A Reconciliation Conference on School Quality and Educational Outcome to be held at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA., December 1994

该项目将于12月15日至16日在马萨诸塞州剑桥市举行一次会议，以协调关于学校质量对学生成绩和就业收入的影响的不同结果。这些文献构成了人力资本工作的主要组成部分，SBER发起了一项重大研究倡议。会议将邀请以下论文：试图使用相同的数据集复制以前的结果，但不同的调查人员；在不同的数据集上估计相同的模型；在迄今没有使用的新数据集上估计以前使用的模型；以及通常旨在协调过去收集的相互矛盾的结果。数据集的共享将是本次会议提交的论文的一个重要特点。领先的经济学实证期刊《经济学与统计评论》已经同意在会议论文上专门发表一期文章。该项目有可能鼓励其他期刊发表以前发表的研究的复制品，并鼓励经济学家分享他们的数据并相互复制彼此的工作。

This project is to hold a conference on December 15-16 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to reconcile the diverse results concerning the effect of school quality on student achievement and employment earnings. This literature forms a major component of the work on Human Capital, which SBER has launched a major research initiative. The conference will invite papers which attempt to replicate prior results using the same data set, but different investigators; which estimate the same model on different data sets; which estimate previous used models on new data sets not used heretofor; and which generally aim to reconcile the past collection of conflicting results. The sharing of data sets will be an important feature of the papers presented at this conference. The leading empirical journal in economics, The Review of Economics and Statistics, has agreed to devote an issue on the conference papers. This project has the potential of encouraging other journals to publish replications of previously published studies and of encouraging economists to share their data and replicate each other's work.