NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2005

 

Children’s Workshop

 

July 26-27, 2005

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

 

TUESDAY, JULY 26:

 

 

10:00 am

JOSH ANGRIST, MIT and NBER

 

VICTOR LAVY, Hebrew University and NBER

 

ANALIA SCHLOSSER, Hebrew University

 

New Evidence on the Causal Link Between Quantity and Quality of Children

 

 

11:00 am

DALTON CONLEY and REBECCA GLAUBER, New York University

 

Parental Educational Investment and Children’s Academic Risk: Estimates of the Impact of Sibship Size and Birth Order from Exogenous Variation in Fertility

 

 

11:30 am

JOSEPH PRICE, Cornell University

 

Family Size and Time Allocation

 

 

12:00 n

Lunch

 

 

 1:00 pm

DAMON CLARK, Oxford University

 

Politics, Markets and Schools: Quasi-Experimental Evidence on the Impact of Autonomy and Competition from a Truly Revolutionary UK Reform

 

 

 2:00 pm

NANCY LUKE, Brown University

 

KAIVAN MUNSHI, Brown University and NBER

 

Women as Agents of Change: Female Income, Social Affiliation and Household Decisions in South India

 

 

 3:00 pm

Break

 

 

 3:30 pm

RICHARD AKRESH, University of Illinois

 

Adjusting Household Structure: School Enrollment Impacts of Child Fostering in Burkina Faso

 

 

 4:30 pm

Adjourn

 

 

WEDNESDAY, JULY 27:

 

 

 8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 9:00 am

META BROWN and MAURIZIO MAZZOCCO, University of Wisconsin

 

JOHN KARL SCHOLZ, University of Wisconsin and NBER

 

ANANTH SESHADRI, University of Wisconsin

 

Tied Transfers

 

 

10:00 am

ADRIANA LLERAS-MUNEY, Princeton University and NBER

 

The Needs of the Army: Using Compulsory Relocation in the Military to Estimate the Effect of Air Pollutants on Children’s Health

 

 

11:00 am

Break

 

 

11:30 am

ANDERS BJORKLUND, Stockholm University

 

DONNA GINTHER, University of Kansas

 

MARIANNE SUNDSTROM, Stockholm University

 

Does Marriage Matter for Kids?  The Impact of Legal Marriage on Child Outcomes

 

 

12:30 pm

Lunch

 

 

 

JOINT SESSION WITH LABOR STUDIES

 

 

1:30 pm

MICHAEL BAKER, University of Toronto and NBER

 

JONATHAN GRUBER, MIT and NBER

 

KEVIN MILLIGAN, University of British Columbia and NBER

 

Universal Child Care, Maternal Labor Supply, and Child Well-Being

 

 

 2:30 pm

PHILIP OREOPOLOUS, University of Toronto and NBER

 

MARIANNE PAGE and ANN HUFF STEVENS, UC, Davis and NBER

 

The Intergenerational Effects of Unexpected Worker Displacement

 

 

 3:30 pm

Break

 

 

 4:00 pm

GORDON DAHL, University of Rochester and NBER

 

LANCE LOCHNER, University of Western Ontario and NBER

 

The Impact of Family Income on Child Achievement

 

 

 5:00 pm

Adjourn

 

 

 6:00 pm

Clambake, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

 

 

 

 

5/3/05