Research Spotlights
Professor Lybbert's Research Cited in NY Times as Part of Growing Evidence that Hope Can Be Used as Anti-Poverty Strategy
Aug. 20, 2018
"Think Positive, Climb Out of Poverty? It Just Might Work," is the title of a New York Times Economic View column written by Seema Jayachandran, an economics professor at Northwestern ...
New Tariffs Could Cost U.S. Nut and Fruit Industries over $3 Billion, According to Report by Professor Sumner and Ph.D. Student Researcher Hanon
Aug. 15, 2018
A new report released by the UC Agriculture and Natural Resources' Agricultural Issues Center (AIC) estimates that tariffs imposed by other countries on U.S. commodities in the ongoing international trade ...
Georgi Gabrielyan: Agricultural Economist at USDA Agricultural Marketing Service Dairy Division
Aug. 15, 2018
Georgi Gabrielyan joined the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) Dairy Division as an agricultural economist in February 2017. He is expected to earn his UC Davis ...
Philip Martin in Cal Ag Journal: Column about Farmers' Response to Tightening Labor Market and Article about 2015 Farmworker Employment
Aug. 14, 2018
Two pieces by Professor Emeritus Philip Martin are featured in Volume 72, No. 2, of California Agriculture, a peer-reviewed research and news journal published by University of California Agriculture ...
16 ARE Graduate Students, 1 Postdoctoral Scholar to Give Presentations at AAEA Annual Meeting
July 31, 2018
Sixteen ARE graduate students and one ARE postdoctoral scholar will give presentations at the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA) Annual Meeting Aug. 5–7 in Washington, D.C. The AAEA is ...
ARE at AAEA: Mo Alloush: Income, Psychological Well-being, and the Dynamics of Poverty
July 31, 2018
Time: 10 a.m. Monday, Aug. 6 Location: Washington Room 3 / International Development - Lightning Session Abstract Estimating the causal links between income and mental health is difficult due to ...
ARE at AAEA: Charlotte Ambrozek: The churning of the seasons: Agricultural employment and SNAP certification cycles
July 31, 2018
Time: Monday, Aug. 6 Location: Washington Room 2 / Workforce Decisions and the Social Safety Net Abstract Participant exit and reentry over short time spans (“churn”) in the Supplemental Nutrition ...
ARE at AAEA: Jesus Arellano Gonzalez: Estimating climate change damages in data scarce and non-competitive settings: an application to Mexico
July 31, 2018
Time: 1–2:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 6 Location: Washington Room 1 Abstract The Ricardian model, in which market land values are modeled as a function of climate, has been applied extensively ...
ARE at AAEA: Oscar Barriga Cabanillas: The effect of local industry competition and trade on firm productivity. Evidence from the Mexican manufacturing industry
July 31, 2018
Time: 11:30 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 7 Location: Exhibit Hall B South Abstract There is an increasing number of studies seeking to explain which factors stimulate economic productivity. ...
ARE at AAEA: Marieke Fenton: 2018 AAEA Extension Competition: Benefits of Virus Screening in California Grapevines
July 31, 2018
Time: Between 8 a.m. – 2 p.m., as assigned on site, Sunday, Aug. 5 Location: Hoover/Coolidge Rooms Abstract This work follows up an evaluation of the economic benefits of screening ...
