{"id":1937,"date":"2016-04-11T08:28:49","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T12:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/economics\/?p=1937"},"modified":"2026-01-22T14:40:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T19:40:21","slug":"maine-economics-conference-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/economics\/2016\/04\/11\/maine-economics-conference-2\/","title":{"rendered":"2016 Maine Economics Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Saturday, April 30, 2016 &#8211; Hosted by Bates College &#8211;<br \/>\nSponsored by Bates, Bowdoin, Colby and the University of Maine<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">SCHEDULE<\/span><br \/>\n<em>(all events will be held in Pettengill Hall-G52 unless otherwise noted)<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&gt; 8:30-9:00:\u00a0<strong> Light Breakfast<\/strong> as Conference Attendees Arrive:\u00a0 Pettengill Basement Lobby<\/p>\n<p>&gt; 9:00-9:45:\u00a0 <strong>Daniel Riera-Crichton<\/strong> (Bates College):\u00a0<em>The macroeconomic effects of tax changes outside the U.S.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&gt; 9:45-10:30:\u00a0 <strong>Steve Morris<\/strong> (Bowdoin College): <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/economics\/files\/2016\/04\/Morris-Steve-Conference-Paper-2016.pdf\" rel=\"\">Validating China&#8217;s output data using satellite observations<\/a><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&gt; 10:30-10:45: <strong>Coffee Break<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&gt; 10:45-11:30:\u00a0<strong> Yao Tang<\/strong> (Bowdoin College): <em>Aging, skill-biased technology, and growth prospect of China<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&gt; 11:30-12:30:\u00a0 <strong>Student Poster Sessio<\/strong>n, Perry Atrium, Pettengill Hall<\/p>\n<p>&gt; 12:35-1:35:\u00a0<strong> Lunch<\/strong> in Muskie Archives<\/p>\n<p>&gt; 1:40-2:25:\u00a0 <strong>Margaret Maurer-Fazio<\/strong> (Bates College): <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/economics\/files\/2016\/04\/Ding-Dong-Maurer-Fazio-2016-4-27.pdf\" rel=\"\">How Do Pre-School and\/or School-Age Children Affect their Parents&#8217; Likelihood of Migration and Off-Farm Work in Rural China&#8217;s Minority Regions?<\/a><br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\n&gt; 2:25-3:10:<strong> Erik Nelson<\/strong> (Bowdoin College):<em> U.S. households that buy organic fruit and their willingness to pay for organic fruit<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&gt; 3:10-3:25:\u00a0 <strong>Coffee Break<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&gt; 3:25-4:10:\u00a0 <strong>Leshui He<\/strong> (Bates College):\u00a0 <em>Classroom Peer Effects in Students Achievements &#8211; Evidence from a Quasi-random Assisgnment<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&gt; 4:25-5:40:\u00a0 KEYNOTE SPEAKER: <strong>Howard Kunreuther (Bates 1959), <\/strong>James G. Dinan Professor; Professor of Decision Sciences and Public Policy; Co-Director of the Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, <em>Public-Private Partnerships for Dealing with Extreme Events: Improving Decision-Making in a Misunderstood Industry<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/economics\/files\/2016\/04\/Abstract-for-Bates-Talk.pdf\" rel=\"\">Abstract<br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/economics\/files\/2016\/04\/Geneva-Paper-on-he-Role-of-Insurance-in-Reducing-Losses-from-Extreme-Events-1.pdf\" rel=\"\">Paper<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&gt; 5:45-7:00:\u00a0<strong> Reception and Conference Dinner<\/strong>, New Commons 226<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, April 30, 2016 &#8211; Hosted by Bates College &#8211; Sponsored by&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_prepend":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append_before_footer":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1937"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1962,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937\/revisions\/1962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}