International Conference on Education Economics
Budapest, Hungary
November 21-23. 2018.
(Please note that the program might change)
Venue
The event is hosted by the Center for Economic and Regional Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, within the new Research Building of Human Sciences (MTA Humán Tudományok Kutatóháza) located at Budapest, Tóth Kálmán u. 4, 1097. Hungary (see map).
Schedule
November 21, 2018.
9:00-9:30: Registration and coffee
9:30-9:45: Welcome
9:45-10:45: Keynote: Lex Borghans, (Maastricht University) “The economics of the curriculum”
10:45-11:00: Room change
11:00-12:30: Session 1
12:30-13:30: Lunch
13:30-15:00: Session 2
15:00-15:30: Coffee break
15:30-17:30: Session 3
17:30-19:00: Reception with light snacks
November 22, 2018.
9:00-10:30: Session 4
10:30-11:00: Coffee break
11:00-12:30: Session 5
12:30-14:00: Lunch
14:00-15:30: Session 6
15:30-16:00: Coffee break
16:00-17:00: Session 7
19:00-22:00: Conference dinner (location: t.b.d.)
November 23, 2018.
9:30-11:00: Session 8
11:00-11:30: Coffee break
11:30-12:30: Keynote: Daniele Checchi, (University of Milan) “The long-term evolution of inequality of opportunity”
12:30-12:45: Farewell
12:45-14:00: Lunch and goodbye
Parallel Sessions
Nov. 21. Wednesday
| 11:00-12:30 | |
| Session 1A | Session 1B |
| School setting and child outcomes | Student characteristics |
| Daniela Piazzalunga, Elena Meroni, Chiara Pronzato
Use of extra-school time and child behaviours. Evidence from the UK |
Sergio Longobardi , Margherita Maria Pagliuca, Andrea Regoli
A quasi-experimental approach to assess the effect of experiences with money on the students’ financial literacy in OECD countries |
| Emily M McDool
Class Setting and Children’s Non-Cognitive Outcomes |
Kenneth De Beckker, Kristof De Witte, Geert Van Campenhouta
A cultural explanation of cross country differences in financial literacy |
| Anna Lovász,Ewa Cukrowska-Torzewska,Mariann Rigó,Ágnes Szabó-Morvai
Gender differences in the effect of subjective feedback |
Melvin Vooren
Which students succeed in IT education? |
| 13:30-15:00 | |
| Session 2A | Session 2B |
| Teaching technologies | School characteristic effects |
| Nathalie Lenoir, Christophe Bontemps
What can learners’ paths teach us about MOOCs? |
Thomas Wouters, Zoltán Hermann, Carla Haelermans
Demand for secondary school characteristics – Evidence from school choice data in Hungary |
| Davide Azzolini , Giovanni Abbiati, Davide Azzolini, Anja Balanskat, Katja Engelhardt, Daniela Piazzalunga, Enrico Rettore, Antonio Schizzerotto, Patricia Wastiau
Self-assessing ICT competences in teaching: the impact on perceived ability and personal views |
Koen Declercq, Sofie Cabus, Kristof De Witte
The transition from vocational secondary education to professional higher education in the Netherlands
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| Mara Soncin, Tommaso Agasisti, Giovanni Azzone
Assessing the Effect of Massive Open Online Courses as Remedial Courses in Higher Education |
Tamas Hajdu, Zoltán Hermann, Daniel Horn, Mara Soncin and Tommaso Agasisti
Causal Evidence on the Effectiveness and Efficiency of Church Schools |
| 15:30-17:00 | |
| Session 3A | Session 3B |
| Teaching | Firms/skill demand |
| Ryuichi Tanaka, Koichi Ushijima, Haruko Noguchi, Akira Kawamura, Shun-ichiro Bessho
Do Teachers Matter for Academic Achievement of Students? Evidence from Administrative Panel Data |
Melline Somers, Sofie Cabus
The Changing Demand for Skills in The Netherlands |
| Bernhofer Juliana, Mirco Tonin
The Effect of the Language of Instruction on Academic Performance |
Pusterla Filippo
The complementarity effects of organizational capital and vocational education |
| Fritz Schiltz, Deni Mazrekaj, Daniel Horn, and Kristof De Witte
The Effect of High Achieving Peers Leaving The Class: |
Maria Esther Oswald-Egg, M. Siegenthaler
How does immigration affect firm sponsored general training? |
| Chris van Klaveren, Ilja Cornelisz
Teacher Discretion in Grading Standardized Exams: Stakes and Information in Dutch Secondary Education |
Sofie Cabus, Eszter Nagy
Performance of Hungarian firms: are apprentices an asset or a liability? Evidence from a unique matched employer-employee dataset |
Nov. 22. Thursday
| 9:00-10:30 | |
| Session 4A | Session 4B |
