The Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics is seeking applicants that focus on environmental economics. Appropriate areas of focus include, but are not limited to: environmental regulation, non-market valuation, environmental ...
This is a 100% Cooperative Extension (CE) appointment, an academic position in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics. The successful candidate will be expected to develop an externally funded, ...
This is a tenure-track/tenured assistant or associate professor position. We seek outstanding candidates with promising research programs in marine resource economics. This is an academic year (9-month), assistant or associate ...
After obtaining a Ph.D. from the UC Davis Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ARE), Huang Chen will join the School of Economics and Chow Center for Economic Research at ...
During his last year of the Agricultural and Resource Economics Ph.D. program, Tianxia Zhou joined Uber Technologies, Inc., as a data scientist. In this role, Tianxia develops tools and methodologies ...
Philip Martin—ARE professor emeritus, editor of Migration News and Rural Migration News, and chair of the UC Comparative Immigration & Integration Program—is quoted in a Los Angeles Times article about ...
A pilot project including research by ARE Professor Travis Lybbert and ARE Ph.D. Candidate Laura Paul has found early success in Tanzania. The project pairs drought-tolerant hybrid maize with index ...
"Think Positive, Climb Out of Poverty? It Just Might Work," is the title of a New York Times Economic View column written by Seema Jayachandran, an economics professor at Northwestern ...
Georgi Gabrielyan joined the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) Dairy Division as an agricultural economist in February 2017. He is expected to earn his UC Davis ...
Every year, the UC Davis Institute for Social Science in partnership with the Center for Regional Change awards several research and travel grants to social science graduate students in the ...
Practice Job Talk: TBA
November 20, 4:10 PM - 5:30 PM
Waiting for Napoleon? Historical Democracy and Norms of Cooperation
November 27, 4:10 PM - 5:30 PM
Are Energy Executives Rewarded For Luck?
November 28, 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Supply Response at the Field Level: Disentangling Area and Yield Effects
November 29, 4:10 PM - 5:30 PM
Consumer willingness to pay for electricity in the developing world: Evidence from India and Kenya
December 5, 3:30 PM - 5:00 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.
The Economics of Food Vendors Specialized to Serving the Women, Infants, and Children Program
P.W. McLaughlin, T.L. Saitone, and R.J. Sexton. American Journal of Agricultural Economics (2018).
Reassessing Research Returns: Attribution and Related Problems
J.M. Alston and P.G. Pardey. In G.H. Peters and P. Pingali (Eds.), Tomorrow's Agriculture: Incentives, Institutions, Infrastructure and Innovations (2018) Routledge: 223-242.
T.J. Lybbert, N. Magnan and W.D. Gubler. American Journal of Agricultural Economics (2016) 98 (2): 383-405.
Climate Change and Labour Allocation in Rural Mexico: Evidence from Annual Fluctuations in Weather
K. Jessoe, D.T. Manning, and J.E. Taylor. The Economic Journal (2018) 128 (608): 230-261.
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