Spring 2013 Schedule Department Seminar Behavioural Responses and the Impact of New Agricultural Technologies: Evidence from a Double-Blind Field Experiment in Tanzania Friday January 25 12:00pm Presented by: Salvatore Di Falco Environmental EconomicsUniversity of Geneva Environmental Policy with Increasing Marginal Benefits Friday February 1 12:00pm Presented by: Jay Coggins Department of Applied EconomicsUniversity of Minnesota Globalized Fruit: Transnational Firms, Tropical Entrepreneurs and Governments, and Independent Banana Development Friday February 15 12:00pm Presented by: Douglas Southgate Ohio State University How Does Risk Management Influence Production Decisions? Evidence from a Field Experiment Friday March 8 2:30pm Presented by: Xavier Gine World Bank Green Stimulus: A Dynamic Discrete Analysis of Vehicle Scrappage Programs Friday March 15 12:00pm Presented by: Shanjun Li Department of Applied Economics & ManagementCornell University White Flight and Coming to the Nuisance: Can Residential Mobility Explain Environmental Injustice Friday April 12 12:00pm Presented by: Christopher Timmins Department of EconomicsDuke University Network Structure and the Aggregation of Information: Theory and Evidence from Indonesia Friday April 19 12:00pm Presented by: Arun Chandrasekhar Department of EconomicsStanford University Development Economics Workshop Environment/Poverty Tradeoffs in Mexico's PES Program Thursday February 14 3:45pm Presented by: Jennifer Alix-Garcia Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison Women's Empowerment, Gender Bias and Susu Collection in Ghana Thursday February 28 3:45pm Presented by: Kweku Opoku-Agyemang Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison Lucky Countries? Internal and External Sources of Growth in Southeast Asia Thursday March 7 3:45pm Presented by: Ian Coxhead Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison Migration and the Pursuit of Secondary Education in Southern Mexico Thursday March 14 3:45pm Presented by: Brad Barham Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison Cash for Cooperation? Payments for Ecosystems Services and Common Property Managment in Mexico Thursday March 21 3:45pm Presented by: Patricia Yanez-Pagans Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison Cooperation and Technology Adoption: Evidence from Ethiopia Thursday April 11 3:45pm Presented by: Maria Rodrigo Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison Tax Incentives and Urbanization in China Thursday May 2 3:45pm Presented by: Jennifer Alix-Garcia Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison Intra-Household Risk Preferences and Migration Decisions Thursday May 16 3:45pm Presented by: Hillary Caruthers Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison Applied Economics Workshop Jean Tuesday February 19 4:00pm Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison Coase Revisited: Economic Efficiency under Externalities, Transaction Costs and Non-Convexity Wednesday February 27 4:00pm Presented by: Jean-Paul Chavas Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison Tom Rutherford Wednesday March 6 4:00pm Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison Joe Herriges Wednesday March 20 4:00pm Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison Trajectory of Maturity: An Empirical Analysis of US Biofuel Innovations Wednesday April 3 4:00pm Presented by: Heesun Jang Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison Sustainable Biofuels, Marginal Agricultural Lands, and Farm Supply Response: Micro-Evidence for Southwest Wisconsin Wednesday April 17 4:00pm Presented by: Daniel Mooney, Brad Barham & Chang Lian Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison Measuring Farm Sustainability Using Data Envelope Analysis with Principal Components: The Case of Wisconsin Cranberry Wednesday April 24 4:00pm Presented by: Fengxia Dong Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison Booms, Busts and Natural Resource Curses: Economic Effects of Energy Development in the U.S. West Wednesday May 1 4:00pm Presented by: Nick Parker Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison Does Water Quality Matter for Recreation? Evidence from Micro Panel Data Wednesday May 8 4:00pm Presented by: Joe Herriges Department of EconomicsIowa State University Self Control or Social Control? Peer Effects on Temptation Consumption Wednesday May 15 4:00pm Presented by: Ya-Ting Chuang Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
