Economics of Education Program Meeting

Caroline M. Hoxby, Organizer

November 13-14, 2014

Hamilton Crowne Plaza, Washington, DC

Conference Code of Conduct

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
11:15 am
Daniel M. Hungerman, University of Notre Dame and NBER
Kevin Rinz, U.S. Census Bureau

Where Does School-Choice Funding Go? How Large-Scale Choice Programs Affect Private-School Revenue, Enrollment, and Prices
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
3:30 pm
Peter S. Bergman, University of Texas at Austin and NBER

Educational Attainment, Peer Effects and School Desegregation: Evidence from Randomized Lotteries
4:30 pm
Robert T. Jensen, Yale University and NBER
Leonardo Bursztyn, University of Chicago and NBER

How Does Peer Pressure Affect Educational Investments?
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
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
10:45 am
Esteban M. Aucejo, Arizona State University and NBER

Assessing the E ffect of School Days and Absences on Test Score Performance
12:45 pm
Nathaniel Hilger, Brown University

What do 'Model' Minorities Teach Us About Overcoming Disadvantage? The Case of Asian-Americans
1:15 pm
Joseph G. Altonji, and NBER
Richard K. Mansfield, University of Colorado at Boulder and NBER

Group-Average Observables as Controls for Sorting on Unobservables When Estimating Group Treatment Effects: the Case of School and Neighborhood Effects
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
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