NATIONAL
BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
Higher Education Working Group Meeting
November
17, 2005
Charles
Clotfelter, Organizer
Education Program Meeting
November
18, 2005
Caroline
Hoxby, Organizer
NBER
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17:
HIGHER
EDUCATION WORKING GROUP MEETING
10:00 am Shuttle Vans
Depart The Royal Sonesta Hotel for
10:30 am JESSE ROTHSTEIN,
ALBERT YOON,
Northwestern University
Discussant: THOMAS KANE,
11:30 am CHRISTOPHER CORNWELL and DAVID MUSTARD,
Merit
Aid and Sorting: The Effects of HOPE-Style Scholarships on College Ability
Stratification
Discussant: SUSAN
DYNARSKI,
12:30 pm Lunch
1:15 pm DEVIN POPE, UC, Berkeley
JAREN POPE,
Discussant: SARAH
TURNER,
2:15 pm JOHN SIEGFRIED,
WENDY STOCK,
T. ALDRICH FINEGAN,
Time-to-Degree
for the Economics PhD Class of 2001-02
and
Attrition in
Economics Ph.D. Programs
Discussant: RONALD
EHRENBERG,
3:15 pm Break
3:30 pm SCOTT CARRELL,
FREDERICK MALMSTROM and
JAMES WEST, US
Peer
Effects in Academic Cheating
Discussant: DAVID
ZIMMERMAN,
4:30 pm OFER
MALAMUD,
Breadth
vs. Depth: The Effect of Academic Specialization on Labor Market Outcomes
Discussant: BRUCE SACERDOTE,
5:30 pm Adjourn,
Shuttle Vans Depart the NBER for the Royal Sonesta Hotel
5:45 pm Shuttle
Vans Depart the NBER for the Royal Sonesta Hotel
7:00 pm Group Dinner
Davios
at the Royal Sonesta Hotel
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18:
EDUCATION
PROGRAM MEETING
8:00 am Shuttle
Vans Depart The Royal Sonesta Hotel for
8:15 am Shuttle Van Departs The Royal Sonesta
Hotel for
8:30 am Continental
Breakfast
9:00 am DAVID FIGLIO,
Why Barbie Says 'Math is Hard
9:50 am MARGARET LEDYARD,
Why are Private Schools Small? School Location, Returns to Scale, and Size
10:40 am Break
10:55 am STEPHANIE
RIEGG CELLINI, UC,
11:45 am JOSHUA ANGRIST, MIT and NBER
AIMEE
CHIN,
Is
Spanish-Only Schooling Responsible for the Puerto-Rican Language Gap?
(Joint with RICARDO GODOY)
12:35 pm Lunch
1:35 pm LEX BORGHANS and
Imagination,
Time Discounting, and Human Capital Investment
Decisions
2:25 pm NORA GORDON, UC
ELIZABETH CASCIO, UC,
Davis and NBER
SARAH REBER, UC,
ETHAN
LEWIS, Federal Reserve Bank of
Financial
Incentives and the Desegregation of Southern Public Schools
3:15 pm Adjourn
11/7/05
PRELIMINARY PARTICIPANT LIST
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Leila Agha |
MIT |
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Hideo Akabayashi |
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Patricia Anderson |
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Joshua Angrist |
MIT and
NBER |
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David Autor |
MIT and
NBER |
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Sandy Baum |
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Eric Bettinger |
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Sandra Black |
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Lex Borghans |
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Anthony Broh |
COFHE |
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Scott Carrell |
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Elizabeth Cascio |
UC, Davis and NBER |
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Rajashri Chakrabarti |
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Aimee Chin |
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Matthew Chingos |
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation |
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Michael Christian |
Bureau of Economic Analysis |
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Charles Clotfelter |
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Paul Courant |
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Mark Duggan |
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Susan Dynarski |
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Ronald Ehrenberg |
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David Figlio |
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T. Aldrich Finegan |
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Malcolm Getz |
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Julia Gluck |
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation |
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Bart Golsteyn |
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Nora Gordon |
UC, |
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Catharine Hill |
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Caroline Hoxby |
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Brian Jacob |
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Richard Jensen |
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Roger Kaufman |
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Kristin Knox |
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Charlotte Kuh |
National Research Council |
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Martin Kurzweil |
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation |
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John Kwoka |
Northeastern University |
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Margaret Ledyard |
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Bridget Long |
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Ofer Malamud |
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Ann Mari May |
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Gilbert Metcalf |
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Steve Minicucci |
COFHE |
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Jeffrey Miron |
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David Mundel |
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Richard Murnane |
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David Mustard |
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Philip Oreopoulos |
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Abigail Payne |
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Anne Piehl |
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Devin Pope |
UC, Berkeley |
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Jaren Pope |
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Sarah Reber |
UC, |
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Stephanie Riegg |
UC, |
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Michael Rothschild |
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Jesse Rothstein |
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Bruce Sacerdote |
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John J. Siegfried |
American Economic Association |
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Christopher Smith |
MIT |
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Wendy Stock |
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Jerry Thursby |
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Sarah Turner |
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John Tyler |
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Jacob Vigdor |
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Glen Waddell |
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Olajumoke Warritay |
The Spencer Foundation |
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James West |
US |
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Gordon Winston |
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David Zimmerman |
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Nina Zipser |
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11/4/05