Spring 2015 Schedule Department Seminar Selection into Credit Markets: Evidence from Agriculture in Mali Friday January 30 12:00pm Presented by: Lori Beaman Department of EconomicsNorthwestern University Damming the Commons: An Empirical Analysis of International Cooperation and Conflict in Dam Location Friday February 6 12:00pm Presented by: Sheila Olmstead School of Public AffairsUniversity of Texas at Austin Do Energy Efficiency Investments Deliver? Evidence from the Weatherization Assistance Program Friday February 27 12:00pm Presented by: Meredith Fowlie Department of Agricultural & Resource EconomicsUniversity of California, Berkeley Hotelling Under Pressure Friday March 13 12:00pm Presented by: Soren Anderson Department of EconomicsMichigan State University Dust Bowl Migrants: Selection and Migration Patterns of Environmental Refugees Friday March 20 12:00pm Presented by: Richard Hornbeck Department of EconomicsHarvard University Pollination Markets and Adaptation to Environmental Change Friday April 17 3:00pm Presented by: Walter Thurman Department of Agricultural & Resource EconomicsNorth Carolina State University The Causal Effect of Competition on Prices and Quality: Evidence from a Field Experiment Friday May 1 12:00pm Presented by: Sebastian Galiani Department of EconomicsUniversity of Maryland Development Economics Workshop Genetic Diversity and Economic Outcomes: Evidence from High Schools in Wisconsin Thursday February 12 3:45pm Presented by: Jason Fletcher La Follette School of Public AffairsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison State Effectiveness and Health in Eastern Africa: The Impact of Public Spending on Infant and Under-Five Health in South Sudan Thursday February 26 3:45pm Presented by: Augustino Mayai Department of Population Health SciencesUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison Diminishing the Effect of Vote-Buying on Electoral Outcomes: Experimental Evidence from India Thursday March 12 3:45pm Presented by: Srini Vasudevan Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison On the Right Track? Estimating the Effects of Transportation Infrastructure on Economic Integration and Welfare Thursday March 19 3:45pm Presented by: Sarah Walker Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison Measuring Meatpacker Response to Zero-Deforestation Agreements Across the Brazilian Amazon Thursday April 9 3:45pm Presented by: Fanny Moffette Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison Property Rights and Natural Resource Curses: Micro Evidence from a Tribal Fishery Thursday April 16 3:45pm Presented by: Nick Parker Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison Politics, Government-Controlled Media, and Women’s Fertility Preferences: Evidence from India Thursday April 23 3:45pm Presented by: Rikhil Bhavnani Department of Political ScienceUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison Lineage Networks, Urban Migration and Income Inequality: Theory and Evidence from Rural China Thursday April 30 3:45pm Presented by: Jeremy Foltz Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison Polygyny: Cooperation vs. Competition among Wives on Child Health Thursday May 7 3:45pm Presented by: Jhin Han Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison Applied Economics Workshop From Plows to Horizontal Fracking: Anti-commons and Unintended Consequences of Land Privatization Wednesday February 4 12:00pm Presented by: Nick Parker Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison Causal Spousal Health Spillover Effects and Implications for Program Evaluation Wednesday February 11 12:00pm Presented by: Jason Fletcher La Follette School of Public AffairsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison Endogenous Ambient Air Pollution Monitoring Wednesday February 18 12:00pm Presented by: Corbett Grainger Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison Firm Dynamics in Farm Management Services: Early Results from the Longitudinal Business Database Wednesday February 25 12:00pm Presented by: Richard A. Dunn Department of Agricultural & Resource EconomicsUniversity of Connecticut Competence versus Incentive: Evidence from City Officials in China Wednesday March 25 12:00pm Presented by: Yang Yao National School of Development (CCER)Peking University An Empirical Structural Model of Productivity and the Conservation Reserve Program Decision Wednesday April 8 12:00pm Presented by: Heesun Jang Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison The Canada -U.S. Softwood Lumber Dispute Revisited: Modeling Tariff-Rate Quotas in a Complementary Framework Wednesday April 15 12:00pm Presented by: Craig Johnston Department of Forestry & Wildlife EcologyUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison Testing the Human Capital Model of Education: Do Universities Shape their Students' Character Traits? Wednesday May 13 12:00pm Presented by: Stefanie Schurer School of EconomicsUniversity of Sydney
