SI 2023 Children

Janet Currie and Anna Aizer, Organizers

July 27-28, 2023

Parkview Room

Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA and zoom.us

Conference Code of Conduct

Thursday, July 27
9:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
10:00 am
E. Jason Baron, Duke University and NBER
Joseph J. Doyle Jr., Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Natalia Emanuel, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Peter Hull, Brown University and NBER
Joseph P. Ryan, University of Michigan

Racial Discrimination in Child Protection
10:45 am
Mo Alloush, Hamilton College
Emily Conover, Hamilton College
Susan Godlonton, Williams College

Income and Corporal Punishment
11:30 am
Break
Egg-Timer Presentations
11:45 am
Henning Hermes, DICE, Heinrich-Heine-University of Duesseldorf
Philipp Lergetporer, Technical University of Munich
Fabian Mierisch, KU Eichstaett-Ingolstadt
Frauke Peter, DZHW Hannover
Simon Wiederhold, Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH)

Discrimination on the Child Care Market: A Nationwide Field Experiment
11:55 am
Analia Schlosser, Tel Aviv University
Elad Demalach, Tel Aviv University
Tatiana Y. Baron, Ben Gurion University

Short and Long-Term Effects of Universal Preschool: Evidence from the Arab Population in Israel
12:05 pm
Ariel Kalil, University of Chicago
Hope Corman, NBER
Dhaval M. Dave, Bentley University and NBER
Ofira Schwartz-Soicher, Princeton University
Nancy Reichman, Rutgers University

Welfare Reform and the Quality of Young Children's Home Environments
12:15 pm
Kuan-Ming Chen, National Taiwan University
Ming-Jen Lin, National Taiwan University
Wei-Lun Lo, University of Rochester

Impacts of Childhood Disability on Family: Labor, Marriage, Fertility, and Depression
12:25 pm
Connor P. Cole, U.S. Department of the Treasury
Ruidi Huang, Southern Methodist University
Erik J. Mayer, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Corbin L. Miller, Internal Revenue Service
Barton Willage, University of Delaware and NBER

Intergenerational Effects of Unemployment Insurance (slides)
12:35 pm
Lunch
1:25 pm
Lisa J. Dettling, Federal Reserve Board
Melissa Schettini Kearney, University of Maryland and NBER

The Cyclicality of Births and Babies’ Health, Revisited: Evidence from Unemployment Insurance
2:10 pm
Kate Pennington, U.S. Census Bureau
Joanna Venator, Boston College

Reproductive Policy Uncertainty and Defensive Investments in Contraception
2:55 pm
Break
3:15 pm
Gabriella Conti, University College London
Sören Kliem, University for Applied Science Jena
MAlte Sandner, Institute for Employment Research

The Effect of Early Home Visiting on Maternal and Child Mental Health at Primary School Age
4:00 pm
Andrew C. Barr, Texas A&M University and NBER
Jonathan Eggleston, U.S. Census Bureau
Alexander A. Smith, West Point

The Heterogeneous Long Run Effects of Universal Pre-K
4:45 pm
Adjourn
Friday, July 28
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am
Manasi Deshpande, University of Chicago and NBER
Alessandra Voena, Stanford University and NBER
Jason B. Weitze, Stanford University

How Disability Benefits in Early Life Affect Adult Outcomes
9:45 am
Valentina Duque, American University
Michael Gilraine, Simon Fraser University and NBER
Diana Oquendo, University of Los Andes
Fabio Sanchez, Universidad de los Andes

The Effects of Free Housing on Health, Wellbeing, and Healthcare Utilization
10:30 am
Break
10:45 am
Bokyung Kim, University of Connecticut

Substance Use Disorder Treatment and Human Capital: Evidence from At-Risk Youth
11:30 am
Break
Egg-Timer Presentations
11:45 am
Michael W. Walker, University of California, Berkeley
Alice H. Huang, University of California, Berkeley
Edward Miguel, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

Intergenerational Child Mortality Impacts of Deworming: Experimental Evidence from Two Decades of the Kenya Life Panel Survey
11:55 am
Jon Denton-Schneider, Clark University

Deworming as HIV Prevention for Young Women: Evidence from Zimbabwe
12:05 pm
Joan Calzada, Universitat de Barcelona
Meritxell Gisbert, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
Bernard Moscoso, CIEC-ESPOL Polytechnic University

The Hidden Cost of Bananas - The Effects of Pesticides on Newborns Health (slides)
12:15 pm
Sarah A G. Komisarow, Duke University

School-Based Support for Children’s Mental Health: Evidence from North Carolina (slides)
12:25 pm
Flavio Cunha, Rice University and NBER
Qinyou Hu, Rice University
Yiming Xia, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics
Naibao Zhao, RIEM, SWUFE

Reducing Bullying: Evidence from a Parental Involvement Program on Empathy Education
12:35 pm
Lunch
1:25 pm
Alexander Willén, Norwegian School of Economics
Barton Willage, University of Delaware and NBER
Pedro Carneiro, University College London
Kjell G. Salvanes, Norwegian School of Economics

Childhood Shocks Across Ages and Human Capital Formation
2:10 pm
Kasey Buckles, University of Notre Dame and NBER
Joseph Price, Brigham Young University and NBER
Zachary Ward, Baylor University and NBER
Haley E.B. Wilbert, University of Notre Dame

Family Trees and Falling Apples: Intergenerational Mobility Estimates from U.S. Genealogy Data
2:55 pm
Adjourn