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ARE at AAEA: Jonathan G. Malacarne: The Farmer and The Fates: Locus of Control and Investment in a Stochastic Production Process

July 31, 2018

Time: 10 a.m. Monday, Aug. 6 Location: Washington Room 3 Abstract This paper studies the psychological notion of locus of control from an economic perspective. Locus of control refers to …

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ARE at AAEA: Aleksandr Michuda: Political Contributions and the Case of South African Land Reform

July 31, 2018

Time: 2:45–4:15 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 7 Location: Washington Room Abstract Redistributive land reform has been used to alleviate issues of rural poverty, but its detractors have political incentives to delay …

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ARE at AAEA: Laura Paul: Rain on the Parade: hurdles to adoption of maize with weather-contingent advantages

July 31, 2018

Time: 2:45–4:15 p.m. Monday, Aug. 6 Location: PM Room: Wilson C Abstract Both the risk and returns from adopting drought-tolerant maize depend on exogenous weather outcomes. Subjective beliefs about the …

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ARE at AAEA: Zach Rutledge: Immigration and Economic Performance Across the Fifty United States from 1980–2015

July 31, 2018

Time: 11:30 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 7 Location: Exhibit Hall B South Abstract This study analyzes the effect of immigration on economic performance in the United States using …

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ARE at AAEA: Ashley Spalding: Willingness to Pay for Local, Value-Added Goods

July 31, 2018

Time: 10–11:30 a.m. Monday, Aug. 6 Location: Park Tower Room 8219 - Session #1007, titled "Willingness to Pay for Attributes of U.S. Foods" Abstract Despite growing participation in and support …

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ARE at AAEA: Matthieu Stigler: Supply response at the field-level: disentangling area and yield effects

July 31, 2018

Time: 4:45–6:15 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 7 Location: Washington Room 2 / Production Economics - Lightning Session: Production and Supply Change due to Price, Technology, and Policy Shocks Abstract Agricultural price …

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ARE at AAEA: Tor Tolhurst: Model-free detection of a speculative asset bubble: Evidence from the world market in superstar wines

July 31, 2018

Time: 2:15–3:45 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 7 Abstract Ever wondered if you paid too much for a wine? If you bought the premier cru Bordeaux wine Lafite Rothschild between late-2009 and …

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ARE at AAEA: Daniel Tregeagle: The Optimal Management of Orchards

July 31, 2018

Time: 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 7 Location: Exhibit Hall B South Abstract A fundamental issue in perennial crop economics is finding the optimal time to replace trees in an orchard. …

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AAEA Presentation by Heidi Schweizer: Impacts of the U.S. Ethanol Boom on Intermodal and Intramodal Competition in Corn Transportation Markets/Response of U.S. Soybean Flows to the Panama Canal Expansion: A Positive Mathematical Programming Model

July 26, 2017

My research interests are concentrated on the different dimensions of commodity price relationships. These dimensions are time, space, and product form. My dissertation focuses on commodities transportation markets and I …

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AAEA Presentation by Ruben Irvin Rojas Valdes: The Dynamic Migration Game: A Structural Econometric Model and Application to Rural Mexico

July 26, 2017

For my Ph.D. dissertation, I analyze the dynamic and strategic migration, labor market participation, and schooling decisions of individuals and households in rural Mexico using reduced-form and structural econometric models. …

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