NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.



Children Program Meeting



Jonathan Gruber, Organizer



April 4, 2002



NBER's, Offices

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts



PRELIMINARY PROGRAM



THURSDAY, APRIL 4:



8:30 AM Shuttle Van From the Royal Sonesta Hotel to 1050 Massachusetts Ave.



9:00 AM Continental Breakfast



9:30 AM LANCE LOCHNER, University of Rochester and NBER

A Theoretical and Empirical Study of Individual Perceptions of the

Criminal Justice System



10:30 AM ROBERT KAESTNER, University of Illinois and NBER

LISA DUBAY and GENEVIEVE KENNEY, Urban Institute

Medicaid Managed Care and Infant Health: A National Evaluation



11:30 AM Break



12:00 PM PHILLIP LEVINE, Wellesley College and NBER

The Impact of Social Policy and Economic Activity Throughout

the Fertility Decision Tree



1:00 PM Lunch



2:00 PM ERIC HANUSHEK, Stanford University and NBER

JOHN KAIN, University of Texas

STEVEN RIVKIN, Amherst College

New Evidence about Brown vs. Board of Education: The Complex Effects of

School Racial Composition on Achievement



3:00 PM Break



3:30 PM BRIAN JACOB, Harvard University

Making the Grade: The Impact of Test-Based Accountability in Schools



4:30 PM Adjourn



6:00 PM Dinner

Harvard Faculty Club

20 Quincy Street

Cambridge, MA 02138



Dinner Speaker: MICHAEL BOSKIN, Stanford University and NBER

Do We Really Have a National Debt? Deferred Taxes in the Theory and Practice of Public Finance







3/26/02



Over, Please!