NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

Education Program Meeting

Caroline Hoxby, Organizer

April 22, 2005

NBER

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

PROGRAM

THURSDAY, APRIL 21:

6:00 PM	Group Dinner

Davios Restaurant

Royal Sonesta Hotel

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, MA

FRIDAY, APRIL 22:

8:30 am	Continental Breakfast

9:00 am	SARAH J. REBER, UC, Los Angeles

Desegregation and Educational Attainment for Blacks:

Evidence from Louisiana

9:50 am	DAN BLACK, Syracuse University

JEFFREY SMITH, University of Maryland and NBER

Estimating the Returns to College Quality with Multiple Proxies for Quality

10:40 am	Break

10:55 am	NAZMUL CHAUDHURY and JEFFREY HAMMER, The World Bank

MICHAEL KREMER, Harvard University and NBER

KARTHIK MURALIDHARAN, Harvard University

F. HALSEY ROGERS, The World Bank

Missing in Action: Teacher and Health Worker Absence in Developing Countries

11:45 am	JORDAN MATSUDAIRA, University of Michigan

Sinking or Swimming? Evaluating the Impact of English Immersion versus

Bilingual Education on Student Achievement

12:35 pm	Lunch

1:35 pm	OFER MALAMUD, University of Chicago

CHRISTIAN POP-ELECHES, Columbia University

The Effect of Vocational Training on Labor Market Outcomes:

Evidence from an Educational Reform in Romania

2:25 pm	BRIAN JACOB, Harvard University

LARS LEFGREN, Brigham Young University

What Do Parents Value in Education?

An Empirical Investigation of Parents' Revealed Preferences for Teachers

3:15 pm	Adjourn

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