8:00am Breakfast and registration
8:45am Session 1
Panel A: Development
Chair: Dean Yang
Gaurav Khanna (UC-San Diego), "Incentivizing Standards or Standardizing Incentives? Affirmative Action in India"
Natalie Bau (University of Toronto), "Can Policy Crowd Out Culture?"
A. Nilesh Fernando (Notre Dame), "Seeking Treatment: The Effects of Technology on Social Interactions and Network Structure in Agriculture"
Panel B: Health and Human Capital
Chair: Valentina Duque
Amelia Hawkins (University of Michigan), "Supplemental Security Income and Child Outcomes: Evidence from Birth Weight Eligibility Cutoffs"
Valentina Duque (University of Michigan), "Integrating Early-Life Shocks and Human Capital Investments on Children’s Education"
Christopher Cronin (Notre Dame), "Mental Health, Human Capital, and Labor Market Outcomes"
9:45am Break
10:00am Session 2
Panel A: History
Chair: Hoyt Bleakley
Michael Thomas (UChicago), "Was Television Responsible for a New Generation of Smokers?"
Martin Saavedra (Oberlin), "The Long-Run Consequences of Parental Death: Evidence from 19th Century New Orleans"
Peter Egedesø Madsen (University of Southern Denmark), "Preventing the White Death: Tuberculosis Dispensaries"
Panel B: Parenthood and the Workplace
Chair: Mel Stephens
Nayoung Rim (UChicago), "The Gendered Effects of Career Concerns on Fertility"
Yana Gallen (UChicago), "Motherhood and the Gender Productivity Gap"
Alexander Russov (University of Michigan), "Fathers and Children: Labor Market Opportunities and Fertility"
11:00am Break
11:15am Keynote address by Janet Currie, Princeton University
"Inequality in Mortality Over the Life Course: Why Things Are Not as Bad as You Think"
12:30pm Lunch and Poster Session
Poster presenters: Youjin Choi (University of Western Ontario), Andy Chou (Michigan State), Ahlam El Yamen (Wayne State), Sara Esfahani (Notre Dame), Jeehoon Han (Notre Dame), Grace Hwang (Ohio State), Jun Hyung Kim (UChicago), Sungjoon Kwon (Ohio State), Maryam Jafari Bigdoli (Wayne State), Isabelle Musse (University of Illinois), Olga Namen (UChicago), Jacob Vogler (University of Illinois)
1:45pm Session 3
Panel A: Labor
Chair: Charlie Brown
Parag Mahajan (University of Michigan), "Undocumented Immigration and Labor Market Fluidity: Evidence in the Context of Search Theory"
Eric Chyn (University of Virginia), "The Impact of Disadvantaged Peers: Evidence from Resettlement after Public Housing Demolition"
Mike Zabek (University of Michigan), "Parents and Children’s Earnings After Job Losses" (Commentary by Cleveland Fed)
Panel B: Health
Chair: Janet Currie
Guillermo Marshall (University of Illinois), "A Path Out: Prescription Drug Abuse and Suicide"
Salma Khalid (University of Michigan), "Image Motivation and the Willingness to Pay for Preventative Health Care"
Desmond Toohey (University of Delaware), "The Impact of Health on Labor Market Outcomes: Experimental Evidence from MRFIT"
2:45pm Break
3:00pm Session 4
Panel A: Health Insurance
Chair: Richard Hirth
Daniel Sacks (Indiana University), "How do the Mandate and the Premium Tax Credit Affect the Individual Insurance Market?"
Edward Norton (University of Michigan), "Moneyball in Medicare"
Tony Han (Ohio State), "The Impacts of the Affordable Care Act Dependent Coverage Provision on College Graduates with Student Loan Debt"
Panel B: Family and Labor
Chair: David Lam
Hanzhe Zhang (Michigan State), "Labor-Market and Marriage-Market Outcomes by Age at Marriage: Theory and Evidence"
Abigail Wozniak (Notre Dame), "The Impacts of Moving on Family Structure in U.S. Army Data"
Joelle Abramowitz (University of Michigan), "Did the Great Recession Affect Fertility? Examining the Impact of Layoffs on Timing of Births in the U.S."
4:00pm Break
4:15pm Session 5
Panel A: History
Chair: Mike Mueller-Smith
Jillian Carr (Purdue University), "What Happened to Rosie?"
Sam Norris (Northwestern), "The Intergenerational Consequences of Incarceration"
Chloe Gibbs (Notre Dame), "Breaking the Cycle? The Intergenerational Effects of Head Start"
Panel B: Labor
Chair: Martha Bailey
Mark Borgschulte (University of Illinois), "Smoked Out: The Effect of Wildfire Smoke on Labor Market Outcomes"
Alisa Tazhitdinova (McMaster University), "Adjust Me if I Can't: The Effect of Firm Incentives on Labor Supply Responses to Taxes"
Kasey Buckles (Notre Dame), "Fertility is a Leading Economic Indicator"
6:00pm Reception - Vinology