Fall 2020 Schedule 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
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