Agricultural and Applied Economics

Award for Best Paper

Jean-Paul Chavas, Professor, and co-author Salvatore Di Falco won the Award for Best Paper at the 12th Congress of the European Association of Agricultural Economists (August 2008). The paper is entitled "Agro-Ecosystem Productivity in Developing Countries: The Economics of Crop Biodiversity in the Highlands of Ethiopia."

Meet Our Faculty

Guanming Shi

Research Areas:
Applied Microeconomics, Intellectual Property Rights and Industrial Organization, Environmental and Resource Economics.

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Upcoming Events

October 15
Applied Economics Workshop (4:00pm-5:00pm)
Bradford Barham & Daniel Prager - Faculty Time and Productivity in the Information Era

October 22
Applied Economics Workshop (4:00pm-5:00pm)
Paul Mitchell - Risk Sharing and Incentives with External Equity Financing and Crop Insurance

October 23
Development Economics Workshop (4:00pm-5:00pm)
David Garber - An Applied General Equilibrium Model to Analyze Oil Revenue Investment Decisions in Chad

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Dairy Markets Website Highlights Farm Bill

The "Understanding Dairy Markets" website, under the direction of Dr. Brian Gould, has created an area devoted to the 2008 Farm Bill. Some features include links to specific Farm Bill titles, fact sheets concerning specific topics and a listing of additional resources.

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Featured Publications

The Productivty Effects of Extension Appointments in Land Grant Colleges, by Jeremy D. Foltz & Bradford L. Barham. AAE Staff Paper No. 527, July 2008.
A Cost Approach to Economic Analysis Under State-Contingent Production Uncertainty, by Jean-Paul Chavas. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 90:2 (May 2008): 435-446.
Constructing and Reconstructing Gender: Reference Group Effects and Women's Demand for Entrepreneurial Capital, by Diana Fletschner & Michael R. Carter. Journal of Socio-Economics, 37 (2008): 672-693.
Economic Analysis of Supplemental Deductible Coverage as Recommended in the USDA's 2007 Farm Bill Proposal, by Paul D. Mitchell & Thomas O. Knight. Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 37:1 (April 2008): 117-131.
Land and Economic Development: New Institutional Arrangements, by Daniel W. Bromley. Toward a Vision of Land in 2015, ed. Gary C. Cornia & Jim Riddell. Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2008: 217-236.
Prospectsfor Skills-Based Export Growth in a Labour-Abundant, Resource-Rich Economy: Indonesia in Comparative Perspective, by Ian Coxhead & Muqun Li. AAE Staff Paper No. 524, April 2008.
The Effect of Ethanol Production on the U.S. National Corn Price, by T. Randall Fortenbery and Hwanil Park. AAE Staff paper No. 523, April 2008.
Modeling Regional Economic Growth with a Focus on Amenities, by Steven C. Deller, Victor Lledo & David W. Marcouiller. Review of Urban and Regional Development Studies, 20:1 (March 2008): 1-21.