NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2004

 

Education Workshop

 

Caroline Hoxby, Organizer

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

August 5, 2004

 

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

 

 

THURSDAY, AUGUST 5:

 

 

JOINT SESSION WITH LABOR STUDIES

 

 

 8:30 a.m.

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 9:00 a.m.

BRUCE SACERDOTE, Dartmouth College and NBER

 

What Happens When We Randomly Assign Children to Families?

 

 

 

10:00 a.m.

ERIC HANUSHEK, Stanford University

 

DANIEL O’BRIEN, University of Texas at Dallas

 

STEVEN RIVKIN, Amherst College

 

The Market for Teacher Quality

 

 

11:00 a.m.

Break

 

 

11:30 a.m.

DAVID EVANS, Harvard University

 

EDWARD MIGUEL, UC, Berkeley and NBER

 

Orphans and Schooling in Africa: A Longitudinal Analysis

 

 

12:30 p.m.

Lunch

 

 

 1:30 p.m.

DANIEL HAMERMESH, University of Texas at Austin and NBER

 

STEPHEN DONALD, University of Texas at Austin

 

The Effect of College Curriculum on Earnings: Accounting for

 

Non-ignorable Non-response Bias

 

 

 2:30 p.m.

STEPHEN MACHIN, University College London

 

SANDRA MCNALLY, London School of Economics

 

The Literacy Hour

 

 

 3:30 p.m.

Break

 

 

 4:00 p.m.

JOSEPH ALTONJI, Yale University and NBER

 

CHRISTOPHER TABER, Northwestern University and NBER

 

The Effect of Private School Vouchers on Public School Students

 

through Cream Skimming 

 

 

 5:00 p.m.

Adjourn

 

 

5/12/04