
	Thursday, April 20
10:00 am	The Impact of Free Secondary Education: Experimental Evidence from Ghana Esther Duflo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Pascaline Dupas, Princeton University and NBER Michael Kremer, University of Chicago and NBER
11:00 am	Break
11:15 am	The Misallocation of Pay and Productivity in the Public Sector: Evidence from the Labor Market for Teachers Natalie Bau, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER Jishnu Das, Georgetown University and NBER
12:15 pm	Lunch
1:15 pm	Scientific Education and Innovation: From Technical Diplomas to University STEM Degrees Nicola Bianchi, Northwestern University and NBER Michela Giorcelli, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
2:15 pm	Unions, Salaries, and The Market for Teachers: Evidence from Wisconsin Barbara Biasi, Yale University and NBER
3:15 pm	Break
3:30 pm	Teacher Effects on Complex Cognitive Skills and Social-Emotional Competencies Matthew A. Kraft, Brown University and NBER
4:30 pm	Long-Term Orientation and Educational Performance David N. Figlio, University of Rochester and NBER Paola Giuliano, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER Umut Özek, RAND Corporation Paola Sapienza, Northwestern University and NBER
5:30 pm	Adjourn
6:00 pm	Group Dinner - Vivere Restaurant, 71 W. Monroe St.
	Friday, April 21
8:00 am	Continental Breakfast
8:30 am	Cultural Assimilation, Peer Effects and the Evolution of the Gender Gap in Risk Preferences Elaine M. Liu, University of Houston and NBER Xuejing Zuo, Fudan University
9:30 am	Fertility Is a Leading Economic Indicator Daniel M. Hungerman, University of Notre Dame and NBER Kasey Buckles, University of Notre Dame and NBER Steven Lugauer, University of Kentucky
10:30 am	Break
10:45 am	Reducing Inequality Through Dynamic Complementarity: Evidence from Head Start and Public School Spending Rucker Johnson, University of California, Berkeley and NBER C. Kirabo Jackson, Northwestern University and NBER
11:45 am	Lunch
	Lunch Speaker - Gregory Miller, Northwestern University Moving Towards a Mechanistic Understanding of Long-Run Health Effects of Childhood Disadvantage
1:30 pm	School Lunch Quality and Academic Performance Michael L. Anderson, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Justin Gallagher, Montana State University Elizabeth Ramirez Ritchie, University of California, Berkeley
2:30 pm	Break
2:45 pm	Perinatal Health among 1 Million American-Born Chinese Douglas Almond, Columbia University and NBER Yi Cheng, Columbia University
3:45 pm	Adjourn

Participants

Daniel Aaronson, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Anjali Adukia, University of Chicago and NBER
Anna Aizer, Brown University and NBER
Elizabeth Akers, Manhattan Institute
Diane E. Alexander, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Douglas Almond, Columbia University and NBER
Massimo Anelli, Bocconi University
Andrew C. Barr, Texas A&M University and NBER
Felipe Barrera-Osorio, Vanderbilt University
Lisa Barrow, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
Natalie Bau, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
James Berry, University of Georgia
Nicola Bianchi, Northwestern University and NBER
Barbara Biasi, Yale University and NBER
Peter Q. Blair, Harvard University and NBER
Timothy N. Bond, Purdue University
Quentin O. Brummet, NORC at the University of Chicago
Kasey Buckles, University of Notre Dame and NBER
George Bulman, University of California, Santa Cruz and NBER
Gregorio S. Caetano, University of Georgia
Sarah Cannon, University of Michigan
Luisa Cefala, University of California, Berkeley
Yi Cheng, Columbia University
Janet Currie, Princeton University and NBER
Rajeev Darolia, University of Kentucky
Jishnu Das, Georgetown University and NBER
Giacomo De Giorgi, University of Geneva
Nathan Deutscher, ANU
Michael Dinerstein, Duke University and NBER
Weili Ding, Queen's University
Rebecca Dizon-Ross, University of Chicago and NBER
Pascaline Dupas, Princeton University and NBER
Valentina Duque, American University
Nada Eissa, Georgetown University and NBER
Shari Eli, University of Toronto and NBER
Douglas Evanoff, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
David N. Figlio, University of Rochester and NBER
Maria D. Fitzpatrick, Cornell University and NBER
Justin Gallagher, Montana State University
Anuj Gangopadhyaya, Urban Institute
Rob Garlick, Duke University
Michela Giorcelli, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Joshua Goodman, Boston University and NBER
Nora E. Gordon, Georgetown University and NBER
Snaebjorn Gunnsteinsson, Juno Insurance Group, PBC
Daniel Hartley, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Peter Hinrichs, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
Caroline M. Hoxby, Stanford University and NBER
Sally Hudson, University of Virginia
Daniel M. Hungerman, University of Notre Dame and NBER
Joshua M. Hyman, Amherst College
Scott A. Imberman, Michigan State University and NBER
David R. Johnson, Wilfrid Laurier University
Rucker Johnson, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

Damon Jones, University of Chicago and NBER
Todd R. Jones, Mississippi State University
Krzysztof Karbownik, Emory University and NBER
Cory Koedel, University of Missouri
Matthew A. Kraft, Brown University and NBER
Kala Krishna, Pennsylvania State University and NBER
Marta Lachowska, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
Ijun Lai, Mathematica
Jean-William P. Laliberté, University of Calgary
Steven F. Lehrer, Queen's University and NBER
Elaine M. Liu, University of Houston and NBER
Michael F. Lovenheim, Cornell University and NBER
Darren Lubotsky, University of Illinois Chicago and NBER
Adrienne Lucas, University of Delaware and NBER
Steven Lugauer, University of Kentucky
Hugh Macartney, Duke University
Ofer Malamud, Northwestern University and NBER
Benjamin M. Marx, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Bhashkar Mazumder, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Leslie McGranahan, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Robert McMillan, University of Toronto and NBER
Jonathan Meer, Texas A&M University and NBER
Katherine Michelmore, University of Michigan and NBER
Greg Miller, Northwestern University
Kevin J. Mumford, Purdue University
Richard Murphy, University of Texas at Austin and NBER
Derek Neal, University of Chicago and NBER
Eric Nielsen, Federal Reserve Board
Marianne E. Page, University of California, Davis and NBER
Richard W. Patterson, Brigham Young University
Pablo Pena, Microanalitica
Uros Petronijevic, York University
Nishith Prakash, Northeastern University
Elizabeth Ramirez Ritchie, University of California, Berkeley
Evan Riehl, Cornell University and NBER
Stephen Ross, University of Connecticut and NBER
Heather Royer, University of California, Santa Barbara and NBER
Juan Saavedra, Harvard University and NBER
Paola Sapienza, Northwestern University and NBER
Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, Northwestern University and NBER
Jeffrey A. Smith, University of Wisconsin-Madison and NBER
Eric S. Taylor, Harvard University and NBER
Erdal Tekin, American University and NBER
Rebecca Thornton, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Mary Clair Turner, Northwestern University
Sarah Turner, University of Virginia and NBER
Miguel Urquiola, Columbia University and NBER
Christopher R. Walters, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Felix Weinhardt, European University Viadrina
Martin R. West, Harvard University and NBER
Abigail K. Wozniak, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Constantine Yannelis, University of Chicago and NBER
Seth D. Zimmerman, Yale University and NBER
Sharon Xuejing Zuo, Fudan University