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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
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Baude, Patrick |
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Cahlíková, Jana |
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Federičová, Miroslava |
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Greger, David |
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Hanushek, Eric |
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Herbst, Mikolaj |
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Hermann, Zoltán |
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Horn, Daniel |
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Münich, Daniel |
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Straková, Jana |
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Prokosheva, Sasha |
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Protivínský, Tomáš |
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Říhová, Hana |
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Vavřinová, Tereza |
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Večerník, Jiří |
Conference logistics: Lenka.Vavrova@cerge-ei.cz;
+420 - 224 005 153
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