Program for Friday, March 27th: Talk View

PROGRAM FOR FRIDAY, MARCH 27TH: TALK VIEW

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08:00-12:00 Registration Begins

08:05

Modeling the Potential Impacts of African Swine Fever on Chinese Whey Demand

Samantha Schreiber

08:05

Is More Always Better? Evidence of Preference Heterogeneity in the 1994 EITC Expansion

Stephanie Fortune-Taylor

08:05

Telework and Time Use in the United States

Sabrina Pabilonia, Victoria Vernon

08:05

Brazilian and Argentine Agricultural Policies in the Oilseed and Grain Sectors: Impact on Production and

Constanza Valdes

08:05

The Impact of an Increasing Housing Supply on Housing Prices: The Case of the District of Columbia,

Bethel Cole-Smith, Daniel Muhammad

08:05

Rubber Stamping Opportunity Zones

Jefferson Duarte, Tarik Umar, Emmanuel Yimfor

08:05

The Effectiveness of EC Policies to Move Freight from Road to Rail: Evidence from CEE Grain Markets

Russell Pittman, Monika Jandova, Marcin Krol, Larysa Nekrasenko, Tomas Paleta

08:05

Merger Remedies: Complications to the Traditional Thinking

Russell Pittman

08:05

Out-of-Pocket Medical Expenditures in the Redesigned Current Population Survey: Evaluating Improvements to Data

Katherine Keisler, Heide Jackson

08:05

Racial Disparities in Poverty Status and Early Childhood Education Enrollment

Kristen Broady

08:05

On the Effectiveness of Fiscal Policy in the Presence of Supply-Side Effects

Salem Abo-Zaid, Ahmed Kamara

08:05

Measuring the Health Component of Employee Compensation

Rachel Soloveichik, Matthew Knepper

08:05

The Impact of Referral-Networks on Sectoral Reallocation

Benjamin Raymond

08:05

The Migration Cost-Remittance-Consumption Pathway: Implications of High Migration Costs for Human Capital Investment in Nepal and

Esther Bartl, Laura Caron, Sundas Liaqat

08:05

Examining Poor Household’s Economic Deprivation through Financial Exclusion

John Creamer, Lewis Warren

08:05

An aspiring friend is a friend indeed: school peers and college aspirations in Brazil

Jessica Gagete Miranda

08:05

The Impact of Macroeconomic Variables on Economic Growth: Empirical Evidence from India

Sushma Shukla

08:05

The Effects of Designated Homeless Housing Sites on Local Communities: Evidence from Los Angeles

Elior Cohen

08:40-08:55 Presidential Address and SGE Election Results

09:00-09:20

Do Older Americans Still Have More Income Than We Think?

Adam Bee, Joshua Mitchell

09:20-09:40

Incorporating Administrative Data in Survey Weights for the Survey of Income and Program

Jonathan Eggleston, Ashley Westra

09:40-10:00

Presence and Persistence of Poverty in Tax Data

Jeff Larrimore, Jake Mortenson, David Splinter

10:00-10:20

The Antipoverty Impact of the EITC: New Estimates from Survey and Administrative Tax Records

Maggie R. Jones, James P. Ziliak

09:00-09:20

Does Female Breadwinning Make Partnerships Less Healthy or Less Stable?

Gigi Foster, Leslie Stratton

09:20-09:40

Using Linked Survey and Administrative Data to Understand Subnational Income Inequality and Mobility

Kevin Rinz, John Voorheis, Caroline Walker

09:40-10:00

The Increasing Geographic Concentration of Business Growth

Daniel Wilmoth

10:00-10:20

Recessions and Local Labor Markets

Brad Hershbein, Bryan Stuart

09:00-09:20

Hope for the Family: The Effects of College Costs on Parental Labor Supply

Breno Braga

09:20-09:40

Admissions Policies, Cohort Composition, and Academic Success: Evidence from California

Michel Grosz

09:40-10:00

Closing the Gap: The Effect of Reducing Complexity and Uncertainty in College Pricing on the Choices of Low-income

C.J. Libassi

10:00-10:20

Understanding Equity Gaps in College Graduation

Erica Blom, Tomas Monarrez

09:00-09:20

Bundled Purchases and the Inseparability of Measured Investment and Consumption: Case Studies using the Vehicle

Rachel Soloveichik

09:20-09:40

Natural Resources and Inequality: Evidence from the United States

Loujaina Abdelwahed, Richard Campbell

09:40-10:00

The Impact of New Farmer Entry on Farm Capital and Federal Program Participation: Evidence from the Land Contract Guarantee

William McClain

10:00-10:20

Energy Efficiency in General Equilibrium with Input-Output Linkages

Christopher Blackburn, Juan Moreno-Cruz

09:00-09:20

Industry-Specific Models for Analyzing Trade Policy

David Riker

09:20-09:40

Using International Trade Data for Price Indexes –Opportunities and Obstacles

Susan Fleck, Don Fast

09:40-10:00

Globalization and Inequality in Innovation: A Perspective from U.S. R&D Tax Credits

Wendy Li, Maksim Belenkiy, Susan Xu

10:00-10:20

Rising Import Tariffs, Falling Export Growth: When Modern Supply chains Meet Old-Style Protectionism

Farihal Kamal, Kyle Handley, Ryan Monarch

10:40-11:00

Informal Transfers in Comparisons of Income Distributions: Lessons from Rich and Middle-Income

Yixia Cai, Martin Evans

11:00-11:20

Altruism, Insurance, and Costly Solidarity Commitments

Vesall Nourani, Christopher B. Barrett, Eleonora Patacchini, Thomas Walker

11:20-11:40

Insurance and Propagation in Village Networks

Cynthia Kinnan, Krislert Samphantharak, Robert Townsend, Diego Vera-Cossio

10:40-11:00

The Administrative Income Statistics (AIS) Project: Research on the Use of Administrative Records to Improve Income and Resource

