Program Highlight | Winter 2007-2008
What Can the United States Learn from Chile's Reforms?
DATE: Friday, February 15, 2008
TIME: 10am-5pm
LOCATION: Room 1512, International Affairs Building, Columbia University
The theme of the panel will be the lessons that Chile has to offer American policymakers-for many of the policy-related ideas and topics currently under discussion in the U.S., conversations remain at a theoretical level (e.g., pension reform) or, at best, with data from small scale implementations (e.g., school vouchers). But Chile has taken these reforms on at a national level-and we believe it is important to get these results out to a wider audience here in the United States. Additionally, part of the purpose of the panel is to highlight the newly approved QMSS/SIPA-MPA dual degree. This program will be sponsored by QMSS, ISERP, SIPA, and ILAS.
Conference Schedule
Economics, Trade and Politics
10am-12pm
Introduction to Chile and Its Changes
Thomas Trebat, Institute for Latin American Studies
Title To Be Announced
Patricio Navia, Center for Latin American and Carribbean Studies, New York University
"The Economics of the Chilean 'Miracle'? Is It Economics? What Lies Ahead?"
Daniel Lederman, Senior Economist in the World Bank's Office of the Chief Economist
Pension Reform
1pm-2pm
Title To Be Announced
Stephen Kay, Latin America Research Group at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Education Reform
2:30pm-5pm
"Inequality of Educational Opportunity over time in Chile"
Florencia Torche, Department of Sociology, New York University
"School choice, stratification, and information on school performance:
Lessons from Chile"
Miguel Urquiola, Department of Economics, Columbia University
"Educational Choice in Chile"
Greg Elacqua, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, Princeton University
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