NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.
SUMMER INSTITUTE 2000
Children Workshop
Jonathan Gruber, Organizer
Royal Sonesta Hotel
5 Cambridge Parkway
Cambridge, Massachusetts
August 4, 2000
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
FRIDAY, AUGUST 4:
8:30 AM Coffee and Doughnuts
9:00 AM JOHN JOHNSON, University of Illinois
CHRIS MAZINGO, MIT
The Economic Consequences of Unilateral Divorce for Children
10:00 AM JONATHAN GRUBER, MIT and NBER
Is Making Divorce Easier Bad for Children?
11:00 AM Break
11:30 AM PHILLIP LEVINE, University of Wellesley and NBER
DOUGLAS STAIGER, Dartmouth College and NBER
The Impact of Changes in Abortion Policy on Fertility:
A European Perspective
12:30 PM Lunch
1:30 PM KENNETH CHAY, UC, Berkeley and NBER
MICHAEL GREENSTONE, UC, Berkeley
The War on Poverty and Black-White Convergence in
Infant Mortality Rates
2:30 PM Break
3:00 PM CECILIA ROUSE, Princeton University and NBER
LISA BARROW, Princeton University
Using Market Valuation to Assess the Importance and Efficiency of
Public School Spending
4:00 PM THOMAS DEE, Swarthmore College
Teachers, Race and Student Achievement in a Randomized Experiment
5:00 PM Adjourn
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