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- February 14, 2005: metafrontier Functions for the Study of Inter-regional Productivity Differences
- March 04, 2005: When Does Homo Economicus Show Up in the Lab? Results from Some New Experiments
- March 09, 2005: What I've Learned in Ninety Years
- April 08, 2005: Optimal fisheries management with stock uncertainty and costly capital adjustment
- April 15, 2005: CEO Turnover and Firm Performance in Chinese Listed Firms
- April 21, 2005: Living with Hogs in Iowa: The Impact of Livestock Facilities on Rural Residential Property Values
- May 02, 2005: Lessons from land and water degradation in Australia: a tale of economics, politics, science, and salt
- May 06, 2005: Fisheries Management Under Cyclical Population Dynamics
- May 13, 2005: Getting Away with Robbery? Patenting Behavior with the Threat of Infringement
- May 20, 2005: The Value of Efficient Search
- June 10, 2005: Efficiency of the Legal System, Regulation Costs and Firm Strategies for Achieving Formality
- September 23, 2005: Testing for Oligopsony Power
- October 07, 2005: A Division of Innovative Labor: Universities, Entrepreneurs, and the Corporate Sector in Agricultural Biotechnology
- October 14, 2005: The Effects of Government Maize Marketing and Trade Policies on Maize Market Prices in Kenya
- October 21, 2005: Segmenting the Wine Market Based on Price: Hedonic Regression when Different Prices mean Different Products
- November 04, 2005: Welfare Measurement under Threats of Environmental Catastrophes
- November 14, 2005: Demand for Marijuana, Cocaine and Heroin: A Multivariate Probit Approach
- January 10, 2006: Do Firms Interact Strategically? An Empirical Analysis of Investment Timing Decisions in Offshore Petroleum Production
- January 12, 2006: Emissions Trading, Electricity Industry Restructuring, and Investment in Pollution Abatement
- January 26, 2006: Exposing Corrupt Politicians: The Effect of Brazil's Publicly Released Audits on Electoral Outcomes
- January 30, 2006: Indian Farmers' Valuation of Yield Distributions: Will Poor Farmers Values 'Pro-Poor' seeds?
- February 03, 2006: A Trait Specific Model of GM Crop Adoption among U.S. Corn Farmers in the Upper Midwest
- February 06, 2006: Identifying Non-Cooperative Behavior Among Spouses: Child Outcomes in Migrant-Sending Households
- February 21, 2006: Huneeus will share insights from his long and illustrious career in the wine industry, including experience in marketing and production.
- February 24, 2006: Public Inputs and Producer Behavior: Growth in U.S. Agriculture
- March 09, 2006: (no title)
- March 10, 2006: Parametric Ex-Ante Evaluation of Site-Specific Technologies
- March 17, 2006: State-Contingent Production Functions: Maximum Entropy Estimation
- April 07, 2006: Pricing and welfare Impacts of Crop Traints, Revisited
- April 24, 2006: Belief Elicitation: An Experimental Comparison of Scoring Rule and Prediction Methods
- May 05, 2006: (no title)
- May 12, 2006: (no title)
- May 19, 2006: (no title)
- June 02, 2006: (no title)
- October 12, 2006: How Should Standards be Set and Met?: An Incomplete Contracting Approach to Delegation in Regulation
- October 26, 2006: Grazing Fees versus Stewardship on Federal Lands
- November 03, 2006: How Decoupled are U.S. Farm Programs in the Long Run?
- November 09, 2006: Sense and Sustainability: Back from the Abyss
- December 01, 2006: (no title)
- January 24, 2007: Estimating the Impact of Climate Change on Crop Yields: The Importance of Non-Linear Temperature Effects
- January 29, 2007: Daylight Time and Energy
- February 02, 2007: Evaluating U.S. Fuel Economy Standards In a model with Producer and household Heterogeneity
- March 08, 2007: (no title)
- March 16, 2007: Discretionary Latitude and Relational Contracting
- April 02, 2007: Returns to Capital in Microenterprises: Evidence From a Field Experiment
- April 23, 2007: School Enrollment Impacts of Nontraditional Household Structure
- April 30, 2007: A Land of Milk and Honey with Streets Paved with Gold: Do Emigrants have Over-Optimistic Expectations about Incomes Abroad?
