Date: April 19, 2010
Presenter(s): Ram Fishman
Title: TBA
Presenter(s): Kyle Meng
Title: Adapting to Predictable Weather: Chinese Farmers and the Monsoon Onset
Sustainable Development Doctoral Society
at Columbia University in the City of New York
Date: April 19, 2010
Presenter(s): Ram Fishman
Title: TBA
Presenter(s): Kyle Meng
Title: Adapting to Predictable Weather: Chinese Farmers and the Monsoon Onset
Date: April 12, 2010
Presenter(s): Erich Muehlegger (Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University)
Title: Do Americans Consume Too Little Natural Gas? An Empirical Test of Marginal Cost Pricing
Date: April 5, 2010
Presenter(s): Jesse Anttila-Hughs
Title: The Long Term Fertility Impacts of Natural Disasters
Presenter(s): Mark Orrs
Title: The Economics of Blindness
Date: March 29, 2010
Presenter(s): Marta Vicarelli
Title: Income Shocks and Consumption Smoothing Mechanisms: Evidence from Rural Households in Mexico
Presenter(s): Ram Fishman
Title: Designing and testing a reformed energy subsidy in groundwater depleted region of India
Date: March 22, 2010
Presenter(s): Anna Tompsett
Title: Decentralization and Local Public Goods: Preliminary Results from Bangladesh
Presenter(s): Geoff McCarney
Title: A Research Agenda on the Economics of Ecosystems
Date: March 8, 2010
Presenter(s): Elke Weber (Center for Research on Environmental Decisions, Columbia University)
Title: TBA
Date: March 1, 2010
Presenter(s): Doug Almond (Dept. of Economics) and Matt Neidell (School of Public Health)
Title: The Economics Job Market
Date: February 22, 2010
Presenter(s): Gordon McCord
Title: Improving Empirical Estimation of Demographic Drivers: Malaria Ecology and Child Mortality
John Mutter, the Director of Graduate Studies for the PhD program in Sustainable Development, discusses “whether science should dictate whether to rebuild after a natural disaster” in a recent article in EARTH magazine. You can read his discussion here.
Jesse Anttila-Hughes, Solomon Hsiang and Daiju Narita were awarded a research grant by the Center for Business Education and Research (CIBER) for work they are doing on the impacts of tropical cyclones around the world.
Continue reading “CIBER research grant awarded to SD students”
Date: February 2, 2010
Presenter(s): Wolfram Schlenker
Title: U.S. Biofuel Mandate and World Food Prices: An Econometric Analysis of the Demand and Supply of Calories