NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2008

 

Children’s Workshop

 

July 21, 2008

 

Jonathan Gruber, Organizer

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel, Skyline Suites, West Tower

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

 

MONDAY, JULY 21:

 

 

 8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 9:00 am

DOUGLAS ALMOND, Columbia University and NBER

 

BHASKAR MAZUMDER, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

 

The Effect of Maternal Fasting During Ramadan on Adult Outcomes

 

 

10:00 am

DANIELA VURI, University of Rome

 

The Impact of Change in Child Custody Laws on Mothers and Children: Who Gains, Who Loses

 

 

11:00 am

Break

 

 

11:30 am

JONATHAN GRUBER, MIT and NBER

 

MARTEN PALME and PER PETTERSON LIDBOM,

 

Stockholm School of Economics

 

The Long Run Impacts of Public Child Care on Child Outcomes

 

 

12:30 pm

Lunch

 

 

 1:30 pm

JENS LUDWIG, University of Chicago and NBER

 

KAREN NORBERG, Washington University and NBER

 

DAVE MARCOTTE, University of Maryland

 

Anti-Depressants and Suicide

 

 

 2:30 pm

CHRISTINE HAUSER, Collegio Carlo Alberto

 

Child Support Regulation and Children’s Consumption

 

 

 3:30 pm

Break

 

 

 4:00 pm

ERIC GOULD, Hebrew University

 

VICTOR LAVY and M. DANIELLE PASERMAN,

 

Hebrew University and NBER

 

Sixty YearsaAfter the Magic Carpet Ride: The Long-Run Effect of the Early Childhood Environment on Social and Economic Outcomes

 

 

 5:00 pm

Adjourn

 

 

4/30/08