Children's Program meeting.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings

The NBER's Program on Children, directed by Janet Currie of University of California, Los Angeles, met in Cambridge on May 6, 2011. The following papers were discussed:

* Alan Barreca, Tulane University; Melanie E. Guldi, Mount Holyoke College; Jason M. Lindo, University of Oregon and NBER; and Glen Waddell, University of Oregon, "Running and Jumping Variables in Regression Discontinuity Designs"

* Prashant Bharadwaj, University of California, San Diego, and Christopher Andre Neilson, Yale University, "Early Life Health Interventions and Academic Achievement"

* Sonia R. Bhalotra, University of Bristol, and Atheendar S. Venkataramani, Yale University, "The Long-Run Effects of Early Life Pneumonia: Evidence from the Arrival of Sulfa Drugs in America"

* Douglas Almond, Columbia University and NBER; Hilary W. Hoynes, University of California at Davis and NBER; and Diane...