Brown Bag Seminars 2007

SPRING QUARTER
June 1

Deposit Facilities and Consumption Smoothing: A Dynamic Stochastic Model of Precautionary Wealth Choices for a Credit-Constrained Rural Household

 Franz Gomez
Graduate Student

Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics
The Ohio State University

Decoupled Payments and Agricultural Output: A Dynamic Optimization Model for a Credit-Constrained Farming Household

 Francisco Monge
Graduate Student

Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics
The Ohio State University
May 18

The determinants of school segregation in US metropolitan areas

 Nick Golding
Graduate Student

Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics
The Ohio State University
May 11

The Liquidity Effects of Remittances and Conditional Cash Transfers on Credit Demand: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Nicaragua

 Emilio Hernandez
Graduate Student

Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics
The Ohio State University
May 4

Off Farm Employment Opportunities and Educational Attainment in Rural China

 William McGuire
Graduate Student

Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics
The Ohio State University

Consumption Smoothing, Financial Markets, and Idiosyncratic Shocks: Preliminary Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment in Nicaragua

 Benjamin Aderson
Graduate Student

Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics
The Ohio State University
April 27

Risk Tolerance and its
Relation with Important
Life Events

 Bidisha Mandal
Graduate Student

Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics
The Ohio State University
April 13

The Outreach and
Sustainability of Mexico's PATMIR Project

 Julia Paxton
Associate Professor

Department of Economics, Ohio University
April 6

Credit Scoring
for Microfinance

 Mark Schreiner
Director

Microfinance Risk Management
WINTER QUARTER
February 23

Income and Development:
 X-inefficiency Analysis
for 70 Countries

 Carolina Castilla
Graduate Student

Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics
The Ohio State University
February 16

Risk-Coping Strategies and Rural Household Production Efficiency: Quasi-experimental Evidence from El Salvador

 Carlos Alpizar
Graduate Student

Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics
The Ohio State University
February 9

Discretionary Latitude and Relational Contracts

 Steve Wu
Assistant Professor

Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics
The Ohio State University
February 2

Testing a Structural Model of Credit Constraints Using a Large-Scale Quasi-Experimental Microfinance Initiative

 Joseph Kaboski
Assistant Professor

Department of Economics
The Ohio State University
January 26

The ProCredit Approach to Commercial Microfinance

   J.D. Von Pischke
President

FRONTIER Finance Int'l.
January 19

The OSU Rural Finance
School of Thought

 Claudio Gonzalez-Vega
Professor

Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics
The Ohio State University

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