PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

TUESDAY, JULY 29:

11:00 AM	PATRICIA ANDERSON, Dartmouth College and NBER
	KRISTEN BUTCHER, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
	Reading, Writing and Raisinettes:
	Are School Finances Contributing to Children's Obesity?

12:00 N	Lunch

1:00 PM	RAJEEV DEHEJIA, Columbia University and NBER
	ADRIANA LLERAS-MUNEY, Princeton University and NBER
	The Timing of Births: Is the Quality of Infants Counter-Cyclical?

2:00 PM	PAUL GERTLER, UC Berkeley and NBER
	Losing the Presence and Presents of Parents:
	How Parental Death and Disability Affect Children

3:00 PM	Break

3:30 PM	MICHAEL KREMER, Harvard University and NBER
	EDWARD MIGUEL, UC, Berkeley and NBER
	Social Networks and Learning About
	Health in Kenya

4:30 PM	Adjourn

WEDNESDAY, JULY 30:

8:30 AM	Coffee and Pastries

9:00 AM	TARA WATSON, Harvard University
	Public Health Investments and the Infant Mortality Gap:
	Evidence from Federal Sanitation Interventions on U.S. Indian Reservations

10:00 AM	CRISTIAN POP-ELECHES, Harvard University
	The Impact of an Abortion Ban on Socio-Economic Outcomes of Children:
	Evidence from Romania

11:00 AM	Break

11:30 AM	DAVID FIGLIO, University of Florida and NBER
	CECELIA ROUSE, Princeton University and NBER
	Did Floridas A+ Plan for Education Improve Low-Performing Schools?

12:30 PM	Lunch

JOINT SESSION WITH LABOR GROUP

1:30 PM	PHILIP OREOPOLOUS, University of Toronto
	Do Dropouts Drop Out Too Soon?
	Evidence from Changes in School-Leaving Laws


2:30 PM	JEFFREY KLING, Princeton University and NBER
	JEFFREY LIEBMAN, Harvard University and NBER
	The Effect of High Poverty Neighborhoods on Child and Youth Human Capital Accumulation

3:30 PM	Break

4:00 PM	PATRICK BAYER, Yale University
	Building Criminal Capital Behind Bars: Social Learning in Juvenile Corrections

5:00 PM	Adjourn

6:00 PM	Clambake, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

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