Thursday, May 9
Continental Breakfast
10:00 am

When Your Bootstraps Are Not Enough: How Demand and Supply Interact to Generate Learning in Settings of Extreme Poverty

Alex Eble, Columbia University and NBER
Maya Escueta, American Institutes for Research
Break
11:10 am

The Effects of Business School Education on Manager Career Outcomes ​

Michela Giorcelli, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
12:00 pm

The Effect of Student Loan Payment Burdens on Borrower Outcomes

Tomas E. Monarrez, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Lesley J. Turner, University of Chicago and NBER
Lunch - Room 450
2:00 pm

Signaling Specific Skills and the Labor Market of College Graduates

Matias Busso, Inter-American Development Bank
Sebastian Montano, University of Maryland
Juan S. Muñoz-Morales, IESEG School of Management
2:50 pm

Cognitive Endurance, Talent Selection, and the Labor Market Returns to Human Capital

German J. Reyes, Middlebury College
Break
4:00 pm

College Application Mistakes and the Design of Information Policies at Scale

Tomas Larroucau, Arizona State University
Ignacio A. Rios, The University of Texas at Dallas
Christopher Neilson, Yale University and NBER
Anaïs Fabre, Institute for Fiscal Studies
Adjourn
Reception and Dinner - Room 500
Friday, May 10
Lunch - Room 450
Continental Breakfast
8:30 am

Experimentally Validating Welfare Evaluation of School Vouchers

Peter Arcidiacono, Duke University and NBER
Karthik Muralidharan, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Eun-young Shim, Amazon
John D. Singleton, University of Rochester and NBER
9:20 am

The Long Term Effects of Teacher Wage Differentials (slides)

Erich Battistin, University of Maryland
Melissa Vega Monge, Central Bank of Costa Rica
Break
10:30 am

The Effects of College Desegregation on Academic Achievement and Students’ Social Interactions: Evidence from Turnstile Data

Tatiana Velasco, Columbia University
11:20 am

Something Works in U.S. Jails: Misconduct and Recidivism Effects of the IGNITE Program

Marcella Alsan, Harvard University and NBER
Arkey M. Barnett, University of Michigan
Peter Hull, Brown University and NBER
Crystal Yang, Harvard University and NBER
Lunch
1:20 pm

Reading for Life: Lasting Impacts of a Literacy Intervention in Uganda

Julie Buhl-Wiggers, Copenhagen Business School
Jason T. Kerwin, University of Washington
Ricardo Montero de la Piedra, University of Minnesota
Jeffrey A. Smith, University of Wisconsin - Madison and NBER
Rebecca Thornton, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2:10 pm

The Returns to College Major Choice: Average and Distributional Effects, Career Trajectories, and Earnings Variability

Scott A. Imberman, Michigan State University and NBER
Michael F. Lovenheim, Cornell University and NBER
Kevin M. Stange, University of Michigan and NBER
Adjourn