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2016 AAEA Annual Meeting Program

Welcome to Boston!

AAEA PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

Thank you very much for being a part of our AAEA Annual Meeting here in Boston. We are pleased to

welcome you to this magniﬁcent city. We have a fantastic program planned. Please consider downloading

the AAEA Meeting Mobile App, which allows you convenient access to the program and planning tools to

organize your time. You can travel a bit more lightly if you have chosen to go green without a paper copy

of the program.

Our meeting kicks off with three pre-conferences on Saturday on Big Data in Applied Economics, the

“How-To” of Experimental Economics, and a Brewing Industry Tour. Next comes Networking Sunday,

which is packed with Section and Committee Meetings, student competitions, and Section/Committee

Receptions. The Keynote Address at 6 pm on Sunday features Hilary Hoynes from the University of

California, Berkeley, who will discuss why SNAP matters. Hoynes, who is co-Editor of the American Economic Review, explains

how food assistance programs impact poverty, food insecurity and health. The Sunday Poster Session directly follows, allowing you

to get a ﬁrst look at the posters and meet authors before ﬂowing into the Welcome Reception to meet up with old friends and make

new ones. Please join us for appetizers and beverages to discuss research and catch up.

Monday begins with Jayson Lusk’s Presidential Address on Consumer Research with Big Data. Jayson is provocative and

entertaining, so his talk is a must-see event. As you move into the Concurrent Sessions, expect to have to make some hard choices!

The program features Invited Paper Sessions, Section Tracks, Selected Presentation Sessions, and Organized Symposia chock full

of new work and engaging conversations about applied economics and policy. Highlights on Monday include the Applied Risk

Analysis (ARA) section speaker Jeffrey Frankel, Harvard University, who will speak at the ARA luncheon and COSBAE, CWAE,

Extension luncheon speaker Ralph Christy, Cornell. Coffee and tea will be on tap in the morning and again during a break in the

afternoon to keep everyone going.

The Academic Bowl Finals are at 6 pm on Monday. We will honor and recognize the impressive work of AAEA members at the

Awards and Fellows Recognition Ceremony at 6:30 pm on Monday. Receiving the highest recognition of Fellow at this meeting

are Klaus Deininger, Jikun Huang, Madhu Khanna, John Miranowski, and Junjie Wu. Please congratulate them when you see

them throughout the meeting. Directly following the awards ceremony, Daron Acemoglu, MIT, will speak at the International

Section Lecture and Reception. Following that at 9 pm, please socialize at the reunions and receptions that are hosted by universities

and other institutions. You don’t have to be an alumnus to attend a reunion. It’s a great chance to get to know your colleagues from

other universities in a casual setting.

Tuesday begins with conversations on economics and policy with Jo Swinnen’s Fellow’s Address at 8:30 am on the Economics

and Politics of Food Standards and Global Value Chains. The day continues with a full program of Concurrent Sessions and a

Networking Lunch make for a stimulating program. You are welcome to grab some food from the networking lunch and attend the

Priorities and Solutions Project session at 11:30. UC Berkeley’s Alain de Janvry will give the Galbraith Forum Lecture on what

ﬁeld experiments can tell us about the low adoption rate of technological innovations presumed to be privately proﬁtable. This wraps

up the program in the early evening on Tuesday, followed by the closing reception. The Post-conference Workshops on Wednesday

include a USDA Project Directors’ meeting, an Extension Tour, and a workshop on Computational Economics.

I am excited to meet you at our Annual Meeting and look forward to talking with you. We thank all of our members who gave their

time through organizing tracks and sessions, reviewing selected presentation abstracts, planning Pre- and Post-conference Workshops,

organizing student activities and competitions, and serving on committees to select award winners and Fellows. Thanks to all of

the participants who have brought their work to Boston to share with colleagues. Thanks to our AAEA Staff for providing excellent

meeting development and management. All your efforts are critical to the success of our joint endeavor of creating a meeting space

that supports and inspires our work and us.

Jill J. McCluskey

AAEA President

Table of Contents

Maps ...............................................................................................................................................................................Inside Cover

AAEA President’s Message: Welcome to Boston! ................................................................................................................................1

AAEA Leadership ..............................................................................................................................................................................3

Thank you to the Selected Presentations Committee .........................................................................................................................4

Meeting Information .........................................................................................................................................................................5

Sponsors ............................................................................................................................................................................................6

Exhibitors ..........................................................................................................................................................................................8

Undergraduate Recruitment Fair .......................................................................................................................................................9

Plenary Sessions ..............................................................................................................................................................................10

Speaker Series Events .......................................................................................................................................................................12

Meeting Timeline ............................................................................................................................................................................14

Reunions & Receptions ...................................................................................................................................................................19

Posters .............................................................................................................................................................................................21

Types of Concurrent Sessions ..........................................................................................................................................................30

Concurrent Sessions ........................................................................................................................................................................31

Topical Index ................................................................................................................................................................................143

Participant and Author Index ........................................................................................................................................................150

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AGRICULTURAL & APPLIED ECONOMICS ASSOCIATION EXECUTIVE BOARD

AAEA Leadership

President: Jill McCluskey, Washington State University

President-Elect: Jayson Lusk, Oklahoma State University

Past President: Barry Goodwin, North Carolina State University

Past Presidents

William J. Spillman 1910-12

George F. Warren 1913

Daniel H. Otis 1914

Andrew Boss 1915

Harcourt A. Morgan 1916

Henry W. Jeffers 1917

George A. Billings 1918

John R. Fain 1919

Henry C. Taylor 1920

Walter F. Handschin1921

Benjamin H. Hibbard 1922

Thomas P. Cooper 1923

Edwin G. Nourse 1924

Milburn L. Wilson 1925

Thomas N. Carver 1926

John I. Falconer 1927

Lewis C. Gray 1928

H.E. Erdman 1929

Harold C.M. Case 1930

Oscar C. Stine 1931

John D. Black 1932

Howard R. Tolley 1933

William I. Meyers 1934

Waldo E. Grimes 1935

Joseph S. Davis 1936

Oscar B. Jesness 1937

Ernest C. Young 1938

Irving G. Davis 1939

Foster F. Elliot 1939

Hugh B. Price 1940

Murray R. Benedict 1941

George S. Wehrwein 1942

Sherman E. Johnson 1943

Eric Englund 1944

Lawrence J. Norton 1945

Frederic V. Waugh 1946

Asher Hobson 1947

William G. Murray 1948

Oris V. Wells 1949

Warren C. Waite 1950

Forrest F. Hill 1951

George H. Aull 1952

Harry R. Weilman 1953

Thomas K. Cowden 1954

Joseph Ackerman 1955

Karl Brandt 1956

H. Brooks James 1957

Harry C. Trelogan 1958

Raymond G. Bressler, Jr. 1959

Willard W. Cochrane 1960

William H. Nicholls 1961

Bushrod W. Allin 1962

George E. Brandow 1963

Lowell S. Hardin 1964

D. Gale Johnson 1965

Kenneth L. Bachman 1966

Lawrence W. Witt 1967

C.E. Bishop 1968

Harold F. Breimyer 1969

Dale E. Hathaway 1970

Jimmye S. Hillman 1971

Vernon W. Ruttan 1972

Emery N. Castle 1973

Kenneth R. Tefertiller 1974

James Nielson 1975

James T. Bonnen 1976

Kenneth R. Farrell 1977

R.J. Hildreth 1978

Bernard F. Stanton 1979

Richard A. King 1980

Luther G. Tweeten 1981

G. Edward Schuh 1982

Leo C. Polopolus 1983

Neil E. Harl 1984

C.B. Baker 1985

William G. Tomek 1986

Joseoh Havlicek, Jr. 1987

Daniel I. Padberg 1988

Lester V. Manderscheid 1989

Sandra S. Batie 1990

Warren E. Johnston 1991

Bruce R. Beattie1992

James P. Houck 1993

Peter J. Barry 1994

Lawrence W. Libby 1995

Vernon Eidman 1996

Ralph D. Christy 1997

Walter J. Armbruster 1998

C. Richard Shumway 1999

John M. Antle 2000

Bruce L. Gardner 2001

Jean D. Kinsey 2002

Susan Offutt 2003

Jon A. Brandt 2004

Laurian J. Unnevehr 2005

Per Pinstrup-Andersen 2006

Steven T. Buccola 2007

Otto C. Doering, III 2008

Richard E. Just 2009

Ron Mittelhammer 2010

Thomas W. Hertel 2011

Robert P. King 2012

Richard J. Sexton 2013

Julie A. Caswell 2014

Directors:

Michael Boland, University of Minnesota

Hayley Chouinard, Washington State University

Allen Featherstone, Kansas State University

David R. Just, Cornell University

Ani Katchova, The Ohio State University

Hong Holly Wang, Purdue University

Thank You to the Selected Presentations Committee

AAEA would like to extend a special thank you to the Selected Presentations Committee for their efforts in organizing the sessions taking

place here in Boston. The committee, with the help of volunteer topic leaders and over three hundred reviewers ﬁelded almost 1200 abstracts

to create the topically diverse, high quality sessions that will be presented over the course of the 2016 Annual Meeting.

Chair: Carlos Carpio, Texas Tech University

Jerome Dumortier, Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis

Gary Williams, Texas A&M University

Jason Grant, Virginia Tech

Xiang Bi, University of Florida

Jason Winfree, University of Idaho

Topic Leaders:

Amani Elobeid, Iowa State University

Bo Xiong, California Department of Social Services

Brandon McFadden, University of Florida

Carola Grebitus, Arizona State University

Catherine Larochelle, Virginia Tech

Craig Landry, University of Georgia

David Peters, Iowa State University

David Willis, Clemson University

Dayton Lambert, University of Tennessee

Fabio Mattos, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Georgeanne Artz, Iowa State University

Gregory Colson, University of Georgia

Hayley Chouinard, Washington State University

Joshua Berning, University of Georgia

Joshua Woodard, Cornell University

Joyce Chen, The Ohio State University

Juan Sesmero, PurdueUniversity

Karen E. Lewis, University of Tennessee

Kathleen Brooks, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Keith Fuglie, USDA-Economic Research Service

Levi Russell, Texas A&M University

Maria Bampasidou, Louisiana State University

Matthew Freeman, Mississippi State University

Metin Cakir, University of Minnesota

Michael Delgado, Purdue University

Michael Vassalos, Clemson University

Mikael Sandberg, University of Florida

Nicholas Magnan, University of Georgia

Nicholas Rada, USDA-Economic Research Service

Paula Cordero Salas, University of Alabama

Pierre Mérel, University of California, Davis

Rebekka Dudensing, Texas AgriLife Extension Service

Robert Shupp, Michigan State University

Ryan Williams, Texas Tech University

Samuel Zapata, Texas A&M University

Sebastien Pouliot, Iowa State University

Sergey Rabotyagov, University of Washington

Terry Grifﬁn, Kansas State University

Todd Davis, University of Kentucky

Veronica Pozo, Utah State University

Veronique Theriault, Michigan State University

Thank you to all the 2016 AAEA Annual Meeting Reviewers! This year, AAEA had over 300 Selected Presentation reviewers. This

meeting would not be possible without the help of these volunteers.

We would also like to thank the Selected Presentation Paper session moderators for their efforts to actively engage attendees and

foster discussion during their session. Thank you!

2016 AAEA Annual Meeting Program

Meeting Information

REGISTRATION DESK HOURS

ﬂoor Marriott Copley Place

Sunday, July 31, 7:30 am-7:30 pm

Monday, August 1, 7:30 am-5:00 pm

Tuesday, August 2, 7:30 am-4:00 pm

WI-FI ACCESS

AAEA is providing free Wi-Fi access in the Marriott Copley

Place meeting space for all 2016 Annual Meeting attendees.

Wi-Fi Network: AAEA

Network Password: AAEA2016

ACCESSIBILITY

In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, please

inform an AAEA staff member if you need special assistance.

Staff members are available on site at the Registration Desk to

assist you.

GUESTS

Guests must be registered in order to attend any and all meeting

functions, including the Welcome and Closing Receptions,

plenary sessions, and all concurrent sessions. Guests include any

interested party not professionally in the ﬁeld of agricultural

economics or a related discipline. Children under the age of 16

may attend the meeting for free and do not need to register as a

guest.

TAPING OF SESSIONS

Session content is copyright-protected by AAEA. Recording of

any session without the consent of AAEA is prohibited. Any

taping done with the consent of the appropriate association is

for personal use only and cannot be reproduced or distributed.

OTHER EVENTS

Registration is required for all speaker series luncheons and

banquets, as well as other special events. A limited number of

spots may be available for sale on site. If available, spots will be

sold at the registration desk up until the day before the event.

No spots will be sold on the day of the event.

AAEA is committed to the “True Cost Pledge.” The association

attests that the fee associated with each event is the true cost of

the price to cover that event.

ASSOCIATION PHOTOGRAPHER

A professional photographer will be on site at the Annual

Meeting taking photos which may be used in future

promotional materials for AAEA. If you prefer that you are not

included in these photos, please notify the photographer.

Sponsors

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL

ECONOMICS (AJAE)

Editors:

Timothy Beatty, University of California, Davis

Travis Lybbert, University of California, Davis

James A. Vercammen, University of British Columbia

JunJie Wu, Oregon State University

Book & Media Review Editor:

F. Bailey Norwood, Oklahoma State University

APPLIED ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES AND

POLICY (AEPP)

Managing Editor:

Spiro Stefano, University of Florida

Submitted Article Editors:

Terrance M. Hurley, University of Minnesota

Roderick Rejesus, North Carolina State University

CHOICES MAGAZINE

Editor:

Mary Ahearn, USDA-Economic Research Service (Retired)

Exhibitors — 4th Floor Foyer 2015

AGECON SEARCH

AgEcon Search is a free, open access repository of full-text scholarly literature in agricultural and

applied economics, including: working papers, conference papers and journal articles. Stop by to

learn how you can help us grow.

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Oxford University Press is a department of Oxford University and is the oldest and largest

continuously operating university press in the world.

CENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT

The Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD) provides leadership in economic analysis

to improve agricultural, food, and environmental policy by developing and applying economic theory,

quantitative methods, and interdisciplinary approaches to create relevant knowledge to inform and beneﬁt

society.

ECONOMIC RESEARCH SERVICES, USDA

The Economic Research Service is a primary source of economic information and research in the

U.S. Department of Agriculture. The ERS mission is to inform and enhance public and private

decision making in economic and policy issues related to agriculture, food, the environment, and rural

development.

USDA/NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL SERVICES (NASS)

NASS is the federal statistical agency responsible for producing ofﬁcial data about U.S. agriculture

and is committed to providing timely, accurate and useful statistics in service to U.S. agriculture. We

invite you to provide occasional feedback on our products and services. Sign up at http://bit.ly/NASS_

Subscriptions and look for the “NASS Data User Community”.

PURDUE UNIVERSITY

Purdue’s Agricultural Economics Department covers a wide array of issues from development, trade,

agribusiness, production, and consumption all the way to environmental and resource issues. We also

house some outstanding centers: the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP), the Center for Food and

Agribusiness (CAB), and the Center for Commercial Agriculture (CCA) to name a few.

COUNCIL ON FOOD, AGRICULTURAL AND RECOURSE ECONOMICS

The Council on Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics (C-FARE) is a non-proﬁt organization that

promotes the work of applied economists, serving as a conduit between the research and outreach community

and Washington, D.C., stakeholders.

IMPLAN

As the pioneer of automated economic impact modeling, IMPLAN is a world leader in providing

economic impact data and modeling to governments and universities. When you need to know how

agriculture, forestry, policies, or your organization’s efforts interact with and shape the economy,

IMPLAN is the tool for you.

UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS JOURNALS DIVISION

Founded in 1891, the University of Chicago Press is one of the oldest continuously operating

university presses in the United States. Its ﬁrst scholarly publication, the Journal of Political

Economy, is now joined by a strong portfolio of economics, humanities, social science, and

physical science journals.

2016 AAEA Annual Meeting Program

Undergraduate Recruitment Fair

Monday, 8:00 am -4:00 pm

Marriott Copley Place, MIT Foyer

The Undergraduate Recruitment Fair gives undergraduate

students who are in Boston a chance to participate in

Undergraduate Student Section (SS-AAEA) events and

meet and interact with academic departments from around

the country that have graduate programs in agricultural

and applied economics. Be sure to stop and visit with

representatives from these universities in between rounds of

the Academic Bowl.

