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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2009

 

Children’s Workshop

 

July 20, 2009

 

Janet Currie, Organizer

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Skyline Rooms, West Tower

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

 

MONDAY, JULY 20:

 

 

 8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries, Ballroom B, West Tower

 

 

 9:00 am

DOUGLAS ALMOND, Columbia University and NBER

 

LENA EDLUND, Columbia University

 

KEVIN MILLIGAN, University of British Columbia and NBER

 

Son Preference and the Persistence of Culture: Evidence from Asian Immigrants to Canada

 

 

10:00 am

KASEY BUCKLES, University of Notre Dame

 

DANIEL HUNGERMAN, University of Notre Dame and NBER

 

Season of Birth and Later Outcomes: Old Questions, New Answers

 

 

11:00 am

Break

 

 

11:30 am

ERIC EDMONDS, Dartmouth College and NBER

 

NORBERT SCHADY, The World Bank

 

Poverty Alleviation and Child Labor

 

 

12:30 pm

Lunch, Ballroom B, West Tower

 

 

 1:30 pm

GAREY RAMEY, UC, San Diego

 

VALERIE RAMEY, UC, San Diego and NBER

 

The Rug Rat Race

 

 

 2:30 pm

EVA MORK, Uppsala University

 

ANNA SJÖGREN, Research Institute of Industrial Economics

 

Cheaper Child Care, More Children

 

 

 3:30 pm

Break

 

 

 4:00 pm

ALMA COHEN, Tel Aviv University and NBER

 

RAJEEV DEHEJIA, Tufts University and NBER

 

DMITIR ROMANOV, Central Bureau of Statistics, Israel

 

Financial Incentives and Fertility

 

 

5/4/09