Session Chairs:

Timothy M. Diette, Washington and Lee University

Papers:

"The Patriot Act and Wealth Transfers: Is There a Link?"
Burak Dolar, University of Mississippi (Contact Author)

"Active Pension Participation and Household Wealth Accumulation: Evidence of Learning by Doing"
Rana Bose, University of Georgia (Contact Author)

"What Role for the Elasticity of Substitution in Economic Growth? A Cross-Country Test of the Grandville Hypothesis"
Debdulal Mallick, Emory University (Contact Author)

"On the Implication of Measures of Persistence for the Unobserved Component Model"
Daisuke Nagakura, University of Washington (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Clifford F. Thies, Shenandoah University
Kara E. Levine, Washington and Lee University

Organizers:

Arthur H. Goldsmith, Washington and Lee University

Session Chairs:

Arthur H. Goldsmith, Washington and Lee University

Papers:

"Who Are You? Identity and the Empirical Link Between Race and Wages"
Arthur H. Goldsmith, Washington and Lee University
Darrick Hamilton, The New School
William A. Darity, Jr., Boshamer Professor, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill and Duke University

"Intentions and Social Interactions"
J. Atsu Amegashie, University of Guelph (Contact Author)

"The Economics of Identity: The Origin and Persistence of Racial Norms"
Patrick L. Mason, Florida State University
William A. Darity, Jr., Boshamer Professor, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill and Duke University
James Stewart, Pennsylvania State University

Discussants:

Sudeshna Maitra, York University
Kara E. Levine, Washington and Lee University
Timothy M. Diette, Washington and Lee University

Session Chairs:

Joydeep Roy, Economic Policy Institute and Georgetown University

Papers:

"Test Scores, High School Achievement, and Academic Performance in College"
Gerald S. Oettinger, University of Texas - Austin (Contact Author)

"Can State Merit Aid Programs Have Unintended Consequences? A Closer Look"
Rajashri Chakrabarti, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Joydeep Roy, Economic Policy Institute and Georgetown University (Contact Author)

"Involuntary Volunteering: The Impact of Mandated Service in Public Schools"
Sara E. Helms, University of Alabama - Birmingham (Contact Author)

"Social Interactions and College Enrollment"
Jason M. Fletcher, Yale University (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Spencer Banzhaf, Georgia State University
Timothy M. Diette, Washington and Lee University

Session Chairs:

Timothy M. Diette, Washington and Lee University

Papers:

"The Roles of Socio-Demographic and Policy Variables in Food Stamp Program Participation and Food Insecurity"
Margaret Andrews, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Steven T. Yen, University of Tennessee - Knoxville (Contact Author)

"The Effect of Disability Insurance on Spousal Labor Supply"
Susan Chen, Purdue University (Contact Author)

"TANF Program Reentry Among Recent Leavers: The Role of Neighborhood and Access to Employment"
Shiferaw Gurmu, Georgia State University
William J. Smith, University of West Georgia (Contact Author)

"Empowering Immigrant Women Against Domestic Violence in USA - With Special Reference to Indian Immigrant Women"
Jagdeep Kaur Gill, Sher-E-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences & Technology (Contact Author)
Vibhuti Mehra, Narika

Discussants:

Timothy M. Diette, Washington and Lee University
Joseph Calhoun, Florida State University