Promoting Economic Growth
| Home |
| About Us |
| Research |
| Site Search |
2005 MEETINGS & SESSIONS
Review of Black Political Economy - Board Meeting
Population, Poverty, and Economic Opportunity
Community Development Finance: Then and Now
Does a Low Tide Lower All Boats?
Skills, Policy, and Labor Market Outcomes across Demographic Groups
Disparities in the Workplace: Does Race Matter?
Presidential Address and NEA Reception
The Impact of Changes in Technology and the Returns to Skill on Racial and Gender Wage Differentials
Note: click here for the American Economic Association preliminary program.
Thursday, Jan. 6, 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Review of Black Political Economy - Board Meeting
Location: Philadelphia Marriott, Room 307
Presiding: Cecilia Conrad, Pomona College
Thursday, Jan. 6, 7:30pm - 9:30pm
NEA Executive Board Meeting
Location: Philadelphia Marriott, Room 307
Presiding: Sheila Ards, University of Minnesota
NEA
Population, Poverty, and Economic Opportunity (I32, K42)
Presiding: Linda Loubert, Morgan State University
Susan Williams McElroy, University of Texas at Dallas -- Teenage Childbearing and Economic Opportunity
Fidel Ezeala-Harrison, Jackson State University and Dennis O. Anyamele, Jackson State University -- The Population Trap Syndrome in Poor Communities: A Dual-Constraints Analysis
Leonidas Murembya, Michigan Office of Labor Market Information -- The Impact of Persistent Versus Temporary Poverty on Children’s Cognitive Skills Development in the U. S.: Emphasis on African-American Children
Patrick Mason, Florida State University -- Biased Policing and the Florida Highway Patrol
Discussants:
Charles Betsey, Howard University
Linda Loubert, Morgan State University
NEA
Community Development Finance: Then and Now (G2)
Presiding: Bernard Anderson, University of Pennsylvania
Gary Dymski, University of California -- Recent Evidence on Community
Development Financial Institutions
Robert Weems, University of Missouri and John Robinson, University of Missouri -- What Went Right , and Wrong, with Nixon's Black Capitalism?
Sidney L. Williams, New Market Venture Capital Fund – The New Markets Venture
Capital Fund: Challenges and Opportunities
Discussant: Andrew Brimmer, Brimmer & Co. and University of Massachusetts at Amherst
NEA
Does a Low Tide Lower All Boats? (E6)
Presiding: Cecilia Conrad, Pomona College
William E. Spriggs, National Urban League and Cheryl Hill Lee, National Urban League-- Labor Market Outcomes for African Americans During Recessions and Beyond
William M. Rodgers III, The State University of New Jersey and Richard B. Freeman, National Bureau of Economic Research -- Racial Wage and Employment Gaps in the Jobless Recovery: A New Pattern or More of the Same?
Alan Krueger, Princeton University, Hilary Hoynes, University of California at Davis, and Jim Hines, University of Michigan -- What Did the Rising Tide Lift at the Turn of the Millennium?
James K. Galbraith, University of Texas -- Inequality and the Jobless Recovery
Discussants:
Cecilia Conrad, Pomona College
Samuel L. Myers, Jr., University of Minnesota
AEA/NEA
Skills, Policy, and Labor Market Outcomes across Demographic Groups (H31, E24, I2)
Presiding: Bridget Terry Long, Harvard University
Nada O. Eissa, Georgetown University -- Tax and Transfer Policy, and Labor Market Outcomes
Philip N. Jefferson, Swarthmore College -- Output-Unemployment Tradeoffs: Do Skills Matter?
Lisa Barrow, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and Cecilia E. Rouse, Princeton University -- Is there Demographic Variation in Labor Market Returns to Education?
