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NATIONAL BUREAU OF
ECONOMIC RESEARCH Childrens
Program Meeting May 15, 2014 Janet Currie,
Organizer Education Program Meeting May 16, 2014 Caroline Hoxby, Organizer NBER Feldstein
Conference Room 2nd Floor 1050 Massachusetts
Avenue Cambridge,
Massachusetts PROGRAM |
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THURSDAY, MAY 15: |
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CHILDRENS PROGRAM MEETING |
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8:30 am |
Bus Departs
from the Royal Sonesta Hotel for the NBER |
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9:00 am |
Continental Breakfast |
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9:30 am |
Prashant Bharadwaj, University of
California at San Diego and NBER |
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Health
Endowments and Unemployment during Macroeconomic Crises |
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10:30 am |
Break |
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11:00 am |
Anna Aizer, Brown University and
NBER Adriana
Lleras-Muney, University
of California at Los Angeles and NBER Joseph
Ferrie, Northwestern University
and NBER Shari
Eli, University of Toronto |
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The
Long Run Impact of Cash Transfer Programs to Poor Families |
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12:00 n |
Lunch |
1:00 pm |
Snaebjorn Gunnsteinsson, University of Maryland Achyuta Adhvaryu, University of Michigan Parul Christian and
Alain Labrique, Johns
Hopkins University |
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2:00 pm |
Paul Gertler, University of
California at Berkeley and NBER James
Heckman, University of Chicago and NBER Rodrigo
Pinto and Arianna Zanolini,
University
of Chicago Christel Vermeersch,The World Bank Sally Grantham-Mcgregor,
Institute of Child Health Susan Walker, The
University of The West Indies |
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Labor Market
Returns to a Early Childhood Stimulation Intervention in Jamaica |
3:00 pm |
Break |
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3:15 pm |
Petra
Persson, Stanford University Maya Rossin-Slater, University of
California at Santa Barbara |
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Family
Ruptures and Intergenerational Transmission of Stress |
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4:15 pm |
Lena Edlund, Columbia University and NBER Paola
Valenti, Columbia University |
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5:15 pm |
Adjourn |
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5:30 pm |
Bus
Departs from the NBER for the Royal Sonesta Hotel |
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6:15 pm |
Group
Dinner |
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FRIDAY,
MAY 16: |
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EDUCATION PROGRAM MEETING |
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8:00 am |
Bus
Departs from the Royal Sonesta Hotel for the NBER |
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8:15 am |
Continental Breakfast |
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8:45 am |
Christopher R. Walters, University
of California, Berkeley |
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Inputs in the Production
of Early Childhood Human Capital: Evidence from Head Start |
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9:45 am |
Maria Fitzpatrick, Cornell
University and NBER |
Intergovernmental
(Dis)incentives, Free-Riding, Teacher Salaries and
Teacher Pensions |
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10:45 am |
Break |
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11:00 am |
Rebecca Dizon-Ross,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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How Do School
Accountability Reforms Affect Teachers? Evidence from New York City |
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12:00 n |
Lunch |
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1:00 pm |
Rajeev Darolia
and Cory Koedel, University of Missouri |
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Do
Employers Prefer Workers Who Attend For-Profit Colleges? Evidence from a
Field Experiment |
2:00 pm |
Break |
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2:15 pm |
Lesley Turner, University of Maryland |
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3:15 pm |
Francisco Martorell,
RAND Corporation |
Investing in Schools: Capital Spending,
Facility Conditions, and Student Achievement |
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4:15 pm |
Adjourn |
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