Call for submissions: 2017 ASSA Annual Meeting

President-Elect Jayson Lusk is soliciting proposals and suggestions for AAEA invited paper sessions at the 2017 Allied Social Sciences Association (ASSA) Annual Meeting in Chicago, IL, January, 6-8, 2017. Preference will be given to those proposals that add to knowledge on public issues of national and international importance or expand capabilities and tools for economic research.

Objective

AAEA sessions at the ASSA Annual Meeting share new knowledge with members of other economics associations as well as with AAEA members. Sessions may be jointly sponsored with other ASSA member associations. AAEA encourages sessions that will draw widely from ASSA attendees. Therefore, preference will be given to proposals that jointly serve the interests of the AAEA and other economists more broadly.

Publication in AJAE

Papers in these Invited Paper sessions will be considered for publication in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics in August 2017. Preference will be given to proposals that reflect a commitment to furnish a high-quality collection of papers suitable for publication.  Papers will go through a review process, and it is not guaranteed that all papers in an accepted session will be published. Papers submitted for review should be in their publish-ready state because there will not be time for multiple versions and reviews. Discussant comments will not be published. Authors will be contacted by the AJAE editors regarding style and length of manuscripts to be submitted to the editors for publication consideration.

Format

Proposed session formats with three papers and one discussant or four papers without a discussant are permitted. Proposals for sessions without a discussant must include a clear plan for ensuring and fostering participant interaction. Please note that sessions at ASSA are two hours in length.

Submitting Proposals

All submitted proposals should include:

• Proposed session title
• A brief (approximately two pages) justification of the session
• Paper titles
• One paragraph abstract describing the objective of, and new knowledge generated by, each paper
• Names, addresses, phone numbers, and e-mail addresses of the session organizer, moderator, paper presenters, and discussants.

It is the responsibility of the organizer to ensure that all individuals identified in the proposal are willing to participate.

All presenters/speakers/discussants must be members of AAEA. A membership waiver request can be included in the proposal in the case of extenuating circumstances. In addition, participants need to register for the ASSA meeting. AAEA cannot grant registration waivers for the meeting.

Submission Deadline

Please send proposals by May 1, 2016, in Word or PDF format to AAEA Senior Meetings Manager, Mary Annen at mannen@aaea.org.

Selection Process

Proposals will be reviewed and selected by a subcommittee of the AAEA Board. Notifications of acceptance will be distributed in June.

The Exchange: Member Profile, 2016 Annual Meeting Calls and More...

Member Profile:

Elizabeth Yeager
Assistant Professor
Kansas State University
What motivated you to pursue Agricultural/Applied Economics as a profession?
When I initially started college, I really wasn’t sure what agricultural economics was, but I knew I wanted to be in the College of Agriculture, and I had always really enjoyed working with numbers and problem solving. Thanks to devoted and passionate professors, I quickly realized this was the perfect field for me. I was convinced, “they had the best job in the world!”
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AAEA News:

Call for Pre/Post-conference Workshop Proposals
The AAEA Executive Board invites proposals for Pre- and Post-conference Workshops at the 2016 AAEA Annual Meeting in Boston, MA. The deadline for proposals is Thursday, December 3, 2015. Selections will be finalized at the AAEA Executive Board meeting in early January and organizers will be notified soon thereafter by the AAEA President.
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Call for Invited Paper Session Proposals
AAEA welcomes proposals for Invited Paper sessions for the 2016 AAEA Annual Meeting in Boston, MA. Papers in these Invited Paper sessions may be published in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics in March 2017 subject to review. Proposals from individuals or groups need to be submitted using the online submission system by Thursday, December 3, 2015. The system will open in early November.
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Call for Case Study Invited Paper Session Proposals
Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources Case Study Invited Paper Session
AAEA welcomes proposals for Case Studies for a special Invited Paper session competition that will be part of the 2016 AAEA Annual Meeting in Boston, MA. Cases in this Invited Paper session may be published in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics in January 2017, subject to review. Proposals from individuals or groups need to be submitted using the online submission system by Thursday, December 3, 2015. The submission system will open in early November.
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Call for Track Sessions
Track Sessions sponsored by AAEA Sections
The AAEA Executive Board invites Track Session proposals for the 2016 AAEA Annual Meeting in Boston, MA. Initial proposals need to be submitted by Thursday, December 3, 2015, to Sarah Kenner at skenner@aaea.org. Final, detailed submissions associated with each session are due by March 5, 2015. The AAEA Business Office will work with each Section that submits proposals on their final submission.
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Call for FSN Track Session Proposals
The leadership of the Food Safety & Nutrition (FSN) section of the AAEA is organizing track sessions for next year’s AAEA meetings in Boston (July 31 – August 2, 2016).
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Call for FAMPS Track Session Proposals
The leadership of the Food and Ag Marketing Policy Section (FAMPS) of the AAEA is organizing track sessions for next year’s AAEA Annual Meetings in Boston, MA (July 31-August 2, 2016).
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Obituary:

