NATIONAL
BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
Higher
Education Meeting
November
11, 2004
Charles
Clotfelter , Organizer
Education
Program Meeting
November
11-12, 2004
Caroline
Hoxby, Organizer
NBER
1050
Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge,
Massachusetts
PROGRAM
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11:
HIGHER
EDUCATION MEETING
10:30 AM JENNIFER MA, TIAA-CREF
PAULA STEPHAN, Georgia State University
The Growing
Postdoctorate Population at U.S. Research Universities
Discussant: MICHAEL ROTHSCHILD, Princeton
University and NBER
11:30 AM JOHN BOUND, University of Michigan
and NBER
SARAH TURNER, University of Virginia and NBER
PATRICK WALSH, University of Michigan
Internationalization of U.S. Doctorate
Education
Discussant: ABIGAIL PAYNE, McMaster
University
12:30
PM Lunch
1:15 PM JEFFREY GROEN, SCOTT CONDIE and
GEORGE JAKUBSON, Cornell University
RONALD EHRENBERG, Cornell University and NBER
Preliminary Estimates of the Impact of
the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's Graduate Education Initiative on Attrition
Rates and Times to Degree in Humanities and Related Social Science Doctoral
Programs
Discussant: JOHN SIEGFRIED, Vanderbilt
University
2:15 PM PETER ARCIDIACONO, Duke University
GIGI FOSTER, University of South Australia
NATALIE GOODPASTER and JOSH KINSLER, Duke
University
Estimating
Spillovers in the Classroom with Panel Data
Discussant: BRUCE SACERDOTE, Dartmouth College and NBER
3:15 PM Break
EDUCATION
PROGRAM MEETING
3:30 PM HOYT BLEAKLEY, UC, San Diego
AIMEE CHIN, University of Houston
4:30 PM M. DANIELE PASERMAN, Hebrew University
VICTOR LAVY and ERIC GOULD, Hebrew University
and NBER
Does Immigration
Affect the Long-Term Educational Outcomes of Natives?
5:30 PM Adjourn
7:00 PM Group Dinner, Royal Sonesta Hotel,
Riverfront Room
Dinner Speakers: WILLIAM BOWEN, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and MARTIN
KURZWEIL, Harvard University (formerly of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation)
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12:
EDUCATION PROGRAM MEETING cont.
8:30 AM Continental Breakfast
9:00 AM JANET CURRIE, UC, Los Angeles and
NBER
MARK STABILE, University of
Toronto and NBER
Child Mental Health and Human Capital
Accumulation: The Case of ADHD
10:00 AM PATRICK BAYER, Yale University and
NBER
ROBERT MCMILLAN, University of Toronto
Racial Inequality and
Segregation: Theory and Evidence
11:00 AM Break
11:15
AM ESTHER DUFLO and ABHIJIT BANERJEE, MIT and NBER
SHAWN COLE and LEIGH LINDEN, MIT
Remedying Education: Evidence from Two
Randomized Experiments in India
12:15 PM Lunch
1:15 PM DONALD DEERE, Texas A&M University
WAYNE STRAYER, Welch Consulting
Competitive Incentives: School
Accountability and Student Outcomes in Texas
2:15 PM JEFFREY KLING, Princeton University
and NBER
LISA SANBONMATSU, National Bureau of Economic
Research
GREG DUNCAN, Northwestern University
JEANNE BROOKS-GUNN, Columbia University
Neighborhoods and
Academic Achievement:
Results from the Moving to Opportunity
Experiment
3:15 PM CAROLINE HOXBY, Harvard University
and NBER
JONAH ROCKOFF, Columbia University
The Impact of Charter Schools on Student
Achievement
4:15 PM Adjourn
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