Awards

Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2018

AAEA Quality of Research Discovery Award, Honorable Mention, for "A Declining Farm Workforce: Analysis of Panel Data from Rural Mexico" (with Diane Charlton), 2017

Fellow, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA), 2015

Una Lele Prize for Gender Research, Honorable Mention, International Conference of Agricultural Economists, 2015.

AAEA Quality of Communication Award, for Beyond Experiments in Development Economics: Local Economy-wide Impact Evaluation

Chair, UC-Mexico Initiative Working Group on the Environment, 2014

Distinguished Scholarly Public Service Award, University of California, Davis, 2014

Associated Students of UC Davis Excellence in Education Award Nominee, 2014

Outstanding Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy Article Award, 2013, Honorable Mention

Co-Editor, American Journal of Agricultural Economics

Executive Committee, Pacific Rim Research Institute, 2005-present.

Editorial Advisor, Social Science Research Committee, 2009

Gifford Faculty Fellow, 2007-08

Outstanding Article Award, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2007, Honorable Mention

Executive Committee, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association International Section, 2008-09

Who’s Who in Economics, 4th Edition, 2003.

Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award, U.C. Davis, 2003.

Chair, University of California Institute on Mexico and the United States (UC Mexus) Advisory Committee, 2001-05

Co-Editor, Rural Migration News (on-line quarterly at http://migration.ucdavis.edu/)

Chair, Graduate Administrative Committee, UC Davis Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 1995-1997

Appointed Member, U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform, Binational Study, 1995-97.

Appointed Member, Commission on South‑North Migration, International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP), Liege, 1992-97.

Outstanding Teacher/Lecturer Award, U.C. Davis, Department of Agricultural Economics, 1990

Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award, American Agricultural Economics Association, 1985

Phi Beta Kappa