During AAE Ph.D. candidate Marin Skidmore’s first semester on campus, her advisor Jeremy Foltz encouraged her to articulate her goals and make a plan to achieve them. Having arrived at UW-Madison already interested in agricultural …
Development Economics
From Beijing to Wausau
In a panel held in June, Ian Coxhead explains how the Trump administration approach to tariffs can have negative consequences for farmers in Wisconsin. From corn to ginseng, farmers across the state are dealing with …
Should I Stay or Should I Go?
The choice to migrate is never easy. While there are a lot of economic theories about where and why people migrate, what we find is that real world behavior often doesn’t match what theories would …
Schechter, Laura
Development Economics
Our development economics faculty work on a wide range of issues, from migration to climate change to trust to social capital. Working to apply their analysis to the challenges of an increasingly global economy, they use econometric tools along with behavioral and experimental economics to inform policy worldwide.