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- April 09, 2012: Nonparametric Instrumental Derivatives
- April 09, 2012: Zap it to Me: Evidence from a Mobile Money Transfer Experiment
- April 20, 2012: Accidental GMO Contamination of the U.S. Rice Supply and Economic Impacts
- April 27, 2012: The Marginal External Cost of Obesity in the United States.
- May 11, 2012: Response of corn markets to climate volatility and alternative energy futures
- May 18, 2012: Empirical Evidence on the Role of Non Linear Wholesale Pricing and Vertical Restraints on Cost Pass-Through
- May 21, 2012: Local Economic Spillovers from the Agricultural Sector: Evidence from Tapping the Ogallala Aquifer
- May 25, 2012: (no title)
- June 01, 2012: (no title)
- September 10, 2012: Food Insecurity in Vulnerable Populations: Coping with food price shocksin Afghanistan
- October 19, 2012: "What were you thinking!?" What neuroimaging can show us about consumer responses to controversial food labels
- October 25, 2012: Commodity Price Comovement: The Case of Cotton
- November 09, 2012: Liquidity Constraints and Stockholding Behavior: Evidence from China's Maize Farmers
- November 16, 2012: The Joint Production of Crops and Wildlife Habitat on a Working Landscape
- November 27, 2012: Social Protection and Productive Inclusion for Local Development
- November 29, 2012: Estimating Crop Rotations as Dynamic Cycles using Geo-Referenced Field Data
- November 30, 2012: Disentangling the Demand-enhancing Effect and Trade-cost Effect of Technical Measures in Agricultural Trade among OECD countries
- April 09, 2013: Determinants for Sustainable Management of the Palm Oil Plantation Industry: A Malaysian Case-study
- April 11, 2013: The Economics of Planting Rights in Wine Production
- May 09, 2013: Arresting Contagion: Science, Policy, and Animal Health in the United States
- May 13, 2013: Crop Insurance and the WTO
- May 15, 2013: Did the commodity price spike increase rural poverty? Evidence from a long-run panel in Bangladesh
- October 01, 2013: Consumer, Marketer, and Regulator Demand for Farm Production Practices: Food Safety and Farm Animal Treatment
- October 15, 2013: Adaptation to Land Constraints: Is Africa Different?
- October 22, 2013: New Demand for Old Food: The U.S. Demand for Olive Oil
- October 31, 2013: Are Rice Prices an Effective Anti-Poverty Tool in Indonesia: A Rural-Urban Labour Market Integration Approach
- November 05, 2013: Effects of a Local Air Quality Regulation on Dairy Farms in the San Joaquin Valley
- November 12, 2013: Explaining Agricultural Labor Shortages with Unpredictable Product Losses: A Case Study of Spotted Wing Drosophila in California Raspberries
- November 21, 2013: Heterogeneous Spraying Decisions of Grape Growers in Response to Disease Forecasting Information
- December 03, 2013: A WICked Problem? Cost Containment in the Women, Infants and Children Program
- December 10, 2013: Transport Cost and Quality in International Trade: Exporting the Bad Apples
- February 12, 2014: Futures Prices in Supply Analysis: Why it's Important to Write Down Your Identifying Assumptions and Derive their Implications
- February 26, 2014: What Happens When Food Marketers Require Restrictive Farming Practices?
- March 05, 2014: Farmers' Preferences for Abiotic Stress Tolerant Rice Seeds in India: Evidence from Odisha
- April 08, 2014: Transport Cost and Quality in International Trade: Exporting the Bad Apples
- April 11, 2014: Technologies & Priorities for Adaptation to Climate Change: from California to Global Food Security
- April 15, 2014: The Value of Agricultural Pollination
- April 22, 2014: Strength of Protection for Geographical Indications
- April 28, 2014: Ex-ante Impacts of Agricultural Insurance: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Mali
- May 12, 2014: Social Learning and Communication
- May 13, 2014: Maize farming systems and exposure to climate risk in rural Kenya: Farm household typology approach
- May 20, 2014: Differential Impacts of Country of Origin Labeling: COOL Econometric Evidence from Cattle Markets
- October 09, 2014: Incentives for Non-Price Competition in the California WIC Program
- October 14, 2014: Optimal Licensing for Public Intellectual Property: Theory and Application to Plant Variety Patents
- October 21, 2014: Resource Pressures and the Role of Markets: Issues and Policy Problems
- October 22, 2014: An Evolutionary Model of Pesticide Reduction
- October 30, 2014: Who Will Feed China in the 21st Century? Income Growth and Food Demand and Supply in China
- November 05, 2014: Don’t Bottle Lemons: A Brief History of the Regulation of Fine Wines in France
- November 11, 2014: Signals, Similarity and Seeds: Social Learning in the Presence of Imperfect Information and Heterogeneity
- November 19, 2014: Market Structure and Food Price Inflation
- November 26, 2014: A Welfare Analysis of Conservation Easement Tax Credits
- December 03, 2014: Concentrated Production and Heavy Tails in Commodity Returns
- February 25, 2015: Component Supply Response in Dairy Production
- March 31, 2015: The Economics of Biofuel Policies: Impacts on Price Volatility in Grain and Oilseed Markets
- April 10, 2015: Rethinking the Global Food System
- May 05, 2015: The Economic Characteristics of First Possession Rights to a Heterogeneous Resource: Prior Appropriation Rights to Water
- May 08, 2015: Mechanization Outsourcing Clusters and Division of Labor in Chinese Agriculture
- May 13, 2015: Food issues in TTIP – The EU consumer view
- May 26, 2015: A tentative understanding of the differentials in incomes between farm and non-farm households among selected OECD member countries
- June 02, 2015: The Effects of Southern Hemisphere Crop Production on Trade, Stocks and Price Integration
- September 29, 2015: Producer Heterogeneity and Voting Power in Mandatory U.S. Agricultural Marketing Organizations
- October 16, 2015: The Agricultural and Economic Impacts of Pollinator Density Change
- October 20, 2015: Quality standards versus nutritional taxes: health and welfare impacts with strategic firms
- November 06, 2015: The Acreage Effects of Premium Subsidies in U.S. Crop Insurance
- November 11, 2015: The Food Demand Survey (FooDS)
- December 04, 2015: Short- vs. Long-Term Decision-Making for Disease Control: A Dynamic Structural Econometric Model of Verticillium Wilt Management
- December 15, 2015: Global Food Futures Through to 2050 and the Role of R&D
- April 14, 2016: Taxing Alcoholic Beverages
- April 28, 2016: Do Online Training Courses Change Behavior? California Grape Growers, Continuing Education & Powdery Mildew Management
- May 10, 2016: Prosecconomics: A remarkable transformation of the Italian sparkling wine sector
- May 12, 2016: Agent-based Modelling in Agricultural Economics Research: Methodology and Applications
- May 25, 2016: Breakdown of the Equi-Marginal Principle in Permit Markets Involving Multiple Pollutants and Exogenous Caps
- May 31, 2016: Compensation Payments and Animal Disease: Incentivising Farmers Both to Undertake Costly On-farm Biosecurity and to Comply with Disease Reporting Requirements
- June 01, 2016: Wine Trade and the Economics of Import Duty and Excise Tax Drawbacks
- October 06, 2016: The Local Impacts of Agricultural Subsidies: Evidence from the Canadian Prairies
- October 13, 2016: Extending the use of agricultural policy monitoring to address climate change mitigation obligations
- October 27, 2016: Are All Colonies Created Equal? The Role of Honey Bee Colony Strength in Almond Pollination Contracts
- November 08, 2016: Effects of Supermarkets on Consumer Health and Nutrition in Kenya
- November 11, 2016: The Optimal Hedging Horizon and Application to Dairy Risk Management in the United States
- January 13, 2017: Anti-Malarial Biotechnology, Drug Resistance, and the Dynamics of Disease Management
- January 27, 2017: Estimating Willingness to Pay for E85 in the United States
- February 17, 2017: Measuring the Impact of Agricultural Production Shocks on International Trade Flows
- February 24, 2017: The US Federal Crop Insurance Program: A Case Study in Rent Seeking
- February 28, 2017: Insuring against droughts: Evidence on agricultural intensification and index insurance demand from a randomized evaluation in rural Bangladesh
- March 10, 2017: The Role of El Niño Southern Oscillation in Commodity Price Movement and Predictability
- May 04, 2017: State Trading Deregulation and Cropping Patterns on the Canadian Prairies
- May 18, 2017: GMO Food Labels in the United States: Economic Implications of the New Law
- May 23, 2017: Does water flow from farming to fracking?
