The War on Poverty Project

Martha Bailey: Welcome and introductions

Chloe Gibbs: “Breaking the Cycle? Intergenerational Effects of an Anti-Poverty Program in Early Childhood” (with Andrew Barr)

Douglas Miller: “Selection into Identification in Fixed Effects Models, with Application to Head Start” (with Na’ama Shenhav and Michel Grosz)

Break

Martha Bailey: “Prep School for Poor Kids: The Long-Run Impacts of Head Start on Human Capital and Economic Self-Sufficiency” (with Shuqiao Sun and Brenden Timpe)

Lunch Break

Hilary Hoynes: “Is the Social Safety Net a Long-Term Investment? Large-Scale Evidence from the Food Stamps Program,”  ( with Martha J. Bailey, Maya Rossin-Slater, and Reed Walker).

Valentina Duque: “The Long-Term Health and Economic Benefits of Community Health Centers” (with Martha Bailey and Andrew Goodman-Bacon)

Break

 

Short talks:

Jacob Bastian: “The Rise of Working Mothers and the 1975 Earned Income Tax Credit”
Andrew Goodman-Bacon: “A Strong Start: Short- and Long-Run Effects from Medicaid’s Introduction”
Jamein Cunningham: “Legal Services and the Civilian Perspective”
Rob Gillezeau: “The Community Action Program and the 1960s Uprisings”
Nic Duquette: “Beethoven, Baumol and Bloat: The Establishment of the National Endowment for the Arts and the Professionalization of American Orchestras” (with Mirae Kim)
Bryan Stuart: “The Economic Impact of a High National Minimum Wage: Evidence from the 1966 Fair Labor Standards Act” (with Martha Bailey and John DiNardo)