Past Conferences

	Conference on the Handbook of the Economics of Education (Vol.3/4) and Inaugural Meeting of the CESifo Area on Economics of Education CESifo Conference Centre at the Ifo Institute, Munich 3-5 September 2009 Draft Program

	Thursday, 3 September 2009
13:00 - 14:00	Lunch
14:00 - 14:10	Welcome and Handbook Overview ERIC A. HANUSHEK (Hoover Institution, Stanford University), STEPHEN J. MACHIN (University College London), LUDGER WOESSMANN (University of Munich and Ifo Institute)
	Session I - Methods and Families Chair: Eric A. Hanushek (Stanford)
14:10 - 15:00	Econometric Methods for Research in Education COSTAS MEGHIR (University College London) and STEVEN RIVKIN (Amherst College)
15:00 - 15:50	Education and Family Background: Mechanisms and Policies ANDERS BJÖRKLUND (Stockholm University), KJELL SALVANES (Norwegian School of Economics)
15:50 - 16:00	Welcome Address on New CESifo Network Area HANS-WERNER SINN (President, Ifo Institute, and Director, Center for Economic Studies (CES), University of Munich)
16:00 - 16:30	Coffee Break
	Session II - School Choice Chair: Derek Neal (University of Chicago)
16:30 - 17:20	International Experience with Choice ERIC BETTINGER (Stanford University)
17:20 - 18:10	The Economics of School Choice and Competition CAROLINE HOXBY (Stanford University)
19:00	Conference Dinner at the Seehaus im Englischen Garten
	Friday, 4 September 2009
	Session III - Teachers Chair: Stephen J. Machin (University College London)
9:00 - 9:50	Providing Incentives for Educators DEREK NEAL (University of Chicago)
9:50 - 10:40	The Political Economy of Education Funding Gerhard Glomm (Indiana University), B. RAVIKUMAR (University of Iowa), IOANA SCHIOPU (IEA-CSIC Barcelona)
10:40 - 11:10	Coffee Break
	Session IV - Accountability and Tracking Chair: Ludger Woessmann (Munich)
11:10 - 12:00	School Accountability DAVID FIGLIO (Northwestern University), Susanna Loeb (Stanford University)
12:00 - 12:50	The Economics of Tracking in Education JULIAN BETTS (University of California San Diego)
12:50 - 14:00	Lunch
	Session V - International Tests and Immigration Chair: Steven Rivkin (Amherst College)
14:00 - 14:50	The Economics of International Differences in Educational Achievement ERIC A. HANUSHEK (Stanford University), LUDGER WOESSMANN (Ifo Institute Munich)
14:50 - 15:40	Immigration and Education CHRISTIAN DUSTMANN (University College London)
15:40 - 16:10	Coffee Break
	Session VI - Higher Education Chair: Christian Dustmann (UCL)
16:10 - 17:00	Dropouts and Diplomas: The Divergence in Collegiate Attainment SARAH E. TURNER (University of Virginia), John Bound (University of Michigan)
18:30	Guided City Tour
20:00	Dinner at "Zum Spöckmeier" (City Center, Marienplatz)
	Saturday, 5 September 2009
	Session VII - The Value of Education Chair: David Figlio (Northwestern University)
09:00 - 09:50	Housing Valuations of School Performance STEPHEN MACHIN (University College London), Sandra Black (UCLA)
09:50 - 10:40	Non-Production Benefits of Education: Crime, Health, Democracy, and Children LANCE LOCHNER (University of Western Ontario)
10:40 - 11:10	Coffee Break
	Session VIII - Overeducation and the GED Chair: Eric Bettinger (Stanford University)
11:10 - 12:00	Is There Overinvestment in Overschooling? HESSEL OOSTERBEEK (University of Amsterdam), EDWIN LEUVEN (ENSAE Paris Tech)
12:00 - 12:50	The GED James Heckman (University of Chicago), NICHOLAS MADER (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
12:50 - 14:00	Lunch
	Session IX - Vocational and Adult Education Chair: Lance Lochner (University of Western Ontario)
14:00 - 14:50	Apprenticeship STEFAN WOLTER (Univeristy of Berne), PAUL RYAN (Cambridge University)
14:50 - 15:40	Adult Education JEFFREY SMITH (University of Michigan), BRIAN McCALL (University of Michigan)

	End of Conference

Conference on the Handbook of the Economics of Education (Vol.3/4) and Inaugural Meeting of the CESifo Area on Economics of Education

CESifo Conference Centre at the Ifo Institute, Munich 3-5 September 2009

Draft Program

Thursday, 3 September 2009

Session I - Methods and Families

Session II - School Choice

Friday, 4 September 2009

Session III - Teachers

Session IV - Accountability and Tracking

Session V - International Tests and Immigration

Session VI - Higher Education

Saturday, 5 September 2009

Session VII - The Value of Education

Session VIII - Overeducation and the GED

Session IX - Vocational and Adult Education

Conference on the
Handbook of the Economics of Education (Vol.3/4)
and
Inaugural Meeting of the CESifo Area on Economics of Education

CESifo Conference Centre at the Ifo Institute, Munich
3-5 September 2009