We commemorated Dr. Andrews, Associate Professor of Economics and the Endowed Fellow, Vibhooti Shukla Professor of Economics and Political Economy. This two-day conference featured scholarship that honors Dr. Andrew’s commitment to advancing equitable outcomes in higher education and in the labor market and studying factors that contribute to racial differences in income, wages, educational attainment, labor market outcomes, economic mobility, and other human capital outcomes.
| 1:00 PM | Reception & Registration |
| 2:00 PM | Welcome Remarks |
| 3:00 PM | Keynote Speaker Susan Dynarski, PhD |
| 4:00 PM | Open Forum: Remembering Dr. Andrews |
| 5:00 PM | Conclusion |
| 8:00 AM | Opening Ceremony |
| 9:00 AM | Plenary Session – Ballroom A Unpacking Gender and Race Differences in the Welfare Consequences of College Major by: Rodney Andrews, Scott Imberman, Michael Lovenheim, Patrick Massey, and Kevin Stange Who’s Matched Up? Access to Same-Race Instructors in Higher Education by: Rodney Andrews, Taylor Odle, Michael Gottfried, and Trey Miller Does Regulated Entry Requirements Lead to More Effective Principals? by: Wes Austin, Bingjie Chen, Dan Goldhaber, Eric Hanushek, Kristian L. Holden, Cory Koedel, Helen F. Ladd, Jin Luo, Eric Parsons, Gregory R. Phelan, Steven Rivkin , Tim Sass, and Mavzuna Turaeva |
| 10:45 AM | Breakout Session 1 – Room 1.131 Defiant School Choice: Empowering Educational Freedom and Access through Arkansas’s AP African American Studies by: Sarah Morris and Robert Anthony Maranto Distance to Opportunity: Higher Education Deserts and College Enrollment by: Riley Acton, Kalena Cortes, and Camila Morales Breakout Session 1 – Room 1.135 African Americans’ Individual and Collective Economic Empowerment: Identifying Stratification in the Texas System of Higher Education by: Jan E. Christopher and James B. Stewart Navigating Educational Equity: Unraveling the Interplay of Teacher Steering and Student Sorting in Desegregated Schools by: Rithika Sethi |
| 12:00 PM | Lunch |
| 1:30 PM | Breakout Session 2 – Room 1.131 Access to Education and Family Formation: Evidence from University Expansion in Nigeria by: Ifeatu Oliobi The Long Shadow of School Closures: Impacts on Students’ Educational and Labor Market Outcomes by: Jeonghyeok Kim Breakout Session 2 – Room 1.135 My department cares: Supporting college students through encouragement emails by: Danila Serra and Daniel Gomez-Vasquez Returns to Specific Graduate Degrees: Estimates Using Texas Administrative Records by: Zhengren Zhu and Joseph Altonji |
| 3:00 PM | Breakout Session 3 – Room 1.131 Federal Student Loan Repayment Rates at HBCUs and Other Institutions: Explaining the Differences by: James Koch, Deniz Baglan, and Omari Swinton As Seen on TV: The Effects of Advertising on Demand for College by: Elise Marifian Breakout Session 3 – Room 1.135 Does Investing in Schools Reduce Violent Crime? by: Jamein Cunningham, Monique Davis, and Kenneth Whaley Examining Racial Disparities in School Discipline: Pandemic Edition by: Taylor Wilson, Gema Zamarro, Kaitlin Anderson, and Sarah McKenzie |
| 4:15 PM | Closing Remarks & Refreshments – Ballroom A |