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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SI 2012 Education

 

Caroline Minter Hoxby, Organizer

 

July 25, 2012

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel
Charles A/B
40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard
Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

 

Wednesday, July 25:


Joint morning session with Labor Studies group


9:00 am


Bruce Sacerdote, Dartmouth College and NBER
Scott E. Carrell, University of California at Davis and NBER
Late Interventions Matter Too: The Case of College Coaching in New Hampshire


10:00 am


Scott A. Imberman, University of Houston and NBER
Michael Lovenheim, Cornell University and NBER
Incentive Strength and Teacher Productivity: Evidence from a Group-Based Teacher Incentive Pay System


11:00 am


Break


11:15 am


Iftikhar Hussain, CEP-LSE; University of Sussex
Subjective Performance Evaluation in the Public Sector: Evidence From School Inspections


12:15 pm


Lunch


1:15 pm


Eleanor Dillon, University of Michigan
Jeffrey Smith, University of Michigan and NBER
The Determinants of Mismatch Between Students and Colleges


2:15 pm


Lex Borghans, Maastricht University
Trudie Schils, Maastricht University
The Leaning Tower of Pisa; Decomposing Achievement Test Scores into Cognitive and Noncognitive Components


3:15 pm


C. Kirabo Jackson, Northwestern University and NBER
Match Quality, Worker Productivity, and Worker Mobility: Direct Evidence from Teachers


4:15 pm


Adjourn

 

 

6:00 pm

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