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
8:15 am Shuttle Van Departs from the
Royal Sonesta Hotel for
8:15 am Continental
Breakfast
8:45 am JILL CONSTANTINE and NEIL SEFTOR, Mathematica Policy Research
Discussant: SCOTT CARRELL,
Dartmouth College
9:45 am FLORIAN
HOFFMAN, University of Toronto
PHILIP OREOPOULOUS, University of
Toronto and NBER
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
Discussant: CHRISTOPHER AVERY,
1:00 pm Lunch
1:30 pm JOHN
BOUND,
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
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