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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
Education Program Meeting
November 19 and 20, 2009
Caroline Hoxby, Organizer
SIEPR
Landau Economics Building
579 Serra Mall at Galvez
Stanford, CA
PROGRAM
Thursday, November 19
9:15 am	Shuttle van departs from the Stanford Park Hotel for SIEPR
9:30 am	Coffee and pastries
10:00 am	GLENN ELLISON, MIT and NBER
	ASHLEY SWANSON, MIT
	The Gender Gap in Secondary School Mathematics at High Achievement Levels: Evidence from the American Mathematics Competitions
11:00 am	LEAH PLATT BOUSTAN, UC, Los Angeles and NBER
	Desegregation and Urban Change: Evidence from City Boundaries
12:00 n	Lunch
1:00 pm	P. C. WINNIE CHAN, Statistics Canada
	ROBERT McMILLAN, University of Toronto and NBER
	School Choice and Public School Performance: Evidence from Ontario's Tuition Tax Credit
2:00 pm	JANE COOLEY, University of Wisconsin
	SALVADOR NAVARRO, University of Wisconsin
	YUYA TAKAHASHI, University of Wisconsin, Madison
	A Framework for the Analysis of Time-varying Treatment Effects: How The Timing of Grade Retention Affects Outcomes
3:00 pm	Break
3:15 pm	JOSHUA GOODMAN, Harvard University
	The Labor of Division: Returns to Compulsory Math Coursework
4:15 pm	MATTHEW CHINGOS, Harvard University
	MARTIN WEST, Brown University
	Do More Effective Teachers Earn More Outside of the Classroom?
5:15 pm	Adjourn
5:30 pm	Shuttle van departs from SIEPR for the Stanford Park Hotel
6:30 pm	Group Dinner:
	MacArthur Park Restaurant
	27 University Avenue
	Palo Alto, CA
Friday, November 20
7:15 am	Shuttle van departs from the Stanford Park Hotel for SIEPR
7:30 am	Coffee and pastries
8:00 am	TAHIR ANDRABI, Pomona College
	JISHNU DAS, The World Bank
	ASIM IJAZ KHWAJA, Harvard University and NBER
	What Did You Do All Day? Maternal Education and Child Outcomes
9:00 am	REMA HANNA, Harvard University and NBER
	LEIGH LINDEN, Columbia University
	Measuring Discrimination in Education
10:00 am	Break
10:15 am	OFER MALAMUD, University of Chicago and NBER
	ABIGAIL WOZNIAK, University of Notre Dame
	The Impact of College Education on Geographic Mobility: Identifying Education Using Multiple Components of Vietnam Draft Risk
11:15 am	LOUIS-PHILIPPE MORIN, University of Ottawa
	Gender and Competition: From the Lab into the Classroom
12:15 pm	Lunch and
	CHRISTOPHER AVERY, Harvard University and NBER
	SARAH TURNER, University of Virgina and NBER
	Playing the College Application Game: Critical Moves and the Link to Socio-Economic Circumstances
1:30 pm	Adjourn