NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2001

Children's Workshop

Joint with Labor Studies

Jonathan Gruber, Organizer

Royal Sonesta Hotel

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, Massachusetts

July 31, 2001

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

TUESDAY, JULY 31:

8:00 AM Coffee and Doughnuts

8:30 AM THOMAS KANE, UC, Los Angeles and NBER

DOUGLAS STAIGER, Dartmouth College and NBER

Improving School Accountability

9:30 AM SUSAN DYNARSKI, Harvard University and NBER

Loans, Liquidity, and the Market for Higher Education

10:30 AM Break

11:00 AM JANET CURRIE and JOSEPH HOTZ, UC, Los Angeles and NBER

Accidents Will Happen:

Unintentional Injuries, Maternal Employment, and Child Care Policy

12:00 N Lunch

1:00 PM MARIANNE PAGE, UC, Davis

ANN HUFF STEVENS, Yale University and NBER

A Dynamic Analysis of the Economic Costs of Growing up in a Single Parent Family: Does Welfare Help?

2:00 PM LENA EDLUND, Columbia University

Custodial Rights and the Rise of Out of Wedlock Fertility

3:00 PM Break

3:30 PM MICHAEL KREMER, Harvard University and NBER

DAN LEVY, Mathematica Policy Research

Peer Effects from Alcohol Use Among College Students

4:30 PM Adjourn

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