Department of Economics Second Year Paper Conference

9:30: Abbie Boatwright, Where Are We Heading? Weather Disruptions, Climate Change, and Maritime Transport Costs 
Readers: Ashley Langer, Derek Lemoine

9:55: Yun-ting Yeh, Do Firms Avoid Pollution? Water Pollution and Beverage Manufacturers’ Location
Readers: Ashley Langer, Derek Lemoine

10:20: Mazie Wong, Obesity, Parental Investment, and Child Development
Readers: Juan Pantano, Dan Herbst

10:45: Yiwei Qu, Minimum-Effort Game Under Stochastic Monitoring
Readers: Charles Noussair, Martin Dufwenberg

11:10: Scott Saas, Revealing Biases in Repeated Cheap Talk
Readers: Andreas Blume, Inga Deimen

Lunch

12:30: Moira Gidseg, The Path of Least Resistance: The Effect of Unemployment Benefits for Teachers on Firing Procedures
Readers: Dan Herbst, Juan Pantano

12:55: Masato Ikeda, The Effect of Local Oil Boom on High School Education: Texas Oil Boom in the Early 1900s
Readers: Evan Taylor, Price Fishback

1:20: Carolina Vera, Inheriting Hardship: The Intergenerational Effects of the Dust Bowl Migration on Children
Readers: Evan Taylor, Price Fishback

1:45: Jin Wang, Revolution Modernizes Education: Political Change and its Long-Run Effect
Readers: Price Fishback, Hide Ichimura

2:10: Drake Rushford, Tribal Jurisdiction and Violence Against Indigenous Women
Readers: Price Fishback, Tiemen Woutersen