I am currently in Pittsburgh for the annual meetings of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA). Pittsburgh is a beautiful city, and I am glad I flew in early. On Sunday, I visited the Warhol Museum, which made me gain a whole new appreciation for the work of Andy Warhol.
I am here because I was asked to talk in a session on impact evaluation, which will be the topic of a post later this week. I am also here because Zack Brown and I won the award for Oustanding American Journal of Agricultural Economics Article for our article titled “On the (Mis)Use of Wealth as a Proxy for Risk Aversion.” Here is the abstract of the paper:
