Program
Date:
- Day 1: 26 September 2024 (09:00 - 14:15)
- Day 2: 27 September 2024 (09:30- 14:00)
Venue:
- UNSW Sydney – Business Lounge, Level 6, UNSW Business School (E12) and via Teams
| DAY 1: | THURSDAY 26TH SEPTEMBER 2024 |
| 09:00 – 09:25 | Arrival and Registration, Refreshments |
| 09:25 – 09:30 | Welcome to Country – Mr. Lloyd Walker |
| 09:30 – 09:45 | Welcome to the 2024 STEP UP conference @ UNSW Business School Carlos Pimienta (Head of the School of Economics, UNSW Sydney) |
| 09:45 – 10:30 | Math Matters: Education Choices and Wage Inequality Presenter: Michelle Rendall (Monash University) |
| 10:30 – 11:15 | College Majors and Skill Mismatch in Labour Markets Presenter: Satoshi Tanaka (University of Queensland) |
| 11:15 – 11:45 | MORNING TEA |
| 11:45 – 12:30 | Family Background and Returns to Higher Education: Evidence from Australian Administrative Data Presenter: Sarah Dahmann (University of Melbourne) |
| 12:30 – 13:15 | The Impact of Parental Cancer on Early Childhood Development: Evidence from Australian Administrative Data Presenter: Maryam Naghsh Nejad (UTS) |
| 13:15 – 14:15 | LUNCH |
| DAY 2: | FRIDAY 27TH SEPTEMBER 2024 |
| 09:30 – 10:15 | Explicit Instruction Presenter: Richard Holden (UNSW) |
| 10:15 – 11:00 | Female Top Performers are more Impactful Peer Role Models than Males, Teachers Say Presenter: Panos Sotirakopoulos (Curtin University) |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | MORNING TEA |
| 11:30 – 12:15 | The Effects of Affirmative Action for Women in Male-Dominated STEM fields at University Presenter: Juliana Silva Goncalves (USyd) |
| 12:15 – 13:00 | KEYNOTE: School Management Takeovers, Leadership Change, and Personnel Policy Presenter: Victor Lavy (University of Warwick, Hebrew University of Jerusalem) |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | LUNCH |
| CONCLUSION OF CONFERENCE |
