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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

Education Program Meeting

May 5, 2011

Caroline Hoxby, Organizer

Childrens Program Meeting

May 6, 2011

Janet Currie, Organizer

NBER

Feldstein Conference Room – 2^nd Floor

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

THURSDAY, MAY 5:

	EDUCATION PROGRAM MEETING
9:00 am	Shuttle Vans Depart from the Royal Sonesta Hotel for the NBER
9:30 am	Shuttle Van Departs from the Royal Sonesta Hotel for the NBER
9:30 am	Continental Breakfast
10:00 am	Elizabeth Cascio and Douglas Staiger, Dartmouth College and NBER Skill, Standardized Tests, and Fadeout in Educational Interventions
11:00 am	Break
11:15 am	Aaron Sojourner, Kristine West and Elton Mykerezi, University of Minnesota
	When Does Teacher Incentive Pay Raise Student Achievement? Evidence from Minnesota's Q-Comp Program
12:15 pm	Lunch
1:15 pm	Ran Abramitzky, Stanford University and NBER Victor Lavy, Hebrew University and NBER
	How Responsive is Investment in Schooling to Changes in Returns? Evidence from an Unusual Pay Reform in Israel’s Kibbutzim
2:15 pm	Brian Cadena, University of Colorado - Boulder Benjamin Keys, Federal Reserve Board
	Human Capital and the Lifetime Costs of Impatience
3:15 pm	Break
3:30 pm	Guido Schwerdt and Martin R. West, Harvard University
	The Road Less Traveled: Impacts of Alternative Grade Configurations through Middle and High School
4:30 pm	Elizabeth Cascio, Dartmouth College and NBER Nora Gordon, Georgetown University and NBER Sarah Reber, UC, Los Angeles and NBER
	The War on Poverty and Educational Opportunity in the South
5:30 pm	Adjourn
5:30 pm	2 Shuttle Vans depart from the NBER for the Royal Sonesta Hotel
6:00 pm	2 Shuttle Vans depart from the NBER for the Royal Sonesta Hotel
6:30 pm	Group Dinner – Royal Sonesta Hotel, Skyline Rooms, Cambridge, MA
FRIDAY, MAY 6:
	CHILDRENS PROGRAM MEETING
7:45 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	Alan Barreca, Tulane University Melanie Guldi, Mount Holyoke College Jason Lindo and Glen Waddell, University of Oregon Running and Jumping Variables in Regression Discontinuity Designs
9:45 am	Prashant Bharadwaj, UC, San Diego Christopher Andre Neilson, Yale University Early Life Health Interventions and Academic Achievement
10:45 am	Break
11:00 am	Sonia Bhalotra, University of Bristol Atheendar Venkataramani, Washington University School of Medicine The Long Run Effects of Early Life Pneumonia: Evidence from the Arrival of Sulfa Drugs in America
12:00 n	Lunch
12:40 pm	Douglas Almond, Columbia University and NBER Hilary Hoynes, UC, Davis and NBER Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, Northwestern University and NBER Childhood Exposure to the Food Stamp Program: Long-run Health and Economic Outcomes
1:40 pm	Break
1:55 pm	David Frisvold, Emory University Nutrition and Cognitive Achievement: An Evaluation of the School Breakfast Program
2:55 pm	Nicholas Sanders, Stanford University Charles Stoecker, University of California at Davis Where Have all the Young Men Gone? Using Gender Ratios to Measure the Effect of Pollution on Fetal Death Rates
3:55 pm	Adjourn