Fall 2026 Schedule Department Seminar Meredith Startz Friday December 4 12:00pm EconomicsDartmouth Do Water Markets Drive Ownership Consolidation? Evidence from California's Mojave Desert Friday September 4 12:00pm Presented by: Ellen Bruno University of California, Berkeley Data Center Siting and Community Opposition Friday September 11 12:00pm Presented by: Grant Jacobsen Economics Program, School of Public PolicyOregon State University Persistent temperature effects on agricultural productivity imply large climate change damages Friday September 25 12:00pm Presented by: Ariel Ortiz-Bobea Cornell University Flooding and Health Outcomes in Zambia Friday October 2 12:00pm Presented by: Theresa Ng'andu Practice Job Talk Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison Payments for Ecosystem Services and Flood Loss Mitigation in Agriculture Friday October 16 12:00pm Presented by: Young Kim Food and Resource EconomicsUniversity of Florida Diagnosing Spatial Policies in a Changing Commons Friday October 30 12:00pm Presented by: Karl Aspelund Yale University Development Economics Workshop The Impacts of Cold-storage Access in Agricultural Markets Thursday November 5 3:45pm Presented by: Eleanor Wiseman Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUW-Madison Ben Krause Thursday November 12 3:45pm Becker Friedman Institute for EconomicsUniversity of Chicago Gisella Kagy and Fernanda Rojas Thursday November 19 4:00pm Consumer Science and EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison Fernanda Rojas-Ampuero Thursday December 10 4:00pm EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison Soong Kit Wong Thursday September 3 3:45pm Practice Job Talk Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison Now You Receive It, Now You Don’t: The Effect of Losing a Cash Transfer in Ecuador Thursday September 17 4:00pm Presented by: Tobias Pfutze EconomicsFlorida International University Climate Migration and Urban Integration in Africa Thursday September 24 4:00am Presented by: Melanie Gittard Stanford Weather Shocks and Structural Transformation: Micro Evidence from Africa Thursday October 1 3:45pm Presented by: Chunxiao Jing Practice Job Talk Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison Monitoring the Middleman: Supply Chain Networks and Environmental Sanctions in Brazil's Cattle Sector Thursday October 8 3:45pm Presented by: Tara Mittelberg Practice Job Talk Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison What Started China’s Miracle? The View from Outer Space Thursday October 15 4:00pm Presented by: Joel Ferguson Nelson Institute for Environmental StudiesUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison Applied Microeconomics in Costa Rica: From Firm Misallocation to Human Trafficking Prevention Thursday October 22 4:00pm Presented by: Claudio A. Mora-García Central Bank of Costa Rica *** CANCELLED *** Thursday October 29 4:00pm Presented by: Shweta Bhogale University of Chicago Applied Economics Workshop Unconventional Natural Gas Extraction: Rural Poverty, Income, & Population Wednesday September 23 12:00pm Presented by: Elizabeth Anderson Practice Job Talk Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison Who Runs Short in a Drought? Water Rights and Canal Delivery in Arizona Wednesday September 30 12:00pm Presented by: Anton Liutin Practice Job Talk Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison Know Thy Pipes: How Proxy Information Shapes Household Demand for Waterborne Lead Mitigation and Exposure Assessments Wednesday October 7 12:00pm Presented by: Siyuan Hu Practice Job Talk Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
Do Water Markets Drive Ownership Consolidation? Evidence from California's Mojave Desert Friday September 4 12:00pm Presented by: Ellen Bruno University of California, Berkeley
Data Center Siting and Community Opposition Friday September 11 12:00pm Presented by: Grant Jacobsen Economics Program, School of Public PolicyOregon State University
Persistent temperature effects on agricultural productivity imply large climate change damages Friday September 25 12:00pm Presented by: Ariel Ortiz-Bobea Cornell University
Flooding and Health Outcomes in Zambia Friday October 2 12:00pm Presented by: Theresa Ng'andu Practice Job Talk Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
Payments for Ecosystem Services and Flood Loss Mitigation in Agriculture Friday October 16 12:00pm Presented by: Young Kim Food and Resource EconomicsUniversity of Florida
Diagnosing Spatial Policies in a Changing Commons Friday October 30 12:00pm Presented by: Karl Aspelund Yale University
The Impacts of Cold-storage Access in Agricultural Markets Thursday November 5 3:45pm Presented by: Eleanor Wiseman Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUW-Madison
Gisella Kagy and Fernanda Rojas Thursday November 19 4:00pm Consumer Science and EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
Soong Kit Wong Thursday September 3 3:45pm Practice Job Talk Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
Now You Receive It, Now You Don’t: The Effect of Losing a Cash Transfer in Ecuador Thursday September 17 4:00pm Presented by: Tobias Pfutze EconomicsFlorida International University
Climate Migration and Urban Integration in Africa Thursday September 24 4:00am Presented by: Melanie Gittard Stanford
Weather Shocks and Structural Transformation: Micro Evidence from Africa Thursday October 1 3:45pm Presented by: Chunxiao Jing Practice Job Talk Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
Monitoring the Middleman: Supply Chain Networks and Environmental Sanctions in Brazil's Cattle Sector Thursday October 8 3:45pm Presented by: Tara Mittelberg Practice Job Talk Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
What Started China’s Miracle? The View from Outer Space Thursday October 15 4:00pm Presented by: Joel Ferguson Nelson Institute for Environmental StudiesUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
Applied Microeconomics in Costa Rica: From Firm Misallocation to Human Trafficking Prevention Thursday October 22 4:00pm Presented by: Claudio A. Mora-García Central Bank of Costa Rica
Unconventional Natural Gas Extraction: Rural Poverty, Income, & Population Wednesday September 23 12:00pm Presented by: Elizabeth Anderson Practice Job Talk Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
Who Runs Short in a Drought? Water Rights and Canal Delivery in Arizona Wednesday September 30 12:00pm Presented by: Anton Liutin Practice Job Talk Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
Know Thy Pipes: How Proxy Information Shapes Household Demand for Waterborne Lead Mitigation and Exposure Assessments Wednesday October 7 12:00pm Presented by: Siyuan Hu Practice Job Talk Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison