Organizers:

Amanda Ross, West Virginia University

Session Chairs:

Amanda Ross, West Virginia University

Papers:

"Is Pork-Barrel Spending a Common Resource? A Search for the Tragedy of the Commons in Pork-Barrel Legislation"
J. Zachary Klingensmith, West Virginia University (Contact Author)

"Economic Institutions and Global Poverty"
Joseph Connors, Wake Forest University (Contact Author)

"Is Sequestration the (Wicked) Step-Mother of Invention? Expanding Budgets via Strategic Use of Leasing"
William McAndrew, West Virginia University (Contact Author)
Paul Speaker, West Virginia University

"A Spatial Analysis of Growth and Institutional Quality Across the United States: Evidence from Metropolitan Areas"
Jamie Bologna, West Virginia University (Contact Author)
Andrew T. Young, West Virginia University
Donald J. Lacombe, West Virginia University

Discussants:

Jac C. Heckelman, Wake Forest University
Amanda Ross, West Virginia University
Joseph Connors, Wake Forest University
Gregory M. Randolph, Southern New Hampshire University

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Session Chairs:

Chi-ang Lin, National Chengchi University

Papers:

"North Korean Internal Migration"
Max St Brown, Erckerd College (Contact Author)

"The Impact of the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit on Migration"
Amanda Ross, West Virginia University (Contact Author)
Brian Cushing, West Virginia University

"Spatial Diffusion of the Hispanic Population in the United States"
Chi-ang Lin, National Chengchi University (Contact Author)
Mingming Pan, New Mexico State University

Discussants:

Amanda Ross, West Virginia University
Max St Brown, Erckerd College
Karla Borja, University of Tampa

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Organizers:

Amanda Ross, West Virginia University

Session Chairs:

Amanda Ross, West Virginia University

Papers:

"Globalization and Income Convergence"
Kaitlyn Wolf, West Virginia University (Contact Author)
Andrew T. Young, West Virginia University

"Out of Pocket Expenditure and Health Infrastructure in Indian States"
Srimoyee Bose, West Virginia University (Contact Author)
Zakir Husain, University of Delhi

"A Quasi-Experimental Approach to the Effects of Improvements in Women’s Rights on Female Brain Drain"
Maryam Naghsh Nejad, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) (Contact Author)

"Globalization and Culture Evolution"
Kathleen Sheehan, West Virginia University (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Alexandre Olbrecht, Ramapo College of New Jersey
Nadia Greenhalgh-Stanley, Kent State University
Shawn Rohlin, Kent State University
Tami Gurley-Calvez, University of Kansas

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Organizers:

Donna K. Ginther, The University of Kansas

Session Chairs:

Donna K. Ginther, The University of Kansas

Papers:

"Wage Growth and Job Mobility in the Early Career: Testing a Statistical Discrimination Model of the Gender Wage Gap"
Philippe Belley, Kansas State University
Nathalie Havet, Université Lyon II, GATE Lyon-Saint-Etienne
Guy Lacroix, Université Laval

"Labor Market Outcomes of the Equal Rights Amendment for Married Women"
Jennifer Boden, The University of Kansas
Donna K. Ginther, The University of Kansas

"Immigration and Occupational Licensing"
Serena H. Huang, University of Kansas
Jennifer Boden, The University of Kansas
Donna K. Ginther, The University of Kansas

"Even One Is Too Much: The Economic Consequences of Being a Smoker"
M. Melinda Pitts, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Julie L. Hotchkiss, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Discussants:

Amanda Ross, West Virginia University
Margaret Blume-Kohout, New Mexico Consortium

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