NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

Higher Education Working Group Meeting

November 15, 2007

Charles Clotfelter, Organizer

Education Program Meeting

November 16, 2007

Caroline Hoxby, Organizer

NBER

2nd Floor Conference Room

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

PRELIMIANRY PROGRAM

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15:
	HIGHER EDUCATION WORKING GROUP MEETING
9:45 am	Shuttle Van Departs from The Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass. Avenue
10:00 am	Continental Breakfast
10:30 am	JOSHUA ANGRIST, MIT and NBER
	DANIEL LANG and PHILIP OREOPOULOS, University of Toronto
	Incentives and Services for College Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Trial
11:30 am	GLENN ELLISON, MIT and NBER
	Is Peer Review in Decline?
12:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm	BRUCE WEINBERG, Ohio State University and NBER
	BELTON FLEISHER and MASANORI HASHIMOTO, Ohio State University
	Pitfalls in Evaluating Instruction: The Case of Higher Education
2:30 pm	JUDITH SCOTT-CLAYTON, Harvard University
	What Explains Rising Labor Supply Among U.S. Undergraduates, 1970-2003?
3:30 pm	Break
3:45 pm	DAVID JOHNSON, Wilfrid Laurier Universty
	Interprovincial Variation in University Tuition and the Decision to Continue to Attend University: Evidence from Youth in Transition Survey in Canada
4:45 pm	MARCELO REZENDE, Federal Reserve Board
	The Effects of Accountability on Higher Education
5:45 pm	Adjourn
5:45 pm	Shuttle Vans Depart for The Royal Sonesta Hotel from 1050 Mass. Avenue
6:00 pm	Shuttle Van Departs for The Royal Sonesta Hotel from 1050 Mass. Avenue
6:30 pm	Group Dinner
	Dante at the Royal Sonesta Hotel
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16:
	EDUCATION PROGRAM MEETING
8:00 am	Shuttle Vans Depart from The Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass. Avenue
8:15 am	Shuttle Vans Depart from The Royal Sonesta Hotel for 1050 Mass. Avenue
8:15 am	Continental Breakfast
8:45 am	LUIGI ZINGALES, University of Chicago and NBER
	PAOLA SAPIENZA, Northwestern University and NBER
	LUIGI GUIZO, Ente Luigi Einaudi
	FERDINANDO MONTE, University of Chicago
	Math and Gender
9:45 am	DANIELE PASERMAN and VICTOR LAVY, Hebrew University and NBER
	ANALIA SCHLOSSER, Princeton University
	Inside the Black of Box of Ability Peer Effects: Evidence from Variation in High and Low Achievers in the Classroom
10:45 am	Break
11:00 am	PETER ARCIDIACONO, Duke University
	PATRICK BAYER, Duke University and NBER
	AUREL HIZMO, Duke University
	Beyond Signaling and Human Capital: Education and the Revelation of Ability
12:00 n	Lunch
12:30 pm	META BROWN, University of Wisconsin, Madison
	JOHN KARL SCHOLZ, University of Wisconsin, Madison and NBER
	ANANTH SESHADRI, University of Wisconsin, Madison
	A New Test of Borrowing Constraints for Education
1:30 pm	Break
1:45 pm	GIACOMO DE GIORGI, Stanford University
	MICHELE PELLIZZARI, IGIER-Bocconi
	SILVIA REDAELLI, Bocconi University
	Be as Careful of the Books You Read as of the Company You Keep: Evidence on Peer Effects in Educational Choices
2:45 pm	DEREK NEAL, University of Chicago and NBER
	DIANE WHITMORE SCHANZENBACH, University of Chicago
	Left Behind By Design: Proficiency Counts and Test-Based Accountability
3:45 pm	Adjourn
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