Benjamin Linkow

Assistant Professor

Economics

Profile	Biography	Courses

Academic Background

Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison, Agricultural and Applied Economics, 2008
B.A. Cum Laude, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Economics and Political Science, 1997

Assistant Professor, Economics and International Studies, Miami University of Ohio (8/2008-present)
Visiting Scholar/Consultant, Property Rights and Land Policy, Millennium Challenge Corporation (10/2005-present)
Research Assistant, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2000-2005)
Consultant, Associated Press (2004-2005)
Consultant, World Council of Credit Unions (2004)
Research Intern/Consultant, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, Economic and Social Policy Division - Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (1999-2000)

5th Annual Midwest International Economic Development Conference, May 2008: “Formal and Informal Inheritance Practices and Women’s Control Over Land in Rural Kenya”
University of Wisconsin-Madison Development Economics Workshop, November 2007: “Induced Insecurity? Inheritance Practices, Intrahousehold Power Relations, and Investment Decisions in Rural Kenya”
World Bank Workshop, June 2006: “The Millennium Challenge Corporation’s Review of Cross-Country Land Tenure Property Rights Indicators”
University of Wisconsin-Madison Applied Economics Workshop, March 2004: “Asymmetric Price Transmission in U.S. Fluid Milk Markets- the Role of Spatial and Market Concentration,” working paper co-authored with Brian W. Gould and Kyle Stiegert