APPAM 2017 Fall Research Conference

Education Policy Initiative Panel Presentations
APPAM Fall 2017, Hyatt Regency Chicago

Thursday, November 2, 2017

Panel: Schools, Neighborhoods, and Inequality: Lessons from Magnets, Charters, and School Desegregation
8:30-10:00 am, Comiskey
Discussant: Joshua Hyman

Panel: College Enrollment, Internships and Success
8:30-10:00 am, Soldier Field
Discussant: Kevin Stange
Panel Paper: Choosing Charter Schools in North Carolina: What Do Parents Value?
10:15-11:45 am, Horner
Helen Ladd, Charles Clotfelter, Steven W. Hemelt and Mavzuna Turaeva

Panel: New Evidence on the Effects of Teachers’ Unions on Student Outcomes, Teacher Labor Markets, and the Allocation of School Resources
10:15-11:45 am, Comiskey
Panel Organizer: Joshua Hyman

Panel Paper:  School Finance Reforms, Teachers’ Unions, and the Allocation of School Resources
10:15-11:45 am, Comiskey
Eric Brunner, Joshua Hyman and Andrew Ju

Poster Paper: More Gains Than Score Gains? High School Accountability and College Success
12:00-1:30 pm, Regency Ballroom
Daniel Hubbard

Panel Paper: Sustaining Impacts of High-Quality PreK through Third Grade: Lessons from a Partnership with the Boston Public School District
1:45-3:15 pm, Soldier Field
Meghan McCormick, Christina Weiland, JoAnn Hsueh and Jacob Sachs

Panel Paper: Education Policy and Mental Health
1:45-3:15 pm, Comiskey
Joshua Hyman

Panel Paper: All Work and No Play? Evidence on Instructional Time in Kindergarten from New York City Public Schools
1:45-3:15 pm, Acapulco
Amy Claessens, Mimi Engel and Robin Tepper Jacob

Panel: Measuring Social-Emotional Learning in Public Education Systems: Findings from the First Large-Scale Panel Survey of Students
3:30-5:00 pm, San Francisco
Discussant: Brian Jacob

Friday, November 3, 2017

Panel: Unpacking Charter School Effects
8:30-10:00 am, Gold Coast
Panel Organizer: Silvia Ceballos Robles

Panel Paper: Estimating the Effects of a Large Network of For-Profit Charter Schools
8:30-10:00 am, Gold Coast
Silvia Ceballos Robles, Susan Dynarski, Daniel Hubbard and Brian Jacob

Panel: High School to College Transitions
8:30-10:00 am, Columbian
Discussant: Kevin Stange 

Panel Paper: Dual-Credit Courses and the Road to College: Experimental Evidence from Tennessee
8:30-10:00 am, Columbian
Steven Hemelt, Nathaniel Schwartz and Susan Dynarski

Panel Paper: Trajectories of Student Disadvantage: Unpacking Free/Reduced Price Lunch Eligibility Across Childhood
10:15-11:45 am, Water Tower
Peter Rich and Katherine Michelmore

Panel Paper: Lessons from the Implementation of Three K-12 Career Technical Education Programs for Understanding Sectoral and Career Pathways Training for Youth
1:30-3:00 pm, Wrigley
Rachel Rosen

Special Events: Education and Economic Mobility: What Have We Learned?
3:15-4:45 pm, Comiskey
Speakers: Susan Dynarski, Lashawn Richburg-Hayes and Judith Scott-Clayton

Roundtable: What Can We Learn from Experimental and Non-Experimental Evaluations of the Workforce Investment Act?
3:15-4:45 pm, Stetson E
Speaker: Jeffrey Smith

Panel Paper: The Supply-Side Response to Increased Demand for Higher Education: Case Study Evidence from Four Michigan Community Colleges
3:15-4:45 pm, Columbian
Kevin Stange, John Bound and Jeffrey Smith

Panel Paper: Does Cooperating Teachers’ Instructional Effectiveness Improve Preservice Teachers’ Future Performance?
3:15-4:45 pm, Wrigley
Matthew Ronfeldt, Stacey Brockman and Shanyce Campbell

Panel Paper: Cooperating Teacher as Model and Coach: A District-Wide Portrait
3:15-4:45 pm, Wrigley
Kavita Kapadia Matsko, Matthew Ronfeldt, Hillary Greene, Joshua Klugman, Michelle Reininger and Stacey Brockman

Special Events: Presidential Address & APPAM Awards
5:00 PM-6:30 PM, Crystal B

Special Events: Spencer Reception
6:30 PM-8:00 PM, Crystal Ballroom A,C, and Foyer

Saturday, November 4, 2017   

Panel: Ways to Improve Teacher Performance
8:30-10:00 am, Picasso
Panel Chair: Christina Weiland

Panel: School Finance and Equity in the Age of
Ambitious School Reform: Evidence from California, Kentucky, and Michigan
10:15-11:45 am, Comiskey
Panel Organizer: Sarah Cannon

Panel Paper: Money Blowing Through: The Effect of Wind Development on School Finances
10:15-11:45 am, Comiskey
Sarah Cannon and Sarah B. Mills

Panel: Meeting All Parents Where They Are: A New Generation of Strengths-Based Technology Interventions
10:15-11:45 am, Stetson BC
Panel Organizer: Christina Weiland

Panel Paper: Text-Based Mentoring to Support Positive Child Development and Maternal Health and Well Being
10:15-11:45 am, Stetson BC
Eleanor Martin, Christina Weiland and Lindsay Page

Panel: Accountability, Funding, and Outcomes in Education
10:15-11:45 am, Columbian
Discussant: Daniel Hubbard

Panel: Experimental Evidence on the Effect of Information on Prospective College Students
10:15-11:45 am, Water Tower
Panel Chair: Silvia Ceballos Robles
Discussant: Katherine Michelmore

Panel Paper: Making Information Work for Low-Income Students in College Choice: Experimental Evidence Under Centralized Admissions
10:15-11:45 am, Water Tower
Xiaoyang Ye, Yanqing Ding, Liping Ma, Yindue Wu, Jim Yang

Panel Paper: Virtual Course-Taking and Credit-Recovery in Florida
1:45-3:15 pm, Columbian
Daniel Berger, Cassandra Hart, Brian Jacob and Susanna Loeb

Panel: College Readiness: Skills, Assessment, and Remediation
1:45-3:15 pm, Water Tower
Discussant: Silvia Ceballos Robles

Panel: The Impact of Policy, Accountability, and Funders on Institutional Behavior
3:30-5:00 pm Columbian
Discussant: Thomas Goldring

Panel Paper: Admissions Matching Mechanism and College Choice: Natural Experimental Evidence from 30 Million Chinese High School Graduates
3:30-5:00 pm, Water Tower
Prashant Loyalka and Xiaoyang Ye

• economics
• Education
• socioeconomics