Education Program Meeting

Caroline M. Hoxby, Organizer

December 2-3, 2021

Cambridge, MA and Zoom

Conference Code of Conduct

Thursday, December 2
11:00 am
Joshua Angrist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Guthrie Gray-Lobe, University of Chicago
Clemence Idoux, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Parag A. Pathak, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

Is Busing Worth the Trip? School Travel Effects in Boston and New York
12:00 pm
Tareena Musaddiq, Mathematica
Kevin M. Stange, University of Michigan and NBER
Andrew Bacher-Hicks, Boston University
Joshua Goodman, Boston University and NBER

The Pandemic's Effect on Demand For Public Schools, Homeschooling and Private Schools
1:00 pm
Lunch - Skyline Rooms A and B, West Tower, 2nd Floor
2:00 pm
Mari Tanaka, University of Tokyo
Yusuke Narita, Yale University
Chiaki Moriguchi, Hitotsubashi University

Meritocracy and Its Discontents: Long-run Effects of Repeated School Admission Reforms
3:00 pm
Alex Eble, Columbia University and NBER
Feng Hu, University of Science and Technology Beijing

(Mis)Information and the Value of College Names
4:00 pm
Adjourn
Friday, December 3
11:00 am
Christopher Campos, University of Chicago and NBER
Caitlin Kearns, University of California at Berkeley

Neighborhood School Choice and Competition in Public Schools: Evidence from Los Angeles' Zones of Choice
12:00 pm
Jorge Aguero, University of Connecticut
Marta Favara, University of Oxford
Catherine Porter, Lancaster University
Alan Sanchez, GRADE

Do More School Resources Increase Learning Outcomes? Evidence from an Extended School-day Reform
1:00 pm
Lunch - Skyline Rooms A and B, West Tower, 2nd Floor
2:00 pm
John J. Conlon, Carnegie Mellon University
Spencer Yongwook Kwon, Brown University
William E. Murdock, Lazard
Dev A. Patel, Harvard University

Beliefs, Preferences, and Student Effort (slides)
3:00 pm
Emily E. Cook, Texas A&M University
Sarah Turner, University of Virginia and NBER

Progressivity of Pricing at US Public Universities
4:00 pm
Adjourn