CSWEP Activities at the 1999 AEA Meeting
January 2-5, 1999 - New York, NY

Business Meeting and Reception

Date: Sunday, January 3
Time: 4:45 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Hilton/Clinton Suite
5:00 PM - 5:45 PM - First Elaine Bennett Award Announcement and Lecture
A reception will follow in the Madison Suite until 7:30 PM.
5:45 PM - 6:00 PM - Announcement of the First Carolyn Shaw Bell Award

Hospitality Room

Day: Sunday, Monday and Tuesday
Time: January 3 and January 4 from 7:30 AM until 4:00 PM January 5 from 7:30 AM until noon
Location: Hilton/Gibson Suite
The hospitality room will be open on Sunday, January 3, and Monday, January 4, from 7:30 AM until 4:00 PM and on Tuesday, January 5 from 7:30 AM until noon. A complimentary continental breakfast will be available from while supply lasts. Beverages will be available in the afternoon from 1:30-3:30 PM.

Women on the Run Fun Run

Day: Monday, January 4
Time: 5:00 PM
Location: Meet in the lobby of the NY Hilton and Towers to proceed on a course in Central Park. Participants must sign a waiver form.

CSWEP Roundtable
Furthering Women's Careers in Economics: It Takes a Grant

Date: Tuesday, January 5
Time: 10:15 AM
Location: Hilton/Murray Hill A
Panel includes: Robin L. Bartlett , Chair (Denison University), Andrea Ziegert (Denison University), Beth Allen (University of Minnesota), Rebecca Blank (Council of Economic Advisors), Joyce Jacobsen (Wesleyan University), Dan Newlon (National Science Foundation), Sewin Chan (Rutgers University), Usha Nair (Georgia Institute of Technology), Anne Piehl (Harvard University), Laura Razzolini (University of Mississippi), Gretchen Kalsow (University of Virginia)

CSWEP Gender-Related Sessions

Women in Academe

Date: Sunday, January 3
Time: 2:30 PM
Location: Hilton/Rendezvous Trianon
Chair: Robin Bartlett (Denison University)
Papers: Donna Ginther (Washington University) and Kathy Hayes (Southern Methodist University) "Gender Differences in Career Paths in the Humanities"; John M. McDowell (Arizona State University), Larry D. Singell (University of Oregon) and James P. Ziliak (University of Oregon) "Cracks in the Glass Ceiling: Gender and Promotion in the Economics Profession"; Emily P. Hoffman (Western Michigan University) "Faculty Gender Discrimination Revisited"; Andrea L. Ziegert (Denison University), Marci McCaulay (Denison University) and Robin L. Bartlett (Denison University) "Mentoring Women in Economics: Impact on Career Development and Self Confidence in Economics".
Discussants: Anne E. Preston (University of Stony Brook), James Monks (Mount Holyoke College), Julie L. Hotchkiss (Georgia State University), Judith M. Fields (Lehman College)

Gender Differences in Valuation, Time Preference, and Risk Attitudes: Experimental Evidence

Date: Monday, January 4
Time: 2:30 PM
Location: Petit Trianon
Chair: Catherine Eckel (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Papers: Kelly Brown (Georgia State University) and Laura Osborne Taylor (Georgia State University) "To Tell the Truth: Gender Differences in Actual and Stated Contributions to Public Goods"; Melonie Williams (US Environmental Protection Agency) "Gender Specific Discount Rates: Evidence from the Experimental Laboratory"; Hans Wolfgang Brachinger (University of Fribourg), Martin Brown (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich), Matthias Gysler (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich) and Renate Schubert (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich) "Financial Decision Making: Are Women Really More Risk Averse?"; Melanie Powell (University of Leeds) and David Ansic (University of Leeds) "Gender Differences in Risk Behaviour in Financial Decision-Making: An Experimental Analysis".
Discussants: Rebecca Luzardis (Miami University), Catherine Eckel (VPI), Tom Rietz (University of Iowa)

