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SI 2014 Economics of Education

Caroline M. Hoxby, Organizer

July 23, 2014

Charles Rooms AB

Royal Sonesta Hotel
40 Edwin H. Land Blvd.
Cambridge, MA

PROGRAM

WEDNESDAY, JULY 23:
Joint morning session with Labor Studies group
8:30 am	Coffee and Pastries
9:00 am	Thomas Dee, Stanford University and NBER Will Dobbie, Princeton University Brian Jacob, University of Michigan and NBER Jonah Rockoff, Columbia University and NBER Rules and Discretion in the Evaluation of Students and Schools: The Case of the New York Regents Examinations
10:00 am	Joshua Angrist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER David Autor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Sally Hudson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Amanda Pallais, Harvard University and NBER Smart Money: A Randomized Evaluation of Targeted Post-Secondary Aid
11:00 am	Break
11:15 am	Miguel Urquiola, Columbia University and NBER W. Bentley MacLeod, Columbia University and NBER Juan Saavedra, University of Southern California Evan Riehl, Columbia University The Big Sort: College Reputation and Labor Market Outcomes
12:15 pm	Lunch
1:15 pm	David Deming, Harvard University and NBER Amira Abulafi, NBER Noam Yuchtman, University of California at Berkeley and NBER Claudia Goldin, Harvard University and NBER Lawrence Katz, Harvard University and NBER An Experimental Study of the Value of Postsecondary Credentials in the Labor Market
2:15 pm	Joshua Goodman, Harvard University and NBER Michael Hurwitz, College Board Jonathan Smith, College Board Initial College Choice and Degree Completion: Exploiting Variation in College Access Generated by Admissions Test Score Thresholds
3:15 pm	George Bulman, University of California at Santa Cruz Caroline Hoxby, Stanford University and NBER Jonathan Meer, Texas A&M University and NBER The Effect of Teach For America on College-Going among Poor Students
4:15 pm	Adjourn
6:00 pm	Clambake at the Royal Sonesta Hotel