NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
Higher Education Meeting
Charles Clotfelter, Organizer
November 9, 2001
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8
6:00 PM Group Dinner
Davio's at the Royal Sonesta Hotel
5 Cambridge Parkway
Cambridge, MA
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9:
8:00 AM Continental Breakfast
8:30 AM MICHAEL MCPHERSON, Macalester University
MORTON OWEN SCHAPIRO, Williams College
Tracking the Impact of Academic ''Merit'' on Need-Based and Non Need- Based Financial Aid Grants
Discussant: BRIDGET LONG, Harvard University
9:30 am MARK LONG, University of Michigan
Race and College Admissions: An Alternative to Affirmative Action?
Discussant: RONALD EHRENBERG, Cornell University and NBER
10:30 AM Break
10:45 AM SUSAN DYNARSKI, Harvard University and NBER
Loans, Liquidity and Schooling Decisions
Discussant: DAVID ZIMMERMAN, Williams College
11:45 AM LARRY SINGELL, University of Oregon
Come and Stay a While: Does Financial Aid Effect Enrollment and
Retention at a Large Public University?
Discussant: MICHELE MCLENNAN, Ursinus College
12:45 PM Lunch
1:15 PM JOHN KAIN and DANIEL O''BRIEN, University of Texas
Discussant: SARAH TURNER, University of Virginia
2:15 PM TODD STINEBRICKNER, University of Western Ontario
RALPH STINEBRICKNER, Berea College
Peer Effects Among Students from Disadvantaged Backgrounds
Discussant: BRUCE SACERDOTE, Dartmouth College and NBER
3:15 PM Adjourn
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