Session Title: Labor Markets, Discrimination and the Academy
Joint Association: American Society of Hispanic Economists (ASHE)
Organizer: Susan Pozo (susan.pozo@wmich.edu) – Western Michigan University
Chair: Omari H. Swinton (oswinton@howard.edu) – Howard University
Papers
Paper #1 : Labor market conditions and charges of discrimination: Is there a link?
Authors
- #1: Karl David Boulware (kboulware@wesleyan.edu) – Wesleyan University
Corresponding Author, Presenting Author
- #2: Kenneth N. Kuttner (Kenneth.N.Kuttner@williams.edu) – Williams College
Paper #2 : Student Debt and Labor Outcomes
Authors
- #1: Gerald Eric Daniels Jr. (Gerald.Daniels@howard.edu) – Howard University
Corresponding Author, Presenting Author
- #2: Andria Smythe (asmythe11@gmail.com) – Howard University
Paper #3 : Hispanics in the Michigan Labor Market
Author
- #1: Leonidas Murembya (murembya@msu.edu) – Michigan State University
Corresponding Author, Presenting Author
Paper #4 : The Problem of the 21st Century Revisited: Black and Hispanic Faculty and the Economics Color Line
Authors
- #1: Sue K. Stockly (sue.stockly@enmu.edu) – Eastern New Mexico University
Corresponding Author, Presenting Author
- #2: Gregory N. Price (gprice@morehouse.edu) – Morehouse College
Paper #5 : Cognitive Awareness and Academic Performance: A Field Experiment
Authors
- #1: Angelino Viceisza (aviceisz@spelman.edu) – Spelman College
Corresponding Author, Presenting Author
- #2: A. Nayena Blankson (ablanks1@spelman.edu) – Spelman College
- #3: Jimmeka Guillory (jguillo1@spelman.edu) – Spelman College
- #4: Francesina Jackson (fjackso8@spelman.edu) – Spelman College
- #5: Bruce Wade (bwade@spelman.edu) – Spelman College
Discussants
- #1: Edouard Wemy (ewemy@clarku.edu) – Clark University
- #2: Delia Furtado (delia.furtado@uconn.edu) – University of Connecticut
- #3: Susan Pozo (susan.pozo@wmich.edu) – Western Michigan University
- #4: Patrick Mason (pmason@fsu.edu) – Florida State University
- #5: Gbenga Ajilore (Gbenga.Ajilore@UToledo.Edu) – University of Toledo
Panel Title: Gender Stratification for URM Economics and Sociology Faculty: Structural and Experiential Dimensions
Panel Abstract
This panel will present and discuss data from a recent National Science Foundation- funded project on underrepresented minority (URM) faculty career trajectories for both women and men. URM scholars often face both informal and structural barriers to full participation and thriving in predominantly white and male academic environments. The NSF-funded research suggests that these barriers are experienced especially by women of color. In addition, the panel explores the issue of gender stratification for URM faculty in the disciplines of economics and sociology. The academy is a deeply gendered institution, and men predominate in the top ranks of the professoriate. Recognition of these inequalities has focused on the concept of departmental climate. This construct refers to people’s perceived work environment including workplace practices, social interactions, and relationships (Wharton and Estevez 2014). The NSF-funded research asks whether URM women economists and sociologists experience inclusion and exclusion differently than men of color in their respective academic departments and in their disciplinary networks. The project findings are based on a survey of 198 black and Hispanic sociologists and economists, either currently or formerly employed in academia, who obtained their PhDs between 1995 and 2006. In addition, findings include trends from a set of pilot in-depth interviews from these same survey respondents, and a network analysis based on co-authorship of publications. Finally, the panel will discuss several policy recommendations around hiring and promotion, rewards for teaching and advising, pay raises for administrative work, and travel funding.