- May 25, 2017: Temporal Stability of Revealed Preference Methods
- October 05, 2017: Long-run Impacts of Climate Change on Crop Yields: Estimation Framework and Evidence from France
- October 12, 2017: The Value Added Structure of Trade Flows: Implications for Trade Policy Analysis
- October 19, 2017: Firm Heterogeneity in Consumption Baskets: Evidence from Home and Store Scanner Data
- October 26, 2017: Earthbound Labor and Incomplete Exit from Farming in China: Multiple Distortions and Nonseparable Decisions
- November 02, 2017: Response of North Dakota Soybean Flows to the Panama Canal Expansion: A Positive Mathematical Programming Model
- November 10, 2017: Adaptation to Climate Change: Evidence from US Acreage Response
- November 17, 2017: Agricultural Groundwater Markets: Understanding the Impacts of Market Power on the Gains from Trade
- December 01, 2017: Innovation Induced Volatility: 65 Years of Increasing and Asymmetric Crop Yield Volatility in the U.S. Corn Belt
- December 08, 2017: Is There Too Much History in Historical Yield Data?
- February 16, 2018: The Economics of Perennial Orchards with Endogenous Age Classes
- March 02, 2018: The Crucial Role of International Trade in Adaptation to Climate Change
- September 19, 2018: Producer Response to Public Disclosure of Food-Safety Information
- September 27, 2018: Estimating Household Welfare from Disaggregate Expenditures
- October 04, 2018: The Optimal Management of Orchards
- October 11, 2018: Electoral Rules and Agricultural Protectionism: The Case of Japan’s Participation in the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement
- October 18, 2018: Effects of Crop Insurance on Farm Disinvestment and Exit Decisions
- October 25, 2018: Scraping the Bottom of the Beer Barrel: Consumer Preferences for Localness and Responses to Brewery Acquisitions
- November 01, 2018: The Minimum Wage and Productivity: A Case Study of California Strawberry Pickers
- November 09, 2018: How Big is the ‘Lemons’ Problem? Historical Evidence from French Appellation Wines
- November 15, 2018: E Pluribus Unum: An Evolutionary Model of Trust and Accountability
- November 30, 2018: Supply Response at the Field Level: Disentangling Area and Yield Effects
- December 07, 2018: Double-Cropping and Adaptation to Climate Change in the United States
- December 19, 2018: Mini Symposium: The Food Value Chain in the Digital Age
- March 11, 2019: Challenges in Sustainable Aquaculture: The Case of the Chilean Salmon Industry
- April 11, 2019: The distributional and corrective implications of alcohol price policies
- May 14, 2019: Veblen Attributes in the U.S. Retail Beer, Wine, and Restaurant Markets
- October 03, 2019: Model-Free Detection of a Speculative Asset Bubble: Evidence from the World Market for Superstar Wines
- October 10, 2019: Food Waste, Date Labels, and Risk Preferences: An Experimental Exploration
- October 17, 2019: Analytics for Fine Wine: Realistic Prices
- October 31, 2019: Agricultural Trade Liberalization, GHG Emissions and Irish Agriculture
- November 08, 2019: Early Exit from Business, Performance and Neighbors’ Influence: a Study of Farmers in France
- November 15, 2019: Transforming Food Systems for a Rising India
- November 22, 2019: General Equilibrium Impacts in Imperfect Agricultural Markets: Evidence from the Tanzanian Cotton Industry
- December 06, 2019: Impacts of Electronic Benefit Transfer on the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) Program: Evidence from Oklahoma
- January 24, 2020: Modern Agricultural Value Chains and the Future of Smallholder Farming Systems
- February 14, 2020: Land Titling and the Long-Run Transformation of the Agrarian Economy
- February 21, 2020: Basis Risk in the Pasture, Rangeland, and Forage Insurance Program: Evidence from California
- February 28, 2020: Altruism, Insurance, and Costly Solidarity Commitments
- October 08, 2020: Economics of Mandates on Farm Practices: Lessons from Regulation of Pork Sold in California
- October 15, 2020: Effects of Taxes and Costly Regulations on the Licensed and Unlicensed Cannabis Markets
- October 22, 2020: No Farm Workers, No Food? Evidence from Specialty Crop Production
- October 29, 2020: Economic, Resource, and Environmental Consequences of Changes in By-Product Availability for and Use by California Dairies
- November 13, 2020: Economic and Climatic Determinants of Farmer Suicide in the United States
- December 11, 2020: Industry Impacts of Pricing Pollution: Groundwater Externalities and Agricultural Land Use Change
- Development Workshops
- February 09, 2005: (no title)
- February 16, 2005: (no title)
- February 23, 2005: (no title)
- March 02, 2005: (no title)
- March 09, 2005: (no title)
- March 16, 2005: Discontinuous Regression
- April 26, 2005: Understanding Women's Participation in Nutrition Interventions
- May 03, 2005: Morals and the Force of Law - an application to international aid
- May 10, 2005: Informal Meeting with Mark Gersovitz
- May 17, 2005: Thailand's Assets Capitalization Program: Land Rights and Another Government Subsidized Agricultural Credit
- May 24, 2005: Transportation Cost and Market Power of Middlemen: A Spatial Analysis of Agricultural Commodity Markets in Developing Countries
- May 31, 2005: Why do farmers keep cultivating seemingly non-profitable varieties? The case of maize in Mexico
- June 06, 2005: Joint ERE & DEV Seminar
- June 07, 2005: Notes & Pictures from the Field Trip
- October 13, 2005: Endogeneity, Externalities, and Synerg of Participation in Nutrition Interventions
- October 20, 2005: Risk and the Persistence of Informal Credit in Rural Peru
- October 27, 2005: (no title)
- November 03, 2005: Depending on Natural Resources for Livelihood: Cambodia's Rural Poor
- November 17, 2005: Milk Quality and Safety in Kenya's Informal Milk Market
- December 01, 2005: Conservation and Wildlife Management in Botswana
- December 08, 2005: Moral Conflict and the Force of Law: Endogenizing Corrupt Institutions
- October 11, 2006: What sex got to do, got to do with it? A gender approach to the determinants of migration from rural Mexico to the US.
