Organizers:

David J. Molina, University of North Texas

Session Chairs:

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, San Diego State University

Papers:

"The Complexity of Immigrant Generations for U.S. Hispanics and Asians"
Stephen Trejo, University of Texas at Austin (Contact Author)
Brian Duncan, University of Colorado Denver

"Education, Migration, and the Economic Outcomes of Island-Born and Mainland-Born Puerto Ricans"
Marie T. Mora, The University of Texas-Pan American (Contact Author)
Alberto Davila, The University of Texas-Pan American
Havidán Rodriguez, The University of Texas–Pan American

"Autism, Parental Age, Education, and Birth Spacing: Can Economics Explain Some of the Rise?"
Jose Fernandez, University of Louisville (Contact Author)
Noelia Paezs, Hawaii Pacific University

Discussants:

Myriam Quispe-Agnoli, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Jose Fernandez, University of Louisville
Sandra Orozco-Aleman, Mississippi State University

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Organizers:

Anil Rupasingha, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Session Chairs:

Alan Barefield, Mississippi State University

Papers:

"Business Development and Immigrant Country of Origin"
Craig Carpenter, Michigan State University
Scott Loveridge, Michigan State University

"Patience and Local Economic Development"
Scott Loveridge, Michigan State University
Timothy M. Komarek, Valdosta State University

"Social Capital and Rural Small Business"
Bjorn Markeson, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Contact Author)

"Home Equity Lending and Small Business: Relaxing Credit Constraints in Texas"
Ian M. Schmutte, The University of Georgia
Chadi Abdallah, International Monetary Fund
William D. Lastrapes, The University of Georgia

Discussants:

Phanindra V. Wunnava, Middlebury College
Carlianne Patrick, Georgia State University
Myriam Quispe-Agnoli, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Benjamin W. Pugsley, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

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Organizers:

Julie L. Hotchkiss, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Session Chairs:

Robert E. Moore, Georgia State University

Papers:

"Threatening to Defect: The Impact of Undocumented Workers on Support for the Democrats"
Nicole R. Baerg, Emory University
Julie L. Hotchkiss, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Myriam Quispe-Agnoli, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

"Interior Immigration Enforcement and Wages"
Pia M. Orrenius, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Madeline Zavodny, Agnes Scott College

"How Much Do We Know About the Mobility of Unauthorized Immigrants in Response to Increased Immigration Enforcement?"
Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, San Diego State University
Fernando Antonio Lozano, Pomona College

"The Effects on Insurance Costs of Restricting Undocumented Immigrants' Access to Driver Licenses"
Mauricio Caceres, Columbia University
Kenneth Jameson, University of Utah

Discussants:

Marie T. Mora, The University of Texas-Pan American
Todd Sorensen, University of California, Riverside
Kusum Mundra, Rutgers University, Newark
Myriam Quispe-Agnoli, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

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