SI 2017 Education
Organized by Caroline M. Hoxby
July 26, 2017
Royal Sonesta Hotel
Wednesday, July 26
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
Morning joint with Labor Studies in Ballroom A
8:30 am

Persistency in Teachers' Grading Biases and Effect on Longer Term Outcomes: University Admission Exams and Choice of Field of Study

Victor Lavy, University of Warwick and NBER
Rigissa Megalokonomou, Monash University
9:20 am

'Acting Wife': Marriage Market Incentives and Labor Market Investments

Leonardo Bursztyn, University of Chicago and NBER
Thomas Fujiwara, Princeton University and NBER
Amanda Pallais, Harvard University and NBER
10:10 am
Break
10:30 am

Next Please! Estimating the Effect of Treatments Allocated By Randomized Waiting Lists

Clement de Chaisemartin, University of California, Santa Barbara
Luc Behaghel, Paris School of Economics
11:20 am

Effects of Increased Income on Children's Academic Achievement: Evidence from an Emerging Natural Experiment

Elizabeth Ananat, Columbia University and NBER
Molly A. Martin, The Pennsylvania State University
12:10 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm

Inputs, Incentives, and Complementarities in Primary Education: Experimental Evidence from Tanzania

Isaac Mbiti, University of Notre Dame and NBER
Karthik Muralidharan, University of California, San Diego and NBER
1:50 pm

The Dynamic Effects of Teach for America in Hard-to-Staff Schools

Sally Hudson, University of Virginia
2:40 pm
Break
3:00 pm

Earnings Expectations, Behavioral Biases, and the Design of Student Loan Repayment Schemes

Katharine G. Abraham, University of Maryland, College Park and NBER
Emel Filiz-Ozbay, University of Maryland, College Park
Erkut Y. Ozbay, University of Maryland, College Park
Lesley J. Turner, University of Chicago and NBER
3:50 pm

Measuring Success in Education: The Role of Effort on the Test Itself

Sally Sadoff, University of California, San Diego
Uri Gneezy, University of California, San Diego
John A. List, University of Chicago and NBER
4:40 pm
Adjourn
6:00 pm
Clambake at the Royal Sonesta Hotel