Education Program Meeting.

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

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:

* Jonathan Gruber, MIT and NBER; Susan Dynarski, University of Michigan and NBER; and Danielle Li, MIT, "Cheaper by the Dozen: Using Sibling Discounts at Catholic Schools to Estimate the Price Elasticity of Private School Attendance"

* Philip Babcock and Kelly Bedard, University of California, Santa Barbara, "Wage Gains from Failure: New Evidence on School Retention Policies and Long-run Outcomes"

* Asim Khwaja, Harvard University and NBER; Tahir Andrabi, Pomona College; and and Jishnu Das, The World Bank, "Report Cards: The Impact of Providing School and Child Test Scores on Educational Markets"

* Felipe Barrera-Osorio and Dhushyanth Raju, The World Bank, "Evaluating a Test- based Public Subsidy Program for Low-cost Private Schools...