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

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