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IRP SUMMER RESEARCH WORKSHOP
"Current Research on the Low-Income Population"
June 23–26, 2014
2520 Grainger Hall
975 University Avenue
Madison, WI
TENTATIVE AGENDA |
| MONDAY, JUNE 23 |
| Session #1: Race, School Finance, Training, and Foreclosures |
| 12:00–1:15 |
Explaining the Link between Race, Speech, and Wages
Jeffrey Grogger, University of Chicago |
| 1:15–2:30 |
The Effect of School Finance Reforms on the Distribution of Spending, Academic Achievement, and Adult Outcomes
Kirabo Jackson, Northwestern University; Rucker Johnson, University of California, Berkeley; and Claudia Persico, Northwestern University |
| 2:30–2:45 |
Break |
| 2:45–4:00 |
Employment and Earnings Effects of Awarding Training Vouchers
Annabelle Doerr, University of Freiburg; Bernd Fitzenberger, University of Freiburg; Thomas Kruppe, Institute for Employment Research (IAB); Marie Paul, University of Dusburg-Essen; and Anthony Strittmater, University of Freiburg |
| 4:00–5:15 |
Mortgage Moratoria, Foreclosure Delays, Moral Hazard and Willingness to Repay
J. Michael Collins, University of Wisconsin–Madison; and Carly Urban, Montana State University |
| Dinner on your own |
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| TUESDAY, JUNE 24 |
| 8:00-8:30 am |
Breakfast |
| Session #2: Program Evaluation |
| 8:30–9:45 |
Bounding the Labor Supply Responses to a Randomized Welfare Experiment: A Revealed Preference Approach
Patrick Kline, University of California, Berkeley; and Melissa Tartari, University of Chicago |
| 9:45–11:00 |
Structural Estimation of an Equilibrium Model with Externalities: Program Evaluation of Post-Katrina Rebuilding Grants
Jesse Gregory and Chao Fu, University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| 11:00–11:15 |
Break |
| 11:15–12:30 |
The Returns to College Education: A Reassessment of Heterogeneous Treatment Effects
Eric Grodsky, University of Wisconsin–Madison; Andrew Halpern-Manners, Indiana University, Bloomington; and Stefanie Lightner, University of Minnesota |
| 12:30–1:30 |
Catered lunch (discussion continues) |
| 1:30–2:45 |
Do Employers Prefer Workers Who Attend For-Profit Colleges? Evidence from a Field Experiment
Rajeev Darolia, Cory Koedel, University of Missouri; Paco Martorell, and Katie Wilson, RAND |
| Session #3: Immigration |
| 2:45–4:00 |
The Impact of Immigration on Wages, Internal Migration and Welfare
Suphanit Piyapromdee, University College London |
| 4:00–4:15 |
Break |
| 4:15–5:30 |
Immigrants Equilibrate Local Labor Markets: Evidence from the Great Recession
Brian Cadena, University of Colorado Boulder; and Brian Kovak, Carnegie Mellon University |
Dinner & Evening Presentation
AT&T Lounge, Pyle Center, 702 Langdon Street |
| 6:30–7:30 |
Reception (cash bar) |
| 7:30–9:30 |
Productivity Growth in Healthcare
Amitabh Chandra, Harvard University |
| WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25 |
| 7:45-8:15 am |
Breakfast |
| Session #4: Crime |
| 8:15–9:30 |
How Mandatory are Mandatory Minimum Sentencing Laws and to What Extent Do They Impact Sentences? Evidence from United States Federal Drug Convictions
David Bjerk, Claremont McKenna College; Caleb Mason, Miller Barondess LLP |
| 9:30–10:45 |
Does Employment Decrease Recidivism among Job Applicants with a Criminal History?
Shawn Bushway, Megan Kurlychek, and Megan Denver, University of Albany, SUNY
Please contact the author if you are intereted in receiving a copy of the paper. |
| 10:45–11:00 |
Break |
| 11:00–12:15 |
Incarceration and Crime: Evidence from California’s Realignment Sentencing Reform
Magnus Lofstrom, Public Policy Institute of California; and Steven Raphael, University of California, Berkeley |
| 12:15–1:15 |
Catered lunch (discussion continues) |
| Session #5: Peers and the Great Recession |
| 1:15–2:30 |
Mechanisms of Parental Spillovers in the Classroom
Jane Cooley Fruehwirth, University of Cambridge |
| 2:30–3:45 |
Labor Market Networks and Recovery from the Great Recession
Judith Hellerstein, University of Maryland, College Park |
| 3:45–4:00 |
Break |
| 4:00–5:15 |
Training Program Impacts and the Onset of the Great Recession
Carolyn Heinrich, University of Texas at Austin; and Peter Mueser, University of Missouri–Columbia |
| Dinner on your own |
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| THURSDAY, JUNE 26 |
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| 7:45-8:15 am |
Breakfast |
| Session #6: Parenting |
| 8:15–9:30 |
Is There a Case for a “Second Demographic Transition?” Three Distinctive Features of the Post-1960 U.S. Fertility Decline
Martha Bailey, University of Michigan |
| 9:30–10:45 |
Child Support Obligations and Family Outcomes: Causal Evidence from Administrative Data
Maya Rossin-Slater, University of California, Santa Barbara; and Miriam Wüst, Danish National Centre for Social Research |
| 10:45–11:15 |
Break / Working Lunch (during last two presentations) |
| Session #7: Displaced Workers and Program Participation |
| 11:15–12:30 |
Scraping By: Income and Program Participation after the Loss of Extended Unemployment Benefits
Jesse Rothstein, University of California, Berkeley; and Robert Valletta, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco |
| 12:30-1:45 |
Aid and Encouragement: Does a Letter Increase Enrollment among UI Recipients?
Andrew Barr and Sarah Turner, University of Virginia |
| 1:45–2:00 |
Closing remarks and discussion (meeting adjourns) |
