Kurt Bauman, U.S. Census Bureau
--- Stochastic Changes in Living Conditions and Material Well-Being in
the Survey of Income and Program Participation
Discussants:
Patricia Ruggles, Joint Economic Committee
Arie Kapteyn, RAND
Health Policy Questions
and Simulation Analyses
2:30p.m. Convention
Center – Rooms 10 &11
Chair: Mark Miller
G. Edward Miller,
Jessica S. Banthin, and John F. Moeller, Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality --- Covering the Uninsured: Estimates
of the Impact on Total Health Expenditures for 2002
Jessica S. Banthin
and G. Edward Miller, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality --- Prescription
Drug Coverage and Underinsurance among the Elderly
Thomas M. Selden and Didem
Bernard, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality --- Winners and Losers
from Employment-Related Health Insurance Coverage: 1987 and 1996
Julie Hudson, Thomas
M. Selden, and Jessica S. Banthin, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
--- The Impact of Policy Changes on Children’s Eligibility and Enrollment
for Medicaid and SCHIP
Discussants: Pamela Farley Short, Pennsylvania
State University
Len Nichols, Center for Studying
Health System Change
Lisa Dubay, The Urban Institute
Saturday, January 4, 2003
Bankruptcy Theory
and Policy
8:00a.m. Convention
Center – Room 26
Chair: Tarun Sabarwal
Tarun Sabarwal,
University of Texas at Austin --- Bankruptcy in General Equilibrium
Satyajit Chatterjee,
Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Dean Corbae, University of Texas,
Makoto Nakajima, University of Pennsylvania, and Jose-Victor Rios-Rull,
University of Pennsylvania --- A Quantitative Theory of Unsecured Consumer
Credit with Risk of Default
Ronel Elul, Wharton
School of Business, and Piero Gottardi, Universita Ca Foscari di Venezia
--- Personal Bankruptcy and Incentives in a Dynamic Model of Entrepeneurship
Wei Fan, J D Power
Associates, and Michelle White, University of California, San Diego ---
Bankruptcy Theory and Policy
Discussants:
Immigrants, Race,
and Generations in the U.S. Labor Market (J6, J1)
10:15a.m.
Convention Center – Room 26
Chair: Kenneth Swinnerton
Magnus Lofstrum,
University of Texas at Dallas, and Frank Bean, University of California
at Irvine --- Explaining the Native-Immigrant Health Insurance Gap
Madeline Zavodny,
Occidental College --- Race, Wages, and Assimilation among Cuban Immigrants
Richard Fry and
Lindsay Lowell, Pew Hispanic Center --- The Wage Structure of Latino Origin
Groups Across Generations
Discussants:
Alberto
Davila, University of Texas Pan American
Cordelia Reimers, Hunter College
Mark Regets, National Science Foundation
Small Businesses
Dynamics
10:15a.m.
Convention Center – Room 8
Chair: Rich Boden
Alicia Robb, Federal Reserve
Board --- Changing Patterns of Small Business Financing: Evidence from
Recent Survey
Rick Boden, University
of Toledo, and Al Nucci, U.S. Census Bureau ---
Business Dynamics among the Smallest and Newest of Businesses: Preliminary
Analyses of Longitudinally Matched Nonemployer and Business Register Data
Kathryn Kobe, Rakesh Kochhar
and Joel Popkin, Joel Popkin & Co. --- Impact of Tight Money and/or
Recessions on Small Business
B.K. Atrostic and
Sang V. Nguyen, U.S. Census Bureau --- The Effect of Computer Networks
on Small and Large U.S. Manufacturing Plants’ Productivity: New Evidence from the CNUS Data
George Haynes,
Montana State University --- An Analysis of Changes in the Distribution Household
Wealth and Income for Small Business Owning Households, 1989 to 1992
Discussants: Rick Boden, University of Toledo
John Wolken, Federal Reserve
Board
Alicia Robb, Federal Reserve
Board
B.K. Atrostic, U.S. Census
Bureau
Charles Ou, U.S. Small Business
Administration
Jackie Jo, Southern Illinois
University
Brian Headd, U.S. Small Business
Administration
The Distinguished
Lecture on Economics in Government
2:30p.m. Convention Center –
Rooms 21 &22
Chair:
Nabeel Alsalam,
U.S. Congressional Budget Office
John
Taylor, U.S. Department of the Treasury — Current Issues in International
Economic Policy
Sunday, January 5, 2003
Income and Consumption
Instability
8:30a.m. Convention Center –
Room 26
Chair: James Ohls
John Fitzgerald, Bowdoin College
--- Job and Earnings Instability: Consequences for Transfer Program Use
Craig Gundersen,
Economic Research Service, and James P. Ziliak, University of Oregon ---
The Role of Food Stamps in Consumption Stablization
Karen Hamrick,
Economic Research Service, and David C. Ribar, George Washington University
--- An Analysis of Poverty and Food Sufficiency Dynamics
Discussants:
James Ohls, Mathematica Policy Research
Parke Wilde, Economic Research Service
Low Wage Workers
(I3; H3; J1)
10:45a.m. Convention
Center – Room 26
Chair: Robert I. Lerman
Rachel Connelly,
Bowdoin College, and Jean Kimmel, Western Michigan University --- A Longitudinal
Study of Child Care Workers’ Wages
Mark Turner and
Alena Bicakova, Johns Hopkins University --- The Effects of Higher Minimum
Wages on Welfare Recipiency: Another Look
Tricia Gladden,
University of Missouri-Columbia, and Christopher Taber, Northwestern University
--- Turnover and Wage Growth in the Transition from School to Work
Harry Holzer, Georgetown
University, and Julia Lane, Urban Institute --- Employer-Firm Interactions
and Dynamics in the Low Wage Labor Market
Discussants: Julie L. Hotchkiss, Georgia State
University
Jared Bernstein, Economic Policy
Institute
Burt S. Barnow, Johns Hopkins
University
Charles Michalopoulos, MDRC
Entrepreneurs and
Entrepreneurship
1:30p.m. Convention
Center – Room 26
Chair: Josh Lerner
Mihir Desai, Josh
Lerner, and Paul Gompers, Harvard
Business School --- The Determinants of Entrepreneurial Activity: Evidence
from Europe
Zoltan Acs, University
of Baltimore, and Catherine Armington, Census Bureau --- Entrepreneurial
Activity and Economic Growth
Maria Minniti,
Babson College --- Entrepreneurial Activity and Economic Growth
Ying Lowrey, U.S.
Small Business Administration --- Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship and Economic
Growth
Discussants: Zoltan Acs, University of Baltimore
Maria Minniti, Babson College
Mihir Desai, Harvard Business School
Josh Lerner, Harvard Business School
Paul Gompers, Harvard Business School
Ying Lowrey, U.S. Small Business
Administration