PARTICIPATING ORGANIZATIONS

INCLUDE:

• Texas A&M University

• University of Georgia

• Purdue University

• University of Arkansas

• Tufts University

• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• West Virginia University

• Oklahoma State University

Plenary Sessions

AAEA KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Sunday, July 31st, 6:00-7:00 pm

Salon E/F, 4th ﬂoor

Hilary Hoynes, University of California, Berkeley

“Why SNAP Matters: Effects on Poverty, Food Insecurity and Health”

Hilary Hoynes is a Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the University of California Berkeley where

she holds the Haas Distinguished Chair in Economic Disparities. She is the co-editor of the leading journal

in economics, American Economic Review. Hoynes specializes in the study of poverty and inequality and

the effects of government policies on low income families. In recent projects she examines how exposure

to Food Stamps and the Earned Income Tax Credit in childhood inﬂuences health and human capital

contemporaneously and in adulthood. In addition to her faculty appointment, Hoynes has research

afﬁliations at the NBER, the University of California, Davis Center for Poverty Research and the Institute for

Fiscal Studies. Hoynes received her undergraduate degree from Colby College and her PhD from Stanford University in 1992.

AAEA PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS

Monday, August 1, 8:30-9:30 am

Salon E/F, 4th ﬂoor

Jayson Lusk, Oklahoma State University

“Consumer Research with Big Data: Applications from the Food Demand Survey (FooDS)”

Jayson Lusk is Regents Professor and Willard Sparks Endowed Chair in the Department of Agricultural

Economics at Oklahoma State University. He has a BS in Food Technology and a PhD in Agricultural

Economics from Kansas State University. He held previous faculty appointments at Mississippi State and

Purdue University.

Lusk is a food and agricultural economist who studies what we eat and why we eat it. Since 2000, Lusk has

published more than 170 journal articles in peer reviewed journals, including several of the most cited papers

in the profession. He has served on the editorial councils of eight academic journals including the American

Journal of Agricultural Economics, the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, and Food Policy. He was elected to

and served on the executive committees of the Southern Agricultural Economics Association, the Western Agricultural Economics

Association, and most recently the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AASA) for which he currently serves as the

President-Elect. Lusk was named a fellow of the AAEA in 2015.

In 2007, Lusk co-authored a book on experimental auctions and coauthored an undergraduate textbook on agricultural marketing

and price analysis. In 2011, Lusk released a book co-authored with Bailey Norwood on the economics of farm animal welfare and

also co-edited the Oxford Handbook on the Economics of Food Consumption and Policy. In 2013 he published the popular book, The

“Food Police.” His latest popular book is “Unnaturally Delicious: How Science and Technology Are Serving up Super Foods to Save the

World.”

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Plenary Sessions

AAEA FELLOWS ADDRESS

Tuesday, August 2, 8:30-9:30 am

Salon E/F, 4th ﬂoor

Johan Swinnen, University of Leuven

“Dynamic Economics and Politics of Food Standards and Global Value Chains”

Johan Swinnen is Professor of Economics and Director of the LICOS-Centre for Institutions and Economic

Performance at the KU Leuven; Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS); a

Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Food Security and the Environment (FSE) at Stanford University.

He is a Fellow of the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA), a Fellow of the European

Association of Agricultural Economists (EAAE), President of the International Association of Agricultural

Economists (IAAE, 2012-15) and is the President of The Beeronomics Society. He was previously Lead

Economist at the World Bank (2003-04) and Economic Advisor at the European Commission (1998-2001),

and has been advisor to many international organizations and governments. He holds a PhD from Cornell University.

He has published widely on agricultural and food policies, political economy, institutional reform, trade, global value chains, and

standards. His publications have appeared in leading academic journals, such as the Journal of Economic Literature, the Review of

Economics and Statistics, Science, Nature, The Lancet, and leading ﬁeld journals. His recent books include “Quality Standards, Value

Chains and International Development” (2015); “The Economics of Chocolate” (2015), “Political Power and Economic Policy” (2011),

“The Economics of Beer” (2009), “Global Supply Chains, Standards, and the Poor” (CABI), and “From Marx and Mao to the Market.”

AAEA GALBRAITH FORUM

Tuesday, August 2, 6:15-7:15 pm

Salon E/F, 4th ﬂoor

Alain de Janvry, University of California, Berkeley

“The Adoption Puzzle: What Can We Learn from Field Experiments in Agriculture?”

Alain de Janvry is an agricultural economist working on international economic development with expertise

in agriculture and rural development. He is a professor of Agriculture and Resource Economics and of Public

Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. He was co-director of the World Bank’s “World Development

Report “(2008) on Agriculture for Development and author with Elisabeth Sadoulet of “Development

Economics: Theory and Practice” (2016). He is a member of the French National Academy of Agriculture and a

Fellow of the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA).

Speaker Series Events

COSBAE, CWAE, & EXTENSION LUNCHEON SPEAKER SERIES

Monday, August 1, 11:30am-1:00 pm

Salon E/F, 4th ﬂoor

* This is a ticketed event.

Professor Ralph D. Christy

“Caught Between a Discipline and a Profession: Agricultural Economics and the Well-Being of Society”

Professor Ralph D. Christy is Director of Cornell International Institute for Food, Agriculture and

Development and Professor of Emerging Markets at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, where he

teaches and conducts food marketing research and educational programs on the economic performance

of markets and distribution systems. He has advised industry leaders and public policy makers on food

marketing strategies, economic development, and the organization of the global food economy. A PhD

graduate of Michigan State University’s Department of Agricultural Economics, Christy is past President

of the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association, and is currently a Board Member of the Winthrop

Rockefeller Foundation, WinRock International, and the Agribusiness Capital Fund. He is the author of three books, “A Century

of Service: Land Grant Colleges and Universities: 1890-1990” (1992); “Achieving Sustainable Communities in a Global Economy”

(2004); and “Emerging Markets” (forthcoming). His most recent research calls attention to the role of creating an enabling

environment for accelerating agro-industries’ contributions to sustain economic growth and development.

APPLIED RISK ANALYSIS INVITED SPEAKER LECTURE AND LUNCHEON

Monday, August 1, 11:30-1:00 pm

St. Botolph, 2nd ﬂoor

* This is a ticketed event.

Professor Jeffrey Frankel

“How Can Commodity-Exporting Countries Cope with Price Volatility?”

Jeffrey Frankel is James W. Harpel Professor of Capital Formation and Growth at Harvard Kennedy School.

He directs the program in International Finance and Macroeconomics at the National Bureau of Economic

Research, where he is also on the Business Cycle Dating Committee, which ofﬁcially declares recessions. He

served at the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) in 1983-84 and 1996-99. As the CEA Member appointed

by President Clinton, Frankel’s responsibilities included international economics, macroeconomics, and the

environment. Before moving to Harvard, he had been Professor of Economics at the University of California,

Berkeley, having joined the faculty in 1979. He has visited the IMF, Federal Reserve Board, and Peterson

Institute for International Economics. His research interests include international ﬁnance, monetary and ﬁscal policy, currencies,

crises, commodities, international trade, and global environmental issues. His most cited papers are: “The Endogeneity of the

Optimum Currency Area Criteria” (with Rose, 1998) and “Does Trade Cause Growth?” (with Romer, 1999). He writes a monthly

column for Project Syndicate. He was born in San Francisco, graduated from Swarthmore College, and received his Economics PhD

from MIT.

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INTERNATIONAL LECTURE AND RECEPTION

Monday, August 1, 8:00-9:30 pm

St. Botolph, 2nd ﬂoor

* This is a ticketed event.

Professor Daron Acemoglu

“Is Democracy an Obstacle to Economic Growth?”

Daron Acemoglu is Charles P. Kindleberger Professor of Applied Economics in the Department of Economics

at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a member of the Economic Growth program of the

Canadian Institute of Advanced Research. He is also afﬁliated with the National Bureau Economic Research,

the Center for Economic Performance, the Center for Economic Policy Research, and Microsoft Research

Center.

He is an elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Econometric Society, the

European Economic Association, and the Society of Labor Economists.

Daron Acemoglu received a BA in economics at the University of York in 1989, a MSc in mathematical economics and econometrics

at the London School of Economics in 1990, and a PhD in economics at the London School of Economics in 1992. Since 1993,

he has held the academic position of Lecturer at the London School of Economics, and Assistant Professor, Pentti Kouri Associate

Professor and Professor of Economics at MIT.

He has received numerous awards and fellowships, including the award for best paper published in the Economic Journal in 1996

for his paper “Consumer Conﬁdence and Rational Expectations: Are Agents’ Beliefs Consistent With Theory?”, the inaugural T.W.

Shultz Prize from the University of Chicago in 2004, and the inaugural Sherwin Rosen Award for outstanding contribution to labor

economics in 2004, Distinguished Science Award from the Turkish Sciences Association in 2006, the John von Neumann Award,

Rajk College, Budapest in 2007.

He was also awarded the John Bates Clark Medal in 2005, given every two years to the best economist in the United States under the

age of 40 by the American Economic Association, and holds an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Utrecht.

His work has been published in leading scholarly journals, including the American Economic Review, Econometrica, Journal of Political

Economy, Quarterly Journal Economics, Review of Economic Studies, and Mathematics of Operations Research.

Daron Acemoglu’s research covers a wide range of areas within economics, including political economy, economic development and

growth, human capital theory, growth theory, innovation, search theory, network economics, and learning.

Daron Acemoglu is also the co-editor of “Econometrica” and of the “National Bureau of Economic Research Macroeconomic

Annual.”

Speaker Series Events (continued)

Meeting Timeline

Saturday, July 30

8:00 am-4:00 pm Ticketed Event

Pre-Conference Workshop: Big Data in Applied Economics: Knowledge and Applications

Arlington, 3rd ﬂoor

1:00-4:30 pm Ticketed Event

Pre-Conference Workshop Breakouts: Big Data in Applied Economics: Knowledge and Applications

Harvard, Brandeis, and MIT, 3rd ﬂoor

11:00 am-4:45 pm Ticketed Event

Pre-conference Workshop: Brewing Industry Tour

Offsite

1:00-2:00 pm

Government Relations Committee Meeting

Provincetown, 4th ﬂoor

1:00-5:00 pm Ticketed Event

Pre-conference Workshop: The “How-To” of Experimental Economics in Agricultural, Environmental and Applied Research

Wellesley, 3rd ﬂoor

3:00-5:00 pm

Agribusiness: An International Journal Business Meeting

Simmons, 3rd ﬂoor

Sunday, July 31

Registration Desk Hours: 7:30 am-7:30 pm, 4th ﬂoor

Employment Center Hours: 9:30 am-5:00 pm, Salon G, 4th ﬂoor

Professional Headshots Hours: 1:00-6:00 pm, 4th ﬂoor

7:30-9:00 am

Section Leader Meeting

Wellesley, 3rd ﬂoor

8:00-11:00 am

C-FARE Board Meeting

Simmons, 3rd ﬂoor

8:00 am-1:30 pm

AJAE Editors’ Meeting

Tufts, 3rd ﬂoor

8:00 am-3:00 pm

GSS Extension Competition

MIT, 3rd ﬂoor

8:00 am-3:00 pm

GSS Case Study Competition

Harvard, Brandeis and Northeastern, 3rd ﬂoor

9:30-11:00 am

FSN Section Business Meeting

Regis, 3rd ﬂoor

9:30-10:30 am

Mentorship Committee Meeting

Suffolk, 3rd ﬂoor

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Meeting Timeline

10:00-11:00 am

ARA Section Business Meeting

Clarendon, 3rd ﬂoor

10:00-11:00 am

CWAE Section Business Meeting

Dartmouth, 3rd ﬂoor

10:00-11:00 am

ESIRC Committee Meeting

Exeter, 3rd ﬂoor

11:00 am-12:00 pm

Communications Committee Meeting

Fairﬁeld, 3rd ﬂoor

11:00 am-12:00 pm

COSBAE Section Business Meeting

Nantucket, 4th ﬂoor

11:00 am-12:00 pm

Employment Services Committee Meeting

Salon G, 4th ﬂoor

11:15 am-12:15 pm

BEER Section Business Meeting

Exeter, 3rd ﬂoor

11:30 am-1:00 pm

Africa Section Business Meeting

Suffolk, 3rd ﬂoor

11:30 am-12:30 pm

AEPP Editorial Board Meeting

Clarendon, 3rd ﬂoor

12:00-1:00 pm

AAEA Trust Committee Meeting

Regis, 3rd ﬂoor

12:00-2:00 pm

EOHDS Spreadsheet Competition

Boston University, 3rd ﬂoor

12:30-1:30 pm

AFM Section Business Meeting

Dartmouth, 3rd ﬂoor

12:30-2:00 pm

TLC Section Business Meeting

Exeter, 3rd ﬂoor

1:00-2:30 pm

International Section Business Meeting

Fairﬁeld, 3rd ﬂoor

1:00-3:00 pm

NAAEA Business Meeting

Simmons, 3rd ﬂoor

Meeting Timeline

1:15-2:15 pm

Membership Committee Meeting

Regis, 3rd ﬂoor

1:30-2:30 pm

AJAE Editorial Board Meeting

Tufts, 3rd ﬂoor

1:30-2:30 pm

Experimental Economics Section Business Meeting

Nantucket, 4th ﬂoor

2:00-3:00 pm

ENV Section Business Meeting

Suffolk, 3rd ﬂoor

2:00-3:00 pm

Econometrics Section Business Meeting

Clarendon, 3rd ﬂoor

2:30-3:30 pm

Related Journal Editors’ Meeting

Tufts, 3rd ﬂoor

2:30-3:30 pm

Finance Committee Meeting

Dartmouth, 3rd ﬂoor

2:30-4:30 pm

Latin American Section Business Meeting and Reception

Exeter, 3rd ﬂoor

3:00-4:30 pm

AEM Section Business Meeting

Simmons, 3rd ﬂoor

3:00-4:00 pm

CRENET Section Business Meeting

Nantucket, 4th ﬂoor

3:00-5:00 pm

Extension Section Business Meeting

Regis, 3rd ﬂoor

3:00-5:30 pm

Student Section Paper Competition

Boston University, 3rd ﬂoor

3:30-4:30 pm

Publications Committee Meeting

Suffolk, 3rd ﬂoor

3:30-4:30 pm

Mentoring Recognition Reception

Clarendon, 3rd ﬂoor

4:00-6:00 pm

Australasia Section Business Meeting

Dartmouth, 3rd ﬂoor

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4:00-5:00 pm

FAMPS Section Business Meeting and Reception

Wellesley, 3rd ﬂoor

3:00-4:30 pm

Senior Section Business Meeting and Reception

Fairﬁeld, 3rd ﬂoor

4:30-5:30pm

Choices Editorial Board Meeting

Nantucket, 4th ﬂoor

4:30-5:30 pm

Early Career Professionals Networking Reception

St. Botolph, 2nd ﬂoor

5:00-6:00 pm

Extension Section Reception

Arlington, 3rd ﬂoor

5:00-6:00 pm

COSBAE & CWAE Section Reception

Suffolk, 3rd ﬂoor

4:30-5:30 pm

AEM Section Reception

Simmons, 3rd ﬂoor

5:00-6:00 pm

China Section Business Meeting and Reception

Berkeley, 3rd ﬂoor

6:00-7:00 pm

Keynote Address: Hilary Hoynes, University of California, Berkeley

Salons E/F, 4th ﬂoor

7:00-8:00 pm

Sunday Poster Session

Gloucester, 3rd ﬂoor

7:00-9:00 pm

SS-AAEA Student Mixer and Academic Bowl Orientation

Arlington, 3rd ﬂoor

8:00-10:00 pm

Welcome Reception

Salons E/F and Ballroom Foyer, 4th ﬂoor

Monday, August 1

Registration Desk Hours: 7:30 am-5:00 pm, 4th ﬂoor

Employment Center Hours: 9:30 am-5:00 pm, Salon G, 4th ﬂoor

Exhibit Booth Hours: 8:00 am-4:00 pm, Ballroom Foyer, 4th ﬂoor

Poster Hall Hours: 8:00 am-4:00 pm, Gloucester, 3rd ﬂoor

8:00-8:30 am

AAEA Business Meeting

Salons E/F, 4th ﬂoor

8:00 am-4:00 pm

SS-AAEA Academic Bowl

MIT, Brandeis, and Northeastern, 3rd ﬂoor

8:00 am-4:00 pm

Undergraduate Recruitment Fair

MIT Foyer, 3rd ﬂoor

8:30-9:30 am

AAEA Presidential Address: Jayson Lusk, Oklahoma State University

Salon E/F, 4th ﬂoor

9:45-11:15 am

AAEA Concurrent Sessions (see page 31)

