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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC
RESEARCH
Higher Education Working Group Meeting
Charles Clotfelter, Organizer
NBER
2nd Floor Conference
Room
PROGRAM
THURSDAY, APRIL 30:
6:00 pm Group
Dinner
Dante
at the Royal Sonesta Hotel
FRIDAY MAY 1:
8:00 am Shuttle Vans Depart Royal Sonesta
Hotel for NBER
8:15 am Continental Breakfast
8:45 am YONA RUBINSTEIN,
SHEETAL
SEKHRI,
Do Public Colleges in Developing Countries
Provide Better Education than Private Ones?
Evidence from General
Education Sector in India
9:45 am JASON LINDO and NICHOLAS SANDERS, UC,
Davis
PHILIP
OREOPOULOS,
Ability, Gender, and Performance Standards:
Evidence from Academic Probation
(not available for download)
10:45 am Break
11:00 am PHILIPPE
AGHION,
MATHIAS
DEWATRIPONT, Université Libre de Bruxelles
CAROLINE
HOXBY,
ANDREU
MAS-COLELL, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
ANDRE SAPIR, Université
Libre de Bruxelles
The Governance and Performance of Research Universities: Evidence from
Europe and the
12:00 pm SCOTT
CARRELL and MARIANNE PAGE, UC, Davis and NBER
JAMES
WEST,
Sex and Science: How
Professor Gender Perpetuates the Gender Gap
12:50 pm Lunch
MEGAN
MACGARVIE,
How Important is
2:30 pm Break
3:45 pm Adjourn
4/23/09