NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

 

Higher Education Working Group Meeting

 

November 9, 2006

 

Charles Clotfelter, Organizer

 

Education Program Meeting

 

November 9-10, 2006

 

Caroline Hoxby, Organizer

 

NBER

2nd Floor Conference Room

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

 

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9:

 

            HIGHER EDUCATION WORKING GROUP MEETING

 

 8:15 am          Shuttle vans depart from The Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass. Avenue

 

 8:30 am          Continental Breakfast

 

 9:00 am          SUSAN DYNARSKI, Harvard University and NBER

JUDITH SCOTT-CLAYTON, Harvard University

                        The Cost of Complexity in Federal Student Aid:

Lessons from Optimal Tax Theory and Behavioral Economics

 

                        Discussant:  ERIC BETTINGER, Case Western Reserve University

 

10:00 am         MARKO TERVIO, UC, Berkeley

                        Network Analysis of Three Academic Labor Markets

 

                        Discussant:  RICHARD JENSEN, University of Notre Dame

 

11:00 am         Break

 

11:15 am         BRIAN CADENA and BENJAMIN KEYS, University of Michigan

Self-Control Induced Debt Aversion:

Evidence from Interest-Free Student Loans

 

                        Discussant:  OFER MALAMUD, University of Chicago

 

12:15 pm         Lunch

 

 1:15 pm          MEGAN MACGARVIE, Boston University and NBER

Foreign Students and the Diffusion of Scientific and Technological

Knowledge to and from American Universities

           

                        Discussant:  WILLIAM KERR, Harvard University

 

 2:15 pm          Break

 

 2:30 pm          ZEYNEP HANSEN, Washington University in St. Louis and NBER

                        HIDEO OWAN, Aoyama Gakuin University

JIE PAN, Washington University in St. Louis

The Impact of Group Diversity on Performance and Knowledge Spillover:

An Experiment in a College Classroom

 

                        Discussant:  JACOB VIGDOR, Duke University and NBER

 

EDUCATION PROGRAM MEETING BEGINS

 

 3:30 pm          MARK HOEKSTRA, University of Pittsburgh

                        The Effect of Attending the Flagship State University on Earnings:

A Regression Discontinuity Approach

 

 4:30 pm          Adjourn

 

 4:45 pm          Shuttle vans depart from 1050 Mass. Ave. for The Royal Sonesta Hotel

 

 7:00 pm          Group Dinner

                        Dante at the Royal Sonesta Hotel

                       

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10:

 

            EDUCATION PROGRAM MEETING (continued)

 

 8:00 am          Shuttle van departs from The Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass. Avenue

 

 8:15 am          Shuttle vans depart from The Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass. Avenue

 

 8:30 am          Continental Breakfast

 

 9:00 am          CARLOS DOBKIN, UC, Santa Cruz

FERNANDO FERREIRA, University of Pennsylvania

Should We Care About the Age at Which Children Enter School?

The Impact of School Entry Laws on Educational Attainment and Labor

Market Outcomes

 

10:00 am         PHILIP BABCOCK, UC, Santa Barbara

From Ties to Gains?

Evidence on Connectedness, Skill Acquisition, and Diversity

 

11:00 am         Break

 

11:15 am         ANDREA ICHINO, European University Institute

College Cost and Time to Obtain a Degree: 

Evidence from Tuition Discontinuities

 

12:15 pm         Break followed by Working Lunch

 

                        MOSHE JUSTMAN, Ben Gurion University

                        Equal Opportunity in Education: Lessons from the Kibbutz

 

 1:30 pm          ADALBERT MAYER and STEVEN PULLER, Texas A&M University

The Old Boy (and Girl) Network: 

Social Network Formation on University Campuses

 

 2:30 pm          SALLY KWAK, University of Hawaii-Manoa

The Impact of Intergovernmental Incentives on Disability Rates and Special

Education Spending

 

 3:30 pm          Adjourn

 

 

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