Spring 2026 Schedule Department Seminar Immigration and the Role of Slums in Housing Affordability Friday May 1 12:00pm Presented by: Marco Gonzalez-Navarro Agricultural and Resource EconomicsUniversity of California, Berkeley Capitalization as a Two-Part Tariff: The Equilibrium Structure of Housing Prices Friday January 30 12:00pm Presented by: Spencer Banzhaf North Carolina State University Paving the Swamp: Consequences of Land Use Regulation Under the Clean Water Act Friday March 13 12:00pm Presented by: Hannah Druckenmiller Division of the Humanities and Social SciencesCalifornia Institute of Technology *** CANCELLED *** Wednesday April 1 12:00pm Department of EconomicsUniversity of Pittsburgh When Credit Lines Open Fault Lines: Economic and Political Effects of Bank Lending Thursday April 23 3:45pm Presented by: Yasir Kahn Department of EconomicsUniversity of Pittsburgh Charting Your Path in Agricultural and Applied Economics: Career Strategies from a Department Head’s Perspective Friday April 24 12:00pm Presented by: Sarah Low Agricultural & Consumer EconomicsUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Development Economics Workshop Flooding and Health Outcomes in Zambia Thursday April 30 3:45pm Presented by: Theresa Ng’andu Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison *** CANCELLED *** Thursday May 7 3:45pm Presented by: Sijan Thapa Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison A High Resolution Look at Long Run Development: Evidence from 1.3 Million Historical Aerial Photographs Friday February 13 12:00pm Presented by: Joel Ferguson Nelson Institute for Environmental StudiesUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison Follow the grain: Trade, sanctions and geopolitics Thursday February 26 3:45pm Presented by: Paul Dower Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison Information Decay and Cooperative Entry under Risk Friday March 6 12:00pm Presented by: Stephen Pitts Department of EconomicsMarquette University Information Frictions and Bargaining: Experimental Evidence From Rural Guinea-Bissau Thursday March 12 3:45pm Presented by: Giulio Schinaia Development Innovation LabUniversity of Chicago Direct or Indirect Rule? Armed Groups and Customary Chiefs in Eastern Congo Thursday March 19 3:45pm Presented by: Soeren Henn Department of Political ScienceUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison Market Structure and Development: Firm Competition in Jamaica Thursday March 26 3:45pm Presented by: Matthew McKetty Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison Structural Transformation Under Subsistence Constraints and Entry Costs: Evidence from Weather-Driven Productivity in Africa. Thursday April 9 3:45pm Presented by: Chunxiao Jing Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison Development as skills and altruism Thursday April 16 3:45pm Presented by: Rachid Laajaj Universidad de Los Andes Applied Economics Workshop Market Integration and the Transition to Modern Agriculture Friday March 20 12:00pm Presented by: Jeffrey Hadachek & Dustin Frye Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
Immigration and the Role of Slums in Housing Affordability Friday May 1 12:00pm Presented by: Marco Gonzalez-Navarro Agricultural and Resource EconomicsUniversity of California, Berkeley
Capitalization as a Two-Part Tariff: The Equilibrium Structure of Housing Prices Friday January 30 12:00pm Presented by: Spencer Banzhaf North Carolina State University
Paving the Swamp: Consequences of Land Use Regulation Under the Clean Water Act Friday March 13 12:00pm Presented by: Hannah Druckenmiller Division of the Humanities and Social SciencesCalifornia Institute of Technology
When Credit Lines Open Fault Lines: Economic and Political Effects of Bank Lending Thursday April 23 3:45pm Presented by: Yasir Kahn Department of EconomicsUniversity of Pittsburgh
Charting Your Path in Agricultural and Applied Economics: Career Strategies from a Department Head’s Perspective Friday April 24 12:00pm Presented by: Sarah Low Agricultural & Consumer EconomicsUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Flooding and Health Outcomes in Zambia Thursday April 30 3:45pm Presented by: Theresa Ng’andu Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
*** CANCELLED *** Thursday May 7 3:45pm Presented by: Sijan Thapa Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
A High Resolution Look at Long Run Development: Evidence from 1.3 Million Historical Aerial Photographs Friday February 13 12:00pm Presented by: Joel Ferguson Nelson Institute for Environmental StudiesUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
Follow the grain: Trade, sanctions and geopolitics Thursday February 26 3:45pm Presented by: Paul Dower Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
Information Decay and Cooperative Entry under Risk Friday March 6 12:00pm Presented by: Stephen Pitts Department of EconomicsMarquette University
Information Frictions and Bargaining: Experimental Evidence From Rural Guinea-Bissau Thursday March 12 3:45pm Presented by: Giulio Schinaia Development Innovation LabUniversity of Chicago
Direct or Indirect Rule? Armed Groups and Customary Chiefs in Eastern Congo Thursday March 19 3:45pm Presented by: Soeren Henn Department of Political ScienceUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
Market Structure and Development: Firm Competition in Jamaica Thursday March 26 3:45pm Presented by: Matthew McKetty Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
Structural Transformation Under Subsistence Constraints and Entry Costs: Evidence from Weather-Driven Productivity in Africa. Thursday April 9 3:45pm Presented by: Chunxiao Jing Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
Development as skills and altruism Thursday April 16 3:45pm Presented by: Rachid Laajaj Universidad de Los Andes
Market Integration and the Transition to Modern Agriculture Friday March 20 12:00pm Presented by: Jeffrey Hadachek & Dustin Frye Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison