SI 2017 Education

Caroline M. Hoxby, Organizer

July 26, 2017

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Conference Code of Conduct

Wednesday, July 26
8:00 am
Coffee and Pastries
Morning joint with Labor Studies in Ballroom A
8:30 am
Victor Lavy, University of Warwick and NBER
Rigissa Megalokonomou, Monash University

Persistency in Teachers' Grading Biases and Effect on Longer Term Outcomes: University Admission Exams and Choice of Field of Study
9:20 am
Leonardo Bursztyn, University of Chicago and NBER
Thomas Fujiwara, Princeton University and NBER
Amanda Pallais, Harvard University and NBER

'Acting Wife': Marriage Market Incentives and Labor Market Investments
10:10 am
Break
10:30 am
Clement de Chaisemartin, University of California, Santa Barbara
Luc Behaghel, Paris School of Economics

Next Please! Estimating the Effect of Treatments Allocated By Randomized Waiting Lists
11:20 am
Elizabeth Ananat, Columbia University and NBER
Molly A. Martin, Pennsylvania State University

Effects of Increased Income on Children's Academic Achievement: Evidence from an Emerging Natural Experiment
12:10 pm
Lunch
1:00 pm
Isaac Mbiti, University of Virginia and NBER
Karthik Muralidharan, University of California, San Diego and NBER

Inputs, Incentives, and Complementarities in Primary Education: Experimental Evidence from Tanzania
1:50 pm
Sally Hudson, University of Virginia

The Dynamic Effects of Teach for America in Hard-to-Staff Schools
2:40 pm
Break
3:00 pm
Katharine G. Abraham, University of Maryland, College Park and NBER
Emel Filiz-Ozbay, University of Maryland, College Park
Erkut Y. Ozbay, University of Maryland, College Park
Lesley J. Turner, University of Chicago and NBER

Earnings Expectations, Behavioral Biases, and the Design of Student Loan Repayment Schemes
3:50 pm
Sally Sadoff, University of California, San Diego
Uri Gneezy, University of California, San Diego
John A. List, University of Chicago and NBER

Measuring Success in Education: The Role of Effort on the Test Itself
4:40 pm
Adjourn
6:00 pm
Clambake at the Royal Sonesta Hotel