Fall 2025 Schedule Department Seminar Wolfram Schlenker Friday December 5 12:00pm Kennedy School of GovernmentHarvard University Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Digital Receipts in the Ugandan Dairy Chain Friday September 12 12:00pm Presented by: Pedro Magana Saenz Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison Crop Diversification and Banking Resilience: An Entropy-Based Evaluation of Agricultural Lending Performance Friday September 26 12:00pm Presented by: Jim Teal Practice Job Talk Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison Black Newspapers and Political Participation Friday October 3 12:00pm Presented by: Brian Beach Department of EconomicsVanderbilt University Institutional Drift, Property Rights, and Economic Development: Evidence from Historical Treaties Friday October 10 12:00pm Presented by: Donn Feir Department of EconomicsUniversity of Victoria The Health Cost of Unexpected Shocks: Hurricanes and Elderly Mortality Friday October 17 12:00pm Presented by: Renato Molina Environmental and Resource EconomicsUniversity of Miami *** CANCELLED *** Friday October 31 12:00pm Agricultural & Consumer EconomicsUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Public R&D Meets Economic Development: Embrapa and Brazil’s Agricultural Revolution Friday November 14 12:00pm Presented by: Heitor Pellegrina Department of EconomicsUniversity of Notre Dame Development Economics Workshop Farmer networks and forest conservation in the Brazilian Amazon Thursday November 20 3:45pm Presented by: Tara Mittelberg Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison Soong Kit Wong Thursday December 4 3:45pm Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison Sun, Services and Development: Tourism and Household Welfare in Jamaica Thursday September 18 3:45pm Presented by: Matt McKetty Practice Job Talk Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison Dropping Out in Uncertain Times: Educational Investment Decisions in a Changing Labor Market Thursday September 25 3:45pm Presented by: Jacob Bills Practice Job Talk Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison Structural Transformation Under Subsistence Constraints: Evidence from Climate Shocks in Africa Thursday October 2 3:45pm Presented by: Chunxiao Jing Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison *** CANCELLED *** Thursday October 9 3:45pm Presented by: Matt McKetty Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison Technology, Contracts, and Coordination: Modernizing Agricultural Supply Chains in Wisconsin Potatoes Thursday October 9 3:45pm Presented by: Nurlan Utesov Practice Job Talk Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison Does Subsidizing Cross-Border Trade Boost Microenterprise Growth? Thursday October 16 3:45pm Presented by: Eleanor Wiseman Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison Personalization and Its Governance Consequences Thursday October 23 3:45pm Presented by: Mingcong Pan Practice Job Talk Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison Beyond Informality: The Importance of Residential-based Businesses Thursday October 30 3:45pm Presented by: Gisella Kagy School of Human EcologyUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison Climate and conflict in Africa: machine learning approach Thursday November 13 3:45pm Presented by: Jeremy Foltz Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison Applied Economics Workshop *** CANCELLED *** Wednesday November 19 12:00pm Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison *** CANCELLED *** Wednesday November 26 12:00pm Presented by: Sheldon Du Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison Kyle Meng Wednesday December 3 12:00pm Bren School of Environmental Science & ManagementUniversity of California, Santa Barbara The Economic Benefits of Water Rights Adjudication: Evidence from Agricultural Land Sales in Western States Wednesday September 17 12:00pm Presented by: Ha Do Practice Job Talk Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison The Effects of Conservation Easements on Real Estate Prices and Development Wednesday October 1 12:00pm Presented by: Garrett Shost Practice Job Talk Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison Permitting Risks, Litigation Threats, and Energy Infrastructure Investment Wednesday October 15 12:00pm Presented by: Yifei Liu Practice Job Talk Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison When Two Hands Clap: Government and Public Spatial Collaborative Oversight and the Effectiveness of Environmental Regulation Wednesday October 22 12:00pm Presented by: Tingting Xie School of EconomicsCentral University of Finance and Economics The Effects of Land Fragmentation on Environmental Investment on Agricultural Land Wednesday October 29 12:00pm Presented by: James Salmon Practice Job Talk Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison Pricing Current Climate Risk: Hurricane Models and Florida Home Insurance Wednesday November 5 12:00pm Presented by: Benjamin Collier School of BusinessUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison *** CANCELLED *** Wednesday November 12 12:00pm Department of EconomicsNew Uzbekistan University
Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Digital Receipts in the Ugandan Dairy Chain Friday September 12 12:00pm Presented by: Pedro Magana Saenz Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
Crop Diversification and Banking Resilience: An Entropy-Based Evaluation of Agricultural Lending Performance Friday September 26 12:00pm Presented by: Jim Teal Practice Job Talk Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
Black Newspapers and Political Participation Friday October 3 12:00pm Presented by: Brian Beach Department of EconomicsVanderbilt University
Institutional Drift, Property Rights, and Economic Development: Evidence from Historical Treaties Friday October 10 12:00pm Presented by: Donn Feir Department of EconomicsUniversity of Victoria
The Health Cost of Unexpected Shocks: Hurricanes and Elderly Mortality Friday October 17 12:00pm Presented by: Renato Molina Environmental and Resource EconomicsUniversity of Miami
*** CANCELLED *** Friday October 31 12:00pm Agricultural & Consumer EconomicsUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Public R&D Meets Economic Development: Embrapa and Brazil’s Agricultural Revolution Friday November 14 12:00pm Presented by: Heitor Pellegrina Department of EconomicsUniversity of Notre Dame
Farmer networks and forest conservation in the Brazilian Amazon Thursday November 20 3:45pm Presented by: Tara Mittelberg Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
Soong Kit Wong Thursday December 4 3:45pm Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
Sun, Services and Development: Tourism and Household Welfare in Jamaica Thursday September 18 3:45pm Presented by: Matt McKetty Practice Job Talk Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
Dropping Out in Uncertain Times: Educational Investment Decisions in a Changing Labor Market Thursday September 25 3:45pm Presented by: Jacob Bills Practice Job Talk Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
Structural Transformation Under Subsistence Constraints: Evidence from Climate Shocks in Africa Thursday October 2 3:45pm Presented by: Chunxiao Jing Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
*** CANCELLED *** Thursday October 9 3:45pm Presented by: Matt McKetty Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
Technology, Contracts, and Coordination: Modernizing Agricultural Supply Chains in Wisconsin Potatoes Thursday October 9 3:45pm Presented by: Nurlan Utesov Practice Job Talk Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
Does Subsidizing Cross-Border Trade Boost Microenterprise Growth? Thursday October 16 3:45pm Presented by: Eleanor Wiseman Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
Personalization and Its Governance Consequences Thursday October 23 3:45pm Presented by: Mingcong Pan Practice Job Talk Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
Beyond Informality: The Importance of Residential-based Businesses Thursday October 30 3:45pm Presented by: Gisella Kagy School of Human EcologyUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
Climate and conflict in Africa: machine learning approach Thursday November 13 3:45pm Presented by: Jeremy Foltz Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
*** CANCELLED *** Wednesday November 19 12:00pm Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
*** CANCELLED *** Wednesday November 26 12:00pm Presented by: Sheldon Du Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
Kyle Meng Wednesday December 3 12:00pm Bren School of Environmental Science & ManagementUniversity of California, Santa Barbara
The Economic Benefits of Water Rights Adjudication: Evidence from Agricultural Land Sales in Western States Wednesday September 17 12:00pm Presented by: Ha Do Practice Job Talk Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
The Effects of Conservation Easements on Real Estate Prices and Development Wednesday October 1 12:00pm Presented by: Garrett Shost Practice Job Talk Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
Permitting Risks, Litigation Threats, and Energy Infrastructure Investment Wednesday October 15 12:00pm Presented by: Yifei Liu Practice Job Talk Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
When Two Hands Clap: Government and Public Spatial Collaborative Oversight and the Effectiveness of Environmental Regulation Wednesday October 22 12:00pm Presented by: Tingting Xie School of EconomicsCentral University of Finance and Economics
The Effects of Land Fragmentation on Environmental Investment on Agricultural Land Wednesday October 29 12:00pm Presented by: James Salmon Practice Job Talk Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
Pricing Current Climate Risk: Hurricane Models and Florida Home Insurance Wednesday November 5 12:00pm Presented by: Benjamin Collier School of BusinessUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison