Oct 12 2018
Friday
Oct 13 2018
Saturday
9.00 AM - 10.30 AM
Room 8009
"Is Foreign Aid Procyclical or Countercyclical?”
"Macroeconomics Stimulus and the Distorting Effects of Political Connection: Evidence from China,”
"Fiscal Policy Effects and Capital Mobility in Some Latin American Countries,”
“House Price Synchronization across the U.S. States and Their Time-Varying Macroeconomic Linkages,"
Room 8010
"The Effects of Wage Replacement on Return to Work and Medical Service Use in Workers’ Compensation,”
"Feeling Squeezed? Impact of Social Security Benefit Cuts on Labor Supply and Financial Behavior of the Elderly,”
Room 8014
Chair: Professor Helen Roberts, University of Illinois at Chicago
10.45 AM - 12.15 PM
"The Impact of a Female Adult Literacy Program on Knowledge, Confidence, Mobility and Bargaining Power of Women: Evidence from India,”
"Female Education, Fertility Decisions, and Infant Health: Evidence from China’s Compulsory Education Law,”
"The Effect of the Minimum Dropout Age on Tobacco Product and Alcohol Use among High School Students Younger than 16 Years Old,”
"Competition, Cooperation, and Performance: Interaction in the Classroom?”
"Direct and Spillover Impacts of Formal Employment: Evidence from Argentina,”
"Immigrants, Language Barrier, and the Assimilation Processes,”
“Consequences of Immigrating During a Recession: Evidence from the US Refugee Resettlement Program,”
"The 1975 Black Frost: Shocks to Capital and the Spatial Distribution of Workers,”
"Measuring the Net Impact of Property Tax Differentials on Residential Development Intensity,”
"Are Urban and Suburban Poverty Converging in the Rust Belt?”
“Shifts in the Affordable Housing Stock: Micro-evidence from Small Multifamily Homes,”
“Productivity and Welfare in an Overlapping Generations Model with Housing,”
University of Chicago
12.25 PM - 1.35 PM
Room 8005
"The Narrow Corridor to Liberty"
1:45 PM - 3.15 PM
"Unraveling Place-Based Preferences: Do School Shootings Erode Property Values?”
"The Effect of Internal Migration on Crime and Violence: Evidence from Indonesia,”
"Short-Run Consequences of Displacement in the Criminal Labor Market,”
"Impact of Chilean Maternity Leave Expansion on Female Labor Market Outcomes and Gender Discrimination,”
"Are Men Revising their Attitudes Toward Women? Men’s Attitudes on the Role of Women in the Labor Market and Women’s Outcomes,”
"Labor Demand Shocks and Human Capital Investments: Do Race and Ethnicity Matter?”
"Does Working from Home Reduce Employee Turnover? Implications for Career Mobility,”
"An Investigation into Optimal Plot Length in On-farm Field Trials,”
“An Economic-Theory-Based Approach to Management Zone Delineation,”
"The Joint Spillover Index,”
"Public Goods Game with Competition and Leadership: An Experimental Study,”
3.30 PM - 5.00 PM
"Another Look at the Small Balassa-Samuelson Effect in Japan’s Real Exchange Rate Appreciation during the Rapid Growth Era, 1956-70,”
"Abenomics and the Future of the Japanese Economy,”
"Another Look at Cash-Futures Convergence,”
"Iso-risk Threshold and Implications about Modern Finance,”
“CME Bitcoin Futures Contracts, Performance to Date,”
"A Tail of Low Volatility: Was the Recent Low Equity Volatility an Anomaly?”
"Stock Price Reactions to the Information and Bias in Analyst-Expected Returns,”
"The Effect of Capital Gain Taxation on Executive Compensation: Evidence from the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997,”
"The Conditional Expected Market Return,”
5.00 PM - 6.00 PM
8.30 AM - 10.00 AM
"The Impact of Access to Oral Contraceptives on the Spread of Sexually Transmitted Diseases,”
"Does Medicaid Reimbursement for Obstetric Care Affect Treatment Decisions?”
"Increased WIC Eligibility and Birth Outcomes,”
“Does Telemedicine Save Lives? Evidence on the Effect of Telemedicine Parity Laws on Mortality Rates,”
"The Impact of State Financial Intervention on School District Fiscal Performance: Evidence from Illinois,”
"The Effect of Charter School Entry on School District's Inputs and Expenditures,”
"Private Schools' Entry Decision: Evidence from a Public Policy in India,”
Workshop presented by Jodi Houlihan and Florina Salaghe, Benedictine University.
"Applying Prospect Theory in CAPM Using Simulation,”
10.15 AM - 11.45 AM
"Changes in Height-for-Age of Egyptian Children 1995 to 2014,”
"Do Children on Medicaid Benefit from a Weak Labor Market? Evidence from the Great Recession,”
“Inertia, Learning, and Welfare in Physician Prescribing Behavior: The Case of Generic Entry,”
"Competitive Balance in College Baseball and the Effects of Scholarship Limitation,”
"The Economic Impact of Season Ticket Holders at Two NCAA Men’s Basketball Programs,”
"Towards a Model of Long-term Labor Contracts in Major League Baseball,”
"The Stabilization of Poland’s Exchange Rate since Communism: A 30 Year Retrospective,”
"Contrasting GARCH Daily Variance Predictions between Foreign Exchange Returns and Carry Trade Strategy Returns,”
"Latin America Headline News and the Impact on Currency Prices,”
1:15 PM - 3.00 PM
"Exchange Rate Determination,”
"Exporting Decision and Extensive Margins of Credit: Firm-Level Investigation of Bangladesh,”
"Tax Competition for Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions with Endogenous Tariff: Does the Market Size Matter?”
"Agricultural Productivity: Contrasting Effects of Earned and Unearned Remittance,”
"Do Workers' Remittances Promote Financial Development and Growth in Developing Countries?”
"The Contribution of Public and Private Investment to Economic Growth,”
“John Mill and China: The Development of Political Economy in Modern China,”
"Costs Associated with Sovereign Debt Default and Debt Renegotiations,”
"Discount Window, Stigma, and the Term Auction Facility,”
"Do Bank Reserves Become More Interest Elastic After the Crisis? Evidence from US Bank Level Data,”
“Just Got Lucky? Inflation Targeting and Macroeconomic Stability,”