Educational Governance and Finance

Workshop

Holmen Fjordhotell, Asker

May 25-27 2014

SUNDAY MAY 25

19:00 Dinner

MONDAY MAY 26

8:30-9:30 Keynote presentation

Chair: Lars-Erik Borge

Nora Gordon: Local Responses to Federal Grants: Evidence from the Introduction of Title I in the South

09:45-10:55 Session 1

Chair: Shqiponja Telhaj

Miroslava Federicova: The Impact of High-Stakes School-Admission Exams on Study Effort and Achievements: Quasi-experimental Evidence from Slovakia

Discussant: Lars Kirkebøen

Kristian Koerselman: Evidence on the Interaction between Gender, Adolescence, and Comprehensive Schooling

Discussant: Jonas Vlachos

10:55-11:15 Coffee break

11:15-13:00 Session 2

Chair: Monique de Haan

Alessandro Tampieri: Arts vs Engineering: Choosing Consumption of and Investment in Education

Discussant: Trude Gunnes

Lars Kirkebøen: Field of Study, Earnings, and Self-Selection

Discussant: Adam Booij

Anders Stenberg: Comparing Long Term Earning Trajectories of Individuals with General and Specific Education

Discussant: Bjarne Strøm

13:00-14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:15 Session 3

Chair: Hans Bonesrønning

Marianne Haraldsvik: Peer Effects on Student Achievement: Does the Educational Level of your Classmates’ Parents matter?

Discussant: Shqiponja Telhaj

Jan Feld: Blinded by the Lights – Are Ability Peer Effects Inverse U-Shaped?

Discussant: Monique de Haan

15:30-16:45 Session 4

Chair: Marianne Haraldsvik

Pawel Bukowski: Hidden Tracking or Mixing? The Structure of the Comprehensive Education and Sorting of Students in Poland

Discussant: Kristian Koerselman

Adam S. Booij: How to enrich our Gifted Students? Evidence from a Talented Program in Secondary Education

Discussant: Anders Stenberg

19:00 Dinner

TUESDAY MAY 27

8:30-9:30 Keynote presentation

Chair: Torberg Falch

Jonas Vlachos: What do we know about the Swedish free schools?

09:45-11.30 Session 5

Chair: Marianne Haraldsvik

Chris Van Klaveren: The Effect of Restorative Juvenile Justice on Early School Leaving and Years of Education

Discussant: Torberg Falch

Jan Marcus: Adverse Effects of Increased Education Efficiency? The Impact of Shortening High School Tenure on Graduation Age, Grade Repetitions and Graduation Rates

Discussant: Nicolai Kristensen

Simon Søbstad Bensnes: Schooling or Shopping? The Impact of Shop Opening Hours Deregulation on High School Graduation

Discussant: Nora Gordon

11:30-12:30 Lunch

12:30-13.40 Session 6

Chair: Nicolai Kristensen

Trude Gunnes: Should Economists Listen to Educational Psychologists? An Economic Model of Teaching Practices and Student Motivation

Discussant: Alessandro Tampieri

Johan Coenen: The Effects of Ability Tracking of Future Primary School Teachers on Student Performance

Discussant: Hans Bonesrønning

13:50-15:00 Session 7

Chair: Adam Booij

Gaute Eielsen: The Effects of Targeted Learning Support: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design

Discussant: Lars-Erik Borge

Monique de Haan: The Effect of Head Start on Long Term Education and Labor Market Outcomes

Discussant: Johan Coenen