NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2010

 

 Education Workshop

 

 Caroline Hoxby, Organizer

 

July 28, 2010

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel
Ballroom A

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

 

 

  PROGRAM

 

WEDNESDAY, JULY 28:

 

 

 

JOINT MORNING SESSION WITH LABOR STUDIES GROUP

 

 

8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

9:00 am

Elizabeth Cascio, Dartmouth College and NBER

 

Ethan Lewis, Dartmouth College

 

Cracks in the Melting Pot: Immigration, School Choice, and Segregation

 

 

10:00 am

Rashmi Barua, Singapore Management University

 

Kevin Lang, Boston University and NBER

 

School Entry, Educational Attainment and Quarter of Birth: A Cautionary Tale of LATE

 

 

11:00 am

Break

 

 

11:15 am

Giacomo De Giorgi, Stanford University and NBER

 

Michele Pellizzari, Bocconi University

 

Understanding Social Interactions: Evidence from the Classroom

 

 

12:15 pm

Lunch

 

 

1:15 pm

Jeffrey Brown, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and NBER

 

Stephen Dimmock, Michigan State University

 

Jun-Koo Kang, Nanyang Technological University

 

Scott Weisbenner, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 

Why I Lost My Secretary: The Effect of Endowment Shocks on University Operations

 

 

2:15 pm

Thomas Kane, Harvard University and NBER

 

Jonah Rockoff, Columbia University and NBER

 

Douglas Staiger, Dartmouth College and NBER

 

Eric Taylor, Harvard University

 

Information and Employee Evaluation: Evidence from a Randomized Intervention in Public Schools

 

 

3:15 pm

Christopher Avery, Harvard University and NBER

 

Caroline Hoxby, Harvard University and NBER

 

The Missing “One-Offs”: The Hidden Supply of High-Achieving, Low-Income Students

 

 

4:15 pm

Adjourn

 

 

 

5/28/10