Selection into Credit Markets: Evidence from Agriculture in Mali Friday January 30 12:00pm Presented by: Lori Beaman Department of EconomicsNorthwestern University
Damming the Commons: An Empirical Analysis of International Cooperation and Conflict in Dam Location Friday February 6 12:00pm Presented by: Sheila Olmstead School of Public AffairsUniversity of Texas at Austin
Do Energy Efficiency Investments Deliver? Evidence from the Weatherization Assistance Program Friday February 27 12:00pm Presented by: Meredith Fowlie Department of Agricultural & Resource EconomicsUniversity of California, Berkeley
Hotelling Under Pressure Friday March 13 12:00pm Presented by: Soren Anderson Department of EconomicsMichigan State University
Dust Bowl Migrants: Selection and Migration Patterns of Environmental Refugees Friday March 20 12:00pm Presented by: Richard Hornbeck Department of EconomicsHarvard University
Pollination Markets and Adaptation to Environmental Change Friday April 17 3:00pm Presented by: Walter Thurman Department of Agricultural & Resource EconomicsNorth Carolina State University
The Causal Effect of Competition on Prices and Quality: Evidence from a Field Experiment Friday May 1 12:00pm Presented by: Sebastian Galiani Department of EconomicsUniversity of Maryland
Genetic Diversity and Economic Outcomes: Evidence from High Schools in Wisconsin Thursday February 12 3:45pm Presented by: Jason Fletcher La Follette School of Public AffairsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
State Effectiveness and Health in Eastern Africa: The Impact of Public Spending on Infant and Under-Five Health in South Sudan Thursday February 26 3:45pm Presented by: Augustino Mayai Department of Population Health SciencesUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
Diminishing the Effect of Vote-Buying on Electoral Outcomes: Experimental Evidence from India Thursday March 12 3:45pm Presented by: Srini Vasudevan Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
On the Right Track? Estimating the Effects of Transportation Infrastructure on Economic Integration and Welfare Thursday March 19 3:45pm Presented by: Sarah Walker Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
Measuring Meatpacker Response to Zero-Deforestation Agreements Across the Brazilian Amazon Thursday April 9 3:45pm Presented by: Fanny Moffette Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
Property Rights and Natural Resource Curses: Micro Evidence from a Tribal Fishery Thursday April 16 3:45pm Presented by: Nick Parker Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
Politics, Government-Controlled Media, and Women’s Fertility Preferences: Evidence from India Thursday April 23 3:45pm Presented by: Rikhil Bhavnani Department of Political ScienceUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
Lineage Networks, Urban Migration and Income Inequality: Theory and Evidence from Rural China Thursday April 30 3:45pm Presented by: Jeremy Foltz Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
Polygyny: Cooperation vs. Competition among Wives on Child Health Thursday May 7 3:45pm Presented by: Jhin Han Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
From Plows to Horizontal Fracking: Anti-commons and Unintended Consequences of Land Privatization Wednesday February 4 12:00pm Presented by: Nick Parker Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
Causal Spousal Health Spillover Effects and Implications for Program Evaluation Wednesday February 11 12:00pm Presented by: Jason Fletcher La Follette School of Public AffairsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
Endogenous Ambient Air Pollution Monitoring Wednesday February 18 12:00pm Presented by: Corbett Grainger Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
Firm Dynamics in Farm Management Services: Early Results from the Longitudinal Business Database Wednesday February 25 12:00pm Presented by: Richard A. Dunn Department of Agricultural & Resource EconomicsUniversity of Connecticut
Competence versus Incentive: Evidence from City Officials in China Wednesday March 25 12:00pm Presented by: Yang Yao National School of Development (CCER)Peking University
An Empirical Structural Model of Productivity and the Conservation Reserve Program Decision Wednesday April 8 12:00pm Presented by: Heesun Jang Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
The Canada -U.S. Softwood Lumber Dispute Revisited: Modeling Tariff-Rate Quotas in a Complementary Framework Wednesday April 15 12:00pm Presented by: Craig Johnston Department of Forestry & Wildlife EcologyUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
Testing the Human Capital Model of Education: Do Universities Shape their Students' Character Traits? Wednesday May 13 12:00pm Presented by: Stefanie Schurer School of EconomicsUniversity of Sydney