TO:	Participants, Higher Education Meeting and Education Program Meeting

FROM:	Rob Shannon; Assistant Director, Conferences

DATE:	October 28, 2004

RE:	Papers for the Meeting

Enclosed please find the preliminary program, preliminary participant list and seven of the twelve papers scheduled for presentation at the NBER's November 11, 2004 Higher Education Meeting and November 12, 2004 Education Program Meeting. The meetings will be held at the NBER's offices at 1050 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA. The group dinner will be held at the Royal Sonesta Hotel, 5 Cambridge Parkway, Cambridge, MA at 7:00 pm on November 11.

The enclosed papers are as follows:

JENNIFER MA, TIAA-CREF

PAULA STEPHAN, Georgia State University

The Growing Postdoctorate Population at U.S. Research Universities

JEFFREY GROEN, SCOTT CONDIE and GEORGE JAKUBSON, Cornell University

RONALD EHRENBERG, Cornell University and NBER

Preliminary Estimates of the Impact of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's Graduate Education Initiative on Attrition Rates and Times to Degree in Humanities and Related Social Science Doctoral Programs

PETER ARCIDIACONO, Duke University

GIGI FOSTER, University of South Australia

NATALIE GOODPASTER and JOSH KINSLER, Duke University

Estimating Spillovers in the Classroom with Panel Data

HOYT BLEAKLEY, UC, San Diego

AIMEE CHIN, University of Houston

What Holds Back the Second Generation? The Intergeneration Transmission of Language Human Capital among Immigrants

M. DANIELE PASERMAN, Hebrew University

VICTOR LAVY and ERIC GOULD, Hebrew University and NBER

Does Immigration Affect the Long-Term Educational Outcomes of Natives?

Quasi-Experimental Evidence

PATRICK BAYER, Yale University and NBER

ROBERT MCMILLAN, University of Toronto

Racial Inequality and Segregation: Theory and Evidence

JEFFREY KLING, Princeton University and NBER

LISA SANBONMATSU, National Bureau of Economic Research

GREG DUNCAN, Northwestern University

JEANNE BROOKS-GUNN, Columbia University

Neighborhoods and Academic Achievement:

Results from the Moving to Opportunity Experiment

The remaining papers,

JOHN BOUND, University of Michigan and NBER

SARAH TURNER, University of Virginia and NBER

PATRICK WALSH, University of Michigan

Internationalization of U.S. Doctorate Education

DONALD DEERE, Texas A&M University

WAYNE STRAYER, Welch Consulting

Competitive Incentives: School Accountability and Student Outcomes in Texas

JANET CURRIE, UC, Los Angeles and NBER

MARK STABILE, University of Toronto and NBER

Child Mental Health and Human Capital Accumulation: The Case of ADHD

ESTHER DUFLO and ABHIJIT BANERJEE, MIT and NBER

SHAWN COLE and LEIGH LINDEN, MIT

Remedying Education: Evidence from Two Randomized Experiments in India

CAROLINE HOXBY, Harvard University and NBER

JONAH ROCKOFF, Columbia University

The Impact of Charter Schools on Student Achievement

will either be sent to you under separate cover or made available at the meeting. Please note

that all papers will also be made available on the NBER's home page at www.nber.org/~confer.

Hotel reservations have been made, as requested, at the Royal Sonesta Hotel 617/806-4200.

If you have not yet sent in your reply form, or if your plans should change, please contact me

immediately so that the appropriate arrangements can be made.

If you are staying at the Royal Sonesta Hotel, a shuttle van will be available in front of the hotel

at 10:00 am on Thursday, November 11 to take you to the NBER. A van will be available at 5:30 and 5:45 that evening to take you back from the NBER to the Royal Sonesta Hotel for dinner. On Friday, November 12, a shuttle van will be available at 8:15 am and 8:30 am in front of the hotel to take you to the NBER.

If you have any questions please feel free to contact me at 617-868-3900, FAX 617-864-1825

or E-MAIL confer@nber.org.