9:45 am-11:15 am

BREXIT

Salon C

11:30 am-1:00 pm

Selected Poster Presentations

Gloucester, 3rd ﬂoor

11:30 am-1:00 pm

COSBAE & CWAE and Extension Section Speaker Series and Luncheon

Salon E/F, 4th ﬂoor

11:30 am-1:00 pm

Applied Risk Analysis Invited Speaker Lecture and Luncheon

St. Botolph, 2nd ﬂoor

1:00-2:30 pm

AAEA Concurrent Sessions (see page 31)

1:30-4:00 pm

GSS Case Study Finals

Tufts and Boston University, 3rd ﬂoor

2:45-4:15 pm

AAEA Concurrent Sessions (see page 31)

4:30-6:00 pm

AAEA Concurrent Sessions (see page 31)

6:00-6:30 pm

SS-AAEA Academic Bowl Finals

Salons E/F, 4th ﬂoor

6:30-7:45 pm

AAEA Awards and Fellows Recognition Ceremony

Salons E/F, 4th ﬂoor

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8:00-9:00 pm

Student Section Business Meeting

Provincetown, 4th ﬂoor

8:00-9:30 pm

International Lecture and Reception

St. Botolph, 2nd ﬂoor

Reunions & Receptions

Monday, 9:00 –11:00 pm

Various rooms, 3rd ﬂoor

University of Connecticut, University of Massachusetts, University of Rhode Island, Clark University, Tufts University

Dartmouth

Cornell University, The Pennsylvania State University

Harvard

Washington State University, Oregon State University, University of Idaho

Arlington

Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics, University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Davis,

University of California, Riverside

Clarendon/Berkeley

North Carolina State University, University of Maryland, Virginia Tech, Journal of Environmental Economics and

Management

Wellesley

Oklahoma State University, University of Missouri, Kansas State University, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Suffolk

University of Minnesota, Iowa State University, University of Wisconsin

Simmons

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Purdue University, Michigan State University, The Ohio State University

Fairﬁeld/Exeter

Texas A&M University, University of Arkansas, University of Georgia, University of Florida, Auburn University,

Mississippi State University

Regis

Canadian Agricultural Economics Society (CAES)

MIT

Renmin University of China

Tufts

Meeting Timeline

Tuesday, August 2

Registration Desk Hours: 7:30 am-4:00 pm, 4th ﬂoor

Employment Center Hours: 9:30 am-4:00 pm, Salon G, 4th ﬂoor

Exhibit Booth Hours: 8:00 am-4:00 pm, Ballroom Foyer, 4th ﬂoor

Poster Hall Hours: 8:00 am-2:00 pm, Gloucester, 3rd ﬂoor

8:30-9:30 am

AAEA Fellows Address: Jo Swinnen, University of Leuven

Salon E/F, 4th ﬂoor

9:45-11:15 am

AAEA Concurrent Sessions (see page 31)

11:15 am-12:45 pm

Selected Poster Presentations

Gloucester, 3rd ﬂoor

11:15 am-12:45 pm

Networking Lunch

Ballroom Foyer, 4th ﬂoor

11:30 am-12:30 pm

Galbraith Committee Meeting

Salon D, 4th ﬂoor

11:30 am-12:30 pm

IBES Section Business Meeting

Salon C, 4th ﬂoor

11:30 am-12:45 pm

Working with the Media Training Session

Provincetown, 4th ﬂoor

1:00-2:30 pm

AAEA Concurrent Sessions (see page 31)

2:45-4:15 pm

AAEA Concurrent Sessions (see page 31)

4:30-6:00 pm

AAEA Concurrent Sessions (see page 31)

6:15-7:15 pm

AAEA Galbraith Forum: Alain de Janvry, University of California, Berkeley

Salons E/F, 4th ﬂoor

7:15-8:15 pm

Closing Reception

Salon G, 4th ﬂoor

Wednesday, August 3

8:00 am-5:00 pm

Post-conference Workshop: Applied Computational Economics

Suffolk, 3rd ﬂoor

8:00 am-12:00 pm, continued at 1:00-5:00 pm

Post-conference Workshop: USDA-NIFA AFRI Project Directors Workshop – Economics, Markets, & Trade and Environmental &

Natural Resource Economics Projects

Arlington, 3rd ﬂoor

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Posters

Gloucester, 3rd ﬂoor

All posters will be on display Sunday through Tuesday. A Poster Session will be held on Sunday evening 7:00-8:00 pm. Complimentary

drink tickets (redeemable at the Welcome Reception) to the ﬁrst 300 attendees to visit the poster hall. Poster presenters with odd poster

numbers will present at 11:30 am-1:00 pm on Monday and poster presenters with even poster numbers will present 11:15 am-12:45

pm on Tuesday.

Agribusiness Economics and Management

2 Commodity Investment Flows and Crude Oil Futures Returns

Lei Yan, Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Scott H. Irwin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Dwight R. Sanders,

Southern Illinois University

3 Determinants of Weanling Thoroughbred Auction Prices

Charlotte R. Hansen, University of Kentucky; Christina Jill Stowe, University of Kentucky

4 Price Discovery and Price Transparency in the U.S. Cheese Industry

Yuliya Bolotova, Clemson University

5 Economics of Aﬂatoxin Risk Management in Selected Southern States

Mark L. Waller, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service; Joe L. Outlaw, Texas A&M University; James W. Richardson, Texas

A&M University; Nicholas Richburg, Texas A&M University; Mark Welch, Texas A&M University; Levi A. Russell, Texas

A&M University; Larry Falconer, Mississippi State University; Kurt M. Guidry, Louisiana State University; Nathan Smith,

The University of Georgia

6 Comprehensive Partial Budgets for Cover Crops in Midwest Row Crop Agriculture

Fangge Liu, Iowa State University; Alejandro Plastina, Iowa State University

Ag Finance and Farm Management

7 Optimally Achieving Milk Bulk Tank Somatic Cell Count Thresholds

Jason Troendle, Cornell University; Loren W. Tauer, Cornell University; Yrjo Grohn, Cornell University

8 Financial Characteristics of Arkansas Farms, 2002-2013

Yuying Zhao, University of Arkansas; Bruce L. Ahrendsen, University of Arkansas; Bruce L. Dixon, University of Arkansas;

Diana Danforth, University of Arkansas

9 U.S. Farm Transition and the Process of Transferring Land Ownership

James Michael Harris, USDA-Economic Research Service; Ashok K. Mishra, Arizona State University

10 Economic Incentives, Transaction Costs and Carbon Trading: The Economics of Alberta’s Reduced Age to Harvest Protocol

Paul J. Thomassin, McGill University

11 The Value of Social Capital in Cropland Leasing Relationships

Mykel R. Taylor, Kansas State University; Allen M. Featherstone, Kansas State University

Behavioral & Institutional Economics

12 Is the Physical Activity of Immigrants Inﬂuenced by Moving to America? An Empirical Analysis of Immigrants Using

Metabolic Equivalence Time Use Data

Chelsea E. Chambers, University of Georgia; Joshua P. Berning, University of Georgia

13 Risk, Technology Adoption and Land Use Dynamics: Economics of Multi-Purpose Forestry and Agro-Forestry Practices in

Ethiopia

Habtamu Y. Ayenew, Technical University of Munich; Getachew Abate Kassa, Technical University of Munich; Johannes

Sauer, Technical University of Munich

14 Validating the Use of Time Preference Proxies to Explain Effects on Health Outcomes

Fuad Alagsam, University of Kentucky; Jack Schieffer, University of Kentucky

15 Eliciting Trust in Information Sources for Nanotechnology

Seda Erdem, University of Stirling

Posters

16 Eliciting Demand for Flood Insurance Against Climate Change: A Choice Experiment

Ching-Cheng Chang, Academia Sinica; Ya-Pin Lyu, APEC Research Center for Typhoon and Society; Shu-Ling Chen,

National Taipei University

17 The Effects of Urbanization on Rural Land Rental Market Participation: Household Panel Evidence from China

Xiang Bi, University of Florida; Dengwang Li, Renmin University of China; Huanguang Qiu, Renmin University of China;

Xiaohui Tian, Renmin University of China; Wendong Zhang, Iowa State University

Demand and Price Analysis

18 The CWT Program Effects: An Analysis of Retail Fluid Milk Pricing in Selected U.S. Cities

Ralph I. Mondesir; Yuliya Bolotova, Clemson University; William Bridges, Clemson University; Scott R. Templeton,

Clemson University

19 Do SNAP Beneﬁciaries Pay Different Prices throughout the Beneﬁt Month?

Travis A. Smith, University of Georgia; Pourya Valizadeh, University of Georgia

20 Co-Movements of Energy-Bioenergy-Agricultural Commodity Prices: New Empirical Evidence from the USA

Md Zabid Iqbal, Iowa State University

21 Consumption Patterns of Urban Punjab of Pakistan: Evidence for HIES 2013-14

Waqar Akram, Sukkur Institute of Business Administration; Shida Rastegari Henneberry, Oklahoma State University

22 Potential Consumers in Consumer Behavior Models

Yuan Jiang, University of Florida; Hyeyoung Kim, University of Florida; Lisa A. House, University of Florida; Susan S.

Percival, University of Florida

23 Reduced Tariffs of Net Energy Metering: More Competitive Retail Rates of Electric Utilities Come Next?

Dyna Ty, University of Georgia; John C. Bergstrom, University of Georgia

24 Impact of Dam’s Age and Parity on Yearling’s Price and Future Performance

Xiurui Cui, University of Kentucky

25 Estimating Price Flexibility of Demand in Agricultural Commodities

Madhav Regmi, Kansas State University

27 The Interaction of Biofuel Production and Labeling of New Plant Breeding Techniques

Thomas Johann Venus, Wageningen University; Dušan Drabik, Wageningen University

28 Changing Economic Geography of U.S. Grain Transportation Markets

Heidi Schweizer, University of California, Davis

29 Intra-School District Capitalization of Property Tax Rates

Mitchell R. Livy, California State University, Fullerton

Environmental and Nonmarket Valuation

30 Gender and Preference Heterogeneity for Direct Seeded Rice: A Case Study of Men and Women Farmers in Maharashtra,

India

Md Tajuddin Khan Sr., International Food Policy Research Institute; Avinash Kishore, International Food Policy Research

Institute; P K Joshi, International Food Policy Research Institute

31 Pollution Comes with the Wind: The Effects of Transboundary Air Pollutants from China on Air Ambient Conditions in

South Korea

Moon Joon Kim, North Carolina State University

32 Understanding the Impact of Offshore Wind Energy Development on Beach Trip Demand to the Coast of North Carolina

Amanda J. Harker, University of Georgia; Craig Landry, University of Georgia; John C. Bergstrom, University of Georgia

33 Estimation of Spillover Effects from Large Scale Adoption of Bt Corn in the Philippines

Zachary S. Brown, North Carolina State University; Roderick M. Rejesus, North Carolina State University; Jose M. Yorobe

Jr., University of the Philippines - Los Banos; Lawson Connor, North Carolina State University

34 The Economic Value of Open Space in Riverside County

James Yoo, California Baptist University

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Posters

35 Valuing New Invasive Species Management Programs in the Context of Pre-existing Regional Water Quality and Resource

Management Programs

Kimberly S. Rollins, University of Nevada, Reno; Michael H. Taylor, University of Nevada, Reno

36 An Economic Approach to Measuring the Impacts of Higher Temperatures on Wildﬁre Size in the Western United States

Dallas W. Wood, RTI International

Experimental Economics

37 How Safety Recalls Affect Consumer Preferences for Eggs: An Experimental Analysis

Tongzhe Li, University of Delaware; John C. Bernard, University of Delaware; Zachary A. Johnston, University of Delaware;

Kent D. Messer, University of Delaware; Harry M. Kaiser, Cornell University

38 Experimental Evidence of Nutrition Interventions in Northern Ghana

Yacob A. Zereyesus, Kansas State University; Vincent Amanor-Boadu, Kansas State University; Francis Tsiboe, University of

Arkansas; Kara Ross, Kansas State University; Aleksan Shanoyan, Kansas State University

39 Linking Agricultural Subsidies and Ambient Water Quality to Reduce Nutrient Loss

Leah H. Palm-Forster, University of Delaware; Jordan F. Suter, Colorado State University; Kent D. Messer, University of

Delaware

40 Loss Aversion, Temporal Framing, and Household Energy Decisions

Carrie A. Gill, University of Rhode Island; Stephen Atlas, University of Rhode Island

Food and Agricultural Marketing

41 An Evaluation of Factors Inﬂuencing Consumer Purchases of Cut Flowers

Zongyu Li, Washington State University; Vicki A. McCracken, Washington State University; Jenny R. Connolly, Washington

State University

42 Consumers’ Willingness to Pay for Tennessee Wine

Connie Everett, University of Tennessee; Christopher N. Boyer, University of Tennessee; Kimberly L. Jensen, University of

Tennessee; David W. Hughes, University of Tennessee

43 Is the Grass Really Greener across the State Line? A Regional Analysis of State Branding Programs

Clinton L. Neill, Oklahoma State University; Rodney B. Holcomb, Oklahoma State University

44 Effects of 2015 Avian Inﬂuenza Virus on Price of Eggs and Economic Impact to Egg Producers at the Wholesale Level in the

United States: Stochastic Partial Equilibrium Hedonic Price Analysis

Senarath Dharmasena, Texas A&M University; Michelle Paukett, Texas A&M University

45 Optimal Licensing Contracts and Market Competition

Tian Xia, Kansas State University; Zhengfei Guan, University of Florida

46 Product Differentiation and Cost Pass-through

Jens-Peter Loy, University of Kiel; Christoph Weiss, Vienna University of Economics; Thomas Glauben, Leibniz Institute of

Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO)

47 The Value of Information in a Whole-chain Traceability System for Beef Cattle – Applications to Meat Tenderness, Injection-

Site Lesion Control, and Feed Efﬁciency

Candi Ge, Oklahoma State University; Brian D. Adam, Oklahoma State University

48 Zero Inﬂated Ordered Probit Approach to Modeling Mushroom Consumption in the U.S.

Yuan Jiang, University of Florida; Hyeyoung Kim, University of Florida; Lisa A. House, University of Florida; Susan S.