Organizer: Jean H. Shin (shin@asanet.org) – American Sociological Association
Chair: Jean H. Shin (shin@asanet.org) – American Sociological Association
Panelists
- #1: Roberta Spalter-Roth (rspalter@gmu.edu) – American Sociological Association/George Mason University
Topic: Gender Dynamics in STEM Careers for Economics and Sociology Faculty
- #2: Marie T. Mora (marie.mora@utrgv.edu) – University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley
Topic: Academic Stratification for URM Economics and Sociology Faculty
- #3: Kyle Moore (kylekmoore90@gmail.com) – New School for Social Research
Topic: Survey Data on Gender Stratification for URM Economists and Sociologists
- #4: Ismael Cid-Martinez (icidmartinez@gmail.com) – New School for Social Research Topic: Gendered Experiences in Career Trajectories: Evidence from URM Faculty Interviews
- #5: Jermaine Toney (jermaine.toney@gmail.com) – Cornell University
Topic: Co-Authorship Networks for URM Faculty in Economics and Sociology
Session Title: Economic Trade and Development
Organizer: Gregory N. Price (Gregory.price@morehouse.edu) – Morehouse College
Chair: Gregory N. Price (Gregory.price@morehouse.edu) – Morehouse College
Papers
Paper #1 : Openness and Income Disparity in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Cross- Country Analysis
Author
- 1: Romie Tribble Jr. (rtribble@spelman.edu) – Spelman College
Corresponding Author, Presenting Author
Paper #2 : Can Parent’s Alcohol Consumption create Negative Education Externalities for Children? Evidence from India
Author
- #1: Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere (ruth.uwaifo@morehouse.edu) – Morehouse College and IZA
Corresponding Author, Presenting Author
Paper #3 : Economic Integration In West Africa: A Reconsideration of the Evidence
Author
- #1: Akpan H. Ekpo (ahekpo@waifem-cbp.org) – West African Institute for Financial and Economic Management; Corresponding Author, Presenting Author
Paper #4 : Structural Transformation and Primary Commodity Dependence in the ‘Rising’ ECOWAS Economies
Authors
- #1: Douglason G. Omotor (yomotor@yahoo.com) – West African Institute for Financial and Economic Management; Corresponding Author, Presenting Author
- #2: Uduakobong Inam (udysammy@yahoo.com) – University of Uyo, Nigeria
Paper #5 : How do US Multinationals Impact Growth in West African Countries?
Author
- #1: Miesha Williams (miesha.williams@morehouse.edu) – Morehouse College
Corresponding Author, Presenting Author
Discussants
- #1: Juliet Elu (juliet.elu@morehouse.edu) – Morehouse College
- #2: David Poyer (david.poyer@morehouse.edu) – Morehouse College
- #3: Linda Loubert (linda.loubert@morgan.edu) – Morgan State University
- #4: Jan Christopher (jchristopher@desu.edu) – Delaware State University
- #5: Angelino Viceisza (aviceisz@spelman.edu) – Spelman College
Session Title: Household Behavior and Public Policy
Organizer: Charlotte Otabor (charlotte.otabor@gmail.com) – District of Columbia Government
Chair: Charlotte Otabor (charlotte.otabor@gmail.com) – District of Columbia Government
Papers
Paper #1 : Does the District 2012 Income Tax Policy Increase Tax Revenue? Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design
Authors
- #1: Amira Alghumgham (alghumgham@gmail.com) – Howard University
Corresponding Author, Presenting Author
Paper #2 : Does Affordable Housing Participation Reduce Default and Prepayment? The Case for the Montgomery County MPDU Program
Authors
- #1: Adji Diagne (adji_diagne@yahoo.com) – U.S. Department of Commerce
Corresponding Author, Presenting Author
Paper #3 : Amenity Migration within a Millennial City Evidence from Washington DC Tax Data, 2005-2015
Authors
- #1: Charlotte Otabor (charlotte.otabor@dc.gov) – Office of the Chief Financial Officer, DC Gov. Corresponding Author, Presenting Author
- #2: Haydar Kurban (hkurban@howard.edu) – Howard University
- #3: Benoit Schmutz (benoit.schmutz@polytechnique.edu) – Ecole Polytechnique
Paper #4 : Payday Lending and the Unbanked Households
Authors
- #1: Lakitquana Leal (lakitquana_leal@yahoo.com) – U. S. Census Bureau
Corresponding Author, Presenting Author
Discussants
- #1: Bradley Hardy (hardy@american.edu) – American University
- #2: Linda Loubert (Linda.Loubert@morgan.edu) – Morgan State University
- #3: Ejindu Ume (umee@miamioh.edu) – Miami University
- #4: Haydar Kurban (hkurban@howard.edu) – Howard University
Session Title: Race, Inequality, and Criminal Justice Policy
Organizer: Robynn Cox (robynnco@usc.edu) – University of Southern California
Chair: Michelle Holder (michelleholder999@gmail.com) – John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Papers
Paper #1 : Impacts of Private Prison Contracting on Time Served and Recidivism
