Course Info
Lecturers: Marc Gurgand (MG) and Edwin Leuven (EL)
Lecture Slides
- 22/10/2010 (MG) - Human Capital Theory
Presentation: Yannick Dupraz (on Maurin and McNally "Vive la Révolution! Long term returns of 1968 to the angry students") pdf
- 29/10/2010 (MG) - Returns to Schooling
- 05/11/2010 (EL) - How education affects health and crime
Presentation: Marianne Bléhaut, Paola Villar (on Clark and Royer "The Effect of Education on Adult Health
and Mortality: Evidence from Britain"). pdf
- 19/11/2010 - (EL) Incentives
Presentation: Anne Pratx, Kathleen Berche (on Bandiera, Larcinese and Rasul "Blissful Ignorance? Evidence From a Natural
Experiment on The Effect of Individual Feedback on Performance") pdf
- 26/11/2010 - (EL) Class size and resources
Presentation: Céline Decamp (on Ding & Lehrer "Estimating Treatment Effects from Contaminated Multiperiod
Education Experiments: The Dynamic Impacts of Class Size Reductions") pdf
- 03/12/2010 - (EL) Teachers
Presentation: Perrin Levebvre (on Kane, Taylor, Tyler and Wooten "Identifying Effective
Classroom Practices Using Student Achievement Data")
- 10/12/2010 - (EL) Early Schooling
Presentation: Pierre Lamarche, Bertrand Garbinti (on Havnes & Mogstad "No Child Left Behind: Universal Child Care and
Children's Long-Run Outcomes") pdf
- 17/12/2010 - (EL) Peer effects
Presentation: Adrien Bouguen, Irena Clavijo (on Chetty, Friedman, Hilger, Saez, Whitmore Schanzenbach and Yagan "How
Does Your Kindergarten Classroom Affect Your Earnings?") pdf
- 07/01/2011 (MG) - Demand for Education and Liquidity Constraints
Presentation: Mauricio Nakahodo and Perrier Fouelefack (Dynarski on "Does Aid Matter? Measuring the Effect of Student Aid on College Attendance
and Completion") pdf
- 14/01/2011 (MG) - Public provision, school choice and vouchers
Presentation: G. Benabdeljelil (on Boustan, "Schooling desegregation and urban change" pdf
Presentation: S. Sakalli and N. Faye will (on Holmes, Desimone and Rupp, "Does school choice increase school quality?")
- 21/01/2011 (MG) - Economic growth and externalities
Presentation: Hélène L'Huillier (on Aghion, Boustan, Hoxby and Vandenbussche, "Exploiting States' Mistakes to Estimate the Causal Impact of Education on Growth") pdf