Education Program.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings - Conference news - Brief article

The NBER's Program on Education met in Cambridge on April 30. Program Director Caroline M. Hoxby of Stanford University organized the meeting. These papers were discussed:

* Judith Scott-Clayton, Columbia University and NBER, and Lauren Schudde, Columbia University, "Performance Standards in Need-Based Student Aid"

* Sarah R. Cohodes, Harvard University, "The Long-Run Impacts of Tracking High-Achieving Students: Evidence from Boston's Advanced Work Class"

* Hugh Macartney, Duke University and NBER; Robert McMillan, University of Toronto and NBER; and Uros Petronijevic, University of Toronto, "Incentive Design in Education: An Empirical Analysis"

* Nicola Bianchi, Stanford University, "The General Equilibrium Effects of Educational Expansion"

* Cassandra Hart...