NBER Pre-Conference

American Universities in a Global Market

Charles Clotfelter, Organizer

NBER

2^nd Floor Conference Room

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA

September 28, 2007

 Program

Thursday, September 27:

6:00 pm

Group Dinner

Dante Restaurant, Royal Sonesta Hotel

Friday, September 28:

8:00 am

Shuttle van departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for NBER

8:15 am

Continental Breakfast

8:45 am

Welcome and Overview

9:00 am

JAMES ADAMS, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and NBER

Is the U.S. Losing its Preeminence in Higher Education?

9:30 am

JOHN BOUND, University of Michigan and NBER

SARAH TURNER, University of Virginia and NBER

Linkages Between Foreign and U.S. Demand for University Training

10:00 am

PAULA STEPHAN, Georgia State University and NBER

GRANT BLACK, Georgia State University

The Economics of University Lab Science and Foreign Graduate Students

10:30 am

Break

10:45 am

RONALD EHRENBERG, Cornell University and NBER

JAMES CASTELEIRO, Cornell University

The International Academic Labor Market

11:15 am

E. HAN KIM and MIN ZHU, University of Michigan

Universities as Firms in a Global Market

11:45 am

SUNWOONG KIM, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Employment Choices of U.S.-Trained Korean Academics

12:15 pm

Lunch

1:15 pm

OFER MALAMUD, University of Chicago

Europe: Graduate and Undergraduate Education

1:45 pm

LEX BORGHANS and FRANK CÖRVERS, Maastricht University

Europe: Structure and Research

2:15 pm

HAIZHENG LI, Georgia Institute of Technology

Higher Education in China

2:45 pm

RICHARD FREEMAN, Harvard University and NBER

What Does the Growth of Higher Education Overseas Mean for the U.S.?

3:15 pm

ERIC BETTINGER, Case Western Reserve University and NBER

The Role of Americans in the Global Standing of American Universities

3:45 pm

Wrap-Up

4:00 pm

Adjourn

9/6/07