NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.
Economics of Education Program Meeting
Caroline Hoxby, Organizer
November 1, 2001
NBER, Offices
3rd Floor Conference Room
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA
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
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 Over, Please!
Economics of Education Program, Page 2:
Dates: November 1, 2001
5:30 PM Shuttle Van Leaves from 1050 Massachusetts Ave to Royal Sonesta Hotel.
5:45 PM Shuttle Van Leaves from 1050 Massachusetts Ave to Royal Sonesta Hotel.
6:00 PM Group Dinner
Royal Sonesta Hotel
5 Cambridge Parkway
Cambridge, MA 02142
Speaker: KENNETH FROOT, Harvard University and NBER
Government Intervention in Insurance Markets
10/31/01