Organizers:

Shiferaw Gurmu, Georgia State University
Pierre Nguimkeu, Georgia State University

Session Chairs:

Shiferaw Gurmu, Georgia State University

Papers:

"Bounds on Population Average Treatment Effects with an Instrumental Variable"
Alfonso Flores-Lagunes, Syracuse University
Xuan Chen, Renmin University of China
Carlos A. Flores, California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo

"Testing LATE (Local Average Treatment Effect) Assumptions"
Ismael Y. Mourifie, University of Toronto
Yuanyuan Wan, University of Toronto

"Cluster Covariance Matrix Estimation for Quantile Regression Models"
Andreas Hagemann, University of Michigan (Contact Author)

"Event Counts and Heterogeneity in Big Data: Sparsity-Based Quantile Estimation for Panel Count Data"
Carlos Lamarche, University of Kentucky (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Ismael Y. Mourifie, University of Toronto
Alfonso Flores-Lagunes, Syracuse University
Carlos Lamarche, University of Kentucky
Shiferaw Gurmu, Georgia State University

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Organizers:

Shiferaw Gurmu, Georgia State University

Session Chairs:

Pierre Nguimkeu, Georgia State University

Papers:

"Investigating Defensive Medicine: The Role of Access"
Javier Cano-Urbina, Florida State University
Daniel Montanera, Georgia State University

"Health Shocks, Imperfect Information and Risk Sharing: Empirical Evidence"
Shiferaw Gurmu, Georgia State University
Andinet Woldemichael, Georgia State University

"The Employment Impact of Affirmative Action and Equity Regulations on Malaysia's Manufacturing Firms"
Trang Tran, The World Bank (Contact Author)

"An Estimated Model of Informality with Constrained Entrepreneurial Choice"
Pierre Nguimkeu, Georgia State University (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Pierre Nguimkeu, Georgia State University
Javier Cano-Urbina, Florida State University
Andinet Woldemichael, Georgia State University
Trang Tran, The World Bank

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Session Chairs:

Fatma Romeh Mohamed Ali, Georgia State University

Papers:

"What Happened to Rosie?"
Andrew Rettenmaier, Texas A&M University (Contact Author)
Jillian Beaugez Carr, Texas A&M University

"Empirical Evaluation of Japan’s 2003 Childcare Support Law: Effects on Full-time Female Employment"
Tomoki Kitamura, NLI Research Institute (Contact Author)
Tamie Matsuura, Social Improvement and Life Design Research Group, NLI-Research Institute
Kunio Nakashima, NLI Research Institute

"The Effects of the FMLA on Women’s Employment: A New Perspective"
Xilin Zhou, Georgia State University (Contact Author)

"Ex-Ante Evaluation of Parental Leave Expansion"
Shintaro Yamaguchi, McMaster University (Contact Author)

"The Impact of Female Education on Fertility: A Natural Experiment from Egypt"
Shiferaw Gurmu, Georgia State University
Fatma Romeh Mohamed Ali, Georgia State University (Contact Author)

Discussants:

Shintaro Yamaguchi, McMaster University
Andrew Rettenmaier, Texas A&M University
Tomoki Kitamura, NLI Research Institute
Xilin Zhou, Georgia State University
Inna Cintina, University of Hawaii, Manoa

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