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	What is a Good School, and Can Parents Tell? Evidence on the Multidimensionality of School Output
1:15 pm	Why Have College Completion Rates Increased? (slides)
2:05 pm	The Value of a Peer - A New Way to Quantify Individual Spillovers
2:55 pm	Break
3:10 pm	Hidden Schooling: Repeated Grades and the Returns to Education and Experience
4:15 pm	Outsourcing Service Delivery in a Fragile State: Experimental Evidence from Liberia (slides)
5:05 pm	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	(Not) Playing Favorites: An Experiment on Parental Preferences for Educational Investment
9:20 am	Why are Schools Segregated? Evidence from the Secondary-School Match in Amsterdam
10:10 am	Break
10:25 am	Do Learning Communities Increase First Year College Retention? Testing the External Validity of Randomized Control Trials (slides)
11:15 am	Expertise and Independence on Governing Boards: Evidence from School Districts
12:05 pm	Lunch
1:05 pm	Getting Effective Educators in Hard-to-Staff Schools
1:55 pm	Can Successful Schools Replicate? Scaling Up Boston's Charter School Sector
2:45 pm	Adjourn