Content:
Departmental Seminars
| Date | Time | Speaker | Title | Abstract |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09/10/2012 | 4:10 PM - 5:30 PM |
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service |
Food Insecurity in Vulnerable Populations: Coping with food price shocks in Afghanistan | |
| 10/12/2012 | 12:10 PM - 1:30 PM |
Stanford University, Graduate School of Business |
Opportunity cost and pass-through of emissions costs | |
| 10/19/2012 | 12:10 PM - 1:30 PM |
Kansas State University, Department of Agricultural Economics |
"What were you thinking!?" What neuroimaging can show us about consumer responses to controversial food labels. | I am going to be talking broadly about this quite extensive research project looking at the neuroscience of food labels for controversial food technologies. I'm going to use my time to talk about what we are doing and what we are finding and implications for current and future research in the economics of food choice. Given the upcoming Prop 37 issue in California, understanding how consumers are responding to these types of labels is important and ours is a novel way of considering that. In brief, we know this is the largest neuroeconomics study of food choices but we think it might be the largest neuroeconomics study done to date. At the end of our study, we will have scanned about 100 subjects (the typical fMRI study has less than 20 subjects with many studies using far fewer subjects than that). We are only in the middle of this project but we've already found some pretty interesting things with regards to not only food technologies, but experimental methods in general. My goal in this talk is to try and explain what I think we're gleaning from this project including discussing how neuroscientists, psychologists and economists approach the topic of consumer choice and what we're learning from each other. |
| 10/22/2012 | 4:10 PM - 5:30 PM |
University of Wisconsin, Agricultural and Applied Economics |
Migration and the Pursuit of Education in Southern Mexico |