Yair Mundlak
Yair Mundlak passed away mid-October, 2015. Mundlak is an alumni of the University of California, Berkeley and was one of the leaders of the field of agricultural economics. He completed his MS in statistics at Berkeley in 1956, and his PhD in agricultural economics in 1957.
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Other News:

Call for Applications:
U.S. Borlaug Fellows in Global Food Security Program
U.S. Borlaug Graduate Research Grant
Application Deadline: Monday, November 9, 2015
The U.S. Borlaug Fellows in Global Food Security graduate research grant supports exceptional graduate students who are interested in developing a component of their graduate research in a developing country setting and in collaboration with a mentor from an International Agricultural Research Center (IARC) or a qualifying National Agricultural Research System (NARS) unit. U.S. citizenship is required, and applicants must be enrolled in an accredited U.S. graduate program at the time of application. A list of previous recipients is here.
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Call for Paper Proposals:
NCCC-134 2016
The NCCC-134 Committee on Applied Commodity Price Analysis, Forecasting, and Market Risk Management will host its 2016 Conference April 18-19, 2016 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel St. Louis – Downtown, St. Louis, Missouri.
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2016 ASSA Annual Meeting: Registration & Housing

AAEA is proud to be represented at the ASSA Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA. The 2016 Meeting will take place on January 3-5, 2016 (Sunday, Monday & Tuesday). The headquarters hotel is the Hilton San Francisco Union Square; the co-headquarters hotel is the Marriott Marquis San Francisco. The 2015 Meeting in Boston, MA, had over 12,000 registered participants.

This is a courtesy reminder that Registration and Housing will open on September 16th, 11:00 am CDST. Housing will be limited, please plan accordingly.

We hope to see you there!

Call for submissions: 2016 ASSA Annual Meeting

President-Elect Jill McCluskey is soliciting proposals and suggestions for AAEA invited paper sessions at the 2016 Allied Social Sciences Association (ASSA) Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA, January, 3-5, 2016. Preference will be given to those proposals that add to knowledge on public issues of national and international importance or expand capabilities and tools for economic research.

The objective of AAEA sessions at the ASSA Annual Meeting is to share new knowledge with members of other economics associations as well as with AAEA members. Sessions may be jointly sponsored with other ASSA member associations. AAEA encourages sessions that will draw widely from ASSA attendees. Therefore, preference will be given to proposals that jointly serve the interests of the AAEA and other economists more broadly.

Papers in these Invited Paper sessions will be considered for publication in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics in August 2016. Preference will be given to proposals that reflect a commitment to furnish a high-quality collection of papers suitable for publication.  Papers will go through a review process, and it is not guaranteed that all papers in an accepted session will be published. Papers submitted for review should be in their publish-ready state because there will not be time for multiple versions and reviews. Discussant comments will not be published. Authors will be contacted by the AJAE editors regarding style and length of manuscripts to be submitted to the editors for publication consideration.

Proposed session formats with three papers and one discussant or four papers without a discussant are permitted. Proposals for sessions without a discussant must include a clear plan for ensuring and fostering participant interaction. Please note that sessions at ASSA are two hours in length.

Proposals will be reviewed and selected by a subcommittee of the AAEA Board.

Proposals should be submitted to Kristen Wright at kwright@aaea.org. They should include the proposed session title and paper titles, as well as the names, addresses, phone numbers, and e-mail addresses of the session organizer, moderator, paper presenters, and discussants. A brief (approximately two pages) justification of the session, and one paragraph abstract describing the objective of, and new knowledge generated by, each paper, should also be included. It is the responsibility of the organizer to ensure that all individuals identified in the proposal are willing to participate.

All presenters/speakers/discussants must be members of AAEA. A membership waiver request can be included in the proposal in the case of extenuating circumstances. In addition, participants need to register for the ASSA meeting. AAEA cannot grant registration waivers for the meeting.

