Organizers:

Eva Sierminska, CEPS/INSTEAD

Papers:

"Recession Effects on Returns to Employment: Are Less Educated Workers Differently Affected by Economic Cycles?"
Helen Connolly, Luxembourg Income Study (Contact Author)

"Making Work Pay in an Economic Crisis: The Irish Case"
Karina Doorley, CEPS/INSTEAD (Contact Author)

"Net Worth and the Middle Class: Patterns of Wealth and Debt, Before and After Financial Crisis"
Eva Sierminska, CEPS/INSTEAD (Contact Author)

"Redlining or Not? An Analysis of Credit Card Lines by Neighborhoods"
Yan (Jenny) Zhang, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Pedro Silos, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Helen Connolly, Luxembourg Income Study
Maria Jose Luengo-Prado, Northeastern University
Ellen Meade, American University

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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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Organizers:

Julie L. Hotchkiss, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Session Chairs:

Angela Fertig, The University of Georgia

Papers:

"A Semi-Parametric Approach to Finding a Married Woman's Wage Premium"
Neha Nanda, Florida State University (Contact Author)

"Women in Top Management and Job Self Selection"
Suresh L. Paul, NuNine (Contact Author)
Herman Sahni, Northern Illinois University

"Risk in Human Capital Investment and Gender Difference in Adult College Enrollment"
Xueyu Cheng, Alabama State University (Contact Author)

"Impact of Gender and Rurality on Veterinarian Practice"
Tong Wang, Iowa State University (Contact Author)
David A. Hennessy, Iowa State University

Discussants:

Susan L. Averett, Lafayette College
Melinda Sandler Morrill, North Carolina State University
M. Kathleen Thomas, Mississippi State University
Rachana Bhatt, Georgia State 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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