Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics

University of California, Berkeley

Environmental and Resource Economics Seminar
Archives - Spring 2003

January 22 Tania Barham Berkeley ARE
"The Impact of California's Medi-Cal Managed Care Program
on Birth Outcomes and Prenatal Care Utilization"
Tables
January 29 Yanhong Jin Berkeley ARE
"Industrial Ownership and Environmental Performance: Evidence from China"
February 5 Anthony Westerling Scripps Institute of
Oceanography
"Statistical Modeling for Wildfire Management"
February 12 Dave Newburn Berkeley ARE
"Spatial Land Use Change Modeling and Conservation Targeting Strategies"
February 19 Emma Aisbett
Karina Schoengold
Jason Scorse		 Berkeley ARE
Empirical Project Presentations:
"Estimation of a State-Space Model of Agricultural Production"
"An Estimation of Agricultural Water Demand and Land Allocation"
"Do Foreign Owned Firms Pay More? Evidence from Indonesia"
February 26 Eric Van Dusen Berkeley ARE
"A Meta-population Approach to Farmer Seed Systems"
March 5 Craig Bond UC-Davis ARE
"Valuation of Environmental Goods with Temporal Variation in Benefit and Payment Schedules"
Abstract
Paper
March 12 Jorge E. Araņa Univ. Las Palmas de
Gran Canaria
"Flexible Mixture Distribution Modeling of Dichotomous Choice
Contingent Valuation with Heterogeneity"
March 19 Gershon Feder World Bank
"Farmer Field Schools: Good Intentions and Hard Realities"
March 26
Spring Break -- No Speaker
April 2
Seminar Cancelled
April 9 David Zilberman Berkeley ARE
"Biotechnology and Development"
April 16 Deanna Gordon Berkeley ARE
"Environmental Implications of the
HIV/AIDS Crisis in South Africa"
April 21
(Monday)		 Anna Gueorguieva
(4:00 at UC-Davis)		 Berkeley ARE
"Institutional Analysis of Development Intervention: Design of Conditionality
in Adjustment Lending to Diminish Environmental Impacts"
April 30 Klas Sander Gottingen Institute for
Rural Development
"Discount Rate Dynamics, Patterns of Sustainability,
and the Environmental Kuznets Curve"
Abstract
May 5 (Monday) Alfred Endres Fern Universität Hagen
"The Instruments of International Environmental
Policy - Two 'Counter-Intuitive' Results"
Abstract
May 7 Lawrence Kolb San Francisco Bay Regional
Water Quality Control Board
"Economic Return on California Water"
May 14 David Stern Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)
"Modeling Technological Change and Capital Accumulation
in the Economy and Environment Using the Kalman Filter"
Related Chapter
May 21 Ian S.F. Jones Ocean Technology Group, University of Sydney
"Climate Management through Ocean Nourishment"
Abstract
Paper
We're always looking for future speakers!
Please write us if you would like to present or suggest an outside speaker for next semester.

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