| 7:30am – 8:00 am: | Registration and Continental Breakfast
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| 8:00am – 8:15am: |
Opening remarks by Dan Sullivan, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and Robert LaLonde, University of Chicago and Guest of Honor |
| 8:15am - 9:15am |
Josh Angrist, MIT
"Leveling Up: Early Results from a Randomized Evaluation of Post-Secondary Aid"
(Joint with David Autor, Sally Hudson and Amanda Pallais)
Discussant: Jonathan Guryan, Northwestern University
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| 9:15am – 9:30am | Break
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| 9:30am - 10:30am |
Kristin Butcher, Wellesley College
"Comparing Apples to Oranges: Differences in Women's and Men's Incarceration and Sentencing Outcomes"
(Joint with Kyung Park and Anne Morrison Piehl)
Discussant: Diane Schanzenbach, Northwestern University |
| 10:30am – 10:45am | Break
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| 10:45am - 11:45am |
Kenneth Troske, University of Kentucky
“Postsecondary Educational Returns to the GED Using Regression Discontinuity Analysis”
(Joint with Peter Mueser and Christopher Jepsen)
Discussant: Luojia Hu, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago |
| 11:45am - 12:00pm | Break |
| 12:00pm – 1:00pm |
John Ham, National University of Singapore
"Allowing for Forward Looking Behavior When Estimating Dynamic Treatment Effects"
(Joint with Bocar Ba, Robert LaLonde, and Xianghong Li)
Discussant: Bruce D. Meyer, University of Chicago
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| 1:00pm – 2:15pm | Lunch with remarks by Orley Ashenfelter, Princeton University |
| 2:15pm – 3:00pm |
Louis Jacobson, New Horizons Economic Research
"What Florida’s Exceptionally Detailed Person-Level Administrative Data Tells us about the Effectiveness of WIA-Supported Training and How Trainees can improve their Choices"
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| 3:00pm – 3:15pm | Break |
| 3:15pm - 4:15pm |
Haeil Jung, Indiana University
"The impact of expanding access to early childhood education services in rural Indonesia"
(Joint with Sally Brinkman, Amer Hasan, Angela Kinnell, and Menno Pradhan)
Discussant: Lisa Barrow, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
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| 4:15pm – 4:30pm | Break |
| 4:30pm - 5:30pm |
Jeffrey Smith, University of Michigan
"The Women of the National Supported Work Demonstration"
(Joint with Sebastian Calonico)
Discussant: Jens Ludwig, University of Chicago
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| 6:00pm |
Conference Reception
The Gage
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| 6:45pm |
Conference Dinner
The Gage
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Saturday, April 18, 2015
| 8:30am - 9:00am | Breakfast
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| 9:00am - 10:00am |
Rajeev Dehejia, New York University, Wagner
"Local Instruments, Global Extrapolation: External Validity of the Labor Supply-Fertility Local Average Treatment Effect"
(Joint with James Bisbee, Cristian Pop-Eleches, and Cyrus Samii)
Discussant: Daniel Aaronson, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
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| 10:00am - 10:15am | Break
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| 10:15am - 11:15am |
Petra Todd, University of Pennsylvania
"Assessing the Performance of Nonexperimental
Estimators for Evaluating Head Start"
Discussant: Jeffrey Smith, University of Michigan
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| 11:15am - 11:30am | Break |
| 11:30am - 12:30pm |
Henry Farber, Princeton University
"Job Loss and its Consequences in the Great Recession and its Aftermath: Evidence from the Displaced Workers Survey"
Discussant: Matthew Notowidigdo, Northwestern University
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| 12:30pm - 2:00pm | Lunch with topic on "Program Evaluation and the Work of Bob Lalonde" by James Heckman, University of Chicago |
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