Higher Education.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings

The NBER's Working Group on Higher Education met in Cambridge on May 1. Director Charles T. Clotfelter of Duke University organized the meeting. These papers were discussed:

* Yona Rubinstein, Brown University, and Sheetal Sekhri, University of Virginia, "Do Public Colleges in Developing Countries Provide Better Education than Private Ones? Evidence from General Education Sector in India"

* Jason M. Lindo and Nicholas J. Sanders, University of California, Davis, and Philip Oreopoulos, University of British Columbia and NBER, "Ability, Gender, and Performance Standards: Evidence from Academic Probation"

* Philippe Aghion, Harvard University and NBER; Mathias Dewatripont, Universite Libre de Bruxelles; Caroline M. Hoxby, Stanford University and NBER; Andreu Mas-Colell, Universitat Pompeu Fabra; and Andre Sapir, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, "The Governance and Performance of Research Universities: Evidence from Europe and the U.S." (NBER Working...