NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2010

 

Children’s Workshop

 

Janet Currie, Organizer

 

July 29, 2010

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

Cambridge, Massachusetts

    

PROGRAM

  

THURSDAY, JULY 29:

 

 

 

MORNING SESSION JOINT WITH LABOR STUDIES – Ballroom A

 

 

8:00 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

8:30 am

Jesse Rothstein, UC, Berkeley and NBER

 

Nathan Wozny, Princeton University

 

Permanent Income and the Black-White Test Score Gap

 

 

9:20 am

Daniel Aaronson and Bhashkar Mazumder, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

 

The Impact of Rosenwald Schools on Black Achievement

 

 

10:10 am

Break

 

 

10:30 am

Kristiina Huttunen, Labour Institute for Economic Research

 

Jenni Kellokumpu, University of Jyväskylä

 

The Effect of Job Displacement on Couple's Fertility Decisions

 

 

11:20 am

Kirk Doran, University of Notre Dame

 

Are Adults in Demand When Children Leave the Land? Evidence from Rural Mexico

 

 

12:10 pm

Lunch

 

 

 

CHILDRENS WORKSHOP – Skyline Suites

 

 

1:10 pm

Anna Aizer, Brown University and NBER

 

Flavio Cunha, University of Pennsylvania and NBER

 

Child Endowments, Parental Investments and the Development of Human Capital

 

 

2:00 pm

Adriana Lleras-Muney, UC, Los Angeles and NBER

 

Silvia Barcellos and Leandro Carvalho, RAND

 

Child Gender and Parental Investments in Children: Are Boys and Girls Treated Differently?

 

 

2:50 pm

Break

 

 

3:10 pm

Yuyu Chen, Peking University

 

Avi Ebenstein, Hebrew University

 

Lena Edlund, Columbia University and NBER

 

Hongbin Li, Tsinghua University

 

The Mistreated Girls of China

 

 

4:00 pm

Mario Fiorini, University of Technology Sydney

 

Michael Keane, Yale University

 

How the Allocation of Children's Time Affects Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Development

 

 

4:50 pm

Adjourn

 

 

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