Percival, University of Florida

49 Examining the Effect of Food Recalls on Demand: The Case of Beef in the U.S.

Samane Zarebanadkoki, University of Kentucky; Yuqing Zheng, University of Kentucky; Timothy A. Woods, University of

Kentucky; Steven C. Buck, University of Kentucky

50 Willingness to Pay for the “Taste of Europe”: Country of Origin Labeling Controversy in Chinese Market

Chenguang Li, University College Dublin; Junfei Bai, China Agricultural University; Zhifeng Gao, University of Florida

Posters

51 How Much Do Japanese Really Care about Food Origin? A Case of Beef Bowl Shop

Koichi Yamaura, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology; Hikaru Hanawa Peterson, University of Minnesota

52 Bridging the Gap: Food Choices and the Dietary Guidelines for Americans

Jeta Rudi, University of Minnesota

Food and Agricultural Policy Analysis

53 Are Dairy Subsidies Effective to Increase Milk Productivity and Income in Kosovo? A Propensity Score Matching Approach

Egzon Bajrami, University of Arkansas; Eric J. Wailes, University of Arkansas; Bruce L. Dixon, University of Arkansas; Arben

Musliu, University of Prishtina

54 Random-Parameter PSM: A Novel Method of Program Evaluation Suitable when Program Participation is affected by

Unobservable Variables

Taro Takahashi, University of Bristol; Toru Nakajima, The University of Tokyo; Daiki Matsutaka, The University of Tokyo;

Janet Dwyer, Countryside and Community Research Institute

55 Worldwide Market and Welfare Impacts From Introducing GM Oranges to Manage Citrus Greening

Ariel Singerman, University of Florida; Sergio H. Lence, Iowa State University

56 Crop Insurance in India: Drivers and Impact

Aditya KS, Indian Agricultural Research Institute; Avinash Kishore, International Food Policy Research Institute; P K Joshi,

International Food Policy Research Institute

57 Effects of Smallholder Diversiﬁcation on Rural Household Food Security in Kenya

Miltone W. Ayieko, Egerton University; Jin Songqing, Michigan State University; David L. Tschirley, Michigan State

University

58 Preferential Property Tax, Second Home Buyer and Land Cover Change

Charles A. Towe, University of Connecticut; Zhenshan Chen, University of Connecticut

59 Whether Debt behaves like a Kuznets Curve with Rural Household Income? A Panel Rural Household Data Analyses in India

from 2001 to 2012

Madhusudan Bhattarai, International Food Policy Research Institute; Padmaja P, Center for Experimental Social Sciences; P

K Joshi, International Food Policy Research Institute

60 Assessing the Economic Impact of a NCPN-Grapes Center at Farm and Regional Level in Eastern U.S.

Leslie J. Verteramo Chiu, Cornell University; Miguel I. Gomez, Cornell University

61 Value of Parsimonious Nutritional Information in a Framed Field Experiment

Jisung Jo, Oklahoma State University; Jayson L. Lusk, Oklahoma State University; Laurent F. Muller, Institut National de la

Recherche Agronomique; Bernard Rufﬁeux, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique

62 Florida Citrus Growers First Impressions on Genetically Modiﬁed Trees

Ariel Singerman, University of Florida; Maria P. Useche, University of Florida

63 Relative Economic Efﬁciency of Ethanol and Biodiesel

Dušan Drabik, Wageningen University; Thomas Johann Venus, Wageningen University; Harry De Gorter, Cornell

University

64 Changes in Southern Cotton and Peanut Producing Regions

Shelbi Knisley, USDA-Economic Research Service; Mark S. Ash, USDA-Economic Research Service

Food Safety and Nutrition

65 Can Food Safety Shortfalls Disrupt Nutritional Gains from Increased Animal-Source Food Consumption? Evidence from

Meat Consumption and Illness on Eid al Adha

Benjamin Schwab, Kansas State University; Ralph Armah, Kansas State University

66 Does the Food Environment Play a Role in Prevalence of Obesity and Diabetes in the United States?

Nestor M. Rodriguez, USDA-Economic Research Service

67 Time Preference, Nutrition Education, and the Body Mass Index

Yanliang Yang, Virginia Tech; Dae Hee Han, Virginia Tech; George C. Davis, Virginia Tech

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68 Impacts of Food Safety Events on Consumer Awareness and U.S. Meat Demand

Aaron M. Ates, Oklahoma State University; Jayson L. Lusk, Oklahoma State University

69 Food Stamps, Food Insufﬁciency, and Health of the Elderly

Pimbucha Rusmevichientong, California State University Fullerton; Miguel I. Gomez, Cornell University; Harry M. Kaiser,

Cornell University

Household and Labor Economics

70 The Economic Implications of Social Capital on Hispanic Entrepreneurship

Ariana Torres, Purdue University; Maria I. Marshall, Purdue University; Michael Delgado, Purdue University

71 The Effects of Air Pollution on Education and Human Capital: Evidence from Chinese Cities

Niall Williams, Connecticut College; Wei Zhang, Connecticut College

72 Migration Impacts on Schooling: Case Study of Rural Nepal

Deborah A. Williams, Louisiana State University; Krishna P. Paudel, Louisiana State University; Mark J. Schafer, Louisiana

State University

73 Religiosity and Female Autonomy in Indonesia

Milda Irhamni, University of Minnesota

74 Health Care Service Access and Constrained Choices of U.S. Farm Workers

Tianyuan Luo, University of Georgia; Cesar L. Escalante, University of Georgia

Industrial Org./Supply Chain Management

75 Content Analysis of Wine Tasting Notes on Wine Prices

Kuan-Ju Chen, Washington State University; Jill J. McCluskey, Washington State University

76 The Milk Price Effect of a Private Supply Management Program in the U.S. Dairy Industry

Yuliya Bolotova, Clemson University

77 Food Price, Firm Productivity and Market Structure in Indonesian Food and Beverages Industry

Xi He, University of Connecticut; Nathan Fiala, University of Connecticut

78 Modelling Post-harvest Facility Location Problem Using Remote Sensing Data

Xiaoli Fan, Cornell University; Miguel I. Gomez, Cornell University

International Development

79 ‘Land Grab’ or Development Opportunity? - The Effect of Transnational Farmland Investments on the Ghanaian Economy

Donggul Choi, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

80 Determinants of Microﬁnance Borrowers’ Financial and Temporal Endurance through Economic Adversities: A Split-

Population Duration Analysis

Hofner D. Rusiana, University of Georgia; Cesar L. Escalante, University of Georgia

81 Revisiting on Tractorization of Smallholding Agriculture?: Diffusion of Tractor across 16 States of India from 1960 to 2012

Madhusudan Bhattarai, International Food Policy Research Institute; Ravindra Singh Shekhawat, ICAR-IASRI; P K Joshi,

International Food Policy Research Institute

82 Do Smaller States Lead to More Development? Evidence from Splitting of Large States in India

Mukesh K. Ray, Michigan State University; Mywish K. Maredia, Michigan State University

84 Constructing a Nutritionally Balanced Food Basket for Tanzania

Nancy J. Cochrane, USDA-Economic Research Service

85 Do Farmers’ Storage Practices and Food Safety Knowledge Explain their Market Participation? Evidence from Maize Markets

in Benin

Didier K. Kadjo, Purdue University; Jacob Ricker-Gilbert, Purdue University; Abdoulaye Tahirou, International Institute of

Tropical Agriculture; Nasser Baco, Universite de Parakou; Corinne E. Alexander, Purdue University

Posters

86 Spillover Effects of Fertilizer Subsidies on the Adoption of Modern Inputs in Burkina Faso

Didier Y. Alia, University of Kentucky; Yoko Kusunose, University of Kentucky; Veronique Theriault, Michigan State

University

87 The Farm Size-Productivity Relationship: A Conceptual Review with Empirical Evidence from three African Countries

Jacques C. Julien, University of Connecticut; Boris E. Bravo-Ureta, University of Connecticut

88 Adaptive Capacity to Climate Change: Insights from Coffee Farmers in Nicaragua

Aniseh S. Bro, Michigan State University; David L. Ortega, Michigan State University; Daniel Clay, Michigan State

University

89 Livelihood Diversiﬁcation and Well-Being - A Resilience Approach

Jennifer D. Cisse, Cornell University

90 Examining Children’s Vulnerability to Poverty: A Cross Country Analysis

Yacob A. Zereyesus, Kansas State University

91 Does Price Volatility Affect Food Insecurity in Small Island States?

Ping Wang, Auburn University; Roshini Brizmohun, Auburn University; Norbert L.W. Wilson, Auburn University

92 Does Tenure Security Allow More Efﬁciency-Enhancing Land Transaction? Evidence from Vietnam

Klaus W. Deininger, World Bank; Tram Hoang, Michigan State University; Songqing Jin, Michigan State University

International Trade

93 The Power Law of Agricultural Trade

Sixia Chen, University of Oklahoma; Bo Xiong, California Department of Social Services

94 Relativity Meets Gravity: A Better Measurement of Market Size to Explain Agricultural Trade

Bo Xiong, California Department of Social Services

95 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Greenery: Estimating Dynamics of 150 years of Trade-Driven Non-Native Species

Introductions via Plant Material

Matthew J. MacLachlan, University of California, Davis; Michael R. Springborn, University of California, Davis; Andrew

Liebhold, United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service

96 Analyzing Collective Trade Policy Actions in Response to Cyclical Risk in Agricultural Production

Youngjae Lee, Louisiana State University; P. Lynn Kennedy, Louisiana State University

97 Exchange Rate Volatility and Agricultural Commodity Trade

Sandro Steinbach, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zurich

98 Climate Change Impacts on Labor Productivity: The Effect of Increasing Heat Exposure

Luis M. Pena-Levano, Purdue University; Roberto Roson, Ca’Foscari University

Production Economics

101 Dynamic Supply Response of Pulses in India

Akshay Bhatnagar, International Food Policy Research Institute; Devesh Roy, International Food Policy Research Institute;

Avinash Kishore, International Food Policy Research Institute

102 Are Futures Prices Endogenous to Global Supply Analysis of Agricultural Commodities? New Empirical Evidence

Md Zabid Iqbal, Iowa State University

103 Hoes to Herbicides: Economics of Evolving Weed Management in the United States

Scott M. Swinton, Michigan State University; Braeden Van Deynze, Michigan State University

104 Impact of Farm Training on Efﬁciency of Small Scale Farms in Armenia

Weldensie T. Embaye, Kansas State University; Jason S. Bergtold, Kansas State University; Benjamin Schwab, Kansas State

University

105 Analyzing the Impact of Huanglongbing on Citrus Tree Plantings

Fengxia Dong, University of Wisconsin; Paul D. Mitchell, University of Wisconsin

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Posters

137 Estimating Short- and Long-run Supply Elasticities of Global Agricultural Commodities from Dynamic Heterogeneous

Panels

Md Zabid Iqbal, Iowa State University; Bruce A. Babcock, Iowa State University

Productivity Analysis and Emerging Technologies

106 The Potential for Improvement in On-road Truck Fuel Economy

Jen He, University of Maryland; Benjamin Leard, Resources for the Future; Joshua Linn, Resources for the Future; Virginia

McConnell, University of Maryland, Baltimore County and Resources for the Future

107 Productivity Dynamics in Indonesian Manufacturing Industries - Evidence from Firm Level Panel Data

Xi He, University of Connecticut; Nathan Fiala, University of Connecticut

108 Estimating Elasticities of Substitution Using Data Envelopment Analysis

Noah J. Miller, Kansas State University; Jason S. Bergtold, Kansas State University; Allen M. Featherstone, Kansas State

University

109 Effect of Loss Aversion on Farm Investment

Lawson Connor, North Carolina State University; Roderick M. Rejesus, North Carolina State University; Jose M. Yorobe Jr.,

University of the Philippines Los Banos

110 Quantile DEA: A Direct Linear Programming Based Approach to Obtaining Quantile Efﬁciency or Quantile Group

Benchmarking Performance Estimates

Joseph A. Atwood, Montana State University; Saleem Shaik, North Dakota State University

Research Methods/Econometrics/Stats

111 A Decomposition Model of Vertical Price Transmission with Scanner Data

Christin Schulze Bisping, University of Göttingen; Stephan Von Cramon, University of Göttingen

112 Using Eye Tracking Measures to Improve Modeling

Daniel E. Chavez, Texas A&M University; Marco A. Palma, Texas A&M University; Alba J. Collart, Mississippi State

University

113 Using the Chow Test with Time Series-Cross Section Data

James K. Binkley, Purdue University; Jeffrey S. Young, Purdue University

114 An Examination of the Relationship Between Biodiesel and Soybean Oil Prices Using an Asset Pricing Model

Miguel A. Carriquiry, Universidad de la Republica

115 Measuring Poverty Over Time - Accounting for the Intertemporal Distribution of Poverty

Felix Naschold, University of Wyoming

Resource and Environmental Policy Analysis

116 Targeting Wetland Restoration to Cost-effectively Reduce Nitrogen Loadings in the Gulf of Mexico

LeRoy T. Hansen, USDA-Economic Research Service; Marc O. Ribaudo, USDA-Economic Research Service

117 Using Multiple Imputation for a Zero-in ATED Contingent Valuation with Potentially Biased Sampling

Marouene Mbarek, Agrocampus Ouest; Damien Rousseliere, Agrocampus Ouest; Julien Salanié, Université Jean Monnet

118 Costs of Meeting Water Quality Goals under Climate Change in Urbanizing Watersheds: Difﬁcult Run, Virginia

Jonathon M. Giuffria, Virginia Tech; Darrell J. Bosch, Virginia Tech; Daniel B. Taylor, Virginia Tech; Nasrin Alamdari,

Virginia Tech

119 Equitably Slicing the Pie: Allocation of Non-Point Source Pollution for Water Quality Improvement

Adam J. Daigneault, Landcare Research; Suzie Greenhalgh, Landcare Research NZ; Oshadhi Samarasinghe, Landcare

Research NZ

120 A State-Speciﬁc Analysis of Environmental Kuznets Curve for the United States

Meng Yang, University of Alberta; Feng Qiu, University of Alberta

121 India’s Climate Change Mitigation Policies – A Case for Market Based Instruments

Ashish Tyagi, The Pennsylvania State University

Posters

122 Siting Aquaculture in Maine: Exploring Conﬂicts at Public Lease Hearings

Keith S. Evans, University of Maine; Samuel Hanes, University of Maine; Christina A. Robichaud, University of Maine

Risk and Uncertainty

123 Attitudes toward Uncertainty by Different Groups of Subjects: Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh

George W. Norton, Virginia Tech; Ahsanuzzaman Ahsanuzzaman, North South University

124 Risk Preferences and Adoption of Climate Smart Agricultural Technologies: Evidence from India

Mukesh K. Ray, Michigan State University; Mywish K. Maredia, Michigan State University; Robert S. Shupp, Michigan

State University

125 Stochastic Techno-Economic Analysis of Alcohol-to-Jet Fuel Production

Guolin Yao, Purdue University; Mark D. Staples, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Robert Malina, Massachusetts

Institute of Technology; Wallace E. Tyner, Purdue University

126 Volatility Spillover Effects and Cross Hedging in the U.S. Oil Market and the Energy Pipeline Sector Index

Jingze Jiang, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania; Thomas L. Marsh, Washington State University

127 Group Loan or Individual Loan? A Dynamic Framework with Systemic Risk

Mario J. Miranda, The Ohio State University; Jian Chen, The Ohio State University

128 Natural Hedge Effects on Revenue Stability and Crop Insurance Decisions: Evidence from County and Producer-Level Data

Mesbah J. Motamed, USDA-Economic Research Service; Erik J. O’Donoghue, USDA-Economic Research Service

129 Corporate Hedging in Incomplete Markets: A Solution under Price Transmission

Rui Luo, Washington State University; T. Randall Fortenbery, Washington State University

Rural/Community Development

130 Too Small to Farm, too Big to Mow: The Impact of Large-Lot Zoning on the Exurban Landscape

Paul D. Gottlieb, Rutgers University; Meggan Lubeck, Rutgers University; Lucas Marxen, New Jersey Agricultural

Experiment Station, Rutgers University

131 Impact of Fiscal Subsidy on China’s New Rural Pension System

Benxi Lin, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University; Yu Yvette Zhang, Texas A&M University; Zongjian Lin, Fujian

Agriculture and Forestry University; Yongli Wang, The People’s Government of Fujian Province, P.R. China; Weiping Liu,

Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University

132 Industry Clusters and Regional Economic Development in the Midwest

Naomi Amugeh, South Dakota State University; Evert Van Der Sluis, South Dakota State University

133 An Economy-wide Analysis of Trade Liberalization Impacts on Rural Household Income in Taiwan

Shih-Hsun Hsu, National Taiwan University; Ching-Cheng Chang, Academia Sinica; Hsing-Chun Lin, National Chiayi

University; Ruey-Wan Liou, Chihlee University of Technology; Sheng-Ming Hsu, National Taiwan University; Te-Yen Hsieh,

National Taiwan University; Kuo-Jung Lin, Chihlee University of Technology

134 Ex-ante Estimation of Adoption Determinants for a Sustainable Land Management Practice: The Case of Non-operator

Landowners

Bradford L. Barham, University of Wisconsin; Daniel F. Mooney, University of Wisconsin

Teaching, Communication, and Extension

135 Toxicity and Price-Quality Information and Pesticide Demand: RCT Evidence from Smallholder Tomato Farmers in Zambia

Joseph C. Goeb, Michigan State University

136 How far are Chinese Farmers from “Internet Plus”? Empirical Study of Factors Inﬂuencing Farmer’s Adoption of Internet

Application

Jianxin Guo, Beijing Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences; Songqing Jin, Michigan State University; Junfeng

Zhang, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences

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Natural Resource Economics

138 Status-Dependent Impacts of Multiple Drivers on Agricultural Land Conversion

Haoluan Wang

139 Can Wood Pellets Save Coal?

Michael Wetzstein

140 The Impact of Glyphosate-Tolerant Seeds on Herbicide Use: An International Comparison

Richard F Nehring

141 Adaptive Resistance Management of Bt Refuge Policy with Uncertain Fitness Costs

Zachary S Brown

142 Do Governmental and Private Conservation Funds “Crowd Out” Municipal Open Space Spending?

Patrick Prendergast

143 Proﬁtable Land Supply in Africa

Jing Liu

Determinants of Irrigation Technology Choice in Soybean Production

Tej K Gautam

145 Willingness to Pay and Willingness to Accept Values for Irrigation Water

Tej K Gautam

146 Agricultural Land as a Multipurpose Capital Asset

Daniel P Bigelow

147 Citrus Health Management Areas: An Empirical Analysis of the Effect of Coordinated Control on Asian Citrus Psyllid

Populations

Kelly Grogan, University of Florida

Types of Concurrent Sessions

INVITED PAPER SESSIONS

Invited Paper sessions are selected by the AAEA President and

two additional Board members based on proposals submitted

by AAEA members. These sessions are chosen because they may

appeal to a broad spectrum of meeting attendees, further the

development and dissemination of systematic knowledge in the

ﬁeld of agricultural and applied economics, and/or generate

meaningful conversation. Invited Paper sessions generally

involve two to three paper presentations and ample opportunity

for discussion. Invited papers may also be published in the

proceedings issue of the American Journal of Agricultural

Economics

INVITED CASE STUDY PAPERS

Invited Case Study Paper sessions are selected by members of the

Case Study Committee based on proposals submitted by AAEA

members. Papers presented in this session demonstrate how the

application of economics principles to decision making in the

public and/or private sectors lead to better decisions. Papers

presented in this session may be published in the proceedings

issue of the American Journal of Agricultural Economics.

