Organizers:

Julie L. Hotchkiss, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and Georgia State University

Session Chairs:

Gerald S. Oettinger, University of Texas - Austin

Papers:

"A Cohort-Based Model of the Labor Force Participation Rate"
Bruce Fallick, Federal Reserve Board
Jonathan F. Pingle, Federal Reserve Board

"Family Labor Supply and Economic Downturns: Does Consumption Smoothing Explain the Lessened Severity of Recessions?"
Donna K. Ginther, University of Kansas
M. Melinda Pitts, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

"Asymmetrical Labor Force Participation Decisions Over the Business Cycle"
Julie L. Hotchkiss, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and Georgia State University
John C. Robertson, Vice President and Senior Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Discussants:

Mark Schweitzer, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
Christopher R. Bollinger, University of Kentucky
Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics