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:

Jonathan D. Fisher, Litigation Analytics, Inc.

Papers:

"The Effect of Welfare Reform on Marriage Decision: Evidence from Micro Data"
Pimrak Pakdeethai, Texas A&M University (Contact Author)

"Institutions Augmented Solow Model with Poverty Trap"
Edinaldo Tebaldi, Bryant University (Contact Author)
Ramesh Mohan, Bryant University

"Finding the Poor Older Americans"
Jonathan D. Fisher, Litigation Analytics, Inc. (Contact Author)
David S. Johnson, U.S. Census Bureau
Joseph Marchand, University of Alberta
Timothy Smeeding, Syracuse University
Barbara B. Torrey, Population Reference Bureau

Discussants:

Jan Schnellenbach, University of Heidelberg
Patryk Babiarz, Purdue University
Pimrak Pakdeethai, Texas A&M University
Edinaldo Tebaldi, Bryant University