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Quirino Paris: Academician’s Academic
Quirino Paris grew up in Italy and came to California as a PhD student at UC Berkeley in 1963. He then joined the UC Davis faculty, where he spent his ...
ARE Welcomes Dr. Jamie Hansen-Lewis to Faculty
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 ...
Rich Sexton on ABC 10: Housing a Growing Population While Preserving Productive Farmland
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 ...
New Video Documents Unique UCD-WFP Collaboration on Kenya’s Home Grown School Meals Program
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 ...
Kristin Kiesel and Co-authors Publish “Consumer and Strategic Firm Response to Nutrition Shelf Labels” in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics
The majority of Americans do not meet dietary guidelines and continue to consume more than the recommended values for added sugars, saturated fats, and overall calories in their diets. While ...
Pierre Mérel Receives the Christophe Baron Prize for Best Wine Economics Presentation
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 ...
Richard Sexton Recipient of 2019 CAES Award of Distinction
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 ...
Annual ARE Faculty-Grad Student Ski Day Held at Alpine Meadows
ARE faculty and grads gathered at Lake Tahoe in the evening of February 10 for the annual departmental ski day on February 11, this year at Alpine Meadows ski resort. ...
Annals of The New York Academy of Sciences Features ARE - Institute for Global Nutrition Collaboration on Vitamin A Intervention for Children in Cameroon
A new article, “Strategies to achieve adequate vitamin A intake for young children: options for Cameroon” appears in the latest issue of the Annals of The New York Academy of ...
Brittney Goodrich, Jeffrey Williams and Rachael Goodhue publish study on “The Great Bee Migration” in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics
Every winter, most honey bee colonies in the U.S. are loaded onto semi-trucks and shipped to California to pollinate almond orchards. Without this mass migration of honey bee colonies (and ...
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Glenn Harrison, Georgia State University
Do No Harm? The Welfare Consequences of Behavioral Interventions
February 24, 4:10 PM - 5:30 PM
Chris Barrett, Cornell University
Altruism, Insurance, and Costly Solidarity Commitments
February 27, 4:10 PM - 5:30 PM
Tomoe Bourdier, University of California, Davis
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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.
Recent Publications
The Cost of Lice: Quantifying the Impacts of Parasitic Sea Lice on Farmed Salmon
J. Abolofia, F. Asche, and J.E. Wilen. Marine Resource Economics (2017) 32 (3).
Estimating the Value of California Wine Grapes
O. Sambucci and J.M. Alston. Journal of Wine Economics (2017) 12 (2).
GMO food labels in the United States: Economic implications of the new law
J. Bovay and J.M. Alston. Food Policy (2018) 78: 14-25.
Poverty, Aspirations, and the Economics of Hope
T.J. Lybbert. Economic Development and Cultural Change (2018) 66 (4).
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Dr. Quirino Paris: In Memoriam
Quirino Paris grew up in Italy and came to California as a PhD student at UC Berkeley in 1963. He then joined the UC Davis faculty, where he spent his whole career. Quirino was an academician’s academic in that he went to the core of the subject, working with legendary passion and persistence, and never taking shortcuts.
