Friday, July 13, 2007

2:00 PM- 2:15 PM
Welcome & Logistics: Charles Becker, Duke University

2:45 PM- 3:30 PM
Economies of Scale in the Household: Evidence and Implications from the American Past Professor Trevon Logan, The Ohio State University

3:45 PM- 4:30 PM
"Black Elected Officials and Black-Owned Firms: Does Black Political Power Translate into Black Economic Power?"
Vincent Mangum, Jackson State University

4:45 PM- 5:30 PM
Microcredit: Reaching the Poor Through Group Lending
Sandra Trejos, Clarion Univ. of Pennsylvania
Gustavo Barboza, Clarion University of Pennsylvania

5:35 PM– 6:20 PM
Osmond Lindo, Claremont Graduate University

6:45 PM- 8:30 PM: Dinner and Conversation Careers in Economics beyond the Academy
Panelists: Bernard Anderson, University of Pennsylvania

(Moderator)
Allison McKie, Mathematica Policy Research Ebonya Washington, Yale University
Yolanda Kodrzycki, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Seth Carpenter, Federal Reserve Board of Governors

Resource Panelists:
Brahima Coulibaly, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Willene Johnson, Cornell University

Saturday, July 14, 2007

8:00 AM- 9:00 AM BREAKFAST
The Early Years of a Tenure Track Position Panelists:
Sue Stockly, Eastern New Mexico University

(Moderator)
Larry Chavis, UNC Chapel Hill
Gustavo Barboza, Clarion University of Pennsylvania
Salvador Martinez, Weber State University
Sandra Trejos, Clarion University of Pennsylvania

9:15 AM- 10:00 AM
Legal Challenges to Affirmative Action and Educational Choice
Rodney Andrews, University of Michigan

10:15 AM- 11:00 AM
Measuring Social Interactions: Results from the Dutch Post Code Lottery
Peter Kuhn, UC Santa Barbara

11:15 AM- 12:00 PM
Estimating the Long-Run User Cost Elasticity for a Small Open Economy
Brahima Coulibaly, Federal Reserve Board of Governors

12:15 PM- 1:00 PM LUNCH
Choosing and Thriving in Graduate School Panelists:
Charles Becker, Duke University

(Moderator)
Kehinde Ajayi, UC Berkeley
Millicent Coins, Northeastern University
Luis Rosero, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Author-Damon Jones, UC Berkeley
Marie T. Mora, University of Texas Pan American
William Spriggs, Howard University

1:15 PM- 2:00 PM
Navigating Papers through Journals
Cecilia Rouse, Princeton University

2:15 PM- 3:00 PM
“The Dynamics of Jobholding among Contingent Workers and the Effect on Family Income"
Leslie Renee Wallace, the University of California at San Diego

3:15 PM-4:00 PM
Shedding 'Light' on Marriage: The Influence of Skin Shade in Marriage Markets
Derrick Hamilton, The New School University

4:15 PM- 5:00 PM
“Heterogeneous Effects of Limited English Proficient Students in Public Schools: A Look at Native Educational Outcomes in North Carolina”
Robert Santillano, University of California at Berkeley

5:15 PM– 5:50 PM
“Heterogeneous Effect of Limited English Proficient Students in Public Schools: A Look at Native
Educational Outcomes in North Carolina”
Robert Santilliano, University of California at Berkeley

6:30 PM
Dinner at the Home of Professor Sloan Home Closing Remarks

Raffle!

Past Years:

2004 Pipeline Conference
2005 Pipeline Conference
2006 Pipeline Conference