(Please note that participation is by invitation only. For more information please contact Coreen Williams at cwilliam@ssc.wisc.edu.)
IRP SUMMER RESEARCH WORKSHOP |
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| MONDAY, JUNE 25 | |
| Session # 1: Poverty Measurement, Mobility, and Social Interactions | |
| 12:00–1:15 | Identifying the Disadvantaged: Official Poverty, Consumption Poverty and the New
Supplemental Poverty Measure James X. Sullivan, University of Notre Dame; and Bruce Meyer, University of Chicago |
| 1:15–2:30 | Family Structure and the Economic Wellbeing of Children Leonard Lopoo, Syracuse University; and Thomas DeLeire, University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| 2:30–2:45 | Break |
| 2:45–4:00 | Family Income Instability Peter Gottschalk, Boston College; and Sisi Zhang, The Urban Institute |
| 4:00–5:15 | Peer Effects in Program Participation Gordon Dahl, University of California, San Diego; Katrine Løken, University of Bergen; and Magne Mostad, University College London |
| Dinner on your own | |
| TUESDAY, JUNE 26 | |
| Session # 2: Housing and the Crack Epidemic | |
| 8:30–9:45 | The Effect of the Section 8 Housing Voucher Receipt on Work, Mobility, Neighborhood Quality and Family Composition Robert Haveman, University of Wisconsin–Madison; Barbara Wolfe, Thomas Kaplan, and Deven Carlson, University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| 9:45–11:00 | Does Federally-Funded Job Training Work? Nonexperimental Estimates of WIA Training Impacts Using Longitudinal Data on Workers and Firms Jeff Smith, University of Michigan; Fredrik Andersson, US Department of Treasury; Harry J. Holzer, Georgetown University; Julia I. Lane, National Science Foundation; and David Rosenblum, Michigan State University |
| 11:00–11:15 | Break |
| 11:15–12:30 | The White/Black Achievement Gap, Stalled Progress, and the Long Term Consequences of the Crack Epidemic William Evans, University of Notre Dame; Craig Garthwaite, Northwestern University; and Timothy Moore, University of Maryland |
| 12:30–1:30 | Catered lunch (discussion continues) |
| Session # 3: Dynamics of Health Insurance and Minimum Wages | |
| 1:30–2:45 | Estimating Heterogeneous Take-up and Crowd-Out Responses to Current Medicaid Limits
and Their Nonmarginal Expansions John Ham, University of Maryland; I. Serkan Ozbeklik, Claremont McKenna College; and Lara Shore-Sheppard, Williams College |
| 2:45–4:00 | Participation and Crowd Out: Assessing the Effects of Parental Medicaid Expansions Sarah Hamersma, University of Florida; and Matthew Kim, University of St. Thomas |
| 4:00–5:15 | The Impact of Minimum Wages on Quit, Layoff, and Hiring Rates David Green, University of British Columbia |
| Dinner on your own | |
| WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27 | |
| Session # 4: Education | |
| 8:15–9:30 | Labor Market Returns to the GED Using Regression Discontinuity Analysis Kenneth Troske, University of Kentucky; Christopher Jepsen, University of Kentucky; and Peter Mueser, University of Missouri |
| 9:30–10:45 | Race and College Success: Evidence from Missouri Cory Koedel, University of Missouri-Columbia; and Peter Arcidiacono, Duke University |
| 10:45–11:00 | Break |
| 11:00–12:15 | Percent Plans, Automatic Admissions, and College Entry Isaac McFarlin, University of Michigan; Lindsay Daugherty and Paco Martorell, RAND Corporation |
| 12:15–1:15 | Catered lunch (discussion continues) |
| 1:15–2:30 | Incentive Strength and Teacher Productivity: Evidence from a Group-Based Teacher Incentive Pay System Scott Imberman, University of Houston; and Michael Lovenheim, Cornell University |
| 2:30–3:45 | Teacher Quality Policy When Supply Matters Jesse Rothstein, University of California, Berkeley |
| 3:45–4:00 | Break |
| 4:00–5:15 | Results from an Education Experiment in Mexico Kenneth Wolpin, University of Pennsylvania; Petra Todd and Jere Behrman, University of Pennsylvania; and Susan Parker, Center for Teaching and Research in Economics (CIDE), Mexico |
| 6:00–9:30 | Dinner & Roundtable The Value-Added Model: Research and Policy Raj Chetty, Harvard University; Eric Hanushek, Stanford University; and Jesse Rothstein, University of California, Berkeley |
| THURSDAY, JUNE 28 | |
| Session # 5: Skill Formation, Child Development, and Head Start: Joint Session with INET Research Network on Human Capital and Inequality | |
| 8:00–9:15 | Measuring Parental Beliefs About the Technology of Skill Formation Flavio Cunha, University of Pennsylvania; Jennifer Culhane, Drexel University; and Irma Elo, University of Pennsylvania |
| 9:15–10:30 | Household Choices and Child Development Matthew Wiswall, New York University; Daniela del Boca, University of Turin; and Christopher Flinn, New York University |
| 11:00–12:15 | Long Term Impacts of Compensatory Preschool on Health and Behavior: Evidence from Head Start Rita Ginja, Uppsala University; and Pedro Carneiro, University College London |
| 12:15–1:30 | Experimental Evidence on Distributional Effects of Head Start Marianne Bitler, University of California, Irvine; Thurston Domina, University of California, Irvine; and Hilary Hoynes, University of California, Davis |
| 1:30–2:00 | Closing remarks and discussion (meeting adjourns) |
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