Fall 2020

Incentivizing Behavioral Change: The Role of Time Preferences

Friday

September 11

12:00pm

Presented by:

Rebecca Dizon-Ross

Booth School of Business
University of Chicago

Market Uncertainty and Sentiment around USDA Announcements

Friday

September 25

12:00pm

Presented by:

Michel Robe

Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Food vs. Fuel? Impacts of the North Dakota oil boom on agricultural prices

Friday

November 6

12:00pm

Presented by:

Aaron Smith

Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
University of California Davis

Entrepreneurship Education and Teacher Training in Rwanda

Friday

November 13

12:00pm

Presented by:

Moussa Blimpo

Office of the Chief Economist for the Africa Region (AFRCE)
World Bank

What Matters for Electrification? Evidence from 70 Years of U.S. Home Heating Choices

Friday

November 20

12:00pm

Presented by:

Lucas Davis

Haas School of Business
University of California Berkeley

The Cost of Species Protection: The Housing Market Impacts of the Endangered Species Act

Friday

December 4

12:00pm

Presented by:

Eyal Frank

Harris School of Public Policy
University of Chicago

Property rights, land circulation and non-farm labor supply: Evidence from a land tenure reform in China

Thursday

September 17

3:45pm

Presented by:

Kangli Li

Practice Job Talk

Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Contracting and quality upgrading: Evidence from a pilot experiment in Senegal

Thursday

September 24

3:45pm

Presented by:

Josh Deutschmann

Practice Job Talk

Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Internal migration and the spread of long-term impacts of historical immigration in Brazil

Thursday

October 1

3:45pm

Presented by:

Eduardo Cenci

Practice Job Talk

Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Product and Marketing Strategies to Boost the Liquid Milk Demand: A Hedonic Metric Approach

Thursday

October 8

3:45pm

Presented by:

I-Chun Chen

Practice Job Talk

Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Independent Media and Elections

Thursday

October 15

3:45pm

Presented by:

Nikita Zakharov

Department of Economics
University of Freiburg

Regression with a Misclassified Binary Regressor: Correcting for the Hidden Bias

Thursday

October 22

3:45pm

Presented by:

Pierre Nguimkeu

Department of Economics
Georgia State University

Traditional Supernatural Beliefs and Prosocial Behavior

Thursday

October 29

3:45pm

Presented by:

Sara Lowes

Department of Economics
University of California-San Diego

Migration and Informal Insurance

Thursday

November 12

3:45pm

Presented by:

Corina Mommaerts

Department of Economics
University of Wisconsin-Madison

* CANCELLED *

Thursday

November 19

3:45pm

Presented by:

Jeremy Barofsky

Applied Research and Evaluation
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How Does Democracy Cause Growth? Evidence from Firms During Indonesia's Democratic Transition

Thursday

December 3

3:45pm

Presented by:

Priya Mukherjee

Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Species Diversity and the Adoption of Agriculture

Thursday

December 10

3:45pm

Presented by:

Boris Gershman

Department of Economics
American University

Filling a Niche? The Maize Productivity Impacts of Adaptive Breeding by a Local Seed Company in Kenya

Wednesday

September 9

12:00pm

Presented by:

Michael Carter, Sam Bird

Carter: Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Markets, Risk and Resilience; Bird: Economics, Accounting and Management
University of California Davis, Luther College

The Paris Climate Agreement – how COVID-19 changed the calculus of climate policy

Wednesday

September 23

12:00pm

Presented by:

Tom Rutherford, R. Richels, C. Böhringer

Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Market Liquidity and Inventory Cycle

Wednesday

September 30

12:00pm

Presented by:

Ziqi Qiao

Practice Job Talk

Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Using urban migration flows for non-market amenity valuation

Wednesday

October 7

12:00pm

Presented by:

Adam Theising

Practice Job Talk

Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Friendship Networks and Political Opinions: A Natural Experiment among Future French Politicians

Wednesday

October 14

12:00pm

Presented by:

Quoc-Anh DO

Department of Economics
Sciences Po

Exploring the nexus between non-farm participation and welfare of smallholder households in Burkina Faso

Wednesday

October 21

12:00pm

Presented by:

Soumaila Gansonre

UFR Economic Sciences and Management
University of Ouagadougou 1 Joseph Ki-Zerbo

Food insecurity, timing of SNAP disbursement and crime incidence in the United States

Wednesday

October 28

12:00pm

Presented by:

Licheng Xu

Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics
University of Wisconsin-Madison

CAFOs and Surface Water Quality: Evidence from the Proliferation of Large Farms in Wisconsin

Wednesday

November 4

12:00pm

Presented by:

Zach Raff

Social Science Department
University of Wisconsin-Stout

Climate Shocks, Cyclones, and Economic Growth: Bridging the Micro-Macro Gap

Wednesday

November 11

12:00pm

Presented by:

Laura Bakkensen

School of Government and Public Policy
University of Arizona

A Dynamic Analysis of the Distribution of Commodity Futures and Spot Prices (joint work with Jean Paul Chavas)

Wednesday

November 18

12:00pm

Presented by:

Jian Li, Visting Professor

Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics
University of Wisconsin-Madison (Home Institution: Huazhong Agricultural University)

Wheels of Change: Transforming Girl’s Lives with Bicycles

Wednesday

December 9

12:00pm

Presented by:

Nishith Prakash

Department of Economics and Human Rights Institute (Joint position)
University of Connecticut

Fall 2020 Schedule

Department Seminar

Incentivizing Behavioral Change: The Role of Time Preferences

Market Uncertainty and Sentiment around USDA Announcements

Food vs. Fuel? Impacts of the North Dakota oil boom on agricultural prices

Entrepreneurship Education and Teacher Training in Rwanda

What Matters for Electrification? Evidence from 70 Years of U.S. Home Heating Choices

The Cost of Species Protection: The Housing Market Impacts of the Endangered Species Act

Development Economics Workshop

Property rights, land circulation and non-farm labor supply: Evidence from a land tenure reform in China

Contracting and quality upgrading: Evidence from a pilot experiment in Senegal

Internal migration and the spread of long-term impacts of historical immigration in Brazil

Product and Marketing Strategies to Boost the Liquid Milk Demand: A Hedonic Metric Approach

Independent Media and Elections

Regression with a Misclassified Binary Regressor: Correcting for the Hidden Bias

Traditional Supernatural Beliefs and Prosocial Behavior

Migration and Informal Insurance

* CANCELLED *

How Does Democracy Cause Growth? Evidence from Firms During Indonesia's Democratic Transition

Species Diversity and the Adoption of Agriculture

Applied Economics Workshop

Filling a Niche? The Maize Productivity Impacts of Adaptive Breeding by a Local Seed Company in Kenya

The Paris Climate Agreement – how COVID-19 changed the calculus of climate policy

Market Liquidity and Inventory Cycle

Using urban migration flows for non-market amenity valuation

Friendship Networks and Political Opinions: A Natural Experiment among Future French Politicians

Exploring the nexus between non-farm participation and welfare of smallholder households in Burkina Faso

Food insecurity, timing of SNAP disbursement and crime incidence in the United States

CAFOs and Surface Water Quality: Evidence from the Proliferation of Large Farms in Wisconsin

Climate Shocks, Cyclones, and Economic Growth: Bridging the Micro-Macro Gap

A Dynamic Analysis of the Distribution of Commodity Futures and Spot Prices (joint work with Jean Paul Chavas)

Wheels of Change: Transforming Girl’s Lives with Bicycles