SI 2024 Children and Families

Janet Currie and Anna Aizer, Organizers

July 25-26, 2024

Parkview

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

Conference Code of Conduct

Thursday, July 25
8:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am
Elizabeth U. Cascio, Dartmouth College and NBER
Paul Cornell, Dartmouth College
Ethan G. Lewis, Dartmouth College and NBER

The Intergenerational Effects of Permanent Legal Status
9:45 am
Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, University of California, Merced
Jose R. Bucheli, University of Texas at El Paso
Mary Lopez, Occidental College

Managing Migration Crises: Evidence from Surge Facilities and Unaccompanied Minor Children Flows
10:30 am
Break
11:00 am
Krzysztof Karbownik, Emory University and NBER
Angela Cools, Davidson College
Siobhan M. O'Keefe, Davidson College
Joseph Price, Brigham Young University and NBER
Anthony Wray, University of Southern Denmark
Jared Grooms, Brigham Young University

Birth Order in the Very Long-run: Estimating First-born Premiums between 1850 and 1940
11:45 am
Parkview
Egg Timers
11:45 am
Stefano Cellini, University of Surrey
Martin Foureaux Koppensteiner, University of Surrey
Livia Menezes, University of Birmingham

Maternal Dismissals during Pregnancy and the Health of Newborns
11:55 am
Eunsik Chang, Mississippi State University
Sandra Orozco-Aleman, Mississippi State University
María Padilla-Romo, University of Tennessee and NBER

Long-term Pre-conception Exposure to Local Violence and Infant Health
12:05 am
Jeffrey Hicks, University of Toronto
Gaëlle Simard-Duplain, Carleton University
Jonathan Zhang, Duke University and NBER
Angela Zheng, McMaster University

Intergenerational Effects of Opioid Exposure and Child Health, Human Capital, and Well-being Using Linked Microdata (slides)
Lunch
Parkview
Egg Timers
1:15 pm
Lauren L. Bauer, Brookings Institution
Krista J. Ruffini, Georgetown University and NBER
Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, Northwestern University and NBER

The Effects of Lump-Sum Food Vouchers on Spending, Hardship and Health
1:25 pm
Krzysztof Zaremba, ITAM

Effects of Intra-Couple Bargaining Power on Maternal and Neonatal Health
1:35 pm
Elizabeth Brainerd, Brandeis University
Olga Malkova, University of California, Irvine

Alcohol in the Family: How an Anti-alcohol Campaign Transformed Marriage and Childbearing (slides)
1:45 pm
Achyuta Adhvaryu, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Randall Akee, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Alexander J. Fertig, University of Michigan
Emilia Simeonova, Johns Hopkins University and NBER
Huayu Xu, University of Michigan

The Intergenerational Impact of Financial Reparations: Evidence from the Cherokee Nation (slides)
Break
3:00 pm
Katja Hofmann, Stanford University
Caitlin K. Myers, Middlebury College and NBER
Maya Rossin-Slater, Stanford University and NBER
Becky Staiger, University of California, Berkeley

Access to Abortion Care and Low-Income Women’s Health: Evidence from Medicaid Beneficiaries (slides)
3:45 pm
Pascaline Dupas, Princeton University and NBER
Seema Jayachandran, Princeton University and NBER
Adriana Lleras-Muney, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Pauline Rossi, CREST - Ecole Polytechnique

The Negligible Effect of Free Contraception on Fertility: Experimental Evidence from Burkina Faso
Adjourn
Friday, July 26
Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am
Lisa A. Gennetian, Duke University and NBER
Greg Duncan, University of California, Irvine
Katherine Magnuson, University of Wisconsin
Kimberly Noble, Columbia University
Nathan A. Fox, University of Maryland
Sarah Halpern-Meekin, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Hirokazu Yoshikawa, New York University

Effects of a Monthly Unconditional Cash Transfer Starting at Birth on Family Investments Starting at Birth Among U.S. Families with Low Income: Four Year Follow-Up Findings from the Baby's First Years Study
9:45 am
Robert Collinson, University of Notre Dame and NBER
Chloe Gibbs, University of Notre Dame

In-Kind Transfers and Early Childhood Development: Evidence from a Housing Assistance Lottery
Break
10:45 am
Jason B. Cook, University of Utah
Chloe N. East, University of Colorado Denver and NBER

Work Requirements with No Teeth Still Bite: Disenrollment and Labor Supply Effects of SNAP General Work Requirements
11:30 am
Fernanda Rojas-Ampuero, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Felipe Carrera, Reed College

Sent Away: The Long-Term Effects of Slum Clearance on Children (slides)
Lunch
Egg Timers
1:15 pm
Jessica H. Brown, University of South Carolina
Chris M. Herbst, Arizona State University

Minimum Wage, Worker Quality, and Consumer Well-Being: Evidence from the Child Care Market
1:25 pm
Claire Duquennois, University of Pittsburgh
Jiangnan Zeng, University of Pittsburgh

Casting Roles, Casting Votes: Lessons from Sesame Street on Media Representation and Voting
1:35 pm
Esra Kose, University of California, Merced
Henry Manley, NBER
Douglas L. Miller, Cornell University and NBER

Backcasting Population Data for Children in the 1960s with Supervised Learning
1:45 pm
Fernanda Marquez-Padilla, El Colegio de Mexico
Susan W. Parker, University of Maryland
Tom Vogl, University of California, San Diego and NBER

Do Enrollment Gains From Conditional Cash Transfers Sustain Disruption? Evidence From Mexico
1:55 pm
Alicia S. Modestino, Northeastern University
Mindy Marks, Northeastern University
Hanna G. Hoover, University of Michigan

Where the Rubber Meets the Road: Examining Inequities in Summer Youth Employment Programs
2:15 pm
Chloe Gibbs, University of Notre Dame
Jocelyn S. Wikle, Brigham Young University
Riley Wilson, Brigham Young University

A Matter of Time? Measuring Effects of Public Schooling Expansions on Families’ Constraints
3:00 pm
Adjourn