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PRELIMINARY SESSIONS
Black-White Gaps in Finances, the Environment, and Human Capital (J1)
Institutions and Race: Education, Marriage, Mobs, and Migration(J1)
Remittances, Resources, and Growth in Developing Economies (F24\)
Retirement Outcomes, Caregiving, and Income Inadequacy (J1)
Macroeconomic Narratives from Africa and the Diaspora (F4)
Regional and Local Labor Markets: Race, Ethnicity, and Poverty (J6)
Note: click here for the American Economic Association preliminary program.
Room: Marriott/Sierra Suite H
Association: National Economic Association (NEA)
Session Title: “Black-White Gaps in Finances, the Environment, and Human Capital ” (JEL Classification : J1)
Presiding: Rhonda Sharpe, Department of Economics, University of Vermont
Papers:
1.) William D. Bradford, University of Washington, “Racial Differences in Managing Finances”
2.) Jeffrey P. Cohen, University of Hartford, and Cletus C. Coughlin, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, “Environmental Justice and Airport Noise in Atlanta”
3.) Valerie Wilson, and Mark McCardle, National Urban League, “An Examination of the National Urban League's Equality Index”
Discussants:
Ngina Chiteji, Skidmore University
Nancy Lozano-Gracia , University of Illinois and Arizona State University
William E. Spriggs, Howard University
Expected Attendance: 20
Presiding: Rhonda Sharpe, Department of Economics
University of Vermont
Department of Economics
94 University Place
Burlington, Vermont 05401
PH: (802) 656-0640
email: rsharpe@uvm.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: Marriot/Sierra Suite H
Association: National Economic Association (NEA)
Session Title: “Institutions and Race: Education, Marriage, Mobs, and Migration ” (JEL Classification: J1)
Presiding: Sean E. Mulholland, Stetson School of Business and Economics, Mercer University
Papers:
1.) Art Carden, Rhodes College, “Did Jim Crow Lead the Mob? Institutions, Violence, and Wages, 1882-1930”
2.) Deniz Gevrek, University of Texas-Austin, “Migration and Loving”
3.) Laura M. Argys, Steven Culpepper, Daniel I. Rees, University of Colorado - Denver, “The Relationship between State-Level Demographic Changes and Support for Higher Education”
4.) Ray Hernandez-Julian, Metropolitan State College of Denver, and Sean E. Mulholland, Mercer University, “Does Economic Freedom Lead to Selective Migration By Race?”
Discussants:
Trevon D. Logan, Ohio State University
Darrick Hamilton, New School for Management and Public Policy
William A. Darity, Jr., Duke University
Robert A. Lawson, Capital University
Expected Attendance 20
Presiding:
Sean E. Mulholland
Mercer University
Stetson School of Business and Economics
1400 Coleman Avenue
Macon, GA 31207
PH: 205-348-6033
email: Mulholland_s@mercer.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: Marriott/ Sierra Suite H
Association: National Economic Association (NEA)
Session Title: “How Much Current Unjust Enrichment is Produced by Past Colonialisms? Quantifying Williams, Girvan, and Rodney” (JEL Classification: J3)
Presiding: Richard America, Georgetown University
Papers:
1.) William A. Darity, Jr., Duke University, “Calculating Appropriated Surplus”
2.) Simon Pak, Penn State University, “Estimating Capita Transfers from Misinvoicing”
3.) Khalil Tian Shahyd, University of Deleware, “Estimating Income and Wealth Transfers from Illicit Transfer, Wrongful Taking - The Caribbean to Europe”
4.) Andrew Muhammad, Mississippi State University, “Estimating Income and Wealth Transfer from Monopsony in Commodity Trade”
5.) Fenaba Addo, Mary L. Covington, and William A. Darity, Jr., Duke University, “Meeting the Debt: The Logistics of Financing Reparations”
Discussant:
Gregory Price - Morehouse College
Expected Attendance: 20
Presiding:
Richard F. America
Georgetown University
email: americar@georgetown.edu
Room: Marriot/Sierra Suite H
Association: National Economic Association (NEA)
Session Title: Remittances, Resources, and Growth in Developing Countries (JEL Classifications:F24\)
Presiding: Francisco Rivera-Batiz, Columbia University
Papers:
1.) Luis Blanco, Pepperdine University, and Robin Grier, University of Oklahoma, “The Impact of Resource Abundance and Resource Inequality on Capital Accumulation in Latin America”
2.) Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, San Diego State University, and Susan Pozo, Western Michigan University, “Remittance Uncertainty and Its Impact on Labor Supply”
3.) Carlos Vargos-Silva, Sam Houston State University, “What's to Blame for the Recent Slowdown in Workers' Remittances”
4.) Salvador Contreras, McNeese State University, “The Influence of Migration on Human Capital Development”
Discussants:
Dennis Jansen, Texas A&M University
Magali Valero, University of Michigan - Dearborn
Teofilo Ozuna, University of Texas - Pan American
David J. Molina, University of North Texas
Expected Attendance: 20
Presiding:
Francisco Rivera-Batiz
Macy Hall 350, Teachers College
Columbia University
525 W. 120th Street
New York, NY 10027
email: flr9@columbia.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: Marriott/Sierra Suite H
Association: National Economic Association (NEA)
Session Title: “The Economies of the African Slave Trade and African Development: Two Hundred Years after the Abolition of Slavery (O1)
Presiding: Romie Tribble, Spelman College
Papers:
1.) Nathan Hunn, Harvard University, and Leonard Wantchekon, New York University, “The Causes and Consequences of Mistrust in Africa”
2.) Joseph Inikori, University of Rochester, “Reflections on the 1807-1808 British and United States Abolition of Transatlantic Slave Trade”
3.) Warren Whatley, University of Michigan, “The Slave Trade and the Rise and Fall of the Asante”
4.) Romie Tribble, Spelman College, “Market Structure and the Evolution of the Transatlantic Slave Trade”
Discussants:
Wilene Johnson, Cornell University
William A. Darity, Jr., Duke University
Expected Attendance: 20
Presiding:
