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 and NBER
Emel Filiz-Ozbay, University of Maryland
Erkut Y. Ozbay, University of Maryland
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 at San Diego
Uri Gneezy, University of California at 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