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Daniel A. Sumner Recipient of 2022 CAES Award of Distinction
ARE Distinguished Professor Daniel A. Sumner is being honored among faculty with a 2022 College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Award of Distinction. The Award of Distinction is the highest …
Open Position: Assistant Professor of Agricultural Economics
The Department of Agricultural Economics in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at the University of California, Davis is recruiting an Assistant Professor of Agricultural Economics. This is an …
ARE Professor Jens Hilscher and Coauthors' Work on Probabilities of Elevated Inflation Cited by IMF and ECB Officials and Numbers Shown in FT Column
In the current environment of highly elevated inflation, Hilscher, Raviv and Reis's paper "How Likely is an Inflation Disaster?" is getting a lot of attention. It was cited by IMF …
ARE Distinguished Professor Ed Taylor and Co-Authors Document the Economic Impacts of WFP Operations in East Africa
At the second regular session of the World Food Programme (WFP) Executive Board meeting in Rome, ARE Distinguished Professor Ed Taylor presented findings from the study “Economic Impact Assessment of …
ARE Graduate Students and Faculty Benefit from Inclusive Education and Mentoring Training Workshop
Seven ARE Ph.D students and three ARE faculty participated in the first-ever Graduate Inclusive Education and Mentoring Training (GET) workshop that took place in early September. The GET workshop, a …
ARE Professor Emeritus Tu Jarvis and Co-Author Publish New Article “Combining Epidemiology and Economics to Assess Control of a Viral Endemic Animal Disease: PRRS”
Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) is an extremely contagious disease that causes great damage to the U.S. pork industry. PRRS is not subject to official control in the U.S., …
ARE Ph.D. Alumni and Professor and Chair Rachael Goodhue Awarded AAEA Honor for Professional Excellence for Co-Authoring Paper: “Balancing Bees and Pest Management: Projected Costs of Proposed Bee-protective Neonicotinoid Regulation in California”
The specialty crop economics section of AAEA awards the Honor for Professional Excellence in recognition of superior achievement in agricultural and applied economics as exemplified by an outstanding published paper …
ARE Researchers’ Organic Strawberry Cost Study Shows Growers Need $15 Per Tray to Break Even
Organic strawberry growers from Santa Cruz to Salinas, California need to receive $15 per eight-pound tray on average yields to break even, according to a study by the University of …
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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
M.J. MacLachlan, A.M. Liebhold, T. Yamanaka, and M.R. Springborn. Science Advances (2021) 7 (44).
Impacts of ozone and climate change on yields of perennial crops in California
C. Hong, N.D. Mueller, J.A. Burney, Y. Zhang, A. AghaKouchak, F.C. Moore, et al. Nature Food (2020) 1: 167-172.
Untapped potential: leak reduction is the most cost-effective urban water management tool
A. Rupiper, J. Weill, E. Bruno, K. Jessoe and F. Loge. Environmental Research Letters (2022) 17 (3).
Causality in structural vector autoregressions: Science or sorcery?
D. Ghanem and A. Smith. American Journal of Agricultural Economics (2021) October.
Latest ARE Update
ARE Update Vol. 26, No. 1, Sep/Oct, 2022
- Carter, Colin and Sandro Steinbach. "California Almond Industry Harmed by International Trade Issues."
- Auffhammer, Maximilian. "Agriculture and the Social Cost of Carbon."
- Spalding, Ashley. "Certified Transitional Labels Hope To Increase Organic Conversion, but Few Know What They Mean."
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