Thursday, November 14
9:30 am
Coffee and Pastries
10:00 am

Screening and Recruiting Talent At Teacher Colleges using Pre-College Academic Achievement (slides)

Christopher Neilson, Yale University and NBER
Sebastian Gallegos, UAI Business School, Economics Dept
Franco A. Calle, The University of Chicago
10:50 am
Break
11:10 am

The Effects of Career and Technical Education: Evidences from the Connecticut Technical High School System

Eric Brunner, University of Connecticut
Shaun Dougherty, Boston College
Stephen Ross, University of Connecticut and NBER
12:00 pm

Do College Applicants Respond to Changes in Sticker Prices Even When They Don't Matter?

Phillip B. Levine, Wellesley College and NBER
Jennifer Ma, College Board
Lauren C. Russell, University of Pennsylvania
12:50 pm
Lunch - Restaurant Dante
2:00 pm

The Remarkable Unresponsiveness of College Students to Nudging and What We Can Learn from It

Philip Oreopoulos, University of Toronto and NBER
Uros Petronijevic, York University
2:50 pm
Break
3:10 pm

Nudging at Scale: Experimental Evidence from FAFSA Completion Campaigns

Kelli A. Bird, University of Virginia
Benjamin L. Castleman, University of Virginia
Jeffrey T. Denning, University of Notre Dame and NBER
Joshua Goodman, Boston University and NBER
Cait Lamberton, University of Pittsburgh
Kelly Ochs Rosinger, Pennsylvania State University
4:00 pm

Ask and You Shall Receive? Gender Differences in Regrades in College (slides)

Cher Li Basit Zafar, University of Michigan and NBER
4:50 pm
Adjourn
6:00 pm
Group Dinner - Bambara Restaurant at Hotel Marlowe (across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel)
Friday, November 15
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
8:30 am

Attrition from Administrative Data: Problems and Solutions with an Application to Higher Education

Andrew Foote, U.S. Census Bureau
Kevin M. Stange, University of Michigan and NBER
9:20 am

Student Selection into an Income Share Agreement

Kevin Mumford, Purdue University
10:10 am
Break
10:25 am

Higher Salaries or Higher Pensions? Inferring Preferences from Teachers’ Retirement Behavior

Barbara Biasi, Yale University and NBER
11:15 am

Deregulating Teacher Labor Markets

Richard Murphy, University of Texas at Austin and NBER
Simon Burgess, University of Bristol
Ellen Jenni. Greaves, European University Institute
12:05 pm
Lunch - Restaurant Dante
1:05 pm

Do Parents Know Best? The Short and Long-Run Effects of Attending The Schools that Parents Prefer

C. Kirabo Jackson, Northwestern University and NBER
Diether Beuermann, Inter-American Development Bank
1:55 pm

Housing Search Frictions: Evidence from Detailed Search Data and a Field Experiment (slides)

Peter Bergman, University of Texas at Austin and NBER
Eric W. Chan, Babson College
Adam Kapor, Princeton University and NBER
2:45 pm
Adjourn