SI 2015 Economics of Education
Caroline M. Hoxby, Organizer
July 22, 2015
Royal Sonesta Hotel
| Wednesday, July 22 | ||
| 8:30 am | ||
| 8:30 am |
Caroline M. Hoxby, Stanford University and NBER Computing the Value-Added of American Postsecondary Institutions |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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