Children's program.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings - National Bureau of Economic Research - Janet Currie from Columbia University - Orazio Attanasio from University College London - Jorge M. Aguero from University of California - Brief article - Conference notes

The NBER's Program on Children met in Cambridge on April 29, 2010. Program Director Janet Currie of Columbia University organized the meeting. These papers were discussed:

* Orazio Attanasio, University College London and NBER, and Katja Kaufmann, IGIER, "Educational Choices and Subjective Expectations of Returns to Schooling: Evidence on Intra-Household Decisions and Gender Differences"

* Carlos Chiapa and Jose Luis Garrido, El Colegio del Mexico, and Silvia Prina, Case Western Reserve University, "The Effect of Social Programs and Exposure to Professionals on the Educational Aspirations of the Poor"

* Jorge M. Aguero and Maithili Ramachandran, University of California, Riverside, "The Intergenerational Effects of Increasing Women's Schooling: Evidence from Zimbabwe"

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