Education, Skills, and Labor Market Outcomes

Workshop

Holmen Fjordhotell, Asker/Oslo

May 28-30

	SUNDAY
18:00	Dinner at the hotel
	MONDAY
09:00-10:00	Keynote presentation Chair: Bjarne Strøm Guido Schwerdt: Education Systems and Adult Outcomes: Insights from International Surveys of Adult Skills
10:10-11:30	Session 1A Chair: Lars-Erik Borge Rocco d’Este: Dragon’s Peers: (High-Achieving) Asian Schoolmates and Student Performance in NYC Primary Schools Discussant: Hessel Oosterbeek Adam Booij: Can gifted and talented education raise the academic achievement of all high-achieving students? Discussant: Lars Kirkebøen	Session 1B Chair: Chris Van Klaveren Sabrina Hahm: Better with Bologna? Tertiary education reform and student outcomes Discussant: Johanna Sophie Quis Stephan Sievert: Teachers’ Intentions to Engage Their Students and Achievement – a Within-Student Between-Subject Approach Using TIMSS and PIRLS Data Discussant: Bjarne Strøm
11:40-13:00	Session 2A Chair: Simon Bensnes Lars Kirkebøen: Value-added and students’ long-term outcomes Discussant: Torberg Falch Hedvig Horváth: Teacher Peers at School: How Do Colleagues Affect Value-Added and Student Assignments? Discussant: Michael Gilraine	Session 2B Chair: Sturla A. Løkken Henning Mueller: Working Memory Training Improves Performance of Primary School Children – Evidence from a Large-Scale Randomized Field Experiment Discussant: Ole Henning Nyhus Georg Camehl: The Effects of Early Childhood Education and Care Quality on Children’s Non-cognitive Skills Discussant: Henning Mueller
13:00-14:00	Lunch
14:00-15:20	Session 3A Chair: Jon Marius Vaag Iversen Karsten Albæk: Skill-persistence and the impact of post-compulsory education on skills – evidence from a linked PISA-PIAAC data set Discussant: Guido Schwerdt Michael Gilraine: School Accountability and the Dynamics of Human Capital Formation Discussant: Trude Gunnes	Session 3B Chair: Ole Henning Nyhus Marie H. Sæther: Sibling spacing effects across the birth order Discussant: Anne Ardila Brenøe Anne Ardila Brenøe: Does Sibling Gender Composition Affect Gender-Stereotypic Choice of Education? Discussant: Jennifer Graves
15:20-15:40	Coffee
15:40-17:00	Session 4 Chair: Marianne Haraldsvik Valentin Wagner: Do Timing and Reference Frame of Relative Feedback Matter?: Experimental Evidence from High-Stakes Exams in Secondary Schools Discussant: Simon Bensnes Chris Van Klaveren: Teacher Discretion in Grading Standardized Exams: the Dutch Secondary Education Discussant: Hedvig Horváth
19:00	Dinner: Boat trip with a barbeque buffet
	TUESDAY
09:00-10:00	Keynote presentation Chair: Torberg Falch Hessel Oosterbeek: Advising about school assignment mechanisms
10:10-11:30	Session 5A Chair: Trude Gunnes Manon Garrouste: Gegraphical constraints in track choices: a French study using high school openings Discussant: Rocco d’Este Luca Flóra Drucker: The Long-term Effects of Increased General Education: evidence from the comprehensive Polish educational reform of 1999 Discussant: Adam Booij	Session 5B Chair: Karsten Albæk Jennifer Graves: Performance Under Pressure: How Compensation Schemes Interact with Task Type in Incentivizing Performance Discussant: Chris Van Klaveren Johanna Sophie Quis: Health Effects of Instruction Intensity. Evidence from a Natural Experiment in German High-Schools Discussant: Jon Marius Vaag Iversen
11:30-12:30	Lunch
12:30-14:30	Session 6 Chair: Lars Kirkebøen Stan Vermeulen: Teacher professional development as a signal. Inefficient sorting and its implications for optimal training provision Discussant: Attila Lindner Sturla A. Løkken: The effects of school spending on long-term earnings: Evidence from a regression discontinuity in local elections Discussant: Lars-Erik Borge Bjarne Strøm: The effects of voting franchise extension on education policy Discussant: Karsten Albæk
14:30-15:00	Coffee and goodbye