| Parents and child outcomes | Mobility/transfers |
| Montezuma B. G. Dumangane, Luisa Ara ́ujo, Patricia Costa, Nuno Crato
Early Parental Reading or Reading for Pleasure: what matters most for boys and girls? |
Antonio Di Paolo, Lorenzo Cappellari, Ramon Caminal
Linguistic skills and the intergenerational transmission of language |
| Julia Sonnenburg, Carolin Fritzsche
Does Home Ownership by Parents have an Impact on their Children’s Educational Attainment? – Evidence from Germany |
Lauren McInally
Geographical Mobility in Higher Education |
| Deni Mazrekaj, Kristof De Witte, Sofie Cabus
School Outcomes of Children Raised by Same-Sex Couples: Evidence from Administrative Panel Data |
Jasmina Berbegal Mirabent, Dolors Gil-Doménech, Eva de la Torre
Exploring technology transfer patterns among Spanish universities |
| 11:00-12:30 | |
| Session 5A | Session 5B |
| Student outcomes | Student aspirations |
| Kristof De Witte, Mike Smet, Ruben Van Assche
The impact of additional funds for schools with disadvantaged pupils: A regression discontinuity design |
Heß Pascal, Silke Anger, Max Kunaschk
Minimum Wages and Teenagers’ Educational Aspirations |
| Giovanna D’Inverno, Kristof De Witte, Mike Smet
The effect of additional resources for disadvantaged students: Evidence from a conditional efficiency model |
Arthur-Felix Sawadogo
Analysis of the determinants of entrepreneurial intention: the case of Burkina Faso |
| Jose Manuel Cordero Ferrera,Víctor Cristóbal, María Gil
Teaching strategies and their effect on student achievement: A cross-country study using data from PISA 2015 |
Luis Díaz Serrano, Alexandrina P. Stoyanova
Is there a Link between Body Mass Index, Students’ Expectations and Cognitive Achievement? |
| 14:00-15:30 | |
| Session 6A | Session 6B |
| Early childhood effects | Methodology |
| Tamás Hajdu, Gábor Kertesi and Gábor Kézdi
Health Differences at Birth between Roma and Non-Roma Children in Hungary Long-Run Trends and Decompositions |
Chiara Masci
EM algorithm for non-parametric mixed-effects models. An application to INVALSI data for unsupervised classification of Italian schools. |
| Dániel Horn, Ágnes Szabó-Morvai, Anna Lovász, Kristof De Witte
Human Capital Effects of Kindergarten and School Enrolment Timing |
Jose Manuel Cordero Ferrera, Juan Aparicioa, Lidia Ortiza
How to deal with plausible values in efficiency analysis with international large-scale assessment data |
| Ágnes Szabó-Morvai, Anna Lovász
Childcare and Maternal Labor Supply – a Cross-Country Analysis of Quasi-Experimental Estimates from 7 Countries |
Gabriela Sicilia, Daniel Santin
Beyond the average treatment effect: using production frontiers to evaluate RCTs in education |
| 16:00-17:00 | |
| Session 7A | Session 7B |
| School-career transition factors | Educational system performance |
| Alessia Matano, Di Paolo A.
The impact of working while studying on the academic and labour market performance of graduates: the joint role of work intensity and job-field match |
Rosa Simancas Rodríguez, Cristina Polo, Gabriela Sicilia
Equity and Efficiency in the Spanish Educational System: Regional Comparison Based on PISA 2015 |
| Ines Albandea
The Employer Perception of Non-linear Educational Pathways A Vignette Study with French Employers |
Alice Bertoletti, Tommaso Agasisti
Analysing the determinants of Higher Education Systems’ performance in a multidimensional perspective – a Structural Equation Modelling approach |
Nov. 23. Friday
| Nov23 | |
| 9:00-11:00 | |
| Session 8A | Session 8B |
| School segregation | Cross country analyses |
| Thomas Wouters
Freedom of school choice vs diversity |
Daniel Santin, Juan Aparicio, Sergio Perelman
Comparing the Evolution of Productivity Gaps in Education with PISA: The case of Latin-American countries |
| Carlos Roberto Azzoni , Gabriel Leite, Fernanda Gonçalves De La Fuente Estevan
Estimating the returns to higher education selectivity in Brazil |
Jasmina Berbegal Mirabent,Tommaso Agasisti
Cross-country analysis of higher education institutions’ efficiency: The role of strategic positioning |
| Sóvágó Sándor, Hessel Oosterbeek, Bas van der Klaauw
Identifying the sources of school segregation |
Audrone Jakaitienė, Antanas Žilinskas, Dovilė Stumbrienė
Analysis of Education Systems Performance in European Countries: PCA-DEA approach |
