Full Virtual Schedule

Click below to jump to the types of sessions:

• Plenary Sessions (Live)
• Invited Paper Sessions
• Paper Sessions
• Lightning Sessions
• Invited Case Study
• Poster Presentations
• Organized Symposia
• Workshops, Track Sessions & Other Events

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Lightning Sessions

Behavioral & Institutional Economics - Lightning Session 1

August 10, 2020
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Presentations:

1. Experience, learning behavior, and rural households’ preferences for microfinance
2. Uber for tractors? Opportunities and challenges of digital tools for tractor hire in India and Nigeria
3. Agricultural cooperative mergers and efficiency gains: An ex-ante analysis
4. Aspiration formation and ecological shocks: An exploratory analysis in rural Kenya
5. Investigating Preference Inconsistencies in Incentive Structures that Account for House Money Effects
6. Tenure Security, Institutional Complementarity, and Household Income: China's Double Assets Institutional Reform
7. Does Self-Monitoring Lead to Better Resource Management? Evidence from Participatory Groundwater Management Program in India

Consumer Preferences and Willingness to Pay for Product Attributes

August 10, 2020
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Presentations:

1. Consumer preferences for sustainably produced milk in China
2. What Explains Grass-fed Beef Premiums?
3. Is the price for rice right in Nigeria? A Hedonic price model approach
4. Got Local? Demand for Milk with Food Miles
5. Consumer preference for the cage-free eggs and the ex-ante welfare effect for laying-hen cage ban
6. Willingness to Pay for Organics and Convenience: Evidence from a Large Sample of U.S. Carrot Buyers

Food Safety and Nutrition - Lightning Session 1

August 10, 2020
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Presentations:

1. How Much Are We Valuing Healthy Food Environment: Evidence from Housing Markets
2. Thrifty Food Plan Price Index and the Real Value of SNAP
3. Food Assistance Programs and Healthfulness of Food Choices
4. Low Income and Access to Healthy Food: The Case of Milk
5. Attitudes and Perceptions of Middle School Students Towards School Lunch: Food, Staff and Environmental Attributes

International Trade - Lightning Session 1

August 10, 2020
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Presentations:

1. Detailed representation and analysis of trade policies in dairy sectors
2. The Effects of Canadian FTAs on the Intensive and Extensive Margins of Agri-Food Trade
3. The Impact of Rising Protectionism on Foreign Direct Investment in Agriculture
4. Measuring the Impact of Sunset Reviews on Agricultural and Food Trade
5. The Environmental Consequences of a Weakening US-China Crop Trade Relationship

Migration

August 10, 2020
3:15 PM - 4:45 PM

Presentations:

1. Does rural-urban migration experience influence agricultural productivity and efficiency? Evidence from rice production in China
2. Identifying the Performance of Internal Migrants on Labor Market: Evidence from the Relaxing Household Registration System
3. Land Certification and Migration in China
4. Does access to education affect migration choices and education expenditure? Evidence from Chinese migrant workers in 2013 and 2019
5. How Does Parental Out-Migration Affect Left-Behind Children's Cognitive and Non-cognitive Development? Effect Sizes and Mechanisms
6. Does ‘Landless’ Stimulate Bangladesh Rural Migration under Weather Risk?
7. Effect of Male Migration on Women’s roles in Agriculture in Rural India
8. Household Livelihoods, Employment, and Economy of Forcibly Displaced Myanmar Nationals: Evidence from Household Survey in Bangladesh

Research Methods/Econometrics/Stats - Lightning Session 1

August 10, 2020
3:15 PM - 4:45 PM

Presentations:

1. Growth Process of US Agricultural Land Size: Testing the Law of Proportionate Effect
2. An Empirical Analysis of Tobacco Addiction
3. Modeling Spatial Price Linkages Using a Threshold SDE Model
4. Effects of Regulatory Uncertainty on Coal-fired Power Plants’ Investment and Exit Decisions
5. Predicting Daily CBOT Corn Futures Prices using Weather Data

Value of Food Labels

August 10, 2020
3:15 PM - 4:45 PM

Presentations:

1. Can eco-label certifications for restaurants influence consumer choices away from home?
2. Decomposing the Value of Food Labels
3. The Economics of Information and Redundant Labels in Milk Products
4. Do Plastic Warning Labels Reduce Consumers’ Willingness to Pay for Plastic Packaging?
5. Seafood Date Labels and Consumer’s Perception: A Case of Shrimp Products
6. The Reference Price Effect on Willingness-to-Pay Estimates: Evidence from Eco-labeled Food Products

