NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
Higher Education Meeting
Charles Clotfelter, Organizer
May 2, 2003
NBER
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts
THURSDAY, MAY 1:
6:00 PM Group Dinner
Davio's Restaurant at the Royal Sonesta Hotel
5 Cambridge Parkway
Cambridge, MA
FRIDAY, MAY 2:
8:15 AM Continental Breakfast
8:45 AM JULIE CULLEN, University of Michigan and NBER
MARK LONG, and RANDALL REBACK, University of Michigan
High School Student Mobility and Texas' Top-Ten Percent Rule
Discussant: CAROLINE HOXBY, Harvard University and NBER
9:45 AM RICHARD A. JENSEN, University of Notre Dame
MARIE THURSBY, Georgia Institute of Technology and NBER
The Academic Effects of Patentable Research
Discussant: JERRY GREEN, Harvard University
10:45 AM Break
11:00 AM SANDY BAUM, Skidmore College
EBAN GOODSTEIN, Lewis and Clark College
The Consequences of Gender Imbalance in College Applications
Discussant: LINDA LOURY, Tufts University
12:00 N Lunch
12:15 PM ANN BERMAN, Vice President for Finance and Chief Financial Officer, Harvard University
Informal Remarks and Q & A
1:00 PM Break
1:15 PM MALCOLM GETZ and JOHN J. SIEGFRIED, Vanderbilt University
Where Do the Children of Professors Attend College?
Discussant: CHRISTOPHER AVERY, Harvard University
2:15 PM LARRY D. SINGELL and JOE A. STONE, University of Oregon
For Whom the Pell Tolls: Market Power, Price Discrimination, and the Bennett Hypothesis
Discussant: BRIDGET LONG, Harvard University
3:15 PM Adjourn
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