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Associate Professor Kristin Kiesel Gives Faculty Commencement Speech
Associate Professor Kristin Kiesel gave the faculty commencement speech at the 9AM undergraduate ceremony at Golden 1 Center in Sacramento this past Saturday, June 17. Kiesel was one of only …
ARE Professor Emeritus Jim Wilen and ESP Professor Jim Sanchirico Awarded AERE Publication of Enduring Quality Award
Congratulations to ARE Professor Emeritus Jim Wilen and ESP Professor Jim Sanchirico who were awarded the 2023 Publication of Enduring Quality (PEQ) Award from the Association of Environmental and Resource …
Vinal Chand and Jiaxin “Iris” Zheng Receive Outstanding Seniors Award in Managerial Economics
Congratulations to Vinal Chand and Jiaxin “Iris” Zheng for being named the Outstanding Seniors in Managerial Economics! The Outstanding Senior Award recognizes an exceptional undergraduate senior in the major who …
Gilliland, Sanchirico, and Taylor Win Best Article Award from Marine Resource Economics
ARE alumnus and Mt. Holyoke Associate Professor Theodore Gilliland, UCD Environmental Science and Policy Professor James Sanchirico, and ARE Distinguished Professor Emeritus J. Edward Taylor have won the Best Article …
ARE Professor Timothy Beatty Elected President of AAEA
Congratulations to ARE professor Tim Beatty who recently won the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association’s (AAEA) election for President. Professor Beatty’s service to the AAEA has included work as a …
ARE Distinguished Professor Emeritus Julian Alston Confirmed as a “Foreign Correspondent” of the Italian Academy of Vine and Wine
Last month, Distinguished Professor Emeritus Julian Alston was confirmed as a Foreign Correspondent of the Italian Academy of Vine and Wine at the Academy’s annual meeting, held at the beautiful …
Open Position: 2023-24 Lecturer
The Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Davis invites applications for lecturer positions to teach courses in its undergraduate Managerial Economics major during the 2023-2024 …
Scott Somerville: 2023 ARE Scott McNiven Community Service Award
The graduate students in ARE selected Scott Somerville to receive the 2023 Scott McNiven Community Service Award. The award is given each year to the ARE graduate student whose actions—through …
ARE Distinguished Professor Richard J. Sexton and Coauthor Win EAAE Research Discovery Award
ARE Distinguished Professor Richard J. Sexton and his colleague Thomas Kopp, from the University of Siegen in Germany, won the European Association of Agricultural Economists (EAAE) Research Discovery Award for …
Distinguished Professor J. Edward Taylor Retires
After a career at UC Davis ARE that began as an assistant professor in 1987 and included a position as vice chair of the department from 2016–2022, Distinguished Professor J. …
ARE Graduate Students and Faculty Participate in Inclusive Education and Mentoring Training
Eleven ARE Ph.D. students and four ARE faculty participated in this year’s Graduate Inclusive Education and Mentoring Training (GET) workshop that took place in early September. The GET workshop, a …
Upcoming Seminars
Brigitte Roth-Tran, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
The Canary in the Coal Decline: Appalachian Household Finance and the Transition from Fossil Fuels
October 4, 1:10 PM - 2:30 PM
Maria Carreri, University of California, Berkeley
TBA
October 10, 4:10 PM - 5:30 PM
Tengda Gong, University of California, Davis
Secular rise and pro-cyclical variation in markups: Evidence from U.S. grocery stores
October 12, 4:10 PM - 5:30 PM
Margaret Jodlowski, The Ohio State University
Risk Management and Capital-Labor Allocation
October 19, 4:10 PM - 5:30 PM
Lihua Lei, Stanford Graduate School of Business
TBA
October 23, 3:40 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.
Selected Publications
A. Michuda, R.E. Goodhue, M. Hoffmann, and S.A. Fennimore. Agronomy (2021) 11 (1).
A James-Stein-type adjustment to bias correction in fixed effects panel models
D. Ghanem. Econometrics Reviews (2022) 41 (6): 633-651.
Review: Purchased agricultural input quality and small farms
H. Michelson, S. Gourlay, T. Lybbert, and P. Wollburg. Food Policy (2023) 116.
Leveraging genetic data for predicting consumer choices of alcoholic products
C. Zhu, T. Beatty, Q. Zhao, W. Si, and Q. Chen. China Agricultural Economics Review (2023) September.
Latest ARE Update
ARE Update Vol. 26, No. 6, Jul/Aug, 2023
- Carter, Colin and Sandro Steinbach. "Russian Weaponization of Food Rattles Global Markets."
- Rausser, Gordon and David Zilberman. "The Bioeconomy to the Rescue."
- Zheng, Yanan, Rachael Goodhue, Kevi Claire Mace-Hill, Jess Rudder, Tor Tolhurst, Daniel Tregeagle, Hanlin Wei, Beth Grafton-Cardwell, Ian Grettenberger, Houston Wilson, Robert Van Steenwyk, Frank Zalom, Monique Rivera and John Steggall. "Economic and Pest Management Evaluation of the Proposed Regulation of Nitroguanidine-Substituted Neonicotinoid Insecticides: Six Major California Commodities."
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Our newly implemented Diversity and Inclusion in Research Education and Career Training (DIRECT) program will expose, encourage, prepare and involve students from diverse backgrounds in agricultural economics. It is closely aligned with a campus-wide commitment to recognize and nurture talent and achievement by supporting diversity and equal opportunity in education. For more information, see: UCD Principles of Community, UCD Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, and UCD Diversity and Inclusion Strategic Vision.
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