C.V. Working Papers Publications Popular Press Teaching 334 Taylor Hall 427 Lorch St. Madison, WI 53706	Laura Schechter Assistant Professor Agricultural and Applied Economics UW Madison tel: (608) 262-9482 fax: (608) 262-4376 lschechter [at] wisc [dot] edu Curriculum Vitae
	Working Papers "Vote-Buying and Reciprocity," (with Frederico Finan) 2010. "The Value of Social Networks in Rural Paraguay," (with Ethan Ligon) 2008. "Evaluating Different Approaches to Estimating Vulnerability," (with Ethan Ligon) 2004. World Bank, Social Protection Discussion Paper No. 0410.
	Publications "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 George Judge) 2009. Journal of Human Resources, 44(1): 1-24. [Older version here.] "To Deceive or Not To Deceive: The Effect of Deception on Behavior in Future Laboratory Experiments," (with Julian Jamison and Dean 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 [and the longer, unpublished version "Measuring Vulnerability: The Director's Cut," (with Ethan Ligon) 2002. UN/WIDER Discussion Paper No. 2002/86.] [Personal version of published paper here.] 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. Teaching 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.