Spring 2026 Schedule Development Economics Workshop A High Resolution Look at Long Run Development: Evidence from 1.3 Million Historical Aerial Photographs Friday February 13 12:00pm Presented by: Joel Ferguson Nelson Institute for Environmental StudiesUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison Follow the grain: Trade, sanctions and geopolitics Thursday February 26 3:45pm Presented by: Paul Dower Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison Information Decay and Cooperative Entry under Risk Friday March 6 12:00pm Presented by: Stephen Pitts Department of EconomicsMarquette University Information Frictions and Bargaining: Experimental Evidence From Rural Guinea-Bissau Thursday March 12 3:45pm Presented by: Giulio Schinaia Development Innovation LabUniversity of Chicago Direct or Indirect Rule? Armed Groups and Customary Chiefs in Eastern Congo Thursday March 19 3:45pm Presented by: Soeren Henn Department of Political ScienceUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison Market Structure and Development: Firm Competition in Jamaica Thursday March 26 3:45pm Presented by: Matthew McKetty Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison Structural Transformation Under Subsistence Constraints and Entry Costs: Evidence from Weather-Driven Productivity in Africa. Thursday April 9 3:45pm Presented by: Chunxiao Jing Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison Development as skills and altruism Thursday April 16 3:45pm Presented by: Rachid Laajaj Universidad de Los Andes Flooding and Health Outcomes in Zambia Thursday April 30 3:45pm Presented by: Theresa Ng’andu Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison *** CANCELLED *** Thursday May 7 3:45pm Presented by: Sijan Thapa Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
A High Resolution Look at Long Run Development: Evidence from 1.3 Million Historical Aerial Photographs Friday February 13 12:00pm Presented by: Joel Ferguson Nelson Institute for Environmental StudiesUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
Follow the grain: Trade, sanctions and geopolitics Thursday February 26 3:45pm Presented by: Paul Dower Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
Information Decay and Cooperative Entry under Risk Friday March 6 12:00pm Presented by: Stephen Pitts Department of EconomicsMarquette University
Information Frictions and Bargaining: Experimental Evidence From Rural Guinea-Bissau Thursday March 12 3:45pm Presented by: Giulio Schinaia Development Innovation LabUniversity of Chicago
Direct or Indirect Rule? Armed Groups and Customary Chiefs in Eastern Congo Thursday March 19 3:45pm Presented by: Soeren Henn Department of Political ScienceUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
Market Structure and Development: Firm Competition in Jamaica Thursday March 26 3:45pm Presented by: Matthew McKetty Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
Structural Transformation Under Subsistence Constraints and Entry Costs: Evidence from Weather-Driven Productivity in Africa. Thursday April 9 3:45pm Presented by: Chunxiao Jing Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
Development as skills and altruism Thursday April 16 3:45pm Presented by: Rachid Laajaj Universidad de Los Andes
Flooding and Health Outcomes in Zambia Thursday April 30 3:45pm Presented by: Theresa Ng’andu Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison
*** CANCELLED *** Thursday May 7 3:45pm Presented by: Sijan Thapa Department of Agricultural and Applied EconomicsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison