Thursday, March 22nd and Friday, March 23rd
Location:
Thomas G. Hildebrand, DVM ’56 Equine Complex
3240 F&B Road
College Station, TX 77843
Note: Parking is available with any valid TAMU Parking Permit.
Texas A&M University Campus Map
Lightning Round Research Competitors
1. Oscar Weisensee – Livestock Hedging with futures and options: The Paraguayan live cattle case
2. Aurora Vargas – Western Water Rights
3. Jesse Backstrom – Groundwater Regulations and Hydraulic Fracturing: Reporting Water Use in Texas
4. Manuel Hoffman – Why do people not vaccinate?
5. Mackenzie Alston – The Effect of Race and Entitlement on Beliefs and Discrimination
6. Yuri Clements Daglia Calil – Nonparametric Analysis of Agricultural Production Function
7. Charley Martinez – Stochastic Stocker Profitability
8. Anastasia Thayer – Water Depletion, Climate Change, and the Texas High Plains: a model on the future of irrigation dependent agriculture
9. Joshua Witter – Minimum Wage Laws, Educational Attainment, and Long-Run Earnings
10. Yu-Kai (Laurence) Huang – Waste Reduction Spillovers from Unit-based Pricing: Quasi-experimental Evidence in Taiwan
11. Nishita Sinha; Co-author: Richard Woodward – Managing Residential Water Demand Using Nudge: Behind the Scenes
12. Jacob Lake – TBA
13. Samir Huseyn – TBA
Thursday, March 22nd
5:00 – 5:30 PM Opening Mixer and Poster Presentations
Refreshments served
5:30 – 6:30 PM Inaugural Lightning Round Research (LRR) Competition
Round 1
6:30 – 7:00 PM Deliberation and selection of LRR First Round Winners
Refreshments served
Friday, March 23rd
8:00 – 8:30 AM Breakfast and Poster Presentations
8:30 – 8:45 AM Welcome & Opening Remarks
Dr. Parr Rosson
8:45 – 9:45 AM Oral Presentations
Wenbin Wu – Department of Agricultural Economics
Dynamic Modeling of Crop Yield Distributions: Implications for Crop Yield Insurance
Andrea Kelly – Department of Economics
Do Our Students have a Case of the Mondays? The Academic Impact of Moving to a Four-Day School Week
Bachir Kassas – Department of Agricultural Economics
Self-Serving Motivations of High- and Low-Income Individuals in Public Goods Provisions
9:45 – 10:00 AM Break
10:00 – 11:15 AM Industry Panel
Alexandra Frenzel – Analyst; BP
Kassie Kampen – Associate Director; MetLife Ag Investments
Mary Ledman –Global Strategist-Dairy; Rabobank – RaboResearch Food & Agribusiness
Troy Thompson – Business Planning and Analytics Manager; Chevron
Todd Staples – President; Texas Oil & Gas Association
11:15 AM – 12:00 PM Lunch & Industry Panelist Breakouts
12:00 – 1:00 PM Keynote
Dr. Helen Jensen – Professor of Economics, Iowa State & 2012 AAEA Fellow
1:00 – 1:15 PM Break
1:15 – 2:15 PM Oral Presentations
Manuel Hoffmann – Department of Economics
Why do people not vaccinate?
Jesse Backstrom – Department of Agricultural Economics
Groundwater Regulations and Hydraulic Fracturing: Reporting Water Use in Texas
Meradee Tangvatcharapong – Department of Economics
The Impact of School Tracking and Peer Quality on Student Achievement: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Thailand
2:15 – 2:30 PM Break
2:30 – 2:45 PM LRR Competition Final Round
2:45 – 3:00 PM Awards Ceremony