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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

 

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2009

 

 

 

 Education Workshop

 

 

 

 Caroline Hoxby, Organizer

 

 

 

July 22, 2009

 

 

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

 

Ballroom A, West Tower

 

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

 

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

 

 

PROGRAM

 

 

WEDNESDAY, JULY 22:

 

 

 

JOINT SESSION WITH THE LABOR STUDIES GROUP

 

 

 8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries, Ballroom B, West Tower

 

 

 9:00 am

ERIC BETTINGER, Stanford University and NBER

 

BRIDGET LONG, Harvard University and NBER

 

PHILIP OREOPOULOS, University of British Columbia and NBER

 

LISA SANBONMATSU,

 

The Role of Information and Simplification in College Decisions: Results from the H&R Block FAFSA Experiment

 

 

10:00 am

SIMON BURGESS and ELLEN GREAVES, Bristol University

 

Test Scores, Subjective Assessment and Stereotyping of Ethnic Minorities

 

 

11:00 am

Break

 

 

11:15 am

KIRABO CLEMENT JACKSON, Cornell University and NBER

 

ELIAS BRUEGGEMAN, Cornerstone Research

 

Teaching Students and Teaching Each Other: the Importance of Peer Learning for Teachers

 

 

12:15 pm

Lunch, Ballroom B, West Tower

 

 

 1:15 pm

GIACOMO DE GIORGI, Stanford University

 

MICHELE PELLIZZARI, IGIER

 

WILLIAM GUI WOOLSTON, Stanford University

 

Class Size and Class Heterogeneity

 

 

2:15 pm

JONAH ROCKOFF, Columbia University and NBER

 

MARIESA HERRMANN, Columbia University

 

Work Disruption, Worker Health and Productivity: Evidence from Teaching

 

 

 3:15 pm

Break

 

 

 3:30 pm

KARTHIK MURALIDHARAN, UC, San Diego and NBER

 

VENKATESH SUNDARARAMAN, The World Bank

 

Contract Teachers:  Experimental Evidence from India

 

 

 4:30 pm

Adjourn

 

 

 6:00 pm

Dinner in honor of Richard Freeman

 

Hotel Marlowe, 25 Edwin Land Boulevard, Cambridge, MA