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PRELIMINARY SESSIONS
African Development and African Immigration (O1)
Macroeconomic Factors Impacting Poverty and Income Distribution among African Americans
Credit Knowledge and Usage Among Minority Consumers and the Subprime Lending Market (D1)
Political Economy of Recovery from Katrina: Comparative Perspectives (D6)
Opportunities and Obstacles to Southern African Development," (O1)
Katrina: Reconstruction and Redevelopment (R1)
Human Capital, Social Capital, and Wealth Among Hispanics in the United States (I3)
Note: click here for the American Economic Association preliminary program.
Room J.W. Marriott/ St. Claude
Association: National Economics Association (NEA)
Session Title: “African Development and African Immigration,” (JEL Classification : O1)
Presiding: Romie Tribble, Department of Economics, Department of Economics, Spelman College
Papers:
1.) Juliet Elu, Spelman College, “Private Foreign Direct Investment in ACP Countries: The Impact of Migrant Remittance on Economic Growth and Development,”
2.) Leonidas Murembya, Michigan Bureau of Labor Market Information and Strategic Initiatives, “How are Children of Immigrants Faring in the U.S. Job Market?”
3.) Warren C. Whatley, University of Michigan, “West Africa in the Emerging Atlantic Economy, 1450-1850,”
4.) Juliet Elu, Spelman College, “Economic Analysis of Terrorism: Rational Choice and Utility Maximization of Terrorist Behavior in Africa and South Asia,”
5.) Brooks Robinson, Black Economics.org “Coming to Africa,”
Discussants:
Kwabena Gyimah-Brempong, University of South Florida
William A. Darity, Jr., University of North Carolina
Mwangi wa Githinji,University of Massachusetts
Elizabeth Asiedu,University of Kansas
Patrick Mason,Florida State University
Expected Attendance: 15
Presiding: Romie Tribble, Department of Economics
Spelman College
Atlanta, Georgia
email: rtribble@spelman.edu
Changes and corrections to the program should be sent to Violet O. Sikes, American Economic Association, 2014 Broadway, Suite 305, Nashville, TN 37203
Room J. W. Marriot/ St Claude
Association: American Economic Association (AEA) and National Economics Association (NEA)
Session Title: “Macroeconomic Factors Impacting Poverty and Income Distribution Among African-Americans,” (JEL classification: I30)
Presiding: Gary Hoover-Department of Economics, Finance and Legal Studies, University of Alabama
Papers:
1.) William Rodgers III, Rutgers University, “The Impact of Monetary Policy on the Duration and Type of Unemployment by Race and Sex,”
2.) Rebecca Blank,University of Michigan and David Card,University of California at Berkeley, “Income, Family Structure, and Poverty Among African Americans,”
3.) Philip Jefferson, Swarthmore College, “Poverty Volatility and Macroeconomic Quiescence,”
4.) Gary Hoover, Walter Enders,University of Alabama, and Donald Freeman, Sam Houston State University. “Non-White Poverty and the Macroeconomy: The Impact of Growth,”
Discussants:
Mel Stephens, Carnegie Mellon
Alan Krueger, Princeton University
Hilary Hoynes, University of California at Davis
William Spriggs, Howard University
Expected Attendance 33
Presiding:
Gary A. Hoover
University of Alabama
Department of Economics, Finance, and Legal Studies
P.O. Box 870224
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0224
PH: 205-348-6033
email: ghoover@cba.ua.edu
Changes and corrections to the program should be sent to Violet O. Sikes, American Economic Association, 2014 Broadway, Suite 305, Nashville, TN 37203
Room J.W. Marriott/ St Claude
Association: National Economics Association (NEA)
Session Title: “Is Diversity Enough to Increase the Doctorate to Faculty Pipeline: The Influence of Earnings and Professional Development,” (JEL Classification:I23)
Presiding: Rhonda Vonshay Sharpe, Department of Economics, University of Vermont
Papers:
1.) Lisa Dickson, University of Maryland-Baltimore County, “Is Diversity Enough to Increase the Doctorate to Faculty Pipeline: The Influence of Earnings and Professional Development,”
2.) Charles Becker, Duke University and Gregory Price, Jackson State University, “Curriculum Intensity in Graduate Preparatory Programs: Impacts on Performance and Progression to Graduate Study Among Minority Students in Economics,”
3.) Raymonda L. Burgman, Economics and Management, “Disparities within the Academic Ranks,”
4.) William Darity, Duke University, Rhonda Vonshay Sharpe, University of Vermont, and Omari Swinton, “Is there Value Added from Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Social Sciences?”
