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IRP SUMMER RESEARCH WORKSHOP
"Current Research on the Low-Income Population"
June 24–27, 2013
Room 2520, Grainger Hall
975 University Avenue
Madison, WI
TENTATIVE AGENDA |
| MONDAY, JUNE 24 |
| Session # 1: Data and Methods |
| 12:00–1:15 |
The Role of CPS Non-Response on Trends in Poverty and Inequality
Charles Hokayem, U.S. Census Bureau, James Ziliak and Christopher Bollinger, University of Kentucky |
| 1:15–2:30 |
Do Impact Estimates Depend on the Source of the Data Used to Measure Them? Evidence from Social Experiments
Burt Barnow, George Washington University, and David Greenberg, University of Maryland, Baltimore County |
| 2:30–2:45 |
Break |
| 2:45–4:00 |
Cross Atlantic Differences in Estimating Dynamic Training Effects
John Ham, University of Maryland, Per Johansson, Uppsala University, Robert LaLonde, University of Chicago, and Xianghong Li, York University |
| 4:00–5:15 |
Poor Families, Poor Neighborhoods: How Family Poverty Intensifies the Impact of Concentrated Disadvantage on High School Graduation
Felix Elwert, University of Wisconsin–Madison; Geoffrey Wodtke and David Harding, University of Michigan |
| Dinner on your own |
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| TUESDAY, JUNE 25 |
| Session # 7: Labor Markets (moved from Thursday) |
| 8:30–9:45 |
Temporary Help Employment in Recession and Recovery
Carolyn Heinrich, University of Texas at Austin, and Susan Houseman, W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research |
| Session # 2: Children and Food |
| 9:45–11:00 |
Identifying the Effect of WIC on Very Low Food Security among Infants and Children
Brent Kreider, Iowa State University, John Pepper, University of Virginia, and Manan Roy, IMPAQ |
| 11:00–11:15 |
Break |
| Session # 3: Children and Jobs |
| 11:15–12:30 |
Children Left Behind: The Effects of Statewide Job Loss on Student Achievement
Elizabeth Oltmans Ananat, Dania Francis, Anna Gassman-Pines, and Christina Gibson-Davis, Duke University |
| 12:30–1:30 |
Catered lunch (discussion continues) |
| 1:30–2:45 |
Job Displacement among Single Mothers: Effects on Children’s Outcomes in Young Adulthood
Jennie Brand, UCLA |
| Session # 4: Disability |
| 2:45–4:00 |
The Effect of Disability Insurance Receipt on Labor Supply, Appeals and Re-Applications: Evidence from Hearing Office Level Decisions
Eric French, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, and Jae Song, U.S. Social Security Administration |
| 4:00–4:15 |
Break |
| 4:15–5:30 |
Disability, Earnings, Income and Consumption
Bruce Meyer, University of Chicago, and Wallace Mok, Chinese University of Hong Kong |
Dinner & Roundtable
Alumni Lounge, Pyle Center, 702 Langdon Street |
| 6:00–9:30 |
Why U.S. Disability Policy Reform is Stymied and How We Can Move Forward
David Stapleton, Mathematica Policy Research |
| WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26 |
| Session # 5: Crime |
| 8:15–9:30 |
The Prison Boom and the Lack of Black Progress after Smith & Welch
Derek Neal and Armin Rick, University of Chicago |
| 9:30–10:45 |
Improving Outcomes among Juvenile Offenders: Experimental Evidence of the Effectiveness of a Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Intervention in Juvenile Detention
Sara Heller, and Jens Ludwig, University of Chicago, and Jonathan Guryan, Northwestern University |
| 10:45–11:00 |
Break |
| 11:00–12:15 |
How Welfare Reform Drove Up Female Arrest Rates
Christopher Uggen, University of Minnesota |
| 12:15–1:15 |
Catered lunch (discussion continues) |
| 1:15–2:30 |
The Effects of DNA Databases on Crime
Jennifer Doleac, University of Virginia |
| 2:30–3:45 |
Preventing Youth Violence and Dropout: A Randomized Field Experiment
Jens Ludwig, Harold Pollack, and Roseanna Ander, University of Chicago |
| 3:45–4:00 |
Break |
| Session #6: More on Children |
| 4:00–5:15 |
Measuring the Effect of the Timing of First Birth on Wages
Jane Leber Herr, National Bureau of Economic Research |
| Dinner on your own |
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| THURSDAY, JUNE 27 |
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| Session #6: More on Children (continued) |
| 8:00–9:15 |
Is Leaving Home a Hardship?
David Ribar, UNC-Greensboro |
| Session # 8: Higher Education |
| 9:15–10:30 |
Disaggregating the Returns to College
Amanda Agan, University of Chicago |
| 10:30–10:45 |
Break |
| 10:45–12:00 |
Student Loans, the Cost of Borrowing, and Implications for the Effectiveness of Need-Based Grant Aid
Lesley Turner, University of Maryland, and Benjamin M. Marx, University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign |
| 12:00–12:30 |
Closing remarks and discussion (meeting adjourns) |
