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, College of William and Mary
Michael Stevens, 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, Boston University
Stephen B. Billings, University of Colorado
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

4:40 pm

Adjourn

6:00 pm

Clambake at the Royal Sonesta Hotel