Spring 2016 Schedule Department Seminar Air Pollution and Investor Behavior Friday January 22 12:00pm Presented by: Matthew Neidell Mailman School of Public HealthColumbia University Who Wins in an Energy Boom? Evidence from Wage Rates and Housing Friday February 5 12:00pm Presented by: Grant Jacobsen Department of Planning, Public Policy & ManagementUniversity of Oregon Measuring and Addressing Market Power issues in the Desludging Market in Senegal Friday February 19 12:00pm Presented by: Molly Lipscomb Frank Batten School of Leadership & Public PolicyUniversity of Virginia Relaxing Migration Constraints for Rural Households Friday March 4 12:00pm Presented by: Shing-Yi Wang Business Economics & Public Policy DepartmentWharton SchoolUniversity of Pennsylvania Grower Response to Spillover Effects from Large-Scale Adoption of Transgenic Pesticidal Corn in the Phillipines Friday March 18 12:00pm Presented by: Zachary Brown Department of Agricultural & Resource EconomicsNorth Carolina State University Allocation–Based Pricing, Household Water Demand and Consumer Welfare in California Friday April 1 12:00pm Presented by: Ken Baerenklau School of Public PolicyUniversity of California, Riverside Lost in Translation? What do Engel Curves Tell us about the Cost of Living. Friday April 15 12:00pm Presented by: Tim Beatty Agricultural & Resource EconomicsUniversity of California, Davis Development Economics Workshop The Role of Collateral in Joint Liability Group Lending: Evidence from a Framed Field Experiment in Tanzania Thursday February 11 3:45pm Presented by: Jon Einar Flatnes Department of Agricultural EconomicsOhio State University The Impact of Political Connections on Labor Market Outcomes Thursday February 25 3:45pm Presented by: Rashesh Shrestha Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison Local versus Central Governance: Long Run Effects of Federal Oversight over American Indian Reservations Thursday March 3 3:45pm Presented by: Nick Parker Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison The Unobserved Returns from Entrepreneurship Thursday March 31 3:45pm Presented by: Sarada School of BusinessUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison Microfinance as a Signal: Does it Provide a Good Opportunity for Pretending to be Poor? Thursday April 7 3:45pm Presented by: Naoki Nishimura Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison Immigration, Labor Market Outcomes, and Educational Attainment of natives in Thailand Thursday April 14 3:45pm Presented by: Patcha Mint Chaikitmongkol Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison Mass Communication and Technology Diffusion During India's Green Revolution Thursday April 21 3:45pm Presented by: Srini Vasudevan Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison The Long Run Effects of Natural Disasters Thursday April 28 3:45pm Presented by: Nicolas Ziebarth Department of EconomicsUniversity of Iowa Alumni Seminar The 2014 Farm Bill and the WTO Friday May 6 12:00pm Presented by: Joe Glauber International Food Policy Research Institute
Air Pollution and Investor Behavior Friday January 22 12:00pm Presented by: Matthew Neidell Mailman School of Public HealthColumbia University
Who Wins in an Energy Boom? Evidence from Wage Rates and Housing Friday February 5 12:00pm Presented by: Grant Jacobsen Department of Planning, Public Policy & ManagementUniversity of Oregon
Measuring and Addressing Market Power issues in the Desludging Market in Senegal Friday February 19 12:00pm Presented by: Molly Lipscomb Frank Batten School of Leadership & Public PolicyUniversity of Virginia
Relaxing Migration Constraints for Rural Households Friday March 4 12:00pm Presented by: Shing-Yi Wang Business Economics & Public Policy DepartmentWharton SchoolUniversity of Pennsylvania
Grower Response to Spillover Effects from Large-Scale Adoption of Transgenic Pesticidal Corn in the Phillipines Friday March 18 12:00pm Presented by: Zachary Brown Department of Agricultural & Resource EconomicsNorth Carolina State University
Allocation–Based Pricing, Household Water Demand and Consumer Welfare in California Friday April 1 12:00pm Presented by: Ken Baerenklau School of Public PolicyUniversity of California, Riverside
Lost in Translation? What do Engel Curves Tell us about the Cost of Living. Friday April 15 12:00pm Presented by: Tim Beatty Agricultural & Resource EconomicsUniversity of California, Davis
The Role of Collateral in Joint Liability Group Lending: Evidence from a Framed Field Experiment in Tanzania Thursday February 11 3:45pm Presented by: Jon Einar Flatnes Department of Agricultural EconomicsOhio State University
The Impact of Political Connections on Labor Market Outcomes Thursday February 25 3:45pm Presented by: Rashesh Shrestha Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
Local versus Central Governance: Long Run Effects of Federal Oversight over American Indian Reservations Thursday March 3 3:45pm Presented by: Nick Parker Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
The Unobserved Returns from Entrepreneurship Thursday March 31 3:45pm Presented by: Sarada School of BusinessUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
Microfinance as a Signal: Does it Provide a Good Opportunity for Pretending to be Poor? Thursday April 7 3:45pm Presented by: Naoki Nishimura Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
Immigration, Labor Market Outcomes, and Educational Attainment of natives in Thailand Thursday April 14 3:45pm Presented by: Patcha Mint Chaikitmongkol Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
Mass Communication and Technology Diffusion During India's Green Revolution Thursday April 21 3:45pm Presented by: Srini Vasudevan Department of Agricultural & Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin - Madison
The Long Run Effects of Natural Disasters Thursday April 28 3:45pm Presented by: Nicolas Ziebarth Department of EconomicsUniversity of Iowa
The 2014 Farm Bill and the WTO Friday May 6 12:00pm Presented by: Joe Glauber International Food Policy Research Institute