NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.
SUMMER INSTITUTE 2002
Children's Workshop
Jonathan Gruber, Organizer
Royal Sonesta Hotel
5 Cambridge Parkway
Cambridge, Massachusetts
July 30 and 31, 2002
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
MONDAY, JULY 29:
6:00 PM Clambake
Harvard Faculty Club
20 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA
TUESDAY, JULY 30:
11:00 AM AMITABH CHANDRA, Dartmouth College
LAURENCE BAKER, Stanford University and NBER
STACY DICKERT-CONLIN, Syracuse University
'Labor' or Leisure? The Technology and Timing of Births
12:00 N Lunch
1:00 PM RALPH CHAMI, International Monetary Fund
GREGORY HESS, Oberlin College
For Better or For Worse? State-Level Marital Formation and Risk Sharing
2:00 PM HOYT BLEAKLEY, MIT
AIMEE CHIN, University of Houston
Language Skills and Earnings: Evidence from Childhood Immigrants
3:00 PM Break
3:30 PM WILLIAM HARBAUGH, University of Oregon and NBER
KATE KRAUSE, University of New Mexico
STEVEN LIDAY, University of Oregon
4:30 PM Adjourn
SI02 CH program
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 31:
8:30 AM Coffee and Pastries
9:00 AM ERIC EDMONDS and NINA PAVCNIK, Dartmouth College
Does Globalization Increase Child Labor? Evidence from Vietnam
10:00 AM ROBERT JENSEN, Harvard University and NBER
Fertility Preferences and Excess Female Mortality: Equal Treatment,
Unequal Outcomes?
10:30 AM Break
11:00 AM PAUL GERTLER, UC, Berkeley and NBER
The Impact of the Privatization of Water Services on Child Mortality
(Joint with SEBASTIAN GALIANI and ERNESTO SCHARGRODSKY)
12:00 N Lunch
AFTERNOON JOINT WITH LABOR STUDIES
1:00 PM DOUGLAS ALMOND, UC, Berkeley
KENNETH CHAY and DAVID LEE, UC, Berkeley and NBER
Does Low Birth Weight Matter?
Evidence from the U.S. Population of Twins Births
2:00 PM JANET CURRIE, UC, Los Angeles and NBER
ENRICO MORETTI, UC, Los Angeles
Mother's Education, Family Formation, and Infant Health:
Evidence from College Openings
3:00 PM Break
3:30 PM PHILIP OREOPOULOS, University of Toronto
The Long Run Consequences from Living in a Poor Neighborhood
4:30 PM Adjourn
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