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Open Position: Junior Specialist in Cannabis Price Data Management and Analysis
Dr. Daniel Sumner in the department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Davis seeks to fill 1-2, one-year full-time research assistant position at the Junior Specialist …
ARE Professor Ashish Shenoy Co-Author of New Sciences Advances Article, “Falling Living Standards During the Covid-19 Crisis: Quantitative Evidence from Nine Developing Countries”
New research co-authored by ARE assistant professor Ashish Shenoy reveals the economic ramifications of Covid-19 have affected vulnerable households in less-developed countries the hardest. The study, available in the most …
Ph.D. Candidate Yujing (Megan) Song Awarded Best Paper at Annual CAER-IFPRI Conference
Megan was awarded the honor during the 12th annual CAER-IFPRI Annual Conference held October 29-31. The theme of the 2020 conference hosted by China Agricultural Economic Review (CAER) in collaboration …
Tor Tolhurst: 2020 Gordon A. King Award for Best Dissertation
Tor Tolhurst’s dissertation, “Model-Free Tests and Evidence of Bubbles in Real Markets” addresses the identification of bubbles in real markets and provides evidence of bubbles in Midwestern U.S. farmland and …
Ph.D. Student Joakim Weill and Co-Authors’ Paper Illustrating How Income Disparities Affect Exposure to Covid-19 Cited in Recent New York Times Article
The New York Times article is part of “The Week Our Reality broke” series reflecting on a year living with the coronavirus pandemic and how it has affected American society. …
New American Journal of Agricultural Economics Article Co-Authored by ARE Researchers Examines Economic Impacts of Covid-19 Lockdown in a Remittance-Dependent Region
ARE Ph.D. candidates Miki Khanh Doan and Aleksandr Michuda co-authored the recently published report along with ARE Researcher Heng Zhu and lead author, ARE Ph.D. alumni Anubhab Gupta, now assistant …
ARE Distinguished Professor Ed Taylor Contributes to Successful Online Orientation
50 UCD faculty members, including 16 in the CAES, ran a 3-day seminar series from September 25-27 as part of Aggie Orientation, welcoming new first-year and transfer students and providing …
World Bank Blog Post by Ph.D. Candidate Jess Rudder Considers How a New Phonebook App Affects Rural Firms in Tanzania
Finding new suppliers and customers can be a challenge for small firms in rural Tanzania. In her guest post on the World Bank’s Development Impact blog, Jess Rudder discusses how …
Upcoming Seminars
Kathryn Anderson, University of California, Berkeley
Organification: How Market Agronomics Turn Reluctant Dairy Farmers into Ideological Organic Boosters
April 22, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Catherine L. Kling, Cornell University
The Social Costs of Nutrient Pollution in the United States
April 29, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Seunghyun Lee, University of California, Davis
Distributional Effects of Extreme Weather Events on Crop Revenue in the U.S.
May 6, 4:10 PM - 5:30 PM
Travis J. Lybbert, University of California, Davis
Shedding an Oppositional Identity: Religiosity and Educational Attainment Among the Roma
May 11, 4:10 PM - 5:30 PM
Matthieu Stigler, Stanford University
Optimal Index Insurance and Basis Risk Decomposition: An Application to Kenya
May 13, 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.
Selected Publications
Defining the economic scope for ecosystem-based fishery management
K. Kroetz, M.N. Reimer, J.N. Sanchirico, D.K. Lew, and J. Huetteman. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2019) 116 (10): 4188-4193.
J. Hart and J.M. Alston. Journal of Wine Economics (2019) 14 (4): 356-364.
D. Haile, H. Luo, S.A. Vosti, K.W. Dodd, C.D. Arnold, and R. Engle-Stone. Current Developments in Nutrition (2020) 4 (9).
Strategies to achieve adequate vitamin A intake for young children: options for Cameroon
S.A. Vosti, J. Kagin, R. Engle‐Stone, H. Luo, A. Tarini, et al. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences (2019) 1465 (1): 161-180.
Latest ARE Update
ARE Update Vol. 24, No. 3, Jan/Feb, 2021
- Arthur R. Wardle, Paige Griggs, and Ellen Bruno. "A Progress Report on California’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act."
- Aaron Smith. "COVID-19 Relief Programs Have Kept U.S. Farm Income High but Shortchanged California Producers."
- Terrence Iverson, Larry Karp, and Alessandro Peri. "Optimal Social Distancing and the Economics of Uncertain Vaccine Arrival."
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