SI 2015 Economics of Education

Caroline M. Hoxby, Organizer

July 22, 2015

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Conference Code of Conduct

Wednesday, July 22
8:30 am
8:30 am
Caroline M. Hoxby, Stanford University and NBER

Computing the Value-Added of American Postsecondary Institutions
9:20 am
9:20 am
Eric S. Taylor, Harvard University and NBER
John Papay, Brown University
John H. Tyler, Brown University
Mary Laski, Harvard University

Learning Job Skills from Colleagues at Work: Evidence from a Field Experiment Using Teacher Performance Data
10:25 am
Ofer Malamud, Northwestern University and NBER
Cristian Pop-Eleches, Columbia University and NBER
Miguel Urquiola, Columbia University and NBER

Dynamic Complementarities in Human Capital Formation? Family and School Environments
11:15 am
11:15 am
Karthik Muralidharan, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Menno Pradhan, University of Amsterdam

Double for Nothing? Experimental Evidence on the Impact of an Unconditional Teacher Salary Increase on Student Performance in Indonesia
1:10 pm
1:10 pm
Scott E. Carrell, University of Texas at Austin and NBER
Mark Hoekstra, Baylor University and NBER
James E. West, Baylor University and NBER

The Impact of Intergroup Contact on Racial Attitudes and Revealed Preferences
2:00 pm
2:00 pm
Atila Abdulkadiroğlu, Duke University and NBER
Joshua Angrist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Yusuke Narita, Yale University
Parag A. Pathak, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

Research Design meets Market Design: Using Centralized Assignment for Impact Evaluation
3:05 pm
Victor Lavy, University of Warwick and NBER
Edith Sand, Bank of Israel

On The Origins of Gender Human Capital Gaps: Short and Long Term Consequences of Teachers’ Stereotypical Biases