Session Chairs:

Michael Bonnal, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Papers:

"Jobless Recovery"
James P. DeNicco, Drexel University (Contact Author)

"Legal Largesse or Big, Fat Failure: Do Weight-Based Discrimination Laws Improve Employment Outcomes for the Obese?"
Jennifer Bennett Shinall, Vanderbilt University (Contact Author)

"Are Social Networks Compliments or Substitutes? The Case of Immigrant Economic Assimilation?"
Jingjing Ye, Southern Methodist University (Contact Author)

"A Quasi-Experimental Approach to Estimating the Value of Reducing Risk"
Jonathan Lee, North Carolina State University (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Lester A. Zeager, East Carolina University
Douglas A. Fox, ERS Group
Anna Nesterenko, ERS Group
Michael Bonnal, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

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Organizers:

John A. Bishop, East Carolina University

Session Chairs:

John A. Bishop, East Carolina University

Papers:

"The Gini Coefficient and Majority Voting"
Juan Gabriel Rodriguez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Rafael Salas, East Carolina University (Contact Author)

"Risk and Inequality Preferences: Does Prospect Theory Extend to Social Choice?"
Steven Beckman, University of Colorado Denver
Gregory DeAngelo, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
W. James Smith, University of Colorado Denver

"Chronic and Transitory Poverty in the United States: 1987-2005"
Andrew Grodner, East Carolina University (Contact Author)
Lester A. Zeager, East Carolina University
John A. Bishop, East Carolina University

"Empirical Issues in Lifetime Poverty Measurement"
Michael Hoy, University of Guelph
Brennan Scott Thompson, Ryerson University
Buhong Zheng, University of Colorado Denver (Contact Author)

Discussants:

W. James Smith, University of Colorado Denver
Rafael Salas, East Carolina University
Hoseong Kim, The University of Alabama
Andrew Grodner, East Carolina University
John Formby, The University of Alabama

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Session Chairs:

Emily Skarbek, San Jose State University

Papers:

"A Model of Church Exit"
Michael Walrath, University of St. Thomas (Contact Author)

"Diagnosing Hospital System Bargaining Power in Managed Care Networks"
Kevin Pflum, The University of Alabama (Contact Author)
Matthew Lewis, Ohio State University

"The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s Delivered Price Test Versus The Department of Justice’s Hypothetical Monopolist Test"
Peter D. Gulyn, Federal Trade Commission (Contact Author)
David Savitski, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

"Financing the Rebirth of a City: Charitable Giving After the Chicago Fire of 1871"
Emily Skarbek, San Jose State University (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Peter D. Gulyn, Federal Trade Commission
Michael Walrath, University of St. Thomas
Kevin Pflum, The University of Alabama
Lester A. Zeager, East Carolina University

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Session Chairs:

Xuelian Zhang, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Papers:

"Obtaining a Match Made in Heaven: The Role of Dynamic Asymmetric Information in Occupational Mobility"
Stephen Rubb, Sacred Heart University (Contact Author)

"Overeducation and Earnings Within an Occupation: Controlling for Occupational Heterogeneity of Nurses"
Stephen Rubb, Sacred Heart University (Contact Author)

"Optimal Parental Leave with Cost Differentials Across University Faculties"
Nicholas G. Rupp, East Carolina University (Contact Author)
Lester A. Zeager, East Carolina University

"Long-term Health and Socioeconomic Consequences of Child Labor: Evidence from Brazil"
Xuelian Zhang, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Ilker Kaya, American University of Sharjah
Anna Nesterenko, ERS Group
Stephen Rubb, Sacred Heart University
Dzung Nguyen, University at Albany, The State University of New York

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