Program on Children.

PositionProgram and Working Group Meetings

Members of the NBER's Program on Children met on April 12 in Cambridge. Program Directors Anna Aizer of Brown University and Janet Currie of Princeton University organized the meeting. These researchers' papers were presented and discussed:

* Martha J. Bailey, University of Michigan and NBER, and Shuqiao Sun and Brenden D. Timpe, University of Michigan, "Prep School for Poor Kids: The Long-Run Impacts of Head Start on Human Capital and Self-Sufficiency"

* Emilia Simeonova, Johns Hopkins University and NBER; Randall Akee, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER; and Elizabeth Costello, William Copeland, and John B. Holbein, Duke University, "Family Income and the Intergenerational Transmission of Civic Participation: Evidence from a Cash Transfer Program and Parent and Child Voting Behaviors"

* Chloe N. East, University of Colorado Denver; Marianne E. Page, University of California, Davis and NBER; Sarah Miller, University of Michigan and NBER; and Laura R. Wherry, University of California, Los Angeles, "Multi-generational Impacts of Childhood Access to the Safety Net: Early Life Exposure to Medicaid and the Next Generation's Health" (NBER Working Paper No. 23810)

* Timothy Halliday, University of Hawaii at Manoa; Bhashkar...

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