Fall 2018 Schedule Department Seminar *** CANCELLED *** Friday September 7 12:00pm Presented by: Andrew Plantinga Bren School of Environmental Science and ManagementUniversity of California, Santa Barbara Frontier Culture: The Roots and Persistence of 'Rugged Individualism' in the United States Friday September 14 12:00pm Presented by: Samuel Bazzi Department of EconomicsBoston University Does Being a “Top 10” Worst Polluter Affect Environmental Releases? Evidence from the U.S. Toxic Release Inventory Friday October 19 12:00pm Presented by: Wolfram Schlenker School of International and Public AffairsColumbia University Agriculture and the New Deal Friday October 26 12:00pm Presented by: Price Fishback Department of EconomicsUniversity of Arizona Split-Sample Strategies for Avoiding False Discoveries Friday November 2 12:00pm Presented by: Jeremy Magruder Department of Agricultural & Resource EconomicsUniversity of California, Berkeley Reducing the Cost of Remoteness: Community Health Workers, Fertility Choices and Child Health Investments Friday November 9 12:00pm Presented by: Maria Rosales Department of EconomicsRutgers University Development Economics Workshop Siblings and Sheepskins: Evidence from Indonesia on Crisis, School Dropout, and Sibling Inequality Thursday September 6 3:45pm Presented by: Tamara McGavock Economics DepartmentGrinnell College Gender and Land in Mexico Thursday September 13 3:45pm Presented by: Matt Klein Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison The Effect of Slaughterhouse Consolidation on Deforestation, Land Use, and Agricultural Production in Mato Grosso, Brazil Thursday September 20 3:45pm Presented by: Jens Engelmann Practice Job Talk Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison Rainfall Shocks and Risk Aversion: Evidence from Southeast Asia Thursday September 27 3:45pm Presented by: Sabine Liebenehm Institute of Development and Agricultural EconomicsLeibniz University, Hanover Understanding the Rationale for Heterogeneous Farmers' Agricultural Technology Adoption Decisions Thursday October 4 3:45pm Presented by: Jessica Zhu Practice Job Talk Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison Anticipatory Migration & Local Labor Responses to Rural Climate Shocks Thursday October 11 3:45pm Presented by: Esteban J. Quiñones Practice Job Talk Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison Purdah, Dowry and Development in Pakistan Thursday October 18 4:00pm Presented by: Ian Coxhead Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison Exploring the Part-Time Gap in Performance Evaluations Thursday October 25 3:45pm Presented by: Eszter Czibor Economics DepartmentUniversity of Chicago Environmental Policy and Cattle Productivity in the Amazon Thursday November 1 3:45pm Presented by: Marin Skidmore & Fanny Moffette Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison Is Tomorrow Another Day? Coping with an Environmental Disaster: Evidence from Vietnam Thursday November 15 3:45pm Presented by: Nguyen Vuong Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison An Alternative Approach to Measuring the Welfare Impacts of Input Subsidies: Evidence from Malawi Thursday November 29 3:45pm Presented by: Sinafikeh Gemessa Department of Applied EconomicsUniversity of Minnesota Information, Credit, and Inputs: the Impacts and Mechanisms of a Program to Raise Smallholder Productivity Thursday December 6 3:45pm Presented by: Josh Deutschmann & Emilia Tjernström Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison Applied Economics Workshop An Empirical Test of Principal-Agent Models: Comparing CEO Compensation at Nonprofit Credit Unions and Commercial Banks Wednesday September 12 12:00pm Presented by: Shuwei Zeng, Jordan van Rijn & Brent Hueth Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison The Effect of CEO Gender on Credit Union Risk, Growth and Returns Wednesday September 19 12:00pm Presented by: Jordan van Rijn Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison The Determinants of Binge Drinking: Fresh Eyes to an Old Problem Wednesday September 26 12:00pm Presented by: Reka Sundaram-Stukel Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison The Impact of Clean Water Act Regulations on Farm Practices: The Case of U.S. Dairy CAFOs Wednesday October 3 12:00pm Presented by: Charng-Jiun Yu Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison Winning and Losing from an Upstream Cartel, the Case of United Egg Producers Wednesday October 10 12:00pm Presented by: Kyle Stiegert Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison Quantifying Disruptive Trade Policies Wednesday October 17 12:00pm Presented by: Tom Rutherford Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison What's Mine is Yours: Transboundary Pollution from Abandoned Coal Mines Wednesday October 24 12:00pm Presented by: Alexey Kalinin Practice Job Talk Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison Quantifying Heterogeneous Returns to Genetic Selection: Evidence from Wisconsin Dairies Wednesday October 31 12:00pm Presented by: Jared Hutchins Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison Policy Implications of Joint Estimation of Crop Insurance Demand Wednesday November 7 12:00pm Presented by: I-Chun Chen Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison Pronoun Drop Language and Social Preferences: Experimental Evidence from Japan Wednesday November 14 12:00pm Presented by: Katsunori Yamada Department of EconomicsKindai University Air Toxics, Early Cognitive Development, and Household Responsiveness Wednesday December 5 12:00pm Presented by: Irene Jacqz Practice Job Talk Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison Take Me Home, Country Roads: The Rise of Long-Distance Commuting in the Midwest Wednesday December 12 12:00pm Presented by: Matt Kures, Steve Deller, Tessa Conroy Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
