PROGRAM
Educational
Governance
Workshop
in Trondheim
25-26 April 2013
WEDNESDAY APRIL
24
19:30. Dinner
THURSDAY APRIL 25
9:00-10:00. Keynote
presentation
Chair: Torberg Falch
Ludger Woessmann
The information value of central school exams
10:15-11:45. Session
1A. School quality
Chair: Marianne Haraldsvik
Iftikhar Hussain: Not just test scores: Parents' demand
response to school quality information
Discussant: Fredrik Carlsen
Pawel Bukowski and Martyna Kobus: The
competitive effect of the threat of handover of small schools to non-public
associations
Discussant: Torberg Falch
10:15-11:45. Session
1B. Education finance
Chair: Lars Monkerud
Rune Borgan
Reiling: The
battle of the ages: County demographic structure and the provision of upper
secondary education
Discussant: Taryn Ann Galloway
Agnieszka Kopańska and Grażyna Bukowska: Determinants of local
public education expenditures. Panel analysis for Polish primary and
lower-secondary education
Discussant: Lars-Erik Borge
12:00-12:45. Session
2A. Apprentices
Chair: Taryn Ann Galloway
Discussant: Giorgio Brunello
12:00-12:45. Session
2B. Peer effects
Chair: Arnt Ove Hopland
Adam Booij, Edwin Leuven and Hessel Oosterbeek:
Peer effects in university
Discussant: Lars Monkerud
13:00-14:00. Lunch
14:00-15:30. Session
3A. School choice
Chair:
Edwin Leuven
Johanna Storck and
Ronny Freier: The
treatment effect of attending a high-quality school and the influence of unobservables
Discussant: Hans Bonesrønning
Kaja Høiseth
Brugård: Does school
choice affect student performance and public school quality?
Discussant: Monique de Haan
14:00-15:30. Session
3B. Higher education
Chair: Fredrik Carlsen
Nadine Ketel, Jona Linde, Hessel Oosterbeek and Bas van der
Klaauw: The impact of educational subsidies on
student outcomes
Discussant: Johanna Storck
Lars J. Kirkebøen: Preferences for lifetime earnings,
earnings risk and nonpecuniary attributes in choice
of higher education
Discussant: Elena Crivellaro
15:45-17:15. Session
4. Student performance
Chair: Bjarne Strøm
Hege Marie
Gjefsen and Taryn Ann Galloway: Young immigrants: Age at immigration and
performance in education
Discussant: Ludger
Woessmann
Edwin Leuven: Maimonides goes to Norway: Long term impacts of
class size in regular and age integrated classrooms
Discussant: Colin Green
19:30. Dinner
FRIDAY APRIL 26
9:00-10:00. Keynote
presentation
Chair: Lars-Erik Borge
Giorgio Brunello
When the cat
is near, the mice won’t play: The
effect of external examiners in Italian schools
10:00-11:30. Session
5A: Teachers
Chair: Hans Bonesrønning
Johan Coenen: Better
test scores with a same-gender teacher?
Discussant: Arnt Ove Hopland
Shqiponja Telhaj and Steve Gibbons: Teacher
mobility and student achievement
Discussant: Bjarne Strøm
10:00-11:30. Session
5B: Human capital investment
Chair: Monique de Haan
Elena Crivellaro: Returns
to college over time: trends in Europe in the last 15 years
Discussant: Daniel Horn
Kristian
Koerselman and Roope Uusitalo: The risk and return of human
capital investments
Discussant: Lars Kirkebøen
11:30-12:30. Lunch
12:30-13:15. Session
6A. Teacher grading
Chair: Kaja Høiseth Brugård
Taryn Ann
Galloway and
Lars Kirkebøen: Effect of grading standards on
student achievement
Discussant: Marianne Haraldsvik
12:30-13:15. Session
6B. Gender
Chair: Rune Reiling
Ole Henning Nyhus and Arnt
Ove Hopland: Gender differences in
competitiveness: Evidence from educational admission reforms
Discussant: Edwin Leuven
13:30-15:00. Session
7. Relative position
Chair: Colin Green
Richard Murphy and Felix Weinhardt: Top
of class: The importance of ordinal rank position
Discussant: Adam Booij
Monique de Haan, Erik Plug and José Rosero: Birth order and
human capital development: Evidence from Ecuador