Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics

University of California, Berkeley

Environmental and Resource Economics Seminar

Seminar meets on Wednesday at 12pm in 201 Giannini Hall

Date Speaker Affiliation Presentation Title
September 7 Emma Aisbett Berkeley ARE National Treatment and Natural Resources: Considerations for NAFTA's Expropriation Clause
September 14 James Hilger Berkeley ARE Differentiating Preferences for Southern California Beaches: A Finite Mixture Logit Approach
September 21 Bo MacInnis Berkeley ARE Does College Education Reduce Obesity? Evidence From Vietnam War Draft Avoidance Using a Regression Discontinuity Analysis
September 28 Chris Busch Berkeley ARE Land use change and deforestation in the southern Yucatan of Mexico: trends, causes, and policy implications
October 5 Frederico Finan Berkeley ARE Exposing Corrupt Politicians: The Effect of Brazil's Publicly Released Audits on Electoral Outcomes
October 12 Dale Whittington University of North Carolina A Global Perspective on Investments in Municipal Water and Sanitation Infrastructure: An Economic Analysis
October 19 Meredith Fowlie Berkeley ARE Emissions Trading, Electricity Industry Restructuring, and Investment in Pollution Abatement
October 24 (Monday) Graeme Doole University of Western Australia Economic analysis of crop sequences: an application of optimal switching
October 26 Manisha Shah Berkeley ARE Enforcing Licensing Requirements: Implications for Disease Transmission in the Sex Market
November 2 Ruth Uwaifo Berkeley ARE Africa's Education Enigma? The Nigerian story
November 9 Scott Lowe UC Santa Barbara The Political Economy of Environmental Regulation: Evidence from the RECLAIM Program
November 16 Daniele Lantagne CDC Point-of-Use Water Treatment in Developing Countries: Economics of Reaching 1.1 Billion Without Access to Safe Water
November 30 Jaya Sil Berkeley ARE Endogenous Adverse Selection: Evidence from US Crop Insurance
We're always looking for future speakers! Please write us if you would like to present or suggest an outside speaker for next semester.
Coordinator: Susan Stratton

Whenever possible, papers will be available on this website at least two days prior to the presentation.
Presentation papers from previous semesters are also available.

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