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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SI 2013 Economics of Education

Caroline M. Hoxby, Organizer

July 24, 2013

Royal Sonesta Hotel
Charles A&B
40 Edwin H. Land Blvd.
Cambridge, MA

PROGRAM

 

Wednesday, July 24

Joint morning session with Labor Studies group


8:30 am


Coffee and Pastries


9:00 am


Kehinde Ajayi, Boston University
School Choice and Educational Mobility: Lessons from Secondary School Applications in Ghana


10:00 am


David Card, University of California at Berkeley and NBER
Laura Giuliano, University of Miami
Does Gifted Education Work? For Whom?


11:00 am


Break


11:15 am


Gregorio S. Caetano, University of Rochester
Hugh Macartney, Duke University and NBER
Quasi-Experimental Evidence of School Choice through Residential Sorting


12:15 pm


Lunch


1:15 pm


David J. Deming, Harvard University and NBER
High-Stakes Testing, Postsecondary Attainment and Earnings


2:15 pm


C. Kirabo Jackson, Northwestern University and NBER
Non-Cognitive Ability, Test Scores, and Teacher Quality: Evidence from 9th Grade Teachers in North Carolina


3:15 pm


Joshua Angrist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Sarah R. Cohodes, Harvard University
Susan Dynarski, University of Michigan and NBER
Parag Pathak, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Christopher R. Walters, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Stand and Deliver: Post-Secondary Outcomes at Boston's Charter High Schools


4:15 pm


Adjourn

6:00 pm

Clambake at the Royal Sonesta Hotel