Session Chairs:

Bradley Curs, University of Missouri-Columbia

Papers:

"On the Economies of Scale of Private Land Conservation"
Sean E. Mulholland, Mercer University (Contact Author)

"Migration, Employment Growth, and Protected Lands in Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia"
Robert R. Dunn, West Virginia University (Contact Author)

"Determinants of Media Attention: a Study of the EPA’s Toxic Release Inventory"
Shrawantee Saha, University of New Hampshire (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Rachna Maheshwari, University of Virginia
Christina Steiger, University of Oregon

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

Session Chairs:

Sandra Trejos, Clarion University of Pennsylvania

Papers:

"The Roles of Public Higher Education Expenditure and the Privatization of the Higher Education on U.S. States Economic Growth"
Bornali Bhandari, Fitchburg State College
Bradley Curs, University of Missouri-Columbia (Contact Author)

"Changing Incentives and Course-Taking in Merit Scholarships: The Case of 2004 Revisions to Georgia’s HOPE Scholarship"
Samuel J Rauschenberg, Georgia College & State University (Contact Author)

"Does Reducing College Costs Improve Educational Outcomes for Undocumented Immigrants?"
Chinhui Juhn, University of Houston (Contact Author)
Aimee Chin, University of Houston

Discussants:

Bornali Bhandari, Fitchburg State College
Sandra Trejos, Clarion University of Pennsylvania