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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SI 2015 Economics of Education

Caroline M. Hoxby, Organizer

July 22, 2015

Charles Suites
Royal Sonesta Hotel
40 Edwin H. Land Blvd.
Cambridge, MA

PROGRAM

Wednesday, July 22
8:00 am	Coffee and pastries
	Morning session joint with Labor Studies, Ballroom, West Tower
8:30 am	Caroline Hoxby, Stanford University and NBER George Bulman, University of California at Santa Cruz Computing the Value-Added of American Postsecondary Institutions
9:20 am	John Papay, Brown University Eric S. Taylor, Stanford University John H. Tyler, Brown University and NBER Mary Laski, Brown University Learning Job Skills from Colleagues at Work: Evidence from a Field Experiment Using Teacher Performance Data
10:10 am	Break
10:25 am	Ofer Malamud, University of Chicago and NBER Cristian Pop-Eleches, Columbia University and NBER Miguel Urquiola, Columbia University and NBER Dynamic Complementarities in Human Capital Formation? Family and School Environments
11:15 am	Karthik Muralidharan, University of California at San Diego and NBER Menno Pradhan, University of Amsterdam Joppe de Ree, World Bank Halsey Rogers, World Bank Double for Nothing? Experimental Evidence on the Impact of an Unconditional Teacher Salary Increase on Student Performance in Indonesia
12:05	Lunch
1:10 pm	Scott E. Carrell, University of California at Davis and NBER Mark Hoekstra, Texas A&M University and NBER James E. West, Baylor University and NBER The Impact of Intergroup Contact on Racial Attitudes and Revealed Preferences
2:00 pm	Atila Abdulkadiroğlu, Duke University Joshua Angrist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Yusuke Narita, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Parag A. Pathak, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Research Design meets Market Design: Using Centralized Assignment for Impact Evaluation
2:50 pm	Break
3:05 pm	Victor Lavy, University of Warwick and NBER Edith Sand, Bank of Israel On The Origins of Gender Human Capital Gaps: Short and Long Term Consequences of Teachers’ Stereotypical Biases
3:55 pm	Adjourn