Education policies: empirics and design

Leuven, June 24 & 25, 2010

Program:

Day 1 (24-06)

09.00-09.30     Registration

SESSION I        Estelle Cantillon

09.30-09.45         Opening by Frank Vandenbroucke (Honorary Minister & KULeuven)

09.45-10.30     Dennis Epple (Carnegie-Mellon)
                      Evaluating education programs that have lotteried admission and selective attrition

BREAK

11.00-11.45     Muriel Niederle (Stanford)
                       School choice in San Francisco: top trading cycles and diversity

11.45-12.30     Thomas Gall (Bonn)
                      Segregation, affirmative action, and investment

LUNCH

SESSION II     François Maniquet

14.00-14.45     Elodie Alet (Toulouse)
                      Is grade repetition a second chance?

14.45-15.30     Jean Hindriks (Louvain-la-Neuve)
                      Ability tracking and inequality of opportunity in schooling              

BREAK

16.00-16.45     Paolo Brunori (Bari)
                      Fairness in education: the Italian university before and after the reform

Day 2 (25-06)

SESSION III    Erwin Ooghe

09.00-09.45    Erik Schokkaert (Louvain-la-Neuve)
                     School accountability: can we reward schools and avoid cream-skimming?

09.45-10.30    Jane Cooley (Wisconsin-Madison)
                     Spare the rod? The effect of sanctions on schools

BREAK

11.00-11.45    Kristof De Witte (Maastricht)
                     Drop-out prevention measures in the Netherlands: an evaluation

11.45-12.30    Karthik Muralidharan (San Diego)
                     Teacher performance pay: experimental evidence from India
LUNCH

SESSION IV    Erik Schokkaert

14.00-14.45    Edwin Leuven (Paris)
                     School consolidation and pupil achievement in a voucher system

14.45-15.30    Simon Burgess (Bristol)
                     What parents want: School preferences and school choice

BREAK

16.00-16.45    Eric Hanushek (Stanford)
                     Do better schools lead to more growth?
                     Cognitive skills, economic outcomes, and causation

                                     
IUAP/PAI