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Education Program Meeting.(Program and Working Group Meeting)(National Bureau of Economic Research)

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

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The NBER's Program on Education, directed by Caroline M. Hoxby of Harvard University, met in Cambridge on November 9 and 10. These papers were presented and discussed at the meeting:

Mark Hoekstra, University of Pittsburgh, "The Effect of Attending the Flagship State University on A of of...

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...Earnings: Regression Discontinuity Approach"

Carlos Dobkin, University California, Santa Cruz, and Fernando Ferreira, University Pennsylvania, "Should We Care About the Age at Which Children Enter School? The Impact of School Entry Laws on Educational Attainment and Labor Market Outcomes"

Philip Babcock, University of California, Santa Barbara, "From Ties to Gains ? Evidence on Connectedness, Skill Acquisition, and Diversity"

Andrea Ichino, European University Institute; Pietro Garibaldi, University of Turin; Francesco Giavazzi, MIT and NBER; and Enrico Rettore, University of Padova, "College Cost and Time to Obtain a Degree: Evidence from Tuition Discontinuities"

Moshe Justman, Ben Gurion University, and Yaakov Gilboa, Sapir Academic College, "Equal Opportunity in Education: Lessons from the Kibbutz"

Adalbert Mayer and Steven Puller, Texas A&M University, "The Old Boy (and Girl) Network: Social Network Formation on University Campuses"

Sally Kwak, University of Hawaii-Manoa, "The Impact of Intergovernmental Incentives on Disability Rates and Special Education Spending"

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