Please send proposals by May 1, 2015, in Word or PDF format to Kristen Wright at kwright@aaea.org.

AAEA Sessions at the ASSA Annual meeting

The 2015 Allied Social Science Association (ASSA) Annual Meeting is quickly approaching this weekend at the Sheraton Boston. Over the course of the meeting, AAEA will present 6 invited paper sessions as well as the T.W. Schultz Memorial Lecture, featuring Emily Oster, Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth, School of Business. A free reception will follow the lecture and all are invited.

To learn more about all of AAEA's sessions at the meeting please visit the our website or click here. 

AAEA Presents Emily Oster at ASSA Annual Meeting

Emily Oster: Bio

Emily is a Fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research as well as an  Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth, School of  Business. She also is an Associate Editor for Quarterly Journal of Economics.  Recent works include “Approaches and Costs for Sharing Clinical Research Data”  and “Limited Life Expectancy, Human Capital and Health Investments”. To read her complete bio click here.

Emily's T.W. Schultz Memorial Lecture will take place:
January 3, 2015 from 5-6 pm
Westin Copley, Essex South

Daily Program of Events

More Info about the ASSA Annual Meeting

2015 ASSA Annual Conference

The 2015 Allied Social Science Association (ASSA) Annual Meeting is coming up in just 3 weeks, on January 3-5th at the Sheraton Boston. Over the course of the meeting, AAEA will present 6 invited paper sessions as well as the T.W. Schultz Memorial Lecture, featuring Emily Oster, Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth, School of Business. A free reception will follow the lecture and all are invited.

Visit AAEA.org for more information

Jan 3, 2015

Risk Mitigation Tools in Agriculture: Crop Insurance and Contract Farming
Jan 3, 2015, 8:00 am
Westin Copley, St. George D

• Using Prospect Theory to Explain Anomalous Crop Insurance Decisions
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• The Effects of Crop Insurance on Specialty Crop Supply
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• The Pricing of Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) Contracts: Evidence from New England
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• How Does Crop Insurance Purchase Affect Marketing Contracts Participation
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The Nature and Importance of Commodity and Relational Good Exchanges
Jan 3, 2015, 10:15 am
Westin Copley, St. George D

• Commodity and Relational Good Exchanges and Commodification and Decommodification
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• The Hidden Cost of Regulation: Emotional Responses to Command and Control
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• Selfishness and Social Capital Motives and Recycling Behavior
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Immigration, Agricultural Employment, and Trade: International Perspectives
Jan 3, 2015, 12:30 pm
Westin Copley, St. George D

• Changes in Migration Patterns of Agricultural Workers in the United States: Implications for Production and Trade
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• “Migrant” Workers in Israeli Agriculture and Export Expansion
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• Urbanization’s Effect on Water, Land and Labor and China’s Agricultural Trade
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• Migration, Youth, and Agricultural Productivity in Ethiopia
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Jan 4, 2015

The 2014 Farm Bill: An Economic Post Mortem
Jan 4, 2015, 8:00 am
Westin Copley, St. George D

• The Political Economy of the 2014 Farm Bill
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• The Potential Budgetary Costs and WTO Implications of the New Farm Bill
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• The Economic Welfare Impacts of the New Agricultural Insurance and Shallow Loss Programs
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• US Research and Development Trajectories: Implications for Agricultural Productivity
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Heterogeneity and Trade: Applications to the Food and Agricultural Sector
Jan 4, 2015, 10:15 am
Westin Copley, St. George D

• Asia-Pacific Integration with China versus the United States: Examining Trade Patterns under Heterogeneous Agricultural Sectors
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• Import Penetration, Intermediate Inputs and Firms’ Performance in the Food Industry
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• Food Processing Firms, Input Quality Upgrading and Trade
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Food Environment, Food Choices and Nutrition Outcomes – An International Perspective
Jan 4, 2015, 2:30 pm
Westin Copley, St. George D

• Convenience Stores and Childhood Obesity: A Panel Instrumental Variable Approach
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• Diet Deterioration and Food Retail Structure: Why Are Italians Eating Less Fruits and Vegetables?
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• Does Healthy Food Access Matter in a French Urban Setting? – The Role of Food Retail Structure
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• Retailers’ Promotions: What Role Do They Play In Household Food Purchases In Scotland?
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