NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH



Higher Education Meeting



Charles Clotfelter, Organizer



May 2, 2003



NBER

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

PROGRAM

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

Jockeying for Position:

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

Affirmative Action for Guys?

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



3/17/03