Wednesday, July 27

8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

9:00 am

Can Codification Improve Learning? Experimental Evidence from Kenya

Guthrie Gray-Lobe, University of Chicago
Anthony Keats, Wesleyan University
Michael Kremer, University of Chicago and NBER
Isaac Mbiti, University of Virginia and NBER
Owen Ozier, Williams College

9:50 am

It Takes Time: The Asymmetric Impacts of Imposing and Removing a Teacher Incentive Scheme

Michael Gilraine, Simon Fraser University and NBER
Uros Petronijevic, York University
Nolan G. Pope, University of Maryland and NBER

10:40 am

Break

11:00 am

The Effect of Education on the Relationship between Genetics, Early-Life Disadvantages, and Later-Life SES

Silvia H. Barcellos, University of Wisconsin - Madison and NBER
Leandro Carvalho, University of Southern California
Patrick Turley, University of Southern California

11:50 am

Lunch

Afternoon joint with Labor Studies in Ballroom A

1:00 pm

Learning to Teach by Learning to Learn

Nava Ashraf, London School of Economics
Abhijit Banerjee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Vesall Nourani, Harvard Graduate School of Education

1:50 pm

Cutting the Innovation Engine: How Federal Funding Shocks Affect University Patenting, Entrepreneurship, and Publications (slides)

Tania Babina, University of Maryland and NBER
Alex X. He, University of Maryland
Sabrina T. Howell, New York University and NBER
Elisabeth Perlman, U.S. Census Bureau
Joseph Staudt, U.S. Census Bureau

2:40 pm

Break

3:00 pm

The Fork in the Road: The Economics and Neuroscience of Adolescent Education

Caroline M. Hoxby, Stanford University and NBER

3:50 pm

Adjourn