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Spring 2017

Conference and seminar presentations

The following students gave conference or workshop presentations. Those with * were awarded ACE Conference Travel Awards, those with ** also were awarded Graduate College Conference Travel Awards.

  • Anna Fairbairn*: “ Mineral Fertilizer Quality: Implications for Smallholder Farmers and Markets in Tanzania.” Midwest International Economic Development Conference, Madison Wisconsin.
  • Andres Ham Gonzalez**: “ The Consequences of Legal Minimum Wages in Honduras.” Pacific Conference for Development Economics, Riverside, California.
  • Minhong Xu**: “ Environmental Hazards and Consumers’ Credit Access.” ACCI 2017 Annual Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico
  • Mateus de Souza*: “ Why are Rented Dwellings Less Energy-Efficient? ” International Symposium on Environment and Energy Finance Issues 2017, Paris France.
  • Xiao Wang*: “ Do Community Characteristics Influence the Relocation of Toxic Facilities? Evidence from the Toxic Release Inventory Program.” AERE conference. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Teaching Recognition

The following students were recognized on the List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students for Fall 2016 (* = instructor ratings were outstanding)

  • Linlin Fan*
  • Chiyu Niu
  • Joseph Sydlowski
  • Lei Yan

Fall 2016

Conference and seminar presentations

The following students gave conference or workshop presentations. Those with * were awarded ACE Conference Travel Awards, those with ** also were awarded Graduate College Conference Travel Awards.

  • Seth Morgan*: “ Your Eyes in the Sky: Using Geospatial Data to Improve Impact Evaluation & Program Planning.” ECHO Best Practices in Highland Areas Symposium. Adidas Ababa, Ethiopia
  • Mani Rouhi Rad**: “ Effects Groundwater Flow Rate on Irrigated Agriculture and Implications for Aquifer Management.” CU Environmental and Resource Economics Workshop. Vail Colorado.
  • Xian Fang Bak**: “ The Persistence of Foreclosure Impact on Housing Prices.” North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International. Minneapolis, MN.

Teaching Recognition

The following students were recognized on the List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students for Spring 2016

  • Linlin Fan

Spring 2016

Fellowships and grants

  • MS student Marshaun Montgomery was awarded a U.S. Borlaug Fellowship in Global Food Security for his research to reduce draught risk in Africa.
  • MS student Seth Morgan was awarded a U.S. Borlaug Fellowship in Global Food Security in order to carry out his research in Kenya with the World Agroforestry Centre.
  • MS student Brad Coyle won a Boren Fellowship and a Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship for studies in South Korea.
  • PhD student Akito Kamei was awarded a Nepal Policy Communication Fellowship from the University of Michigan to write policy briefs on the Chitwan Valley project in Nepal.
  • PhD student Mateus Nogueira Meirelles de Souza was chosen as a Levenick Scholar to study adoption of energy efficient technology.
  • MS student Sean Hennessy won a Small Project Grant from the UIUC Student Sustainability Committee.

Awards

  • PhD student Xian Fang Bak was awarded the Tiebout Prize for best graduate student paper by the Western Regional Science Association.
  • PhD student Renato Schwambach Vieira was Poster Session winner at the Population Association of America (PAA) 2016 for "Expanding Affirmative Action in Brazil: Effects on Student Performance" (with Mary Arends-Kuenning)
  • ACE graduate students organized and hosted the 9th AERUS Summit conference at UIUC, with many also giving presentations http://www.aerus.illinois.edu/

Conference and seminar presentations

The following students gave conference or workshop presentations. Those with * were awarded ACE Conference Travel Awards, those with ** also were awarded Graduate College Conference Travel Awards, and those with + were awarded travel funds by the conference organizers.

  • Yizhou Zhang*: “A computational general equilibrium model with disaggregated labor – an analysis of the 2015 Income Tax Adjustment in Illinois.” 55th Meetings of the Southern Regional Science Association. Washington, DC.
  • Andre Fenandes Tomon Avelino*: “The challenge of estimating the impact of disasters: Many approaches, many imitations, and a compromise.” 55th Meetings of the Southern Regional Science Association. Washington, DC.
  • Lokendra Phadera**: “International migration and its effect on labor supply of the left-behind household members: Evidence from Nepal.” Population Association of America. Washington DC.
  • Kashi Kafle+: Invited panelist on “Applied research and interdisciplinary engagement in hunger mitigation” at Universities Fighting World Hunger (UFWH) 11th annual Summit. University of Missouri, Columbia, MO.
  • Raul Sanchez*: presentations at the 42th Annual Conference of the Eastern Economics Association, Washington DC, and the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Economic Association , Chicago IL
  • Andre Avelino*: two presentations, “Integrating HAZUS and Input-Output for recovery path analysis: an application to the 2007 Chehalis River Flood (WA) and “The challenge of estimating the impact of disasters: Many approaches, many limitations and a compromise” at the 55th Meetings of the Southern Regional Science Association, Washington DC.
  • Zhepeng Hu: “Linkages between the U.S. and Chinese soybean futures markets.” NCCC-134 Conference on Applied Commodity Price Analysis, Forecasting, and Market Risk Management.” St. Louis, MO.
  • Lei Yan: “Volatility risk premium in selected agricultural commodity options” and “Identifying financialization impacts in commodity futures markets”, NCCC-134 Conference on Applied Commodity Price Analysis, Forecasting, and Market Risk Management.” St. Louis, MO.
  • Quanbiao Shang: “The components of the bid-ask spread: Evidence from the corn futures market,” NCCC-134 Conference on Applied Commodity Price Analysis, Forecasting, and Market Risk Management.” St. Louis, MO.
  • Atul Nepal+: “Impact of the poverty alleviation fund on migration and remittances.” Invited seminar, Eastern Illinois University.