Author
- #1: Anita Mukherjee (anita.mukherjee@wisc.edu) – University of Wisconsin-Madison
Corresponding Author, Presenting Author
Paper #2 : Parental Incarceration and Adult Human Capital
Authors
- #1: Laura E. Henkhaus (laura.henkhaus@usc.edu) – University of Southern California
Corresponding Author, Presenting Author
Paper #3 : Does Race Matter? Implications from Court-ordered Police Hiring Quotas and Police Killings of Civilians
Authors
- #1: Robynn Cox (robynnco@usc.edu) – University of Southern California
Corresponding Author, Presenting Author
- #2: Jamein Cunningham (jamein.p.cunningham@memphis.edu) – University of Memphis
- #3: Alberto Ortega (ortegaa@whitman.edu) – Whitman College
Paper #4 : Mandatory Minimum Reform, Race, and Recidivism
Authors
- #1: Terry-Ann Craigie (tcraigie@conncoll.edu) – Connecticut College
Paper #5 : The Determinants of Declining Racial Disparities in Female Incarceration Rates, 2000-2015
Authors
- #1: William J. Sabol (wsabol@gsu.edu) – Georgia State University
- #2: Samuel L. Myers Jr. (myers006@umn.edu) – University of Minnesota
Corresponding Author, Presenting Author
Discussants
- #1: Monica Deza (md3294@hunter.cuny.edu) – Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY
- #2: Nzinga Broussard (nbroussa13@gmail.com) – Millennium Challenge Corporation
- #3: William J. Sabol (wsabol@gsu.edu) – Georgia State University
- #4: Luisa Blanco (luisa.blancoraynal@pepperdine.edu) – Pepperdine University
- #5: Dania Francis (dfrancis@econs.umass.edu) – University of Massachusetts Amherst
Session Title: The Political Economy and Health
Organizer: Jevay Grooms (jevaygrooms@gmail.com) – Howard University
Chair: Jevay Grooms (jevaygrooms@gmail.com) – Howard University
Papers
Paper #1 : The Political Economy of Death: Do Elected Coroners perform as well as Medical Examiners in determining suicide?
- #1: Jose Fernandez (jose.fernandez@louisville.edu) – University of Louisville
Corresponding Author, Presenting Author
Paper #2 : Racial disparities, food insecurity and health among low income U.S. households
- #1: Fafanyo Asiseh (fasiseh@ncat.edu) – North Carolina A & T State University
- #2: Obed Quaicoe (oquaicoe@ncat.edu) – North Carolina A & T State University
Corresponding Author, Presenting Author
Paper #3 : (D)ACA and immigration changes: What is the effect of a change in legal status on health coverage?
Author
- #1: Monica Perez-Garcia (migarciaperez@stcloudstate.edu) – St. Cloud State University
Corresponding Author, Presenting Author
Paper #4 : Pricing Daughters and the Economic Burden of Disease: Evidence from the Meningitis Belt
Author
- #1: Belinda Archibong (ba2207@columbia.edu) – Barnard College
Corresponding Author, Presenting Author
- #2: Francis Annan (Fa2316@columbia.edu) – Columbia University
Paper #5 : Health Insurance Coverage Among Mexican American Men under the ACA: A Tale of Two States, 2012-2015
Authors
- #1: David van der Goes (dvandergoes@unm.edu) – The University of New Mexico
Corresponding Author, Presenting Author
- #2: Richard Santos (santos@unm.edu) – University of New Mexico
Discussants
- #1: Mark Paul (mark.paul@duke.edu) – New College of Florida
- #2: Molly Jacobs (mjacobs@fulbrightmail.org) – East Carolina University
- #3: Alberto Ortega (ortegaa@whitman.edu) – Whitman College
- #4: Joaqun Alfredo-Angel Rubalcaba (jrubalca@unm.edu) – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- #5: Jevay Grooms (jevaygrooms@gmail.com) – Howard University
Session Title: The State of Education in Africa and the Economic Consequences
Joint Association: African Finance and Economics Association (AFEA)
Organizer: Evelyn Wamboye (efw10@psu.edu) – Pennsylvania State University
Chair: Kwabena Gyimah-Brempong (kgyimahb@nsf.gov) – NSF
Papers
Paper #1 : Addressing Quality Issues in African Higher Education: A Focus on Ghana’s Emerging Private, Graduate Higher Education Sector
Authors
- #1: Stephen E Armah (seamah@ashesi.edu.gh) – Ashesi University College
Corresponding Author, Presenting Author
Paper #2 : Elites and Education: Theory and Empirics
Author
- #1: Mina Baliamoune-Lutz (mbaliamo@unf.edu) – University of North Florida
Corresponding Author, Presenting Author
Paper #3 : The Impact of Free Primary Education on Teenage Childbirth and Health Care Demand in Ghana, Uganda, Ethiopia and Mozambique
Authors
- #1: Fafanyo Asiseh (fasiseh@ncat.edu) – North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University; Corresponding Author, Presenting Author
- #2: Obed Quaicoe (oquaicoe@ncat.edu) – North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
Paper #4 : Government Spending on Education and Economic Growth: A Case Study of West African Countries.
