| 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  |