Current Research on the Low-Income Population
Program
June 25, 2012
7:00 - 8:00am
Session 1: Poverty Measurement, Mobility, and Social Interactions
7:00 - 8:15am
Identifying the Disadvantaged: Official Poverty, Consumption Poverty and the New Supplemental Poverty Measure
8:15 - 9:30am
Family Structure and the Economic Wellbeing of Children
11:00am - 12:15pm
Peer Effects in Program Participation
June 26, 2012
3:30 - 4:30pm
Session 2: Housing and the Crack Epidemic
4:45 - 6:00am
Does Federally-Funded Job Training Work? Nonexperimental Estimates of WIA Training Impacts Using Longitudinal Data on Workers and Firms
6:15 - 7:30am
The White/Black Achievement Gap, Stalled Progress, and the Long Term Consequences of the Crack Epidemic
8:30 - 9:30am
Session 3: Dynamics of Health Insurance and Minimum Wages
8:30 - 9:45am
Estimating Heterogeneous Take-up and Crowd-Out Responses to Current Medicaid Limits and Their Nonmarginal Expansions
11:00am - 12:15pm
The Impact of Minimum Wages on Quit, Layoff, and Hiring Rates
June 27, 2012
3:15 - 4:15pm
Session 4: Education
3:15 - 4:30pm
Labor Market Returns to the GED Using Regression Discontinuity Analysis
4:30 - 5:45pm
Race and College Success: Evidence from Missouri
6:00 - 7:15am
Percent Plans, Automatic Admissions, and College Entry
8:15 - 9:30am
Incentive Strength and Teacher Productivity: Evidence from a Group-Based Teacher Incentive Pay System
11:00am - 12:15pm
Results from an Education Experiment in Mexico
1:00 - 4:30pm
The Value-Added Model: Research and Policy
June 28, 2012
3:00 - 4:00pm
Session 5: Skill Formation, Child Development, and Head Start: Joint Session with INET Research Network on Human Capital and Inequality
3:00 - 4:15am
Measuring Parental Beliefs About the Technology of Skill Formation
4:15 - 5:30am
Co-AuthorsDaniela Del Boca, Matthew Wiswall
6:00 - 7:15am
Long Term Impacts of Compensatory Preschool on Health and Behavior: Evidence from Head Start
8:35 - 9:00am