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Paul Castaneda Dower PAUL CASTANEDA DOWER https://sites.google.com/site/pcdower [email protected] Tel: +1 (608) 262-4499 Office: 411 Taylor Hall, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 427 Lorch St., University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706 Last updated: July 19th, 2020 Positions: 2017-present Assistant Professor of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 2015-present Member, Scientific Council, Center for Research and Opinion Polls, Lomé, Togo 2013-present Research Fellow, Center for the Study of Diversity and Social Interactions, Moscow, Russia 2010-present Adjunct Scholar, New York University, Development Research Institute, New York, New York 2015-2017 Assistant Professor of Economics, Florida International University, Miami, Florida 2014-2015 Senior Research Fellow, NES/HSE International Laboratory of Russian Economic History, Moscow, Russia 2008-2015 Assistant Professor of Economics, New Economic School (NES), Moscow, Russia 2008-2015 Research Economist, Center for Financial and Economic Research, Moscow, Russia 2013 Visiting Assistant Professor, Stanford University, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, Palo Alto, California Education: Ph.D. in Economics, New York University, 2008 Thesis Title: “Three Essays on Property Institutions and Development” M.A. in Economics, New York University, 2004 B.A. in Mathematics, Furman University, Magna Cum Laude, 2000 Research Fields: Development Economics, Applied Microeconomics, Economic History, Law and Economics Journal Publications: “Land Titles and Violent Conflict in Rural Mexico” with Tobias Pfutze, Journal of Development Economics (forthcoming) “Democratization as a Continuous Choice: A Comment on Acemoglu and Robinson’s Correction to `Why Did the West Extend the Franchise?’” with Evgeny Finkel, Scott GehlBach and Steven Nafziger, Journal of Politics Volume 82, Issue 2, April 2020, Pages 776-780. “Land Rights, Rental Markets and the Post-Socialist Cityscape” with William Pyle, Journal of Comparative Economics Volume 47, Issue 4, DecemBer 2019, Pages 962-974 “The Stolypin Reform and Agricultural Productivity in Late Imperial Russia” with Andrei Markevich, European Review of Economic History Volume 23, Issue 3, August 2019, Pages 241–267. “Collective Action and Representation in Autocracies: Evidence from Russia's Great Reforms” with Evgeny Finkel, Scott Gehlbach and Steven Nafziger, American Political Science Review Volume 112, Issue 1, February 2018 , pp. 125-147. “Labor Misallocation and Mass Mobilization: Russian Agriculture during the Great War” with Andrei Markevich, Review of Economics and Statistics Volume 100, Issue2, May 2018, pp. 245-259. “Colonial Legacy, Polarization and Linguistic Disenfranchisement: The Case of the Sri Lankan War” with Shlomo WeBer and Victor GinsBurgh, Journal of Development Economics Volume 127, July 2017, pp. 440-448. “Vote Suppression and Incomplete Property Rights” with Tobias Pfutze, Journal of Development Economics, volume 114, May 2015, pages 1-19. “A History of Resistance to Privatization in Russia” with Andrei Markevich, Journal of Comparative Economics, volume 42(4), December 2014, pages 855-873. “Signaling Credit-Worthiness: Land Titles, Banking Practices and Access to Formal Credit in Indonesia” with ElizaBeth Potamites, Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, volume 50, December 2014, pages 435-459. “Property Rights, Land Liquidity and Internal Migration” with Eugenia Chernina and Andrei Markevich. Journal of Development Economics, volume 110, SeptemBer 2014, pages 191-215. “Specificity of Control: The Case of Mexico’s Ejido Reform” with ToBias Pfutze, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, volume 91, July 2013, pages 13–33. Book Chapters and Other Publications: “Challenges of Agricultural Organization to Growth and Climate” in A Research Agenda for New Institutional Economics, eds. Claude Ménard and Mary M. Shirley, Edward Elgar PuBlishers, forthcoming in 2018. “Fiscal Federalism and Conflict Prevention” with Shlomo Weber, in The Handbook of Multilevel Finance, 2015, eds. Ehtisham Ahmad and Giorgio Brosio. “Ability to Deliver” and “Fiscal Capacity”, Chapters 3 and 4 in Who Governs Rural Russia, World Bank, 2010. “Thinking about Money in Chaucer’s Shipman’s Tale” with Bill Rogers, in New Readings in Chaucer’s Poetry. Edited by RoBert G. Benson and Susan J. Ridyard, Boydell and Brewer, 2003, pp. 119-38. Working Papers: “The Value of a Statistical Life in a Dictatorship: Evidence from Stalin” with Andrei Markevich and Shlomo WeBer (revise and resubmit, European Economic Review) “The Potency of Power: Local Authority, Land Rights and Crop Production in Ghana” (revise and resuBmit, Journal of Development Studies) “Firms, kinship and Economic