NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

Higher Education Meeting

Charles Clotfelter, Organizer

May 3, 2002

NBER

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

THURSDAY, MAY 2:

6:00 PM Group Dinner

Legal Sea Food

5 Cambridge Center

Cambridge, MA

FRIDAY, MAY 3:

8:00 AM Continental Breakfast

8:30 AM JERRY THURSBY, Emory University

MARIE THURSBY, Georgia Tech and NBER

Are Faculty Critical? Their Role in University-Industry Licensing

Discussant: BRIDGET LONG, Harvard University

9:30 AM PAULA E. STEPHAN, SHIFERAW GURMU, A.J. SUMMELL, and GRANT BLACK, Georgia State University

Patenting and Publishing: Substitutes or Complements for University Faculty?

Discussant: JERRY GREEN, Harvard University and NBER

10:30 AM Break

10:45 AM DAVID M. LINSENMEIER, Princeton University

HARVEY S. ROSEN and CECILIA ELENA ROUSE, Princeton University and NBER

Financial Aid Packages and College Enrollment Decisions:

An Econometric Case Study

Discussant: SUSAN DYNARSKI, Harvard University and NBER

11:45 AM THOMAS KANE, UC, Los Angeles and NBER

Financial Aid and Enrollment: Evidence from Cal Grants

Discussant: ABIGAIL PAYNE, University of Illinois

12:45 PM Lunch

1:15 PM JESSE ROTHSTEIN, UC, Berkeley

College Performance Predictions and the SAT

Discussant: CHRIS AVERY, Harvard University and NBER

2:15 PM RANDALL REBACK, University of Michigan

The Impact of College Course Offerings on the Supply of Academically Talented Public School Teachers

Discussant: CAROLINE HOXBY, Harvard University and NBER

3:15 PM Adjourn

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