NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

Education Program Meeting

April 26, 2007

Caroline Hoxby, Organizer

Higher Education Working Group Meeting

April 27, 2007

Charles Clotfelter, Organizer

NBER

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

THURSDAY, APRIL 26:

EDUCATION PROGRAM MEETING

8:15 am Shuttle Vans Depart from The Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass. Avenue

8:30 am Shuttle Van Departs from The Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass. Avenue

8:30 am Continental Breakfast

9:00 am AMALIA MILLER, University of Virginia

LEI ZHANG, Clemson University

Did Welfare Reform Improve the Academic Performance

of Children in Low-Income Households?

10:00 am THOMAS KANE, Harvard University and NBER

DOUGLAS STAIGER, Dartmouth College and NBER

STEVEN CANTRELL, Learning Point Associates

JON FULLERTON, Harvard University

National Board Certification and Teacher Effectiveness:

Evidence from a Random Assignment Experiment

11:00 am Break

11:15 am DAMON CLARK, University of Florida

Elite Schools and Academic Performance

12:15 am Lunch

1:15 pm JUSTINE HASTINGS, Yale University and NBER

RICHARD VAN WEELDEN, Yale University

JEFFREY WEINSTEIN, Yale University

Preferences, Information, and Parental Choice Behavior in

Public School Choice

2:15 pm Break

2:30 pm ASIM KHWAJA, Harvard University

TAHIR ANDRABI, Pomona College

JISHNU DAS, The World Bank

Students Today, Teachers Tomorrow? Identifying Constraints

on the Provision of Education

3:30 pm KARTHIK MURALIDHARAN, Harvard University

VENKATESH SUNDARARAMAN, The World Bank

Teacher Incentives in Developing Countries:

Experimental Evidence from India

4:30 pm Adjourn

4:30 pm Shuttle Vans Depart for The Royal Sonesta Hotel from 1050 Mass. Avenue

4:45 pm Shuttle Van Departs for The Royal Sonesta Hotel from 1050 Mass. Avenue

6:00 pm Group Dinner

Dante at the Royal Sonesta Hotel

FRIDAY, APRIL 27:

HIGHER EDUCATION WORKING GROUP MEETING

8:00 am Shuttle Vans Depart from The Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass. Avenue

8:15 am Shuttle Van Departs from The Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass. Avenue

8:15 am Continental Breakfast

8:45 am PHILIP BABCOCK, UC, Santa Barbara

MINDY MARKS, UC, Riverside

The Falling Time Cost of College: Evidence from Half a Century of Time Use Data

Discussant: LINDA LOURY, Tufts University

9:45am ERIC STUEN, AHMED MUSHFIQ MOBARAK and KEITH MASKUS,

University of Colorado at Boulder

Foreign PhD Students and Innovation at U.S. Universities:

Evidence from Enrollment Fluctuations

Discussant: RICHARD FREEMAN, Harvard University and NBER

10:45pm Break

11:00 am WAYNE GROVE, Le Moyne College

STEPHEN WU, Hamilton College

Lost in Translation? The Difficulty of Identifying Foreign Talent

Discussant: OFER MALAMUD, University of Chicago

12:00n MARK LONG, University of Washington

Nearby Affirmative Action and its Effect on College Quality

Discussant: DAVID MUSTARD, University of Georgia

1:00 pm Lunch

1:30 pm ISAAC MCFARLIN, JR., University of Texas at Dallas

Do Public Subsidies Promote College Access and Completion?

Evidence from Community College Districts

Discussant: BRIDGET LONG, Harvard University and NBER

2:30 pm Break

2:45 pm JOHN MCDOWELL, Arizona State University

LARRY SINGELL, JR., University of Oregon

MARK STATER, University of Georgia

Congratulations or Condolences? The Role of Human Capital in the Cultivation of a University Administrator

Discussant: DAVID ZIMMERMAN, Williams College and NBER

3:45 pm Adjourn

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