Organizers:

Julie L. Hotchkiss, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Session Chairs:

M. Melinda Pitts, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Papers:

"Tax Progressivity and Income Inequality"
Denvil Duncan, Georgia State University
Klara Sabirianova Peter, Georgia State University (Contact Author)

"Access to Education Under a Welfare Program and the Return to Schooling"
Hui-chen Wang, University of Mississippi (Contact Author)

"The Phillips Curve and US Monetary Policy: What the FOMC Transcripts Tell Us"
Ellen Meade, American University
Daniel L. Thornton, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Discussants:

Lisa Barrow, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Robert Moffitt, Johns Hopkins University
Ellis W. Tallman, Oberlin College