NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

 

Higher Education Working Group Meeting

 

April 28, 2006

 

Charles Clotfelter , Organizer

 

NBER

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

 

THURSDAY, APRIL 27:

 

 6:00 PM          Group Dinner                                                  

Legal Sea Foods, Harvard Square                 

 

FRIDAY, APRIL 28:

 

 8:00 am          Shuttle Vans Depart from the Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass. Ave.

 

 8:15 am          Shuttle Van Departs from the Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass. Ave.

 

 8:15 am          Continental Breakfast

 

 8:45 am          JILL CONSTANTINE and NEIL SEFTOR, Mathematica Policy Research

A Study of the Effect of Talent Search on Secondary and Postsecondary Outcomes in Florida, Indiana, and Texas

 

Discussant: SCOTT CARRELL, Dartmouth College

 

 9:45 am          FLORIAN HOFFMAN, University of Toronto

PHILIP OREOPOULOUS, University of Toronto and NBER

Do Better Professors Produce Better Students? The Effects of Objective and Subjective Measures of Teacher Quality on Academic Achievement

 

Discussant: WILLIAM BECKER, Indiana University

 

10:45 am         Break

 

11:00 am         JAMES ADAMS, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and NBER

J. ROGER CLEMMONS, University of Florida

The Growing Allocative Inefficiency of the U.S. Higher Education Sector

 

Discussant: RICHARD JENSEN, University of Notre Dame

 

12:00 n            DAVID FIGLIO, University of Florida and NBER

COLLEEN DONOVAN, UC, Berkeley

MARK RUSH, University of Florida

Cramming:  The Effects of School Accountability on College Study

Habits and Performance

 

Discussant:  CHRISTOPHER AVERY, Harvard University and NBER

 

 1:00 pm          Lunch

 

 1:30 pm          JOHN BOUND, University of Michigan and NBER

MICHAEL LOVENHEIM, University of Michigan

SARAH TURNER, University of Virginia and NBER

Understanding the Increased Time to the Baccalaureate Degree

(appendix)

 

Discussant: THOMAS KANE, Harvard University and NBER

 

 2:30 pm          Break

 

 2:45 pm          PETER ARCIDIACONO, Duke University

SHAKEEB KHAN, University of Rochester

JACOB VIGDOR, Duke University and NBER

Race-Conscious Admissions and Inter-Racial Contact: Does Homophily Matter?

 

Discussant: JESSE ROTHSTEIN, Princeton University and NBER

 

3:45 pm           Adjourn

 

 

 

 

4/20/06