IZA/ECONtribute Workshop on the Economics of Education

Gabriella Conti (University College London and IZA), Ping Wu (Imperial College London)
"Genes, Parental Education, and Inequalities in Human Capital: Evidence from Two British Cohorts"

Lavinia Kinne (DIW Berlin), Eric Hanushek (Stanford University and IZA), Pietro Sancassani (Ifo Institute for Economic Research), Ludger Woessmann (University of Munich and IZA)
"Can Patience Account for Within-Country Differences in Student Achievement? A Regional Analysis of Facebook Interests"

Alexander Smith (U.S. Military Academy, West Point), Andrew Barr (Texas A&M University), Jonathan Eggleston (U.S. Census Bureau)
"The Heterogeneous Long Run Effects of Universal Pre-K"

Sarah Cohodes (University of Michigan)
"Beyond the Test: What Can We Learn from Charter Schools"

Jonas Vlachos (Stockholm University), Helena Svaleryd (Uppsala University)
"The Impact of Standardized Testing on Teacher Burnout"

Desislava Tartova (Paris School of Economics)
"Teacher Value-Added in the Absence of Annual Test Scores: Utilising Teacher Networks"

Sarah Cattan (Institute for Fiscal Studies, London and IZA), Kjell Salvanes (Norwegian School of Economics and IZA), Emma Tominey (University of York and IZA)
"First Generation Elite: The Role of School Networks"

Analia Schlosser (Tel Aviv University and IZA), Elad DeMalach (Bank of Israel), Tatiana Baron (Ben Gurion University)
"Short and Long-Term Effects of Universal Preschool: Evidence from the Arab Population in Israel"

Russell Weinstein (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and IZA), Greg Howard (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
"Workhorses of Opportunity: Regional Universities Increase Local Social Mobility"

Yoav Goldstein (Tel Aviv University), Victor Lavy (University of Warwick and IZA)
"Gifted Children Programs’ Short and Long-Term Impact: Higher Education, Earnings, and the Knowledge-Economy"

Casemiro Campos (Goethe University Frankfurt)
"The Oscars of Education: The Effects of a Tournament between Public Schools"

Youssef Souidi (Université Paris-Dauphine)
"School Segregation: Is it All about Residential Sorting? Evidence from a Nationwide School System"

Rafael Hernandez Pachon (University of Zurich), Pedro Carneiro (University College London and IZA), Yyannu Cruz-Aguayo (Inter-American Development Bank), Norbert Schady (World Bank)
"Dynamic Complementarity in Elementary Schools: Experimental Estimates from Ecuador"

Anna Bindler (University of Cologne), Barbara Boelmann (University of Cologne), Lena Janys (University of Newcastle and IZA), Luisa Santiago Wolf (University of Cologne)
"Labor Demand and Workforce Diversity: Evidence from Two Natural Experiments"

Barbara Boelmann (University of Cologne), Carl Gergs (University College London), Frauke Peter (DZHW), Heike Spangenberg (DZHW)
"To Grant or Not to Grant? Lessons in Social Mobility from German Student Finance"

Gökay Demir (IZA), Friederike Hertweck (RWI), Malte Sandner (Nuremberg Institute of Technology and IZA), Ipek Yükselen (IAB)
"Students' Coworker Networks and Labor Market Entry"

Germán Reyes (briq), Evan Riehl (Cornell University), Ruqing Xu (Cornell University)
"Do High Stakes Muddle the Information from Standardized Tests? Evidence from Brazil's ENEM Exam"

Sonkurt Sen (University of Bonn), Greta Morando (University College London and IZA)
"Effects of Teacher Gender on Students’ Socio-Emotional Skills Development"

Petra Thiemann (Lund University and IZA), Pol Campos-Mercade (Lund University), Erik Wengström (Lund University)
"Performance Incentives in Education: The Role of Goal Mismatch"

Marion Monnet (University of Burgundy), Pauline Charousset (Paris School of Economics)
"Gendered Teacher Feedback, Students' Math Performance and Enrollment Outcomes: A Text Mining Approach"

Marco Pariguana (University of Edinburgh), Matteo Bobba (Toulouse School of Economics and IZA), Veronica Frisancho (Development Bank of Latin America )
"Perceived Ability and School Choices: Experimental Evidence and Scale-Up Effects"