NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.
SUMMER INSTITUTE 2002
Economics of Education Workshop
August 1, 2002
Caroline Hoxby, Organizer
Royal Sonesta Hotel
5 Cambridge Parkway
Cambridge, MA
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
THURSDAY, AUGUST 1:
8:00 AM Coffee and Pastries
JOINT SESSION WITH LABOR STUDIES
8:30 AM JOSHUA ANGRIST, MIT and NBER
KEVIN LANG, Boston University and NBER
How Important are Classroom Peer Effects: Evidence from Boston's METCO Program
9:20 AM THOMAS KANE, UC, Los Angeles and NBER
A Quasi-Experimental Estimate of the Impact of Financial Aid on College-Going
10:10 AM Break
10:25 AM SUSANNA LOEB, Stanford University
The Joint Decisions of Teachers and Schools:
How Teachers Sort on Initial Job Matches
11:15 AM NORA GORDEN, UC, San Diego
CAROLINE HOXBY, Harvard University and NBER
Achievement Effects of Bilingual Education vs. English Immersion:
Evidence from California's Proposition 227
12:05 PM Lunch
12:45 PM ERIC BETTINGER, Case Western Reserve University
The Effects of Educational Vouchers on Academic and Non-academic Outcomes: Experiments within a Natural Experiment
1:35 PM MICHAEL KREMER, Harvard University and NBER
The Political Economy of School Finance in Kenya
2:25 PM Break
SI02 Education program
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2:40 PM VICTOR LAVY, Hebrew University
Rank Order Tournaments among Teachers as Performance Incentive Schemes: Experimental Evidence about Their Effect on Students Outcomes
3:30 PM JULIE CULLEN, University of Michigan and NBER
BRIAN JACOB, Harvard University
STEVEN LEVITT, University of Chicago and NBER
4:20 PM Adjourn
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