(Please note that participation is by invitation only. For more information please contact Dana Connelly at (dana.connelly@wisc.edu.)
Current Research on the Low-Income Population
June 20-23, 2016
2339 Grainger Hall
975 University Avenue
Madison, WI
MONDAY, JUNE 20 | |
Session #1: Children | |
12:00–1:15 | Dissolution, Conflict and Children's Developmental Outcomes David Ribar, Claire Thibout, University of Melbourne; and Seth Sanders, Duke University |
1:15–2:30 | Religion and Depression in Adolescence Jane Cooley Fruehwirth, University of North Carolina; Sriya Iyer, University of Cambridge; and Anwen Zhang, London School of Economics and Political Science |
2:30–2:45 | Break |
Session #2: Health | |
2:45–4:00 | Effects of the Affordable Care Act on Part-time Employment: Early Evidence Marcus Dillender, Susan Houseman, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research; and Carolyn Heinrich, Vanderbilt University |
4:00–5:15 | Heterogeneous Impacts of the Affordable Care Act on Labor Markets Naoki Aizawa, University of Minnesota and Chao Fu, University of Wisconsin–Madison |
Dinner on your own | |
TUESDAY, JUNE 21 | |
Session #3: Employment and Training | |
8:00–8:30 | Breakfast, 2339 Grainger Hall |
8:30–9:45 | The Efects of Training Incidence and Duration on Labor Market Transitions Bernd Fitzenberger, Humboldt-University Berlin and ZEW; Aderonke Osikominu, University of Hohenheim; and Marie Paul, University of Duisburg-Essen |
9:45–11:00 | Providing Public Workforce Services to Job Seekers: 15-Month Impact Findings on the WIA Adult and Dislocated Worker Programs Ronald D'Amico, Social Policy Research Associates; Paul Burkander, Kenneth Fortson, Annalisa Mastri, Sheena McConnell, Linda Rosenberg, Dana Rotz, and Peter Schochet, Mathematica Policy Research Institute |
11:00–11:15 | Break |
11:15–12:30 | Cyclical and Market Determinants of Involuntary Part-Time Employment Leila Bengali, Yale University; Robert G. Valletta and Catherine van der List, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco |
12:30–1:30 | Lunch (discussion continues) |
Session #4: Education | |
1:30–2:45 | The Gap within the Gap: Using Longitudinal Data to Understand Gaps in Educational Outcomes Susan Dynarski and Kathy Michelmore, University of Michigan |
2:45–4:00 | Can Targeted Information Affect Academic Performance and Borrowing Behavior for College Students? Evidence from Administrative Data Maximilian Schmeiser, Amazon Lending; Christiana Stoddard, and Carly Urban, Montana State University |
4:00–4:15 | Break |
Session #5: IRP 50th Anniversary Panel | |
4:15–5:30 | Poverty Research Questions for the Next Decade Moderators: Lonnie Berger and Carolyn Heinrich Panelists: Katherine Magnuson, Bruce Meyer, David Pate, Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, Tim Smeeding |
Reception, Evening Presentation & Dinner, Fluno Center, Skyview Room, 601 University Avenue | |
5:30–6:00 | Reception |
6:00–7:00 | Presentation: Making a Difference over 50 Years Rebecca Blank, Chancellor, University of Wisconsin–Madison |
7:00 | Dinner |
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22 | |
7:45–8:15 | Breakfast, 2339 Grainger Hall |
Session #6: Crime | |
8:15–9:30 | Using a Ratio Test to Estimate Racial Differences in Wrongful Conviction Rates David Bjerk and Eric Helland, Claremont McKenna College |
9:30–10:45 | Ban the Box, Criminal Records, and Statistical Discrimination: A Field Experiment Amanda Agan, Princeton University; and Sonja Starr, University of Michigan |
10:45–11:00 | Break |
11:00–12:15 | Does "banning the box" Help or Hurt Low-Skilled Workers?: Statistical Discrimination and Employment Outcomes When Criminal Histories are Hidden Jennifer Doleac, University of Virginia; and Benjamin Hansen, University of Oregon |
12:15–1:15 | Lunch (discussion continues) |
1:15–2:30 | Separating State Dependence, Experience, and Heterogeneity in a Model of Youth Crime and Education Maria Antonella Mancino, University of Western Ontario; Salvador Navarro, University of Western Ontario; and David A. Rivers, University of Western Ontario |
2:30–2:45 | Break |
Session #7: Early Human Capital Investments | |
2:45–4:00 | Dynamic Complementarity in Human Capital Investments and their Long-Run Impacts: Evidence from Head Start and Public School Spending Kirabo Jackson, Northwestern University; and Rucker C. Johnson, University of California-Berkeley |
4:00–5:15 | Persistence and Fadeout in the Impacts of Child and Adolescent Interventions Drew Bailey, Greg J. Duncan, Winnie Yu, University of California, Irvine; and Candice Odgers, Duke University |
Dinner on your own | |
THURSDAY, JUNE 23 | |
7:45–8:15 | Breakfast, 2339 Grainger Hall |
Session #8: Education | |
8:15–9:30 | Decentralized Governance and the Quality of School Leadership Derek Laing, Syracuse University; Steven G. Rivkin, Jeffrey C. Schiman, and Jason Ward, University of Illinois at Chicago |
9:30–10:45 | Educational Opportunity for All? A Field Experiment on Discrimination in Public Schools of Choice (abstact of paper) Peter Bergman, Columbia University; and Isaac McFarlin, University of Florida |
10:45–11:15 | Break/Working Lunch (during last two presentations) |
11:15–12:30 | Returns to Investments in Human Capital, Within and Across Countries Rafael de Hoyos, World Bank; John Kennan, University of Wisconsin–Madison; and Rebecca Lessem, Carnegie-Mellon University |
12:30–1:45 | School Finance Reform and the Distribution of Student Achievement Julien Lafortune, Jesse Rothstein, University of California, Berkeley; and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, Northwestern University |
1:45–2:00 | Closing remarks and discussion (meeting adjourns) |