College of Agriculture & Natural ResourcesDepartment of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics

AFRE Weekly Departmental Seminars: Spring Semester, 2020.

AFRE Seminars are presented on Thursdays in Room 75, Morrill Hall of Agriculture, from 3:30 to 5 pm. unless otherwise noted (Seminar Titles Coming Soon).

• February 27 (3.30 - 5 pm): Ellen Mccullough. Harnessing Food Demand Systems for Improved Nutrition in Tanzania. University of Georgia
• Mar 12 (3.30 - 5 pm): Marc Bellemare - U Minn
• April 3 (1.30 - 3 pm): Rick Hornbeck - U Chicago (joint with Econ)
• April 9 (3.30 - 5 pm): Miguel Gomez - Cornell
• April 17 (1.30 - 3 pm): Kaivan Munshi - Yale (joint with Econ)
• April 23 (3:30 - 5 pm): Dan Scheitrum - U Arizona

AFRE Weekly Departmental Seminars: Fall Semester, 2019.

AFRE Seminars are presented on Thursdays in Room 75, Morrill Hall of Agriculture, from 3:30 to 5 pm. unless otherwise noted.

• Sep. 12. Julian Alston. Unpacking the Agricultural Black Box: The Rise and Fall of America Farm Productivity and Growth. University of California- Davis.
• Sep. 13, 10:30 am-12:00 pm. Lauren Falcao Berquist. Scaling Up Agricultural Policy Interventions: Theory and Evidence from Uganda. University of Michigan
• Oct. 10, 3:30-5:00PM. Chance Kabaghe, Executive Director, Indaba Agricultural Policy Research Institute. "The role of an International Policy Researcher in the Changing Economic, Social, and Political Environment in Africa: The Case of the Indaba Agricultural Policy Institute in Zambia."
• Oct. 14, 3:30-5:00PM. Carson Reeling, Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University, and an Alumnus of MSU’s AFRE Department Ph.D Program. ”Valuing Goods Allocated by Dynamic Lottery”
• Oct. 17, 3:30-5:00PM. Ayobami Adetoyinbo, Ph.D. Candidate in Global Food Research Group, University of Goettingen.  Strategic Inter-Organizational Relationships and Smallholder Performance in the Nigerian Shrimp and Prawn Sector.
• Oct. 31, 3:30-5:00PM. Dr. Rob Horsch, Retired Former Director, Agricultural Research and Development, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. “Economic Growth with Poverty Reduction: Innovation, Equity and Rates of Change”.
• Nov. 21, 3:30-5:00PM. Salvatore De Falco, Professor of Economics, Université de Genève. "Counterfeit Seeds, Labor Supply, and Economic Returns: Experimental Evidence from Tanzania."

AFRE Weekly Departmental Seminars: Spring Semester, 2018.

AFRE Seminars are presented on Thursdays in Room 75, Morrill Hall of Agriculture, from 3:30 to 5 pm. unless otherwise noted. Seminars sponsored with Economics are held in the Koo Room of Marshall-Adams Hall from 1:30 to 3 pm.

AFRE Weekly Departmental Seminars: Fall Semester, 2017.

AFRE Seminars are presented on Thursdays in Room 75, Morrill Hall of Agriculture, from 3:30 to 5 pm. unless otherwise noted. Seminars sponsored with Economics are held in the Koo Room of Marshall-Adams Hall from 1:30 to 3 pm.

• Sep. 23. GianCarlo Moschini. The Renewable Fuel Standard in Competetive Equilibrium: Market and Welfare Effects. Iowa State University.
• Oct. 5. Michael Olabisi.  The Impact of Exporting and FDI on Product Innovation: Evidence from Chinese Manufacturers. Michigan State University.
• Oct. 12. Eric Scorsone.  Economics in Action: A View after One Year in the Trenches of Policymaking. Michigan State University.
• Oct. 20. Arik Levinson.  Energy Efficiency Standards Are More Regressive Than Energy Taxes: Theory and Evidence. Georgetown University. Joint with Economics Department, MSU.
• Oct. 26. Cloe Garnache. When Your View Goes Up in Flames: Effect of Wildfires on Property Values. Michigan State University.
• Nov. 2.  Vincenzina Caputo.  Choice Experiments are Not Conducted in a Vacuum: The Effects of External Price Information on Choice Behavior. Michigan State University.
• Nov. 10.  Nancy Qian. The Short- and Medium-Run Effects of Computerized VAT Invoices on the Tax Payments and Behavior of Large Firms in China. Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. Joint with Economics Department, MSU.
• Nov. 16.  Laura Cheney.  A Guide to Navigating the Undergraduate Teaching Experience at MSU.  Michigan State University.
• Nov. 30.  Alessandro Bonanno. TBA. Colorado State University.
• Dec. 5.  Yuki Higuchi.  Management Skill, Entrepreneurial Motivation, and Enterprise Survival: Evidence from Randomized Experiments and Repeated Surveys in Vietnam. Nagoya City University.
• Dec. 14.  Catherine (Catie) Hausman. Shock Value: Bill Smoothing and Sticky Prices in Utility Retail Rates. University of Michigan.

