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"
Courtney Collins, Rhodes College (Contact Author)
Yaojing Wang, Texas A&M University

"'Lock the House, Here Comes the Train’: The Short-Run Effect of the Public Transit on Crime"
David C. Phillips, Hope College (Contact Author)
Danielle Sandler, University of California, Davis

"The Effect of Institutional Expenditures on Employment Outcomes and Wages"
Amanda L. Griffith, Wake Forest University (Contact Author)
Kevin Rask, Colorado College
Cassandra Benson, Colorado College

"The Distributional Effects of the Federal Empowerment Zone Program"
Curtis L. Reynolds, Kent State University
Shawn Rohlin, Kent State University (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Amanda L. Griffith, Wake Forest University
David C. Phillips, Hope College
Shawn Rohlin, Kent State University
Sarah M. Estelle, Hope College

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Organizers:

M. Kathleen Thomas, Mississippi State University

Session Chairs:

M. Kathleen Thomas, Mississippi State University

Papers:

"The Effects of Indiana's Twenty-First Century Scholars Program on College Aspirations and Completion"
Robert Toutkoushian, The University of Georgia
Donald Hossler, Indiana University
Stephen L. DesJardins, University of Michigan
Brian McCall, University of Michigan
Manuel Canche, The University of Georgia

"Intra-Family Relations, Poverty, and High School Performance"
Timothy M. Diette, Washington and Lee University
Arthur H. Goldsmith, Washington and Lee University
Darrick Hamilton, The New School
William A. Darity, Jr., Duke University

"Strategic Senioritis and the Impact of Texas's Top Ten Percent Law on High School Outcomes"
Daniel M. Leeds, Michigan Department of Education
Lindsay Daugherty, RAND
Isaac Martorell, Jr., RAND
Isaac McFarlin, Jr., University of Michigan

"Have the Returns to an Incomplete Education Changed Over Time?"
Rodney J. Andrews, The University of Texas at Dallas
Omari H. Swinton, Howard University

"Middle School Music Education and Its Impact on High School Persistence: An Examination of Little Kids Rock"
Priyanka Singh, The University of Texas at Dallas
M. Kathleen Thomas, Mississippi State University

Discussants:

John Winters, Oklahoma State University
David L. Sjoquist, Georgia State University
Courtney Collins, Rhodes College
Marigee Bacolod, Naval Postgraduate School

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Organizers:

Darren Grant, Sam Houston State University

Moderators:

Arthur L. Zillante, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Panelists:

Darren Grant, Sam Houston State University

Jac C. Heckelman, Wake Forest University

Courtney Collins, Rhodes College

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