Wednesday, July 26

8:00 am

Coffee and Pastries

8:20 am

Introductions

8:30 am

The Equilibrium Effects of Subsidized Student Loans

Cauê de Castro Dobbin, Georgetown University
Sebastian Otero, Columbia University
Nano Barahona, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

9:20 am

Financial Frictions and Human Capital Investments

Menaka Hampole, Yale School of Management

10:10 am

Break

10:25 am

The Variance of Achievement Increases During Childhood (slides)

Eric Nielsen, Federal Reserve Board of Governors

11:00 am

What's in a Question? Harnessing the Information Value of Item Response Data to Better Capture and Represent Learning. (slides)

Jesse M. Bruhn, Brown University and NBER
Michael Gilraine, Simon Fraser University and NBER
Jens Ludwig, University of Chicago and NBER
Sendhil Mullainathan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

11:35 am

School Takeovers, Leadership Change, and Personnel Policy

Emma Duchini, University of Essex
Victor Lavy, University of Warwick and NBER
Stephen Machin, London School of Economics
Shqiponja Telhaj, University of Sussex

12:20 pm

Lunch

Afternoon joint with Labor Studies in Ballroom A

1:20 pm

Screening with Multitasking: Theory and Empirical Evidence from Teacher Tenure Reform

Michael Dinerstein, Duke University and NBER
Isaac M. Opper, RAND Corporation

2:10 pm

Financial Aid and Social Mobility: Evidence from Colombia’s Ser Pilo Paga

Juliana Londoño-Vélez, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Fabio Sanchez, Universidad de los Andes
Catherine Rodriguez, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
Luis E. Alvarez, Departamento Nacional de Planeación

3:00 pm

Break

3:20 pm

Social Interactions and Preferences for Schools: Experimental Evidence from Los Angeles (slides)

Christopher Campos, University of Chicago and NBER

4:10 pm

Adjourn