AFRE Weekly Departmental Seminars: Spring Semester, 2017.

AFRE Seminars are presented on Thursdays in Room 75, Morrill Hall of Agriculture, from 3:30 to 5 pm. unless otherwise noted. Seminars sponsored with Economics are held in the Koo Room of Marshall-Adams Hall from 1:30 to 3 pm.

• Jan. 12.  Dr. Ahsanuzzaman.  Social Exchanges, Attitudes Toward Uncertainty and Technology Adoption by Bangladesh Farmers: Experimental Evidence. Department of Economics, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
• Jan. 19.  David Finnoff.  Behavioral Origins of Epidemiological Bifurcatiions. University of Wyoming.
• Feb. 9.  Travis Lybbert, Leveraging the Lottery for Financial Inclusion: Lotto-Linked Savings Accounts in Haiti. University of California-Davis.
• Feb. 23. Kelly Cobourn. The Effect of Prior Appropriation and Water Right Portfolios on Agricultural Land-Allocation Discussions. Virginia Tech.
• Mar. 16. Carola Grebitus. Using Eye Tracking to Inform on the Effect of Decision Strategies on Choice Modeling. Arizona State University.
• March 30.  Graduate Student Research Symposium.
• April 14. David Atkin. Who's Getting Globalized? The Size and Implications of Intra-national Trade Costs . Institute of Technology (MIT).  Joint with Economics Department, MSU.
• April 20. Jason Shogren. Truth-Telling Under Oath. University of Wyoming.

AFRE Weekly Departmental Seminars: Fall Semester, 2016.

AFRE Seminars are presented on Thursdays in Room 75, Morrill Hall of Agriculture, from 3:30 to 5 pm. unless otherwise noted. Seminars sponsored with Economics are held in the Koo Room of Marshall-Adams Hall from 1:30 to 3 pm.

• Sep. 8. Rudy Nayga. Supermarket Access and Childhood Bodyweight: Natural Experiments of Store Openings and Closings. University of Arkansas.
• Sep. 15. David Zilberman.  The Economics and Environmental Effects of Biofuels. University of California-Berkeley.
• Sep. 23. Joseph Shapiro.  Energy Prices, Pass-Through, and Incidence in U.S. Manufacturing. Yale University. Joint with Economics Department, MSU.
• Oct. 6.  Sarah Janzen.  Social Protection in the Face of Climate Change: Targeting Principles and Financing Mechanisms. Montana State University.
• Oct. 13. Angelino Viceisza. Competition and Prosociality: A Field Experiment in Ghana. Spelman College. Abstract.
• Oct. 20. Daniel Hellerstein. Pollinator Health and Land Use. ERS-USDA, Washington, DC.

AFRE Weekly Departmental Seminars: Spring Semester, 2016.

• Jan. 14.   Robert Myers.  Testing the Persistence of Arbitrage Opportunities in Price Transmission Models: A Structural Vector Error Correction Approach.  Michigan State University.
• Jan. 28. Charles Sims.  Opposing Irreversibilities and Tipping Point Uncertainty. Abstract.  The University of Tennessee.
• Feb. 11. Chris Timmins.  Mortgage Lending and Banks' New Found Fear of Shale Gas.  Duke University.
• CANCELLED: Feb. 25. Rudy Nayga. Supermarket Access and Childhood Bodyweight: Natural Experiments of Store Openings and Closings. University of Arkansas. Paper
• Mar. 10. Karina Shoengold. An Investigation of the Effect of Transaction Costs on the use of Markets in Common Property Resource Management: a case study of groundwater. University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Paper
• April 7.  Nicolai Kuminoff. Estimating the Heterogeneous Welfare Effects of Choice Architecture: An Application to the Medicare Prescription Drug Insurance Market. Arizona State University. Paper
• Apr. 21.  Patrick Ward, Can Information Help Reduce Imbalanced Application of Fertilizers in India? Experimental Evidence from Bihar. IFPRI. Paper

AFRE Weekly Departmental Seminars: Fall Semester, 2015.

AFRE Seminars are presented on Thursdays in Room 75, Morrill Hall of Agriculture, from 3:30 to 5 pm. unless otherwise noted. Seminars sponsored with Economics are held in the Koo Room of Marshall-Adams Hall from 1:30 to 3 pm.

