Events Detail

 THE CENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT POLICY

held a conference on

Improving Education and Earnings

For Low-Income Students

Wednesday, January 21, 2009, 9:30 a.m. to noon

Hudson Institute: Betsy and Walter Stern Conference Center

1015 15th Street, N.W., 6^th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20005

Although postsecondary education is now essential for getting a high-paying job, students from low-income families are underrepresented at every milestone in the educational pipeline.  This limits their ability to break the intergenerational transmission of poverty. What educational pathways lead to high-paying careers that may improve social mobility?

CNA Senior Economist Louis Jacobson and CNA Research Analyst Christine Mokher presented new evidence from the State of Florida in a study funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation that relates educational achievement to earnings. Click here to view their presentation. Their findings are summarized in a report issued by Hudson Institute and CNA, Pathways to Boosting the Earnings of Low-Income Students by Increasing Their Educational Attainment. The report can be found here.

Panel discussants included: Professor Thomas Bailey, Columbia University Teachers College; Professor Anthony Carnevale, Georgetown University; Chester E. Finn, Thomas B. Fordham Foundation; Diana Furchtgott-Roth, Hudson Institute; and Frederick Hess, American Enterprise Institute.

Measuring the Earnings Effects of Education

9:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.

Presenters:    Louis Jacobson, CNA

      Christine Mokher, CNA

Discussants:  Thomas Bailey, Columbia University Teachers College

Moderator:    Diana Furchtgott-Roth, Hudson Institute

Coffee Break

Recommendations for Education Policy

11:00 a.m. – noon

Presenters:    Anthony Carnevale, Georgetown University

                     Chester E. Finn, Thomas B. Fordham Foundation

                     Diana Furchtgott-Roth, Hudson Institute

                     Frederick Hess, American Enterprise Institute

Moderator:    Louis Jacobson, CNA   

To request information, please contact Hudson Institute at 202.974.6451 or e-mail Astha Shrestha at Astha@Hudson.org.

Hudson's Center for Employment Policy is grateful to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for the funding of this research.