- October 18, 2006: Trends in development research (discussion session)
- October 25, 2006: Missing Markets and Missing Data: The Case of Traditional Maize in Mexico
- November 01, 2006: (no title)
- November 15, 2006: (no title)
- November 29, 2006: (no title)
- March 06, 2009: Jobs in Development Policy
- October 09, 2009: Social Networks and Technology Diffusion
- October 23, 2009: Land Use and Agricultural Production in the Brazilian Savanna
- October 30, 2009: Faculty work in progress
- November 13, 2009: Factors influencing potato variety decisions among central Bolivian potato farmers
- January 12, 2010: Who smoothes what? Asset smoothing, consumption smoothing & unmitigated risk in Burkina Faso
- January 19, 2010: Who gets the job referral? Evidence from a Social Networks Experiment
- January 26, 2010: Left, Right, Left: Income Dynamics and the Evolving Political Preferences of Bayesian Voters
- February 02, 2010: The implicit value of crop stubble as a barrier to technology adoption
- February 09, 2010: Fair Trade and Free Entry: Generating Benefits in a Disequilibrium Market
- February 16, 2010: What do cropping patterns reveal about risk aversion: The Case of Moroccan Dryland Wheat Farmers
- March 02, 2010: Improved Source, Improved Quality? Demand for Drinking Water Quality in Rural India
- April 12, 2010: Agricultural Policy Evaluation in the Tropics
- April 26, 2010: Optimality versus Sustainability: Implications for Development Policy
- May 05, 2010: Randomized Encouragement Designs in Agricultural Development: A Methodological Exploration in the Context of Index Insurance
- May 10, 2010: Goats, Trees and Rural Poverty: Ten Years of Booming Markets for Moroccan Argan Oil
- May 14, 2010: Warfare and Social Preferences in Children
- May 17, 2010: The Intergenerational Effects of Increasing Women's Schooling: Evidence from Zimbabwe (with Maithili Ramachandran)
- May 25, 2010: Maize quality and aflatoxin in Western Kenya: awareness, preferences, and behavior of farm households
- October 11, 2010: Fighting for Hearts and Minds: The Effect of Development Projects on Civil Conflict (with Patrick Johnston)
- October 18, 2010: Access and Learning through Information Networks in Agricultural Technology Adoption and Diffusion: Results from a Partial Population Experiment in Uganda
- October 25, 2010: Using Regression Discontinuity with Implicit Partitions: The Impacts of Communidades Soliarias Rurales on Schooling in El Salvador
- November 01, 2010: HIV Testing and Risky Sexual Behavior
- November 09, 2010: Perceptions and Participation: Randomized Encouragement Designs and Demand for Index Insurance
- November 23, 2010: Consumer Valuation of Safety Labeled Free Range Chicken: Results of a Field Experiment in Ha Noi
- January 11, 2011: Does International Child Sponsorship Work? A Six-Country Study of Impacts on Adult Life Outcomes
- February 25, 2011: The Dynamics of Educational Attainment for Orphaned Children and Adolescents in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Malawi
- March 01, 2011: Methods for assessing community-managed microfinance in Malawi
- March 08, 2011: Social Learning in Weather Insurance Take-up: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in China
- March 14, 2011: Do simple savings accounts help the poor to save? Evidence from a field experiment in Nepal
- April 11, 2011: Dynamic Effects of Index Based Livestock Insurance on Household Intertemporal Behavior and Welfare
- April 18, 2011: Nutrition and Educational Performance in Rural China's Elementary Schools: Results of a Randomized Control Trial in Shaanxi Province
- May 02, 2011: The Impact of Interlinked Index Insurance and Credit Contracts on Financial Market Deepening and Small Farm Productivity
- May 11, 2011: Examining Underinvestment and Financial Markets in Agriculture
- May 23, 2011: Bt cotton in the land of farmers' suicides: Production, efficiency and employment
- September 19, 2011: Gender Differences in Bargaining Outcomes: A Field Experiment on Discrimination
- October 03, 2011: Rising Food Prices, Food Price Volatility, and Political Unrest
- October 10, 2011: Spread and Stick in an Agricultural Technology: Evidence from a Partial Population Experiment on the Roles of Networks in Diffusion and Disadoption
- October 17, 2011: Was Marx right after all? The economics of polarized class structure in post-Soviet agriculture
- October 31, 2011: Ethnic Divisions, Misallocation and the Organization of Production within Firms
- November 08, 2011: Closing the Eyes on a Gloomy Future: Psychological Causes and Economic Consequences
- November 15, 2011: Using Experimental Auctions to Estimate Willingness-to-Pay for a New Maternal Nutrient Supplement in Ghana
- November 22, 2011: An Andean Puma joins the Asian Tigers: Peru's Economic Progress
- November 29, 2011: Farmers' Demand for Laser Land Leveling in Eastern Uttar Pradesh, India: An Experimental Auction to Inform Market Segmentation Strategies
- December 06, 2011: Measuring Drought Resistance: A State-Contingent Evaluation of In Situ Drought Resistant Wheat and Maize in Northern China
- January 24, 2012: The impact of violence on preferences and the creation of chronic poverty
- February 14, 2012: Subnational Leaders and Economic Growth: Evidence from Chinese Cities
- February 22, 2012: The Effect of Transport Policies on Car Use: Theory and Evidence from Latin American Cities
- February 28, 2012: Is Sex Like Driving? Risk Compensation Associated with Male Circumcision in Kisumu, Kenya
- March 06, 2012: The Economic Effects of Nicaragua's Small Farmer Development Intervention: Heterogeneity and Impact Dynamics in a Medium-term Program
- March 12, 2012: Globalization, wages and skill premia in a transition economy: new evidence from Vietnam
- April 16, 2012: Can Minimum Wages Cause a Big Push? Evidence from Indonesia
- April 18, 2012: Does Infrastructure Facilitate Social Capital Accumulation? Evidence from Natural and Artefactual Field Experiments in a Developing Country
- April 23, 2012: Perceptions and Participation: Research Design with Low Program Enrollment and Heterogeneous Impacts in Development
- May 02, 2012: Valuing Asset Insurance in the Presence of Poverty: A Dynamic Approach
- May 14, 2012: Are Gifts and Loans between Households Voluntary?
- May 29, 2012: Asset Ownership and Egalitarian Decision-making in Dual-headed Households in Ecuador
- June 08, 2012: Risk as an Impediment to Privatization? The Role of Collective Fields in Patriarchal Family Farms
- October 08, 2012: The social dilemma of microinsurance: A framed field experiment on free-riding and coordination in microcredit groups
- October 15, 2012: Overeducation in developing economies: How can we test for it, and what does it mean?
- October 22, 2012: Migration and the Pursuit of Education in Southern Mexico
- November 06, 2012: Violence, Mental Trauma and Induced Changes in Risk Attitudes among the Displaced Population in Colombia
- November 15, 2012: Price expectations and price dynamics
- November 20, 2012: Valuing Asset Insurance in the Presence of Poverty Traps
- December 04, 2012: Risks, Insurance and Moral Hazard in the Rural Credit Market: A Framed Field Experiment in China
- January 09, 2013: Productivity As If Space Mattered: An Application to Factor Markets Across China
- February 05, 2013: The impact of microinsurance on asset accumulation and human capital investments: evidence from Kenya
- February 26, 2013: Leveling with Friends: Social Networks and Indian Farmers' Demand for Agricultural Custom Hire Services
- March 05, 2013: Do Safety Nets Promote Technology Adoption? Panel Data Evidence from Rural Ethiopia
- March 19, 2013: Index-Based Risk Financing and Development of Natural Disaster Insurance Programs in Developing Countries
- April 08, 2013: The Impact of Foreign Pharmaceutical Patents on Innovation in Chile
- April 15, 2013: Index Insurance & Compound Risk Aversion: Evidence from a Willingness to Pay Experiment in Mali
- April 22, 2013: Shocks and Hopelessness: Evidence from Victims of Violence in Colombia
- May 13, 2013: Supplementation to Address Early Childhood Undernutrition: LNS Production Costs in Niger and Indirect Effects on Siblings in Ghana
- May 20, 2013: Cash Transfers, Agriculture and Child Nutritional Status: Evidence from Malawi
- May 28, 2013: Norms, values and the effect of churches on an excluded community: The case of the Roma in Eastern Europe
- June 03, 2013: Motivating Politicians: The Impacts of Monetary Incentives on Quality and Performance
- June 10, 2013: Impacts on Information Networks
- October 07, 2013: The Impact of India's Rural Employment Guarantee on Demand for Labor-Saving Technology
- October 17, 2013: Compound-risk Aversion and the Demand for Microinsurance: Evidence from a WTP Experiment in Mali
- October 18, 2013: *Forthcoming
- October 21, 2013: Ordeal mechanisms and information in the promotion of health goods in developing countries: Short and medium term evidence
- November 19, 2013: The Political Economy of Inclusive Rural Growth
- December 03, 2013: Competing theories of the risk preference and the demand for crop insurance: Experimental evidence from Peru
- December 10, 2013: The Impact of Index Insurance on Borrowers' Moral Hazard Behavior in Rural Credit Markets
- February 11, 2014: Measuring Neediness by Estimating the Variable Elasticity of Substitution Demand System
- February 25, 2014: Do One-time Input Subsidies Lead to Sustained Adoption of Improved Agricultural Technologies? Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Mozambique
- March 10, 2014: Harnessing ICT to Increase Agricultural Production: Evidence From Kenya
- March 17, 2014: Daycare, Durables, and Imperfect Credit Markets
- April 07, 2014: Health information, treatment, and worker productivity: Experimental evidence from malaria testing and treatment among Nigerian sugarcane cutters
- May 05, 2014: Matched Savings and the Sustained Adoption of Improved Technologies
- October 06, 2014: Multi-Level Theory and The Political Economy of Health Behaviors: An Institutionalist Looks at Behavioral Economics
- October 13, 2014: Property Rights, Contracts, and Technology Adoption: Evidence from Ethiopia
- October 20, 2014: A Matter of Time: An Impact Evaluation of the Brazilian National Land Credit Program
- October 27, 2014: Non-parametric Elicitation of Risk Preferences
- November 04, 2014: Intrahousehold Effects of a Targeted Maternal and Child Nutrition Intervention: Household Behavior and Spillovers in Ghana
- November 18, 2014: Ordeal Mechanisms and Training in the Provision of Subsidized Products in Developing Countries
- November 25, 2014: The role of collateral in joint liability group lending: Evidence from a framed field experiment in Tanzania
- December 02, 2014: Households’ investments in durable and productive assets in Niger: quasi-experimental evidence from a cash transfer project
- December 09, 2014: Education Accelerating the Agricultural Transition: Panel Data Analysis of Rural Mexico
- January 13, 2015: Experimental Markets for Micronutrient Supplements to Prevent Undernutrition: Household Demand Persistence in Burkina Faso
- January 27, 2015: Daycare, Durables, and Credit Constraints: Evidence from Rio de Janeiro
- February 03, 2015: The dynamics of educational attainment for orphaned children in sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Malawi
- February 10, 2015: Intrahousehold productive inefficiency in Burkina Faso: Can experimental inefficiency measures explain differences in household income?
