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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

Economics of Education Program Meeting

 

Caroline M. Hoxby, Organizer

 

November 14-15, 2013

 

Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

230 South LaSalle Street, 3rd Floor

Chicago, Illinois

 

PROGRAM

 

Thursday, November 14 – Meeting in LaSalle Room


10:00 am


Scott A. Imberman, Michigan State University and NBER
Michael Lovenheim, Cornell University and NBER
Does the Market Value Value-Added? Evidence from Housing Prices After a Public Release of School and Teacher Value-Added

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11:00 am

Break


11:15 am


Richard K. Mansfield, Cornell University
Jason B. Cook, Cornell University
Task-Specific Experience and Task-Specific Talent: Decomposing the Productivity of High School Teachers

12:15 pm

Lunch – LaSalle Room

 

1:15 pm


Steven W. Hemelt, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Kevin M. Stange, University of Michigan and NBER
The Effect of Marginal Price on Student Progress at Public Universities


2:15 pm


Felipe Barrera-Osorio, Harvard University

David S. Blakeslee, Columbia University

Matthew Hoover, RAND Corporation

Leigh L. Linden, University of Texas at Austin and NBER

Dhushyanth Raju, The World Bank

Stephen Ryan, University of Texas at Austin

Leveraging the Private Sector to Improve Primary School Enrolment: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Pakistan

3:15 pm

Break


3:30 pm


Andrea Ichino, University of Bologna
Rosario Maria Ballatore, Bank of Italy
Margherita Fort, University of Bologna
The Tower of Babel in the Classroom? Immigrants and Natives in Italian Schools

 

4:30 pm


Catharine Hill, Vassar College
Higher Education and Income Inequality

5:30 pm

Adjourn

 

6:00 pm

Group Dinner at Vivere Restaurant, 71 W. Monroe St., Chicago, IL

 

Friday, November 15 – Meeting in Illinois Rooms 1 and 2

 

8:00 am

Continental Breakfast


8:30 am


Hanley Chiang, Mathematica Policy Research

Melissa A. Clark, Mathematica Policy Research
Sheena McConnell, Mathematica Policy Research
Supplying Disadvantaged Schools with Effective Teachers: Experimental Evidence on Secondary Math Teachers from Teach For America


9:30 am


Peter Hinrichs, Georgetown University
An Empirical Analysis of Racial Segregation in Higher Education

10:30 am

Break


10:45 am


Kristin Butcher, Wellesley College and NBER
Patrick McEwan, Wellesley College
Akila Weerapana, Wellesley College
The Great Deflation: A Quasi-Experimental Analysis of the Impact of an Anti-Grade Inflation Policy on Students and Instructors


11:45 am


Karthik Muralidharan, University of California at San Diego and NBER
Nishith Prakash, University of Connecticut
Cycling to School: Increasing Secondary School Enrollment for Girls in India

12:45 pm

Lunch - Illinois Rooms 3 and 4




Kate Ambler, University of Michigan
Diego Aycinena,
Universidad Francisco Marroquín
Dean Yang, University of Michigan and NBER
Subsidizing Remittances for Education: A Field Experiment Among Migrants from El Salvador

 

2:00 pm


Joshua Angrist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Erich Battistin, University of Padua
Daniela Vuri, University of Rome
In a Small Moment: Cheating and Class Size in Italian Primary Schools

3:00 pm

Adjourn