Energy, Land, and Water Lightning

August 11, 2020
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Presentations:

1. Hydraulic Fracturing and Agricultural Productivity: Evidence from California By Wai Yan, Siu and Sherzod Akhundjanov
2. Endogenous Institutional Change on First Nations Reserves: Selecting into the First Nations Land Management Act
3. Global Diets and Demand for Calories from Crops
4. Windfalls or wind falls? The Local Effects of Turbine Development on US Agricultural Land Values
5. Groundwater level and crop choice: Evidence from a dynamic discrete choice model

International Development - Lightning Session 1

August 11, 2020
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Presentations:

1. Land Rights and Migration in Vietnam
2. Venezuelan Exodus: The Effect of Mass Migration on Labor Market Outcomes
3. The spillover effects of seed producer groups on non-member farmers in local communities in Nepal
4. Decentralization and Elections in Burkina Faso
5. Bribe by Bargaining: The Highway Corruption in West Africa
6. The Impact of Education Reforms on Household Adult Welfare Outcomes in Ethiopia: The 1994 Free Primary Education (FPE) Reform

International Finance

August 11, 2020
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Presentations:

1. The Impact of New Rural Pension Program on Rural Household Assets Allocation in China: Evidence from CHFS
2. Did Digital Inclusive Finance Improve Incomes for both Rural and Urban Households and Reduce Rural–Urban Income Inequality in China?
3. An application of geographically weighted quantile LASSO to weather index insurance design
4. Access to credit and heterogeneous effects on agricultural technology adoption: Evidence from large rural surveys in Ethiopia
5. Agricultural Commodity Futures Markets in China: Price Discovery or Not?

New Topics in Food and Agricultural Policy

August 11, 2020
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Presentations:

1. Effects of electric pumps on farm-level agricultural production and groundwater use in West Bengal
2. System-wide market and welfare effects of a U.S. sugar-sweetened beverages tax
3. Economic and Nutrition Impacts of Irrigated fodder in Lemo woreda-Ethiopia
4. Social Desirability Bias in Farm Animal Welfare Perception Research
5. Can Free Riding Be Beneficial? Optimal Antimicrobial Use Under Free Riding and Resistance Externalities

Resource and Environmental Policy Analysis - Lightning Session 1

August 11, 2020
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Presentations:

1. Beyond Lights: The Changing Impact of Rural Electrification in Indian Agriculture
2. Does Competition for Conservation Rebate Work? Theory and Empirics
3. The Ex Ante Price Information Effect on Water Conservation: A Case Study of Taipei’s Water Tariff Adjustment
4. Quantifying Co-Benefits of Water Quality Policies: An Integrated Assessment Model of Nitrogen Management
5. Health Effects of Sustained Exposure to Fine Particulate Matter: Evidence from India
6. What Lies Beneath? An Analysis of “Time of Sale” Well and Septic Inspection Failures

Rural/Community Development - Lightning Session 1

August 11, 2020
1:15 PM - 2:45 PM

Presentations:

1. Does Internet use help increase residents' participation in programs to improve the living environment? Evidence from China
2. Rural Minimum Living Standard Guarantee (Rural Dibao) Program Boosts Children’s Education Outcomes in Rural China
3. Impact of off-farm employment on household clean energy consumption in rural China: A gender perspective
4. The adoption of organic soil amendments and farm economic performance: Evidence from wheat production in China
5. Sustainable Development Model of China’s Rural Financial Inclusion and its Effects: A Case Study of Yueqing Rural Commercial Bank
6. Evolutionary Path and Mechanism of Village Revitalization: A Case Study of Yuejin Village, Jiangsu, China

Teaching, Communication, and Extension - Lightning Session 1

August 11, 2020
1:15 PM - 2:45 PM

Presentations:

1. Can an AI figure out whether an AI can take my job? Structural Blueprint for AI-generated Academic Papers in Economics
2. Curious or not? A study of students’ perceptions on curiosity dimensions
3. Estimation of Feasibility and Economic Impacts of Proposed Native American Land Grant College in the State of Nevada
4. Economics of student retention behavior in higher education
5. Retaining and Incentivizing Public Workers in Remote Areas:  A Choice Experiment Design with Agricultural Extension Agents in Ethiopia
6. The Enduring Pursuit of Public Science at U.S. Land Grant Universities
7. The role of Extension Agricultural Economist in enhancing farm management education and farm profitability through innovative education

 

Important Dates

• December 15
  • 2020 AAEA Business Meeting