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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Education Program and Childrens Program Meetings

Janet Currie and Caroline M. Hoxby, Organizers

April 30-May 1, 2015

NBER
2^nd Floor Conference Room
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138

PROGRAM

Thursday, April 30:
	Education Program Meeting
8:15 am	Bus Departs from the Royal Sonesta Hotel for the NBER
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	Judith Scott-Clayton, Columbia University and NBER Lauren Schudde, Columbia University Performance Standards in Need-Based Student Aid
10:00 am	Sarah R. Cohodes, Harvard University The Long-Run Impacts of Tracking High-Achieving Students: Evidence from Boston’s Advanced Work Class
11:00 am	Break
11:15 am	Hugh Macartney, Duke University and NBER Robert McMillan, University of Toronto and NBER Uros Petronijevic, University of Toronto Incentive Design in Education: An Empirical Analysis
12:15 pm	Lunch
1:15 pm	Nicola Bianchi, Stanford University The General Equilibrium Effects of Educational Expansion
2:15 pm	Break
2:30 pm	Cassandra Hart, University of California, Davis Elizabeth Friedmann, University of California, Davis Michael Hill, University of California, Davis Online Course-taking and Student Outcomes in California Community Colleges
3:30 pm	Markus Nagler, University of Munich Marc Piopiunik, IFO Martin R. West, Harvard University and NBER Weak Markets, Strong Teachers: Recession at Career Start and Teacher Effectiveness
4:30 pm	Adjourn
4:45 pm	Bus Departs from the NBER for the Royal Sonesta Hotel
6:15 pm	Group Dinner Bambara Restaurant at the Hotel Marlowe (across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel)
Friday, May 1
	Childrens Program Meeting
8:00 am	Bus Departs from the Royal Sonesta Hotel for the NBER
8:15 am	Continental Breakfast
8:45 am	Raj Chetty, Harvard University and NBER Nathaniel Hendren, Harvard University and NBER Lawrence Katz, Harvard University and NBER The Effects of Exposure to Better Neighborhoods on Children: New Evidence from the Moving to Opportunity Experiment
9:45 am	Seema Jayachandran, Northwestern University and NBER Rohini Pande, Harvard University and NBER Why Are Indian Children So Short?
10:45 am	Break
11:00 am	Randall Akee, University of California at Los Angeles Emilia Simeonova, Johns Hopkins University and NBER How Does Household Income Affect Child Personality Traits and Behaviors?
12:00 n	Lunch
1:00 pm	Krzysztof Karbownik, Northwestern University Anthony Wray, Northwestern University Childhood Health and Long-run Economic Opportunity in Victorian England
2:00 pm	Break
2:15 pm	Tom Vogl, Princeton University and NBER Intergenerational Transmission and the Fertility Transition
3:15 pm	Kasey Buckles, University of Notre Dame and NBER Daniel M. Hungerman, University of Notre Dame and NBER The Incidental Fertility Effects of School Condom Distribution Programs
4:15 pm	Adjourn