Behavioural Responses and the Impact of New Agricultural Technologies: Evidence from a Double-Blind Field Experiment in Tanzania Friday January 25 12:00pm Presented by: Salvatore Di Falco Environmental EconomicsUniversity of Geneva
Environmental Policy with Increasing Marginal Benefits Friday February 1 12:00pm Presented by: Jay Coggins Department of Applied EconomicsUniversity of Minnesota
Globalized Fruit: Transnational Firms, Tropical Entrepreneurs and Governments, and Independent Banana Development Friday February 15 12:00pm Presented by: Douglas Southgate Ohio State University
How Does Risk Management Influence Production Decisions? Evidence from a Field Experiment Friday March 8 2:30pm Presented by: Xavier Gine World Bank
Green Stimulus: A Dynamic Discrete Analysis of Vehicle Scrappage Programs Friday March 15 12:00pm Presented by: Shanjun Li Department of Applied Economics & ManagementCornell University
White Flight and Coming to the Nuisance: Can Residential Mobility Explain Environmental Injustice Friday April 12 12:00pm Presented by: Christopher Timmins Department of EconomicsDuke University
Network Structure and the Aggregation of Information: Theory and Evidence from Indonesia Friday April 19 12:00pm Presented by: Arun Chandrasekhar Department of EconomicsStanford University
Environment/Poverty Tradeoffs in Mexico's PES Program Thursday February 14 3:45pm Presented by: Jennifer Alix-Garcia Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
Women's Empowerment, Gender Bias and Susu Collection in Ghana Thursday February 28 3:45pm Presented by: Kweku Opoku-Agyemang Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
Lucky Countries? Internal and External Sources of Growth in Southeast Asia Thursday March 7 3:45pm Presented by: Ian Coxhead Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
Migration and the Pursuit of Secondary Education in Southern Mexico Thursday March 14 3:45pm Presented by: Brad Barham Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
Cash for Cooperation? Payments for Ecosystems Services and Common Property Managment in Mexico Thursday March 21 3:45pm Presented by: Patricia Yanez-Pagans Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
Cooperation and Technology Adoption: Evidence from Ethiopia Thursday April 11 3:45pm Presented by: Maria Rodrigo Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
Tax Incentives and Urbanization in China Thursday May 2 3:45pm Presented by: Jennifer Alix-Garcia Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
Intra-Household Risk Preferences and Migration Decisions Thursday May 16 3:45pm Presented by: Hillary Caruthers Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
Jean Tuesday February 19 4:00pm Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
Coase Revisited: Economic Efficiency under Externalities, Transaction Costs and Non-Convexity Wednesday February 27 4:00pm Presented by: Jean-Paul Chavas Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
Tom Rutherford Wednesday March 6 4:00pm Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
Joe Herriges Wednesday March 20 4:00pm Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
Trajectory of Maturity: An Empirical Analysis of US Biofuel Innovations Wednesday April 3 4:00pm Presented by: Heesun Jang Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
Sustainable Biofuels, Marginal Agricultural Lands, and Farm Supply Response: Micro-Evidence for Southwest Wisconsin Wednesday April 17 4:00pm Presented by: Daniel Mooney, Brad Barham & Chang Lian Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
Measuring Farm Sustainability Using Data Envelope Analysis with Principal Components: The Case of Wisconsin Cranberry Wednesday April 24 4:00pm Presented by: Fengxia Dong Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
Booms, Busts and Natural Resource Curses: Economic Effects of Energy Development in the U.S. West Wednesday May 1 4:00pm Presented by: Nick Parker Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
Does Water Quality Matter for Recreation? Evidence from Micro Panel Data Wednesday May 8 4:00pm Presented by: Joe Herriges Department of EconomicsIowa State University
Self Control or Social Control? Peer Effects on Temptation Consumption Wednesday May 15 4:00pm Presented by: Ya-Ting Chuang Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison