NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2006

 

Education Workshop

 

Caroline Hoxby, Organizer

 

July 27, 2006

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

40 Edwin H. Land Blvd

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

PROGRAM

 

WEDNESDAY, JULY 26:

 

 

 6:00 pm

Clambake, Harvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

 

 

THURSDAY, JULY 27:

 

 

JOINT SESSION WITH LABOR STUDIES

 

 

 8:30 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 9:00 am

JOSH ANGRIST, MIT and NBER

 

DANIEL LANG, University of Toronto

 

PHILIP OREOPOULOS, University of Toronto and NBER

 

Incentives and Services for College Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Trial

 

 

10:00 am

SCOTT CARRELL, Dartmouth College

 

RICHARD FULLERTON and JAMES WEST, U.S. Air Force Academy

 

ROBERT GILCHRIST, Adams State College

 

Peer and Leadership Effects in Academic and Athletic Performance

 

 

11:00 am

Break

 

 

11:30 am

MATT GENTZKOW, University of Chicago

 

JESSE SHAPIRO, University of Chicago and NBER

 

Does Television Rot Your Brain? New Evidence from the Coleman Study

 

 

12:30 pm

Lunch

 

 

 1:30 pm

RAEGEN MILLER, Harvard University

 

RICHARD MURNANE, Harvard University and NBER

 

JOHN WILLETT, Harvard University

 

The Impact of Teacher Absences of Student Achievement

 

 

2:30 pm

MAGNUS LOFSTROM, University of Texas at Dallas

 

JOHN TYLER, Brown University and NBER

 

Does the GED Credentialing Program Encourage Students to Drop Out of High School? Evidence from Texas

 

 

 3:30 pm

Break

 

 

 4:00 pm

EFRAIM BENMELECH, Harvard University

 

CLAUDE BERREBI, RAND Corporation

 

Attack Assignments in Terror Organizations and the Productivity of Suicide Bombers

 

 

 5:00 pm

Adjourn

 

 

 

 

 

 

5/4/06