Education Program Meeting

Caroline M. Hoxby, Organizer

April 11-12, 2019

Stauffer Auditorium, Hoover Institution, 434 Galvez Mall, Stanford University

Thursday, April 11
11:50 am	Sandwich Buffet
12:20 pm	C. Kirabo Jackson, Northwestern University and NBER Diether Beuermann, Inter-American Development Bank Laia Navarro-Sola, Stockholm University Francisco Pardo, University of Texas at Austin What is a Good School, and Can Parents Tell? Evidence on the Multidimensionality of School Output
1:15 pm	Jeffrey T. Denning, University of Notre Dame and NBER Eric R. Eide, Brigham Young University Merrill Warnick, Stanford University Why Have College Completion Rates Increased? (slides)
2:05 pm	Ulf Zoelitz, University of Zurich Ingo E. Isphording, IZA - Bonn The Value of a Peer - A New Way to Quantify Individual Spillovers
2:55 pm	Break
3:10 pm	Kendall J. Kennedy, Mississippi State University Hidden Schooling: Repeated Grades and the Returns to Education and Experience
4:15 pm	Mauricio Romero, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México Justin Sandefur, Center for Global Development Wayne A. Sandholtz, Nova School of Business and Economics Outsourcing Service Delivery in a Fragile State: Experimental Evidence from Liberia (slides)
5:05 pm	Krzysztof Karbownik, Emory University and NBER Umut Özek, RAND Corporation Setting a Good Example? Examining Sibling Spillovers in Educational Achievement Using Regression Discontinuity Design.
5:55 pm	Adjourn for the day
6:30 pm	Group Dinner, Il Fornaio, Cowper St., Palo Alto
Friday, April 12
8:00 am	Coffee and Pastries
8:30 am	James Berry, University of Georgia Rebecca Dizon-Ross, University of Chicago and NBER Maulik Jagnani, Tufts University (Not) Playing Favorites: An Experiment on Parental Preferences for Educational Investment
9:20 am	Hessel Oosterbeek, Universiteit van Amsterdam Sandor Sovago, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Bas van der Klaauw, VU University Amsterdam Why are Schools Segregated? Evidence from the Secondary-School Match in Amsterdam
10:10 am	Break
10:25 am	Tarek Azzam, Claremont Graduate university Michael D. Bates, University of California, Riverside David Fairris, University of California at Riverside Do Learning Communities Increase First Year College Retention? Testing the External Validity of Randomized Control Trials (slides)
11:15 am	Ying Shi, Syracuse University John D. Singleton, University of Rochester and NBER Expertise and Independence on Governing Boards: Evidence from School Districts
12:05 pm	Lunch
1:05 pm	Andrew Morgan Minh Nguyen, Ball State University Eric A. Hanushek, Stanford University and NBER Ben Ost, University of Illinois at Chicago Steven G. Rivkin, University of Illinois Chicago and NBER Getting Effective Educators in Hard-to-Staff Schools
1:55 pm	Sarah Cohodes, University of Michigan and NBER Elizabeth Setren, Tufts University and NBER Christopher R. Walters, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Can Successful Schools Replicate? Scaling Up Boston's Charter School Sector
2:45 pm	Adjourn