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NBER: SI 2001 call for papers - Childrens Workshop

Subject: SI 2001 call for papers - Childrens Workshop
From: Rob Shannon (rshannon@nber.org)
Date: Wed Jan 10 2001 - 16:46:17 EST


M E M O R A N D U M

TO: Researchers in Children's Economics

FROM: Jonathan Gruber

DATE: January, 10, 2001

RE: Summer Institute 2001 Call for Papers

As part of the NBER Summer Institute, the Program on Children will be
holding a meeting on July 31, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. We are
interested in soliciting papers on issues around the economics of children
and children's well-being, including but not limited to: education
production and outcomes; health care production and outcomes for children;
the implications of parental behavior for youth outcomes; the impact of
government redistributional programs on children; issues in youth risk
behavior, including substance abuse, crime, and teen childbearing; the
school to work transition; and analyses of children's issues in developing
country contexts.

If you have a paper that you would like to present, please send it or an
abstract to Jonathan Gruber, MIT Department of Economics, 50 Memorial
Drive, E52-355, Cambridge MA 02142, Phone: 617-253-8892, Fax: 617-253-1330,
E-mail: gruberj@mit.edu. Please send all submissions by MARCH 31, 2001.

Electronic submissions should be sent in Word, PDF/Adobe or WordPerfect format.

If you have any questions, or need additional information, please contact
or Rob in the NBER conference department, 617/868-3900 phone, 617/864-1825
fax, or e-mail to confer@nber.org.