- May 07, 2007: Finding missing markets: Evidence from an export crop adoption and marketing intervention in Kenya
- May 14, 2007: The Supply and Demand-Side Impacts of Credit Market Information
- May 23, 2007: Optimization and Nonlinear Dynamics
- September 21, 2007: Collective Action in R&D
- October 08, 2007: Issues Facing China's Agricultural Sector
- October 19, 2007: Editorial Favoritism: Theory and Preliminary Evidence from the AER
- October 29, 2007: Indirect Effects of an Aid Program: How do Cash Transfers Affect Non-Eligibles' Consumption?
- November 05, 2007: Measuring Pre-Commited Quantities Through Consumer Price Formation
- January 14, 2008: Does Social Capital Matter? Evidence from a Five Country Group Lending Experiment
- February 11, 2008: Inequality in China: Findings from the China Household Income Project
- February 21, 2008: Poverty Traps and Social Protection
- March 11, 2008: Changing Households' Investments and Aspirations through Social Interactions: Evidence from a Randomized Transfer Program in a Low-Income Country
- March 17, 2008: Strategic Licensing of Product Innovations
- March 20, 2008: The Social Costs and Benefits of Biofuel Policies
- May 16, 2008: Village Elections, Public Goods Investments and Pork Barrel Politics, Chinese-style
- May 16, 2008: Hydroeconomic Modeling
- October 06, 2008: Changing Context and Prospects for Agricultural Development
- October 17, 2008: The Use of Adaptive Control in Adaptive Management Applications: The Case of Shallow Lakes
- November 10, 2008: How pro-poor is the international recruitment of seasonal agricultural labor from developing countries? Evidence from New Zealand's new Recognised Seasonal Employer Scheme
- November 14, 2008: Searching Functional Forms for High-Dimensional Demand Systems With Application to Food Consumption in Rural China
- January 13, 2009: Democracy, Market Liberalization and Political Preferences
- January 15, 2009: Improved Source, Improved Quality? Estimating the Water Quality Gains from Groundwater Expansion in Rural India
- January 20, 2009: Protectionism versus Risk in Screening for Invasive Species
- January 22, 2009: Recovering Preferences from a Dual-Market Locational Equilibrium
- January 26, 2009: The Effects of Legal Institutions on the Access to Credit; Evidence from American Indian Reservations
- March 26, 2009: Might Market Distorting Policies Make Sense? Mexico and Beyond
- April 13, 2009: Micro-loans, Bednets and Malaria: Preliminary Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Orissa (India)
- April 21, 2009: Empirical Challenges of Social Capital and Networks
- May 15, 2009: The Effect of Fast Food Restaurants on Obesity
- November 23, 2010: Least-Pearce-first Meets Groundwater Economics
- December 06, 2010: Cheap oil policies and OPEC
- January 18, 2011: Detecting Weak Identification by Bootstrap
- January 19, 2011: The Dynamic Effects of Hurricanes in the US: The Role of Non-Disaster Transfer Payments
- January 25, 2011: Spatial Competition with Changing Market Institutions
- January 28, 2011: Do Consumers Respond to Marginal or Average Price? Evidence from Nonlinear Electricity Pricing
- April 08, 2011: Does Water Quality Matter for Recreation? Evidence from Micro Panel Data
- September 23, 2011: Innovation, Real Primary Commodity Prices and the Business Cycles
- January 27, 2012: The Behavioral Response to Voluntary Provision of an Environmental Public Good: Evidence from ResidentialElectricity Demand
- January 30, 2012: Energy efficiency gains from trade: greenhouse gas emissions and India's manufacturing sector
- February 01, 2012: Strength of Protection for Geographical Indications: Promotion Incentives andWelfare Effects
- February 06, 2012: Toxic Assets: How the Housing Market Responds to Environmental Information Shocks
- February 08, 2012: Valuing the Wind:Renewable Energy Policies and Air Pollution Avoided
- February 10, 2012: The Oath as a commitment device in economics
- February 13, 2012: Do We Need Speed Limits on Freeways
- April 05, 2012: Back to the Future of Green Powered Economies
- January 11, 2013: Time Inconsistency, Expectations and Technology Adoption (with Alessandro Tarozzi)
- January 14, 2013: Semiparametric Estimations under Shape Constraints with Applications to Production Functions
- January 16, 2013: Price Volatility in Food Markets: Can Stock Building Mitigate Price Fluctuations?
