Economics of Education Program Meeting
Organized by Caroline M. Hoxby
November 13-14, 2014
Hamilton Crowne Plaza, Washington, DC

Thursday, November 13

10:00 am

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

11:15 am

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, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

2:15 pm

Too Busy for School? The Effect of Athletic Participation on Absenteeism

Harold E. Cuffe, Victoria University of Wellington
Glen Waddell, University of Oregon

3:30 pm

Educational Attainment, Peer Effects and School Desegregation: Evidence from Randomized Lotteries

Peter S. Bergman, University of Texas at Austin and NBER

4:30 pm

How Does Peer Pressure Affect Educational Investments?

Robert T. Jensen, Yale University and NBER
Leonardo Bursztyn, University of Chicago and NBER

Friday, November 14

8:30 am

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

9:30 am

Top of the Class: The Importance of Ordinal Rank

Richard Murphy, University of Texas at Austin and NBER
Felix Weinhardt, European University Viadrina

10:45 am

Assessing the Effect of School Days and Absences on Test Score Performance

Esteban M. Aucejo, Arizona State University and NBER

12:45 pm

What do 'Model' Minorities Teach Us About Overcoming Disadvantage? The Case of Asian-Americans

Nathaniel Hilger, Brown University

1:15 pm

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

1:45 pm

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

2:45 pm

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