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

Organizers:

Julie L. Hotchkiss, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Session Chairs:

Robert E. Moore, Georgia State University

Papers:

"Do High-Tech Industries Promote Wage Equality?"
Elsie Echeverri-Carroll, The University of Texas at Austin
Sofia G. Ayala, The University of Texas at Austin

"Interrupted at What Cause? A Closer Look at the Gender Wage Differential and Why the Type of Interruption Matters"
Jill Kearns, University of Kentucky (Contact Author)

"A Panel Study of Earning Differential Across Gender"
Kusum Mundra, Rutgers University (Contact Author)

"The Effects of Racial Differences in the Pattern of Experience Accumulation on the Black-White Wage Gap"
Nola Ogunro, University of Kentucky (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Bruce Fallick, Federal Reserve Board
Solomon Polachek, University of New York
Rachana Bhatt, Georgia State University
Barbara Morgan, Johns Hopkins University