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In Memoriam: Rich DeMoura, Co-author of Hundreds of UCCE Cost and Return Studies
Richard Lee De Moura was born on July 18, 1939, in Merced and raised in Chowchilla. From his earliest days, he loved agriculture. He lived on a dairy farm where ...
UC Davis Tops World Rankings in Agricultural Economics and Policy
UC Davis is number one in the world for agricultural economics and policy, according to the Center for World University Rankings (CWUR) by Subject 2017.
This annual ranking is based ...
Emeritus Professors Honored by PROSE Awards for Ecosystems of California
Emeritus Professors Alex McCalla and Richard E. Howitt are among those honored through Ecosystems of California winning two 2017 PROSE Awards from the Association of American Publishers. The book won ...
John Freebairn: 2017 Outstanding PhD Alumni Award
Professor John Freebairn is the recipient of ARE's 2017 Outstanding PhD Alumni Award. John was one of the first UCD ARE graduates to win the outstanding dissertation award from the ...
Colin Carter and Dalia Ghanem Find Evidence That Pollution Reduces Rice Production in China
The reductions in rice yields are large enough to have price implications for the global rice market, affecting global food security for hundreds of millions of the world’s poor ...
ARE Students and Faculty Benefit from Insider’s View of Financial Markets through Bloomberg Terminal
A highlight of ARE 139 Futures and Options Markets is when managerial economics students see financial markets come to life via the Bloomberg Terminal. The Bloomberg Terminal is a comprehensive ...
AAEA Presentation by Huang Chen: Agricultural Risk, Insurance, and the Land - Productivity Inverse Relationship
China is attempting to improve upon existing land entitling policy to stimulate rural land aggregation trend for absorbing rural labors to support urban development. However, the potential negative impact of ...
Dan Scheitrum: Assistant Professor at the University of Arizona
In August 2017, Dan Scheitrum will join the University of Arizona as an assistant professor in the department of Agricultural and Resource Economics. Dan's research focuses on commodity markets ...
Upcoming Seminars
Karthik Muralidharan, University of California, San Diego
General Equilibrium Effects of (Improving) Public Employment Programs: Experimental Evidence from India
October 10, 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Luca Salvatici, Roma Tre University
The Value Added Structure of Trade Flows: Implications for Trade Policy Analysis
October 12, 4:10 PM - 5:30 PM
Thibault Fally, University of California, Berkeley
Consumer Retail Purchasing Behavior and Income Inequality
October 19, 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.
Recent Publications
Secure Sustainable Seafood from Developing Countries
G.S. Sampson, J.N. Sanchirico, C.A. Roheim, S.R. Bush, J.E. Taylor, et al. Science (2015) 348 (6234): 504-506.
Cooperative Stability Under Stochastic Quality and Farmer Heterogeneity
P. Mérel, T.L. Saitone, and R.J. Sexton. European Review of Agricultural Economics (2015) 42 (5): 765-795.
J. Wiedenmann, J. Wilen, P. Levin, M. Plummer, and M. Mangel. Coastal Management (2016) 44 (5): 529-546.
Futures Prices in Supply Analysis: Are Instrumental Variables Necessary?
N.P. Hendricks, J.P. Janzen, and A. Smith. American Journal of Agricultural Economics (2015) 97 (1): 22-39.
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