Saturday 3:00 - 4:45 p.m. SEA |
Session 23D The Economics of Education and Learning |
Organizers: |
Arthur H. Goldsmith, Washington and Lee University |
Session Chairs: |
Kylie Goggins, University of Kentucky |
Papers: |
"Does Competition Improve Public School Efficiency? An Analysis of K-12 Public Education in Mississippi" "Teacher Pension Incentives, Retirement Behavior, and Potential for Reform in Arkansas" "Mergers Do Smaller Classes Increase Test Scores? Using New Entrants to Estimate Class Size Effects" "Learning by Doing, Overconfidence, and Serial Entrepreneurs" "Post-Socialist Culture and Entrepreneurship: An Empirical Analysis" |
Discussants: |
Omari H. Swinton, Howard University |
Monday 8:00 - 9:45 a.m. SEA |
Session 22J Housing |
Session Chairs: |
Christopher Douglas, University of Michigan-Flint |
Papers: |
"House Value Depreciation and the Household’s Adjustment of Consumption and Asset Allocation" "Identifying Demand Curves with Data from a Single Real Estate Market" "The Effect of Coal Mines on Residential Property Values" |
Discussants: |
Arzu Sen, West Virginia University |