Gender and Bargaining

Date: Tuesday, January 5
Time: 8:00 AM
Location: Hilton/Sutton Parlor Center
Chair: Robert Pollak (Washington University)
Papers: Lisa R. Anderson (College of William and Mary), Yana van der Meulen Rodgers (College of William and Mary), and Roger R. Rodriguez (Unidad de Apoyo Tecnico) "Some Cross-Cultural Evidence from Bargaining Experiments"; Nancy Buchan (University of Wisconsin) and Rachel Croson (University of Pennsylvania) "Gender and Culture: International Experimental Evidence from Trust Games";Susan E. Fleck (American University) "Introducing Power in Household Modeling: A Dynamic NonCooperative Bargaining Approach"; Susan K. Snyder (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University) "Legal Change, Social Norms, and the Married Women's Property Acts".
Discussants: Lise Vesterlund (Iowa State), Sara Solnick (U. of Miami), Carol Scotese (VCU), Robert Pollak, (Washington University)

CSWEP Non-Gender Related Sessions

Immigration, Labor Markets, and Related Issues

Date: Sunday, January 3
Time: 10:15 AM
Location: Nassau Suite A
Chair: Henry Farber (Princeton University)
Papers: Rachel Friedberg (Brown University) "Does University Students' Choice of Field of Study Respond to High-Skilled Immigration?"; Deborah Cobb-Clark (Australian National University) and Sherrie Kossoudji (University of Michigan) "Did Legalization Matter for Women? Amnesty and the Wages of Formerly Unauthorized Workers"; Tanja Blackstone (Naval Personnel Research and Development Center) and Lewis Smith (University of Mississippi) "The Effects of Immigration on the Employment of White, Black and Hispanic Females"; Linda Goldberg (Federal Reserve Bank of New York), Joseph Tracy (Federal Reserve Bank of New York) and Stephanie Aaronson (Federal Reserve Bank of New York) "Exchange Rates and Worker Adjustment: Evidence from Matched CPS Data"
Discussants: George Borjas (Harvard University), Pinelopi Goldberg (Princeton University).

Career Dynamics

Date: Monday, January 4
Time: 8:00 am
Location: Sutton Parlor Center
Chair: Joyce Jacobsen (Wesleyan University)
Papers: Anne Preston (University of Stony Brook and Russell Sage Foundation) "Sex, Kids, and Commitment to the Workplace: Employers, Employees and the Mommy Track"; Anne Winkler (University of Missouri-St. Louis) and David Rose (University of Missouri-St. Louis) "Career Hierarchy in Dual-Earner Families"; Alison Booth (University of Essex and University of Amsterdam) and Marco Francesconi (University of Essex) "Career Mobility in 1990s Britain: Does Gender Matter?"; Sewin Chan (Rutgers University) and Ann Huff Stevens (Yale University) "Employment and Retirement Following a Late Career Job Loss".
Discussants: Kristin Butcher (Boston College), Joseph Altonji (Northwestern University)

Public Policy and Institutions in the Labor Market

Date: Monday, January 4
Time: 10:15 AM
Location: Hilton/Clinton Suite
Chair: Francine Blau (Cornell University)
Papers: Tasneem Chipty (Ohio State University), Harriet Griesinger (Wellesley College), Magaly Queralt (Florida International University) and Ann Dryden Witte (Wellesley College, Florida International University, and NBER) "What is Happening to Families Receiving Cash Assistance? A Longitudinal Study of the Early Stages of Welfare Reform"; Marianne Page (University of California, Davis) and Joanne Spetz (Public Policy Institute of California) "Does the Minimum Wage Affect AFDC Caseloads?"; John Ham (University of Pittsburgh) and Lara Shore-Sheppard (University of Pittsburgh) "The Impact of Public Health Insurance on Employment Transitions"; Michael Baker (University of Toronto) and Nicole Fortin (University ofMontreal) "Women's Wages in Women's Work: A US/Canada Comparison of the Roles of Unions and 'Public Goods' Sector Jobs".
Discussants: Anne Beeson Royalty (Stanford University ), Julie Hotchkiss (Georgia State University), Anne Piehl (Harvard University and University of California, Berkeley)

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