Schedule

April 19

1:00 p.m. Welcome
Susan Mayer, Dean, Harris School of Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago

1:15 p.m. "The Disparity between Boys' Performance and Teacher Evaluations during Elementary School"
Authors:
Ofer Malamud, Assistant Professor, Harris School of Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago
Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, Assistant Professor, Harris School of Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago
Discussant: Lisa Barrow, Senior Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

2:15 p.m. "The Homecoming of American College Women: The Reversal of the Gender Gap in College"
Authors:
Claudia Goldin, Henry Lee Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Harvard University
Lawrence Katz, Elisabeth Allison Professor, Department of Economics, Harvard University (with co-author Ilyana Kuziemko)
Discussant:
Derek Neal, Professor, Department of Economics, University of Chicago

3:15 p.m. Break

3:30 p.m. "The Effects of Family Income on the Educational Outcomes of Male and Female Youth: Evidence from a Randomized Housing-Voucher Lottery"
Authors:
Jens Ludwig, Professor, Georgetown Public Policy Institute, Georgetown University (with co-author Brian Jacob)
Discussant: Stephen Raudenbush, Lewis-Sebring Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Sociology; Chair, Committee on Education, University of Chicago

4:30 p.m. Adjourn

April 20

8:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast

8:45 a.m. Welcome
Todd Zoellick, Deputy Secretary's Regional Representative, United States Department of Education

9:00 a.m. "Investment in Schooling and the Marriage Market"
Authors:
Murat F. Iyigun, Research Fellow, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University & Associate Professor of Economics, University of Colorado and IZA (with co-authors Pierre-André Chiappori and Yoram Weiss)
Discussant:
Kerwin Charles, Associate Professor, Harris School of Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago

10:00 a.m. "The Reversal of the College Gender Gap: The Role of Alternatives and College Supply"
Author:
Bridget Terry Long, Associate Professor of Education and Economics, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Discussant:
Susan Dynarski, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

11:00 a.m. Break

11:15 a.m. "Teachers and the Gender Gaps in Student Achievement"
Author:
Tom Dee, Associate Professor of Economics, Swarthmore College
Discussant:
Elizabeth Cascio, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Dartmouth College

12:15 p.m. "Gender in Schooling: Making the Grade"
Francine D. Blau, Frances Perkins Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Labor Economics, ILR School, Cornell University

1:00 p.m. Adjourn