NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.
ECONOMICS OF EDUCATION PROGRAM MEETING
Caroline M. Hoxby, Organizer
April 1, 2004
NBER
2nd Floor Conference Room
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA
PROGRAM
THURSDAY, APRIL 1:
9:15 AM Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass. Avenue.
9:30 AM Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass. Avenue.
9:30 AM Continental Breakfast
10:00 AM JORN-STEFFEN PISCHKE, London School of Economics and NBER
ALAN MANNING, London School of Economics
Ability Tracking and Student Performance in Secondary Schools
in England in Wales
10:50 AM Break
11:05 AM HEATHER ROSE, Public Policy Institute of California
JON SONSTELIE, UC, Santa Barbara
School Board Politics, School District Size, and the Bargaining Power
of Teachers' Unions
11:55 AM Lunch
12:55 PM RANDALL FILER, CUNY
Responses of Private and Public Schools to Voucher Funding
1:45 PM DAVID ZIMMERMAN, Williams College and NBER
Institutional Ethos, Peers, and Individual Outcomes
2:35 PM Break
2:50 PM STEVEN RIVKIN, AMHERST COLLEGE and NBER
CHRISTOPHER JEPSEN, PPIC
What is the Tradeoff between Smaller Classes and Teacher Quality
Economics of Education Program, Page 2:
3:40 PM SEAN CORCORAN, California State University Sacramento
WILLIAM EVANS, University of Maryland and NBER
Income Inequality, the Median Voter and the Support for Public Education
4:30 PM Adjourn
6:30 PM Dinner
Davio's Restaurant
5 Cambridge Parkway
Cambridge, MA
3/19/04