- February 24, 2015: The Adoption of Network Goods: Evidence from Mobile Phones in Rwanda
- March 03, 2015: An Economic Optimization Tool for Vitamin A Interventions in Cameroon
- March 09, 2015: Certain and Uncertain Utility and Insurance Demand: Results from a Framed Field Experiment in Burkina Faso
- April 09, 2015: Index Insurance and Cash Transfers: A Comparative Analysis from Northern Kenya
- April 20, 2015: Vertical Collective Action: Addressing Vertical Asymmetries in Watershed Management
- May 04, 2015: The Impact of Index-based Insurance on Informal Risk Sharing Arrangements
- May 11, 2015: Can Workfare Programs Decrease Human Capital Investments? Evidence from NREGA in India
- May 18, 2015: Variability in observed outcomes within social networks impedes technology diffusion in smallholder agriculture
- June 01, 2015: Social Protection in the Face of Climate Change: Targeting Principles and Financing Mechanisms
- September 25, 2015: Got Milk? Motivation for Honesty and Functioning of Informal Markets: Evidence from India
- September 28, 2015: A United Family Prospers: Do Spouse-regarding Preferences Shape Household Production and Income?
- October 05, 2015: Access to Secondary Schools Accelerating the Agricultural Transformation: Analysis of Panel Data from Rural Mexico
- October 12, 2015: Catching Up or Pulling Down? Interpersonal Comparisons and Destructive Actions: Experimental Evidence from Bolivia
- October 19, 2015: Does Financial Inclusion Exclude? The Effect of Access to Savings on Informal Risk-Sharing in Kenya
- November 10, 2015: Heterogeneous consumption and labor market adjustments to birth events in Ghana
- November 17, 2015: Savings and Subsidies, Separately and Together: Decomposing Effects of a Bundled Anti-Poverty Program
- November 24, 2015: Liquidity Constraint, LPG Stoves and Charcoal Consumption: Evidence from a Randomised Controlled Trial
- December 01, 2015: Economic Life in a Refugee Camp
- January 12, 2016: Collective action in games as in life: Experimental evidence from canal cleaning in Haiti
- March 08, 2016: Is Inequality Inevitable? A Survey Experiment on Demand for Redistribution in South Africa
- March 09, 2016: Activation of Food Markets and Food Security: Impact of Cereal Banks in Northern Burkina Faso
- April 11, 2016: Exclusion Bias in the Estimation of Peer Effects
- May 02, 2016: Coping with Risk: The Effects of Shocks on Sexually Transmitted Infections and Transactional Sex in Rural Tanzania
- May 09, 2016: Decentralization and Efficiency of Subsidy Targeting: Evidence from Chiefs in Rural Malawi
- May 16, 2016: Poverty, Aspirations, and the Economics of Hope: A Framework for Study with Preliminary Results from the Oaxaca Hope Project
- September 26, 2016: Direct Measurement of Efficiency Gains from Land Titling: PROCEDE's Effect upon the Productivity of Mexican Agriculture
- October 03, 2016: Effort or Outputs? A Field Experiment to Improve Student Performance
- October 10, 2016: Agricultural Insurance when Farmers Greatly Value Certainty: Results from Field Experiments in Burkina Faso
- October 20, 2016: Migration and violence: how legacies of war shape migration decisions
- October 31, 2016: Who's the Boss? Intrahousehold Valuation, Preference Heterogeneity, and Demand for an Agricultural Technology in India
- November 22, 2016: The impact of rural road rehabilitation in Nicaragua
- November 29, 2016: The System of Rice Intensification (SRI): Adoption Patterns & Household Impacts
- December 06, 2016: Is Tourism a "Win-win" for Conservation and Poverty Reduction? A Bioeconomic General Equilibrium Perspective
- January 10, 2017: In Pursuit of a Green Revolution in Africa
- January 31, 2017: Leveraging the Lottery for Financial Inclusion: Lotto-Linked Savings Accounts in Haiti
- February 02, 2017: Raising Achievement Among Microentrepreneurs: An Experimental Test of Goals, Incentives, and Support Groups in Medellin, Colombia
- April 03, 2017: The Economic Costs of Low Caloric Intake: Evidence from India
- April 10, 2017: Asset Insurance Markets and Chronic Poverty
- April 17, 2017: The economic costs of depression: Towards a theory of psychological poverty traps
- April 24, 2017: Opportunities for Social Mobility Promote Effort: Evidence from a Nationwide Scholarship Program in Colombia
- May 01, 2017: "Jobless Growth" and Individual Earnings in a Developing Economy: Indonesia
- May 08, 2017: Barriers to Contracting in Village Economics: A Test for Enforcement Constraints
- May 15, 2017: Revisiting the Effect of Food Aid on Conflict: A Methodological Caution
- May 22, 2017: Strategic Interactions and Dynamic Behavior in Migration in Rural Mexico
- June 05, 2017: Trading off nutrition and education? A panel data analysis of the dissimilar welfare effects of Organic and Fairtrade standards
- October 10, 2017: General Equilibrium Effects of (Improving) Public Employment Programs: Experimental Evidence from India
- October 17, 2017: Practice Job Talk: Unpacking the Causal Relationships between Income and Psychological Well-Being
- October 24, 2017: Practice Job Talk: The Farmer and The Fates: Perceptions of Self-efficacy, Learning, and Investment in a Stochastic Production Process
- October 31, 2017: Political Turnover, Bureaucratic Turnover, and the Quality of Public Services
- November 01, 2017: Immunization in Northern Nigeria
- November 08, 2017: Information Delivery under Endogenous Communication: Experimental Evidence from the Indian Demonetization
- November 29, 2017: The Demand for Off-grid Solar Power: Evidence from Rural India’s Surprisingly Competitive Retail Power Market
- December 06, 2017: Money, Masculinity, and Men’s Health: Experimental Evidence on Demand for a Preventive Health Input
- March 07, 2018: Media and Motivation: The effect of performance pay on writers and content
- March 13, 2018: Telephone Directories for Mobile Phone Networks
- April 03, 2018: Unity in Diversity? How Intergroup Contact Can Foster Nation Building
- April 09, 2018: Adolescent Political Exposure and Gender Preferences in Adulthood: A Study of Chinese Counties during 1950-1990
- April 10, 2018: Migrants and Firms: Evidence from China
- April 17, 2018: After the Drought: The Impact of Microinsurance on Consumption Smoothing and Asset Protection
- April 24, 2018: Levine Lecture---Improving Health Outcomes For The Bottom Billion: What’s Effective and Why
- May 01, 2018: Can Digital Loans Deliver? Take-Up and Impacts of Digital Loans in Kenya
- May 08, 2018: Demand for Electricity in a Poor Economy: Evidence from Experimental Variation in Rural India
- May 22, 2018: Reevaluating Agricultural Productivity Gaps with Longitudinal Microdata
- May 29, 2018: Cumulative Impacts of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs: Experimental Evidence from Indonesia
- June 05, 2018: How Do We Choose Our Identity? A Revealed Preference Approach Using Food Consumption
- June 12, 2018: The Interaction of Land and Economic Reforms in the Modernization of Chilean Agriculture
- October 02, 2018: Practice Job Talk: Transaction Costs, Technology Adoption, and Input Subsidies in African Agriculture: Theory and Evidence from Western Kenya
- October 16, 2018: Practice Job Talk: The Farmer and The Fates: Locus of Control and Investment in a Stochastic Production Process
- October 23, 2018: Practice Job Talk: Income, Psychological Well-being, and the Dynamics of Poverty
- October 30, 2018: Procuring Firm Growth: The Effects of Government Purchases on Firm Dynamics
- November 07, 2018: Testing Attrition Bias in Field Experiments (with Sarojini Hirshleifer and Karen Ortiz-Becerra)
- November 14, 2018: Practice Job Talk: Strategic remittances by migrants
- November 28, 2018: Waiting for Napoleon? Historical Democracy and Norms of Cooperation
- December 05, 2018: General Equilibrium Impacts in Imperfect Agricultural Markets: Evidence from the Tanzanian Cotton Industry
- December 06, 2018: Market Power and Spatial Competition in Rural India (Joint with Macro)
- February 12, 2019: Education, Income and Mobility: Experimental Impacts of Childhood Exposure to Progresa after 20 Years (joint with Caridad Araujo)
- February 27, 2019: Nutrition, Religion, and Widowhood in Nigeria
- March 12, 2019: Job Displacement Insurance and Consumption: Evidence from Brazil (with François Gerard)
- April 02, 2019: Improving the quality of index insurance with a satellite-based conditional audit contract
- April 09, 2019: The Encouraging and Distortionary Effects of Conditional Cash Transfers
- April 16, 2019: Paying for power: Prepaid electricity and the spending patterns of the poor
- April 25, 2019: Assessing the Benefits of Long-Run Weather Forecasting for the Rural Poor
- April 30, 2019: Workhorses or White Elephants: The Impacts of Earned Autonomy on State-Owned Enterprises
- May 07, 2019: Student Quality, College Selectivity and the Birth of Firms
- May 14, 2019: Information, Social Networks, and Immigrant Integration: A Randomized Experiment among New U.S. Immigrants from the Philippines
- May 21, 2019: Sleepless in Chennai: The Consequences of Increasing Sleep among the Urban Poor
- May 28, 2019: Estimating Production Functions Using Quantity Information and External Instruments
- June 04, 2019: Human Capital Accumulation and Disasters: Evidence from the Pakistan Earthquake of 2005
- September 24, 2019: Farmers to Entrepreneurs
- October 08, 2019: Risk Preferences and Risk Pooling in Networks: Theory and Evidence from Community Detection in Ghana
- October 15, 2019: Power When It Matters Most: Risk, Investment, and Insurance When Income Drives Bargaining Power
- October 29, 2019: The Producer Response to Eco-certification: Evidence from Coffee in the Brazilian Cerrado
- November 06, 2019: Reporting Peers’ Wrongdoing: Experimental Evidence on the Effect of Financial Incentives on Morally Controversial Behavior
- November 12, 2019: Attending Kindergarten Improves Cognitive but Not Socio-Emotional Development in India
- November 20, 2019: Got (Clean) Milk? Information and Incentives in the Indian Dairy Sector
- December 04, 2019: Do Parents Prefer Effective Schools? Evidence from External Validity and from an Experiment
- January 29, 2020: Agriculture and Nutrition: Research Priorities for the CGIAR
- February 05, 2020: Filling a Niche? The Impacts of a Local Seed Company on Maize Productivity in Kenya
- February 19, 2020: How Do Policymakers Update Their Beliefs?
- March 04, 2020: Intra-household Bargaining and Food Stock Management in Farm Households
- March 10, 2020: Targeting Incentive Contracts in Heterogeneous Populations: Evidence from Walking Payments
- April 21, 2020: Does Parental Out-migration Benefit Left-behind Children’s Schooling Outcomes? — Evidence from Rural China
- September 29, 2020: Bundling Stress Tolerant Seeds and Insurance for Resilient Small-scale Agriculture: Impacts and the Challenge of Learning about Technologies with Stochastic Benefits
- October 06, 2020: How Does Parental Out-migration Affect Left-behind Children’s Schooling Outcomes? – Effect Sizes and Mechanisms
- October 13, 2020: Cancelled
- October 20, 2020: Cancelled
- October 27, 2020: Search Costs and Relational Contracts: The Impact of a Digital Phonebook on Small Business Supply Chains
- November 04, 2020: Decentralization of Land Governance and Elections in Burkina Faso
- November 11, 2020: TBD
- November 18, 2020: Liquidity or Convenience? Heterogeneous Impacts of Mobile Airtime Loans on Communication Expenditure
- November 25, 2020: TBD
- December 02, 2020: TBD
- December 09, 2020: TBD
- Agricultural Economics Workshops
- Library
- News
- AAEA Talks
- 16 ARE Graduate Students, 1 Postdoctoral Scholar to Give Presentations at AAEA Annual Meeting
- ARE at AAEA: Mo Alloush: Income, Psychological Well-being, and the Dynamics of Poverty
- ARE at AAEA: Charlotte Ambrozek: The churning of the seasons: Agricultural employment and SNAP certification cycles
- ARE at AAEA: Jesus Arellano Gonzalez: Estimating climate change damages in data scarce and non-competitive settings: an application to Mexico
- ARE at AAEA: Oscar Barriga Cabanillas: The effect of local industry competition and trade on firm productivity. Evidence from the Mexican manufacturing industry
- ARE at AAEA: Marieke Fenton: 2018 AAEA Extension Competition: Benefits of Virus Screening in California Grapevines
- ARE at AAEA: Matthew Gammans: Climate econometrics: Can the panel approach account for long-run adaptation?
- ARE at AAEA: Jarrett Hart: Drink Beer for Science: An Experiment on Consumer Preferences for Local Craft Beer
- ARE at AAEA: Alexandra E. Hill: The Minimum Wage and Productivity: A Case Study of California Strawberry Pickers
- ARE at AAEA: Xuemei Li: Impact of EBT Transition on WIC Participation
- ARE at AAEA: Jonathan G. Malacarne: The Farmer and The Fates: Locus of Control and Investment in a Stochastic Production Process
- ARE at AAEA: Aleksandr Michuda: Political Contributions and the Case of South African Land Reform
- ARE at AAEA: Laura Paul: Rain on the Parade: hurdles to adoption of maize with weather-contingent advantages
- ARE at AAEA: Zach Rutledge: Immigration and Economic Performance Across the Fifty United States from 1980–2015
- ARE at AAEA: Ashley Spalding: Willingness to Pay for Local, Value-Added Goods
- ARE at AAEA: Matthieu Stigler: Supply response at the field-level: disentangling area and yield effects
- ARE at AAEA: Tor Tolhurst: Model-free detection of a speculative asset bubble: Evidence from the world market in superstar wines
- ARE at AAEA: Daniel Tregeagle: The Optimal Management of Orchards
- AAEA Presentation by Heidi Schweizer: Impacts of the U.S. Ethanol Boom on Intermodal and Intramodal Competition in Corn Transportation Markets/Response of U.S. Soybean Flows to the Panama Canal Expansion: A Positive Mathematical Programming Model
- AAEA Presentation by Ruben Irvin Rojas Valdes: The Dynamic Migration Game: A Structural Econometric Model and Application to Rural Mexico
- AAEA Presentation by Meilin Ma: Earthbound Labor and Incomplete Exit from Farming in China: Multiple Distortions and Nonseparable Decisions
- AAEA Presentation by Amanda R. Lindsay: Evaluating local impacts of marine-based stimulus policies amid market imperfections in rural Indonesia
- AAEA Presentation by Anubhab Gupta: General Equilibrium Impacts under Imperfect Agricultural Markets
- AAEA Presentation by Yaxi Chen: Returns to Household Wealth and Wealth Inequality in China: New Evidence from the China Household Finance Survey
- AAEA Presentation by Huang Chen: Agricultural Risk, Insurance, and the Land - Productivity Inverse Relationship
- AAEA Presentation by Ellen M. Bruno: Agricultural Groundwater Markets: An Analysis of the Gains from Trade and the Role of Market Power
- AAEA Presentation by Samual Bird: Agricultural Technology Adoption and Staple Price Risk in Kenya
- Alumni
- Career Workshop Features Alumnae Discussing Employment Opportunities with ARE Master’s Degree
- Ted Gilliland, Jim Sanchirico and Ed Taylor Show Impacts of Cash Transfers on Natural Resources in PNAS Article
- Jim Sanchirico and Four UCD ARE Alumni Document Spillovers from Fishery Management in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
