Session Chairs:

Lynn MacDonald, Saint Cloud State University

Papers:

"Buchanan's Theorem"
James Klein, San Francisco State University (Contact Author)

"Environmental Quality, Resource Rents and Property Rights"
Haimanti Bhattacharya, Columbia University (Contact Author)
Dean Lueck, University of Arizona

"Protection of Private Property Rights, the Rule of Law and Free Market Economy - Interpreting the Recent Steps of China’s Institutional Reform from an Evolutionary Perspective"
Yongjing Zhang, George Mason University (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Lynn MacDonald, Saint Cloud State University
Sean P Corcoran, New York University

Session Chairs:

David Schap, College of the Holy Cross

Papers:

"Voting by Altruists: Some Electoral Implications of Civic Virtue"
Roger D. Congleton, George Mason University (Contact Author)

"Supermajority Voting and the Swing Voter's Curse"
Bryan C. McCannon, Wake Forest University (Contact Author)

"Where Women Aren't: An Examination of Gender-Based Opportunity Costs and Barriers to Entry in State Legislatures"
Chad Turner, Nicholls State University
R. Morris Coats, Nicholls State University (Contact Author)
Gokhan Karahan, Delta State University
Thomas R. Dalton, Southern University at New Orleans

"Political Incentives and Property Assessment: A Comparison of Elected and Appointed Assessors"
Justin M. Ross, West Virginia University (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Alan P. Grant, Baker University
Lynn MacDonald, Saint Cloud State University

Session Chairs:

Lynn MacDonald, Saint Cloud State University

Papers:

"Birth Spacing and Child Health in Indonesia"
Le Wang, University of Minnesota (Contact Author)
Daniel L. Millimet, Southern Methodist University

"Do Changes in Income Affect Mortality? The Case of Mexico?"
Fidel Gonzalez, Sam Houston State University
Troy Quast, Sam Houston State University (Contact Author)

"Are Chinese Health-Oriented Food Consumers? A Panel Study of Household Food Demand in China from 1989 to 2004"
Meng Zhao, University of Minnesota (Contact Author)

"The Distribution of Nutritional Status Across Countries"
Priya Bhagowalia, Purdue University (Contact Author)
Susan Chen, Purdue University
William Masters, Purdue University

Discussants:

Lynn MacDonald, Saint Cloud State University
Jin-Hyuk Kim, Cornell University