Education Program.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings

The NBER's Program on Education, directed by Caroline M. Hoxby of Stanford University, met at Stanford on November 10 and 11, 2011. The following papers were discussed:

* Karthik Muralidharan, University of California, San Diego and NBER, "Long-Term Effects of Teacher Performance Pay: Experimental Evidence from India"

* Debopam Bhattacharya, Shin Kanaya, and Margaret Stevens, University of Oxford, "A Test of Fair Treatment with Application to University Admissions"

* Robert Fairlie, University of California, Santa Cruz; Florian Hoffmann, University of British Columbia; and Philip Oreopoulos, University of Toronto and NBER, "A Community College Instructor Like Me: Race and Ethnicity Interactions in the Classroom" (NBER Working Paper No. 17381)

* Sa Bui and Steven G. Craig, University of Houston, and Scott A. Imberman, University of Houston and NBER, "Is Gifted Education a Bright Idea? Assessing the Impacts of Gifted and Talented Programs on Students" (NBER Working Paper No. 17089)

* Rajashri Chakrabarti, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, "Incentives and Responses under No Child Left Behind: Credible Threats and the Role of Competition"

* Katja Kaufmann, Fernanda Brollo, and Eliana La Ferrara, Bocconi University, "Learning about the Enforcement of Conditional Welfare Programs and Behavioral Responses...