2007 Sessions for William A. Darity, Jr.

 
Tuesday
8:00 - 9:45 a.m.
SEA
Session 17G
Economic Perspectives on Fertility and the Family

Organizers:

Susan Williams McElroy, University of Texas at Dallas
William E. Spriggs, Howard University

Session Chairs:

Susan Williams McElroy, University of Texas at Dallas

Papers:

"Economies of Scale in the Household: Evidence and Implications from the American Past"
Trevon D Logan, The Ohio State University and NBER (Contact Author)

"Family Size and 'Sibling Subsidization': Evidence from Rural India"
Sumanta (Ronnie) Mukherjee, University of Kansas (Contact Author)
William A. Darity, Jr., Duke University


 
Tuesday
10:00 - 11:45 a.m.
SEA
Session 17H
Marriage, Fertility, Race, and Economic Outcomes

Organizers:

Susan Williams McElroy, University of Texas at Dallas
William E. Spriggs, Howard University

Session Chairs:

William E. Spriggs, Howard University

Papers:

"Declining Fertility of Married African American Women"
William E. Spriggs, Howard University
Susan Williams McElroy, University of Texas at Dallas (Contact Author)

"Is the Emerging Black Middle Class Never-Married and Living Alone?: The 'Love Jones Cohort'"
Kris Marsh, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Contact Author)
William A. Darity, Jr., Duke University
Philip Cohen, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Lynne Casper, University of Southern California
Danielle Salters, Duke University

"Shedding ‘Light’ On Marriage: The Influence of Skin Shade in Marriage Markets"
Arthur H. Goldsmith, Washington and Lee University
Darrick Hamilton, Milano--The New School for Management and Urban Policy (Contact Author)
William A. Darity, Jr., Duke University

"The Male Marital Wage Differential: Race, Training, and Fixed Effects"
William M. Rodgers, III, Rutgers University-Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy (Contact Author)
Leslie Stratton, Virginia Commonwealth University


 
Tuesday
2:00 - 3:45 p.m.
SEA
Session 20K
African-Americans, Hispanics and the Labor Market

Session Chairs:

Gabriel Picone, University of South Florida

Papers:

"Correspondence Testing of Racial Discrimination in Oklahoma Labor Markets"
Jonathan Robert McFadden, University of Oklahoma (Contact Author)
Aparna Mitra, University of Oklahoma

"Human Capital and Black-White Interracial Marriage"
Deniz Gevrek, University of Texas at Austin (Contact Author)

"Reparations for African Americans as a Transfer Problem: A Cautionary Tale"
William A. Darity, Jr., Duke University
Bidisha Lahiri, Oklahoma State University (Contact Author)

"Self-Employment and Ethnicity: The Case of Hispanics in the United States"
John Lunn, Hope College (Contact Author)
Todd Steen, Hope College

Discussants:

Khusrav Gaibulloev, University of Texas at Dallas
Jayanta Sarkar, Louisiana Tech University


 
Tuesday
4:00 - 5:45 p.m.
SEA
Session 10L
The Economics of Higher Education

Session Chairs:

Bradley Curs, University of Missouri-Columbia

Papers:

"Teaching-Learning Process and Personality Type in the Business Classroom"
Sandra Trejos, Clarion University of Pennsylvania (Contact Author)

"Does Participation in Campus Recreation and Intramural Activities Improve GPA Production Among College Students?"
Godfrey A. Gibbison, Georgia Southern University (Contact Author)
R. Jayne Brown, Georgia Southern University
Eugene Sherry, Georgia Southern University

"Where the Doctorates Are: Doctorate Production in the Social Sciences and Humanities 1966 – 2005"
William A. Darity, Jr., Duke University
Rhonda Vonshay Sharpe, University of Vermont (Contact Author)

"Is There Value Added from Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Social Sciences?"
William A. Darity, Jr., Duke University
Rhonda Vonshay Sharpe, University of Vermont
Omari H. Swinton, Howard University (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Omari H. Swinton, Howard University
Bradley Curs, University of Missouri-Columbia


 
Wednesday
8:00 - 9:45 a.m.
SEA
Session 21N
Diversity and Inequality in Education

Session Chairs:

Gabriel Picone, University of South Florida

Papers:

"Impact of School Finance Reform on Resource Equalization and Academic Performance: Evidence from Michigan"
Joydeep Roy, Economic Policy Institute and Georgetown University (Contact Author)

"Faculty Diversity in Higher Education: What Do We Know?"
William A. Darity, Jr., Duke University (Contact Author)
Bernard Holloway, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

"Within and Between Gender Disparities in Income and Education Benefits from Democracy"
Ruth Uwaifo, Georgia Institute of Technology (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Gabriel Picone, University of South Florida
Ruth Uwaifo, Georgia Institute of Technology


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