Saturday 1:00 - 2:45 p.m. SEA |
Session 18C Topics in Applied Microeconomics |
Organizers: |
Sarah M. Estelle, Hope College |
Session Chairs: |
Sarah M. Estelle, Hope College |
Papers: |
"Does It Pay to Be a Big Fish in a Small Pond? Evidence from Chinese Schooling Data" "'Lock the House, Here Comes the Train’: The Short-Run Effect of the Public Transit on Crime" "The Effect of Institutional Expenditures on Employment Outcomes and Wages" "The Distributional Effects of the Federal Empowerment Zone Program" |
Discussants: |
Amanda L. Griffith, Wake Forest University |
Saturday 3:00 - 4:45 p.m. SEA |
Session 18D The Effect of Public Policy on Health Behaviors and Health |
Organizers: |
Sarah M. Estelle, Hope College |
Session Chairs: |
Sarah M. Estelle, Hope College |
Papers: |
"Publicly-Provided Health Insurance and Health Behavior: The Case of Medicaid Expansions for Pregnant Women" "Health Insurance Premiums, Medical Care Utilizations, and the Well-Being of the Elderly" "Adjusting BMI for Measurement Error with Invalid Validation Data" "Breaking Bad: Are Meth Labs Justified in Dry Counties?" |
Discussants: |
Dhaval M. Dave, Bentley University |