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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SI 2013 Childrens Workshop

 

Janet Currie, Organizer

 

July 25, 2013

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel
Ballroom A

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

 

Wednesday, July 24:

6:00 pm

Clambake, Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Boulevard, Cambridge, MA


Thursday, July 25:

8:00 am

Coffee and Pastries

Joint Labor and Children’s Session


8:30 am


Gabriella Conti, University of Chicago and NBER
Beyond Birthweight: The Origins of Health Capital


9:20 am


Chinhui Juhn, University of Houston and NBER
Yona Rubinstein, Brown University
Andrew Zuppann, University of Houston
The Quantity-Quality Tradeoff and the Formation of Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills

10:10 am

Break


10:30 am


Adam Isen, University of Pennsylvania
Maya Rossin-Slater, Columbia University
Reed Walker, University of California at Berkeley
Every Breath You Take - Every Dollar You’ll Make: The Long-Term Consequences of the Clean Air Act of 1970

11:20 am

Costas Meghir, Yale University and NBER
Marten Palme, Stockholm University
Emilia Simeonova, Princeton University and NBER
Health, Education, and Cognition: Evidence from a Social Experiment

12:10 pm

Lunch

Joint Labor-Children’s-Development Session


1:15 pm


Orazio Attanasio, University College London and NBER
Sarah Cattan, University of Chicago
Emla Fitzsimons, Institute for Fiscal Studies
Costas Meghir, Yale University and NBER
Marta Rubio-Codina, Center for the Evaluation of Development Policies
A Production Function for Child Development

2:15 pm

Taryn Dinkelman, Dartmouth College and NBER
Can Spatial Mobility Insure Families against Long-Term Impacts of Economic Shocks? Evidence from Drought and Disability in South Africa

3:15 pm

Break

3:45 pm

Erlend Berg, University of Oxford
Rajasekhar Durgam,
Institute for Social and Economic Change
Maitreesh Ghatak, London School of Economics
Manjula Ramachandra,
Institute for Social and Economic Change
Sanchari Roy, University of Warwick
Motivating
Knowledge Agents: Can Incentive Pay Overcome Social Distance?

4:45 pm

Adjourn