Thursday 15th May 2014:
8.00pm: Dinner at the La Vecia Cavana Restaurant
Friday, 16th May 2014
Session 1: Schools with Autonomy
08:55 Registration and Welcome
09:05 Will Dobbie (Princeton) The Medium-Term Impacts of High-Achieving Charter Schools on Non-Test Score Outcomes
09:55 Steve Machin (UCL) Academy Schools and Their Introduction to England’s Education
10:45 COFFEE BREAK
Session 2: The Extremes of the Ability Distribution in Schools
11:30 Eric Maurin (PSE) Adjusting your Dreams: the Effect of School and Peers on Dropout Behavior 1
2:20 Erik Plug (Amsterdam) How to enrich gifted students? Evidence from a gifted program in secondary education
13:05 LUNCH
Session 3: PIAAC
15:00 Ludger Woessmann (IFO Munich) Returns to Skills around the World: Evidence from PIAAC
15:50 Juan Dolado (EUI) Dual labour markets and (lack of) on the job training: European evidence based on PIAAC data Presentation
16:40 COFFEE BREAK
Session 4: Education and the Labour Market
17:30 Eric Hanushek (Stanford) General Education, Vocational Education, and Labor-Market Outcomes over the Life-Cycle
18:20 CLOSE
21:00 DINNER Alla Madonna Restaurant
Saturday, 17th May 2014
Session 5: School Tests
09:10 Josh Angrist (MIT) In a Small Moment: Class Size and Moral Hazard in Italian Primary Schools
10:00 Victor Lavy (Warwick) The Long Run Human Capital and Economic Consequences of High-Stakes Examinations
10:50 COFFEE BREAK
Session 6: School Tests II and Schools and Immigration
11:30 Brian Jacob (Michigan) Rules and Discretion in the Evaluation of Students and Schools: The Case of the New York Regents Examinations
12:20 Andrea Ichino (EUI) The Tower of Babel in the classroom: immigrants and natives in Italian schools
Presentation
13:10 LUNCH
Session 7: Public Economics
15:00 Gordon Dahl (UCSD) Do Politicians Change Public Attitudes? Presentation
15:50 Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach (Northwestern) The Impacts of Expanding Access to High-Quality Preschool Education
16:40 COFFEE BREAK
17:30 Joseph Zweimüller (Zurich) Market Externalities of Large Unemployment Insurance Extension Programs(with Rafael Lalive and Camille Landais)
18:20 CLOSE
20:30 DINNER L'Ombra del Leone Restaurant
Sunday 18th May 2014
Departure after breakfast