Discussants:
Seth B. Carpenter, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Jonah B. Gelbach, University of Maryland
Bridget Terry Long, Harvard University
NEA
Race, Space, and Class: The Effects and Determinants of Residential Segregation among African Americans (R12, J15)Presiding: Darrick Hamilton, New School University
Richard W. Martin, University of Georgia and Raphael W. Bostic, University of Southern California – Spatial Mismatch and Minority Housing Tenure Choice
Michael A. Stoll, University of California at Los Angeles – Geographic Skills Mismatch and Racial Segregation
Lance Freeman, Columbia University -- Class Segregation among African Americans in the 1990s
Haydar Kurban, Howard University -- The Spatial Impacts of Federal Funds on Economic Development in Selected Metropolitan Areas: Minority Inner-Suburbs versus White Suburbs
Discussants:
Christopher Henderson, MBNA Bank
Darrick Hamilton, New School University
Kenya Covington, Congressional Black Caucus Foundation
NEA Awards Luncheon
Location: Philadelphia Marriott, Room: Independence
NEA
Disparities in the Workplace: Does Race Matter? (J71, L51, J24
Presiding: Arthur H. Goldsmith, Washington and Lee University
William Darity, Jr., Duke University and University of North Carolina, Jason Dietrich, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and Darrick Hamilton, New School University -- Race, Ethnicity and Labor Market Discrimination: Evidence From Census 2000.
Kaye Husbands Fealing, Williams College and James Peoples, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee -- Regulatory Reform and Racial Employment Patterns
Shelley I. White-Means, University of Memphis and Joni Hersch, Harvard University -- The Health Insurance Status of Nontraditional Workers: The Effect of Race and Ethnicity
Charles L. Betsey, Howard University and Gregory N. Price, North Carolina A&T State University -- Faculty Research Productivity: An Assessment of Self-Reported and Objective Measures of Faculty Publications and External Funding
Discussants:
Arthur H. Goldsmith, Washington and Lee University
Willene A. Johnson, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Margaret C. Simms, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies
NEA General Meeting
Presiding: Sheila Ards, University of Minnesota
Location: Marriott/ Liberty C
NEA Presidential Address
Presiding: Sheila Ards, University of Minnesota
Location: Marriott/ Liberty C
NEA
The Impact of Changes in Technology and the Returns to Skill on Racial and Gender Wage Differentials (J31, O33) Presiding: Samuel L. Myers, Jr., University of Minnesota
Ronald L. Oaxaca, University of Arizona and Simona Lup, University of Arizona -- Technological Change and Gender Wage Differentials: Estimates for US Industries, 1979-2001
William M. Rodgers III, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey -- Why Didn’t the Male African American-White Wage Gap Narrow More During the 1990s: A Distributional Analysis
Cecilia Conrad, Pomona College and Sanae Tashiro, Claremont Graduate University -- An Empirical Examination of Intersectionality Theory: The Digital Divide and Wages
William C. Horrace, Syracuse University, Jin Hwa Jung, Korea Institute for Industrial Economics and Trade, and Beyza P. Ural, Syracuse University -- Inter-Industry Gender Wage Gaps by Knowledge Intensity: Worker Skill and Technology in Korea
Discussants:
Patrick Mason, Florida State University
Samuel L. Myers, Jr., University of Minnesota
NEA
Wealth Accumulation: A Roundtable (D31)
Presiding: Jessica Gordon Nembhard, University of Maryland
Jessica Gordon Nembhard, University of Maryland and Ngina Chiteji, University of Maryland -- Wealth Accumulation and Communities of Color in the United States
Wilhelmina Leigh, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies-- Wealth Definitions and Measurement: Issues for People of Color in the United States
Gary Dymski, University of California at Riverside and Wei Li, Arizona State University -- The Growth and Development of the Chinese-American Banking Sector and Wealth-Building in U.S. Ethnic Communities
Paul Ong, University of California at Los Angeles -- Educational Attainment, Labor Market Outcomes, Home Ownership and Home Values among Native Hawaiians
Barbara J. Robles, University of Texas -- Wealth Creation in Latino Communities: Latino Families, Community Assets and Cultural Capital
Anthony Blasingame, Indiana University and Jessica Gordon Nembhard, University of Maryland -- Wealth, Democracy, and Civic Engagement
Discussants: Roundtable discussion