Romie Tribble
Spelman College
350 Spelman Lane S.W.
Atlanta, GA 30314-4399
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: Marriott/Sierra Suite H
Association: National Economic Association (NEA)
Session Title: Retirement Outcomes, Caregiving, and Income Inadequacy (JEL Classification: J1)
Presiding: Emily Blank, Howard University
Papers:
1.) Emily Blank, Howard University, “Guaranteed Retirement Accounts: Are They Fair to Minorities?”
2.) Shelley White-Means, University of Tennessee, “Valuing the Human Capital Costs of Family Care: Time and Motion Survey Estimates for Black and White Caregivers”
3.) Alvin Headen, North Carolina State University, “Paying for Mom's Long-Term Care: A Question for Intergenerational Wealth Accumulation in Black and White Families”
Discussants:
Darrel Gaskin, University of Maryland
Rucker Johnson, University of California - Berkeley
Charles Betsey, Howard University
Expected Attendance 20
Presiding:
Emily Blank
Department of Economics
Howard University
2400 4th Street, N.W.
ASB-B Bldg., Room 306
Washington, DC 20059
email: eblank@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: Marriot/Sierra Suite H
Association: American Economic Association (AEA) and the National Economic Association (NEA)
Session Title: Macroeconomic Narratives from Africa and the Diaspora (JEL Classification: F4)
Presiding: Peter Blair Henry, Stanford University
Papers:
1.) Brahima Coulibaly, Federal Reserve Board, and Trevon Logan, Ohio State University, “South Africa's Post-Apartheid Two Step: Social Demands versus Macro Stability”
2.) Peter Blair Henry, and Conrad Miller, Stanford University, “Three Tales of Caribbean Adjustment”
3.) Laura N. Beny, University of Michigan, and Lisa D. Cook, Michigan State University, “Metals or Management? Explaining Africa's Recent Growth Performance ”
Discussants:
Neville Francis, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Susan Collins, University of Michigan
William A. Darity, Jr., Duke University
Expected Attendance: 40
Presiding:
Peter Blair Henry
Graduate School of Business
Stanford University
Stanford, California
email: pbhenry@stanford.edu
Room: Marriott/Sierra Suite H
Association: National Economic Association (NEA)
Session Title: Regional and Local Labor Markets: Race, Ethnicity, and Poverty (JEL Classification: J6)
Presiding: Emily Blank, Howard University
Papers:
1.) Nicki Dickerson, and William E. Spriggs, Howard University, “Segregation of Workers: An Efficiency Wage Explanation of Job Hoarding and Ethnic Enclave Effects on Wages of Low Wage Workers”
2.) William M. Rodgers III, Rutgers University, “An Update of Rodgers and Freeman: 2001 - 2007”
3.) Gary A. Hoover, and Mehmet E. Yaya, University of Alabama, “Racial Differences in Income Inequality across US Regions”
4) Haydar Kurban, Howard University, “Can the Local Labor Force in New Orleans Benefit from Supply Restrictions During the Reconstruction?”
Discussants
Kevin Lang, Boston University
Patrick Mason, Florida State University
James Peoples, University of Wisoncson-Milwaukee
Steven Pitts, University of California-Berkeley
Expected Attendance: 20
Presiding:
Emily Blank
Department of Economics
Howard University
2400 4th Street, N.W.
ASB-B Bldg., Room 306
Washington, DC 20059
email: eblank@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