Economics of Education Program Meeting
Organized by Caroline M. Hoxby
November 14-15, 2013
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Thursday, November 14
1

The Tower of Babel in the Classroom? Immigrants and Natives in Italian Schools

Rosario Maria Ballatore Margherita Fort, University of Bologna, CHILD
Andrea Ichino, European University Institute
2

Task-Specific Experience and Task-Specific Talent: Decomposing the Productivity of High School Teachers

Jason Cook, University of Utah
Richard Mansfield, University of Colorado Boulder and NBER
3

An Empirical Analysis of Racial Segregation in Higher Education

Peter Hinrichs, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
4

The Effect of Marginal Price on Student Progress at Public Universities

Steven Hemelt, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Kevin Stange, University of Michigan and NBER
5

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

Felipe Barrera-Osorio, Vanderbilt University
David Blakeslee, Columbia University
Matthew Hoover, RAND Corporation
Leigh Linden, University of Texas at Austin and NBER
Dhushyanth Raju, The World Bank
Stephen Ryan, Washington University in St. Louis and NBER
6

Supplying Disadvantaged Schools with Effective Teachers: Experimental Evidence on Secondary Math Teachers from Teach For America

Hanley Chiang, Mathematica, Inc.
Melissa Clark Sheena McConnell, Mathematica, Inc.
7

American Higher Education and Income Inequality

Catharine Hill, Ithaka S+R
8

The Great Deflation: A Quasi-Experimental Analysis of the Impact of an Anti-Grade Inflation Policy on Students and Instructors

Kristin Butcher, Wellesley College and NBER
Patrick McEwan, Wellesley College
Akila Weerapana, Wellesley College
9

Subsidizing Remittances for Education: A Field Experiment among Migrants from El Salvador

Kate Ambler, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Diego Aycinena, Francisco Marroquin University
Dean Yang, University of Michigan and NBER
10

In a Small Moment: Cheating and Class Size in Italian Primary Schools

Joshua Angrist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Erich Battistin, University of Maryland, College Park
Daniela Vuri, Tor Vergata University of Rome