NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.





CHILDREN'S PROGRAM MEETING



Jonathan Gruber, Organizer



April 1, 2005



NBER

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts



PRELIMINARY PROGRAM



THURSDAY, MARCH 31:

6:30 PM Dinner

Davio's Restaurant

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, MA 02142



FRIDAY, APRIL 1:



8:30 AM Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass. Avenue.



8:45 AM Shuttle Van Departs Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass. Avenue.



9:00 AM Continental Breakfast



9:30 AM BRIAN JACOB, Harvard University and NBER

LARS LEFGREN, Brigham Young University

An Investigation of Objective and Subjective Performance Measure:

New Evidence from the Education Sector

10:30 AM SUSAN DYNARSKI, Harvard University and NBER

Can States Increase their Stock of College Graduates?



11:30 AM Break



12:00 PM BYRON LUTZ, MIT

Post Brown vs. The Board of Education:

The Effects of the End of Court Ordered Desegregation

1:00 PM Lunch



2:00 PM JENS LUDWIG, Georgetown University

DOUG MILLER, UC, Davis

Does Head Start Improve Long-Term Outcomes?

Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Designs



3:00 PM Break



3:30 PM ERIC EDMONDS, Dartmouth College and NBER

SALIL SHARMA, Dartmouth College

Investments in Children Vulnerable to Bondage



4:30 PM Adjourn



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