Session Chairs:

Ian Partridge, The University of Texas at Austin

Papers:

"Why Do High-Wage States Offer Generous Social Insurance Programs If High-Wage Individuals Dislike Them?"
Jason L. Saving, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas (Contact Author)

"User-Friendly Benefit-Cost Analysis of an Aquifer Storage and Recovery Project"
John Merrifield, The University of Texas at San Antonio (Contact Author)

"Opportunities Created by Cyclical Construction Demand: Implications for State and Local Fiscal Policy"
Keith Waltz, The University of Texas at San Antonio (Contact Author)
John Merrifield, The University of Texas at San Antonio

Discussants:

Shibalee Majumdar, The Ohio State University
Divya Balasubramaniam, The University of Georgia
Adam Jones, The University of Georgia

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Session Chairs:

Gergely Ujhelyi, University of Houston

Papers:

"Determinants of Adoption of a Performance Indicators System: Evidence of Mexican Municipalities"
Jorge Ibarra-Salazar, Tecnológico de Monterrey (Contact Author)
Carlos Lopez de Arkos, Tecnológico de Monterrey

"Political Affiliation of Elected Representatives and Public Goods Provisioning in India"
Shibalee Majumdar, The Ohio State University (Contact Author)

"Political Screening: Theory and Evidence from the Argentine Public Sector"
Ernesto Calvo, University of Houston
Gergely Ujhelyi, University of Houston (Contact Author)

"Crime Spillovers and Hurricane Katrina"
Andrew Hussey, The University of Memphis
Alex Nikolsko-Rzhevskyy, The University of Memphis
Ioana Sofia Pacurar, The University of Memphis (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Gary Wagner, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Nick Mastronardi, United States Air Force Academy
Scott Cunningham, Baylor University
Andreas Buehn, Dresden University of Technology

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