NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2000

Children Workshop

Jonathan Gruber, Organizer

Royal Sonesta Hotel

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, Massachusetts

August 4, 2000

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

FRIDAY, AUGUST 4:

8:30 AM Coffee and Doughnuts

9:00 AM JOHN JOHNSON, University of Illinois

CHRIS MAZINGO, MIT

The Economic Consequences of Unilateral Divorce for Children

10:00 AM JONATHAN GRUBER, MIT and NBER

Is Making Divorce Easier Bad for Children?

11:00 AM Break

11:30 AM PHILLIP LEVINE, University of Wellesley and NBER

DOUGLAS STAIGER, Dartmouth College and NBER

The Impact of Changes in Abortion Policy on Fertility:

A European Perspective

12:30 PM Lunch

1:30 PM KENNETH CHAY, UC, Berkeley and NBER

MICHAEL GREENSTONE, UC, Berkeley

The War on Poverty and Black-White Convergence in

Infant Mortality Rates

2:30 PM Break

3:00 PM CECILIA ROUSE, Princeton University and NBER

LISA BARROW, Princeton University

Using Market Valuation to Assess the Importance and Efficiency of

Public School Spending

4:00 PM THOMAS DEE, Swarthmore College

Teachers, Race and Student Achievement in a Randomized Experiment

5:00 PM Adjourn

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