SI 2019 Education
Organized by Caroline M. Hoxby
July 24, 2019
Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA
Wednesday, July 24
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
Morning joint with Labor Studies in Ballroom A
8:30 am

You Can't Handle the Truth: The Effects of the New GI Bill on Higher Education and Earnings

Andrew C. Barr, Texas A&M University and NBER
Laura Kawano, University of Michigan
Bruce Sacerdote, Dartmouth College and NBER
Bill Skimmyhorn, William & Mary
Michael Stevens, U.S. Department of the Treasury
9:20 am

Affirmative Action and Student Effort (slides)

Mitra Akhtari, Harvard University
Natalie Bau, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Jean-William P. Laliberté, University of Calgary
10:10 am
Break
10:30 am

Human Capital Depreciation

Michael Dinerstein, Duke University and NBER
Rigissa Megalokonomou, Monash University
Constantine N. Yannelis, University of Cambridge
11:20 am

Liquidity Affects Job Choice: Evidence from Teach For America

Lucas C. Coffman, Harvard University
John J. Conlon, Carnegie Mellon University
Clayton Featherstone, University of Pennsylvania
Judd B. Kessler, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
12:10 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm

The School to Prison Pipeline: Do Suspensions Impact Educational Attainment and Adult Crime?

Andrew Bacher-Hicks, Arnold Ventures
Stephen B. Billings, University of Colorado Boulder
David J. Deming, Harvard University and NBER
1:50 pm

A New Method for Estimating Teacher Value-Added

Michael Gilraine, Simon Fraser University and NBER
Jiaying Gu, University of Toronto
Robert McMillan, University of Toronto and NBER
2:40 pm
Break
3:00 pm

Recruitment, Effort, and Retention Effects of Performance Contracts for Civil Servants: Experimental Evidence from Rwandan Primary Schools

Clare Leaver, University of Oxford
Owen Ozier, Williams College
Pieter M. Serneels, University of East Anglia
Andrew F. Zeitlin, Georgetown University
3:50 pm

Large-scale Education Reform in General Equilibrium: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from India

Gaurav Khanna, University of California, San Diego and NBER
4:40 pm
Adjourn
6:00 pm
Clambake at the Royal Sonesta Hotel