| Sunday 4:00 - 5:45 p.m. SEA  | 
						Session 17I Development  | 
            
Session Chairs:  | 
          Jorge Ibarra-Salazar, Tecnologico de Monterrey  | 
Papers:  | 
					
           "Female Empowerment and Its Implications for Women’s Nutritional Status in India" "Intrahousehold Bargaining Power and Its Impact on the Use of Contraceptives: Learning from Tajikistan Demographic and Health Survey" "Improving Maternal Health with Incentives to Mothers vs. Health Workers: Evidence from India" "Equalization Transfers and Financial Dependence of Mexican States"  | 
            
Discussants:  | 		
          Zarrina Juraqulova, Washington State University  | 
| Monday 3:00 - 4:45 p.m. SEA  | 
						Session 03M Federal Government Policies and Structures  | 
            
Session Chairs:  | 
          Bibek Adhikari, Tulane University  | 
Papers:  | 
					
           "Economics of Coordination in Energy and Climate Change Policies" "Purchasing a Technical Data Package: When Can the Government Realize Cost Savings?" "A Dynamic Recursive Computable General Equilibrium Approach to Estimate the Secondary Impacts of the 2009 American Reinvestment and Recovery Act" "Does Introducing a Value-Added Tax Increase Economic Efficiency? A Synthetic Control Approach"  | 
            
Discussants:  | 		
          Nicholas Ross, Tecolote Research, Inc.  |