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Education program meeting.(Bureau News)

Publication: NBER Reporter
Publication Date: 22-JUN-06
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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The NBER's Program on Education met on April 27 in Cambridge. Program Director Caroline M. Hoxby of Harvard University organized the meeting at which these papers were discussed:

Caroline Hoxby, and Gretchen Weingarth, Harvard University, "Taking Race Out of the Equation: School and the A...

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...Reassignment Structure of Peer Effects"

Mary A. Burke, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, and Tim R. Sass, Florida State University, "Classroom Peer Effects and Student Achievement"

Michael Anderson, MIT, "Uncovering Gender Differences in the Effects of Early Intervention: Reevaluation of the Abecedarian, Perry Preschool, and Early Training Projects"

Erich Battistin and Barbara Sianesi, Institute for Fiscal Studies, "Misreported Schooling and Returns to Education: Evidence from the UK"

Andrew Leigh, Australian National University, "Teacher Pay and Teacher Aptitude"

Harry Krashinsky, University of Toronto, " How Would One Extra Year of High School Affect Academic Performance in University? Evidence from a Unique Policy Change"

In the last and current decade, the Wake County school district has reassigned numerous students to schools, moving up to 5 percent of the student population in any given year....

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