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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2011

 

 Education Workshop

 

 Caroline Minter-Hoxby, Organizer

 

July 27, 2011

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel
Ballroom A

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

 

 

Wednesday, July 27:

 

 

JOINT MORNING SESSION WITH LABOR STUDIES GROUP

 

 

8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

9:00 am

Steven Levitt  John List, University of Chicago and NBER
Sally Sadoff, University of Chicago

 

The Effect of Performance-Based Incentives on Educational Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

 

 

10:00 am

Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Duke University
Joshua Angrist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

Parag Pathak, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

 

Achievement  Effects at Boston and New York Exam Schools

11:00 am

Break

11:15 am

David Deming, Carnegie Mellon University
Justine S. Hastings, Brown University and NBER
Thomas J. Kane, Harvard University and NBER

 

Douglas O.Staiger, Dartmouth College and NBER

 

School Choice  School Quality and Post-secondary Attainment

12:15 pm

Lunch

 

EDUCATION WORKSHOP – Charles Suite, East Tower

 

 

1:15 pm

Jing Li, University of Texas at Dallas

Michael Lovenheim, Cornell University

 

Rodney Andrews, University of Michigan

 

Quantile Treatment Effects of College Quality on Earnings: Evidence from Administrative Data in Texas

 

 

2:15 pm

Victor Lavy, Hebrew University and NBER

 

What Makes an Effective Teacher? Quasi-Experimental Evidence

 

 

3:15 pm

Raj Chetty and John Friedman, Harvard University and NBER
Jonah Rockoff, Columbia University and NBER

 

The Impact of Teacher Value Added on Student Outcomes in Adulthood

4:15 pm

Adjourn

 

 

6:00 pm

Clambake: Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA