Organizers:

Naci Mocan, Louisiana State University

Session Chairs:

Naci Mocan, Louisiana State University

Papers:

"Wages, Unemployment and Crime"
Naci Mocan, Louisiana State University (Contact Author)
Bulent Unel, Louisiana State University

"Low Income Housing and Crime: New Evidence on the Broken Windows Hypothesis"
Emily Owens, Cornell University (Contact Author)
Matthew Freedman, Cornell University

"Discrimination in Court"
Sarah Marx Quintanar, Louisiana State University (Contact Author)

"Right-to-Carry Laws: The Impact on the Good and the Bad"
Duha Altindăg, Louisiana State University (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Daniel I. Rees, University of Colorado Denver
Laura M. Argys, University of Colorado Denver
R. Kaj Gittings, Louisiana State University
Andrew Francis, Emory University

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Organizers:

Barry Hirsch, Georgia State University

Session Chairs:

Barry Hirsch, Georgia State University

Papers:

"Minimum Wage Effects on Employment, Substitution, and the Teenage Labor Supply: Evidence from Personnel Data"
Laura Giuliano, University of Miami (Contact Author)

"Channels of Labor Market Adjustment: Analysis of the 2007-2009 Federal Minimum Wage Increases"
Barry Hirsch, Georgia State University (Contact Author)
Bruce Kaufman, Georgia State University
Tetyana Zelenska, Georgia State University

"The Dynamic Effects of Minimum Wages on Employment"
Ian Schmutte, The University of Georgia (Contact Author)
R. Kaj Gittings, Louisiana State University

"Minimum Wages and Alcohol-Related Traffic Fatalities Among Teens"
Scott Adams, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
McKinley L. Blackburn, University of South Carolina (Contact Author)
Chad Cotti, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh

Discussants:

Madeline Zavodny, Agnes Scott College
R. Kaj Gittings, Louisiana State University
Julie L. Hotchkiss, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Melinda Sandler Morrill, North Carolina State University

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Session Chairs:

Stephen Bruestle, University of Virginia

Papers:

"Anticompetitive Effects of Horizontal Mergers in China"
Xiaofei Wang, University of Kentucky (Contact Author)

"Investment Requirements in Franchise Contracts as a Self-Enforcing Device"
Giorgo Sertsios, University of Maryland (Contact Author)

"Showing Ads to the Wrong Consumers: Strategic Inefficiency in Online Targeted Pay-Per-Click Advertising"
Stephen Bruestle, University of Virginia (Contact Author)

"Firm Pay Policies and Executive Compensation"
R. Kaj Gittings, Louisiana State University (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Giorgo Sertsios, University of Maryland
Xiaofei Wang, University of Kentucky
Daniel Halbheer, University of Virginia
Prasun Bhattacharjee, East Tennessee State University

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