Organizers:

Zhuo Chen, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Session Chairs:

Seong-Hoon Cho, The University of Tennessee

Papers:

"Housing Market Collapse, Suicide, and Homicide"
Curtis S. Florence, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Feijun Luo, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Contact Author)
Lijing Ouyang, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Myriam Quispe-Agnoli, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Betzaida Tejada Vera, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

"Estimating the Medical Costs of Child Maltreatment in the United States Using a New Source of Claims Data"
Xiangming Fang, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Contact Author)
Curtis S. Florence, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Derek S. Brown, RTI International
Eric Finkelstein, RTI International
James Mercy, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

"Overweight and Obesity Since 1970s: Food Prices in Metropolitan Area"
Xin Xu, University of Illinois at Chicago (Contact Author)
Jay Variyam, United States Department of Agriculture
Zhenxiang Zhao, University of Illinois at Chicago
Frank Chaloupka, University of Illinois at Chicago

Discussants:

Xin Xu, University of Illinois at Chicago
Qi Zhang, Old Dominion University
Zhuo Chen, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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Organizers:

Myriam Quispe-Agnoli, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Session Chairs:

Julie L. Hotchkiss, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Papers:

"Do Minimum Wage Laws Affect People Who Are Not Covered? Evidence from Undocumented Piecerate Workers in U.S. Agriculture"
Anita Alves Pena, Colorado State University (Contact Author)

"Undocumented Workers and the U.S. Business Cycle"
J. David Brown, Bureau of the Census
Serife Genc, University of Pittsburgh
Julie L. Hotchkiss, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Myriam Quispe-Agnoli, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (Contact Author)

"Labor Migration, Remittances and Business Cycles"
Federico S. Mandelman, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (Contact Author)
Andrei Zlate, Board of Governers of the Federal Reserve System

"Effects of the 1992 Chinese Student Protection Act"
Madeline Zavodny, Agnes Scott College (Contact Author)
Pia M. Orrenius, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Emily Kerr, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

"Undocumented Migration, Remittances, and Migrant Networks: The Case of Tajikistan"
Olga Shemyakina, Georgia Institute of Technology (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Mark Hugo Lopez, Pew Hispanic Center
Marie T. Mora, The University of Texas-Pan American
Sue K. Stockly, Eastern New Mexico University
Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere, Georgia Institute of Technology
Myriam Quispe-Agnoli, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

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Organizers:

Myriam Quispe-Agnoli, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Colleen Casey, The University of Texas at Arlington

Session Chairs:

Colleen Casey, The University of Texas at Arlington

Papers:

"Changes in Family Health Insurance Coverage for Small and Large Firm Workers and Dependents: Evidence from 1995-2005"
Eric E. Seiber, Ohio State University
Curtis S. Florence, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

"Small Business and Job Dynamics"
Julie L. Hotchkiss, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
M. Melinda Pitts, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (Contact Author)
Myriam Quispe-Agnoli, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

"Low-Wealth, Minority Enterprises and Access to Financial Resources for Startup Activities: Do Connections Matter?"
Colleen Casey, The University of Texas at Arlington (Contact Author)

"The Impact of Government Intervention in the Small Firm Credit Market on Economic Performance: The Mediating Role of Per Capita Income"
Ben R. Craig, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland (Contact Author)
William E. Jackson, III, The University of Alabama
James Thomson, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

Discussants:

Vijaya Subrahmanyam, Mercer University
Li Qi, Agnes Scott College
Phanindra V. Wunnava, Middlebury College

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