- January 18, 2013: Average Partial Effects in Nonseparable Panel Data Models: Identification and Testing
- January 23, 2013: Efficient Conditionally Similar-on-the-Boundary Tests
- January 25, 2013: Understanding Heat and Moisture Interactions in the Economics of Climate Change Impacts and Adaption on Agriculture
- January 28, 2013: Academic Peer Effects with Different Group Assignment Policies: Residential Tracking versus Random Assignment
- March 15, 2013: TBA
- May 31, 2013: Political Environments, Rate Regulation, and Investment in Electricity Grid
- September 12, 2013: 150 Years of Boom and Bust: What Drives Mineral Commodity Prices?
- January 17, 2014: Cash by Any Other Name? Evidence on Labelling From the UK Winter Fuel Payment
- January 21, 2014: Access to Short-term Credit and Consumption Smoothing within the Paycycle
- January 22, 2014: Adaptation to Climate Change: Evidence from US Agriculture
- January 24, 2014: Climate change impacts on US agriculture: Accounting for omitted variables in the hedonic approach
- January 14, 2015: Are Small Firms Labor Constrained? Experimental Evidence from Ghana
- January 16, 2015: Drilling Like There's No Tomorrow: Bankruptcy, Insurance, and Environmental Risk
- January 21, 2015: Bittersweet: How Prices of Sugar-Rich Foods Contribute to the Diet-Related Disease Epidemic in Mexico
- January 23, 2015: Competition and Relational Contracts: Evidence from Rwanda's Coffee Mills
- January 26, 2015: Driven by Fear? The Tail Risk Premium in the Crude Oil Futures Market
- January 28, 2015: Diversity in Government: Evidence from California City Councils
- February 02, 2015: Price Co-Movements and Investment Funds
- February 27, 2015: Can Information Costs Affect Consumer Choice? Nutritional Labels in a Supermarket Experiment
- March 04, 2015: Mortgage Default with Positive Equity
- April 07, 2015: Credit Ratings and Credit Risk: Is One Measure Enough?
- May 12, 2015: Quality in Open Markets: The Sumo Conjecture
- January 15, 2016: Who Supplies The Nutrients? The Puzzle of Crop Zinc Heterogeneity and Low-Zinc Market Crops in Uganda
- January 15, 2016: Technology Adoption Under Uncertainty: Take‐Up and Subsequent Investment in Zambia
- January 21, 2016: Firms and Farms: The Impact of Agricultural Productivity on the Local Indian Economy
- January 21, 2016: Firm Heterogeneity and the Gains from Technological Adoption: Theory and Measurement
- January 22, 2016: Firm and Market Response to Saving Constraints: Evidence from the Kenyan Dairy Industry
- January 22, 2016: Heterogeneous Treatment Effects with Mismeasured Endogenous Treatment
- January 25, 2016: Job Displacement of Older Workers during the Great Recession: Tight Bounds on Distributional Treatment Effect Parameters using Panel Data
- January 29, 2016: Migration decisions and persistent earnings differentials: Evidence from Thailand
- February 03, 2016: Large-scale Education Reform in General Equilibrium: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from India
- February 25, 2016: Occupation Choices and Education Investments: Unintended Effects of Microcredit
- March 01, 2016: The Effects and Value of a Resistant Perennial Variety: An Application to Pudrición del Cogollo Disease
- March 07, 2016: Evaluation of long-term economic and ecological consequences of continuous and multi-paddock grazing
- March 09, 2016: Calf and Yearling Prices in the Western United States: Spatial, Quality, and Temporal Factors in Satellite Video Auctions
- January 18, 2017: Partial Identification of Power Plant Productivity
- January 20, 2017: Inference on scalar parameters in set–identified affine models
- January 23, 2017: Identification of Average Demand Models
- January 27, 2017: An Econometric Model of Network Formation with an Application to Board Interlocks between Firms
- January 30, 2017: Heterogeneous Endogenous Effects in Networks
- February 01, 2017: Multivalued Treatments and Decomposition Analysis: An application to the WIA Program
- August 31, 2017: Introduction to Stata
- August 31, 2017: Multilevel/Longitudinal Modeling in Stata
- August 31, 2017: Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) using Stata
- January 12, 2018: Temporal Reliability of Revealed Preference Methods for Valuing Water Quality