Growth in the kyrgyz Republic” with Theodore Gerber “Democratic support for the Bolshevik Revolution: An empirical investigation of the 1917 Constituent Assembly elections” with Andrei Markevich “Effective Governance and Taxation: A Comparative Analysis of SMEs in Togo, Ghana and Benin” with Moussa Blimpo “Asymmetry in Civic Information: An Experiment on Tax Participation among SMEs in Togo” with Moussa Blimpo “Crop Production under Duress: An Empirical Analysis of War Communism” with Alexey Khuraskin “Almost Anonymous Implicit Contracting” with Andrei Bremzen Conference Presentations and Invited Seminars: 2019: Russian Economic History Conference (Penn State), Russian Summer Workshop (UW-Madison), NYU Alumni Conference (NYU), NES CSDSI Conference (Moscow) 2018: Annual Bank Conference on Africa (Stanford), Center for the Study of African Economies Annual Conference (Oxford), Georgetown University (Washington DC), World Bank (Washington DC), ASEEES (Boston) 2017: University of Wisconsin-Madison (Madison), NYU PhD Alumni Conference (New York), University of Minnesota, New Economic School 25th Anniversary International Research Conference (Moscow), Northwestern University Conference on the OctoBer Revolution, ASEEES (Chicago). 2016: AEA General Meetings (San Francisco), PacDev (Palo Alto), Southern Methodist’s Conference in Honor of Shlomo WeBer (Dallas), University of Lomé (Lomé, Togo), African School of Economics (Cotonou, Benin), CSDSI Conference on Social Interactions, Norms and Development (Moscow, Russia), LACEA/LAMES (Medellín, ColomBia) 2015: Trinity College (Hartford), University of Ottawa (Ottawa, Canada), Clemson University (Clemson), Florida International University (Miami), XIII April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development (Moscow, Russia), Conference on the Role of History and Diversity in Understanding Development (Moscow, Russia), 2014: World Bank Land and Poverty Conference (Washington D.C.), XIII April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development (Moscow, Russia), Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia), Midwestern International Development Economics Conference (UM-Twin Cities), Science of the Future (St. Petersburg, Russia), Southern Economic Association General Meetings (Atlanta) 2013: AEA General Meetings (San Diego), PacDev (San Francisco State), Cliometric Society (Honolulu), Midwestern International Development Economics Conference (UW-Madison), New York University (New York), MiddleBury College (MiddleBury), Stanford University (Palo Alto), University of Lomé (Lomé, Togo) 2012: XIII April International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development (Moscow, Russia), ISNIE (USC), Russia and the World: 2012-2020 (ANE Moscow), Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia) 2011: Southern Economic Association General Meetings (Washington D.C.), ICEF (HSE Moscow), Gary Becker Revisited Workshop (EUI), ECARES (Brussels, Belgium), U Carlos III, Madrid (Madrid, Spain), All UC-Huntington (Caltech), ISNIE (Stanford University), Midwestern International Development Economics Conference (UW- Madison) 2010: American Law and Economics Association (Princeton University), ISNIE (Stirling, UK) 2009: European Economic Association (Barcelona), CEFIR Conference (Moscow), ICEF (HSE, Moscow) 2008: NES (Moscow, Russia), University of Delaware (), George Mason University (Fairfax) 2007: Africana Social Sciences Seminar (NYU), Northeast Universities Development Consortium Conference (Harvard University), Colloquium on Market Institutions and Economic Processes (NYU), Brookings Development Research Conference (Brookings Institution) 2006: Southern Economic Association General Meetings (Charleston), Mercatus Center (George Mason University), Roundtable Discussion at American Educational Research Association General Meetings (Chicago) 2005: Northeast Universities Development Consortium Conference (Brown University), American Agricultural Economics Association General Meetings (Providence) Professional Service: Referee: American Economic Review, American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, Chinese Agricultural Economics Review, Economics of Governance, Economic History Review, Economia Politica, Economics of Transition, Environment and Development Economics, Explorations in Economic History, Journal of African Studies, Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Development Studies, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Economic History, Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of Public Economics, Land Economics, Oxford Development Studies, Review of Social Economy, World Development Grant and Fellowship Reviewer: Fulbright International Scholars Program, GloBal Development Network Grant Competition,
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