C.V. Working Papers Publications Popular Press Teaching 427 Lorch St. 334 Taylor Hall Madison, WI 53706	Laura Schechter Associate Professor Agricultural and Applied Economics University of Wisconsin, Madison tel: (608) 262-9482 fax: (608) 262-4376 lschechter [at] wisc [dot] edu Curriculum Vitae
	Working Papers "The Roles of Risk and Ambiguity in Technology Adoption," (with B. L. Barham, J.-P. Chavas, D. Fitz, and V. Ríos Salas) 2011. "Reciprocated Versus Unreciprocated Sharing in Social Networks," (with A. Yuskavage) 2011. "Structural Experimentation to Distinguish between Models of Risk Sharing with Frictions," (with E. Ligon) 2010. "Evaluating Different Approaches to Estimating Vulnerability," (with E. Ligon) 2004. World Bank, Social Protection Discussion Paper No. 0410.
	Publications "Vote-Buying and Reciprocity," (with F. Finan) 2012. Econometrica, Forthcoming. "Motives for Sharing in Social Networks," (with E. Ligon) 2012. Journal of Development Economics, Forthcoming. "Inequality, Reciprocity, and Credit in Social Networks," (with A. Yuskavage) 2012. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Papers & Proceedings, Forthcoming. "The Apple and Your Eye: Visual and Taste Rank-Ordered Probit Analysis with Correlated Errors," 2010. Food Quality and Preference, 21(1): 112-120. [Older version here.] "Detecting Problems in Survey Data using Benford's Law," (with G. Judge) 2009. Journal of Human Resources, 44(1): 1-24. [Older version here.] An ex RA (John Morrow) has created a utility to test your own data using Benford's Law. "To Deceive or Not To Deceive: The Effect of Deception on Behavior in Future Laboratory Experiments," (with J. Jamison and D. Karlan) 2008. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 68(3-4): 477-488. "Theft, Gift-Giving, and Trustworthiness: Honesty is Its Own Reward in Rural Paraguay," 2007. American Economic Review, 97(5): 1560-1582. [Older version here.] "Risk Aversion and Expected-Utility Theory: A Calibration Exercise," 2007. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 35(1): 67-76. [Older version here.] "An Empirical Non-Parametric Likelihood Family of Data-Based Benford-Like Distributions," (with M. Grendar and G. Judge) 2007. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 380: 429-438. [Older version here.] "Traditional Trust Measurement and the Risk Confound: An Experiment in Rural Paraguay," 2007. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 62(2): 272-292. [Older version here.] "Measuring Vulnerability," (with E. Ligon) 2003. Economic Journal, 113(486): 95-102. [and the longer, unpublished version "Measuring Vulnerability: The Director's Cut," (with E. Ligon) 2002. UN/WIDER Discussion Paper No. 2002/86.] [Personal version of published paper here.] I have also written up Stata code to estimate vulnerability. Write-ups in the (Not So) Popular Press "Figuring the Net Worth of Trust," 2007. Grow: Wisconsin's Magazine for the Life Sciences, 1(1): 27. "Young Guns: 5 Hot Minds in Economics," 2006. Yale Economic Review, 3(1): 30-37. "To Deceive or not to Deceive? The Economic Consequences of Deception," 2006. Yale Economic Review, 3(1): 3. Work in Progress "Risk, Ambiguity, Learning, and Technology Adoption among Wisconsin Farmers," with B. Barham and J.P. Chavas. "Peer Effects and the Adoption of Sanitation Technology," with M. Lipscomb and J.F. Houde. Teaching at UW Madison AAE 374: The Growth and Development of Nations in the Global Economy, Fall 2005, Fall 2006. AAE 462: Latin American Economic Development, Spring 2006, Spring 2008, Spring 2009. AAE 474: Economic Problems of Developing Areas, Fall 2008. AAE 730: Graduate Economic Development, Fall 2006, Spring 2008, Spring 2010. Teaching at MSU EC 412: Economic Analysis of Latin America, Fall 2010. EC 850: Growth, Development, and Human Resources, Fall 2010.