NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC
RESEARCH
Higher Education Working Group Meeting
November 13, 2008
Charles Clotfelter, Organizer
Education Program Meeting
November 14, 2008
Caroline Hoxby, Organizer
NBER
2nd floor Conference
Room
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13:
HIGHER EDUCATION
WORKING GROUP MEETING
8:45 am Shuttle Vans Depart from the Royal
Sonesta Hotel for the NBER
9:00 am Continental Breakfast
9:30 am JUDITH
SCOTT-CLAYTON,
10:30 am PETER ARCIDIACONO,
ESTEBAN AUCEJO,
HANMING FANG,
Does Affirmative Action Lead to Mismatch? A New Test
and Evidence
11:30 am Break
11:45 am TODD STINEBRICKNER, University of
Western Ontario and NBER
RALPH STINEBRICKNER,
Learning about Academic Ability and the
College Drop-out Decision
12:45 pm Lunch
1:45 pm THOMAS
DEE,
Stereotype Threat and the Student-Athlete
2:45 pm Break
3:00 pm BRUCE
WEINBERG,
Scientific Leadership (not available for download)
4:00 pm GINGER
ZHE JIN, University of Maryland and NBER
ALEXANDER WHALLEY, UC,
The Power of Attention: Do Rankings Affect the
Financial Resources of Public Colleges?
5:00 pm Adjourn
5:00 pm Shuttle Vans Depart from the NBER for
the Royal Sonesta.
5:15 pm Shuttle Vans Depart from the NBER for
the Royal Sonesta.
6:30 pm Group
Dinner
Dante
at the Royal Sonesta Hotel
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14:
EDUCATION PROGRAM
MEETING
8:00 am Shuttle Vans Depart from the Royal
Sonesta Hotel for the NBER
8:15 am Shuttle Vans Depart from the Royal
Sonesta Hotel for the NBER
8:15 am Continental
Breakfast
8:45 am RICHARD
MURNANE,
JENNIFER STEELE and JOHN WILLETT,
9:40 am KIRABO
10:35 am Break
10:50 am JONAH ROCKOFF,
LESLEY
TURNER,
Short
Run Impacts of Accountability on School Quality
and
HANLEY CHIANG, Mathematica, Inc.
How Accountability Pressure on Failing Schools
Affects Student Achievement
12:10 pm Lunch
12:40 pm GAURI KARTINI SHASTRY,
Human
Capital Response to Globalization: Education and Information Technology in
India
1:35 pm Break
1:50 pm MARIA
FITZPATRICK,
Preschoolers
Enrolled and Mothers at Work? The
Effects of Universal Pre-Kindergarten
2:45 pm RICARDO
MADEIRA,
MARCOS RANGEL,
Discrimination Goes
to School? Understanding Racial
Differences in Non-Blind Grading
(not available for download)
3:40 pm Adjourn
11/12/08