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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

 

Education Program Meeting

 

November 10 and 11, 2011

 

Caroline Hoxby, Organizer

 

SIEPR

366 Galvez Street

Stanford University

Stanford, CA

 

PROGRAM

 

Thursday, November 10

 

 

9:30 am

Shuttle departs from the Sheraton Palo Alto for SIEPR

 

 

10:00 am

Karthik Muralidharan, University of California at San Diego and NBER

 

Long-Term Effects of Teacher Performance Pay: Experimental Evidence from India

 

 

11:10 am

Debopam Bhattacharya, Shin Kanaya and Margaret Stevens,

University of Oxford 

 

A Test of Fair Treatment with Application to University Admissions

 

 

12:00 n

Lunch

 

 

1:00 pm

Robert W. Fairlie, University of California at Santa Cruz

Florian Hoffman, University of Britsh Columbia

Philip Oreopoulos, University of Toronto and NBER

 

A Community College Instructor Like Me: Race and Ethnicity Interactions in the Classroom

 

 

2:00 pm

Sa Bui and Steven G. Craig, University of Houston

Scott A. Imberman, University of Houston and NBER

 

Is Gifted Education a Bright Idea? Assessing the Impacts of Gifted and Talented Programs on Students

 

 

3:00 pm

Break

 

 

3:15 pm

Rajashri Chakrabarti, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

 

Incentives and Responses under No Child Left Behind: Credible threats and the Role of Competition

 

 

4:15 pm

Katja Kaufmann and Eliana La Ferrara, Bocconi University

Fernanda Brollo, University of Alicante

 

Learning about the Enforcement of Conditional Welfare Programs and Behavioral Responses: Evidence from Bolsa Familia in Brazil

 

 

5:15 pm

Adjourn

 

 

5:30 pm

Shuttle departs from SIEPR for MacArthur Park Restaurant

 

 

6:30 pm

Group Dinner

MacArthur Park Restaurant, 27 University Avenue, Palo Alto, CA

 

 

Friday, November 11

 

 

7:30 am

Shuttle departs from the Sheraton Palo Alto for SIEPR

 

 

8:00 am

Continental Breakfast

 

 

8:30 am

Joshua Goodman, Harvard University

 

The Wages of Sinistrality: Handedness, Brain Structure and Human Capital Accumulation

 

 

9:45 am

Todd R. Stinebrickner, University of Western Ontario and NBER

 Ralph Stinebrickner, Berea College

 

Academic Performance and College Dropout: Using Longitudinal Expectations Data to Estimate a Learning Model 

 

 

10:45 am

Stephanie Riegg Cellini, George Washington University

Claudia Goldin, Harvard University and NBER

 

A Comprehensive View of For-Profit Postsecondary Education and the Role of Title IV in Tuition-Setting

 

 

11:45 am

Lunch

 

 

12:00 n

C. Kirabo Jackson Northwestern University and NBER

 

Single-Sex Schools, Student Achievement, and Course Selection: Evidence from Rule-Based Student Assignments in Trinidad and Tobago

 

 

1:00 pm

Adjourn