ORGANIZED SYMPOSIA

Organized Symposia are selected by the AAEA President based

on proposals submitted by AAEA members. They highlight

work-in-progress and involve discussions of policy issues,

research methods, emerging research results, teaching or

outreach topics, and issues in professional organization. The

format of a session may involve paper presentations, panel

discussions, debates, roundtable meetings, or other formats.

SELECTED PRESENTATION LIGHTNING

SESSION

Lightning sessions includes eight Selected Paper Presentations.

Each presenter will have 9-10 minutes to present and discuss

their paper.

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

The term “Selected Presentations” refers collectively to Selected

Papers and Selected Posters.

Selected Paper Sessions include up to four paper presentations.

Each paper presentation is given 20 minutes; 15 minutes to

present and ﬁve minutes for discussion.

TRACK SESSIONS

Tracks are a set of multiple sessions submitted by AAEA

Sections, scheduled throughout the meeting and devoted to a

common interest area or topic. Sessions can be organized by a

single Section or by multiple Sections to cover a wider range of

topics.

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Concurrent Sessions

Concurrent Sessions — Monday, 9:45 - 11:15 AM

1001 The Economics of Taxes and Marketing Restrictions to Reduce Consumption of Speciﬁc Foods and Ingredients

Provincetown, 4th Floor

Invited Paper

This session features current economic research on government interventions designed to improve health and nutrition outcomes

by reducing consumption of particular foods or ingredients. The session consists of three papers and one discussant. Each of the

papers contributes to the policy debate by presenting theoretical and empirical evidence on the efﬁcacy of such policies. The paper

by Grogger presents econometric evidence of the effect soda tax on prices of soda and related goods in Mexico. The paper by Wu,

Balagtas, and Ledesma uses nonlinear pricing theory and experimental economics to model and measure market-equilibrium

response to a restriction on soda cup size. And the paper by Requillart and Soler considers the economic effects of minimum quality

standards versus taxes in oligopolistic markets. The discussant, Stephen Hamilton, is a leading expert in the industrial organization of

food markets.

Organizer: Joseph V. Balagtas, Purdue University

Discussant: Stephen F. Hamilton, California Polytechnic State University

The Economics of Policies for Reducing Soda Consumption: Soda Taxes vs Restrictions on Cup Size

Jose Nuno-Ledesma, Purdue University; Steven Y. Wu, Purdue University; Joseph V. Balagtas, Purdue University

Soda Taxes and the Prices of Sodas and Other Drinks: Evidence from Mexico

Jeffrey Grogger, University of Chicago

Quality Standards versus Nutritional Taxes: Health and Welfare Impacts with Strategic Firms

Vincent Requillart, Toulouse School of Economics, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique; Louis Georges Soler, Institut

National de la Recherche Agronomique

1002 Public Economists: What You May Encounter When You Leave the Ivory Tower

Arlington, 3rd Floor

Organized Symposium

Each of the participants in this symposium is involved as an economist in the public sphere. We will begin by explaining what we

each do beyond pure academics with short opening talks about the role we play, b) the important lessons about those roles, and c)

how to be effective in these situations. Roughly, we will represent economists in the roles of think tank policy analyst, social media/

blogging economist on policy issues, advisor to legislators, and opinion writer. The remainder of the time will consist of questions

and answers with the audience.

Organizers: Jeffrey H. Dorfman, University of Georgia; Vincent H. Smith, Montana State University

Panelists: Marc F. Bellemare, University of Minnesota; Keith H. Coble, Mississippi State University; Jeffrey H. Dorfman, University

of Georgia; Vincent H. Smith, Montana State University

1003 The Food Safety Modernization Act and the Produce Industry

Boylston, 1st Floor

Organized Symposium

We look at the impact of FSMA using Census micro data which provide information on ﬁrm characteristics including some risk

factors such as livestock and manure use. Then we look at preliminary data from the new Economic Research Service surveys which

ask about food safety practices for growers and packers. This survey looks at what ﬁrms do with respect to risk factors: construct

buffers between livestock and produce, compost raw manure, etc.

Organizers: Linda S. Calvin, USDA-Economic Research Service; Suzanne Thornsbury, USDA-Economic Research Service

Moderator: Julie A. Caswell, University of Massachusetts Amherst

The FSMA Biological Soil Amendment Rules: Do They Lower Risks?

Stacy E. Sneeringer, USDA-Economic Research Service

Variation in Farm Characteristics and Implications for Food Safety

Kathryn E. Lynch, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Preliminary Results from ERS Food Safety Produce Surveys

Linda S. Calvin, USDA-Economic Research Service; Gregory Astill, USDA-ERS

Concurrent Sessions — Monday, 9:45 - 11:15 AM

1004 Food Consumption, Preferences, and Willingness to Pay

Salon B, 4th Floor

Selected Presentation – Lightning Session

The papers in this lightning session present a diverse set of studies focused on consumption, preferences, and willingness to pay for

food. Papers will discuss food waste, innovative technologies, and packaging.

Moderator: Brenna Ellison, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Examining Food Waste in the Household: A Vignette Approach

Brenna Ellison, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Jayson L. Lusk, Oklahoma State University

What Makes People Leave Their Food? The Interaction of Personal and Situational Factors Leading to Plate Leftovers in Canteens

Monika Hartmann, University of Bonn; Bettina A. Lorenz, University of Bonn; Nina Langen, University of Bonn

When Bigger Isn’t Better: Steak Size and Consumer Preferences

Joshua G. Maples, Oklahoma State University; Jayson L. Lusk, Oklahoma State University; Derrell Peel, Oklahoma State University

The Effect of Front-of-Pack Nutrition Labelling on Consumers’ Food Choices and Decision-Making: Merging Discrete Choice

Experiments with Eye-Tracking

Seda Erdem, University of Stirling

Consumer Perceptions and Willingness-to-Pay for Nanotechnology Applications that Enhance Food Safety

Miah Van Tran, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Amalia Yiannaka, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Konstantinos Giannakas,

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

What Determines Fruit and Vegetables Intake of Primary School Children? An Analysis of Personal and Social Determinants

Julia Haß, University of Bonn; Monika Hartmann, University of Bonn

Georgia Elementary School Lunchroom Participation: Impact from the Statewide Implementation of the Smarter Lunchroom

Movement

Janani Rajbhandari Thapa, University of Georgia

1006 Implications of Biofuel Production

Columbus 1, 1st Floor

Selected Presentation

The four papers in this session investigate the production and welfare impacts of alternative biofuel policies, the impact of biofuel

production on land use change and the environment as well as assessing the risks and costs associated with producing biofuels from

non-traditional feedstock.

Moderator: David J. Smith, University of Minnesota

The Renewable Fuel Standard: A Structural Model for the Welfare Evaluation of Alternative Policy Scenarios

GianCarlo Moschini, Iowa State University; Harvey E. Lapan, Iowa State University; Hyunseok Kim, Iowa State University

Biofuel Potential in Mexico: Land Use, Economic and Environmental Effects

Hector M. Nuñez, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas; Anna D. Mata, Centro de Investigacion y Docencia

Economicas

Trends and Strength of Determinants to Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon; Implications for Biofuel Policies in the United

States and Land Use in Brazil

Miguel A. Carriquiry, Universidad de la Republica; Amani E. Elobeid, Iowa State University

Subjective Risks and Barriers to Perennial Bioenergy Production: Estimating a Structural Model with Data from a Hypothetical

Market Experiment

David J. Smith, University of Minnesota

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Concurrent Sessions — Monday, 9:45 - 11:15 AM

1007 Wildlife Management

Harvard, 3rd Floor

Selected Presentation

This session focuses on the management of various types of wildlife, including commercial and invasive wildlife. Several

presentations address the issue of spatial dynamics.

Moderator: Xiaoli Fan, Cornell University

Optimal Monitoring and Control of Invasive Species: The Case of Spotted Wind Drosophila in the United States

Xiaoli Fan, Cornell University; Miguel I. Gomez, Cornell University; Jon M. Conrad, Cornell University; Shadi S. Atallah,

University of New Hampshire

Optimal Control of Wild Horse Populations with Nonlethal Methods

Robert C. Fonner, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries

Valuing the Absence of Feral Swine for U.S. Corn, Soybean, Wheat, Rice, and Peanut Producers and Consumers: A Partial

Equilibrium Approach

Jason J. Holderieath, Colorado State University; Dustin L. Pendell, Kansas State University; Joleen C. Hadrich, Colorado State

University

1008 New Developments in Risk Modeling

Hyannis, 4th Floor

Selected Presentation

Theme underlying the papers in this session is the use of different tools and approaches to model risk and uncertainty.

Moderator: Xiaoguang Feng, Iowa State University

Vine-Copula Based Models for Farmland Portfolio Management

Xiaoguang Feng, Iowa State University; Dermot J. Hayes, Iowa State University

A Relational Model for Predicting Farm-Level Crop Yield Distributions in the Absence of Farm-Level Data

Lysa Porth, University of Manitoba; Ken Seng Tan, University of Waterloo; Wenjun Zhu, Nankai University

Economic Design for the Supply Side of Agricultural Insurance Markets

Harun Bulut, National Crop Insurance Services

1009 Agricultural Cooperatives

Maine, 5th Floor

Selected Presentation

This session addresses managerial issues facing agricultural cooperatives. Governance, capital structure, economies of scale, and the

broader competitive environment are discussed.

Moderator: Jasper Grashuis, University of Missouri

Governance and Performance in the Agri-Food Industry: A Three-Stage Least Squares Investigation of Firms and Cooperatives

Jasper Grashuis, University of Missouri; Michael L. Cook, University of Missouri

A Nonparametric Approach to Estimate Multiproduct and Product-speciﬁc Scale and Scope Economies for Agricultural Cooperatives

Krishna P. Pokharel, Kansas State University; Allen M. Featherstone, Kansas State University

Capital, Ownership, and Governance: Analyzing the Structure of U.S. Farmer Cooperatives

Jasper Grashuis, University of Missouri; Michael L. Cook, University of Missouri

The Changing Competitive Structure of the Kansas Grain Handling and Transportation Industry

Daniel M. O’Brien, Kansas State University; Brian C. Briggeman, Kansas State University

Concurrent Sessions — Monday, 9:45 - 11:15 AM

1010 The Role of Experiments in Explaining Innovation and the Demand for and Use of New Technologies

Massachusetts, 5th Floor

Selected Presentation

This session presents research on both fresh produce supply chains as well as impact factors of innovations and use of new

technology.

Moderator: Houtian Ge, The Pennsylvania State University

Hub Location in Fresh Produce Supply Chains

Houtian Ge, The Pennsylvania State University; Patrick N. Canning, USDA-Economic Research Service; Stephan J. Goetz,

The Pennsylvania State University; Agnes Perez, USDA-Economic Research Service

Assessing Innovator and Adopter Proﬁt Potential under Different New Plant Variety Commercialization Strategies

R. Karina Gallardo, Washington State University; Bradley J. Rickard, Cornell University; Jill J. McCluskey, Washington State

University; Sherzod B. Akhundjanov, Washington State University

How Millennial Food Purchase Decisions Compare to Previous Generations

Annemarie Kuhns, USDA-Economic Research Service; Michelle Saksena, USDA-Economic Research Service

A Supply and Demand Estimation of the U.S. High Fructose Corn Syrup Market

Pablo A. Garcia-Fuentes, Louisiana State University; P. Lynn Kennedy, Louisiana State University

1011 Market Reactions to USDA Reports: Issues and Potential Solutions

Nantucket, 4th Floor

Selected Presentation

This session discusses the effect of USDA reports on agricultural commodity markets and decision making.

Moderator: Olga Isengildina Massa, Virginia Tech University

Market Reaction to Inefﬁciencies in USDA Crop Production Forecasts

Olga Isengildina Massa, Virginia Tech University; Berna Karali, University of Georgia; Scott H. Irwin, University of Illinois at

Urbana-Champaign

Changes in Informational Value and the Market Reaction to USDA Reports in the Big Data Era

Berna Karali, University of Georgia; Olga Isengildina Massa, Virginia Tech University; Scott H. Irwin, University of Illinois at

Urbana-Champaign; Michael K. Adjemian, USDA-Economic Research Service

The Components of the Bid-Ask-Spread: Evidence from the Live Cattle Futures Market

Quanbiao Shang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Mindy L. Mallory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign;

Philip Garcia, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Forward-Looking USDA Interval Forecasts

Michael K. Adjemian, USDA-Economic Research Service; Valentina Bruno, American University; Michel A. Robe, American

University

1012 Health Outcomes

New Hampshire, 5th Floor

Selected Presentation

Papers in this session evaluate the relationship between the environmental impacts of human behavior and resulting human health

outcomes.

Moderator: Soﬁa K. Vielma Delano, Purdue University

Willingess to Pay for a Medicine Disposal Program in the Midwest: A Double Hurdle Approach

Soﬁa K. Vielma Delano, Purdue University; Kwamena K. Quagrainie, Purdue University

Estimating the Effect of Pesticide Use on Health Outcomes in China

Wangyang Lai, The Ohio State University; Brian E. Roe, The Ohio State University

Scope Insensitivity in Child’s Health Risk Reduction: A Comparison of Damage Schedule and Choice Experiment Methods

Phumsith Mahasuweerachai, Khon Kaen University; Siwarut Pangjai, Khon Kaen University

Willingness to Pay to Reduce Health Costs Associated with Bushﬁre Smoke

Morteza Chalak, University of Western Australia; Michael Burton, University of Western Australia; David J. Pannell, University of

Western Australia

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1013 Hedging, Futures and Agricultural Product Reports

Salon A, 4th Floor

Selected Presentation

These presentations discuss the use of ﬁnancial risk management tools by different agricultural producers. They investigate pre-

harvest hedging, prices for thinly traded products and the impacts of ofﬁcial product reports.

Moderator: Ziran Li, Iowa State University

Price Responses in Forward Contracting: Do We Limit The Upside And Expose The Downside?

Dermot J. Hayes, Iowa State University; Keri L. Jacobs, Iowa State University; Ziran Li, Iowa State University

Does the Boxed Beef Price Ever Lead the Live Cattle Futures Price?

Kishore Joseph, California State University, Chico; Philip Garcia, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Paul E. Peterson,

Chicago Mercantile Exchange

The Value of WASDE Reports to the U.S. Corn Market

Philip C. Abbott, Purdue University; David Boussios, Purdue University; James M. Lowenberg-DeBoer, Purdue University

Intraday Market Effects in Electronic Soybean Futures Market during Non-Trading and Trading Hour Announcements

Kishore Joseph, California State University, Chico; Philip Garcia, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

1014 The Role of Transfer Programs on Household Well-Being

Salon D, 4th Floor

Selected Presentation

These papers examine the role of various government transfer programs on household choices and well-being in a variety of settings.

