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Chris Herbst and Erdahl Tekin, The Impact of Child Care Subsidies on Child Evidence from the Geographic Variation in the Distance to Social Service Agencies, NBER Working Paper 16250, August 2010 November 25: No Class: Work on Projects November 30: Conditional Cash Transfers Jere Behrman, Susan Parker, Petra Todd, “Do Conditional Cash Transfers for Schooling Generate Lasting Results? A Five-Year Follow-up of Progressa/Oportunidades,” Journal of Human Resources 46(1) Lawrence Aber, Experiments in 21st Century Antipoverty Policy, Public Policy Research March-May 2009 Lorraine Deardon, Carl Emmerson, Christine Frayne, Costas Meghir, Conditional Cash Transfers and School Dropout Rates, Journal of Human Resources, 44(4) James Riccio, Nadine Dechausay, Cynthia Miller, Stephen Nuñez, Nandita Verma, Edith Yang,” Conditional Cash Transfers in New York City: The Continuing Story of the Opportunity NYC−Family Rewards Demonstration,” September 2013 David Greenberg, Nadine Dechausay, Caroline Fraker, Learning Together: How Families Responded to Education Incentives in New York City’s Conditional Cash Transfer Program, MDRC, May 2011 Roland G. Fryer, Steven D. Levitt, John A. List, Parental Incentives and Early Childhood Achievement: A Field Experiment in Chicago Heights, NBER Working Paper 21477, May 2015 December 2: Savings/Asset Accumulation Signe-Mary McKernan, Is Poverty Incompatible with Asset Accumulation, Urban Institute, June 2011 Phoebe Ball, Michael Morris, Johnette Hartnette, Peter Blanck, Breaking the Cycle of Poverty: Asset Accumulation by People with Disabilities, Disability Studies QUarterly Gilda Azurdia, Stephen Freedman, Gayle Hamilton, Caroline Schultz, Implementation and Early Results of the Save USA Evaluation, MDRC, April 2014 December 7, 9, 14, 16 Student Presentations December 19th: Final Group Papers Due