Economics of Education Program Meeting
Caroline M. Hoxby, Organizer
November 13-14, 2014
Hamilton Crowne Plaza, Washington, DC
| Thursday, November 13 | ||
| 10:00 am |
David Autor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER David N. Figlio, University of Rochester and NBER Krzysztof Karbownik, Emory University and NBER Jeffrey Roth, University of Florida Melanie Wasserman, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER Family Structure and the Gender Gap in Educational and Behavioral Outcomes |
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| 11:15 am |
Daniel M. Hungerman, University of Notre Dame and NBER Kevin Rinz, Washington Center for Equitable Growth Where Does School-Choice Funding Go? How Large-Scale Choice Programs Affect Private-School Revenue, Enrollment, and Prices |
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| 2:15 pm |
Harold E. Cuffe, Victoria University of Wellington Glen Waddell, University of Oregon Too Busy for School? The Effect of Athletic Participation on Absenteeism |
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| 3:30 pm |
Peter S. Bergman, University of Texas at Austin and NBER Educational Attainment, Peer Effects and School Desegregation: Evidence from Randomized Lotteries |
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| 4:30 pm |
Robert T. Jensen, Yale University and NBER Leonardo Bursztyn, University of Chicago and NBER How Does Peer Pressure Affect Educational Investments? |
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| Friday, November 14 | ||
| 8:30 am |
Atila Abdulkadiroğlu, Duke University and NBER Joshua Angrist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Peter Hull, Brown University and NBER Parag Pathak, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Charters without Lotteries: Testing Turnarounds in Boston and New Orleans |
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| 9:30 am |
Richard Murphy, University of Texas at Austin and NBER Felix Weinhardt, European University Viadrina Top of the Class: The Importance of Ordinal Rank |
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| 10:45 am |
Esteban M. Aucejo, Arizona State University and NBER Assessing the E ffect of School Days and Absences on Test Score Performance |
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| 12:45 pm |
Nathaniel Hilger, Brown University What do 'Model' Minorities Teach Us About Overcoming Disadvantage? The Case of Asian-Americans |
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| 1:15 pm |
Joseph G. Altonji, Yale University and NBER Richard K. Mansfield, University of Colorado Boulder and NBER Group-Average Observables as Controls for Sorting on Unobservables When Estimating Group Treatment Effects: the Case of School and Neighborhood Effects |
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| 1:45 pm |
Martin West, Harvard University and NBER Matthew A. Kraft, Brown University and NBER Angela L. Duckworth, University of Pennsylvania Promise and Paradox: Measuring Students' Non-cognitive Skills and the Impact of Schooling |
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| 2:45 pm |
Juan Saavedra, Harvard University and NBER Eric Bettinger, Stanford University and NBER Michael Kremer, University of Chicago and NBER Carlos Medina, Banco de la Republica de Colombia Christian M. Posso, Sr, University of North Carolina Maurice Kugler, George Mason University Educational, Labor Market, and Fiscal Impacts of Scholarships for Private Secondary School: Evidence from Colombia |
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