Moderator: Gayaneh S. Kyureghian, Korea University

Large-Scale Social Transfer and Labor Market Outcomes: The Case of the South African Pension Program

Norihiko Matsuda, University of Wisconsin

No Country for Old Men: An Investment Motive for Downward Inter-Generational Transfers in Rural China

Chiyu Niu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The Demand for Food in France: The Case of Consumption at Retirement

Gayaneh S. Kyureghian, Korea University; Louis Georges Soler, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique

1015 The Economics of Soil Conservation

Salon H, 4th Floor

Selected Presentation

These studies examine different economic aspects aspects of soil conservation in agriculture

Moderator: Gaurav Arora, Iowa State University

Strategic Grassland Conversions and Conservation Easement Allocations in the Dakotas: Analysis using Remotely-Sensed Data

Gaurav Arora, Iowa State University; David A. Hennessy, Michigan State University; Hongli Feng, Michigan State University; Peter

T. Wolter, Iowa State University

Grassland Easement Evaluation and Acquisition: A Stochastic Dynamic Perspective

Ruiqing Miao, Auburn University; David A. Hennessy, Michigan State University; Hongli Feng, Michigan State University

Optimal Distribution of Conservation Practices in the Upper Washita River Basin, Oklahoma

Edward Osei, Tarleton State University

Climate Change and the Economics of Conservation Tillage

Juan Pablo Sesmero, Purdue University; Ben Gramig, Purdue University; Otto C. Doering III, Purdue University; Tony Vyn, Purdue

University; Whitney Hodde, Purdue University

Concurrent Sessions — Monday, 9:45 - 11:15 AM

1016 Issues in African Food Production and Consumption

Salon I, 4th Floor

Selected Presentation

The papers in this session consider various production issues in Senegal, Ghana, and West Africa and household food consumption

in West Africa.

Moderator: Stacy McCoy, Purdue University

How do Traders and Consumers in Tropical Savannah Climates Value Maize Moisture Montent? Evidence from an Experimental

Auction in Senegal

Stacy McCoy, Purdue University; Jacob Ricker-Gilbert, Purdue University; Corinne E. Alexander, Purdue University; Moussa Sall,

Institut Sénégalais de Recherches Agricoles

Long term Outlook for Rice Production and Trade in West Africa: A Set of Productivity Growth Scenarios

Nancy J. Cochrane, USDA-Economic Research Service; Getachew S. Nigatu, USDA-Economic Research Service; Anh Nam Tran,

University of Missouri; James M. Hansen, USDA-Economic Research Service; Ralph M. Seeley, USDA-Economic Research Service

The Economics of the Transformation of Household Food Consumption in West Africa

Saweda Liverpool-Tasie, Michigan State University; Thomas A. Reardon, Michigan State University; Serge G. Adjognon, Michigan

State University; Awa Sanou, Michigan State University

Technological and Market Interventions to Reduce Aﬂatoxin Groundnut Contamination in Ghana

Nicholas P. Magnan, University of Georgia; Vivian E. Hoffmann, University of Maryland; Gissele Gajate Garrido, IMPAQ

International; Nelson Opoku, University for Development Studies

1017 Impacts of Trade Agreements on International Agricultural Markets

Salon J, 4th Floor

Selected Presentation

Regional trade negotiations and agreements are on the rise. The selected papers in this session shed light on the implications for

agricultural trade, with emphasis on speciﬁc trade barriers and commodity groups.

Moderator: Jason Grant, Virginia Tech

Regionalism without Regions: Evaluating the Economic Impacts of Cross-Regional Trade Agreements

Jason Grant, Virginia Tech; Mary Marchant, Virginia Tech

Are Free Trade Agreements Good for the Environment? A Panel Data Analysis

Mehdi Nemati, University of Kentucky; Wuyang Hu, University of Kentucky; Michael R. Reed, University of Kentucky

Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership: Potential Harmonization or Mutual Recognition of Pesticide Residue Regulations

and its Impact on Agricultural Trade

Bo Xiong, California Department of Social Services; John C. Beghin, Iowa State University

Impacts of the Trans-Paciﬁc Partnership for U.S. and International Dairy Trade

Everett B. Peterson, Virginia Tech; Jason Grant, Virginia Tech; Sharon Sydow, USDA-Ofﬁce of the Chief Economist

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1018 Health and Nutrition Around the World

Salon K, 4th Floor

Selected Presentation

Food insecurity is a present concern. This session includes four papers that explore health and nutrition globally. Countries analyzed

include Vietnam, Tanzania, Uganda, and China.

Moderator: Ram N. Acharya, New Mexico State University

Effects of Market Work and Own Household Work on Nutrition Intake of Rural Adults: The Case of Vietnam

Tadashi Sonoda, Nagoya University; Ashok K. Mishra, Arizona State University; Lien T. B. Vu, Matsuyama University

Hunger and the Incidence of Child Stunting in Tanzania

Ram N. Acharya, New Mexico State University

Business is Tough, but Family is Worse: The Role of Family Constraints on Microenterprise Development in Uganda

Nathan Fiala, University of Connecticut

Relative-Deprivation Effects on Child Health in China

Yu Sun, Virginia Tech; Wen You, Virginia Tech

1019 Factors Affecting Food Consumption in the United States

Tremont, 1st Floor

Selected Presentation

Papers in this session examine factors inﬂuencing food consumption in the United States., including socioeconomic, demographic,

and geographic factors as well as legislation and policy.

Moderator: Senarath Dharmasena, Texas A&M University

Socioeconomic, Demographic and Geographic Factors Affecting Household Food Purchase and Acquisition Decisions in the United

States as a Complex Economic System

Senarath Dharmasena, Texas A&M University; David A. Bessler, Texas A&M University; Jessica E. Todd, USDA-Economic

Research Service

Retail Alcohol Availability and Product Diversity

Mingyang Qu, Cornell University; Bradley J. Rickard, Cornell University; Marco Costanigro, Colorado State University; Edward

McLaughlin, Cornell University

Soda Wars

Rebecca Taylor, University of California, Berkeley; Scott Kaplan, University of California, Berkeley; Soﬁa Berto Villas-Boas,

University of California, Berkeley

You Can Lead a Household to Healthful Food, but you Can’t Make Them Eat: Shopping Frequency, Produce Consumption,

Household Characteristics, Retail Densities, and Health Gradients

Scott Colby, The Pennsylvania State University

1020 Theoretical and Empirical Aspects in Production Economics

Vermont, 5th Floor

Selected Presentation

Papers in this session cover theoretical and empirical issues of production economics analyses including aspects related to duality

theory, estimation of supply elasticities, and the impact of producers’ health risk preferences and corporate social responsibility on

production decisions.

Moderator: Juan F. Rosas, Universidad ORT Uruguay

How Reliable is Duality Theory in Empirical Work?

Juan F. Rosas, Universidad ORT Uruguay; Sergio H. Lence, Iowa State University

The Value of Being Socially Responsible: A DEA Approach for Recovering Shadow Values of CSR Activities

Daniela Puggioni, The Pennsylvania State University; Spiro E. Stefanou, University of Florida

Farmers’ Pesticide Use Behavior Toward Own Consumption Versus Sale-Oriented Production: Joint Effects of Risk Preferences and

Perceptions of Health Risks

Wei Zhang, International Food Policy Research Institute; Yanyan Liu, International Food Policy Research Institute; Andrew R. Bell,

New York University

Concurrent Sessions — Monday, 9:45 - 11:15 AM

1021 Agricultural Production and Environmental Policy

Yarmouth, 4th Floor

Selected Presentation

Papers in this session evaluate the impact of multiple forces on agricultural and forest land use changes and technology adoption,

with special emphasis on the role of land use, environmental and property rights policies.

Moderator: Haoluan Wang, University of Alberta

Investigating the Spatial Effects of Agricultural Land Abandonment and Expansion

Haoluan Wang, University of Alberta; Feng Qiu, University of Alberta; Xiaofeng Ruan, University of Alberta

Brazil’s Agricultural Land Conversion, Expansion, and Policies

Constanza Valdes, USDA-Economic Research Service; Hjort Kim, USDA-Economic Research Service; Jose Gasques, Brazil

Ministry of Agriculture

Uncertainty and Technology Adoption with Imperfect Property Rights: Lessons from the Arkansas River Valley

Misti D. Sharp, Colorado State University; Dale Manning, Colorado State University; Dana L. Hoag, Colorado State University

Climate Change Interactions with Agriculture, Forestry Sequestration and Food Security

Luis M. Pena-Levano, Purdue University; Farzad Taheripour, Purdue University; Wallace E. Tyner, Purdue University

1022 The Use of Real World Business Cases as Teaching Tools

Berkeley, 3rd Floor

Track Session – SS-AAEA and TLC Sections

The use of real world application of business topics in undergraduate classrooms through simulations, consulting activities, role

plays, and competitions are growing in popularity. These activities create speciﬁc challenges in assessing performance of students and

allocating faculty resources. This panel discussion will create a dialogue around these topics and share research and experiences of

panelists.

Organizer: W. Scott Downey, Purdue University

Discussants: W. Scott Downey, Purdue University; Michael A. Gunderson, Purdue University; Lindsey M. Higgins, California

Polytechnic State University; Aaron J. Johnson, University of Idaho; Kerry K. Litzenberg, Texas A&M University; Elizabeth A.

Yeager, Kansas State University

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1023 Monetary Policy and Implications for Agriculture

Clarendon, 3rd Floor

Track Session – AFM Section

Monetary policy involves the process of setting the amount of money and credit within an economy in response to current economic

conditions. By establishing benchmark interest rates, monetary policy directly affects agriculture, especially when agricultural land

values and commodity prices are volatile. This track session evaluates the macro-level effects of tightening monetary policy on three

important actors in the agricultural economy: farms and agribusiness, agricultural lenders, and agricultural investors. Participants will

evaluate the ﬁnancial exposure of each of these groups to changes in benchmark interest rates and consider both potential positive

and negative effects of monetary policy changes to the agricultural sector. Discussion will be led by an economist from the Federal

Reserve Bank to provide additional perspective on agriculture’s link to monetary policy.

Organizer: Joleen C. Hadrich, Colorado State University

Discussant: Nathan S. Kauffman, Federal Reserve Bank - Omaha Branch

At-Risk Farms and Agribusiness in a Higher Interest Rate Environment

Brian C. Briggeman, Kansas State University

Restructuring and Rebalancing Agricultural Lending: Future Challenges Facing Agricultural Lenders

Ryan Larsen, North Dakota State University; Frayne Olsen, North Dakota State University

Land Prices and Interest Rates: Impacts on Farmers, Lenders, and Landowners

Gary D. Schnitkey, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

1024 Study Abroad in Agricultural Economics & Agribusiness Programs

Dartmouth, 3rd Floor

Track Session – LAS Section

Agricultural economics and agribusiness are problem-solving ﬁelds, and both agriculture and economics are ﬁelds of global scope.

Over the past two decades, agricultural commodities and agribusiness ﬁrms have gained a prominent presence in global markets,

thus expanding employment opportunities for graduates from such programs. Surprisingly, however, study abroad participation by

undergraduate and graduate students in agriculture is slim. The purpose of this session is to highlight a number of issues that may

help explain study abroad participation by students in agricultural economics and agribusiness and to provide guidance on how study

abroad participation can be enhanced in colleges of agriculture. This session is structured into ﬁve papers that will systematically

overview trends in study abroad in the United States, discuss main issues and best study abroad practices to guide those interested

in developing such programs, provide practical guidelines in marketing and implementation of study abroad programs, and discuss

institutional readiness and support for study abroad programs in colleges of agriculture.

Organizers: Carlos E. Carpio, Texas Tech University; Hector O. Zapata, Louisiana State University

Moderator: Jaime E. Malaga, Texas Tech University

Trends in U.S. Study Abroad Participation

Hector O. Zapata, Louisiana State University

Issues and Best Practices in Developing and Managing Study Abroad Programs

Harald T. Leder, Louisiana State University

Marketing and Implementation Plans for Study Abroad Classes in Agricultural Economics

Krishna P. Paudel, Louisiana State University; Glenn C. W. Ames, University of Georgia

Institutional Readiness and Support for Study Abroad

Sukant K. Misra, Texas Tech University

Study Abroad in Graduate Agricultural Programs: OSU Master in International Agriculture

Shida Rastegari Henneberry, Oklahoma State University

Concurrent Sessions — Monday, 9:45 - 11:15 AM

1025 Using Behavioral Economic Experiments to Inform Government Risk Management Programs

Exeter, 3rd Floor

Track Session – Experimental Economics and IBES Sections

Currently, few researchers are using experimental methods to study U.S. agricultural risk management programs. This panel will

bring together experimentalists and experts on agricultural risk management to help set an agenda for work in this area. This

session will explore the potential for economic experiments in the laboratory and ﬁeld to yield insights relevant for evaluating

current programs and informing future risk management initiatives. Panelists will discuss topics including setting an agenda for

experimental research on risk management issues, techniques for studying risk behaviors in the lab and ﬁeld, generalizing ﬁndings

from experiments to the broader agricultural population, lessons learned from behavioral ﬁnance and international development

experiments, and using experimental results to inform policy-making. This track session is likely to be of interest to economists and

policy-makers interested in risk management and/or experimental methods.

Organizer: Stephanie D. Rosch, USDA-Economic Research Service

Moderator: Stephanie D. Rosch, USDA-Economic Reserarch Service

Discussant: Joseph C. Cooper, USDA-Economic Research Service

Panelists: Jean-Paul Chavas, University of Wisconsin; Charles Sprenger, University of California, San Diego; Angelino Viceisza,

Spelman College

1026 Behavioral Economic Insights in Agricultural Finance and Farm Asset Markets

Fairﬁeld, 3rd Floor

Track Session – AFM and IBES Sections

Farmland plays a central role in the ﬁnancial health of the agricultural sector. Farm real estate makes up over 80% of the value of the

sector’s asset base and serves as the primary source of collateral for farm loans. There is a wide body of research on farm real estate

values in the agricultural economics literature. However, farmland markets have several anomalies that limit the usefulness of many

traditional empirical techniques common in other areas of applied ﬁnance. For example, farmland markets have extremely lower

turnover and more than half of farmland sales are not arms-length. The empirical papers presented in this session directly examine

the anomalies of farm real estate markets using both market transactions and nonmarket data from across the U.S. The session

outlines important implications for future research on farmland markets as well as behavioral economics research undertaken by

AAEA members.

Organizer: Jennifer E. Ifft, Cornell Unversity

Moderator: Jennifer E. Ifft, Cornell Unversity

Discussant: David R. Just, Cornell University

Accounting for Relational Goods in Farmland Transactions

Lindon J. Robison, Michigan State University; Jeffrey R. Oliver, Michigan State University

Expectations and Expert Opinion Surveys: Empirical Tests Using a Panel of Iowa Land Value Survey Responses

Wendong Zhang, Iowa State University; Todd H. Kuethe, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The “True” Value of Farmland: Market Transactions versus Self-Reported Agricultural Land Values

Daniel Bigelow, USDA-Economic Research Service; Jennifer E. Ifft, Cornell Unversity; Todd H. Kuethe, University of Illinois at

Urbana-Champaign

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1027 Mixture Models in Agricultural and Applied Economics

Regis, 3rd Floor

Track Session – Econometrics Section

Economists are turning to increasingly sophisticated models to understand complex phenomena embedded in their data. In cases

of multiple data generating processes, often the source process for each data point is unknown and must be estimated. Mixture

models are one approach to addressing this problem, and they have started to be used across applied ﬁelds including agricultural and

behavioral or experimental economics. This session will address new applications of mixture models in agricultural yield modeling,

farm ﬁnance and lending, and behavioral or experimental applications for farm risk management. The session is designed to

demonstrate the ever-widening sphere of applications for mixture models, which includes choosing the right level of aggregation of

data sources, classifying farms or individuals according to endogenously deﬁned types, and selecting between candidate models of

farmer ﬁnancing and debt choices.

Organizer: Thomas W. Sproul, University of Rhode Island

Moderator: Eric Belasco, Montana State University

Determining Optimal Data Aggregation: An Application of Out-of-Sample Mixture Models

Joshua D. Woodard, Cornell University

Using Mixture Models as Behavioral Classiﬁers: Advantages and Pitfalls

Thomas W. Sproul, University of Rhode Island; Clayton P. Michaud, University of Rhode Island

Modeling Debt Choice in Agriculture: The Effect of Endogenous Asset Values

Charles B. Moss, University of Florida; Ashok K. Mishra, Arizona State University; Maria Bampasidou, Louisiana State University

1028 Graduate Student Extension Competition Winners

Simmons, 3rd Floor

Track Session – GSS and Extension Sections

The Graduate Student Extension Competition consists of graduate student-prepared work and presentation to an Extension

audience. It showcases the student’s ability to communicate work product to an extension audience.

Organizers: Joshua G. Maples, Oklahoma State University; Clinton L. Neill, Oklahoma State University; John Michael Riley,

Oklahoma State University

1029 Washington Policy Update

Suffolk, 3rd Floor

Track Session – Extension Section

Congress and USDA deal with a broad range of policy issues-from long-standing, agriculture-speciﬁc issues such as commodity,

conservation, and trade programs, to newer, cross-cutting topics such as energy and climate change. The presenters will provide

their perspectives on policy development and implementation issues affecting agriculture based on their work for the Congress and

USDA. They also will seek comments and insights on issues from session attendees.

