CLSRN Conference

CLSRN Conference May 28-29, 2015 Ryerson University, Toronto

Thursday, May 28

12:30 pm Registration

Session 1 1:00 – 3:00 pm

Chair: Miana Plesca Intergenerational Transmissions

1:00 pm Wen-Hao Chen (Statistics Canada), Yuri Ostrovsky, and Patrizio Piraino – Lifecycle Variation, Errors-in-Variables Bias and Nonlinearities in Intergenerational Income Transmission: New Evidence from Canada

1:30 pm Shuang Zhang and Weina Zhou (Dalhousie University) – The Intergenerational Impact of Early Life Adversity: Evidence from the Send-down Policy in China

Search and Employment

2:00 pm Ying Tung Chan (McGill University) and Chi Man Yip – On the Ambiguity of Job Search

2:30 pm Michael Ornstein (York University) – Canadian Parents’ Strategies for Employment and Childcare in Community Context

3:00 pm Break

Session 2 3:30 – 5:00

Chair: Mikal Skuterud Child Care, Child Benefits and Job Training Policies

3:30 pm Tammy Schirle (Wilfrid Laurier University) and Kourtney Koebel – The Differential Impact of Universal Child Benefits on Married and Single Mothers’ Labour Supply

4:00 pm Charles Bram Cadsby, Fei Song, and Jennifer Teng (University of Guelph) – Does Full-Day Kindergarten have a Long-term Impact on Academic Performance? A First Glance at Evidence from a Natural Experiment

4:30 pm Fredrik Andersson, Harry J. Holzer, Julia I. Lane, David Rosenblum, and Jeffrey Smith (University of Michigan), – Does Federally-funded Job Training Work? Nonexperimental Estimates of WIA Training Impacts using Longitudinal Data on Workers and Firms Friday, May 29

Session 3 8:30 – 10:00 am

Chair: Ana Ferrer School Choice and Skills

8:30 am Marc Frenette and Ping Ching Winnie Chan (Statistics Canada) – Why Are Academic Prospects Brighter in Private High Schools? Better Schools or Better Students?

9:00 am Jean-Pierre Voyer and Reuben Ford (SRDC) – Providing Enhanced Career Education and Student Financial Aid Earlier in High School: Experimental Impacts on Postsecondary Attainment

10:00 am Michael Kottelenberg and Steven Lehrer (Queen’s University) – Confidence and Cognition: Tracking the Effects of Skill Development on Post-Secondary School Choice and Early Labour Market Outcomes

Session 4 10:30 – 12:00 pm

Chair: David Green Keynote Lecture 10:30 am Martha Bailey (University of Michigan) – The ERA of the Pill