NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

CHILDREN'S PROGRAM MEETING

Jonathan Gruber, Organizer

April 2, 2004

NBER

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA

PROGRAM

THURSDAY, APRIL 1:

6:30 PM Dinner

Davio's Restaurant

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, MA

FRIDAY, APRIL 2:

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 GORDON DAHL, University of Rochester and NBER

ENRICO MORETTI, UC, Los Angeles and NBER

The Demand for Sons: Evidence from Divorce, Fertility

and Shotgun Marriage

10:00 AM ELIZABETH OLTMANS ANANAT and GUY MICHAELS, MIT

The Effect of Martial Breakup on the Income and Poverty

of Women with Children

11:00 AM Break

11:30 AM ERIC EDMONDS, Dartmouth College and NBER

Does Illiquidity Alter Child Labor and Schooling Decisions?

in South Africa

12:30 PM Lunch

1:30 PM NACI MOCAN, University of Colorado and NBER

ERDAL TEKIN, George State University and NBER

Guns Drugs and Juvenile Crime:

Evidence from a Panel of Siblings and Twins

Children's Program Page 2:

2:30 PM PHILIP OREOPOLOUS, University of Toronto and NBER

MARIANNE PAGE, UC, Davis

ANN HUFF STEVENS, UC, Davis and NBER

The Intergenerational Effects of Compulsory Schooling

3:30 PM Break

4:00 PM JEFFREY KLING, Princeton University and NBER

JENS LUDWIG, Georgetown University

LAWRENCE KATZ, Harvard University and NBER

Youth Criminal Behavior in the Moving to Opportunity Experiment

5:00 PM Adjourn

3/19/04