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

Organizers:

Lawrence W. Kenny, University of Florida

Session Chairs:

Lawrence W. Kenny, University of Florida

Papers:

"Should We Believe the Median Voter Model?"
Eric J. Brunner, Quinnipiac University (Contact Author)
Stephen L. Ross, University of Connecticut
Discussant: Roger D. Congleton, George Mason University

"The Influence of the Elderly in a Median Voter Framework"
Deborah Fletcher, Miami University (Contact Author)
Lawrence W. Kenny, University of Florida
Discussant: Randall G. Holcombe, Florida State University

"Who Supports School Choice: An Empirical Analysis of the Washington Charter School Referenda"
Sean P Corcoran, New York University (Contact Author)
Christiana Stoddard, Montana State University
Discussant: Thomas A. Husted, American University

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