- Department Professors and Alumni Give Presentations about Pollination Economics in the Face of Pollinator Decline
- J. Edward Taylor and Diane Charlton’s New Book The Farm Labor Problem: A Global Perspective Published by Elsevier Academic Press
- New Website on Farm Labor Launched by UCD ARE
- Ph.D. Alumni Roheim and Anderson Named Fellows of the International Institute for Fisheries Economics and Trade (IIFET)
- John Bovay and Dan Sumner Show Long-Run Market Effects of the Food Safety Modernization Act in the journal Applied Economics Perspectives and Policy
- Department Alumni Sweep Marine Resource Economics Outstanding Article Awards
- Ph.D. Alumnus K. Aleks Schaefer Wins AAEA Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award
- Article by Jisang Yu (Ph.D. Graduate) and Professor Dan Sumner on How Subsidized Crop Insurance Affects Crop Choices Published in Agricultural Economics
- Professor Julian Alston and Abigail Okrent win AARES Quality of Research Discovery Award for The Effects of Farm and Food Policy on Obesity in the United States
- 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"
- Katrina Jessoe and Colleagues' Climate Change Study Featured in USA Today Article
- 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”
- Michael K. Wohlgenant: 2016 ARE Outstanding Ph.D. Alumni Award
- ARE Jobs
- Open Position: Academic Coordinator II, Assistant Director, California Agribusiness Executive Seminar and Communications Director, Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics
- Open Position: Academic Coordinator Asst. Director, California Agribusiness Executive Seminar (CAES) and Communications Director, Giannini Foundation
- Open Position: Agricultural Issue Center - Project Scientist
- Open Position: Lecturer for 2019-2020
- Open Position: Assistant/Associate Professor of Marine Resource Economics
- Open Position: Assistant Professor of Environmental Economics
- Open Position: Assistant Cooperative Extension Specialist – Economics of Sustainable Agricultural Management
- Open Position: Lecturer for 2018-19
- Open Position: Assistant/Associate Professor of Marine Resource Economics
- Open Positions in Natural Resource Economics and Marine Resource Economics
- Position Available: Assistant Professor of Econometrics
- Position Available: Project Scientist
- Position Available: Lecturer for 2016-17
- Position Available: Assistant Specialist in Cooperative Extension – Livestock and Rangeland Economics
- Position Available: Assistant Professor of Economic Development
- Position Available: Assistant Professor of Econometrics
- Position Available: Lecturer
- Position Available: Assistant Professor
- Awards
- Pierre Mérel Receives the Christophe Baron Prize for Best Wine Economics Presentation
- Richard Sexton Recipient of 2019 CAES Award of Distinction
- Miki Khanh Doan Wins 2019 Erika C.H. Meng Scholarship for Development Policy and Research
- Ellen Bruno wins AAEA Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award
- Michael Carter Wins AAEA Publication of Enduring Quality Award
- Tor Tolhurst Wins Western Agricultural Economics Association Outstanding Graduate Paper Award
- Pierce Donovan: 2019 ARE Scott McNiven Community Service Award
- Stephen Vosti Awarded 2019 Chancellor's Award for International Engagement
- Bruno Awarded Best Dissertation and Wang Awarded Best Thesis of ARE Department in 2018
- Professor J. Edward Taylor Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Professor Williams Receives AAEA Publication of Enduring Quality Award
- Professors Carter and Smith Win AAEA Outstanding AJAE Article Award
- Six ARE Ph.D. Students Awarded 2018-19 Social Science Graduate Student Awards
- Anubhab Gupta and Joakim Weill Receive Outstanding Graduate Teaching Awards
- Saitone Receives Academic Federation Excellence in Research Award
- Associate Professor Jessoe's Research Highlighted as One Way Philanthropy Benefits UC Davis Students
- Ph.D. Candidate Xiaomeng Cui Receives Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad Award
- Schaefer's Dissertation and Valdes-Donoso's Thesis Named ARE Department's Best of 2017
- Associate Professor Katrina Jessoe Named 2018 Chancellor's Fellow
- Jinmahn Jo and Daniel Mazzone Receive Provost’s First-Year Fellowship
- Jonathan Malacarne Receives Provost's Dissertation-Year Fellowship
- Ellen Bruno Awarded for Writing the Most Downloaded Article of the Year in ARE Update
- John Freebairn: 2017 Outstanding PhD Alumni Award
- Professor Julian Alston Wins EAAE Outstanding ERAE Journal Article for "Intellectual Property in Plant Breeding: Comparing Different Levels and Forms of Protection"
- Julian Alston Wins Multiple AAEA Awards for "Effects of U.S. Public Agricultural R&D on U.S. Obesity and its Social Costs"
- Christian Lovell Wins Anthony Grano Scholarship at 2017 AAEA Annual Meeting
- Emeritus Professors Honored by PROSE Awards for Ecosystems of California
- UC Davis Tops World Rankings in Agricultural Economics and Policy
- C.-Y. Cynthia Lin Lawell Wins Award for Economics of Groundwater Management
- Assets and Market Access Innovation Lab Team Wins BIFAD Award for Scientific Excellence
- Ted Gilliland and Brittney Goodrich: Provost's Dissertation Year Fellowships
- Eliana Zeballos Wins 2016 IBES Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Competition
- Heidi Schweizer: 2016 ARE Scott McNiven Community Service Award
- Elizabeth Clark-Anibaba: Eleanor and Harry Walker Academic Advising Award
- Kailin Kroetz: AERE Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award
- Julian Alston Honored with IAAE's Highest Award
- John Bovay: Richardson-Applebaum Award for Best Ph.D. Dissertation
- Faculty and Graduate Students Earn Top Awards at AAEA Meeting
- Ghada Elabed: IAAE's Carl K. Eicher Award
- Eliana Zeballos and Zoë Plakias: ARE Scott McNiven Community Service Award
- J. Edward Taylor Recognized as AAEA Fellow
- Anil Bhargava: 2014 Gordon A. King Award for Best Dissertation
- Aaron Smith: AAEA Quality of Communication Award
- Gabriel Lade: Provost's Dissertation Year Fellowship
- Alex McCalla: Honorary Doctorate of Science, University of Alberta
- ARE Grad Students Sweep the Awards in the North American Association of Fisheries Economists (NAAFE) Best Student Paper Contest in 2013
- Matt Reimer: Best Student Paper Prize
- 2012 Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award
- Michael Carter: USAID Award for Development Economics
- Alex F. McCalla: UC Davis Emeriti Association, UC Davis Distinguished Emeritus Professor Award 2011–2012
- James Wilen: 2011 Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Publication of Enduring Quality Award
- Julian Alston: 2011 Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, Quality of Research Discovery Award
- Julian Alston: 2011 Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, Quality of Communication Award, Honorable Mention
- Nathan Hendricks: Outstanding Dissertation Award
- Roberta Cook: Fresh Produce Industry Award
- Travis Lybbert: Quality of Research Discovery Award
- Jeffrey Williams: Distinguished Scholarly Public Service Award
- National Survey of Ph.D. Programs: UCD ARE Ranks Among the Highest
- Travis Lybbert: AAEA Outstanding AJAE Article Award
- James Wilen: AAEA Quality of Research Discovery Award
- Santiago Bucaram Wins the Erika C.H. Meng Scholarship
- Christopher Rue: WAEA Outstanding M.S. Thesis Award
- Kelly Cobourn: AAEA Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award
- Events
- Webinar Series Examined CA Food Supply Chain During COVID-19
- Webinar Series to Examine CA Food Supply Chain During COVID-19
- ARE professor Ashish Shenoy Presents as Part of COVID-19 Recovery Webinar
- COVID-19’s Impact on Global Agricultural Supply Chains and the Challenges Ahead with Distinguished Professor Daniel Sumner
- ARE Professor Daniel Sumner Joined Savor Lecture Event on COVID-19 and the Food Supply Chain
- Ashish Shenoy and ARE Students Present Online at Annual Pacific Conference for Development Economics
- Annual ARE Faculty-Grad Student Ski Day Held at Alpine Meadows
- Bringing Statistical Methodology to Big Data Problems in Agricultural and Environmental Economics Workshop
- Seminar Presents Company’s Novel Approach to Marketing Nonbrowning Arctic® Apples as GM Foods that Benefit Consumers
- 20th Biennial California Agribusiness Executive Seminar Examines Strategies for Competing in a Changing Environment
- Galt High School FFA Issues Team Visits AIC to Discuss Sustainable Groundwater Management Act
- Symposium on Future of the Food Value Chain in the Digital Age Draws Large Crowd
- Ph.D. Students Wu and Weill Learn Cutting-Edge Computational Methods at nICE2018
- Professor Sumner and Agriculture Leaders Meet with Gov. Brown on Trade Turmoil
- Master’s Students Benefit from Career Development Workshop
- Master’s Program Capstone Project Turns Theory to Empirics for Benefit of Wonderful Company, Students
- Labor-Related Issues in California and U.S. Agriculture Examined in NAWS Workshop and NAFTA, H-2A, Immigration, and ALRB Conference
- PacDev18 Draws Hundreds of Development Economists Interested in Advancing Research
- Ph.D. Candidates Practice Conference Talks and Receive Advice from Professors and Peers
- June 28-29: Conference on the Economics of Asset Dynamics and Poverty Traps
- Governor Brown Speaks at Giannini Foundation Forum on Climate Change
- 50th Anniversary of the PhD Program
- Faculty Joins UC Delegation to China
- Picnic Day Reunion for Managerial Economics Alumni
- 2012 Pacific Development Conference
- California Small Farm Conference Report
- Giannini Foundation Lecture: John List
- Giannini Foundation Lecture: Justin Yifu Lin
- Faculty
- ARE Researchers Co-Author New "Statistical Review of California's Organic Agriculture"
- New Report Co-Authored by ARE Distinguished Professor Julian Alston Finds 10 to 1 Return on Investment in International Agricultural Research
- ARE Researchers Publish New Study in the Journal Food Policy Discussing the Future of Work in the Agri-food System in Developing and Developed Countries
- Beekeeping Today Podcast Recently Featured ARE Assistant Cooperative Extension Specialist Brittney Goodrich
- New AAEA Publication Details ARE Professor Kristin Kiesel’s Work Developing Important Campus Support Resource
- ARE Distinguished Professors Richard J. Sexton and Daniel A. Sumner Critique Misguided “Price-Gouging” Lawsuit in New Wall Street Journal Opinion Piece
- ARE Assistant Professor Mark Agerton Addresses Economics of Natural Gas Flaring in New Marketplace Piece
- ARE Researchers Find Social Distancing Varies by Income Level in New PNAS Study
- ARE Distinguished Professor Dan Sumner Addresses Effects of COVID-19 on Dairy Industry in New Marketplace Piece
- Aaron Smith Launches ARE DeLoach Chair Website
- New Study by Ashish Shenoy and Colleagues Highlights Challenges in Scaling up Development Programs from RCTs
- Quirino Paris: Academician’s Academic
- ARE Welcomes Dr. Jamie Hansen-Lewis to Faculty
- Goodhue Presents to International Nut and Dried Fruit Council Academia Executive Education Students
- UCD ARE and Biological and Agricultural Engineering Collaborate on Farm Labor Research in Two New Journal Articles
- Agerton and Co-Author Show Domestic Shipping Constraints, Not Export Ban, Explain Biggest Difference in U.S. and Foreign Crude Oil Prices
- Research by Boucher, Carter, Lybbert and Malacarne Highlighted for Protecting Small Farms in Mozambique from Drought
- Phil Martin Explains Changing Role of H-2A Guest Workers in New Choices Magazine Article
- ARE Update Special Issue Examines 2018 Farm Bill and Brexit
- Western Farm Press Highlights New Cost and Return Study for Walnuts in Sacramento Valley
- Professor Sumner Quoted in USA Today about Possible Effects of Farm Labor Changes in California
- Report Details Positive Impacts of AMA Innovation Lab's Six Years of Research into Global Development
- Lee and Sumner Article: Economics of New CA Regulations on Manure-Sourced Methane Emissions from Livestock Operations
- Professor Taylor Quoted in Fortune Magazine Article 'The Real Cost of Cheap Groceries'
- Philip Martin Quoted about How Changes in Overtime Rules May Affect California Farmworkers
- Tu Jarvis Appointed Faculty Director of Global Centers for Latin America and the Caribbean
- "New California Milk Marketing Regulations Will Not Change Economic Fundamentals," Writes Professor Sumner in AAEA Article
- Professor Dan Sumner Part of UC Davis Big Ideas World Water Initiative Team
- Professor Michael Carter Co-Edits Book of Academic Papers about Development Economics Research on Poverty Traps
- Dr. Karen Klonsky: Distinguished Professional and Warm and Caring Friend
- Andrés Moya and Michael Carter on Violence and Hopelessness in the journal World Development
- Travis Lybbert, Stephen Vosti and Coauthors Report Impacts of Market Trial for Child Micronutrient Supplementation in Journal of Health Economics
- Professor Emeritus Philip Martin Quoted in The Economist about Why Farm-Worker Migration is Booming Worldwide
- Travis Lybbert and Tim Beatty Reflect on Topics, Trends, and Collaborations in the First 100 Years of the American Journal of Agricultural Economics
- Professor Jessoe Discusses Research about What Motivates People to Conserve Water with Public Policy Institute of California
- ARE Welcomes Dr. Mark Agerton to Faculty
- The Economist Highlights Research by Professors Bushnell and Novan about Impacts of Renewable Energy on Wholesale Power Markets
- Emeritus Professor Martin Gives Historical Perspective as Farm Labor Expert in LA Times Article about New United Farm Workers President
- $1.7 Million Grant from USAID to Establish World's First Index Insurance Quality Certification in East Africa
- Professor Lybbert's Research Cited in NY Times as Part of Growing Evidence that Hope Can Be Used as Anti-Poverty Strategy
- 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
- Philip Martin in Cal Ag Journal: Column about Farmers' Response to Tightening Labor Market and Article about 2015 Farmworker Employment
- Professors Taylor and Martin's Comments on California Vineyard Workers Featured in Mother Jones
- Professor Emeritus Martin Quoted in LA Times about Limited Effects New D'Arrigo Bros. and United Farm Workers Contract May Have on Other Produce Companies
- Professor Sumner Tells ABC News How Chinese Tariffs May Have Moderate Effects on Farm Labor, Reduce CA Farm Revenue
- Research by Professor Lybbert and Ph.D. Candidate Paul Demonstrates Benefits of Drought-Tolerant Seeds Backed by Innovative Insurance for Farmers in Tanzania
- Professor Beatty's Research about Low-Cost Approaches to Increasing Gym Attendance Published in Journal of Health Economics
- Professor Michael Carter's Research in Western Africa: Index Insurance Provides Security and Promotes Development for Small-Scale Cotton Farmers and Local Economies
- Congratulations 2018 Graduates!
- Smith and Bushnell Research, Impacts of Petroleum Shipments on Agricultural Prices, Featured in NBER Digest
- ARE in The Economist: Economic Impact of Refugees
- First-Year Seminar Introduces Possibilities of Consulting Profession
- Alston, Sumner, Sambucci: Should California Winemakers Be Worried about China's Tariffs?
- A UC-Mexico Initiative on Climate Change
- Managerial Economics Seniors Present Honors Thesis Research
- UC Agricultural Cost and Return Studies Downloaded by Users 46,607 Times in 2017
- Professor Dan Sumner Quoted in Bloomberg News about Strength of California Almonds
- Dan Sumner: Impacts of Steel and Aluminum Tariffs on Agriculture
- Professor Emeritus Philip Martin's Research on Immigration and Farm Labor Cited in Bloomberg Opinion Piece about Reality of Mechanization Replacing Workers
- Professor Daniel Sumner's Comments about Farm Labor Shortage Quoted in CNBC Story about Increased Use of Automated Harvesting Equipment
- Professor Emeritus Philip Martin Quoted about Actual Number of 'Braceros' in LA Times Article about Braceros Being Honored with Statue in LA
- Michael Carter in Journal of Public Economics with Paper on Economic Polarization and Voting Behavior
- Julian Alston’s Fellows Address in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics
- Bulat Gafarov and Colleagues in Journal of Econometrics with Paper: “Delta-method Inference for a Class of Set-identified SVARs”
- Dalia Ghanem in Journal of Econometrics with Article: “Testing Identifying Assumptions in Nonseparable Panel Data Models”
- Shermain Hardesty Quoted about Walnut Marketing Practices in Ag Alert
- Phil Martin's Column on American Agriculture Imports, Machine, and Migrants Featured in The Hill
- With Climate Change, Insurance May Provide Best Safety Net for World's Poor
- Professor Emeritus Philip Martin's Book about Farm Worker Immigration Referenced in Center for Immigration Studies blog
- Professor J. Edward Taylor Quoted in L.A. Times About Mix of Immigrant and U.S.-Born Farmworkers in California
- Professor Aaron Smith Co-Authors Opinion Piece in The Hill about rethinking USA's Renewable Fuel Standard Mandates
- UC Davis Creates Wine Price Database With Crowdsourcing, Famed Catalogs
- ARE Welcomes Dr. Bulat Gafarov to Faculty
- Philip Martin Quoted in Sacramento Bee: Slowdown in Young, Undocumented Workers from Mexico Leads California Farmers to Choose between Higher Wages or Mechanization
- J. Edward Taylor Discusses Mechanization of Field Labor with LA Times, KCBS Radio
- Pierre Mérel and Mathew Gammans Predict Climate Change Will Cut Cereal Yields
- Colin Carter and Dalia Ghanem Find Evidence That Pollution Reduces Rice Production in China
- Kristin Kiesel and Colleagues Receive USDA Grant to Promote "Farm to Fork" Food Business Incubator in Sacramento
- Katrina Jessoe, Ed Taylor and Dale Manning Find Evidence That Climate Change Will Alter Labor Allocations in Rural Mexico, Including Migration
- Jens Hilscher and Mungo Wilson Propose a New Measure of Systematic Credit Risk
- Aaron Smith and Colleagues Explain Why Grain Futures Contracts Fail to Accurately Price Commodities
- Philip Martin Discusses Farm Labor and Illegal Migration With the New York Times
- Shermain Hardesty Collaborates with UCCE Team to Study the Economic Impact of Local Food Producers
- New CE Specialist Joins ARE: Tina Saitone
- Ashish Shenoy Joins ARE Faculty
- Kristin Kiesel Joins ARE Faculty
- Dan Sumner Interview on EconTalk
- Travis Lybbert and Tim Beatty Named New Editors of the AJAE
- ABC News Interview with Richard Howitt on the California Drought
- Tim Beatty Joins ARE Faculty
- Dalia Ghanem Joins ARE Faculty
- Evaluating the Impacts of Agricultural Development Interventions
- Aaron Smith: CNN Debate on Food or Fuel
- Michael Carter: BREAD Fellow
- Colin Carter: Food vs. Fuel
- $25 million grant aims to boost food security in developing world
- Kevin Novan Joins ARE Faculty
- Quirino Paris: 2011 Agricultural and Applied Economics Association Fellow
- Michael Carter: Satellite-based Livestock Insurance for Kenya
- Argan Oil Production in Morocco
- Managing California's Water: From Conflict to Reconciliation
- Katrina Jessoe Joins ARE Faculty
- Michael Carter Joins ARE Faculty
- Faculty Profile: Cynthia Lin
- Economic Effects of Proposed Restrictions on Egg-laying Hen Housing in California
- What is the Price of Oil?
- California Water Quality: The Role of Agriculture
- Comparing Futures for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta
- Faculty Profile: Travis Lybbert
- Policy Brief: Farm Subsidies and Obesity in the United States
- Faculty Hires
- Faculty Profiles
- Fellowships
- Graduate Students
- New Research Co-authored by ARE Ph.D. Candidate Caitlin Kieran Highlights Importance of Understanding Disagreements Between Spouses in Household Surveys
- Multi-University COVID-19 Survey Seeks Student Input
- ARE Ph.D. Graduates Celebrate Virtual 2020 Graduation Ceremony
- 2020 ARE Graduate Program applicants: Important notice regarding the GRE test
- MS and PhD Programs in Agricultural and Resource Economics Reclassified as STEM
- ARE PhD Candidate Pierce Donovan, Professor Michael Springborn and coauthors publish novel model on cost-effective control of invasive species in the journal Land Economics
- UCD-California Farm Bureau Study Featured in Newsweek Shows How Farmers Are Adjusting to Fewer Workers
- Ph.D. Student Jarrett Hart's Dissertation Research about Market Premium for 'Local' Craft Beer Highlighted in The Conversation
- Maxime Depalle: Economist at Veolia
- Georgi Gabrielyan: Agricultural Economist at USDA Agricultural Marketing Service Dairy Division
- Gerardo Aragon: Associate Professor at University of Monterrey
- Published in Economics Letters: Research Paper by Ph.D. Students Zhu and Gupta about Effects of India's Demonetization on Rural Poor
- Tianxia Zhou: Data Scientist II at Uber
- Huang Chen: Assistant Professor at School of Economics and Chow Center for Economic Research at Xiamen University
- Rubén Irvin Rojas Valdés: Assistant Professor at Center for Research and Teaching in Economics
- Ellen Bruno: UC Berkeley Assistant Specialist in Cooperative Extension
- Ecological Economics Journal Highlights Ph.D. Student Joakim Weill's Master's Thesis Offering a Cost-Benefit Approach for Prioritizing Invasive Species
- Xiaomeng Cui: Assistant Professor at Jinan IESR
- Heidi Schweizer: Assistant Professor at North Carolina State University
- Meilin Ma: Assistant Professor at Purdue University
- Ph.D. Candidate Sam Bird Takes Poverty Research to the Field in Eastern Africa
- K. Aleks Schaefer: Assistant Professor at Royal Veterinary College, University of London
- ARE Students and Faculty Benefit from Insider’s View of Financial Markets through Bloomberg Terminal
- Ted Gilliland: Assistant Professor at Mount Holyoke College
- Kajal Gulati: Research Associate at IMPAQ International
- Brittney Goodrich: Cooperative Extension Assistant Professor at Auburn University
- Dan Scheitrum: Assistant Professor at the University of Arizona
- Eliana Zeballos: Research Agricultural Economist at ERS
- Jacob Marder: Economic Consultant at Robins Kaplan (NYC Office)
- Abbie Turiansky Accepts New Position at Mathematica
- Wenbo Zou: Nankai Experimental Economics Laboratory at Nankai University
- Jisang Yu: Agricultural Economics at Kansas State University
- Zoë Plakias: Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics at The Ohio State University
- Diane Charlton: Agricultural Economics & Economics at Montana State University
- Gabriel Sampson: Agricultural Economics at Kansas State University
- Justin Beaudoin: Economics at Colgate University
- Matthew MacLachlan: Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture
- Patrick McLaughlin: Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture
- Xiaochen Ma: China Center for Health Development Studies at Peking University
- Kassahun Melesse: Applied Economics at Oregon State University
- Jon Einar Flatnes: The Ohio State University
- Emilia Tjernström: University of Wisconsin, Madison
- Gabriel Lade: Economics at Iowa State University
- Jay Abolofia: Environmental Science and Policy at UC Davis
- Karen Thome: USDA Economic Research Service
- Anil Bhargava: University of Michigan
- John Bovay: U.S. Department of Agriculture
- Wei Zhang: Connecticut College
- Jean Paul Pétraud: IMPAQ International
- Kate Fuller: Montana State University
- Derek Farnsworth: University of Florida
- Kailin Kroetz: Resources for the Future
- Ghada Elabed: Mathematica Policy Research
- Andrés Moya: University of Los Andes
- Cloé Garnache: Michigan State University
- Matt Reimer: University of Alaska, Anchorage
- Sarah Janzen: Montana State University
- Joe Janzen: Montana State University
- Congratulations M.S. class of 2011
- In Memoriam
- In the News
- ARE Emeritus Professor, Phil Martin, Discusses Farm Labor in Recent New York Times Magazine Piece “The Scramble to Pluck 24 Billion Cherries in Eight Weeks”
- UC Davis Partners in Launch of New USAID Initiative to Build Research Leadership in Africa
- Rich Sexton on ABC 10: Housing a Growing Population While Preserving Productive Farmland
- UC Davis and USAID Launch New Research Program to Study Rural Poverty Worldwide
- Galt High School FFA Issues Team, Which Worked With the UC Agricultural Issues Center, Won the California State Championship
- UC Davis No. 1 in U.S. for Most Popular Managerial Economics Program
- Job Placements
- Managerial Economics
- Meet Erick Tobar, Incoming Managerial Economics Major
- Launch of New Managerial Economics Website
- 613 Managerial Economics Majors Walk the Stage at Commencement
- Managerial Economics Major Graciela Barajas Gives Inspirational Student Address at 2019 Commencement Ceremony
- Undergraduate Honors Thesis Students Presented Research Papers
- Research Spotlights
- Kristin Kiesel and Co-authors Publish “Consumer and Strategic Firm Response to Nutrition Shelf Labels” in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics
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