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
PRELIMINARY
PROGRAM
THURSDAY, APRIL
26:
EDUCATION PROGRAM MEETING
8:15 am
Shuttle
Vans Depart from The Royal Sonesta Hotel for
8:30 am
Shuttle
Van Departs from The Royal Sonesta Hotel for
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
9:00 am
AMALIA MILLER,
LEI ZHANG, Clemson University
Did Welfare Reform
Improve the Academic Performance
of Children in Low-Income Households?
10:00
am
THOMAS KANE,
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,
Preferences,
Information, and Parental Choice Behavior in
2:15 pm
Break
2:30 pm
ASIM KHWAJA, Harvard University
TAHIR ANDRABI,
JISHNU DAS, The World
Bank
Students Today,
Teachers Tomorrow? Identifying Constraints
3:30 pm
KARTHIK MURALIDHARAN,
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
4:45 pm
Shuttle
Van Departs for The Royal Sonesta Hotel from
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
8:15 am
Shuttle
Van Departs from The Royal Sonesta Hotel for
8:15 am
Continental Breakfast
8:45 am
PHILIP BABCOCK, UC,
MINDY MARKS, UC,
The Falling Time
Cost of College: Evidence from Half a Century of Time Use
Data
Discussant: LINDA LOURY,
9:45am
ERIC STUEN, AHMED MUSHFIQ MOBARAK and KEITH MASKUS,
Foreign
PhD Students and Innovation at U.S. Universities:
Evidence from Enrollment Fluctuations
Discussant: RICHARD FREEMAN,
10:45pm
Break
11:00 am
WAYNE GROVE, Le Moyne College
STEPHEN WU,
Lost in Translation?
The Difficulty of Identifying Foreign Talent
Discussant: OFER MALAMUD,
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.,
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,
LARRY SINGELL, JR.,
MARK STATER,
Discussant: DAVID ZIMMERMAN,
3:45 pm
Adjourn
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