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Report Details Positive Impacts of AMA Innovation Lab's Six Years of Research into Global Development

Jan. 24, 2019

The Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Assets and Market Access (AMA), directed by ARE Professor Michael Carter, is funded by USAID to support the U.S. government's "Feed the Future" …

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Maxime Depalle: Economist at Veolia

Jan. 17, 2019

Maxime Depalle earned his UC Davis Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ARE) Ph.D. in September 2018. He is now an economist for the research and development department of the …

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Lee and Sumner Article: Economics of New CA Regulations on Manure-Sourced Methane Emissions from Livestock Operations

Jan. 16, 2019

Hyunok Lee, ARE agricultural economist, and Daniel A. Sumner, ARE Frank Buck, Jr., distinguished professor and UC Agricultural Issues Center director, wrote "Dependence on policy revenue poses risk for investments …

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J. Edward Taylor and Diane Charlton’s New Book The Farm Labor Problem: A Global Perspective Published by Elsevier Academic Press

Dec. 12, 2018

The Farm Labor Problem: A Global Perspective, by J. Edward Taylor, professor in the UC Davis Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, and Diane Charlton, assistant professor in the Department …

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New Website on Farm Labor Launched by UCD ARE

Dec. 12, 2018

This Farm Labor website features research findings from the End of Farm Labor Abundance Project at UC Davis, which documents the declining farm labor supply and its implications for farmers, …

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Professor Dan Sumner Part of UC Davis Big Ideas World Water Initiative Team

Dec. 10, 2018

ARE Frank H. Buck, Jr., Distinguished Professor Daniel A. Sumner is part of the UC Davis Big Ideas team for the World Water Initiative. UC Davis' Big Ideas are forward-thinking, …

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Professor Michael Carter Co-Edits Book of Academic Papers about Development Economics Research on Poverty Traps

Dec. 7, 2018

Professor Michael Carter has just published a new volume on development economics research on poverty traps. The Economics of Poverty Traps (U. of Chicago), edited by Carter and co-editors Chris …

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Andrés Moya and Michael Carter on Violence and Hopelessness in the journal World Development

Nov. 9, 2018

"Violence and the formation of hopelessness: Evidence from internally displaced persons in Colombia," by Andrés Moya, assistant professor at the Universidad de los Andes and an ARE Ph.D. alumnus, and …

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Travis Lybbert, Stephen Vosti and Coauthors Report Impacts of Market Trial for Child Micronutrient Supplementation in Journal of Health Economics

Nov. 7, 2018

"Household demand persistence for child micronutrient supplementation," by Travis J. Lybbert, ARE professor, Stephen A. Vosti, ARE adjunct professor, Katherine P. Adams, ARE Ph.D. alumna and UC Davis Department of …

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John Bovay and Dan Sumner Show Long-Run Market Effects of the Food Safety Modernization Act in the journal Applied Economics Perspectives and Policy

Oct. 17, 2018

Published in the September 2018 issued of Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy is "Economic Effects of the U.S. Food Safety Modernization Act," by John Bovay, University of Connecticut assistant professor …

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