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Session 100:
Population Studies and Experimental Design

Friday, May 01
10:30 AM - 12:20 PM
Cadillac A
Chair: Harsha Thirumurthy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Discussant: David Bishai, Johns Hopkins University
Discussant: Andrew Foster, Brown University

1. Menstrual Cups in Nepal: Preliminary Results from a Randomized Evaluation  •  Rebecca L. Thornton, University of Michigan; Emily Oster, University of Chicago

2. Nutritional Supplementation of Girls' Influences on the Growth of Their Children: Prospective Study in Guatemala  •  Maria C. Calderon, University of Pennsylvania; Jere Behrman, University of Pennsylvania; Sam Preston, University of Pennsylvania; John Hoddinott, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); Reynaldo Martorell, Emory University; Aryeh D. Stein, Emory University

3. Using Achievement Tests to Measure Language Assimilation and Language Bias among the Children of Immigrants  •  Richard Akresh, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Ilana Redstone Akresh, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

4. Remittances and the Problem of Control: A Field Experiment among Migrants from El Salvador  •  Dean Yang, University of Michigan

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