The Project Scientist makes significant and creative contributions to a research or creative project in his/her academic discipline. The appointee possesses the subject matter expertise and the creative energy necessary ...
Quirino Paris grew up in Italy and came to California as a PhD student at UC Berkeley in 1963. He then joined the UC Davis faculty, where he spent his ...
The Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ARE) is proud to welcome Dr. Jamie Hansen-Lewis to our faculty as an assistant professor. Dr. Lewis, a specialist in environmental and development ...
The Erika C.H. Meng Scholarship will support Miki Doan’s PhD thesis on gender-related conflicts and intra-household cooperation. In many developing country settings, husbands and wives jointly engage in agricultural activities. ...
Ellen Bruno won the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association’s Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award for 2019 for her work, “An Evaluation of Policy Instruments for Sustainable Groundwater Management.”
ARE Professor Michael Carter has won the 2019 Publication of Enduring Quality Award from the Association of Agricultural and Applied Economics (AAEA) for his paper "The Economics of Poverty Traps ...
The prize acknowledges outstanding economic work, service to the association, and dedication to the discipline of wine economics.. Pierre received the prize at the 2019 annual meeting of the American ...
ARE Distinguished Professor Richard Sexton was featured in an ABC 10 News story about the battle between housing a growing California population and preserving the state’s farmland. Using Sexton’s work ...
The University of California, Davis will lead a new global research program to build and test ways to overcome some of the biggest remaining challenges for lifting and keeping rural ...
The project, led by ARE Professor J. Edward Taylor, used simulation methods to measure the local-economy impacts of Kenya’s national school meals program. A team of UCD ARE graduate students ...
ARE Distinguished Professor Richard J. Sexton is the 2019 faculty recipient of the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Award of Distinction. The Award of Distinction is the highest recognition ...
A new article, “Strategies to achieve adequate vitamin A intake for young children: options for Cameroon” appears in the latest issue of the Annals of The New York Academy of ...
Agriculture and Nutrition: Research Priorities for the CGIAR
January 28, 4:10 PM - 5:30 PM
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February 3, 4:10 PM - 5:30 PM
Land Titling and the Long-Run Transformation of the Agrarian Economy
February 13, 4:10 PM - 5:30 PM
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February 18, 4:10 PM - 5:30 PM
Basis Risk in the Pasture, Rangeland, and Forage Insurance Program: Evidence from California
February 20, 4:10 PM - 5:30 PM
Our faculty participate actively in the Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics. The broad mission of the Foundation is to promote and support research and outreach activities in agricultural economics and rural development relevant to California.
Continuing in celebration of the Ph.D. program's 50th anniversary, The UC Davis Agricultural and Resource Economics PhD Program: The First 50 Years by Alex F. McCalla, Julian M. Alston, and K. Aleks Schaefer is available to read.
Impacts of Mandatory GE Food Labeling: A Quasi-Natural Experiment
C.A. Carter and K.A. Schaefer. Impacts of Mandatory GE Food Labeling: A Quasi-Natural Experiment (2019) 101 (1): 58-73.
Calibration of shadow values in constrained optimisation models of agricultural supply
C. Garnache, P. Mérel, R. Howitt, and J. Lee. European Review of Agricultural Economics (2017) 44 (3): 363-397.
B.J. Crain, J.N. Sanchirico, K. Kroetz, A.E. Benefield, and P.R. Armsworth. Environmental Conservation (2020) January.
Index Insurance for Developing Country Agriculture: A Reassessment
M. Carter, A. de Janvry, E. Sadoulet, and A. Sarris. Annual Review of Resource Economics (2017) 9: 421-438.
We consistently rank at the top of the agricultural and applied economics profession and are part of the best university in the world for agriculture and forestry. The depth, breadth and rigor of our teaching, research and outreach enable us to make major contributions to society in the areas of agriculture, environment and natural resources, and international development. We offer a popular Managerial Economics undergraduate major and top-rated Ph.D. and Masters programs.
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The RMI Center for Wine Economics undertakes and facilitates research and education about the economics of the production and consumption of wine grapes and wine in California and around the world. Current projects include collaborations with colleagues in Australia, France (Bordeaux), and Italy (Chianti Classico).
Quirino Paris grew up in Italy and came to California as a PhD student at UC Berkeley in 1963. He then joined the UC Davis faculty, where he spent his whole career. Quirino was an academician’s academic in that he went to the core of the subject, working with legendary passion and persistence, and never taking shortcuts.
