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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.”
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. ...
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 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 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 ...
ARE PhD Candidate Tor Tolhurst won the WEAE Outstanding Graduate Paper Award for his paper, "Model-Free Bubble Detection of a Speculative Asset Bubble: Evidence from the World Market for Superstar ...
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 ...
Many management problems require staying above (or below) a par¬ticular threshold over time with a specified margin of safety, for example, safely maintaining endangered species away from extinction. Two challenges ...
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 distributional effects of a carbon tax on current and future generations
S. Fried, K. Novan, and W.B. Peterman. Review of Economic Dynamics (2018) 30: 30-46.
L.S. Jarvis and J.P. Petraud. In A. Garrido and A. Rabi (Eds.), Proceedings of the Eighth Rosenberg International Forum on Water Policy (2017) University of California.
J. Morrow and M.R. Carter. Journal of Public Economics (2017) 155: 38-53.
Using Moment Constraints in GME Estimation
R.E. Howitt and S. Msangi. In S. Msangi, D. MacEwan (Eds.) Applied Methods for Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (2019) Springer: 129-144.
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).
Dr. Karen Klonsky, Emeritus University of California Cooperative Extension Specialist in Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Davis died on September 26, 2018, at age 66 after an extended illness.
