAP Issuance, Food Expenditures, and Grocery Prices
2:05 pm	Eric Chyn, University of Texas at Austin and NBER Moved to Opportunity: The Long-Run Effect of Public Housing Demolition on Labor Market Outcomes of Children
3:10 pm	Cristina Borra, Universidad de Sevilla The Impact of Scheduling Birth Early on Infant Health
4:00 pm	Katie Fitzpatrick, University of Seattle The Effect of Childhood Savings Accounts on Household Spending
Friday, July 29
8:30 am	Manisha Shah, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Bryce Millett Steinberg, Brown University and NBER Workfare and Human Capital Investment: Evidence from India
9:20 am	Maya Rossin-Slater, Stanford University and NBER Miriam Wüst, University of Copenhagen Are Different Early Investments Complements or Substitutes? Long-Run and Intergenerational Evidence from Denmark
10:30 am	Melanie E. Guldi, University of Central Florida Amelia A. Hawkins, Brandeis University Jeffrey Hemmeter, Social Security Administration Lucie Schmidt, Smith College and NBER Supplemental Security Income and Child Outcomes: Evidence from Birth Weight Eligibility Cutoffs
11:20 am	Yao Lu, Analysis Group, Inc. The Impact of Women’s Health Clinic Closures on Fertility
1:10 pm	Gerard van den Berg, University of Bristol Bettina Siflinger, Tilburg University The Effects of a Universal Child Care Reform on Child Health - Evidence from Sweden
2:00 pm	Shoumitro Chatterjee, Johns Hopkins University Tom Vogl, University of California, San Diego and NBER Economic Growth and Childbearing in the Short- and Long-Run
3:20 pm	Hannes Schwandt, Northwestern University and NBER The Lasting Legacy of Seasonal Influenza: In-utero Exposure and Human Capital Development.
4:10 pm	Achyuta Adhvaryu, University of California, San Diego and NBER Steven A. Bednar, Elon University Teresa Molina, University of Hawaii at Manoa Quynh T. Nguyen, World Bank Anant Nyshadham, University of Michigan and NBER When It Rains It Pours: The Long-run Economics Impacts of Salt Iodization in the United States