2017Graduate Research Symposium

Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics

March 30-31, 2017; Morrill Hall of Agriculture, Room 75

Thursday, March 30

Time / Speaker / Project Status / Title
1:15 PM / Richard Horan / Introduction and Welcome
1:30-2:30PM / Session I: DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
1:30PM / Stephen Morgan / Completed / Do Stakeholder Comments Increase Agri-Environmental Compliance: Evidence from a Public Good Experiment
1:50 PM / Manda Sissoko / In Progress / Impact of Collective Action on Production Efficiency
2:10 PM / Jason Snyder / In Progress / Drivers of Invisible Technology Channel Access and Service Provision among Small and Medium Sized Food Processing Firms in Tanzania
2:30-2:50 PM / Break
2:50-4:10 PM / Session II: ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS
2:50 PM / Miguel Castro / Idea / Electricity Storage, Emissions Taxes, and the Dynamic Value of Renewable Energy
3:10 PM / Carolina Vargas / Idea / Managing Food Waste within Universities in the USA: A Case Study MSU
3:30 PM / Sarah Klammer / In Progress / To Chip or Not to Chip: Timber Managers’ Decision with Respect to Supplying Woody Residuals for Bioenergy in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula
3:50 PM / Qi Tian / In Progress / Farmer Decision on Nitrogen Application: The Role of Information and Learning
6:00-8:00 PM / Reception and supper hosted by Grad Student Organization
Home of Scott Swinton, 458 Rosewood Avenue, East Lansing, MI 48823
(RSVP to Estrella Starn, but come even if you did not!)

Friday, March 31

Time / Speaker / Project Status / Title
For Prospective Students: / Overview of Graduate Study
9:00 AM / Richard Horan / Introduction to MSU’s Program in Ag, Food, and Resource Economics.
9:15 AM / Prof. Bob Myers
Prof. Frank Lupi
Dr. Andrew Dillon / AFRE Faculty Research Presentations
10:00AM / Richard Horan / Introduction and Welcome
10:10-11:30 AM / Session III: DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
10:10AM / Evgeniya Moskaleva / In-Progress / Factors associated with migration destination decisions of working-age individuals in rural East and Southern Africa
10:30AM / Hamza Haider / In Progress / Agricultural Intensification and Intrahousehold Decision-Making: Evidence from Burkina-Faso
10:50AM / Mayuko M. Kondo / Completed / Schooling Income Diversification and Within-Sector Labor Productivity Outcome: Evidence from Primary School Fees Abolition in Uganda
11:10AM / Joseph Goeb / Completed / Pesticide Safety Information & Demand for Health Inputs: Experimental Evidence from Zambia
11:30-1:00 PM / Lunch in the Atrium
1:00-1:20 PM / TBD / Cook Hall Tour
1:30-2:30 PM / Session IV: DEVELOPMENT & REGIONAL ECONOMICS
1:30PM / Giri R. Aryal / In progress / Rural-Urban Divide in Innovation: Evidence from Patent Awards
1:50 PM / David Olson / In Progress / Marketing Board Policy and its Effect on Kenyan Farmers’ Adoption of Sustainable Farming Practices.
2:10PM / Aakanksha Melkani / Completed / Female Labor Supply in a Household Decision Making Context: Evidence from ICRISAT-VDSA Villages of India
2:30-2:50 PM / Break
2:50-4:10 PM / Session V: ENVIRONMENTAL/AGRI BUSINESS ECONOMICS
2:50PM / Angelos Lagoudakis / Idea / Experimental Auctions vs. Real Choice Experiment: An Empirical Application on Consumer Valuation for Food Quality Attributes
3:10PM / Mary Doidge / In Progress / Trade-Offs in Farmers’ Crop Insurance Choices: Coverage Level vs. Premium.
3:30 PM / Jina Yu / Completed / The Impact of Bt Corn on Aflatoxin
3:50 PM / Sophia Tanner / In Progress / Recreation in the National Forests of Southern California
4:10 PM / Awards / Chairperson: Richard Horan