Organizer: Steven L. Klose, Texas A&M University

U.S. House of Representatives Update and Outlook

Bart L. Fischer, U.S. House of Representatives

U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee Update and Outlook

Matt Erickson, Senate Agricultural Committee

USDA Farm Policy Update and Outlook

Robert C. Johansson, USDA-Ofﬁce of the Chief Economist

Concurrent Sessions — Monday, 9:45 - 11:15 AM

1030 Effectiveness of the Clean Power Plan in the United States

Vineyard, 4th Floor

Track Session – ENV Section

The Clean Power Plan (CPP) implemented by the EPA in 2015 aims at achieving a 32% reduction in emissions from electrical

power plant by 2020 relative to 2005. Under the CPP, each state is assigned an emission rate in pounds of carbon dioxide per

megawatt hour that has to be achieved through “the best system of emission reduction.” Thus, states are given the ﬂexibility to

translate the emission rate into a mass-based cap measured in pounds. The mass-based cap corresponds to a cap-and-trade program

that is already implemented in 10 states. This session aims to shed light on the cost effectiveness and efﬁciency of the proposed CPP

under implementation schemes that vary across state. Papers will assess the incentives given to state to adopt rate versus mass-based

goals and how the choice translates into consumer and producer welfare.

Organizer: Jerome R. Dumortier, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Cost Effectiveness of the Clean Power Plan in Reducing GHG Emissions using Rate vs. Mass-Based Standards

Madhu Khanna, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Anthony Oliver, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Alternative Policy Impacts on U.S. GHG Emissions and Energy Security: A Hybrid Modeling Approach

Wallace E. Tyner, Purdue University; Kemal Sarica, Isik University

Emissions Allocation Design to Avoid Leakage under the Clean Power Plan

Karen L. Palmer, Resources for the Future; Dallas Burtraw, Resources for the Future; Anthony Paul, Resources for the Future

Interactions of Supply-side Climate Policies with the Clean Power Plan

James Stock, Harvard University

1031 How to Get What You Need to Thrive: Achieving Extraordinary Productivity and Work-Life Balance

Wellesley, 3rd Floor

Track Session – CWAE Section

Three years after the AAEA Mentorship Program was launched, CWAE leadership continues to receive requests for help in successful

pursuit of personal and professional from our membership. The session goals are to present strategies and solutions that build in

personal accountability structures to achieve research productivity, and to identify tangible practices which have the potential to

foster balanced and therefore more productive faculty who seek action-oriented solutions that provide a pathway for long-term

behavioral and mental shifts. It is designed to appeal to men and women at any stage of their career paths, as national trends

continue to highlight the reality of dual income households and co-parenting responsibilities. The interactive panel includes CWAE

members who hold different faculty appointments across all career stages, demonstrate varied approaches to success, and serve as

leaders and mentors to students and colleagues.

Organizers: Kimberly L. Morgan, Virginia Tech; Lurleen M. Walters, Mississippi State University

Discussant: Lurleen M. Walters, Mississippi State University

Panelists: Jill J. McCluskey, Washington State University; Kimberly L. Morgan, Virginia Tech; James A. Sterns, Oregon State

University; Steven C. Turner, Mississippi State University

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1032 Economic Drivers and Consequences of Large Food Retailers’ Location

Provincetown, 4th Floor

Invited Papers

Changes in the retailing industry, including the emergence and triumph of large and non-traditional food retail formats–i.e.

supercenters, wholesale clubs etc–have multiple implications. This invited session collects three contribution aiming to shed light on

different aspects of the economics of large food store location. The ﬁrst contribution uses an empirical model to measure the market

threshold leading to consumers having more access to large food stores and testing the role of different policy levers. The second

examines how the growth of supercenters may have an effect on the diet of the French consumers. The third evaluates the impact of

stores closing and opening on housing value, using a speciﬁc case study.

Organizer: Alessandro Bonanno, Colorado State University

Moderator: Michele L. Ver Ploeg, USDA-Economic Research Service

Discussant: Michele L. Ver Ploeg, USDA-Economic Research Service

Economic Drivers of Large Food Stores Access in the U.S.

Alessandro Bonanno, Colorado State University; Rebecca L.O. Cleary, The Pennsylvania State University; Lauren Chenarides,

The Pennsylvania State University; Stephan J. Goetz, The Pennsylvania State University

The Effect of Supercenters on Dietary Choices and Healthfulness of Food Purchases in France

Gayaneh S. Kyureghian, Korea University; France Caillavet, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique; Adelaide Fadhuile,

Grenoble Alpes University, - INRA GAEL; Rodolfo M. Nayga, University of Arkansas

Open-Close-Open: Evaluating the Effect of Changes in Food Access Options on Housing Prices. Evidences from New Haven, CT

Adam N. Rabinowitz, University of Connecticut; Elena Castellari, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore; Marcello Graziano,

University of the Highlands and the Islands

1033 Policy Instruments, Conservation and Efﬁciency in Water and Energy

Boylston, 1st Floor

Organized Symposium

This session focuses on the impact of policy instruments aimed at inducing conservation or improving efﬁciency in the water and

energy sectors.

Moderator: Jonathan Baker, Harvard University

Subsidies for Succulents: The Welfare Impacts of Las Vegas’ Cash–for-Grass Rebate Program

Jonathan Baker, Harvard University

Energy Savings from Residential Building Codes: Evidence from Smart-Meter Data

Tianxia Zhou, University of California, Davis; Kevin Novan, University of California, Davis; Aaron D. Smith, University of

California, Davis

Conservation Spillovers and Behavioral Interventions: Experimental Evidence from Water and Energy Use

Gabriel Lade, Iowa State University; Katrina K. Jessoe, University of California, Davis; Frank Loge, University of California, Davis;

Edward Spang, University of California, Davis

Arbitrage-Free Pricing in Water Markets

Renata Rimsaite, The Pennsylvania State University; Karen Fisher-Vanden, The Pennsylvania State University; Sheila Olmstead,

Resources for the Future

Concurrent Sessions — Monday, 1:00 - 2:30 PM

1034 Some Fundamental Determinants of Agricultural Growth

Arlington, 3rd Floor

Organized Symposium

Agricultural growth is fundamentally important for economic development and for poverty reduction. In turn, it depends on the

evolution of agricultural productivity growth, and on the rate of economic growth in rich and poor countries. An important part

of that growth process is the development of cities, which profoundly affects the demand for food and the supply of resources to

agriculture. Another important inﬂuence on agricultural growth is the growth of agricultural trade. The four papers in this session

bring new approaches to bear on each of these fundamental determinants of growth.

Moderator: Karen M. Brooks, International Food Policy Research Institute

The Rise and Fall of U.S. Farm Productivity Growth, 1910–2007

Julian M. Alston, University of California, Davis; Matthew A. Andersen, University of Wyoming; Philip G. Pardey, University of

Minnesota

Economic Growth, Convergence and Global Food Prices

William J. Martin, International Food Policy Research Institute; Emiko Fukase, World Bank

Cities and Agricultural Transformation in Developing Countries

Johan F.M. Swinnen, University of Leuven

Trade Costs in International Agricultural Trade

Stephan Von Cramon, University of Göttingen

1035 Food and Agricultural Marketing

Salon B, 4th Floor

Selected Presentation – Lightning Session

Various topics in food demand, food marketing, food safety and technology.

Moderator: Koﬁ Britwum, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Consumer Willingness to Pay for Food Safety Interventions: The Role of Message Framing and Involvement

Koﬁ Britwum, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Amalia Yiannaka, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

The Impact of Adding In-Store Ancillary Services on Customer Behaviors and Retailer Proﬁts

Simba Pasirayi, Arizona State University; Tariro Godza, Case Western Reserve University

Changing Dairy Consumption in an Emerging Economy: An Application of a Multivariate Two-Part Model

Shengfei Fu, University of Georgia; Wojciech J. Florkowski, University of Georgia

Can Non-Alcoholic Beer be a Substitute for Beer? Evidence from Differentiated Product Demand Model Estimation Using Scanner

Data

Toru Nakajima, University of Tokyo

The Imperfect Price Responses of Orange Juice Demand in the U.S.

Hyeyoung Kim, University of Florida; Marisa L. Zansler, Florida Department of Citrus; Lisa A. House, University of Florida

A Global Perspective of Private Brands Success: The Role of Private Label Portfolio Strategies and Brand Similarity

Simba Pasirayi, Arizona State University; Tariro Godza, Case Western Reserve University

Do Mechanization and Commercialization Disempower Women Farmers? Panel Evidence from Malawi and Zambia

Takuji W. Tsusaka, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics

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1036 Agribusiness Marketing

Salon C, 4th Floor

Selected Presentation – Lightning Session

This session discusses a range of issues related to agribusiness marketing.

Moderator: Ikhoon Jang, Seoul National University

Forecasting Agri-product Consumption using Keyword Volume Index from Search Engine Data

Ikhoon Jang, Seoul National University; Young-Chan Choe, Seoul National University

Detecting the Sources of Information Rigidity: A VAR Approach to Analyzing Forecast Smoothing in Soybean Forecasts

Stephen A. MacDonald, USDA-Economic Research Service; Mark S. Ash, USDA-Economic Research Service

Assessing the Market Integration of Domestic and Import

Xuan Chen, University of Maine; Samuel B. Scuderi, University of Maine

Consumer Preferences for Retail Channel and Beef Steak Attributes: Experimental Evidence from Argentinean Consumers

Florencia Colella, Michigan State University; David L. Ortega, Michigan State University

Consumers’ Willingness to Pay for Locally Grown Produce: New Hampshire and Massachusetts

Wei Shi, University of New Hampshire; John M. Halstead, University of New Hampshire; Ju-Chin Huang, University of New

Hampshire

Analyzing Market Structure in the U.S. Food Retailing Industry Using TDLinx

Nestor M. Rodriguez, USDA-Economic Research Service

Futures Term Structure Based Unit Root Test for Agribusiness Crush Margins and Implications for Optimal Hedging Strategies

Ekaterina A. Vorotnikova, University of Idaho; Marin Bozic, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities; Joseph C. Cook, University of

Idaho

1037 Common Pool Resources

Harvard, 3rd Floor

Selected Presentation

Papers in this session provide new insights on the use and management of common pool resources.

Moderator: Sherzod B. Akhundjanov, Washington State University

Multicountry Appropriation of the Commons, Externalities, and Firm Preferences for Regulation

Sherzod B. Akhundjanov, Washington State University

Modeling Endogenous Change in Water Allocation Mechanisms: A Non-Cooperative Bargaining Approach

Ashish Tyagi, The Pennsylvania State University; James S. Shortle, The Pennsylvania State University

Linking the Unlinked: Transboundary Warter-Sharing Under Water-for Leverage Negotiations

Shaikh M. Eskander, London School of Economics; Thorsten Janus, University of Wyoming; Edward B. Barbier, University of

Wyoming

Long-Term Tradeoffs between Private and Social Objectives in the High Plains Aquifer

Juan Pablo Sesmero, Purdue University; Lilyan E. Fulginiti, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Richard K. Perrin, University of

Nebraska-Lincoln

Concurrent Sessions — Monday, 1:00 - 2:30 PM

1038 Rural Health and Healthcare

Hyannis, 4th Floor

Selected Presentation

Healthcare is a paramount concern globally. Rural areas face unique constraints to care availability and traditionally have poorer

health outcomes. Two papers in this session address the availability of healthcare for rural residents and resultant health outcomes.

The other two papers address health impacts related to two quintessential rural sectors: farming and oil and gas production.

Moderator: Chad D. Meyerhoefer, Lehigh University

Availability of Health Care Providers for Rural Texas Counties

Edward Osei, Tarleton State University; Syed H. Jafri, Tarleton State University; Steve Steed, Tarleton State University; Aeliya Jaffar,

Cigna-HealthSpring

The Health Implications of Unconventional Natural Gas Development in Pennsylvania

Lizhong Peng, American Institutes for Research; Chad D. Meyerhoefer, Lehigh University; Shin-yi Chou, Lehigh University,

National Bureau of Economic Research

Vigorous Physical Activity and Overweight? The Paradox of Farmworkers

Eivis Qenani, California Polytechnic State University; Soma Roy, California Polytechnic State University; Neal A. MacDougall,

California Polytechnic State University

1039 International Agribusiness

Maine, 5th Floor

Selected Presentation

This session addresses networking, entrepreneurship, and contract farming in developing countries.

Moderator: Di Fang, Arizona State University

Variety Adoption among Famers in a Network: The Case of Mozambique

Di Fang, Arizona State University; Timothy J. Richards, Arizona State University

Analysis of Agricultural Students in Sub-Saharan Africa Venturing into Self-employed Agribusinesses: Empirical Evidence from the

University of Ghana

Eric M. K. Ofori, Mississippi State University; Yaw Osei-Asare, University Ghana

Impact of Contract Farming on Proﬁts and Yields of Smallholder Farms in Nepal: Evidence from Lentil Cultivation

Anjani Kumar, International Food Policy Research Institute; Devesh Roy, International Food Policy Research Institute; P K Joshi,

International Food Policy Research Institute; Gaurav Tripathi, International Food Policy Research Institute

1040 Environmental and Farm Management Incorporating Behavioral Insights

Massachusetts, 5th Floor

Selected Presentation

This session provides empirical behavioral insights into farm and environment management by considering a variety of issues

including uncertainty, time, and spatial relationships.

Moderator: Sandip Agarwal, Iowa State University

Learning Spatiotemporal Management under Heterogeneous Damage and Uncertain Parameters: An Agent-Based Approach

Jason J. Holderieath, Colorado State University; Joleen C. Hadrich, Colorado State University

Spatial Dependence and Determinants of Dairy Farmers’ Adoption of Best Management Practices for Water Protection

Wei Yang, University of Auckland

Unfolding the Bias in Farm Nitrogen Management

Sandip Agarwal, Iowa State University; Keri L. Jacobs, Iowa State University; Quinn Weninger, Iowa State University

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1041 Storage and Inventory Decisions in Agricultural Markets

Nantucket, 4th Floor

Selected Presentation

This session examines agricultural market dynamics focusing on storage and inventory decisions.

Moderator: Brian D. Wright, University of California, Berkeley

“Negligible” Trends and the Empirical Interpretation of Commodity Prices

Brian D. Wright, University of California, Berkeley; Eugenio Bobenrieth, Pontiﬁcia Universidad Católica De Chile; Juan R.A.

Bobenrieth, Universidad del Bio-Bio; Di Zeng, University of Arkansas

A Dynamic Model of U.S. Beef Cow Inventories

Yunhan Li, University of Georgia; J. Scott Shonkwiler, University of Georgia

Decomposing Local Corn Prices into Hedgeable and Unhedgeable Shocks

Kandice K. Marshall, USDA-Economic Research Service; Michael K. Adjemian, USDA-Economic Research Service; Jerrod Penn,

University of Kentucky; Todd Hubbs, USDA-Economic Research Service

Structural Estimation of the Competitive Storage Model with Elastic Supply Using Data on Prices and Quantities

Christophe Gouel, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique; Nicolas Legrand, Institut National de la Recherche

Agronomique

1042 Methods in Valuing the Environment through Survey Design

New Hampshire, 5th Floor

Selected Presentation

The papers in this session address methodological aspects associated with valuing the environment through survey design.

Moderator: Jerrod Penn, University of Kentucky

Making the Most of Cheap Talk in an Online Survey

Jerrod Penn, University of Kentucky; Wuyang Hu, University of Kentucky

A Distribution Transition Method for Extreme Responses in Recreation Survey Data

Ashley Barﬁeld, University of Georgia; J. Scott Shonkwiler, University of Georgia

Using a Spatial Error Latent Class Approach to Accommodate Willingness to Pay Hotspots

Danny Campbell, University of Stirling

Preference Elicitation Methods and Welfare Implications: Experimental Evidences from Valuation and Purchasing Water Quality

Credits

Pengfei Liu, University of Connecticut; Stephen K. Swallow, University of Connecticut

1043 How Different Types of Credence Attributes Affect Consumer Preferences

Regis, 3rd Floor

Selected Presentation

These papers determine how product attributes that cannot be easily veriﬁed by consumers impact consumer preferences for goods.

Different types of these credence attributes are considered across different goods and countries.

