Education.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings - National Bureau of Economic Research meetings on education - Conference news - Brief article

The NBER's Program on Education met in Cambridge on May 16, 2014. Program Director Caroline Hoxby of Stanford University chose these papers to discuss:

* Christopher Walters, University of California, Berkeley, "Inputs in the Production of Early Childhood Human Capital: Evidence from Head Start"

* Maria Fitzpatrick, Cornell University and NBER, "Intergovernmental (Dis)incentives, Free-Riding Teacher Salaries, and Teacher Pensions"

* Rebecca Dizon-Ross, MIT, "How Do School Accountability Reforms Affect Teachers ? Evidence from New York City"

* Rajeev Darolia and Cory Koedel, University of Missouri, and Francisco Martorell and Katie Wilson, RAND Corporation, "Do Employers Prefer Workers Who Attend For-Profit Colleges ? Evidence from a Field Experiment"

* Ben Marx, Columbia...