Economics of education.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings

The NBER's Program on Education, directed by Caroline Hoxby of Stanford University, met in Washington on November 13-14, 2014. These papers were discussed:

* Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Duke University; Joshua Angrist and Parag Pathak, MIT and NBER; and Peter Hull, MIT, "Charters without Lotteries: Testing Takeovers in New Orleans and Boston"

* Daniel Hungerman, University of Notre Dame and NBER, and Kevin Rinz, University of Notre Dame, "Where Does School-Choice Funding Go ? How Large-Scale Choice Programs Affect Private-School Revenue, Enrollment, and Prices"

* Joseph Altonji, Yale University and NBER, and Richard Mansfield, Cornell University, "Group-Average Observables as Controls for Sorting on Unobservables When Estimating Group Treatment Effects: the Case of School and Neighborhood Effects"

* Harold Cuffe, Victoria University of Wellington; Glen Waddell, University of Oregon; and Wesley Bignell, University of Washington, "Too Busy for School? The Effect of Athletic Participation on Absenteeism"

* Peter Bergman, Columbia University, "Educational Attainment and School Desegregation: Evidence from Randomized Lotteries"

* Leonardo Bursztyn, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER, and Robert Jensen, University of Pennsylvania and NBER, "How Does Peer Pressure Affect Educational Investments?"

* David Autor, MIT and NBER; David Figlio, Northwestern University and NBER; Krzysztof Karbownik, Northwestern University; Jeffrey Roth, University of Florida; and Melanie Wasserman, MIT, "The Fragile-Y Effect: Family Environment and the Gender Gap in Behavioral and Educational Outcomes"

* Richard...