SI 2015 Economics of Education
Organized by Caroline M. Hoxby
July 22, 2015
Royal Sonesta Hotel

Wednesday, July 22

8:30 am

Computing the Value-Added of American Postsecondary Institutions

Caroline M. Hoxby, Stanford University and NBER

9:20 am

Learning Job Skills from Colleagues at Work: Evidence from a Field Experiment Using Teacher Performance Data

Eric S. Taylor, Harvard University and NBER
John Papay, Brown University
John H. Tyler, Brown University
Mary Laski, Arizona State University

10:25 am

Dynamic Complementarities in Human Capital Formation? Family and School Environments

Ofer Malamud, Northwestern University and NBER
Cristian Pop-Eleches, Columbia University and NBER
Miguel Urquiola, Columbia University and NBER

11:15 am

Double for Nothing? Experimental Evidence on the Impact of an Unconditional Teacher Salary Increase on Student Performance in Indonesia

Karthik Muralidharan, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Menno Pradhan, University of Amsterdam

1:10 pm

The Impact of Intergroup Contact on Racial Attitudes and Revealed Preferences

Scott E. Carrell, University of Texas at Austin and NBER
Mark Hoekstra, Baylor University and NBER
James E. West, Baylor University and NBER

2:00 pm

Research Design meets Market Design: Using Centralized Assignment for Impact Evaluation

Atila Abdulkadiroğlu, Duke University and NBER
Joshua Angrist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Yusuke Narita, Yale University
Parag A. Pathak, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

3:05 pm

On The Origins of Gender Human Capital Gaps: Short and Long Term Consequences of Teachers’ Stereotypical Biases

Victor Lavy, University of Warwick and NBER
Edith Sand, Bank of Israel