Organizers:

Julie L. Hotchkiss, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Session Chairs:

Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere, Georgia Institute of Technology

Papers:

"Giving and the Nature of Communities: An Analysis of How Community Characteristics Affect an Individual's Likelihood of Engaging in Volunteer Work"
Theodoros Diasakos, Collegio Carlo Alberto
Florence Neymotin, Kansas State University (Contact Author)

"Care Provision to Elderly Parents and Women's Hours Worked in the Labor Market"
Jennifer Graves, University of Oklahoma (Contact Author)

"Immigration and Its Impact on Mothers' Child Care Time and 'Quality': Evidence from the American Time-Use Survey"
Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, San Diego State University (Contact Author)
Almudena Sevilla Sanz, University of Oxford

"Female Autonomy and Health Care in Developing Countries: A Closer Look at Uttar Pradesh and Bihar"
Sharmistha Self, Missouri State University (Contact Author)
Richard Grabowski, Southern Illinois University

Discussants:

Jessica Hennessey, Furman University
Angela Fertig, The University of Georgia
Anita Alves Pena, Colorado State University
Kathryn H. Anderson, Vanderbilt University

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Session Chairs:

William Arthur Carden, Rhodes College

Papers:

"The Effect of Housing Assets on the Inter-temporal Earnings of Displaced Workers"
Bharati Basu, Central Michigan University (Contact Author)
Nicholas Jolly, Central Michigan University

"Longitudinal Analysis of Labor Market Performance of the Working Poor"
Marina Vornovytskyy, U.S. Census Bureau (Contact Author)

"Welfare Usage in the U.S. Does Immigrant Birthplace and Immigration Status Matter?"
Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere, Georgia Institute of Technology (Contact Author)
Maharouf Oyolola, University of Vermont

"Walmart's Effect on County Poverty Rates"
William Arthur Carden, Rhodes College (Contact Author)
Charles Courtemanche, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Discussants:

Marina Vornovytskyy, U.S. Census Bureau
Bharati Basu, Central Michigan University
Andrew Hussey, The University of Memphis
Mehmet E. Yaya, Eastern Michigan University

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Organizers:

Julie L. Hotchkiss, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Session Chairs:

Anita Alves Pena, Colorado State University

Papers:

"Taxes, Welfare, and Migration of the American Poor"
Hui-chen Wang, The University of Mississippi (Contact Author)

"Coming to America: Does Home Country's Economic Status Matter for Self-Employment in the U.S.?"
Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere, Georgia Institute of Technology (Contact Author)
Willie Belton, Georgia Institute of Technology

"Immigrant Homeownership in the U.S. Through Recent Housing Boom and Bust"
Kusum Mundra, Rutgers University (Contact Author)

"FDI, Agglomeration Economies, and Labor Poaching: Evidence from China"
Fariha Kamal, Syracuse University (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Catherine S. Norman, Johns Hopkins University
Pia M. Orrenius, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Madeline Zavodny, Agnes Scott College
Volodymyr Lugovskyy, Georgia Institute of Technology

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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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