NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2006

Education Workshop

Caroline Hoxby, Organizer

July 25, 2007

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Grand Ballroom A

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

Cambridge, Massachusetts

PROGRAM

WEDNESDAY, JULY 25:
JOINT SESSION WITH LABOR STUDIES
8:15 am	Coffee and Pastries
8:45 am	PARAG PATHAK, Harvard University
	Lotteries in Student Assignment and Strategy-proofness versus Efficiency in Matching with Indifferences
9:45 am	SEEMA JAYACHANDRAN, Stanford University and NBER
	ADRIANA LLERAS-MUNEY, Princeton University and NBER
	Life Expectancy and Human Capital Investments: Evidence from Maternal Mortality Declines
11:00 am	Break
11:15 am	DOUGLAS N. HARRIS, University of Wisconsin-Madison
	TIM SASS, Florida State University
	What Makes for a Good Teacher and Who Can Tell?
12:15 pm	Lunch
1:15 pm	CAROLINE HOXBY, Harvard University and NBER
	SONALI MURARKA,
	The Effects of New York City’s Charter Schools on Student Achieveement
2:15 pm	Break
2:30 pm	LEIGH LINDEN, Columbia University
	MARIANNE BERTRAND, University of Chicago and NBER
	FELIPE BARRERA, The World Bank
	FRANCISCO PEREZ, Fedesarrollo
	Designing Incentives for Education in Secondary School:  The Bogota Subsidios Program
3:30 pm	BRIAN JACOB, University of Michigan and NBER
	Do Principals Fire the Worse Teachers? An Examination of the Non-Renewal Policy in the Chicago Public Schools
4:30 pm	Adjourn
6:00 pm	Clambake, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
6/30/07