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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH Childrens Program Meeting April 29, 2010 Janet Currie, Organizer Education Program Meeting April 30, 2010 Caroline Hoxby, Organizers NBER 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, Massachusetts PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
THURSDAY, APRIL 29:
	CHILDRENS PROGRAM MEETING
9:15 am		2 Shuttle Vans Depart from the Royal Sonesta Hotel for the NBER
9:30 am		Continental Breakfast
10:00 am		ORAZIO ATTANASIO, University College London and NBER KATJA KAUFMANN, IGIER Educational Choices and Subjective Expectations of Returns to Schooling: Evidence on Intra-Household Decisions and Gender Differences
11:00 am		Break
11:15 am		CARLOS CHIAPA and JOSÉ LUIS GARRIDO, El Colegio del Mexico SILVIA PRINA, Case Western Reserve University The Effect of Social Programs and Exposure to Professionals on the Educational Aspirations of the Poor
12:15 pm		Lunch
1:15 pm		JORGE M. AGÜERO and MAITHILI RAMACHANDRAN, UC, Riverside The Intergenerational Effects of Increasing
		Women's Schooling: Evidence from Zimbabwe
2:15 pm		DAVID DEMING, Harvard University Better Schools, Less Crime?
3:15 pm		Break
3:30 pm		PHILIP OREOPOULUS, University of Toronto and NBER KJELL SALVANES, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration How Large are the Returns to Schooling? Hint: Money isn't Everything
4:30 pm		JASON LINDO, University of Oregon Parental Job Loss and Infant Health
5:30 pm		Adjourn
5:45 pm		4 Shuttle Vans depart from the NBER for the Royal Sonesta Hotel
6:30 pm		Group Dinner – Royal Sonesta Hotel, Parkview Room
FRIDAY, APRIL 30:
	EDUCATION PROGRAM MEETING
8:00 am		4 Shuttle Vans Depart from the Royal Sonesta Hotel for the NBER
8:15 am		Continental Breakfast
8:45 am		DAVID N. FIGLIO, Northwestern University and NBER
		CASSANDRA HART, Northwestern University
		Competitive Effects of Means-Tested School Vouchers
9:45 am		ADALBERT MAYER, Texas A&M University Empirical Evidence on the Role of Social Networks in Job-Search
10:45 am		Break
11:00 am		NICHOLAS TURNER, UC, San Diego
		Who Benefits from Student Aid? The Economic Incidence of Tax-Based Federal Student Aid
12:00 n		Lunch
12:40 pm		C. KIRABO JACKSON, Cornell University and NBER
		A Stitch in Time: The Effects of a Novel Incentive-Based High-School Intervention on College Outcomes
1:40 pm		Break
1:55 pm		SIMON BURGESS, ELLEN GREAVES, ANNA VIGNOLES and DEBORAH WILSON, University of Bristol
		What Parents Want: School Preferences and School Choice
2:55 pm		ATILA ABDULKADIROGLU, Duke University JOSHUA ANGRIST, MIT and NBER SUSAN DYNARSKI, University of Michigan and NBER THOMAS J. KANE, Harvard University and NBER PARAG PATHAK, MIT and NBER
		Accountability and Flexibility in Public Schools: Evidence from Boston's Charters and Pilots
3:55 pm		Adjourn