Session Chairs:

Oleksandr Movchan, North Carolina State University

Papers:

"Integration and Cointegration Properties of Crime Rates in the United States"
Kalidas Jana, The University of Texas at Brownsville (Contact Author)

"A Rational Addiction-Treatment Model with Interacting Stocks"
Tamas Forgacs, California State University, Fresno (Contact Author)
Attila Cseh, Valdosta State University

"GMM Estimation for Non-Gaussian and Non-Linear State Space Models"
Oleksandr Movchan, North Carolina State University (Contact Author)

"Determinants of Major Switch During College"
Jorge Ibarra-Salazar, Tecnologico de Monterrey (Contact Author)
Misael Mauricio, Banorte

Discussants:

Jun Ma, University of Alabama
Gennady Lyakir, Champlain College
Kusum Mundra, Rutgers University
Roland K. Cheo, National University of Singapore

Session Chairs:

Faisal Rabby, Missouri State University

Papers:

"Ethnosizing Payoffs: Gender and Native-Migrant Differences"
Amelie Constant, DIW DC (Contact Author)
Klaus F. Zimmermann, Bonn University

"The Impact of 9/11 on Immigrant Entrepreneurs"
Chunbei Wang, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (Contact Author)

"The Post-9/11 Labor Markets for 'Muslims' in the West – Evidence from the USA and the UK"
Faisal Rabby, Missouri State University (Contact Author)

"Human Capital from Different Source Countries and U.S. New Immigrant Earnings"
Wei Kang, Middle Tennessee State University (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Katharine C. Wolchik, Lehigh University
Attila Cseh, Valdosta State University
Justin Tsung-Yi Wang, Lehigh University
Carmen Pages, Inter-American Development Bank

Session Chairs:

Brian E. Chezum, St. Lawrence University

Papers:

"Does Attending a More Prestigious College Improve Health?"
David E. Frisvold, Emory University (Contact Author)
Jason M. Fletcher, Yale University

"The Impact of Maternal Employment on Child’s Mental Health: Evidence from NLSY-Child"
Sumanta Mukherjee, University of Kansas (Contact Author)
Guenther Fink, Harvard School of Public Health

"Unemployment and Mental Distress"
Attila Cseh, Valdosta State University (Contact Author)

"The Impact of Health on Intergenerational Transfers of Wealth"
Brian E. Chezum, St. Lawrence University
Jodi Messer Pelkowski, Wichita State University (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Betty T. Tao, CNA Corporation
Asia Sikora, Cornell University
Maria Floro, American University
Hitomi Komatsu, American University