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Economics News
Friday, February 01, 2008
In This Newsletter
- Department Seminars / Workshops
- Conferences and Calls for Papers
- Funding Opportunities
- Job Opportunities
- Papers and Presentations
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Current News
- Department Seminars / Workshops
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Behavioral Recruiting Seminar
Alexander Vostroknutov, University of Minnesota, "Preferences over Consumption and Status," Monday, February 4, 4:00 pm, 368A Heady Hall
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/calendar/papers/Vostroknutov.pdf -
Behavioral Recruiting Seminar
Huan Xie, University of Pittsburgh, "Social Norms, Information, and Trust among Strangers," Wednesday, February 6, 4:00 pm, 368A Heady Hall
http://www.pitt.edu/~hux3/socialnorm.pdf -
Labor and Trade Recruiting Seminar
Joel Rodrigue, Queens University, "Foreign Direct Investment, Exports & Aggregate Productivity," Friday, February 1, 4:00 pm, 368A Heady Hall
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/calendar/papers/JRodrigueJMP.pdf -
Labor and Trade Recruiting Seminar
Maria Fitzpatrick, University of Virginia, Preschoolers Enrolled and Mothers at Work? The Effects of Universal Pre-Kindergarten," Tuesday, February 5, 2:45 pm, 368A Heady
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/FitzpatrickUPKLaborSupply.pdf - Conferences and Calls for Papers
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Annual M. Jarvin Emerson Student Paper Competition
This competition is open to undergraduates and graduate students. Papers will be presented at the 2008 Mid-Continent Regional Science Association Conference, June 5-7, 2008, in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Submission deadline: April 1, 2008
http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/mcrsa/student_paper_competition.htm -
Stanford Institute for Theoretical Economics (SITE) Summer Workshop
Application deadline: March 1, 2008
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/StanfordInstituteWorkshop2008.pdf - Funding Opportunities
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Higher Education for Development (HED)
Increasing Institutional Capacity in Agricultural Economics
Deadline: April 11, 2008
http://www.hedprogram.org/tabid/66/itemid/149/Albania-Agriculture.aspx -
Iowa State University
Plant Sciences Institute Innovative Research Grants Program
Deadline: March 5, 2008
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/PSIResearchGrant.pdf -
The National Bureau of Economic Research
Innovation Policy and the Economy
Proposal deadline: March 31, 2008
http://www.nber.org/ipe/01_2008_ipecall.pdf - Job Opportunities
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Centrec Consulting Group, LLC
Agribusiness Consultant
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/Centrec.pdf -
North Dakota State University
Assistant/Associate Professor, Agribusiness/Applied Economics
Deadline: February 15, 2008
http://www.econ.iastate.edu/newsfiles/NDSUcropeconomist.pdf - Papers and Presentations
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Wally Huffman
Wally Huffman spent this past week visiting the Department of Economics at Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands, and presented the following paper in the Microeconomics Seminar on January 28: "Over-Nutrition and the Changing Health Status in High Income Countries." Wally has been in The Netherlands since January 1, 2008, on a six-month faculty improvement leave at the Department of Economics, Erasmus University - Rotterdam.