Business Meeting and Reception

Date: Friday, January 7

Time: 4:45 PM - 5:45 PM A reception will follow the business meeting until 7:30 PM.

5:45 PM - 6:00 PM - Announcement of the Carolyn Shaw Bell Award

Hospitality Room

Day: Friday, Saturday and Sunday

Time: January 7 and January 8 from 7:30 AM until 4:00 PM January 9 from 7:30 AM until noon

The hospitality room will be open on Friday, January 7, and Saturday, January 8, from 7:30 AM until 4:00 PM and on Sunday, January 9 from 7:30 AM until noon. A complimentary continental breakfast will be available while supply lasts. Beverages will be available in the afternoon from 1:30-3:30 PM.

CSWEP Roundtable

CSWEP into the Future: Men and Women in Economics

Date: Saturday, January 8

Time: 2:30 PM

Panel includes: Robin L. Bartlett , Chair (Denison University), Susan Collins (Georgetown University), Henry Farber (Princeton University), Dierdre McCloskey (University of Iowa)

CSWEP Gender-Related Sessions

History of Women in Economics

Date: Friday, January 7

Time: 8:00 AM

Papers: Zohreh Emami (Alverno College) "What Does Joan Robinson Have in Common with Feminist Economists?"; Michele Pujol (Grinell College) and Janet Seiz (Grinell College) "Harriet Taylor Mill"; Ulla Grapard (Colgate University) "Charlotte Perkins Gilman"; Robert Dimand (Brock University) "Emily Green Balch, Political Economist"

Discussants: Bette Polkinghorn (California State University at Sacramento), Ann Robson (University of Toronto), Mary Hirschfield (Occidental College), Gillian Hewitson (La Trobe University)

Gender in Economic Thought

Date: Friday, January 7

Time: 10:15 AM

Chair: Kirsten Madden (Millersville University)

Papers: Robert Dimand (Brock University) "Nineteenth Century American Feminist Economics"; Nancy R. Folbre (University of Massachusetts at Amherst) "Social Motherhood: Early Feminist Theories of the Welfare State"; Evelyn L. Forget (University of Manitoba) "Gender and Classical Political Economy"; Yoshie Imai (Brown University) "John Stuart Mill and Women"

Discussants: Drucilla Barker (Hollins College), Margaret Coleman (New York State OSCD Office), Christopher Nyland (Monash University), Maria Sophia Aguirre (The Catholic University of America)

Women, College and Economics

Date: Friday, January 7

Time: 2:30 PM

Chair: Carolyn Shaw Bell (Wellesley College)

Papers: Elizabeth J. Jensen (Hamilton College) and Ann L. Owen (Hamilton College) "Reluctant Economists: Women Undergraduates at Liberal Arts Colleges"; Jill M. Constantine (Williams College) Why Do So Many More Black Women than Black Men Enroll in College?"; Lynne Evans (University of Durham, UK) and John Ashworth (University of Durham, UK) "The Decline and Persistent Underrepresentation of Women in Economics"; Lois Joy (Smith College) "Do Colleges Shortchange Women? Comparing Gender Differences in the Transition from College to Work"

Discussants: Kyle Kauffman (Wellesley College), Cecilia Conrad (Pomona College), Marianne Ferber (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Caroline Fohlin (California Institute of Technology)

CSWEP Non-Gender-Related Sessions

The Economics of Waste

Date: Saturday, January 8

Time: 8:00 AM

Chair: Molly Macauley (Resources for the Future)

Papers: Karen Palmer (Resources for the Future) and Margaret Walls (Victoria University) "Can Pricing Downstream Waste Disposal Encourage Upstream Design for Environment?"; Sarah Stafford (College of William and Mary) "Green Crime: The Effect of Punishment on Firm Compliance with Hazardous Waste Regulations"; Don Fullerton (University of Texas at Austin) and Ann Wolverton (University of Texas at Austin) "The Two-Part Instrument in a Second Best World"; Eduardo Ley (IMF), Molly Macauley (Resources for the Future) and Stephen Salant (University of Michigan) "New Variations in Modeling the Interstate Shipment of Municipal Solid Waste"

Discussants: Erik Levinson (University of Wisconsin), Hilary Sigman (Rutgers University), Terry Dinan (Congressional Budget Office)

Social Security Reform and Gender

Date: Saturday, January 8

Time: 10:15 AM

Papers: Marianne Baxter (University of Virginia) "Social Security as a Financial Asset: Gender-Specific Risks and Returns"; Phillip Levine (Wellesley College), Olivia Mitchell (University of Pennsylvania) and John Phillips (Social Security Administration) "Comparing Men's and Women's Wellbeing in Retirement"; Theresa Devine (Congressional Budget Office)"Women and Social Security Reform"; Sharmila Choudhury (Social Security Administration), Michael Leonesio (Social Security Administration), and Kelvin Utendorf (Social Security Administration) "Analysis of Social Security Reforms that Affect Women"

Discussants: Jonathon Gruber (MIT), Jeffrey Liebman (Harvard University), Jennifer Ward-Batts (University of Michigan), Edith Rasell (Economic Policy Institute)

Topics in Health Economics

Date: Sunday, January 9

Time: 10:15 AM

Chair: Lisa Lynch (Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy)

Papers: Jennifer Mellor (College of William and Mary) and Jeff Milyo (Tufts University) "Income Inequality and Health Status in the United States: Evidence from the Current Population"; Susan Ettner (Harvard Medical School) and Richard Hermann (Harvard Medical School) "The Role of Profit Status Under Imperfect Information"; Diane Dewar (SUNY at Albany) "Has Health Insurance Coverage Changed for Women?"; Donna Gilleskie (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Rosalie Pacula (RAND Corporation), and Koleman Strumpf (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) "Youth Smoking: Dynamic Behavior with Endogenous Taxes"

Discussants: David Cutler (Harvard University), Dahlia Remler (Columbia University), Carol Rapaport (New York Federal Reserve Bank), Jeanne Ringel (Louisiana State University)

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