2019 Federal Reserve System Community Development Research Conference Agenda

2019 Federal Reserve System Community Development Conference: Renewing the Promise of the Middle Class

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Thursday, May 9

7:00 a.m. Check In and Breakfast

8:30 a.m. Opening Remarks: Chairman Jerome Powell, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

9:00 a.m. Plenary Session 1: Emerging Labor Market and Education Trends Reshaping Pathways to the Middle Class

Aaron Chatterji, Duke University
Melissa Kearney, University of Maryland
Valerie Wilson, Economic Policy Institute
Moderator: Richard Reeves, Brookings Institution

10:30 a.m. Break

11:00 a.m. Concurrent Sessions 1:

Returns to Education and Training

Thomas Maloney, University of Utah, Teacher Unionization and Student Academic Performance: Will the Weakening of Teachers' Unions Harm the Middle Class and Intensify Inequality?

Mark Elliot, Economic Mobility Corporation, Escalating Gains: Project QUEST's Sectoral Strategy Pays Off

Pamela Winston, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Cross-Domain Instability in Families with Some College Education: Implications for Supporting Opportunity and Security

Trends in Jobs and the Labor Market

Sara Lambeck, JFF, and Dan Restuccia, Burning Glass Technologies, When Is a Job Just a Job? And When Can it Launch a Career?

John Coglianese, Board of Governors at the Federal Reserve System, The Rise of In-and-Outs: Declining Labor Force Participation of Prime Age Men

Gregor Schubert, Harvard Business School, Occupational Mobility, Outside Options, and Monopsony Power in the Labor Market

Economic Well-Being and Work Policy Ideas

Bruce Meyer, University of Chicago, The Material Well-Being of the Bottom Twenty Percent and the Middle Class Since 1980

Heidi Hartmann, Institute for Women's Policy Research, Paid Leave for Family Economic Security

Leonard Burman, Urban Institute, A Universal EITC to Counteract Wage Stagnation

12:30 p.m. Lunch

Afternoon Remarks: President Charles Evans, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

2:00 p.m. Transition time

2:15 p.m. Concurrent Sessions 2:

Pathways to Homeownership and Housing Wealth

Michael Eriksen, University of Cincinnati, The Role of Parents on the Home Ownership Experience of their Children: Evidence from Health and Retirement Study

Isaac Hacamo, Indiana University, Helping the Middle Class: How Interest Rates Affect the Distribution of Housing Wealth

Lisa Nelson, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, The American Dream or Just an Illusion? Understanding Land Contract Trends in the Midwest Pre- and Post-Crisis

Broader Implications of Student Loans

Venoo Kakar, San Francisco State University, Student Loan Debt and Financial Health of U.S. Householders

Debarshi Nandy, Brandeis University, Student Loans and Stock Market Participation

Julie Margetta Morgan, Roosevelt Institute, The Student Debt Crisis, Labor Market Credentialization, and Racial Inequality: How the Student Debt Debate Gets the Economics Wrong

Improving the Financial Security of Households

Katie Fitzpatrick, University of Delaware, Newark, Health Insurance and High Cost Borrowing: The Effect of Medicaid on Pawn Loans, Payday Loans, and other Non-Bank Financial Products

Luisa Blanco, Pepperdine University, Racial and Ethnic Differences in Financial Literacy and Outcomes: The Role of Neighborhood Effects

Maude Toussaint-Comeau, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Liquidity and Credit Constraints among the Middle Class

3:45 p.m. Transition time

4:00 p.m. Plenary Session 2: Financial Security and Wealth Building as Key Building Blocks of a Middle Class Lifestyle

Mehrsa Baradaran, University of Georgia School of Law
Adam Looney, Brookings Institution
Cindy Soo, University of Michigan
Moderator: Ida Rademacher, Aspen Institute

5:30 p.m. Evening Reception

7:00 p.m. Day One Concludes

Friday, May 10

7:00 a.m. Breakfast

8:30 a.m. Opening Remarks: Governor Lael Brainard, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

9:00 a.m. Plenary Session 3: The Role of Local Communities in Mobility and Security for the Middle Class

Randall Akee, University of California, Los Angeles
Mary Pattillo, Northwestern University
David Williams, Opportunity Insights
Moderator: Margery Turner, Urban Institute

10:30 a.m. Break

11:00 a.m. Concurrent Sessions 3:

Race and Communities

Ellora Derenoncourt, Harvard University, Can You Move to Opportunity? Evidence from the Great Migration

Junia Howard, University of Pittsburgh, The Increasing Effect of Neighborhood Racial Composition on Housing Values across the U.S., 1990-2010

Alan Mallach, Center for Community Progress, Over the Edge: Trajectories of African-American Middle Neighborhoods in St. Louis Since 2000

Neighborhoods and Housing Affordability

Brittany Lewis, University of Minnesota, “Black Men Are Locked Up, Black Women Are Locked Out:" An In-depth Mixed Methodological Study of Evictions in North Minneapolis, Minnesota

Sandra Newman, Johns Hopkins University, There's No Place Like Home: Racial Disparities in Household Formation in the 2000s

Jacob Cosman, Johns Hopkins University, Redevelopment and Housing Prices

Policy Ideas in Community Development

Ira Goldstein, Reinvestment Fund, Maybe it Really Does Take a Village: Supporting the Creation of High-Quality Unsubsidized Affordable Rental Housing in Legacy Cities

Anita Brown-Graham, University of North Carolina, Building Bonds and Bridges and Leveraging Links: A Place-Based Mobility Strategy Based on Social Capital Creation