Venice Summer Institute 2022: Economics of Education and Equality of Opportunity
San Servolo, Venice, Italy
Scientific Organizers: Professor Nishith Prakash and Dr. Larissa Zierow
Access to education is a human right, a powerful driver of development and one of the strongest instruments for reducing poverty and improving health, gender equality, peace, and stability. Although, there has been a dramatic improvement in education systems across the world, there still exists vast inequality in terms of access and learning in both developed and developing countries.
This workshop will specifically address the current challenges from a policy standpoint and focus on equality of opportunity. By bringing together international researchers studying equality of opportunity in different education systems’ context, this workshop will discuss the most promising policies and ways to move forward.
Keynote speakers:
Caroline M. Hoxby, Stanford University
Bruce I. Sacerdote, Dartmouth College
Participation at this workshop is by invitation only.
Program
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Wednesday, 29 June 2022
08:30 – 08:45 Welcome & Introduction
Nishith Prakash and Larissa Zierow
08:45 – 09:25
The Economic Impact of Access to Public Four-Year Colleges
JONATHAN SMITH (Georgia State University), Joshua Goodman, Michael Hurwitz09:25 – 10:05
Winners and Losers? The Effect of Gaining and Losing Access to Selective Colleges on Education and Labor Market Outcomes
JEFF DENNING (Brigham Young University)10:05 – 10:25
Coffee Break
10:25 – 11:05
Banning the Boston Mechanism in Britain: Evidence on School Segregation and Student Achievement
CAMILLE TERRIER (University of Lausanne)
online11:05 – 11:45
The incidence of affirmative action: Evidence from quotas in private schools in India
ABHIJEET SINGH (Stockholm School of Economics) and Mauricio Romero11:45 – 11:55
Short Break
11:55 – 12:55
Keynote Lecture I
The Fork in the Road: The Economics and Neuroscience of Adolescent Education
CAROLINE HOXBY (Stanford University)
online12:55 – 13:55
Lunch
13:55 – 14:35
Genetic Endowments, Educational Outcomes and the Mediating Influence of School Investments
PAUL HUFE (University of Bristol)14:35 – 15:15
On the family origins of human capital: Evidence from donor-conceived children
PETTER LUNDBORG (Lund University)15:15 – 15:35
Coffee Break
15:35 – 16:15
Demand, supply, and learning in a very low-income context
ALEX EBLE (Columbia University)16:15 – 16:55 Does Religious Diversity Improve Trust and Performance? Evidence from Lebanon
SERENA CANAAN (American University of Beirut)
16:55 – 17:05 Short Break
17:05 – 17:45
Large Scale Education Reform in General Equilibrium: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from India
GAURAV KHANNA (University of California - San Diego)
online17:45 –18:25 Grants and information to promote parental involvement in schools: Evidence from two randomized controlled trials
FELIPE BARRERA-OSORIO (Vanderbilt)
19:30 Conference Dinner
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Thursday, 30 June 2022
08:30 – 09:30 Keynote Lecture II
Three Policies That Raise College Completion and Two That Don't
BRUCE SACERDOTE (Dartmouth College)09:30 – 09:40 Short Break
09:40 – 10:20
Effects of Kindergarten Attendance and Linguistic Diversity on Child Development
KERSTIN SCHNEIDER (University of Wuppertal)10:20 – 11:00
When Information is Not Enough: Evidence from a Centralized School Choice System
WILLA FRIEDMAN (University of Houston)11:00 – 11:20
Coffee Break
11:20 – 11:45
High Achieving First-Generation University Students
NIKKI SHURE (UCL) and Larissa Zierow11:45 - 12:10 Perceptions of Luck vs. Effort in Education and the Demand for Redistribution: Evidence from a Survey Experiment
KATHARINA WEDEL (ifo Institute), Elisabeth Grewenig, Katharina Werner12:10 – 12:50
Gender Gaps in Parental Home Schooling Time
MARTA GOLIN (University of Oxford)12:50
Lunch & End of Conference
