Wednesday, July 24

Reception and Group Dinner

8:00 am

Coffee and Pastries

8:30 am

Skin in the Game: Colleges’ Financial Incentives and Student Outcomes

Cauê Dobbin, Georgetown University
Constantine Yannelis, University of Cambridge
Sebastian Otero, Columbia University
Nano Barahona, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Hanson Ho, Stanford University

9:20 am

A Global Regression Discontinuity Design: Theory and Application to Grade Retention Policies

Isaac M. Opper, RAND Corporation
Umut Özek, RAND Corporation

10:10 am

Break

10:30 am

Voluntary Report of Standardized Test Scores: An Experimental Study

Marty Chen, University of Maryland, College Park
Ginger Zhe Jin, University of Maryland, College Park and NBER

11:20 am

The Political Consequences of Controversial Education Reform: Lessons from Wisconsin's Act 10

Barbara Biasi, Yale University and NBER
Wayne A. Sandholtz, Nova School of Business and Economics

12:10 pm

Lunch

Afternoon joint with Labor Studies in Ballroom A

1:10 pm

A Rosetta Stone for Human Capital

Dev A. Patel, Harvard University
Justin Sandefur, Center for Global Development

2:00 pm

Why Does Value-Added Work? Implications of a Dynamic Model of Student Achievement

Douglas O. Staiger, Dartmouth College and NBER
Thomas J. Kane, Harvard University and NBER
Brian D. Johnson, Harvard University

2:50 pm

Break

3:10 pm

Teaching Teachers To Teach Computer Assisted Learning Effectively: Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Evidence

Philip Oreopoulos, University of Toronto and NBER
Chloe Gibbs, University of Notre Dame
Michael Jensen, University of Notre Dame
Joseph Price, Brigham Young University and NBER

4:00 pm

Changes in the College Mobility Pipeline Since 1900 (slides)

Zachary Bleemer, Princeton University and NBER
Sarah Quincy, Vanderbilt University and NBER

4:50 pm

Adjourn