Research Spotlights
Bulat Gafarov and Colleagues in Journal of Econometrics with Paper: “Delta-method Inference for a Class of Set-identified SVARs”
Feb. 21, 2018
Bulat and co-authors Matthias Meier (University of Mannheim) and José Luis Montiel Olea (Columbia University) have developed a new statistical method to quantify uncertainty in the response of a given …
Dalia Ghanem in Journal of Econometrics with Article: “Testing Identifying Assumptions in Nonseparable Panel Data Models”
Feb. 21, 2018
Panel data allow empirical researchers to identify causal effects under weaker conditions than cross-sectional data, and thus they are widely used in reduced-form settings for this purpose. The specific parametric …
Schaefer's Dissertation and Valdes-Donoso's Thesis Named ARE Department's Best of 2017
Jan. 30, 2018
Aleks Schaefer completed the best Ph.D. dissertation and Pablo Valdes-Donoso completed the best M.S. thesis in 2017, as voted by an ARE faculty committee. Each year, a faculty committee reviews …
Distinguished Professor James Wilen and ARE Alumni James Eales Receive Publication of Enduring Significance Award for 1986 Article "An Examination of Fishing Location Choice in the Pink Shrimp Fishery"
Jan. 24, 2018
"An Examination of Fishing Location Choice in the Pink Shrimp Fishery," by James Eales and James E. Wilen was selected to receive the 2018 Publication of Enduring Significance Award by …
Phil Martin's Column on American Agriculture Imports, Machine, and Migrants Featured in The Hill
Jan. 17, 2018
Professor Emeritus Phil Martin's research about "American agriculture at a crossroads between imports, machines, and migrants" is featured in The Hill. Dr. Martin talks about how the slowdown in unauthorized …
Ph.D. Candidate Sam Bird Takes Poverty Research to the Field in Eastern Africa
Jan. 12, 2018
Sitting in the main room of a farmer's home in western Kenya, Sam Bird, a Ph.D. candidate in Agricultural and Resource Economics, had a rare chance to put a face …
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Katrina Jessoe and Colleagues' Climate Change Study Featured in USA Today Article
Jan. 2, 2018
Research by Agricultural and Resource Economics (ARE) Associate Professor Dr. Katrina Jessoe, Professor and Vice Chair Dr. J. Edward Taylor, and alumnus Dr. Dale Manning was recently featured in the …
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Ellen Bruno Awarded for Writing the Most Downloaded Article of the Year in ARE Update
Oct. 10, 2017
Davis Agricultural and Resource Economics Ph.D. candidate Ellen Bruno received the award for the most downloaded paper in the ARE Update, the bimonthly outreach publication of the UC Giannani Foundation …
Diane Charlton and Ed Taylor Win AAEA Quality of Research Discovery Award, Honorable Mention, for “A Declining Farm Workforce: Analysis of Panel Data from Rural Mexico”
Aug. 7, 2017
The study found that the agricultural labor supply from rural Mexico, the main source of hired farmworkers for the United States, is decreasing at a rate of approximately 150,000 workers …
Julian Alston Wins Multiple AAEA Awards for "Effects of U.S. Public Agricultural R&D on U.S. Obesity and its Social Costs"
Aug. 7, 2017
How much has food abundance, attributable to U.S. public agricultural R&D, contributed to high and rising U.S. obesity rates? This paper investigates the effects of public investment in agricultural R&D …
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