December 12‐14, 2010
Woods Conference Room
American Bar Foundation
750 N. Lake Shore Drive
4th Floor
Chicago, IL 60611
This workshop is jointly sponsored by the Center for Human Potential and Public Policy at the Harris School of Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago, and the Department of Economics at The University of Stavanger. It was coordinated by Ariel Kalil (University of Chicago) and Mari Rege (University of Stavanger). Its purpose is to share ongoing work from the collaborative research project “Early Intervention and Social Mobility: Improving the Opportunities of Disadvantaged Children” funded by a grant from the Norwegian Research Council (160965/V10), as well as to provide a forum for discussion of research by American and Norwegian scholars working on related topics.
8:15 am
Continental Breakfast
8:45 am
Introductions
Ariel Kalil, University of Chicago
Mari Rege, University of Stavanger
9:00 am
Public Policies, Women’s Employment after Childbearing, and Child Well-Being
Christopher Ruhm, University of North Carolina-Greensboro
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10:00 am
The Effect of Preschool on the School Performance of Children from
Immigrants Families: Results from an Introduction of Free Preschool in Two Districts in Oslo
Nina Drange, University of Stavanger
Kjetil Telle, University of Stavanger
11:00 am
Break
11:15 am
Associations between Family Structure Change and Children’s
Development: The Moderating Effects of Timing, Type, and Marital Birth
Rebecca Ryan, Georgetown University
Amy Claessens, University of Chicago
1:00pm
How Sibling Births Affect the Allocation of Parenting Time
Ariel Kalil, University of Chicago
Jorge Ugaz, University of Chicago
Jon Guryan, Northwestern University
4:15 pm
The Effect of Cash Transfers on Children's Long-Run Educational Outcomes
Eric Bettinger, Stanford University
Mari Rege, University of Stavanger
8:15 am
Continental Breakfast
8:45 am
Father Influence: The Correlation of Father-Child Outcomes in Cases of Differential Exposure
Ariel Kalil, University of Chicago
Magne Mogstad, Statistics Norway
Mari Rege,
University of Stavanger
Mark Votruba, Case Western Reserve University
11:00 am
Internet Use, Pornography and Sex Crime
Tarjei Havnes, University of Oslo
Magne Mogstad, Statistics Norway
12:00 pm
Lunch
12:45 pm
Shared Parenting and the Risk of Divorce
Mari Rege, University of Stavanger
Ariel Kalil, University of Chicago
Rebecca Ryan, Georgetown University
2:45 pm
Break
3:00 pm
Income Inequality and
Completed Schooling in the US and Norway
Kjetil Telle, Statistics Norway
Greg Duncan, University of California-Irvine
Kathleen Ziol-Guest, Cornell University
Ariel Kalil, University of Chicago
4:00 pm
War and Marriage: Assortative Mating and the World War II G.I. Bill
Marianne Page, University of California, Davis
