2019 Federal Reserve System Community Development Research Conference Agenda
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
- Heather Stephens, West Virginia, Incentivizing the Missing Middle: The Role of Economic Development Policy
12:30 p.m. Lunch
Afternoon Keynote: Chancellor Juan Salgado, City Colleges of Chicago
2:00 p.m. Closing Remarks
2:30 p.m. Adjournment