NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2003

 

Education Workshop

 

Caroline Hoxby, Organizer

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

July 31, 2003

 

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

 

WEDNESDAY, JULY 30:

 

 6:00 PM          Clambake, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

 

THURSDAY, JULY 31ST

 

JOINT SESSION WITH LABOR STUDIES

 

 8:30 AM          Coffee and Pastries

 

 9:00 AM          GREG DUNCAN, Northwestern University

                        JOHANNE BOISJOLY, University of Quebec

                        DAN LEVY, Mathematica

                        MICHAEL KREMER, Harvard University and NBER

                        JACQUE ECCLES, University of Michigan

                        Empathy or Antipathy?  The Consequences of Racially and Socially Diverse Peers on Attitudes and Behaviors

 

10:00 AM         ERIC GOULD, VICTOR LAVY, DANIELE PASERMAN, Hebrew University

                        Immigrating to Opportunity: The Effect of School Quality Using 

                        A Natural Experiment on Ethiopians in Israel

 

11:00   AM       Break

 

11:30 AM         BRIDGET LONG, Harvard University and NBER

            ERIC BETTINGER, Case Western Reserve University and NBER

            The Effects of Adjunct Professors on Student Outcomes

 

12:30   PM       Lunch

 

 1:30 PM          THOMAS KANE, UC, Los Angeles and NBER

                        STEPHANIE RIEGG, UC, Los Angeles

                        DOUGLAS STAIGER, Dartmouth College and NBER

            Changing School Assignments and Housing Values

 2:30 PM          JANET CURRIE, UC, Los Angeles and NBER

                        MATTHEW NEIDELL, University of Chicago

                        Getting Inside the Black Box of Head Start Quality:  What Matters and What Doesn't

 

 3:30 PM          Break

 

 4:00 PM          JOSHUA ANGRIST, MIT and NBER

                        JONATHAN GURYAN, University of Chicago and NBER

Does Teacher Testing Raise Teacher Quality? 

                        Evidence from State Certification Requirements

 

 5:00 PM          Adjourn