Sustainable Development Doctoral Society
at Columbia University in the City of New York
February 28, 2010 Events, Sustainable Development Seminar
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
February 28, 2010 Events, Sustainable Development Seminar
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
February 28, 2010 Events, Sustainable Development Seminar
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
February 28, 2010 Events, Sustainable Development Seminar
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
February 28, 2010 Events, Sustainable Development Seminar
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
February 28, 2010 Events, Sustainable Development Seminar
Date: March 8, 2010 Presenter(s): Elke Weber (Center for Research on Environmental Decisions, Columbia University) Title: TBA
February 28, 2010 Events, Sustainable Development Seminar
Date: March 1, 2010 Presenter(s): Doug Almond (Dept. of Economics) and Matt Neidell (School of Public Health) Title: The Economics Job Market
February 25, 2010 Events, Sustainable Development Seminar
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.
February 14, 2010 Events, Sustainable Development Seminar
Date: February 2, 2010 Wolfram’s Presentation Presenter(s): Wolfram Schlenker Title: U.S. Biofuel Mandate and World Food Prices: An Econometric Analysis of the Demand and Supply of Calories