Friday, May 31, 2013

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Registration & Lunch

1:00 pm Welcome & Introductions

Session I: Poverty at the Beginning of Life

1:15 pm Prenatal Programming of Child Health & Development; Elysia Davis, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of Denver

1:50 pm Early Life Stress and Epigenetic Development; Erin Kinnally, Assistant Project Scientist, CA National Primate Center, UC Davis

2:25 pm The Effect of Poor Neonatal Health on Cognitive Development: Evidence from a Large New Population of Twins; Jonathan Guryan, Associate Professor of Human Development & Social Policy, Northwestern University

3:00 pm Discussant, Hilary Hoynes

3:25 pm General Discussion

4:00 pm – 6:oo pm Poster Session

Saturday, June 1, 2013

8:30 am Breakfast

Session II: Developmental Processes & Poverty

9:00 am Early Life Stress Sets the Stage: Socioemotional & Neurobiological Pathways to Health Problems from Childhood through Adolescence; Marilyn Essex, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin-Madison

9:35 am The Long Term Impact of Welfare: Evidence from the Mother’s Pension Program, 1913-1930; Anna Aizer, Associate Professor of Economics & Public Policy, Brown University

10:10 am Stress, Poverty, and Self-Regulation: Evidence for the Experiential Canalization of Development; Clancy Blair, Professor of Applied Psychology, New York University

10:45 am Discussant, Jay Belsky

11:10 am General Discussion

11:30 am – 12:30 pm Lunch

Session III: Early Childhood Interventions

12:30 pm Do the Effects of Early Childhood Education Programs Differ by Gender: A Meta-Analysis; Katherine Magnuson, Associate Professor of Social Work, University of Wisconsin-Madison

1:05 pm A New Generation of Two-Generation Programs for Children in Poverty; Hiro Yoshikawa, Professor of Education, Harvard University

1:40 pm School Quality & the Long-Run Effects of Head Start; Rucker Johnson, Associate Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley

2:15 pm Discussant, Ariel Kalil

2:40 pm General Discussion & Closing Remarks

3:15 pm Conference Adjourned