Economics of Education Program Meeting
Caroline M. Hoxby, Organizer
May 9-10, 2024
Gleacher Center, Room 400, 450 North Cityfront Plaza Drive, Chicago, IL and Zoom
| Thursday, May 9 | ||
| Continental Breakfast | ||
| 10:00 am |
Alex Eble, Columbia University and NBER Maya Escueta, American Institutes for Research When Your Bootstraps Are Not Enough: How Demand and Supply Interact to Generate Learning in Settings of Extreme Poverty |
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| Break | ||
| 11:10 am |
Michela Giorcelli, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER The Effects of Business School Education on Manager Career Outcomes |
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| 12:00 pm |
Tomas E. Monarrez, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Lesley J. Turner, University of Chicago and NBER The Effect of Student Loan Payment Burdens on Borrower Outcomes |
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| Lunch - Room 450 | ||
| 2:00 pm |
Matias Busso, Inter-American Development Bank Sebastian Montano, University of Maryland Juan S. Muñoz-Morales, IESEG School of Management Signaling Specific Skills and the Labor Market of College Graduates |
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| 2:50 pm |
German J. Reyes, Department of Economics, Middlebury College Cognitive Endurance, Talent Selection, and the Labor Market Returns to Human Capital |
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| Break | ||
| 4:00 pm |
Tomas Larroucau, Arizona State University Ignacio A. Rios, The University of Texas at Dallas Christopher Neilson, Yale University and NBER Anaïs Fabre, Toulouse School of Economics College Application Mistakes and the Design of Information Policies at Scale |
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| Adjourn | ||
| Reception and Dinner - Room 500 | ||
| Friday, May 10 | ||
| Lunch - Room 450 | ||
| Continental Breakfast | ||
| 8:30 am |
Peter Arcidiacono, Duke University and NBER Karthik Muralidharan, University of California, San Diego and NBER Eun-young Shim, Amazon John D. Singleton, University of Rochester and NBER Experimentally Validating Welfare Evaluation of School Vouchers |
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| 9:20 am |
Erich Battistin, University of Maryland Melissa Vega Monge, Central Bank of Costa Rica The Long Term Effects of Teacher Wage Differentials |
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| Break | ||
| 10:30 am |
Tatiana Velasco, Columbia University The Effects of College Desegregation on Academic Achievement and Students’ Social Interactions: Evidence from Turnstile Data |
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| 11:20 am |
Marcella Alsan, Harvard University and NBER Arkey M. Barnett, University of Michigan Peter Hull, Brown University and NBER Crystal Yang, Harvard University and NBER Something Works in U.S. Jails: Misconduct and Recidivism Effects of the IGNITE Program |
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| Lunch | ||
| 1:20 pm |
Julie Buhl-Wiggers, Copenhagen Business School Jason T. Kerwin, University of Washington Ricardo Montero de la Piedra, University of Minnesota Jeffrey A. Smith, University of Wisconsin-Madison and NBER Rebecca Thornton, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Reading for Life: Lasting Impacts of a Literacy Intervention in Uganda |
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| 2:10 pm |
Scott A. Imberman, Michigan State University and NBER Michael F. Lovenheim, Cornell University and NBER Kevin M. Stange, University of Michigan and NBER The Returns to College Major Choice: Average and Distributional Effects, Career Trajectories, and Earnings Variability |
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| Adjourn | ||