Friday, 18 November

15.30 

Introduction by the organizers

15.45 – 17.00

Joseph Altonji (Yale University)
“Estimating the Cream Skimming Effect of Private School Vouchers on Public School Students”

17.00 – 17.30

Coffee Break

17.30 – 18.45

Lars Nesheim (Institute for Fiscal Studies)
“Semiparametric Estimation of Peer Effects and Sorting in Schools”

18.45 – 20.00

Gema Zamarro (CEMFI and Tilburg University)
“Accounting  for Heterogenous Returns in Sequential Schooling Decisions”

21.00

Dinner

Saturday, 19 November

9.30 – 10.45

Jesse Rothstein (Princeton University)
“Mismatch in Law School”

10.45 – 11.15

Coffee Break

11.15 – 12.30 

Hessel Oosterbeek (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
“The Effect of Financial Rewards on Students' Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment”

12.30 – 13.45

Damon Clark (University of Florida)
“Politics, Markets and Schools: Quasi-Experimental Evidence on the Impact of  Autonomy and Competition from a Truly Revolutionary UK  Reform”

13.45 – 15.30

Lunch

15.30 – 16.45 

Stephen Machin (Centre for the Economics of Education)
“The Literacy Hour”

16.45 – 17.15

Coffee Break

17.15 – 18.30

Pedro Carneiro (University College London)
“Intergenerational Effects of Mother’s Schooling on Children’s Outcomes: Causal Links and Transmission Channels”

18.30 – 19.45

Samuel Berlinski (University College London)
“Pre-primary School Attendance and Primary School Performance”

21.00 

Dinner