*** CANCELLED *** Friday September 7 12:00pm Presented by: Andrew Plantinga Bren School of Environmental Science and ManagementUniversity of California, Santa Barbara
Frontier Culture: The Roots and Persistence of 'Rugged Individualism' in the United States Friday September 14 12:00pm Presented by: Samuel Bazzi Department of EconomicsBoston University
Does Being a “Top 10” Worst Polluter Affect Environmental Releases? Evidence from the U.S. Toxic Release Inventory Friday October 19 12:00pm Presented by: Wolfram Schlenker School of International and Public AffairsColumbia University
Agriculture and the New Deal Friday October 26 12:00pm Presented by: Price Fishback Department of EconomicsUniversity of Arizona
Split-Sample Strategies for Avoiding False Discoveries Friday November 2 12:00pm Presented by: Jeremy Magruder Department of Agricultural & Resource EconomicsUniversity of California, Berkeley
Reducing the Cost of Remoteness: Community Health Workers, Fertility Choices and Child Health Investments Friday November 9 12:00pm Presented by: Maria Rosales Department of EconomicsRutgers University
Siblings and Sheepskins: Evidence from Indonesia on Crisis, School Dropout, and Sibling Inequality Thursday September 6 3:45pm Presented by: Tamara McGavock Economics DepartmentGrinnell College
Gender and Land in Mexico Thursday September 13 3:45pm Presented by: Matt Klein Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
The Effect of Slaughterhouse Consolidation on Deforestation, Land Use, and Agricultural Production in Mato Grosso, Brazil Thursday September 20 3:45pm Presented by: Jens Engelmann Practice Job Talk Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
Rainfall Shocks and Risk Aversion: Evidence from Southeast Asia Thursday September 27 3:45pm Presented by: Sabine Liebenehm Institute of Development and Agricultural EconomicsLeibniz University, Hanover
Understanding the Rationale for Heterogeneous Farmers' Agricultural Technology Adoption Decisions Thursday October 4 3:45pm Presented by: Jessica Zhu Practice Job Talk Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
Anticipatory Migration & Local Labor Responses to Rural Climate Shocks Thursday October 11 3:45pm Presented by: Esteban J. Quiñones Practice Job Talk Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
Purdah, Dowry and Development in Pakistan Thursday October 18 4:00pm Presented by: Ian Coxhead Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
Exploring the Part-Time Gap in Performance Evaluations Thursday October 25 3:45pm Presented by: Eszter Czibor Economics DepartmentUniversity of Chicago
Environmental Policy and Cattle Productivity in the Amazon Thursday November 1 3:45pm Presented by: Marin Skidmore & Fanny Moffette Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
Is Tomorrow Another Day? Coping with an Environmental Disaster: Evidence from Vietnam Thursday November 15 3:45pm Presented by: Nguyen Vuong Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
An Alternative Approach to Measuring the Welfare Impacts of Input Subsidies: Evidence from Malawi Thursday November 29 3:45pm Presented by: Sinafikeh Gemessa Department of Applied EconomicsUniversity of Minnesota
Information, Credit, and Inputs: the Impacts and Mechanisms of a Program to Raise Smallholder Productivity Thursday December 6 3:45pm Presented by: Josh Deutschmann & Emilia Tjernström Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
An Empirical Test of Principal-Agent Models: Comparing CEO Compensation at Nonprofit Credit Unions and Commercial Banks Wednesday September 12 12:00pm Presented by: Shuwei Zeng, Jordan van Rijn & Brent Hueth Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
The Effect of CEO Gender on Credit Union Risk, Growth and Returns Wednesday September 19 12:00pm Presented by: Jordan van Rijn Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
The Determinants of Binge Drinking: Fresh Eyes to an Old Problem Wednesday September 26 12:00pm Presented by: Reka Sundaram-Stukel Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
The Impact of Clean Water Act Regulations on Farm Practices: The Case of U.S. Dairy CAFOs Wednesday October 3 12:00pm Presented by: Charng-Jiun Yu Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
Winning and Losing from an Upstream Cartel, the Case of United Egg Producers Wednesday October 10 12:00pm Presented by: Kyle Stiegert Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
Quantifying Disruptive Trade Policies Wednesday October 17 12:00pm Presented by: Tom Rutherford Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
What's Mine is Yours: Transboundary Pollution from Abandoned Coal Mines Wednesday October 24 12:00pm Presented by: Alexey Kalinin Practice Job Talk Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
Quantifying Heterogeneous Returns to Genetic Selection: Evidence from Wisconsin Dairies Wednesday October 31 12:00pm Presented by: Jared Hutchins Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
Policy Implications of Joint Estimation of Crop Insurance Demand Wednesday November 7 12:00pm Presented by: I-Chun Chen Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
Pronoun Drop Language and Social Preferences: Experimental Evidence from Japan Wednesday November 14 12:00pm Presented by: Katsunori Yamada Department of EconomicsKindai University
Air Toxics, Early Cognitive Development, and Household Responsiveness Wednesday December 5 12:00pm Presented by: Irene Jacqz Practice Job Talk Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
Take Me Home, Country Roads: The Rise of Long-Distance Commuting in the Midwest Wednesday December 12 12:00pm Presented by: Matt Kures, Steve Deller, Tessa Conroy Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison