IAFFE at 1996 AEA

Chair: Anne Mayhew, University of Tennessee

Papers:

• Mary Ann Dimand, Yale University, "Gilman as Polemicist."

• Mary Hill, Bucknell University, "Gilman's Women in Economics: The Autobiography of an Idea."

• Ulla Grappard, Colgate University, "The Trouble with Women and Economics. Shouldn't That Be in Quotation Marks?"

• Margaret Lewis, College of Saint Benedict and David Sebberson, St. Cloud State University, "Feminist Nature and Masculinist Nature: The Rhetoric of Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Thomas Robert Malthus."

Chair: Lisa Saunders, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Papers:

• Lynne Burbridge, Wellesley Collge, "Early African-American Economic Thought: A Prophetic Vision?"

• Barbara Libby, Nigrara University, "As Time Goes By, A Yearly Analysis of Women in Economics, 1900-1940."

• Jean Shackelford, Bucknell University, "Mable Newcomer and the Economics Profession, 1917-1950."

• Robert Dimand, Brock University, "Mable Timlin and Keynesian Economics."

• William A. Darity, Jr., University of North Carolina

• Janet Seiz, Grinnell College

Chair: Laurie Bassi

Papers:

• Teresa Amott: "Welfare Reform as if Women Mattered: Feminist Critiques of the Current Debate."

• Maggie Coleman, Parallels between handling poverty in the 19th century Northeast, and present welfare reform.

• Elaine Sorensen, "Non-Custodial Fathers and Their Child Support Payments"

• Stephanie Seguino and Sandy Butler, "To Work or Not to Work: Is that the (Right) Question? or Gender, Economic Methodology, and Wels too. )

• Andrea Beller, University of Ilinois

• Heather Boushey

Chair: Myra Strober, Stanford University

Panelists:

Chair: Ronald Oaxaca, University of Arizona

Papers:

• Lois Yachetta "What Have We Learned About Discrimination Against Women? A Feminist Critique of Traditional Economic Approaches to Discrimination."

• Emily Hoffman, "Discrimination and Normative Economics"

• Deborah M. Figart, "Gender as More than a Dummy Variable: Feminist Approaches to Discrimination"

• Marlene Kim, "Salary Surveys--A Subjective Analysis"

• Solomon Polachek, State University of New York, Binghamton

• Myra Strober, Stanford University

"Women, Poverty and Policy: An International Perspective", ASE/IAFFE

Chair: Julie Nelson

Papers:

• Steven Pressman, "The Gender Poverty Gap in Developed Countries: Causes and Cures."

• Jean Pyle, "Women in the Export-Led Development in Singapore and Ireland: The Differential Impact of State Policy."

• Gale Summerfield, "Economic Reform and Poverty of Women in China and Vietnam."

• Peter F. Bell, "The Pivotal Role of Exploitation of Women in Thailand's Capitalist Development."

• Nahid Aslanganbegui, Monmouth College

• Emily Northrup, Keene State College