• Sept. 3.   Xiaobo Zhang.  Does Aid Promote or Hinder Industrial Development? Lessons from a Natural Experiment in China.  International Food Policy Research Institute
• Sept. 4.   Ben Zou.  Industrialization from Scratch: The Persistent Effects of China's 'Third Front Movement'.  Michigan State University   (Seminar joint with MSU Economics Dept.  Koo Room 1:30-3:00 pm)
• Sept. 10. Marc Bellemare. Was Sandmo Right? Experimental Evidence on Attitudes to Price Uncertainty. University of Minnesota
• Sept. 24. Nick Minott. Food price shocks in Africa: Magnitude and welfare impact? International Food Policy Research Institute
• Oct. 8.    Laurence Kotlikoff.  Simulating OLG Models with Aggregate Shocks While Overcoming the Curse of Dimensionality. Boston University.  (Seminar joint with MSU Economics Dept. Koo Rm. 1:30-3:00 pm.)
• Oct. 22.  JunJie Wu. Causes and Consequences of Open Space in U.S. Urban Areas. Oregon State University
• Nov. 5.   Alexandra Polovinka. Formal and Informal Payments in the Health Care Sector in Russia. Western Michigan University
• Nov. 19. Wan Wei.  The Effects of Conventional and Unconventional Monetary Policy. Western Michigan University
• Nov. 26.  Thanksgiving – no seminar
• Dec. 3.  David Finnoff.  Title and abstract: TBD.

AFRE Weekly Departmental Seminars: Spring Semester, 2015.

• January 29.  Steven Deller.  Local Foods and Rural Economic Growth.  University of Wisconsin.
• February 19.  Brent Sohngen.  The Role of Forest Management in Carbon Sequestration: A Historical Perspective.  The Ohio State University.
• April 3.  Hunt Allcott.  Dutch Disease or Agglomeration? The Local Economic Effects of Natural Resource Booms in Modern America.  New York University.
• April 16. Julie Caswell. True Warm Glow: What Does It Take to Build a Highly Productive and Inclusive Department and Profession?  University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
• April 23. Randall Westgren. The Social Ontology of Collective Entrepreneurship. University of Missouri.

AFRE Weekly Departmental Seminars:  Fall Semester, 2014.

AFRE Seminars are presented on Thursdays in Room 75, Morrill Hall of Agriculture, from 3:30 to 5 pm. unless otherwise noted. Seminars sponsored with Economics are held in the Koo Room of Marshall-Adams Hall from 1:30 to 3 pm.

• Aug. 29.  Catie Hausman. The Value of Transmission in Electricity Markets: Evidence from a Nuclear Power Plant Closure. University of Michigan.
• Sep. 12.  Xavier Gine.  Markets, Contract, and Uncertainty: A Structural Model of a Groundwater Economy. The World Bank (joint with Econ).
• Sep. 18.  Juan Sesmero.  Distortive Institutions, Strategic Behavior, and Groundwater Demand.  Purdue University.
• Sep. 25.  Michael Carter.  Subsidies and the Persistence of Technology Adoption: Field Experimental Evidence from Mozambique. University of California - Davis.
• Oct. 9.  Hongli F. Hennessy.  Rationality of Choices in Subsidized Crop Insurance Markets.  Iowa State University.
• Oct. 23.  Nicholas Magnan.  Husbands and Wives' Social Networks and Exposure to a New Technology in India. University of Georgia.
• Nov. 20.  Paul Scott.  Dynamic Discrete Choice Estimation of Agricultural Land Use (With and Without Land Values). Toulouse School of Economics.
• Dec. 4.  Nathan Hendricks.  The Effect of Government Programs on the Acreage Planted to Crops.  Kansas State University.

AFRE Weekly Departmental Seminars:  Spring Semester, 2014.

• Jan. 16.  Metin Cakir. Impact of Package Size on Consumption.  University of Minnesota.     

• Jan. 30.  Justin Van Wart.  Global Yield Gap Atlas: Preliminary Results and Applications.  University of Nebraska.

• Feb. 6.   David Phillips.  Does Public Transit Spread Crime? Evidence from Washington, DC.  Hope College.  

• Feb. 13. Jay Coggins.  An Insurance Mechanism for Public Goods Under Uncertainty.  University of Minnesota.

• Feb. 20.  Holly Wang.  On the Perspective of the U.S. Duck Industry Penetrating the Chinese Market: A Study of Food Attribute Preferences in China's Restaurants.  Purdue University.

• Feb. 27. Saweda Liverpool.  Fertilizer Subsidy and Private Fertilizer Market Participation in Nigeria. Michigan State University.

• Mar. 13. Vivian Hoffman.  Participation Versus a “use it or lose it” Model for Managing Common Goods: Evidence from Community-level Water Treatment in rural Kenya. International Food Policy Research Institute.

• Apr. 3.  Daniel Bennett.  Traditional Concepts of Disease and the Impact of Hygiene Education. University of Chicago.
• Apr. 18.  Scott Rozelle.  Ordeal Mechanisms and Information in the Provision of Subsidized Health Goods in Developing Countries. Stanford University.