Conferences Summer 2021

The Economics of Caregiving

An NBER conference on the Economics of Caregiving took place online on June 4. Research Associates Claudia Goldin of Harvard University, Claudia Olivetti of Dartmouth College, Rohini Pande of Yale University, and Alessandra Voena of Stanford University organized the meeting, which was supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. These researchers’ papers were presented and discussed:

• Rebecca Thornton, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Scott Cunningham, Baylor University; and Gregory DeAngelo, Yunie Le, and Anuar Assamidanov, Claremont Graduate University, “COVID-19, Shelter-in-Place, and Domestic Violence”
• Heidi Stöckl, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and Gerry H. Mshana, National Institute for Medical Research, “The Effect of COVID-19 on Women, Livelihood and Violence in Mwanza, Tanzania”
• Sonia R. Bhalotra, University of Warwick; Emilia Brito Rebolledo, Brown University; Pilar Larroulet, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; and Damian Clarke and Francisco Pino, University of Chile, “Dynamic Impacts of Lockdown Mandates on Domestic Violence — Evidence from Multiple Policy Shifts in Chile”
• María José Prados, University of Southern California, and Gema Zamarro, University of Arkansas, “School Reopenings, Childcare Arrangements, and Labor Outcomes during COVID-19”
• Orazio Attanasio, Yale University and NBER; Ricardo Paes de Barros, Insper; Pedro Carneiro, University College London; David K. Evans, Center for Global Development; Lycia Lima, Fundação Getulio Vargas; Pedro Olinto, World Bank; and Norbert Schady, Inter-American Development Bank, “Public Childcare, Child Development, and Labor Market Outcomes”
• Kuan-Ming Chen, University of Chicago, “Understanding Adult Children’s Labor Supply Responses to Parents’ Long-Term Care Needs”
• Pierre Pora, Drees-CREST-EconomiX, “Keep Working and Spend Less? Collective Childcare and Parental Earnings in France”
• Karen Shen, Harvard University, “Who Benefits from Public Financing of Home Care for Low-Income Seniors?”
• Kjetil Bjorvatn, Norwegian School of Economics; Denise Ferris, BRAC; Selim Gulesci, Trinity College Dublin; Arne Nasgowitz and Vincent Somville, Norges Handelshøyskole; and Lore Vandewalle, Graduate Institute, Geneva, “Childcare and Cash Grants for Labor Supply and Well-Being: Experimental Evidence from Uganda”
• Nicole Maestas, Harvard University and NBER; Matt Messel, Social Security Administration; and Yulya Truskinovsky, Wayne State University, “Caregiving and Labor Force Participation: New Evidence from Administrative Data”
• Keith Finlay, US Census Bureau; Michael G. Mueller-Smith, University of Michigan; and Brittany Street, University of Missouri, “The Determinants and Aftermath of Victimization in US Households and the Implications of COVID-19”
• Sarah J. Baird, George Washington University, and Manisha Shah, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER, “The Shadow Pandemic: COVID-19 and Violence against Adolescent Girls in LMICs”
• Madhulika Khanna, Georgetown University, and Divya Pandey, University of Virginia, “Reinforcing Gender Norms or Easing Housework Burdens? The Role of Mothers-in-Law in Determining Women’s Labor Force Participation”
• Erica M. Field, Duke University and NBER, and Ursula T. Aldana, Institute for Peruvian Studies, “The Impact of COVID-19 on Intimate Partner Violence in Urban Peru”
• Amalia R. Miller, University of Virginia and NBER; Carmit Segal, University of Zurich; and Melissa Spencer, University of Richmond, “Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Domestic Violence in US Cities” (NBER Working Paper 28068)
• Bilge Erten and Silvia Prina, Northeastern University, and Pinar Keskin, Wellesley College, “Social Distancing, Stimulus Payments and Domestic Violence: Evidence from the US during COVID-19”
• Pelin Akyol and Zeynep Yilmaz, Bilkent University, “Effects of Grandmothers’ Proximity on Mothers’ Labor Force Participation”

The conference agenda is at https://www.nber.org/conferences/economics-caregiving-spring-2021

COVID-19 and Health Outcomes

An NBER conference on COVID-19 and Health Outcomes took place online on June 16. Research Associates David M. Cutler of Harvard University and Kosali I. Simon of Indiana University organized the meeting, which was supported by Grant #P30AG012810 and Grant #P01AG005842 from the National Institute on Aging. These researchers’ papers were presented and discussed:

• Aaron Chalfin, University of Pennsylvania; Shooshan Danagoulian, Wayne State University; and Monica Deza, City University of New York and NBER, “The COVID-19 Pandemic, Domestic Violence and the Riskiness of Alcohol Consumption”
• Natalie Bau and Manisha Shah, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER; Gaurav Khanna, University of California, San Diego; Corinne Low, University of Pennsylvania and NBER; Sreyashi Sharmin, Stanford University; and Alessandra Voena, Stanford University and NBER, “Women’s Well-Being during a Pandemic and Its Containment”
• Tom Chang, University of Southern California; Mireille Jacobson, University of Southern California and NBER; Manisha Shah; and Rajiv Pramanik and Samir B. Shah, Contra Costa Health Services, “COVID-19 Vaccination Take-Up in a County-Run Medicaid Managed Care Population”
• Michael Kremer, University of Chicago and NBER, “Market Design to Accelerate COVID-19 Vaccine Supply”
• Zirui Song and Lindsey Patterson, Harvard University; Lowry Barnes, University of Arkansas; and Derek Haas and Luka Zhang, Avant-garde Health, “Hospitalizations, Mortality, and Racial/Ethnic Disparities in the COVID-19 Pandemic”

Summaries of some of these papers are at https://www.nber.org/conferences/covid-19-and-health-outcomes-spring-2021

International Seminar on Macroeconomics

The NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics took place online on June 17–18. Research Associates Jordi Galí of Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional, Barcelona, and Kenneth D. West of the University of Wisconsin-Madison organized the meeting. These researchers’ papers were presented and discussed:

• Emine Boz, International Monetary Fund; Camila Casas, Banco de la República; Gita Gopinath, Harvard University and NBER (on leave) and International Monetary Fund; and Georgios Georgiadis, Helena Le Mezo, and Arnaud J. Mehl, European Central Bank, “Patterns in Invoicing Currency in Global Trade”
• Philippe Bacchetta and Margaret Davenport, University of Lausanne; and Eric van Wincoop, University of Virginia and NBER, “Can Sticky Portfolios Explain International Capital Flows and Asset Prices?”
• Pierpaolo Benigno, University of Bern; Linda Schilling, École Polytechnique CREST; and Harald Uhlig, University of Chicago and NBER, “Cryptocurrencies, Currency Competition and the Impossible Trinity” (NBER Working Paper 26214)
• Silvia Miranda-Agrippino, Bank of England, and Tsvetelina Nenova, London Business School, “A Tale of Two Global Monetary Policies”
• Anusha Chari, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and NBER; Karlye Dilts Stedman, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City; and Kristin Forbes, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER, “Spillovers at the Extremes: The Macroprudential Stance and Vulnerability to the Global Financial Cycle”
• Charles Engel, University of Wisconsin-Madison and NBER, and Ekaterina Kazakova, Mengqi Wang, and Nan Xiang, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “A Reconsideration of the Failure of Uncovered Interest Parity for the US Dollar” (NBER Working Paper 28420)
• John Hassler, Stockholm University; Per Krusell, Stockholm University and NBER; and Conny Olovsson, Sveriges Riksbank, “Finite Resources and the World Economy”
• Simon Gilchrist, New York University and NBER; Bin Wei, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta; Vivian Yue, Emory University and NBER; and Egon Zakrajšek, Bank for International Settlements, “Sovereign Risk and Financial Risk”

Summaries of these papers are at https://www.nber.org/conferences/international-seminar-macroeconomics-2021

New Directions in Transportation Economics

An NBER conference on New Directions in Transportation Economics took place online on June 17. Research Associates Edward L. Glaeser of Harvard University, James M. Poterba of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Stephen J. Redding of Princeton University organized the meeting, which was supported by the US Department of Transportation through an interagency agreement with the National Science Foundation (Grant 155903). These researchers’ papers were presented and discussed:

• Fiona Burlig, University of Chicago and NBER; James B. Bushnell, University of California, Davis and NBER; David S. Rapson, University of California, Davis; and Catherine Wolfram, University of California, Berkeley and NBER (on leave) and US Department of the Treasury, “Low Energy: Estimating Electric Vehicle Electricity Use” (NBER Working Paper 28451)
• Stephen P. Holland, University of North Carolina at Greensboro and NBER; Erin T. Mansur, Dartmouth College and NBER; Nicholas Z. Muller, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER; and Andrew J. Yates, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, “The Environmental Benefits from Transportation Electrification: Urban Buses” (NBER Working Paper 27285)
• Lucas W. Davis and James M. Sallee, University of California, Berkeley and NBER, “Should Electric Vehicle Drivers Pay a Mileage Tax?” (NBER Working Paper 26072)

The conference agenda is at https://www.nber.org/conferences/new-directions-transportation-economics-spring-2021