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Bradford L. Barham

Professor, Agricultural and Applied Economics
Co-Director, Program on Agricultural Technology Studies

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Telephone:	(608) 265-3090
Fax:	(608) 262-4376
Office Address:	422 Taylor Hall 427 Lorch St. Madison, WI 53706

Prof. Barham's Curriculum Vitae (PDF)

Research Interests

My research program centers on themes related to Wisconsin agriculture, technology adoption and innovation, and environment and development issues, especially in Latin America. I have active research projects on agricultural biotechnology adoption, university ag-biotech patents and spillovers, structural change in Wisconsin dairy farming, the equity and efficiency impacts of land market reforms in Central America, and resource use patterns of peasants in biodiverse regions of the Peruvian Amazon.

Outreach and Extension Interests

My extension program focuses on making PATS useful to the UW-Extension system, especially in the Agriculture and Natural Resource program, as well as to other farmers organizations and other agricultural professionals concerned with the structure, conduct, and performance of agriculture in Wisconsin. As the Co-Director of PATS, my main responsibility is to oversee research-extension projects related to the health and vitality of Wisconsin agriculture and Wisconsin farm families.

Current/Recent Courses

Recent Publications

Boucher, Stephen, Bradford L. Barham and Michael R. Carter "The Impact of Market Friendly Reforms on the Operation of Credit and Land Markets in Honduras and Nicaragua" World Development 33(January 2005)
Barham, Bradford L., Jeremy Foltz, Douglas Jackson-Smith, and Sunung Moon "A Comparative Analysis of rBST Adoption Across Major U.S. Dairy Regions " Review of Agricultural Economics 26(2004)
Barham, Bradford L., Jeremy Foltz, Douglas Jackson-Smith and Sunung Moon "The Dynamics of Agricultural Biotechnology Adoption: Lessons from rBST Use in Wisconsin, 1994-2001" American Journal of Agricultural Economics 86 (February 2004)
Takaski, Yoshito, Bradford L. Barham and Oliver T. Coomes "Risk Coping Strategies in Tropical Forests: Floods, Illnesses, and Resource Extraction" Environmental and Development Economics 9(2004)
Kim, Kwansoo, Bradford L. Barham, Jean-Paul Chavas and Jeremy Foltz "Analysis and Decomposition of Scope Economies:R & D at U.S. Research Universities." Management Science (second review).
Foltz, Jeremy, Bradford Barham, Kwansoo Kim "Synergies or Tradeoffs in University Life Science Research" American Journal of Agricultural Economics 89(2007)
Gitter, Seth, Bradford Barham "Credit, Natural Disasters, Coffee and Educational Attainment in Rural Honduras" World Development 35(2007)
Barham, Bradford, Oliver Coomes "Sunk Costs, Resource Extractive Industries, and Development Outcomes." in , ed. Nature, Raw Materials, and Political Economy: Research in Rural Sociology and Development. Netherlands: Elsevier, 2005, pp.159-186.
Lewis, David, Bradford Barham, Karl Zimmerer "Spatial Externalities in Agriculture and the Environment: Empirical Identification and Policy Implications." Department of Agricultural & Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Takasaki, Yoshito, Bradford Barham, Oliver Coomes "Smoothing Income Against Crop Flood Losses in Amazonia: Rain Forest or Rivers as a Safety Net." Department of Agricultural & Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Gitter, Seth, Bradford Barham "Women’s Power, Conditional Cash Transfers, and Schooling in Nicaragua." Department of Agricultural & Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Chavas, Jean-Paul, Bradford Barham "“On Microeconomic Efficiency and Entrepreneurship under Bounded Rationality,." Department of Agricultural & Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Chavas, Jean-Paul, Bradford Barham "On the Microeconomics of Diversification under Uncertainty and Learning." Department of Agricultural & Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Barham, Bradford, Jeremy Foltz "Patenting, Commercialization, and US Academic Research in the 21st Century: The Resilience of Basic, Federally-funded Open Science." Department of Agricultural & Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Lewis, D.J., Barham, B.L., and K. Zimmerer "Spatial Externalities in Agriculture: Empirical Analysis, Statistical Identification, and Policy Implications." World Development.
Gitter, Seth, Bradford Barham "Women’s Power, Conditional Cash Transfers, and Schooling in Nicaragua." World Bank Economic Review.
Useche, Pilar, Bradford L. Barham, and Jeremy D. Foltz "Integrating Technology Traits and Producer Heterogeneity: A Mixed-Multinomial Model of Genetically Modified Corn Adoption." American Journal of Agricultural Economics.
Jean-Paul Chavas and Bradford L. Barham "On Microeconomic Efficiency under Bounded Rationality." Economic Journal.
Brock, Caroline, Bradford Barham "Farm Structural Change of a Different Kind: Alternative Dairy Farms in Wisconsin – Graziers, Organic, and Amish." Renewable Agriculture.
Seth Gitter and Bradford L. Barham "Conditional Cash Transfers, Shocks, and School Enrollment in Nicaragua." Journal of Development Studies.
Barham, Bradford, Jeremy Foltz "Patenting, Commercialization, and US Academic Research in the 21st Century: The Resilience of Basic, Federally-funded Open Science." Research Policy.

Education

Ph.D., Economics, Stanford University, 1988.
B.A., Economics, University of California at San Diego, Revelle College, 1981