Session Chairs:

Justin May, The College of William and Mary

Papers:

"Intra-Household Resource Allocation and Gender-based Returns to Loans in Rural Bangladesh"
Syed Saad, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Contact Author)

"Household Attitudes to Price Risk with Multiple Commodities"
Marc F. Bellemare, Duke University (Contact Author)
Christopher B. Barrett, Cornell University
David R. Just, Cornell University
Zachary Steven Brown, Duke University

"International Water Contracts and Household Outcomes: Evidence from Albania"
Justin May, The College of William and Mary (Contact Author)
Andrew Bacher-Hicks, The College of William and Mary

Discussants:

Luis Gonzalez, University of Kentucky
John J. Hisnanick, U.S. Census Bureau
Marc F. Bellemare, Duke University

Session Chairs:

Aleksandra Markovic, The George Washington University

Papers:

"A Class of Association Sensitive Multidimensional Well-being Indices"
Suman Seth, Vanderbilt University (Contact Author)

"Measuring Human Capital and Accounting for Total Factor Productivity"
Till Schreiber, The College of William and Mary (Contact Author)

"Rank Robustness of Multidimensional Well-being Measures"
James E. Foster, Vanderbilt University (Contact Author)
Mark McGillivray, United Nations University
Suman Seth, Vanderbilt University

"The Strength of Strong Ties: Effort, Care, and the Nature of Our Connections"
Aleksandra Markovic, The George Washington University (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Suzanne K McCoskey, The George Washington University
David R. Just, Cornell University
Sanjukta Roy, West Virginia University
Nabamita Dutta, West Virginia University

Session Chairs:

Felix Rioja, Georgia State University

Papers:

"The Historical Evolution of Bank Branching Rights in the United States: What Took So Long?"
Jill M. Hendrickson, University of St. Thomas (Contact Author)

"Trust, Risk and the Lender-Borrower Relationship: A Trust-based Lending Experiment"
Jaclyn Donna Kropp, Clemson University (Contact Author)
Calum G. Turvey, Cornell University
David R. Just, Cornell University
Rong Kong, Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University
Pei Guo, Chinese Agricultural University

"Stock Markets, Banks, and the Sources of Growth"
Felix Rioja, Georgia State University (Contact Author)
Neven T. Valev, Georgia State University

Discussants:

Jill M. Hendrickson, University of St. Thomas
Jaclyn Donna Kropp, Clemson University
Felix Rioja, Georgia State University