Applied Economics and Policy

Spring 2024

Faculty Organizers: Bradley Rickard, Wendong Zhang, David Just, Aaron Adalja, Dragana Cvijanovic
Administrative Support: acsupport@cornell.edu

All Workshops are held on Fridays from 2:30-4:00pm unless otherwise noted.

DATE: February 9, 2024
SPEAKER: José Nuño, University of Guelph
TITLE OF PRESENTATION: “City-size and assortative matching in the Mexican formal labor market”
ROOM: Warren B02

DATE: February 16, 2024
SPEAKER: Ted Jaenicke, Penn State University
TITLE OF PRESENTATION: “Valuing Local Food Across the Rural-Urban Spectrum: Definitional unconventionality vs scanner data practicality”
ROOM: Warren B02

DATE: March 1, 2024
SPEAKER: Jesse Tack, Kansas State University
TITLE OF PRESENTATION: “Quantifying Heat Stress for Sorghum and Maize using Field-Level Crop Yield Data from Kansas Farms”
ROOM: Warren B02

DATE: March 8, 2024
TITLE OF PRESENTATION: 2024 Cross-College Faculty Panel on “Values, Leadership and Business.”
ROOM: 401 Warren Hall

DATE: March 15, 2024
SPEAKER: Jenny Ifft, Kansas State University 
TITLE OF PRESENTATION:
ROOM: Warren B02

DATE: March 22, 2024
SPEAKER: Tong Liu, National University of Singapore
TITLE OF PRESENTATION: “Relabeling and Preference: Evidence from Air Quality Standards in South Korea”
ROOM: Warren B02

DATE: March 29, 2024
SPEAKER: Vincenzina Caputo, Michigan State University
TITLE OF PRESENTATION:
ROOM: Warren B02

DATE: April 12, 2024
SPEAKER: Richard Green, USC
TITLE OF PRESENTATION:
ROOM: Warren B02

DATE: April 19, 2024
SPEAKER: Tim Beatty, UC Davis
TITLE OF PRESENTATION:
ROOM: Warren B02

DATE: April 26, 2024
SPEAKER: Tongzhe Li, University of Guelph
TITLE OF PRESENTATION: “Rooted in Local Soil, Not Swept by Global Wind: A Field Experiment on Impure Public Goods”
ROOM: Warren B02

DATE: May 3, 2024
SPEAKER: Travis Smith, University of Georgia
TITLE OF PRESENTATION:
ROOM: Warren B02

DATE: May 10, 2024
SPEAKER: Yu Qin, National University of Singapore
TITLE OF PRESENTATION:
ROOM: Warren B02


Fall 2023

Faculty Organizers: Bradley Rickard, Wendong Zhang, David Just, Aaron Adalja, Dragana Cvijanovic
Administrative Support: acsupport@cornell.edu

All Workshops are held on Fridays from 2:30-4:00pm unless otherwise noted.

DATE: September 15, 2023
SPEAKER: Huiyi Chen, Dyson PhD Student
TITLE OF PRESENTATION: Raising Grievances to the State:
The Political Economic Effects of Anti-Corruption
Crackdown on Labor Activism in China
ROOM: Warren B02

DATE: September 22, 2023
SPEAKER: Scott Kaplan, US Naval Academy
TITLE OF PRESENTATION: Impact of US sugar-sweetened beverage taxes on prices and purchases: Evidence from a multi-city synthetic control analysis
ROOM: Warren B02

DATE: September 29, 2023 (Joint seminar with SEERE)
SPEAKER: Maureen Cropper, University of Maryland
TITLE OF PRESENTATION: “THE IMPACT OF THE CLEAN AIR ACT ON PARTICULATE MATTER IN THE 1970S”
ROOM: Warren B02

DATE: October 13, 2023
SPEAKER: Wolfgang Keller, University of Colorado Boulder
TITLE OF PRESENTATION: “International Joint Ventures and Internal Technology Transfer vs. External Technology Spillovers: Evidence from China”
ROOM: Warren B02

DATE: October 20, 2023
SPEAKER: Shelly Ver Ploeg, US Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service
TITLE OF PRESENTATION: “Food Store Access and Household Food Retail Choices”
ROOM: Warren B02

DATE: October 27, 2023
SPEAKER: Dana Smith, Dyson PhD Student
TITLE OF PRESENTATION: “Climate Change, Violence, and Remittance Flows in Mexico”
ROOM: Warren B02

DATE: November 3, 2023  Rescheduled for November 17, 2023
SPEAKER: Mengwei Lin, Dyson PhD Student
TITLE OF PRESENTATION: “Local Policies and Firm Location: The Role of Leaders’ Promotion Motives in China”
ROOM: Warren B02

DATE: November 10, 2023
SPEAKER: Trinh Pham, Dyson PhD Student
TITLE OF PRESENTATION: “Climate change and intersectoral labor reallocation in a developing country”
ROOM: Warren B02

DATE: November 17, 2023
SPEAKER: Mengwei Lin, Dyson PhD Student
TITLE OF PRESENTATION: “Local Policies and Firm Location: The Role of Leaders’ Promotion Motives in China”
ROOM: Warren B02

DATE: December 1, 2023
SPEAKER: Seungmin Lee, Dyson PhD Student
TITLE OF PRESENTATION: “Food Security in the U.S. – Dynamics and the Effectiveness of SNAP”
ROOM: Warren B02

DATE: December 8, 2023
SPEAKER: Jerzy Jaromczyk, Dyson PhD Student
ROOM: Warren B02

DATE: December 15, 2023
SPEAKER: Anna Malinovskaya, Dyson PhD Student
TITLE OF PRESENTATION: “The Long-Term Health Effects of the WIC Program”
ROOM: 102 Mann Library