Economics of Education Program Meeting

Caroline M. Hoxby, Robert McMillan, and Jonah E. Rockoff, Organizers

December 5-6, 2024

Le Meridien, Hunsaker Ballroom, 20 Sidney St, Cambridge, MA, and Zoom

Thursday, December 5
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	Joshua Angrist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Peter Hull, Brown University and NBER Russell Legate-Yang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Parag A. Pathak, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Christopher R. Walters, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Putting School Surveys to the Test
9:50 am	Tim de Silva, Stanford University Insurance versus Moral Hazard in Income-Contingent Student Loan Repayment
10:40 am	Break
10:55 am	Isabela Munevar Escalante, Harvard University Catholic Schools and Student Performance: Evidence from Chile’s School Admission Lottery
11:45 am	Lunch - Luscomb Ballroom
12:45 pm	Michael Dinerstein, Duke University and NBER Samuel Earnest, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Dmitri K. Koustas, University of Chicago Constantine Yannelis, University of Cambridge and NBER Student Loan Forgiveness
1:35 pm	Nano Barahona, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Cauê Dobbin, Georgetown University Sebastian Otero, Columbia University Affirmative Action in Centralized College Admissions Systems
2:25 pm	Break
2:40 pm	Lois Miller, University of South Carolina Switching Schools: Effects of College Transfers
3:30 pm	Sara Ayllón, University of Girona Lars Lefgren, Brigham Young University and NBER Richard W. Patterson, Brigham Young University Olga B. Stoddard, Brigham Young University Nicolas Urdaneta, Duke University Equilibrium Gender Discrimination and Disadvantage in Student Evaluations of Teaching
4:20 pm	Adjourn
5:30 pm	Reception and Group Dinner at Le Meridien, Luscomb Ballroom
Friday, December 6
8:30 am	Continental Breakfast
9:00 am	Karthik Muralidharan, University of California, San Diego and NBER Abhijeet Singh, Stockholm School of Economics Adapting for Scale: Experimental Evidence on Computer-aided Instruction in India
9:50 am	Amanda Chuan, Michigan State University Andrew S. Johnson, Michigan State University DEI Statements Can Activate Stereotype Threat: Evidence from a Field Experiment
10:40 am	Break
10:55 am	Louis-Pierre Lepage, Stockholm University Xiaomeng Li, University of Michigan Basit Zafar, University of Michigan and NBER Anticipated Gender Discrimination and College Major Choice
11:45 am	Lunch - Luscomb Ballroom
12:45 pm	Jalnidh Kaur, University of Glasgow How Much Do I Matter? Teacher Beliefs, Effort, and Education Production
1:35 pm	John J. Conlon, Carnegie Mellon University Dev A. Patel, Harvard University What Jobs Come to Mind? Stereotypes about Fields of Study
2:25 pm	Break
2:40 pm	Sarah Cohodes, University of Michigan and NBER Astrid Pineda, Columbia University Different Paths to College Success: The Impact of Massachusetts’ Charter Schools on College Trajectories
3:30 pm	Adjourn