Discussants:
Cecilia A. Conrad- Pomona College
William Rodgers, III
Expected Attendance: 18
Presiding:
Rhonda Vonshay Sharpe, Ph.D.
Economics Department, University of Vermont
Burlington, VT 05405
email: rsharpe@uvm.edu,
tel: (802)-656-0640
Room J.W. Marriot/St. Claude
Association: National Economics Association (NEA)
Session Title: Credit Knowledge and Usage Among Minority Consumers and the Subprime Lending Market, (JEL Classifications:D14)
Presiding: George Galster-Wayne State University
Papers:
1.) Charles Betsey, Howard University, “Perceived Truth: How Perceptions of Creditworthiness Affect Equal Credit Access,”
2.) Shelia Ards, Samuel Myers, University of Minnesota, and Inhyuck Ha, Western Carolina University, “Misperceptions of Credit Worthiness and Racial Differences in Credit Card Usage,”
3.) Chrisopher Richardson, GMAC Mortgage LLC, “An Analysis of Higher-Cost Mortgage Credit: Does Market Competition Matter?”
4.) Angela M. Williams Foster, University of Pittsburgh, “The Effects of Neighborhood Attributes on Sub-Prime Lending Propensity,”
Discussants:
Ngina Chiteji, Skidmore College
Vanessa Gail Perry, George Washington University
Expected Attendance: 23
Presiding:
George Galster
Department of Geography and Urban Planning
Wayne State University
Detroit MI 48202
Tel: (313) 577-9084,
email: george_galster@wayne.edu
Changes and corrections to the program should be sent to Violet O. Sikes, American Economic Association, 2014 Broadway, Suite 305, Nashville, TN 37203
Room J.W. Marriott/ St. Claude
Association: National Economics Association (NEA)
Session Title: “Political Economy of Recovery from Katrina: Comparative Perspectives,”(JEL classification: D6)
Presiding: William Spriggs, Department of Economics, Howard University, email:
Papers
Rodney Green, Howard University and Beverly Wright, Dillard University, “The Political Economy of Non-Government versus Government Recovery Intervention in New Orleans in the Wake of Katrina,”
2.) Charles Betsey, Howard University and Margaret C. Simms, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, “People and Jobs: Employment Prospects for New Orleans Residents in the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina,”
3.) Heidi Hartmann and Avis Jones-DeWeever, Institute for Women’s Policy Research, “In the Eye of the Storm: Examining the Effects of Hurricane Katrina on the Women of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast,”
4.) Haydar Kurban, Gaminie Meepagala, and Mary Kay Perkins, Howard University, “Using Recovery Patterns from Hurricane Andrew as a Benchmark for Post-Katrina Reconstruction in New Orleans,”
Discussants:
Lance Freeman, Columbia University
Cecilia Conrad, Pomona College
Joseph Persky, University of Illinois at Chicago
Greg Price, Jackson State University
Expected Attendance: 20
Presiding:
William E. Spriggs
Department of Economics
Howard University
2400 Sixth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20059
Tel: (202) 806-9894,
email: wspriggs@howard.edu
Changes and corrections to the program should be sent to Violet O. Sikes, American Economic Association, 2014 Broadway, Suite 305, Nashville, TN 37203
Room J. W. Marriott/ St. Claude
Association: National Economics Association (NEA)
Session Title: Opportunities and Obstacles to Southern African Development, (JEL Classification: O1)
Presiding: Romie Tribble, Jr., Department of Economics, Spelman College
Papers:
1.) Romie Tribble, Jr., Spelman College,”The Openness Hypothesis and the South African Economy,”
2.) Glenwood Ross, Morehouse College, “Foreign Direct Investment to Post Apartheid South Africa: Determinants, Trends and Prospects,”
3.) Radha Bhattacharya, California State University at Fullerton, “Empirical Analysis of Economic Growth in South Africa: From Apartheid to AIDS,”
4.) Marionnette Holmes, Spelman College, “The Cost Effectiveness of HAART on HIV and AIDS in Botswana,”
5) Mona Ray, Morehouse College, “The Crowding-Out Effect of HIV-AIDS on BEE in South Africa,”
Discussants:
Juliet Elu, Spelman College, email:
Elizabeth Aseidu, University of Kansas, email:
Mesfin Bezunah, Clark-Atlanta University, email:
Alvin Headen, North Carolina State University, email:
Amata Diabate,Spelman College, email:
Expected Attendance 20
Presiding: Romie Tribble, Jr.
