Organizers:

Christine Piette Durrance, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Susan L. Averett, Lafayette College

Session Chairs:

Judy A. Shinogle, The University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Papers:

"State Background Checks for Gun Purchase, and Gun Violence Levels: Early Evidence"
Anantachai Panjamapirom, The Advisory Board Company (Contact Author)
Bisakha Sen, The University of Alabama at Birmingham

"Identifying the Causal Effect of Alcohol Abuse on Intimate Partner Violence Using a Natural Experiment"
Susan L. Averett, Lafayette College (Contact Author)
Yang Wang, Lafayette College

"Parental Substance Abuse and Foster Care: Evidence from Two Methamphetamine Supply Shocks"
Scott Cunningham, Baylor University (Contact Author)
Keith Finlay, Tulane University

"Alcohol Use and Violence in Fragile Families"
Krista Perreira, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Shelly Golden, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Christine Piette Durrance, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Christina Peters, Metropolitan State College of Denver
Hani Mansour, University of Colorado Denver
Daniel I. Rees, University of Colorado Denver
Scott Hankins, University of Kentucky

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Session Chairs:

Mohamed S. El-Komi, Durham University

Papers:

"An Extension of the Clavin Rule"
R. Andrew Luccasen, III, Mississippi University for Women (Contact Author)
Randall C. Campbell, Mississippi State University

"Bank-Insured RoSCA for Microfinance: Experimental Evidence in Poor Egyptian Villages"
Mohamed S. El-Komi, Durham University (Contact Author)

"Experimental Study of Settlement Delay Under Asymmetric Information"
Sean P. Sullivan, University of Virginia (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Sean P. Sullivan, University of Virginia
R. Andrew Luccasen, III, Mississippi University for Women
Keith Finlay, Tulane University

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Session Chairs:

Weiwei Liu, Binghamton University

Papers:

"A Semi-parametric Smooth Coefficient Model of U.S. Motor Gasoline Demand"
Weiwei Liu, Binghamton University (Contact Author)

"Identifying How Well the U.S. Government Provides Health Insurance When Participation Is Endogenous and Misreported"
Manan Roy, Southern Methodist University (Contact Author)

"Running Spatial Lag Models without the Cumbersome Weights Matrix, with an Application in Hedonics"
Patrick J. Walsh, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (Contact Author)

"Bootstrap Methods for Inference with Cluster-Sample IV Models"
Keith Finlay, Tulane University (Contact Author)
Leandro Magnusson, Tulane University

Discussants:

Keith Finlay, Tulane University
Patrick J. Walsh, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Manan Roy, Southern Methodist University
Tim R.L. Fry, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

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Session Chairs:

Keith Finlay, Tulane University

Papers:

"Explaining the Outcome Gap Between Different Types of Indigent Defense Counsel: Adverse Selection and Moral Hazard Effects"
Michael Roach, Middle Tennessee State University (Contact Author)

"Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Federal Sentencing: A Quantile Regression Approach"
Beth A. Freeborn, Federal Trade Commission (Contact Author)
Monica E. Hartmann, University of St. Thomas

"Deterability by Age"
Gregory DeAngelo, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Contact Author)
Benjamin C. Hansen, University of Oregon
Shawn D. Bushway, University at Albany, The State University of New York

"Effects of Changes in Criminal Majority Statutes"
Keith Finlay, Tulane University (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Gregory DeAngelo, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Michael Roach, Middle Tennessee State University
Beth A. Freeborn, Federal Trade Commission
Jeremy Sandford, University of Kentucky

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