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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2011

 

Children’s Workshop

 

Janet Currie, Organizer

 

July 28, 2011

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Charles Suites AB

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

 

 

Wednesday, July 27:

 

6:00 pm

Clambake: Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

 

 

Thursday, July 28:

 

 

MORNING SESSION JOINT WITH LABOR STUDIES - Ballroom A

 

 

8:00 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

8:30 am

David Card, Stanford University and NBER
Laura Giuliano, University of Miami

 

Peer Effects and Multiple Equilibria in the Behavior of Friends

 

 

9:20 am

Anna Aizer, Brown University and NBER
Joseph Doyle, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

 

Effects of Juvenile Incarceration: Evidence from Randomly-Assigned Judges

 

 

10:10 am

Break

10:30 am

Michael Baker, University of Toronto and NBER
Kevin Milligan, University of British Columbia and NBER

 

Sex Differences in the Care of Young Children

 

 

11:20 am

Marianne Bertrand, University of Chicago and NBER
Jessica Pan, University of Chicago

 

An Empirical Analysis of the Gender Gap in Non-Cognitive Skills

12:10 pm

Lunch

 

 

CHILDRENS WORKSHOP

 

 

1:10 pm

Hilary Hoynes and Douglas Miller, University of California at Davis and NBER
David Simon, University of California at Davis

 

Income, the Earned Income Tax Credit and Infant Health

 

 

2:00 pm

Veronica Amarante, Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay
Marco Manacorda,
Queen Mary University of London
Edward Miguel,
University of California at Berkeley and NBER
Andrea Vigorito,
Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay

 

Do Cash Transfers to the Poor Affect Birth Outcomes? Evidence from Matched Vital Statistics, Social Security and Program Administration Data

 

 

2:50 pm

Break

3:10 pm

Esther Duflo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Pascaline Dupas, University of California at Los Angeles and NBER
Michael Kremer, Harvard University and NBER

 

Education, HIV, and Early Fertility: Experimental Evidence from Kenya

 

 

4:00 pm

Luojia Hu, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Analia Schlosser, Tel Aviv University

 

Prenatal Sex Selection and Girls’ Well-Being: Evidence from India

 

 

4:50 pm

Adjourn