SI 2019 Education
Caroline M. Hoxby, Organizer
July 24, 2019
Parkview Room
Royal Sonesta Hotel, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA
| Wednesday, July 24 | ||
| 8:00 am | Coffee and Pastries | |
| Morning joint with Labor Studies in Ballroom A | ||
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8:30 am
Ballroom A
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Andrew C. Barr, Texas A&M University and NBER Laura Kawano, University of Michigan Bruce Sacerdote, Dartmouth College and NBER Bill Skimmyhorn, College of William and Mary Michael Stevens, U.S. Department of the Treasury You Can't Handle the Truth: The Effects of the New GI Bill on Higher Education and Earnings |
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9:20 am
Ballroom A
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Mitra Akhtari, Harvard University Natalie Bau, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER Jean-William P. Laliberté, University of Calgary Affirmative Action and Student Effort |
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| 10:10 am | Break | |
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10:30 am
Ballroom A
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Michael Dinerstein, Duke University and NBER Rigissa Megalokonomou, Monash University Constantine N. Yannelis, University of Cambridge Human Capital Depreciation |
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11:20 am
Ballroom A
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Lucas C. Coffman, Harvard University John J. Conlon, Carnegie Mellon University Clayton Featherstone, University of Pennsylvania Judd B. Kessler, University of Pennsylvania and NBER Liquidity Affects Job Choice: Evidence from Teach For America |
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| 12:10 pm | Lunch | |
| 1:00 pm |
Andrew Bacher-Hicks, Boston University Stephen B. Billings, University of Colorado Boulder David J. Deming, Harvard University and NBER The School to Prison Pipeline: Do Suspensions Impact Educational Attainment and Adult Crime? |
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| 1:50 pm |
Michael Gilraine, Simon Fraser University and NBER Jiaying Gu, University of Toronto Robert McMillan, University of Toronto and NBER A New Method for Estimating Teacher Value-Added |
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| 2:40 pm | Break | |
| 3:00 pm |
Clare Leaver, University of Oxford Owen Ozier, Williams College Pieter M. Serneels, University of East Anglia Andrew F. Zeitlin, Georgetown University Recruitment, Effort, and Retention Effects of Performance Contracts for Civil Servants: Experimental Evidence from Rwandan Primary Schools |
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| 3:50 pm |
Gaurav Khanna, University of California, San Diego and NBER Large-scale Education Reform in General Equilibrium: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from India |
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| 4:40 pm | Adjourn | |
| 6:00 pm | Clambake at the Royal Sonesta Hotel | |