Education Program Meeting.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings - National Bureau of Economic Research - Leah Platt Boustan from University of California - Jane Cooleyand Salvador Navarro from University of Wisconsin - Conference notes

The NBER's Education Program met in California on November 19 and 20, 2009. Program Director Caroline M. Hoxby of Stanford University organized the meeting. These papers were discussed:

* Glenn Ellison, MIT and NBER, and Ashley Swanson, MIT, "The Gender Gap in Secondary School Mathematics at High Achievement Levels: Evidence from the American Mathematics Competitions" (NBER Working Paper No. 15238)

* Leah Platt Boustan, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER, "Desegregation and Urban Change: Evidence from City Boundaries"

* P. C. Winnie Chan, Statistics Canada, and Robert McMillan, University of Toronto and NBER, "School Choice and Public School Performance: Evidence from Ontario's Tuition Tax Credit"

* Jane Cooley, Salvador Navarro, and Yuya Takahashi, University of Wisconsin, "A Framework for the Analysis of Time-varying Treatment Effects: How the Timing of Grade Retention Affects Outcomes"

* Joshua Goodman, Harvard University, "The Labor of Division: Returns to Compulsory Math Coursework"

* Matthew Chingos, Harvard University, and Martin West, Brown University, "Do More Effective Teachers Earn More Outside of the Classroom?"

* Tahir Andrabi, Pomona College; Jishnu Das, The World Bank; and Asim Ijaz Khwaja, Harvard University...