Session Chairs:

John Robst, University of South Florida

Papers:

"Why Older American Business Owners Have a Longer Life Expectancy?"
Huan Ni, Kennesaw State University (Contact Author)
Govind Hariharan, Kennesaw State University

"Explain Individual Retirement Expectations Using Measures of Health Dynamics"
Hugo Benitez-Silva, Stony Brook University
Huan Ni, Kennesaw State University (Contact Author)

"Welfare Spending and Mortality Rates for the Elderly Before the Social Security Era"
Nicolae Adrian Stoian, University of Arizona (Contact Author)
Price Fishback, University of Arizona

"Does Happiness Affect Individual Economic Behavior? Evidence from Surveys from Netherlands and Germany"
Cahit Guven, University of Houston (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Sean P Corcoran, New York University
Javed Younas, Central Michigan University

Session Chairs:

Julie Trivitt, Arkansas Tech University

Papers:

"School Quality, House Prices and Liquidity"
Velma Zahirovic-Herbert, University of Georgia (Contact Author)
Geoffrey K Turnbull, Georgia State University

"Efficiency Analysis of Public Education in Illinois"
Paul D. Melvin, Southern Illinois University Carbondale (Contact Author)
Subhash C. Sharma, Southern Illinois University Carbondale

"The Intended and Unintended Consequences of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act: Evidence from Wisconsin"
Rajashri Chakrabarti, Federal Reserve Bank of New York (Contact Author)

"A Multiple-Models Assessment for Risk of Dropping Out of School"
John Robst, University of South Florida (Contact Author)

"Discount Rates and Drop-Outs Rates: Children's View of the Future"
Jeffrey L. Jordan, University of Georgia (Contact Author)
Ragan Petrie, Georgia State University
Marco Castillo, Georgia Institute of Technology
Paul J. Ferraro, Georgia State University

Discussants:

John Robst, University of South Florida
Julie Trivitt, Arkansas Tech University

Session Chairs:

Sandra Trejos, Clarion University of Pennsylvania

Papers:

"Literacy and Numeracy Production and Education Sector Reform: Evidence from Ghana"
Niels-Hugo Blunch, Washington and Lee University (Contact Author)

"Effect of a Lowering of Academic Standards on Educational Attainment: Evidence from India"
Joydeep Roy, Economic Policy Institute and Georgetown University (Contact Author)

"Educational Attainment Among Women Sexually Abused in Childhood"
John Robst, University of South Florida (Contact Author)

"Does Political Reservation for Minorities Reduce Poverty? Evidence from India."
Nishith Prakash, University of Houston (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Niels-Hugo Blunch, Washington and Lee University
Eric R. Dodge, Hanover College