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Thursday, November 13
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10:00 am
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Family Structure and the Gender Gap in Educational and Behavioral Outcomes
David Autor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
David N. Figlio, University of Rochester and NBER
Krzysztof Karbownik, Emory University and NBER
Jeffrey Roth, University of Florida
Melanie Wasserman, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
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11:15 am
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Where Does School-Choice Funding Go? How Large-Scale Choice Programs Affect Private-School Revenue, Enrollment, and Prices
Daniel M. Hungerman, University of Notre Dame and NBER
Kevin Rinz, Washington Center for Equitable Growth
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2:15 pm
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Too Busy for School? The Effect of Athletic Participation on Absenteeism
Harold E. Cuffe, Victoria University of Wellington
Glen Waddell, University of Oregon
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3:30 pm
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Educational Attainment, Peer Effects and School Desegregation: Evidence from Randomized Lotteries
Peter S. Bergman, University of Texas at Austin and NBER
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4:30 pm
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How Does Peer Pressure Affect Educational Investments?
Robert T. Jensen, Yale University and NBER
Leonardo Bursztyn, University of Chicago and NBER
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Friday, November 14
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8:30 am
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Charters without Lotteries: Testing Turnarounds in Boston and New Orleans
Atila Abdulkadiroğlu, Duke University and NBER
Joshua Angrist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Peter Hull, Brown University and NBER
Parag Pathak, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
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9:30 am
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Top of the Class: The Importance of Ordinal Rank
Richard Murphy, University of Texas at Austin and NBER
Felix Weinhardt, European University Viadrina
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10:45 am
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Assessing the E ffect of School Days and Absences on Test Score Performance
Esteban M. Aucejo, Arizona State University and NBER
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12:45 pm
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What do 'Model' Minorities Teach Us About Overcoming Disadvantage? The Case of Asian-Americans
Nathaniel Hilger, Brown University
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1:15 pm
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Group-Average Observables as Controls for Sorting on Unobservables
When Estimating Group Treatment Effects: the Case of School and Neighborhood Effects
Joseph G. Altonji, Yale University and NBER
Richard K. Mansfield, University of Colorado Boulder and NBER
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1:45 pm
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Promise and Paradox: Measuring Students' Non-cognitive Skills and the Impact of Schooling
Martin West, Harvard University and NBER
Matthew A. Kraft, Brown University and NBER
Angela L. Duckworth, University of Pennsylvania
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2:45 pm
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Educational, Labor Market, and Fiscal Impacts of Scholarships for Private Secondary School: Evidence from Colombia
Juan Saavedra, Harvard University and NBER
Eric Bettinger, Stanford University and NBER
Michael Kremer, University of Chicago and NBER
Carlos Medina, Banco de la Republica de Colombia
Christian M. Posso, Sr, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Maurice Kugler, George Mason University
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