THURSDAY, APRIL 5:

8:15 AM Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass. Avenue.

8:30 AM Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass. Avenue.

8:30 AM Continental Breakfast

9:00 AM BRUCE SACERDOTE, Dartmouth College and NBER

The Nature and Nurture of Economic Outcome

10:00 AM DAVID N. FIGLO, University of Florida and NBER

(Joint with Maurice Lucas)

Do High Grading Standards Affects Student Performance?

11:00 AM Break

11:30 AM PAUL J. GERTLER, UC, Berkeley and NBER

(Joint with Simone Boyce)

An Experiment in Incentive-Based Welfare:

The Impact of PROGRESA on Health in Mexico

12:30 PM Lunch

1:45 PM ESTHER DUFLO, MIT and NBER

Can Mandated Representation of Women Affect Policy Decisions:

Evidence From a Nationwide Randomized Experiment in India

2:45 PM CHRISTOPHER R. TABER, Northwestern University and NBER

(Joint with Joseph Altonji)

Selection on Observed and Unobserved Variables:

Assessing the Effectiveness of Catholic Schools

3:45 PM Break

Over, Please!

Well-Being of Children and Public Economics Program, Page 2:

4:15 PM ANNE CASE and CHRISTINA PAXSON, Princeton University and NBER

DARREN LUBOTSKY,Princeton University

Economic Status and Health in Childhood:

The Origins of the Gradient

5:15 PM Adjourn

5:30 PM Shuttle Van Departs 1050 Mass. Avenue for Royal Sonesta Hotel.

5:45 PM Shuttle Van Departs 1050 Mass. Avenue for Royal Sonesta Hotel.

6:00 PM Dinner

Royal Sonesta Hotel

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, MA 02139

Dinner Speaker: David Wilcox, Federal Reserve Board

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FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 2001

8:00 AM Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass. Avenue

8:15 AM Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass. Avenue

8:15 AM Continental Breakfast

8:45 AM LEORA FRIEDBERG, University of Virginia and NBER

ANTHONY WEBB, UC, San Diego

The Impact of 401(k) Plans on Retirement

Discussant: ANDREW SAMWICK, Dartmouth and NBER

10:00 AM DOUGLAS SHACKLEFORD, University of North Carolina and NBER

(Joint with Mark Lang and Edward Maydew)

Bringing Down the Other Berlin Wall: Germany's Repeal of the

Corporate Capital Gains Tax

Discussant: WILLIAM GENTRY, Columbia University and NBER

11:15 AM Break

11:45 AM DOUGLAS HOLTZ-EAKIN, Syracuse University and NBER

(Joint with Donald Marples)

Distortion Costs of Taxing Wealth Accumulation:

Income versus Estate Taxes

Discussant: WILLIAM GALE, Brookings Institution

1:00 PM Lunch

1:45 PM ANTONIO RANGEL, Stanford University and NBER

(Joint with B. Douglas Bernheim)

A Theory of Legislative Policy-Making: Part 1, Basic Institutions

Discussant: STEPHEN COATE, Cornell University and NBER

3:00 PM Adjourn

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