Authors, please upload papers here.
NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC
RESEARCH
Education Program Meeting
Caroline Hoxby, Organizer
Childrens Program Meeting
Jonathan Gruber, Organizer
NBER
PROGRAM
THURSDAY, APRIL 30:
EDUCATION PROGRAM
MEETING
9:15 am Shuttle Vans Depart from the Royal
Sonesta Hotel for the NBER
9:30 am Shuttle Van Departs from the Royal
Sonesta Hotel for the NBER
9:30 am Continental Breakfast
10:00 am JONATHAN
GRUBER, MIT and NBER
SUSAN
DYNARSKI,
DANIELLE
LI, MIT
Cheaper by the Dozen: Using Sibling
Discounts at Catholic Schools to Estimate the Price Elasticity of Private
School Attendance
11:00 am Break
11:15 am PHILIP
BABCOCK and KELLY BEDARD, UC,
Wage Gains from
Failure: New Evidence on School
Retention Policies and Long-run Outcomes
12:15 pm Lunch
1:15 pm ASIM KHWAJA, Harvard University and
NBER
TAHIR
ANDRABI,
AND
JISHNU DAS, The World Bank
Report Cards: The Impact of Providing School
and Child Test Scores on Educational Markets
2:15 pm FELIPE BARRERA-OSORIO and DHUSHYANTH
RAJU, The World Bank
Evaluating a Test-based Public Subsidy
Program for Low-cost Private Schools: Regression-discontinuity Evidence from
3:15 pm Break
LUDGER
WÖßMANN,
Every Catholic Child in a
Catholic School: Historical Resistance to State Schooling, Contemporary Private
Competition, and Student Achievement across Countries
4:30 pm SCOTT IMBERMAN, University of Houston
ADRIANA
KUGLER,
BRUCE
SACERDOTE,
Katrina's Children: A Natural Experiment in Peer
Effects from Hurricane Evacuees
5:30 pm Adjourn
5:30 pm Shuttle Vans Depart from the NBER for
the Royal Sonesta Hotel
5:45 pm Shuttle Vans Depart from the NBER for
the Royal Sonesta Hotel
6:00 pm Group Dinner
Dante
at the Royal Sonesta Hotel
FRIDAY, MAY 1:
CHILDRENS PROGRAM
MEETING
8:15 am Shuttle Vans Depart from the Royal
Sonesta Hotel for the NBER
8:30 am Continental
Breakfast
9:00 am ANNA
AIZER,
LAURA STROUD,
STEPHEN BUKA,
Maternal Poverty, Stress and Child Well-Being:
Evidence from Siblings
10:00 am SEEMA JAYACHANDRAN,
ILYANA KUZIEMKO,
Why Do Mothers Breastfeed Girls Less than Boys? Evidence and Implications for Child Health in
India
11:00 am Break
11:30 am DAVID FRISVOLD, Emory University
JULIE LUMENG,
Expanding Exposure: Can Increasing the Daily
Duration of Head Start Reduce Childhood Obesity?
12:30 pm Lunch
1:30 pm ANN
HUFF STEVENS, UC, Davis and NBER
JESSAMNY SCHALLER, UC,
Davis
Short Run Effects of Parental Job Loss on Childrens
Academic Achievement
2:30 pm Break
YIE-CHIEN CHEN,
JIN-TAN LIU,
Separate
Effects of Sibling Gender and Family Size on Education:
Methods
and First Evidence
3:45 pm Adjourn
4/23/09