Session Chairs:

Peter R. Mueser, University of Missouri

Papers:

"Earnings of Displaced Workers and the Business Cycle: An Analysis Using Administrative Data"
Kenneth A. Couch, University of Connecticut (Contact Author)
Nicholas Jolly, University of Connecticut
Dana Placzek, State of Connecticut

"Unemployment and the Business Cycle: How Should Unemployment Insurance Adjust?"
Jeremy Schwartz, The George Washington University (Contact Author)

"Tradeoffs Between Wages and Other Job Characteristics with an Application to Unemployment Insurance"
Dan Becker, University of Virginia (Contact Author)

"Women and Unemployment in the New Economy: The Interaction of Gender, Occupation and Industry"
Marios Michaelides, IMPAQ International, LLC
Peter R. Mueser, University of Missouri (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Mette Verner, University of Aarhus
Guenther Fink, Harvard School of Public Health
Dan Becker, University of Virginia
Kenneth A. Couch, University of Connecticut

Session Chairs:

Elizabeth Weber Handwerker, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Papers:

"Demographic Contributions to Inequality: Decomposition Analyses by Income Source from 1969 to 2006"
Gulgun Bayaz, University of Connecticut
Richard V. Burkhauser, Cornell University
Kenneth A. Couch, University of Connecticut (Contact Author)

"Education and the Distribution of Wages: A Semiparametric Approach"
Judy Yang, Georgetown University (Contact Author)

"Measuring the Impact of College Cost Shocks on Parents' Labor Supply"
Elizabeth Weber Handwerker, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (Contact Author)
Emily Pas Isenberg, U.S. Census Bureau

"Wage Traps as Poverty and Distribution Traps in Neoclassical and Endogenous Growth Models"
Manfred Gaertner, University of St. Gallen (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Fenohasina Maret, The George Washington University
Robert M. Schmidt, University of Richmond
David S. Johnson, U.S. Census Bureau
Ekaterina Niman, University of Guelph

Session Chairs:

Dennis Pearson, Austin Peay State University

Papers:

"When Harry Met DVD: Sequential Release and Product Choice in the Motion Picture Industry"
Oyku Unal, University of Virginia (Contact Author)

"Cost Versus Competition Effects in the Broadcast Television Industry"
Jessica Calfee Stahl, Boston University (Contact Author)

"Monopoly Pricing of a Perishable Differentiated Good: College Football"
Kenneth P. Sanford, University of Kentucky (Contact Author)
Frank A. Scott, University of Kentucky

"Efficacy of Shaming Penalties: Evidence from SEC Football"
Dennis Pearson, Austin Peay State University (Contact Author)
Taylor P. Stevenson, Austin Peay State University
Robert D. Tollison, Clemson University

Discussants:

Kenneth A. Couch, University of Connecticut
David E. Mills, University of Virginia
Thomas E. Cooper, Georgetown College
Maria Arbatskaya, Emory University