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CERGE-EI conference program

On the Relationships Between

Skills, Schooling and Labor Market Outcomes

16 – 17 September 2014, Prague, CERGE-EI, Politickych veznu 7, 2nd floor, room #8

(typical presentation expects ~30 min + 10 min discussant + 10 discussion)

Draft papers are linked for downloads  from here at
http://home.cerge-ei.cz/lvavrova/skills/skills2014.html
If papers are not posted, discussant and authors are encouraged to coordinate using e-mail addresses below

 

Tuesday, 16 September 2014

 

09:15 - 10:00       Registration and informal get together coffee & cake

 

10:00 – 10:30      Welcome & Introduction & Instructions (CERGE-EI director and Daniel Münich)

 

10:30 – 10:50        CLoSE – (Czech Longitudinal Study in Education) Cohort 2 – Transition to lower-secondary academic track and to upper-secondary education - Outline of longitudinal data collection (David Greger).

 

10:50 – 11:30        Factors affecting the transition of fifth graders to an eight-year gymnasium (Jana Straková). Discussant: Zoltán Hermann.

 

11:30 - 11:50         CLoSE – (Czech Longitudinal Study in Education) Cohort 1 – Transition from preprimary to primary education- Outline of longitudinal data collection (Jana Straková).

 

11:50 – 12:30        Reasoning behind parents’ choice to postpone child´s school attendance in the Czech Republic. (David Greger). Discussant: Mikolaj Herbst.

 

12:30 - 15:00       LUNCH (buffet in room #9 + individual administrative issues)

 

15:00 - 16:00         Testing, grading, selecting: admission s to selective schools. (Miroslava Federičová and Tomáš Protivínský). Discussant: Daniel Horn.

 

16:00 - 17:00         The long term effects of early educational selection – a quasi-natural policy experiment from Hungary (Daniel Horn): Discussant: Miroslava Federičová.

 
17:00 - 18:00       School Accountability Rating Shocks, Achievement, and School  Choice  (Patrick Baude) Discussant: Daniel Horn.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wednesday, 17 September 2014

 

08:40 - 09:00       Coffee & cake gathering

 

09:00 - 10:00         Occupational mobility in the Czech Republic and Slovakia: the role of education and other factors. (Hana Říhová and Tereza Vavřinová). Discussant: Mikolaj Herbst.

 

10:00 - 11:00         The effect of educational tracks and better schools on student achievement: Evidence from upper secondary education in Hungary. (Zoltán Hermann). Discussant: Patrick Baude.

 

11:00 - 12:00         Does The Study Abroad Experience Affect Attitudes Towards Other Nationalities? (Jana Cahlíková). Discussant: Zoltán Hermann.

 

12:00 - 13:00         Returns to education in Central European countries: transitory effect of transition (Jiří Večerník). Discussant: Daniel Münich.

 

13:00 - 14:30       LUNCH (buffet in room #9)

 

14:30 - 15:30         The earlier the better? Evidence from lowering school starting age in Poland (Mikolaj Herbst). Discussant: David Greger.

 

15:30 – 16:30        Cognitive skills in decisions under compound risk and ambiguity. (Sasha Prokosheva). Discussant: Patrick Baude.

 

16:30 - 17:00       Concluding notes.

 

 


Thursday, 18 September 2014 10:00 - 12:00am

Public keynote talk by

Prof. Eric A. Hanushek (Stanford University)

The Economic Returns to a Good Teacher

hosted by

Daniel Münich (IDEA at CERGE-EI)

 !!!! Register well in advance to secure a seat at here* !!!!

* http://www.cerge-ei.cz/highlights/public-lecture-prof-hanushek 

 

 

List of active participants

 

Baude, Patrick

pbaude2@uic.edu

Cahlíková, Jana

janacahlikova@gmail.com

Federičová, Miroslava

miroslava.federicova@cerge-ei.cz

Greger, David

david.greger@pedf.cuni.cz

Hanushek, Eric

hanushek@stanford.edu

Herbst, Mikolaj

mherbst@uw.edu.pl

Hermann, Zoltán

hermann@econ.core.hu

Horn, Daniel

horn.daniel@krtk.mta.hu

Münich, Daniel

daniel.Munich@cerge-ei.cz

Straková, Jana

xstrakovaj@seznam.cz

Prokosheva, Sasha

aprokosheva@gmail.com

Protivínský, Tomáš

tomas.protivinsky@cerge-ei.cz

Říhová, Hana

rihova@nvf.cz

Vavřinová, Tereza

vavrinova@nvf.cz

Večerník, Jiří

jiri.vecernik@soc.cas.cz

Conference logistics: Lenka.Vavrova@cerge-ei.cz; +420 - 224 005 153

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