NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

 

Higher Education Working Group Meeting

 

November 13, 2008

 

Charles Clotfelter, Organizer

 

Education Program Meeting

 

November 14, 2008

 

Caroline Hoxby, Organizer

 

NBER

2nd floor Conference Room

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

 

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13:

 

            HIGHER EDUCATION WORKING GROUP MEETING

 

 8:45 am          Shuttle Vans Depart from the Royal Sonesta Hotel for the NBER

 

 9:00 am          Continental Breakfast

 

 9:30 am          JUDITH SCOTT-CLAYTON, Harvard University

                        On Money and Motivation:  A Quasi-Experimental Analysis of Financial Incentives for College Achievement

 

10:30 am         PETER ARCIDIACONO, Duke University and NBER

                        ESTEBAN AUCEJO, Duke University

                        HANMING FANG, Duke University and NBER

                        Does Affirmative Action Lead to Mismatch? A New Test and Evidence

 

11:30 am         Break

 

11:45 am         TODD STINEBRICKNER, University of Western Ontario and NBER

                        RALPH STINEBRICKNER, Berea College

                        Learning about Academic Ability and the College Drop-out Decision

 

12:45 pm         Lunch

 

 1:45 pm          THOMAS DEE, Swarthmore College and NBER

                        Stereotype Threat and the Student-Athlete

 

 2:45 pm          Break

 

 3:00 pm          BRUCE WEINBERG, Ohio State University and NBER

                        Scientific Leadership (not available for download)

 

 4:00 pm          GINGER ZHE JIN, University of Maryland and NBER

                        ALEXANDER WHALLEY, UC, Merced

                        The Power of Attention: Do Rankings Affect the Financial Resources of Public Colleges?

 

 5:00 pm          Adjourn

 

 5:00 pm          Shuttle Vans Depart from the NBER for the Royal Sonesta.

 

 5:15 pm          Shuttle Vans Depart from the NBER for the Royal Sonesta.

 

 6:30 pm          Group Dinner

                        Dante at the Royal Sonesta Hotel     

 

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14:

 

            EDUCATION PROGRAM MEETING

 

 8:00 am          Shuttle Vans Depart from the Royal Sonesta Hotel for the NBER

 

 8:15 am          Shuttle Vans Depart from the Royal Sonesta Hotel for the NBER

 

 8:15 am          Continental Breakfast


 8:45 am          RICHARD MURNANE, Harvard University and NBER

JENNIFER STEELE and JOHN WILLETT, Harvard University

Do Financial Incentives Help Low-Performing Schools Attract and Keep Academically Talented Teachers?  New Evidence from California

 

9:40 am           KIRABO JACKSON, Cornell University

Student Demographics, Teacher Sorting and Teacher Quality: Evidence from the End of School Desegregation

 

10:35 am         Break


10:50 am         JONAH ROCKOFF, Columbia University and NBER

                        LESLEY TURNER, Columbia University

Short Run Impacts of Accountability on School Quality

                        and

                        HANLEY CHIANG, Mathematica, Inc.

                        How Accountability Pressure on Failing Schools Affects Student Achievement

 

12:10 pm         Lunch

12:40 pm         GAURI KARTINI SHASTRY, University of Virginia

Human Capital Response to Globalization: Education and Information Technology in India

 

 1:35 pm          Break

 

 1:50 pm          MARIA FITZPATRICK, Stanford University

Preschoolers Enrolled and Mothers at Work?  The Effects of Universal Pre-Kindergarten

 

 2:45 pm          RICARDO MADEIRA, University of Sao Paulo

                        MARCOS RANGEL, University of Chicago

Discrimination Goes to School?  Understanding Racial Differences in Non-Blind Grading

(not available for download)

 

 3:40 pm          Adjourn


11/12/08