LOWE INSTITUTE OF POLITICAL ECONOMY
SCCAM 2010 Conference Papers
“Re-Examining the Longer-Term Impact of Dropping Out on Criminal and Labor
Outcomes” David Bjerk, Claremont McKenna College
“Affirmative Action Bans and the “Chilling Effect”
Kate Antonovics, UCSD and Richard Sander, UC-Los Angeles
“Did Bankruptcy Reform Cause Mortgage Defaults to Rise?”
Wenli Li, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Michelle White, UCSD, and
Ning Zhu, UC-Davis
“The Effect of Prepayment Penalties on Subprime Borrowers’ Decisions to Default: A Perfect Storm”
Munpyung O, UC-Santa Barbara
“The Impacts of the Rise of Paragraph IV Challenges on Startup Alliance
Formation, Firm Value and R&D Success Rates in the Pharmaceutical Industry”
Darren Filson, Claremont McKenna College and Ahmed Oweis, Claremont
Graduate University
“How Productive is Hospital Administration”
John Romley, RAND, Neeraj Sood, University of Southern California, and Dana
Goldman, University of Southern California
“The Wage Process of Older Workers”
Maria Casanova, UC-Los Angeles
“The Signaling Value of a High School Diploma”
Paco Martorell, RAND
“The Intergenerational Effects of Increasing Parental Schooling: Evidence from
Zimbabwe”
Jorge Aguero, UC-Riverside and Maithili Ramachandran, UC-Riverside
"Jockeying for Position: Strategic High School Choice under Texas’ Top Ten
Percent Plan"
Julie Berry Cullen, UC-San Diego, Marc C. Long, University of Washington and
Randall Reback, Barnard College, Columbia University
“Expected Earnings and Migration: The Role of Minimum Wages”
Ernest Boffy Ramirez, UC-Santa Barbara
“Gasoline Prices, Driving Efficiency and Implications for Gasoline Tax Policy”
Jack Erb, UC-Santa Barbara
