LESE 2024 : Lisbon Economics and Statistics of Education

Lisbon Economics and Statistics of
Education (LESE) will take place in ISEG Lisbon, Portugal, on the 18th and 19th of
January 2024. This 7th Lisbon Research Workshop on Economics,
Statistics, and Econometrics of Education will be held face-to-face and
will continue our very successful tradition of getting together
researchers, students, and education analysts, providing a forum to
present methodological and applied research and to discuss quantitative
results on education analysis.



The conference will include keynote speakers, roundtables, contributed
parallel sessions, organized sessions, and a short course on the machine
learning methods in education.



The keynote talks will be given by:

Simon Burgess (University of Bristol, UK)
Susan Dynarski (Harvard Graduate School of Education, USA)


There will be two roundtables:

“What PIRLS 2021 and PISA 2022 Tell Us About Pandemic Learning Losses”
with Harry Anthony Patrinos (moderator, World Bank), Kristoff De Witte
(KU Leuven), Maciej Jakubowski (University of Warsaw and Evidence
Institute), João Marôco (ISPA)

“After the Pandemic: What It Will Take to Improve National Education
Systems” with Nuno Crato (moderator, ISEG), Tommaso Agasisti
(Polytechnic University of Milan), Noam Angrist (University of Oxford),
Carla Hearlemans (Maastricht University)


Additionally, we will have a short course on the 17th of January 2024 on
Machine Learning in Education. This course will be taught by Tommaso
Agasisti (Polytechnic University of Milan).