Educational Governance and Finance

Workshop

Holmen Fjordhotel, Asker

June 10-11 2012

SATURDAY JUNE 9

19:30 Dinner

SUNDAY JUNE 10

8:30-9:30 Keynote presentation

Chair: Lars-Erik Borge

David Figlio: Competitive effects of means-tested school vouchers

09:45-11:15 Session 1A

Chair: Kaja Høiseth Brugård

Iftikhar Hussain: Subjective performance evaluation in the public sector: Evidence from school inspection

Discussant: Hans Bonesrønning

Lars Monekrud: School efficiency and accountability reforms: Evidence from Norwegian primary schools 2007-2010

Discussant: Kristian Koerselman

09:45-11:15 Session 1B

Chair: Bjarne Strøm

Pål Schøne: The impact of immigration on investments in vocational skills

Discussant: Benny Geys

Nadine Ketel: The returns to medical school in a regulated labor market: Evidence from admission lotteries

Discussant: Torberg Falch

11:15-11:45 Coffee break

11:45-13:15 Session 2

Chair: Torberg Falch

Erik Plug: Teacher quality and student achievement: Evidence from a Dutch sample of twins (abstract)

Discussant: Jon Fiva

Felix Weinhardt: Everybody needs good neighbors? Evidence from students’ outcomes in England

Discussant: Lars-Erik Borge

13:15-14:15 Lunch

14:15-15:45 Session 3A

Chair: Lars Monkerud

Marianne Haraldsvik: Does performance based school choice affect student achievement?

Discussant: Eric Bettinger

Kristian Koerselman: Incentives from curriculum tracking

Discussant: Bjarne Strøm

14:15-15:45 Session 3B

Chair: Torberg Falch

Jon Fiva: Access to treatment and educational inequalities in cancer survival (abstract)

Discussant: Marcello Sartarelli

Daniel Horn: Early selection in Hungary. A possible cause of high educational inequality

Discussant: Edwin Leuven

16:00-16:45 Session 4

Chair: Adam S. Booij

Ole Henning Nyhus: Performance of young adults: The importance of cognitive and non-cognitive skills

Discussant: Erik Plug

19:00 Boat trip and dinner (shrimp buffet)

MONDAY JUNE 11

8:30-9:30 Keynote presentation

Chair: Hans Bonesrønning

Eric Bettinger: Nudges in Education:  The Emerging Role of Behavioral Economics in Education

09:45-11.15 Session 5A

Chair: Erik Plug

Monique de Haan: The effect of additional money for low-ability pupils. A nonparametric bound analysis

Discussant: David Figlio

Kaja Høiseth Brugård: Gender peer effects on further education

Discussant: Felix Weinhardt

09:45-11.15 Session 5B

Chair: Jon Fiva

Jon Marius Vaag Iversen: School accountability reforms in Norway: The increase in special education placements

Discussant: Adam S. Booij

Adam S. Booij: Overconfidence and (over)investment in schooling (abstract)

Discussant: Marianne Røed

11:30-12:30 Lunch

12:30-13.15 Session 6

Chair: Marianne Haraldsvik

Catharina Solondz: Do public expenditures improve educational outcomes, induce grade inflation, or both? Theory and evidence from a policy intervention in the Netherland

Discussant: Daniel Horn

13:30-15:00 Session 7

Chair: Edwin Leuven

Rune Borgan Reiling: Education outcomes and the business cycle

Discussant: Pål Schøne

Marcello Sartarelli: Do performance targets affect financial support to schools? Evidence from discontinuities in test scores

Discussant: Monique de Haan