Adam Bee, Jonathan Rothbaum

11:00-11:20

Using Administrative Records Data to Produce Business Statistics: The Non-Employer Statistics by Demographic Series

A. Luque, M. Dillon, J. Manzella, J. Noon, K. Rinz, V. Udalova

11:20-11:40

Using Administrative Records to Estimate the Contribution of Labor-Market Experience to the Gender Wage

Marta Murray-Close

10:40-11:00

Evaluating and Improving Government Forecasts

Neil Ericsson, Andrew Martinez

11:00-11:20

Forecast Accuracy Matters for Hurricane Damages

Andrew Martinez

11:20-11:40

Decadent Agricultural Sectors: US Export Outlook in Japan & South Korea

Adam Gerval

10:40-11:00

Covariate Selection in Experiments (Randomized Clinical Trials or RCTs) for Policy Evaluation

Austin Nichols

11:00-11:20

When Do Non-Experimental Methods Recover Average Treatment Effects for Compliers in a Job Training

Dan Litwok

11:20-11:40

How Do Tax Returns Respond to a 30,000% Marginal Tax Rate?

Steve Hamilton

10:40-11:00

Potential Spending on Veterans’ Health Care Spending

Heidi Golding

11:00-11:20

The Cost of Supporting Military Bases

Adebayo Adedeji

11:20-11:40

Approaches to Changing Military Compensation

Carla Murray

11:50-12:40 Lunch

12:40-13:30 Keynote Address: Gita Gopinath

13:40-14:00

Health Insurance and the Supply of Entrepreneurs: Evidence from the ACA Medicaid Expansion

Kyung Min Lee

14:00-14:20

The Impact of ACA Medicaid Expansions on Fertility, Composition of Recent Mothers, and School Enrollment and Labor Supply of Women of Reproductive

Anuj Gangopadhyaya, Emily Johnston

14:20-14:40

How Did Workers Fare Under the ACA?

Anuj Gangopadhyaya, Bowen Garrett

13:40-14:00

Moving to Better Health Care? Evidence from the Impact of Medicaid Expansion on Homeless Individuals in the

Ashutosh Kumar

14:00-14:20

Economic Growth and the Spatial Distribution of the Population

Constantin Burgi, Nisan Gorgulu

14:20-14:40

Disparate Outcomes from U.S. Migration

Ben Klmens

13:40-14:00

An Economic Impact Analysis of Farmers Markets in the Washington DC Metropolitan Area

Brian Sloboda, Kamran Zendehdel, Eric Chad Horner

14:00-14:20

Brexit Trade Impact on the East European Members of EU

Cristina Marine

14:20-14:40

Future Generations and Climate Change: Climate Change, Coasts, and Communities

Julia M. Puaschunder

13:40-14:00

A Decomposition Analysis of US Food Expenditure

Eliana Zeballos

14:00-14:20

Are Consumers Becoming More Price Sensitive? An Alternative View to Recent Household Spending Habits

Marie Rogers, Bradley Akin

14:20-14:40

How Do Mortgage Rate Resets Affect Consumer Spending and Debt Repayment? Evidence from Canadian

Xiaoqing Zhou

13:40-14:00

Heterogeneous Treatment Effects of Medicaid and Efficient Policies

Shishir Shakya

14:00-14:20

What is the appropriate index formula to estimate producer price change?

Bill Thompson, Jon Weinhagen, Sara Stanley, Bob Martin, Andy Sadler

14:20-14:40

Measurement of Nominal Wages and Payroll Schedules in Administrative Earnings Data

Seth Murray

15:00-15:20

Re-estimating Commuting Expenses using the American Housing Survey

Em Shrider

15:20-15:40

Fixing Errors in a SNAP: Addressing SNAP Under-reporting to Evaluate Poverty

Liana Fox

15:40-16:00

The Promises and Challenges of Linked Rent Data from the Consumer Expenditure Survey and Housing and Urban

Garret Christensen

16:00-16:20

Using ACS Earnings Data to Adjust Supplemental Poverty Measure Thresholds

Trudi Renwick

15:00-15:20

Small Banks Financing Small Businesses

Alice Jun

15:20-15:40

The Evolution of U.S. Retail Concentration

Dominic Smith, Sergio Ocampo

15:40-16:00

The Wider Product Variety of Multinational Firms

Jessica McCloskey, Kassu Hossiso

15:00-15:20

U.S. Agricultural Productivity: Measurement and Sources of Growth (1948-2017)

Sun Ling Wang, Roberto Mosheim, Richard Nehring, Eric Njuki

15:20-15:40

Measuring Multifactor Productivity for the U.S. Fisheries: A Case Study Using the New England Regional

Sun Ling Wang, John Walden

15:40-16:00

Measuring Cross-Country Differences in Misallocation

T. Kirk White

16:00-16:20

Can Services Trade Restrictions Explain Productivity Differences Between Foreign and Domestic Firms in the Services

Saad Ahmad, Sarah Oliver, Caroline Peters

15:00-15:20

Impacts of the Broadband Initiatives Program on Broadband Availability and House Sale Prices

John Pender

15:20-15:40

The Effect of Green Buildings on Housing Rental Prices and Affordability in the District of Columbia

Nyanya Browne

15:40-16:00

U.S. Housing as a Global Safe Asset: Evidence from China Shocks

William Barcelona, Nathan Converse, Anna Wong

16:00-16:20

Tax Reform, Homeownership Costs, and House Prices

David Rappoport

15:00-16:30 Career Roundtable

16:45-18:00 Happy Hour - Thunder Grill Restaurant at Union Station