IRP SUMMER RESEARCH WORKSHOP
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MONDAY, JUNE 16 |
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Session 1: Education and Poverty |
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1:00-2:15 | “Teacher Quality in Educational Production: Tracking, Decay, and Student Achievement” Jesse Rothstein, Princeton University |
2:15-3:30 | “Housing Wealth, Liquidity Constraints, and
College Enrollment” Michael Lovenheim, Stanford University |
3:30-3:45 | Break |
3:45-5:00 | “Borrowing Constraints, College Aid, and Intergenerational
Mobility” Eric Hanushek, Stanford University (with Charles Ka Yui Leung and Kuzey Yilmaz) |
5:00-6:15 | “A Framework for the Analysis of Dynamic Treatment Effects:
Grade Retention and Test Scores” Salvador Navarro, University of Wisconsin–Madison (with Jane Cooley and Yuya Takahashi) |
TUESDAY, JUNE 17 |
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Session 2: Understanding Criminality |
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8:30-9:45 | “Theory and Evidence on the Effects of Segregation on Crime Rates” David Bjerk, Claremont-McKenna College |
9:45-11:00 | “The Effects of School Desegregation on Crime” Jens Ludwig, University of Chicago (with David Weiner and Byron Lutz) |
11:00-11:15 | Break |
11:15-12:30 | "Disability, Earnings, Income and Consumption" Bruce Meyer, University of Chicago and Wallace K. C. Mok, Northwestern University |
Session 3: Selected Topics |
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1:30-2:45 | “Are Children 'Normal'?” Seth Sanders, University of Maryland and Duke University |
2:45-3:00 | Break |
3:00-4:15 | “Understanding the Effect of Higher Education on Long-Term Health
Outcomes” Elizabeth Bruch and Yu Xie, University of Michigan |
4:15-5:30 | “A Sequential Hazard Model of Sexual Initiation and Premarital First Births” Larry Wu, New York University and Steven P. Martin, University of Maryland |
Dinner & Roundtable The University Club, 803 State Street |
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6:00-9:30 | “Comparative International Research
on Income and Well Being: Lessons Learned from 25 Years of the Luxembourg
Income Study” Timothy Smeeding, Syracuse University |
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18 |
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Session 4: Welfare Reform in Other Places |
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8:30-9:45 | “The Impact of the UK New Deal for Lone Parents on
Benefit Receipt” Jeffrey Smith, University of Michigan (with Peter Dolton and Joao Pedro Azevedo) |
9:45-11:00 | "Profiling the Plight of Disconnected Youth in America" Thomas MaCurdy, Stanford University |
11:00-11:15 | Break |
Session 5: Human Capital |
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11:15-12:30 | “Beyond Signaling and Human Capital: Education and the Revelation of Ability” Peter Arcidiacono, Duke University (with Patrick Bayer and Aurel Hizmo) |
1:30-2:45 | “Educational Assortative Mating in Two Generations” Robert Mare, UCLA |
2:45-4:00 | “Evaluating the ‘Strategic Center’: Race-Ethnic Differences in Applying and Updating Educational Expectations” Megan Andrew and Robert M. Hauser, University of Wisconsin–Madison |
Lampman Memorial Lecture Pyle Center, 702 Langdon Street, Lee Lounge |
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4:30-6:00 | "What Does it Mean to be Poor in a Rich Society?" Robert Haveman, University of Wisconsin–Madison |
6:00-7:00 | Reception in the Pyle Center, Alumni Lounge |
THURSDAY, JUNE 19 |
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Session 6: Earnings Volatility |
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8:00-9:15 | “Year-to-Year Variability in Workers Earnings and in Household Incomes: Estimates from Administrative Data” Tom DeLeire, University of Wisconsin–Madison (with Molly Dahl and Jonathan Schwabish) |
9:15-10:30 | “Trends in Earnings Volatility in the U.S., 1969–2004” Peter Gottschalk, Boston College, and Robert Moffitt, Johns Hopkins University |
10:30-10:45 | Break |
Session 7: Human Capital, Part 2 |
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10:45-12:00 | “Reanalysis of the Perry Preschool Program” James Heckman, Seong Moon, Rodrigo Ribeiro Pinto, Petr Savelev and Adam Yavitz, University of Chicago |
12:00-1:15 | “How Do Training Programs Assign Participants to Training? Characterizing the Assignment Rules of Government
Agencies for Welfare-to-Work Programs in California” Oscar Mitnik, University of Miami |
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Posted: April 23, 2008 by DD
Last Updated:
April 13, 2010
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