Seminars | Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics

Except where otherwise indicated, seminars will be held on Wednesdays from 12pm - 1:30 pm.

Date	Speaker	Presentation Title	University/Institution
November 18	Eric Verhoogen	Markups and Quality: Evidence from Colombian Coffee Exports Zoom Link:https://umd.zoom.us/j/93400561413?pwd=dTJPRy9QSW1SajBYQTJ5VU8rT0lHQT09	Columbia University
November 11	Tatyana Deryugina	Pollution and Mortality in the United States: Evidence from 1972-1988” (joint with Julian Reif) Zoom Link:https://umd.zoom.us/j/94842103496?pwd=RnQ0ZXNOb29PVlFlOGVOY0JOcTA2dz09	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
November 4	Judd Kessler	The Gender Gap in Self-Promotion Zoom Link: https://umd.zoom.us/j/98579022567?pwd=R0owek5kWVFPYnhOQzd4MHZVWlFCdz09	the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
October 14	Nick Bloom	The Geography of New Technologies Zoom Link:https://umd.zoom.us/j/97034969046?pwd=L3BCNHpYQ1YvOHByNElHNGw5Y0lSQT09	Stanford University
October 7	Manasi Deshpande	Beyond Health: Non-Health Risk and the Value of Disability Insurance Zoom Link: https://umd.zoom.us/j/93197525786?pwd=V015eFB3N3Njd0ZhbVFMeTlRNExkZz09	University of Chicago
September 30	Chris Udry	Information, Market Access and Risk: Addressing Constraints to Agricultural Transformation in Northern Ghana Zoom Link: https://umd.zoom.us/j/96898335492?pwd=VkhUTjhERGt5UnVDTzdMdm5LZWdnUT09	Northwestern University
September 16	Michael Carter	E-risking Agriculture for Development: The Impact of Drought-tolerant Seeds and Index Insurance in Mozambique and Tanzania	U.C. Davis
September 9	Shachar Kariv	Ever Since Allais and Ellsberg	U.C. Berkeley
Postponed	Abhijit Banerjee		MIT
Postponed	Jim Murphy		University of Alaska
April 29	Edward Miguel	Twenty Year Economic Impacts of Deworming	UC Berkeley
Postponed	Mike Abito		University of Pennsylvania
Postponed	Michael Carter		UC Davis
Postponed	Manasi Deshpande		University of Chicago
Postponed	Tatyana Deryugina	Pollution and Mortality in the United States: Evidence from 1972-1988” (joint with Julian Reif)	University of Illinois
March 25 online at noon	Gernot Wagner	Declining CO2 price paths aka The True Price of Carbon Link: https://umd.zoom.us/j/128441887	NYU
March 4	Andrew Goodman-Bacon	Who Benefits from Federal Welfare Spending? Evidence from the Introduction of Progressive Cost Sharing (with Matt Pesner)	Vanderbilt University
February 26	Jeffrey Carpenter	Choice Architecture to Improve Financial Decision Making	Middlebury College
February 5 *Wednesday	Maddie McKelway	Vicious and Virtuous Cycles: Self-Efficacy and Employment of Women in India	MIT
February 4 *Tuesday	Cory Smith	Land Concentration and Long-Run Development: Evidence from the Frontier United States	MIT
February 3 *Monday	Apoorv Gupta	Firm Heterogeneity, Demand for Quality and Prices: Evidence from India	Northwestern University
January 31 *Friday	Gianmarco Leon	How Effective Are Monetary Incentives to Vote? Evidence from a Nationwide Policy	U. Pompeu Fabra, Spain
January 27 * Monday	Eric Bahel	Strategic Resource Dependence with Learning-by-Doing in the Substitute	Virginia Tech
January 24 *Friday	Tor Tolhurst	Model-free Detection of a Speculative Asset Bubble: Evidence from the World Market for Superstar Wines	UC-Davis
January 23 *Thursday	Steve Cicala	Imperfect Markets versus Imperfect Regulation in U.S.Electricity Generation	University of Chicago
January 21 *Tuesday	Rebecca Epanchin-Niell	Bioeconomic modeling for decision-support: optimizing early detection and control of invasive pests	Resource for Future
January 17 *Friday	Suanna Oh	Does Identity Affect Labor Supply?	Columbia University
January 16 *Thursday	Patrick Behrer	Earth, Wind, and Fire: The impact of anti-poverty efforts on Indian agriculture and air pollution	Harvard University
January 15 *Wednesday	Sharan Mamidipudi	Something To Complain About: How Minority Representatives Overcome Ethnic Differences	Harvard University
January 13 *Monday	John Spray	Search Externalities in Firm-to-Firm Trade	U. of Cambridge
January 10 *Friday	Casey Wichman	Do behavioral nudges interact with prevailing economic incentives? Pairing experimental and quasi-experimental evidence from water consumption	Univ. of Chicago + RFF
January 9 *Thursday	Leah Palm	Experimental Evidence on Policy Approaches That Link Agricultural Subsidies to Water Quality Outcomes	Univ. of Delaware

To nominate or invite a speaker, please contact Neslihan Uler at neslihan@umd.edu or call 301-405-1273.