Fall 2020 Schedule Department Seminar Incentivizing Behavioral Change: The Role of Time Preferences Friday September 11 12:00pm Presented by: Rebecca Dizon-Ross Booth School of BusinessUniversity of Chicago Market Uncertainty and Sentiment around USDA Announcements Friday September 25 12:00pm Presented by: Michel Robe Department of Agricultural and Consumer EconomicsUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Food vs. Fuel? Impacts of the North Dakota oil boom on agricultural prices Friday November 6 12:00pm Presented by: Aaron Smith Department of Agricultural and Resource EconomicsUniversity of California Davis Entrepreneurship Education and Teacher Training in Rwanda Friday November 13 12:00pm Presented by: Moussa Blimpo Office of the Chief Economist for the Africa Region (AFRCE)World Bank What Matters for Electrification? Evidence from 70 Years of U.S. Home Heating Choices Friday November 20 12:00pm Presented by: Lucas Davis Haas School of BusinessUniversity of California Berkeley The Cost of Species Protection: The Housing Market Impacts of the Endangered Species Act Friday December 4 12:00pm Presented by: Eyal Frank Harris School of Public PolicyUniversity of Chicago Development Economics Workshop Property rights, land circulation and non-farm labor supply: Evidence from a land tenure reform in China Thursday September 17 3:45pm Presented by: Kangli Li Practice Job Talk Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison Contracting and quality upgrading: Evidence from a pilot experiment in Senegal Thursday September 24 3:45pm Presented by: Josh Deutschmann Practice Job Talk Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison Internal migration and the spread of long-term impacts of historical immigration in Brazil Thursday October 1 3:45pm Presented by: Eduardo Cenci Practice Job Talk Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison Product and Marketing Strategies to Boost the Liquid Milk Demand: A Hedonic Metric Approach Thursday October 8 3:45pm Presented by: I-Chun Chen Practice Job Talk Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison Independent Media and Elections Thursday October 15 3:45pm Presented by: Nikita Zakharov Department of EconomicsUniversity of Freiburg Regression with a Misclassified Binary Regressor: Correcting for the Hidden Bias Thursday October 22 3:45pm Presented by: Pierre Nguimkeu Department of EconomicsGeorgia State University Traditional Supernatural Beliefs and Prosocial Behavior Thursday October 29 3:45pm Presented by: Sara Lowes Department of EconomicsUniversity of California-San Diego Migration and Informal Insurance Thursday November 12 3:45pm Presented by: Corina Mommaerts Department of EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison *** CANCELLED *** Thursday November 19 3:45pm Presented by: Jeremy Barofsky Applied Research and Evaluationideas42 How Does Democracy Cause Growth? Evidence from Firms During Indonesia's Democratic Transition Thursday December 3 3:45pm Presented by: Priya Mukherjee Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison Species Diversity and the Adoption of Agriculture Thursday December 10 3:45pm Presented by: Boris Gershman Department of EconomicsAmerican University Applied Economics Workshop Filling a Niche? The Maize Productivity Impacts of Adaptive Breeding by a Local Seed Company in Kenya Wednesday September 9 12:00pm Presented by: Michael Carter, Sam Bird Carter: Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Markets, Risk and Resilience; Bird: Economics, Accounting and ManagementUniversity of California Davis, Luther College The Paris Climate Agreement – how COVID-19 changed the calculus of climate policy Wednesday September 23 12:00pm Presented by: Tom Rutherford, R. Richels, C. Böhringer Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison Market Liquidity and Inventory Cycle Wednesday September 30 12:00pm Presented by: Ziqi Qiao Practice Job Talk Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison Using urban migration flows for non-market amenity valuation Wednesday October 7 12:00pm Presented by: Adam Theising Practice Job Talk Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison Friendship Networks and Political Opinions: A Natural Experiment among Future French Politicians Wednesday October 14 12:00pm Presented by: Quoc-Anh DO Department of EconomicsSciences Po Exploring the nexus between non-farm participation and welfare of smallholder households in Burkina Faso Wednesday October 21 12:00pm Presented by: Soumaila Gansonre UFR Economic Sciences and ManagementUniversity of Ouagadougou 1 Joseph Ki-Zerbo Food insecurity, timing of SNAP disbursement and crime incidence in the United States Wednesday October 28 12:00pm Presented by: Licheng Xu Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison CAFOs and Surface Water Quality: Evidence from the Proliferation of Large Farms in Wisconsin Wednesday November 4 12:00pm Presented by: Zach Raff Social Science DepartmentUniversity of Wisconsin-Stout Climate Shocks, Cyclones, and Economic Growth: Bridging the Micro-Macro Gap Wednesday November 11 12:00pm Presented by: Laura Bakkensen School of Government and Public PolicyUniversity of Arizona A Dynamic Analysis of the Distribution of Commodity Futures and Spot Prices (joint work with Jean Paul Chavas) Wednesday November 18 12:00pm Presented by: Jian Li, Visting Professor Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison (Home Institution: Huazhong Agricultural University) Wheels of Change: Transforming Girl’s Lives with Bicycles Wednesday December 9 12:00pm Presented by: Nishith Prakash Department of Economics and Human Rights Institute (Joint position)University of Connecticut
Incentivizing Behavioral Change: The Role of Time Preferences Friday September 11 12:00pm Presented by: Rebecca Dizon-Ross Booth School of BusinessUniversity of Chicago
Market Uncertainty and Sentiment around USDA Announcements Friday September 25 12:00pm Presented by: Michel Robe Department of Agricultural and Consumer EconomicsUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Food vs. Fuel? Impacts of the North Dakota oil boom on agricultural prices Friday November 6 12:00pm Presented by: Aaron Smith Department of Agricultural and Resource EconomicsUniversity of California Davis
Entrepreneurship Education and Teacher Training in Rwanda Friday November 13 12:00pm Presented by: Moussa Blimpo Office of the Chief Economist for the Africa Region (AFRCE)World Bank
What Matters for Electrification? Evidence from 70 Years of U.S. Home Heating Choices Friday November 20 12:00pm Presented by: Lucas Davis Haas School of BusinessUniversity of California Berkeley
The Cost of Species Protection: The Housing Market Impacts of the Endangered Species Act Friday December 4 12:00pm Presented by: Eyal Frank Harris School of Public PolicyUniversity of Chicago
Property rights, land circulation and non-farm labor supply: Evidence from a land tenure reform in China Thursday September 17 3:45pm Presented by: Kangli Li Practice Job Talk Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
Contracting and quality upgrading: Evidence from a pilot experiment in Senegal Thursday September 24 3:45pm Presented by: Josh Deutschmann Practice Job Talk Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
Internal migration and the spread of long-term impacts of historical immigration in Brazil Thursday October 1 3:45pm Presented by: Eduardo Cenci Practice Job Talk Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
Product and Marketing Strategies to Boost the Liquid Milk Demand: A Hedonic Metric Approach Thursday October 8 3:45pm Presented by: I-Chun Chen Practice Job Talk Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
Independent Media and Elections Thursday October 15 3:45pm Presented by: Nikita Zakharov Department of EconomicsUniversity of Freiburg
Regression with a Misclassified Binary Regressor: Correcting for the Hidden Bias Thursday October 22 3:45pm Presented by: Pierre Nguimkeu Department of EconomicsGeorgia State University
Traditional Supernatural Beliefs and Prosocial Behavior Thursday October 29 3:45pm Presented by: Sara Lowes Department of EconomicsUniversity of California-San Diego
Migration and Informal Insurance Thursday November 12 3:45pm Presented by: Corina Mommaerts Department of EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
*** CANCELLED *** Thursday November 19 3:45pm Presented by: Jeremy Barofsky Applied Research and Evaluationideas42
How Does Democracy Cause Growth? Evidence from Firms During Indonesia's Democratic Transition Thursday December 3 3:45pm Presented by: Priya Mukherjee Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
Species Diversity and the Adoption of Agriculture Thursday December 10 3:45pm Presented by: Boris Gershman Department of EconomicsAmerican University
Filling a Niche? The Maize Productivity Impacts of Adaptive Breeding by a Local Seed Company in Kenya Wednesday September 9 12:00pm Presented by: Michael Carter, Sam Bird Carter: Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Markets, Risk and Resilience; Bird: Economics, Accounting and ManagementUniversity of California Davis, Luther College
The Paris Climate Agreement – how COVID-19 changed the calculus of climate policy Wednesday September 23 12:00pm Presented by: Tom Rutherford, R. Richels, C. Böhringer Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
Market Liquidity and Inventory Cycle Wednesday September 30 12:00pm Presented by: Ziqi Qiao Practice Job Talk Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
Using urban migration flows for non-market amenity valuation Wednesday October 7 12:00pm Presented by: Adam Theising Practice Job Talk Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
Friendship Networks and Political Opinions: A Natural Experiment among Future French Politicians Wednesday October 14 12:00pm Presented by: Quoc-Anh DO Department of EconomicsSciences Po
Exploring the nexus between non-farm participation and welfare of smallholder households in Burkina Faso Wednesday October 21 12:00pm Presented by: Soumaila Gansonre UFR Economic Sciences and ManagementUniversity of Ouagadougou 1 Joseph Ki-Zerbo
Food insecurity, timing of SNAP disbursement and crime incidence in the United States Wednesday October 28 12:00pm Presented by: Licheng Xu Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
CAFOs and Surface Water Quality: Evidence from the Proliferation of Large Farms in Wisconsin Wednesday November 4 12:00pm Presented by: Zach Raff Social Science DepartmentUniversity of Wisconsin-Stout
Climate Shocks, Cyclones, and Economic Growth: Bridging the Micro-Macro Gap Wednesday November 11 12:00pm Presented by: Laura Bakkensen School of Government and Public PolicyUniversity of Arizona
A Dynamic Analysis of the Distribution of Commodity Futures and Spot Prices (joint work with Jean Paul Chavas) Wednesday November 18 12:00pm Presented by: Jian Li, Visting Professor Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison (Home Institution: Huazhong Agricultural University)
Wheels of Change: Transforming Girl’s Lives with Bicycles Wednesday December 9 12:00pm Presented by: Nishith Prakash Department of Economics and Human Rights Institute (Joint position)University of Connecticut