Fall 2015 Schedule Department Seminar Arresting Contagion: Science, Policy, and Conflicts over Animal Disease Control Friday October 9 12:00pm Presented by: Paul Rhode Economics DepartmentUniversity of Michigan Transportation Networks and the Geographic Concentration of Industry Friday October 16 12:00pm Presented by: Dustin Frye Economics DepartmentVassar College Indonesia and the East Asian Region: Economic Recovery and Beyond Friday October 30 12:00pm Presented by: Mari Pangestur Indonesia Minister of Trade (former) How Positive Was the Positive Check? Investment and Fertility in the Aftermath of the 1918 Influenza in India Friday November 6 12:00pm Presented by: Dan Keniston Department of EconomicsYale University Intrahousehold Bargaining, Female Autonomy, and Labor Supply: Theory and Evidence from India Friday November 20 12:00pm Presented by: Rachel Heath Department of EconomicsUniversity of Washington A New Approach to an Age-old Problem: Solving Externalities by Incenting Workers Directly Friday December 4 12:00pm Presented by: Robert Metcalfe Becker Friedman Institute for Research in EconomicsUniversity of Chicago Quantifying the Short and Long Run Impacts of Climate Change on Electricity Consumption Using Big Data Friday December 11 10:00am Presented by: Max Auffhammer Department of Agricultural & Resource EconomicsUniversity of California, Berkeley Development Economics Workshop Equilibrium Effect of A Large-Scale Microfinance Policy Thursday October 1 3:45pm Presented by: Phai Phongthiengtham Department of EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison Confidence and Responsiveness to Information amongst Indian Farmers Thursday October 8 3:45pm Presented by: Jared Gars Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison Monitoring Public Employees in Paraguay: Can Technology Adoption by the Government Improve Agricultural Extension Services for Poor Farmers? Thursday October 15 3:45pm Presented by: Laura Schechter Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison Latin American Inequality: Colonial Origins, Commodity Booms, or a Missed 20th Century Leveling? Thursday October 29 3:45pm Presented by: Jeffrey Williamson Department of EconomicsHarvard University Migration and Educational Investment in Nepal Thursday November 5 3:45pm Presented by: Rashesh Shrestha Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison Could a Resource Export Boom Reduce Workers’ Earnings? The Labor Market Channel in Indonesia Thursday November 19 3:45pm Presented by: Ian Coxhead Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison Signals, Similarity and Seeds: Social Learning in the Presence of Imperfect Information and Heterogeneity Thursday December 3 3:45pm Presented by: Emilia Tjernström La Follette School of Public AffairsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison Applied Economics Workshop An Impure Public Good Model of Local Food Systems: Aggregative Games of Four Locals Wednesday September 16 12:00pm Presented by: Yuji Saikai Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison Cost of Capital and Productivity in the U.S. Electric Power Industry. Wednesday October 28 12:00pm Presented by: Heesun Jang Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison Strategic Regulator Behavior: Ambient Pollution Monitoring Wednesday November 25 12:00pm Presented by: Corbett Grainger Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison Inventive Activity in the Historical United States Wednesday December 2 12:00pm Presented by: Sarada School of BusinessUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison Irish Dairy Farm Dynamics: the Role of Milk Quota Abolition and Extension Services Wednesday December 9 12:00pm Presented by: Doris Laepple School of Agriculture and Food ScienceUniversity College Dublin
Arresting Contagion: Science, Policy, and Conflicts over Animal Disease Control Friday October 9 12:00pm Presented by: Paul Rhode Economics DepartmentUniversity of Michigan
Transportation Networks and the Geographic Concentration of Industry Friday October 16 12:00pm Presented by: Dustin Frye Economics DepartmentVassar College
Indonesia and the East Asian Region: Economic Recovery and Beyond Friday October 30 12:00pm Presented by: Mari Pangestur Indonesia Minister of Trade (former)
How Positive Was the Positive Check? Investment and Fertility in the Aftermath of the 1918 Influenza in India Friday November 6 12:00pm Presented by: Dan Keniston Department of EconomicsYale University
Intrahousehold Bargaining, Female Autonomy, and Labor Supply: Theory and Evidence from India Friday November 20 12:00pm Presented by: Rachel Heath Department of EconomicsUniversity of Washington
A New Approach to an Age-old Problem: Solving Externalities by Incenting Workers Directly Friday December 4 12:00pm Presented by: Robert Metcalfe Becker Friedman Institute for Research in EconomicsUniversity of Chicago
Quantifying the Short and Long Run Impacts of Climate Change on Electricity Consumption Using Big Data Friday December 11 10:00am Presented by: Max Auffhammer Department of Agricultural & Resource EconomicsUniversity of California, Berkeley
Equilibrium Effect of A Large-Scale Microfinance Policy Thursday October 1 3:45pm Presented by: Phai Phongthiengtham Department of EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
Confidence and Responsiveness to Information amongst Indian Farmers Thursday October 8 3:45pm Presented by: Jared Gars Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
Monitoring Public Employees in Paraguay: Can Technology Adoption by the Government Improve Agricultural Extension Services for Poor Farmers? Thursday October 15 3:45pm Presented by: Laura Schechter Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
Latin American Inequality: Colonial Origins, Commodity Booms, or a Missed 20th Century Leveling? Thursday October 29 3:45pm Presented by: Jeffrey Williamson Department of EconomicsHarvard University
Migration and Educational Investment in Nepal Thursday November 5 3:45pm Presented by: Rashesh Shrestha Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
Could a Resource Export Boom Reduce Workers’ Earnings? The Labor Market Channel in Indonesia Thursday November 19 3:45pm Presented by: Ian Coxhead Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
Signals, Similarity and Seeds: Social Learning in the Presence of Imperfect Information and Heterogeneity Thursday December 3 3:45pm Presented by: Emilia Tjernström La Follette School of Public AffairsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
An Impure Public Good Model of Local Food Systems: Aggregative Games of Four Locals Wednesday September 16 12:00pm Presented by: Yuji Saikai Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
Cost of Capital and Productivity in the U.S. Electric Power Industry. Wednesday October 28 12:00pm Presented by: Heesun Jang Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
Strategic Regulator Behavior: Ambient Pollution Monitoring Wednesday November 25 12:00pm Presented by: Corbett Grainger Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
Inventive Activity in the Historical United States Wednesday December 2 12:00pm Presented by: Sarada School of BusinessUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
Irish Dairy Farm Dynamics: the Role of Milk Quota Abolition and Extension Services Wednesday December 9 12:00pm Presented by: Doris Laepple School of Agriculture and Food ScienceUniversity College Dublin