- January 29, 2018: Industry Dynamics with Social Learning: Evidence from Hydraulic Fracturing
- January 31, 2018: Demanding Innovation: The Impact of Consumer Subsidies on Solar Panel Production Costs
- February 01, 2018: A Dynamic Model of Fishing Cruise Duration
- February 02, 2018: Liquid Constrained in California: Estimating the Potential Gains from Water Markets
- February 06, 2018: Forced Cooperation versus Competitive Holdouts: A study of efficient land use policies in the oil and natural gas industry
- February 07, 2018: Drilling to Learn: Information, Royalty Rates and Drilling Decisions in the Haynesville Shale
- February 08, 2018: Fish or Flight: The Impact of Transferable Access Rights on Rural Alaskan Salmon Harvesters
- February 15, 2018: Intertemporal Quota Arbitrage in Multispecies Fisheries
- March 21, 2018: Variable Pricing and the Social Cost of Renewable Energy
- April 09, 2018: A Mixed Bag: The Hidden Time Costs of Regulating Consumer Behavior
- April 23, 2018: Global Sourcing in Oil Markets
- May 17, 2018: Modeling Fluctuations in the Global Demand for Commodities
- May 31, 2018: Financial Inclusion and Contract Terms: Evidence from Mexico
- October 31, 2018: California Ag Labor Crises — End of the Dream or Tipping Point for Innovation?
- January 08, 2019: The Impact of Nutrient Management Regulations on NY Farmland Values
- January 10, 2019: Price and Welfare Effects of the Food Safety Modernization Act Produce Safety Rule
- January 15, 2019: A Bayesian State-Space Approach for Invasive Species Management: The Case of Spotted Wing Drosophila
- January 17, 2019: The Great Bee Migration: Supply Analysis of Honey Bee Colony Shipments into California for Almond Pollination Services
- January 23, 2019: The Welfare Costs of Misaligned Incentives: Energy Inefficiency and the Principal-Agent Problem
- January 25, 2019: Economic Effects of Environmental Crises: Evidence from Flint, Michigan
- January 28, 2019: How Hurricanes Sweep Up Housing Markets: Evidence from Florida
- January 30, 2019: Does Air Pollution Lower Productivity? Evidence from Manufacturing in India
- February 01, 2019: Clearing the Air: the Role of Technology Adoption in the Electricity Generation Sector
- February 05, 2019: Non-Parametric Tests of the Tragedy of the Commons
- February 07, 2019: Fishermen's location choice under spatio-temporal update of expectations
- February 19, 2019: Protecting Endangered Species: Does a Zero Tolerance Policy Work?
- February 21, 2019: Mechanisms Matter for Evaluating the Economic Impacts of Marine Reserves
- March 08, 2019: The OSF Story, Including the Flagship Development and Commercialization of Nonbrowning Arctic Apples
- April 09, 2019: Synthetic Difference In Differences
- May 16, 2019: Regulating Biological Resources: Lessons from Marine Fisheries in the U.S.
- May 24, 2019: Bringing Statistical Methodology to Big Data Problems in Agricultural and Environmental Economics
- December 02, 2019: Irrigation, adaptation and climate change in Mexico: panel data evidence for rainfed and irrigated Maize
- January 07, 2020: Disaggregate Consumption Feedback and Energy Conservation
- February 04, 2020: Dynamic Stochastic Modeling of the Economy and Climate
- February 25, 2020: Do No Harm? The Welfare Consequences of Behavioral Interventions
- April 09, 2020: Willingness to Pay for Residential Renewable Electricity and Green Jobs in Aguascalientes, Mexico -- A Discrete Choice Experiment
- April 17, 2020: TBD
- 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 28, 2020: TBD
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- 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 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
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- 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
- 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
- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- John Bovay: U.S. Department of Agriculture
- Wei Zhang: Connecticut College
- Jean Paul Pétraud: IMPAQ International
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- UC Davis and USAID Launch New Research Program to Study Rural Poverty Worldwide
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