Education Program Meeting
Organized by Caroline M. Hoxby
December 2-3, 2021
Cambridge, MA and Zoom
Thursday, December 2
11:00 am

Is Busing Worth the Trip? School Travel Effects in Boston and New York

Joshua Angrist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Guthrie Gray-Lobe, University of Chicago
Clemence Idoux, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Parag A. Pathak, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
12:00 pm

The Pandemic's Effect on Demand For Public Schools, Homeschooling and Private Schools

Tareena Musaddiq, Mathematica
Kevin M. Stange, University of Michigan and NBER
Andrew Bacher-Hicks, Arnold Ventures
Joshua Goodman, Boston University and NBER
1:00 pm
Lunch - Skyline Rooms A and B, West Tower, 2nd Floor
2:00 pm

Meritocracy and Its Discontents: Long-run Effects of Repeated School Admission Reforms

Mari Tanaka, The University of Tokyo
Yusuke Narita, Yale University
Chiaki Moriguchi, Hitotsubashi University
3:00 pm

(Mis)Information and the Value of College Names

Alex Eble, Columbia University and NBER
Feng Hu, University of Science and Technology Beijing
4:00 pm
Adjourn
Friday, December 3
11:00 am

Neighborhood School Choice and Competition in Public Schools: Evidence from Los Angeles' Zones of Choice

Christopher Campos, University of Chicago and NBER
Caitlin Kearns, University of California, Berkeley
12:00 pm

Do More School Resources Increase Learning Outcomes? Evidence from an Extended School-day Reform

Jorge Aguero, University of Connecticut
Marta Favara, University of Oxford
Catherine Porter, Lancaster University
Alan Sanchez, GRADE
1:00 pm
Lunch - Skyline Rooms A and B, West Tower, 2nd Floor
2:00 pm

Beliefs, Preferences, and Student Effort (slides)

John J. Conlon, Carnegie Mellon University
Spencer Yongwook Kwon, Brown University
William E. Murdock, Lazard
Dev A. Patel, Harvard University
3:00 pm

Progressivity of Pricing at US Public Universities

Emily E. Cook, Texas A&M University
Sarah Turner, University of Virginia and NBER
4:00 pm
Adjourn