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Thursday, November 13:
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10.00 am
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Atila Abdulkadiroğlu, Duke University
Joshua Angrist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Peter Hull, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Parag Pathak, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Charters without
Lotteries: Testing Takeovers in New Orleans and Boston
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11:00 am
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Break
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11:15 am
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Daniel M. Hungerman, University of Notre Dame and NBER
Kevin Rinz, University of Notre Dame
Where Does
School-Choice Funding Go? How Large-Scale Choice Programs Affect
Private-School Revenue, Enrollment, and Prices
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12:15 pm
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Lunch
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1:10 pm
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Robert Gordon, Department of Education
Discussion of major new funding opportunities
for impact evaluations in pre-k
to 12 education
http://www.ed.gov/blog/2014/10/investing-in-evidence-funding-game-changing-evaluations/
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1:15 pm
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Joseph G. Altonji, Yale University and NBER
Richard K. Mansfield, Cornell University
Group-Average Observables as Controls for Sorting on
Unobservables When Estimating Group Treatment Effects: the Case of School and
Neighborhood Effects
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2:15 pm
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Harold E. Cuffe, University of Oregon
Glen Waddell, University of Oregon
Too Busy for School? The Effect of
Athletic Participation on Absenteeism
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3:15 pm
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Break
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3:30 pm
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Peter S. Bergman, Columbia
University
Educational Attainment
and School Desegregation: Evidence from Randomized Lotteries
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4:30 am
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Robert T. Jensen, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Leonardo Bursztyn, University of California at Los Angeles and NBER
How Does Peer
Pressure Affect Educational Investments?
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5:30 pm
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Adjourn
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6:00 pm
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Group Dinner
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Friday, November 14:
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8:00 am
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Continental Breakfast
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8:30 am
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David Autor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and
NBER
David N. Figlio, Northwestern University and NBER
Krzysztof Karbownik, Northwestern University
Jeffrey Roth, University of Florida
Melanie Wasserman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Fragile-Y Effect: Family
Environment and the Gender Gap in Behavioral and Educational Outcomes
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9:30 am
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Richard Murphy, University of Texas at Austin
Felix Weinhardt, Humboldt University Berlin
Top of the Class: The Importance of Ordinal
Rank
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10:30 am
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Break
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10:45 am
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Esteban M. Aucejo, London School of Economics
Assessing the Effect of School Days and Absences on Test Score Performance
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11:45 am
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Buffet Lunch
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12:00 n
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Nathaniel Hilger, Brown University
Intergenerational
Educational Mobility
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1:00 pm
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Break
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1:15 pm
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Martin West, Harvard University
Matthew A. Kraft, Brown University
Angela L. Duckworth, University of Pennsylvania
Promise and Paradox: Measuring
Students' Non-Cognitive Skills and the Impact of Schooling
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2:15 pm
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Eric Bettinger, Stanford University and NBER
Michael Kremer, Harvard University and NBER
Maurice Kugler, IMPAQ
International
Carlos Medina, Banco de la Republica de Colombia
Christian M. Posso, Sr, Banco de la Republica
Juan Saavedra, University of Southern California
Educational, Labor
Market, and Welfare Impacts of Scholarships for Private Secondary School:
Evidence from Colombia
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3:15 pm
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Adjourn
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