Teaching Recognition

The following students were recognized on the List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students for Fall 2016 (* = instructor ratings were outstanding)

  • Patrese Anderson
  • Andres Ham Gonzalez*
  • Chiyu Niu
  • Guyu Ye*

Fall 2015

  • MS student Anna Fairbairn was awarded a prestigious U.S. Borlaug Fellowship in Global Food Security for her research in Tanzania studying the implications of mineral fertilizer quality on small farmers and markets.
  • PhD student Kashi Kafle won the Elmer Broadbent Award for research in livestock marketing.
  • PhD student Minhong Xu was a finalist for the student-led paper competition at the annual meetings of the North American Regional Science Council.
  • PhD student Renato Schwambach Vieira was chosen for the Lemann Graduate Fellowship.

Teaching Recognition

The following students were recognized on the List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students for Spring 2015 (* = instructor ratings were outstanding)

  • Patrese Anderson
  • Brad Coyle
  • Andres Ham*
  • Sean Hennessy
  • Collin Reeser
  • Olesya Savchenko
  • Aditya Shrinivas
  • Pallavi Shukla*

Second-Year PhD Research Papers

A great group of PhD students passed the second year paper requirement and presented in the Research celebration on 12/11. Students and their papers are listed here; * means the paper passed With Distinction, and ** means the paper was awarded the Best Second-Year Paper Award.

  • Zhangliang Chen: Wood pellet dilemma: Green for Europe, brown for the U.S.?
  • Andres Ham**: The effects of minimum wages in dual labor markets with non-compliance: Evidence from Honduras
  • Aparna Howlader:  Consequences of protected areas for forest extraction and human well-being: Evidence from Nepal
  • Lokendra Phadera: International migration and its effect on labor supply of the left-behind household members: Evidence from Nepal
  • Hemant Pullabhotla: Impact of alcohol regulation policies on educational outcomes: Evidence from India
  • Aditya Shrinivas: Risk sharing among caste groups in village India
  • Pallavi Shukla: Impact of access to emergency contraceptives on risk behavior: Evidence from a policy change in India
  • Renato Viera: Efficiency and distributional characteristics of transit fare subsidies in the city of São Paulo, Brazil
  • Minhong Xu*: The effects of the natural gas and oil boom on water use in US counties

Conference presentations

The following students gave conference or workshop presentations. Those with * were awarded ACE Conference Travel Awards, those with ** also were awarded Graduate College Conference Travel Awards, and those with + were awarded travel funds by the conference organizers.

  • Xian Fang Bak*: “Housing price diffusion to foreclosure shocks over space and time.” 62nd Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International, Portland, OR.
  • Andres Ham: “The effects of minimum wages in dual labor markets with non-compliance: Evidence from Honduras,” Labour Market Challenges in Latin America November 26, 2015, Santiago, Chile.
  • Kashi Kafle*: “The impact of livestock donation on poverty and food security in rural Zambia: Does 25 cents make a difference?” 2nd International Conference on Global Food Security, Cornell University.
  • Hemant Pullabhotla+: “Current Status of postharvest loss reducing technology in India”. First PHL Congress, Rome, Italy
  • Atul Nepal**+: “Impact of community institutions on migration and private transfer.” Workshop on Institutional Analysis by Ronald Coase Institute, Tel Aviv, Israel.
  • Mani Rouhi Rad+: “Implications of well yield limitations for groundwater management.” Water Management Strategies for Addressing Long-Term Drought and Climate Uncertainty Conference, Salt Lake City, UT.
  • Raul Sanchez**: “Mothers’ time allocation in fragile families and the effect on child cognitive development.” 85th Annual Conference of the Southern Economic Association, New Orleans, LA.
  • Aditya Shrinivas: “Risk sharing among caste groups in village India” 2nd International Conference on Global Food Security, Cornell University.
  • Marin Skidmore: “Whose loss is it anyways?: Incentives to reduce post-harvest loss in Southern Brazil.”Tinker Grant Workshop 2015, Champaign, IL.
  • Minhong Xu**: “The effects of the natural gas and oil boom on water use in US counties.” 62nd Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International, Portland, OR.