NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Economics of Education Program Meeting

Caroline Hoxby, Organizer

November 1, 2001

NBER, Offices

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1:

8:00 AM Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass. Avenue

8:30 AM Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass. Avenue

8:30 AM Continental Breakfast

9:00 AM MICHAEL KREMER, Harvard University and NBER

Worms: Education and Health Externalities in Kenya

(Joint with EDWARD MIGUEL)

10:00 AM RAQUEL FERNANDEZ, New York University and NBER

Education, Segregation, and Marital Sorting:

Theory and an Application to the UK Data

11:00 AM ESTHER DUFLO, MIT and NBER

The Medium Run Effects of Educational Expansion:

Evidence from a Large School Construction Program in Indonesia

12:00 PM Lunch

1:00 PM THOMAS NECHYBA, Duke University and NBER

School Finance, Spatial Segregation and the Nature of Communities

2:15 PM Coffee Break

JOINT SESSION WITH NBER, PUBLIC ECONOMICS MEETING

2:45 PM CAROLINE HOXBY, Harvard University and NBER

Political Jurisdictions in Heterogeneous Communities

(Joint with ALBERTO ALESINA and REZA BAQIR)

4:00 PM DARIUS LAKDAWALLA, RAND and NBER

The Declining Quality of Teachers

5:15 PM Adjourn

6:00 PM Group Dinner

Royal Sonesta Hotel

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, MA 02142

Speaker: MICHAEL BOSKIN, Stanford University and NBER

Do We Really Have a National Debt? Deferred Taxes in the Theory and

Practice of Public Finance

11/19/01