Department of Economics
Spelman College
email: rtribble@spelman.edu
Changes and corrections to the program should be sent to Violet O. Sikes, American Economic Association, 2014 Broadway, Suite 305, Nashville, TN 37203
Room J. W. Marriot/ St. Claude
Association: National Economics Association (NEA)
Session Title: Katrina: Reconstruction and Redevelopment, (JEL Classification: R11)
Presiding: Willene A. Johnson, Komaza, Inc.
Papers:
1.) Khalil Tian Shahyd-University of Delaware, “Capacity Development in Post-Katrina New Orleans: An International Aid Perspective,”
2.) Donald Andrews, Sung C. No and Ashagre Yigletu-Southern University and A&M College, “The Influences of Socio-Economic Factors on Educational Performance for Elementary School Children in Louisiana with a Focus on New Orleans,”
3.) Victor Ukpolo, Sung C. No, and Ashagre Yigletu- Southern University and A&M College, “Dynamic Impact Analysis of Socio-Economic Factors of Violent Crime: The Case of New Orleans?”
4.) Richard L. McCline, Southern University and A&M, “Environmental Turbulence and Entrepreneurial Survival: Lessons Learned From Case Studies of Small and Disadvantaged Businesses in a Post Katrina Environment,”
Discussants:
Willene A. Johnson, Komaza, Inc.
Susan Williams McElroy, University of Texas at Dallas
Patrick Mason, Florida State University
Ralph D. Christy, Cornell University
Expected Attendance: 15
Presiding: Willene A. Johnson,
Komaza, Inc.
email: willene@earthlink.net
Room J. W. Marriott/ St. Claude
Association: Association for the Society of Hispanic Economics (ASHE) and National Economics Association (NEA)
Session Title: Human Capital, Social Capital, and Wealth Among Hispanics in the United States, (JEL Classification: I38)
Presiding: Alberto Davila, Department of Economics, The University of Texas-Pan American, email:
Papers:
1.) David Molina, University of North Texas, “Income Inequality Between Homogeneous Race/Ethnic Households and Mixed Race/Ethnic Households,”
2.) Barbara J. Robles, Arizona State University, “Using Tax Refunds to Capitalize Micro-Businesses: Family and Community wealth Building in the Borderlands,”
3.) Rene P. Rosenbaum, Michigan State University, “Articulating the Economic Importance of Non-Parental Child Care for U.S. Hispanics: Challenges for Policy,”
4) Richard Fry, Pew Hispanic Center, “The Educational Attainment of Hispanic Youth in New Settlement States,”
Discussants
Mark Hugo Lopez,University of Maryland
Teofilo Ozuna, The University of Texas-Pan American
Sue Stockly,Eastern New Mexico University
Isabel Ruiz, Sam Houston State University
Expected Attendance: 20
Presiding: Alberto Davila, Department of Economics
The University of Texas-Pan American
email: adavila@utpa.edu,
Tel. (956) 381-3354
Changes and corrections to the program should be sent to Violet O. Sikes, American Economic Association, 2014 Broadway, Suite 305, Nashville, TN 37203