- #1: Lloyd Ahamefule AMAGHIONYEODIWE (lamaghionyeodiwe@york.cuny.edu) – York College, City University of New
Corresponding Author, Presenting Author
Discussants
- #1: Isaac Koomson (ikoomson@myune.edu.au) – Network for Socioeconomic Research and Advancement (NESRA), Accra, Ghana
- #2: Bichaka Fayissa (Bichaka.Fayissa@mtsu.edu) – Middle Tennessee State University
- #3: Taufiq Carnegie Dawood (taufiq.dawood@unsyiah.ac.id) – Syiah Kuala University, Darussalam, Banda Aceh, Indonesia
- #4: Olajide Oladipo (OOladipo@york.cuny.edu) – York College of the City University of New York
Session Title: Topics in Health Economics
Organizer: Jevay Grooms (jevaygrooms@gmail.com) – Howard University
Chair: Sebastian Tello-Trillo (dst2c@virginia.edu) – University of Virginia
Papers
Paper #1 : Active Ingredients: Exploring the Key Factors Affecting the Rising Cost of Developing New Drugs
Authors
- #1: Sarah J. Fossett (Sarah.fossett@credit-Suisse.com) – Credit Suisse
- #2: Phanindra V. Wunnava (wunnava@middlebury.edu) – Middlebury College
Corresponding Author, Presenting Author
Paper #2 : Not Quite a Pill Mill: Effects of PDMPs on High Prescribing Providers across Provider Specialties
Authors
- #1: Jevay Grooms (jevaygrooms@gmail.com) – Howard University
Corresponding Author, Presenting Author
- #2: Alberto Ortega (ortegaa@whitman.edu) – Whitman College
- #3: Alice Ellyson (aellyson@uw.edu) – University of Washington
Paper #3 : How Extended Family Health Issues Influence Household Portfolio Allocations
Authors
- #1: Vicki Bogan (vlb23@cornell.edu) – Cornell University
Corresponding Author, Presenting Author
- #2: Jermaine Toney (jt776@cornell.edu) – Cornell University
Paper #4 : Bank failures and Deaths: The Social Costs of local Credit Market Frictions
Authors
- #1: Salvador Contreras (salvador.contreras@utrgv.edu) – University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Corresponding Author, Presenting Author
- #2: Amit Ghosh (aghosh@iwu.edu) – Illinois Wesleyan University
- #3: Victoria A. Perez (vieperez@indiana.edu) – Indiana University
Paper #5 : Too Long Acting? The Implications of the Long-Acting Nature of LARC Methods on their Uptake and Use
Author
- #1: Lorissa Pagán (lcpagan@uncg.edu) – The University of North Carolina at Greensboro; Corresponding Author, Presenting Author
Discussants
- #1: Sebastian Tello-Trillo (dst2c@virginia.edu) – University of Virginia
- #2: Monica Garcia-Perez (migarciaperez@stcloudstate.edu) – St. Cloud State University
- #3: Linda Loubert (linda.loubert@morgan.edu) – Morgan State University
- #4: Nicholas Hill (j00096514@jsums.edu) – Jackson State University
- #5: Joaquín Alfredo-Angel Rubalcaba (jrubalca@unm.edu) – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill