FAMILIES, LABOUR MARKETS,  AND THE WELL-BEING OF CHILDREN A Conference Organized by  the Canadian Employment Research Forum and Statistics Canada with the support of Status of Women Canada, Policy Research Secretariat, and Women's Bureau of Human Resources Development Canada University of British Columbia Vancouver, Canada June 1^st and 2^nd 2000
Thursday, June 1^st
8:00 – 8:15	Continental Breakfast  Buchanan Building
8:15 – 8:30	Opening Comments BUCH A106
8:30 – 10:00	Child Poverty   BUCH A106
	Bruce Bradbury (New South Wales), Stephen Jenkins (Essex), and John Micklewright (UNICEF) Child Poverty Dynamics in Seven Nations Ross Finnie (Queen’s University) Poverty Dynamics in Canada John Myles (Florida State University), Garnett Picot (Statistics Canada), Wendy Pyper (Statistics Canada)  Neighbourhood Inequality and Economic Segregation in Canadian Cities Chair: Bob Kunimoto, (Policy Research Secretariat) Discussant: Lars Osberg (Dalhousie)
10:00 – 10:30	Coffee
10:30 – 12:00	CHILD CARE AND THE LABOUR MARKET  BUCH A102	CONSEQUENCES OF PARTICIPATION IN INCOME ASSISTANCE BUCH A104
	John Evans (OECD) Firms’ Contribution to the Reconciliation between Work and Family Life	Nezir Guner (Pennsylvania State U) John Knowles (U Pennsylvannia) Marriage, Fertility and Divorce: A Dynamic Equilibrium Analysis of Social Policy in Canada
	Simone Dobblesteen, S S Gustafsson and C Wetzels (Amsterdam) Childcare in the Netherlands: Between Government, Firms and Parents	Bruce Meyer (Northwestern), Dan Rosenbaum (UNC Greensboro) Welfare, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and the Labor Supply of Single Mothers
	Gordon Cleveland, Douglas Hyatt, Michael Krashinsky, Morley Gunderson    (Toronto) Simulating the Effects of Child Care Policy in Canada	Bernard Fortin, Jean-Yves Duclos (Laval) Manon Rouleau (HRDC) An Econometric Analysis of the Intergenerational Transmission of Social Assistance Participation
	Chair: Marc van Audenrode (Laval)	Chair:  Alice Nakamura (University of Alberta)
	Discussant: Brian Krauth (Simon Fraser)	Discussant: Peter Gottschalk (Boston College)
12:00 – 1:00	Lunch Board Room  University Centre
1:00 – 2:00	Janet Currie (UCLA) EARLY CHILDHOOD INTERVENTION: WHAT DO WE KNOW? Chair:   Miles Corak (Statistics Canada)
2:00 – 3:30	PARENTING BUCH 1A06
	Elaina Rose, Shelly Lundberg (Washington) The Effects of Sons and Daughters on Men's Labour Supply and Wages
	Lori Curtis (Dalhousie),  Shelley Phipps (Dalhousie),  Martin Dooley (McMaster) Does Either Mother or Father Know Best ?An Assessment of Parent and Child Agreement in the NLSCY
	Yolanda Padilla (Texas) Nancy E. Reichman (Princeton) The Influence of Father Involvement on Birth Outcomes: Preliminary Analysis of the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Survey Chair:  Dwayne Benjamin (University of Toronto) Discussant:  Tim Smeeding (Syracuse)
3:30 – 4:00	Coffee
4:00 – 5:30	PARENTAL WORK AND THE WELL-BEING OF CHILDREN BUCH A102	POLICIES IN AID OF CHILDREN BUCH A100
	John Ermisch, Marco Francesconi (Essex) The Effect of Parents' Working on Children's Outcomes	Adrienne ten Cate (McMaster) Labour Market Effects of Parental Leave Policy in Canada
	Pierre Lefebvre, Viviane Adam, Philip Merrigan (UQAM) Mother's Employment - Child Care Arrangements Choices and Social-Motor Development of Children aged 0 to 4 in Canada	Lori Curtis (Dalhousie), Thomas Crossley (York) Progress on Child Poverty? Recent Changes in Canadian Policies and Outcomes
	Claudio Violato (Calgary) A Meta-Analysis of Published Research on the Psychological Effects of Nonmaternal Care on Child Development: Social Policy Implications	Rose Anne Devlin, Vicky Barham (Ottawa) Child Support Policies and the Well-Being of Children: Income versus Asset based Measures
	Chair: Carole Vincent (IRPP) Discussant: Shelly Lundberg (Washington)	Chair: John Richards (Simon Fraser) Discussant: Frances Woolley (Carleton)
5:45-7:00	Reception University Centre  Patio/Gardens
Friday, June 2^nd
8:30 – 10:00	FAMILY STRUCTURE AND LABOUR MARKETS	FAMILY BACKGROUND AND LABOUR MARKET SUCCESS IN ADULTHOOD
	Nazish Ahmad, Winnie Lo, Tom Siedule, Ging Wong (HRDC) Family Income Dynamics after a Job Separation	Anders Bjorklund (Stockholm) Tor Eriksson (Aarhus School of Business) Markus Jantti (Academy of Finland) Oddbjorn Raaum (Frisch Centre) Eva Osterbacka (Åbo Akademi) Brother Correlations in Earnings in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden Compared to the United States
	Aloysius Siow (Toronto) On Gender, Markets, and Families	Bob Gregory, Y M Martin (ANU) Simple Arithmetic, Economic Policy and the Economic Well-Being of Female Indigenous Sole Parents in Australia and the US
	Miriam Beblo (Free University of Berlin) The Strategic Aspect of Female Employment	Arthur Sweetman, Ed Rama (Victoria) Does Family Structure Affect Educational and Labour Market Outcomes ?
	Chair: Nora Hammell (Status of Women Canada) Discussants: Mukesh Eswaran(UBC),                     Guy Lacroix (Laval)	Chair:  Nicole Fortin (UBC) Discussants: Peter Kuhn (Santa Barbara)                     Krishna Pendakur (Simon Fraser)
10:00 – 10:30	Coffee
10:30 –12:00	FAMILY FORMATION AND FERTILITY	BUCH A104
	Susan Harkness (Sussex) Jonathan Wadsworth (LSE) Fertility and Employment in Britain
	Lauren Rich (Pennsylvania) Sara McLanahan (Princeton) Irwin Garfinkel (Columbia) Labor Market Conditions, Employment Experience, and the Likelihood of Cohabitation Among New Parents
	KathrynWilson (Kent State) Robert Haveman (Wisconsin-Madison) Barbara Wolfe (Wisconsin-Madison) Do Teens Make Rational Childbearing Choices ? Family, Neighbourhood, and Net Benefit Determinants of Teen Nonmarital Childbearing
	Chair: Cassaundra Iwankow (HRDC) Discussant: Marco Francesconi (Essex)
12:00 – 1:30	Lunch
1:30 – 3:00	Charles Manski (Northwestern) EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF SOCIAL INTERACTIONS Chair: Jane Friesen (SFU) BUCH A106
3:00 – 3:30	Coffee
3:30 – 5:00	Lisa Gennetian, Pamela Morris and Kristen Harknett (MDRC) HOW DO FINANCIAL INCENTIVE PROGRAMS AFFECT MARRIAGE, CHILD CARE, AND CHILD OUTCOMES ? FINDINGS FROM THE CANADIAN SELF-SUFFICIENCY PROJECT Chair: John Greenwood (SRDC) Discussant: Jeff Smith (University of Western Ontario)  BUCH A102
5:00 – 5:15	Overview -- Closing Comments