Moderator: Wendy J. Umberger, University of Adelaide

Impact of Organic, Sustainable, and Salmon-Safe Wine Making Practices on Wine Prices

Megan Waldrop, Washington State University; Jill J. McCluskey, Washington State University

The Meat of the Matter: A Choice Experiment to Understand Consumers’ Valuation of Animal Welfare and Other Credence Claims

in Fresh Meat Products

Lenka Malek, University of Adelaide, Women and Children’s Health Research Institute; Wendy J. Umberger, University of Adelaide;

Jill Windle, Central Queensland University; John C. Rolfe, Central Queensland University; Sven M. Anders, University of Alberta

Are Consumers’ Preferences for Food Values in the U.S. and Norway Similar? A Best-Worst Scaling Approach

Claudia Bazzani, University of Arkansas; Geir W. Gustavsen, Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research; Rodolfo M. Nayga,

University of Arkansas; Kyrre Rickertsen, Norwegian University of Life Sciences

Proﬁling Private-Label Avoiders

Ronald B. Larson

Concurrent Sessions — Monday, 1:00 - 2:30 PM

1044 Attributes Inﬂuencing Beverage Consumption

Salon A, 4th Floor

Selected Presentation

This session focuses on factors inﬂuencing beverage and food demand and new methods for estimating demand models.

Moderator: Richard Carew, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

Segmenting California Wines in the British Columbia Wine Market: The Inﬂuence of Wine Attributes on Retail Wine Prices

Richard Carew, Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada; Wojciech J. Florkowski, University of Georgia; Ting Meng, University of

Pennsylvania

Is Fair Trade Fair for Consumers? A Hedonic Analysis of U.S. Retail Fair Trade Coffee Prices

Xiaojin Wang, University of Kentucky; Yuqing Zheng, University of Kentucky

A Composite Demand Analysis for the Beverage Market

Yan Heng, University of Florida; Lisa A. House, University of Florida

The Impact of Nutrient Demand and Marketing Instruments on Intra-Category Substitution

Yi Xie, Arizona State University; Timothy J. Richards, Arizona State University

1045 Topics on Crop Insurance

Salon D, 4th Floor

Selected Presentation

Papers in this session examine the implications of U.S. federal crop insurance subsidies on U.S. agriculture.

Moderator: Ashley Hungerford, USDA-Economic Research Service

Estimating Demand for Government Subsidized Insurance: Evidence from the U.S. Crop Insurance Program

Joshua D. Woodard, Cornell University

The Effect of Crop Insurance Premium Subsidies on Soybean Producers’ Risk Management Portfolios

Ashley E. Hungerford, USDA-Economic Research Service; Stephanie D. Rosch, USDA-Economic Research Service

The Acreage Effects of the Premium Subsidy in the U.S. Federal Crop Insurance Program

Jisang Yu, University of California, Davis; Daniel A. Sumner, University of California, Davis; Aaron Smith, University of California,

Davis

Upland Cotton Producers’ Willingness to Participate in a BMP/STAX Pilot Program

Christopher N. Boyer, University of Tennessee; Kimberly L. Jensen, University of Tennessee; Elizabeth McLeod, Clemson

University; James A. Larson, University of Tennessee

1046 Risk and Insurance in the Developing World

Salon H, 4th Floor

Selected Presentation

Papers in this session cover topics related to risk and insurance vis-a-vis shocks and technology adoption in less developed countries.

Moderator: Quentin Stoefﬂer, University of California, Davis

Insuring Farmer Groups: Impacts of a Cotton Area-Yield Insurance in Burkina Faso

Quentin Stoefﬂer, University of California, Davis; Michael R. Carter, University of California, Davis

Getting Ahead or Falling Behind? The Importance of Households’ Ability to Manage Idiosyncratic Risk in Rural Ghana

Felix Naschold, University of Wyoming

Natural Disasters and the Family in Areas with High Levels of Insurance

Adan Silverio Murillo, University of Minnesota

Fit-Risk in Development Projects: Role of Demonstration in Technology Adoption

Moon Parks, University of California, Berkeley; Sangeeta Bansal, Jawaharlal Nehru Uinversity; David Zilberman, University of

California, Berkeley

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1047 Labor Supply and Outcomes in Developing Countries

Salon I, 4th Floor

Selected Presentation

Papers in this session deal with the cause and impact of different types of labor supply decisions in developing countries.

Moderator: Megan B. Sheahan, Precision Agriculture for Development

Disaggregated Labor Supply Implications of Guaranteed Employment in India

Megan B. Sheahan, Precision Agriculture for Development; Yanyan Liu, International Food Policy Research Institute; Sudha

Narayanan, Indira Gandhi Institute for Development Research; Christopher B. Barrett, Cornell University

Participation in Non-Farm Work and Vulnerability to Food Poverty of Households in Northern Ghana

Yacob A. Zereyesus, Kansas State University; Weldensie T. Embaye, Kansas State University; Francis Tsiboe, University of Arkansas;

Vincent Amanor-Boadu, Kansas State University

Early Fertility and Labor Market Segmentation: Evidence from Madagascar

Kira M. Villa, University of New Mexico; Catalina Herrera Almanza, Northeastern University; David Ezra Sahn, Cornell

University

The Impact of Emergency Food Aid on Children’s Schooling and Work Decisions

Nzinga H. Broussard, USDA-Economic Research Service; Robert Poppe, Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Internationale

Zusammenarbeit; Tsegay G. Tekleselassie, University of Sussex

1048 Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures in Agricultural Trade

Salon J, 4th Floor

Selected Presentation

This session focuses on sanitary and phytosanitary measures, food safety standards, and their effects on international agricultural

markets. The analyses are relevant to stakeholders as well as policy makers in agri-food sectors.

Moderator: Jada Thompson, Colorado State University

A System Approach for Three-Dimensional Panel Data to Estimate Poultry Trade Impacts due to Animal Disease Outbreaks

Jada Thompson, Colorado State University; Dustin L. Pendell, Kansas State University

Revealed Concerns: A New Look at the Impact of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures on Agri-Food Trade

Jason Grant, Virginia Tech; Shawn Arita, USDA-Economic Research Service

Evaluating the Stringency of Maximum Residue Limits: U.S. Exports of Fruits and Vegetables to the EU and TPP Markets

Mina Hejazi, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University; Jason Grant, Virginia Tech; Everett B. Peterson, Virginia Tech

Analysis of the Food Safety Standards Impact on Quality Upgrading

Jihyun Eum, The Ohio State University; Stanley R. Thompson, The Ohio State University

1049 Economics of Biofuels

Salon K, 4th Floor

Selected Presentation

This session examines economic and environmental aspects of biofuels production

Moderator: David Zilberman, University of California, Berkeley

Corn Ethanol and U.S. Biofuel Policy Ten Years Later: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Gal Hochman, Rutgers University; David Zilberman, University of California, Berkeley

Identifying the Factors Causing the Coupling of Renewable Identiﬁcation Number Prices and the Consequences

Evan L. Markel, University of Tennessee; Dayton M. Lambert, University of Tennessee

A Re-Examination of “Land Price Volatility in a Geographically Dispersed Market”: Ethanol, Market Change, and New Methods

Jeffrey S. Young, Purdue University; James K. Binkley, Purdue University; Raymond J.G.M. Florax, Purdue University

Concurrent Sessions — Monday, 1:00 - 2:30 PM

1050 The Livestock Sector: Topics on Health and Productivity

Tremont, 1st Floor

Selected Presentation

This session covers topics related to health and productivity in the livestock sector in the United States and the European Union.

Moderator: Elliott J. Dennis, Kansas State University

Eliminating Arrival Antibiotic Treatment Economic Impacts on U.S. Feedlots

Ted C. Schroeder, Kansas State University; Elliott J. Dennis, Kansas State University; David G. Renter, Kansas State University

Using a Portfolio Approach to Evaluate Animal Health Surveillance Portfolios in the United States

Kamina K. Johnson, USDA-Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service; Maria C. Antognoli, USDA-Animal and Plant Health

Inspection Service; Sara C. Ahola, USDA-Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service; Lori L. Gustafson, USDA-Animal and Plant

Health Inspection Service; Matthew A. Branan, Colorado State University; Marta D. Remmenga, USDA-Animal and Plant Health

Inspection Service; Rebecca D. Jones, USDA-Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service; Kathleen A. Orloski, USDA-Animal and

Plant Health Inspection Service; David J. Hsi, USDA-Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

Do Nutrient Management Plans Actually Manage Nutrients? Evidence from a Nationally-Representative Survey of Hog Producers

Stacy E. Sneeringer, USDA-Economic Research Service; Shirley Pon, University of Maryland

Deregulation and Productivity – Empirical Evidence on Dairy Production

Fabian Frick, Technical University of Munich; Johannes Sauer, Technical University of Munich

1051 Climate Variability and Drought Impacts on U.S. Agricultural Production

Vermont, 5th Floor

Selected Presentation

This session is related to climate change impacts on U.S. agricultural production.

Moderator: David Hennessy, Michigan State University

The Predictive Content of Climate Anomalies for Agricultural Production: Does ENSO Really Matter?

David Ubilava, University of Sydney; Jan A. Orlowski, University of Sydney

Crop Competitiveness and Future Climate Change in the Northern Great Plains

Gaurav Arora, Iowa State University; Hongli Feng, Michigan State University; David A. Hennessy, Michigan State University;

Christopher Anderson, Iowa State University

An Alternative Approach to Measuring Drought in the Corn Belt

Raymond J. Supalla, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Bruce Johnson, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Anil Giri, University of

Central Missouri

Climate Change impacts on Agricultural Production and Farm Incomes in Texas

Edward Osei, Tarleton State University; Syed H. Jafri, Tarleton State University

1052 Modeling Space and Time in Agricultural Economics

Yarmouth, 4th Floor

Selected Presentation

Research continues to recognize the importance of spatial and temporal dynamics in all areas of applied economic research. These

papers develop applications of spatial and time-series models to several exciting areas of applied research.

Moderator: Eunchun Park, Oklahoma State University

Using Bayesian Spatial Smoothing and Extreme Value Theory to Develop Area-Yield Crop Insurance Rating

Eunchun Park, Oklahoma State University; Wade Brorsen, Oklahoma State University; Ardian Harri, Mississippi State University

Comovements and Volatility Spillovers in Commodity Markets

Sihong Chen, Texas A&M University; Ximing Wu, Texas A&M University

Generalization of the Efﬁciency Gains in Commodity Forecasting using Disaggregated Levels v.s. More Aggregated Predictions in

Multiple Time Series

Luis M. Pena-Levano, Purdue University; Kenneth A. Foster, Purdue University

Spatial Convergence of U.S. Obesity Rates and its Determinants

Xun Li, Wuhan University; Rui Wang, Tulane University

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1053 Renewable Energy

Columbus 1, 1st Floor

Selected Presentation

This session addresses the role that policies play in creating incentives for both producers and consumers of renewable energy.

Presentations focus on biofuels and solar technology.

Moderator: Elena Dulys, Michigan State University

What Drives the Potential Supply of Timber Residues from Private Lands in the Northern Tier of the Great Lakes?

Elena Dulys, Michigan State University; Sarah S.H. Klammer, Michigan State University; Scott M. Swinton, Michigan State

University

The Economic Cost of Including the Indirect Land Use Factor in Low Carbon Fuel Policy: Efﬁciency and Distributional

Implications

Madhu Khanna, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Weiwei Wang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Land Use Change Impact of Renewable Fuel Standard: Evidence from Changes in CRP Re-Enrollment

Jennifer E. Ifft, Cornell Unversity; Deepak Rajagopal, University of California, Los Angeles; Ryan Weldzius, University of

California, Los Angeles

1054 Not Your Grandparents’ Farm Bill (or Does the U.S. Farm Bill Still Matter?)

Clarendon, 3rd Floor

Track Session – Extension and Senior Sections

The 2014 Farm Bill was touted by the White House as “Not Your Father’s Farm Bill.” It eliminated direct and counter-cyclical

payments and reformed the federal crop insurance program, according to the White House statement. However, a closer look reveals

a new suite of safety-net programs, and the expansion of federal crop insurance and disaster assistance programs. Other titles saw

only modest changes, for example, to food stamp eligibility criteria and to the budget caps for conservation easements. Is the new bill

really a novel approach to farm policy; or more of the same incremental change we’ve observed for decades? Signiﬁcantly reformed or

not—is the farm bill relevant for today’s complex and diverse agricultural and food system? The participants in this panel discussion

will be invited by the moderators to address these and other questions in a lively, interactive discussion.

Organizers: Nicole Susan Ballenger, University of Wyoming; Neilson C. Conklin, Farm Foundation

Moderators: Nicole Susan Ballenger, University of Wyoming; Neilson C. Conklin, Farm Foundation

Panelists: John Hardin, Hardin Farms, Indiana; Bradley D. Lubben, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Alexander F. McCalla,

University of California, Davis

1055 Agri-Food System and Structural Transformation in Africa

Dartmouth, 3rd Floor

Track Session – Africa Section

Africa’s population is projected to reach approximately two billion people by 2050. The continent’s recent economic transformation

and the increasing middle class has engendered food demand similar to trends elsewhere. To meet changing food needs, Africa’s agri-

food sector needs a systems’ transformation. As agricultural productivity increasingly release labor to other sectors, the sector’s ability

to accommodate the adoption of new technologies must be enhanced, challenging existing tenural systems and their inﬂuence on

access to credit, which together challenge agriculture’s attractiveness as a career option for young people. The aforementioned factors

jointly and independently inﬂuence power distribution at all levels in Africa, with the potential to affect national security because

of people’s food and nutrition security. This track session presents a panel exploring the interconnections among the foregoing

challenges and innovative opportunities for future research to inﬂuence policymaking.

Organizers: Awudu Abdulai, University of Kiel; Vincent Amanor-Boadu, Kansas State University; Nicole M. Mason, Michigan

State University

Moderator: Nicole M. Mason, Michigan State University

Discussants: Awudu Abdulai, University of Kiel; Vincent Amanor-Boadu, Kansas State University

African Economic Transformation from the Bottom Up

Margaret Mcmillan, International Food Policy Research Institute

Africa’s Evolving Employment Structure: Trends and Implications for Youth Livelihoods in Agriculture

Felix K. Yeboah, Michigan State University

Agriculture, Inclusive Growth, and National Stability: Exploring the Nexus between Food Security and National Security

Adesoji O. Adelaja, Michigan State University

Concurrent Sessions — Monday, 1:00 - 2:30 PM

1056 Using Experimental Economics to Offer Insight into Ethical and Environmental Issues

Exeter, 3rd Floor

Track Session – Experimental Economics Section

Ethical and environmental issues such as animal welfare and environmental sustainability are becoming more and more important. It

is vital to understand drivers of consumer choice as it relates to these issues. This session provides evidence from a choice experiment

regarding consumer demand for eggs from animal welfare enhanced production systems. Furthermore, an online choice study is

used to understand how perceptions of various production issues, such as animal welfare, inﬂuence consumer valuation of ﬂuid milk

attributes. In addition, environmental sustainability is highlighted investigating consumers’ willingness to pay for pollinator-friendly

landscape plants and implications for ornamental horticulture industry. Finally, an online choice experiment drawing on data from

multiple large urban areas in the United States is used to study consumer preferences for produce from grocery stores versus produce

from farmers’ markets and urban gardens.

Organizers: Jessica Y. Cao, University of Guelph; Hayk Khachatryan, University of Florida

Moderator: Antonios Printezis, Arizona State University

Investigating the Precedence-Dependent Order Effects within Repeated Round of Choice Experiments—the Example of Animal

Welfare

Jessica Y. Cao, University of Guelph; John Cranﬁeld, University of Guelph

Perception of Fluid Milk Production Practices on Animal Welfare and Environmental Attribute Willingness to Pay

Benjamin L. Campbell, University of Georgia; Adam N. Rabinowitz, University of Connecticut; Yizao Liu, University of

Connecticut; Qiushuo Yu, University of Connecticut

Experimental Evidence on Consumers’ Willingness to Pay for Pollinator-Friendly Landscape Plants

Hayk Khachatryan, University of Florida; Alicia Rihn, University of Florida; Ben Campbell, University of Connecticut; Chengyan

Yue, University of Minnesota; Charles Hall, Texas A&M University; Bridget Behe, Michigan State University

I’m Naturally Biased! Preferences for Local Food Depending on the Point of Sale

Iryna Printezis, Arizona State University; Carola Grebitus, Arizona State University; Antonios Printezis, Arizona State University

1057 Building Management Capacity for American Indian Agricultural Businesses

Fairﬁeld, 3rd Floor

Track Session – Extension Section

This session will discuss the approaches taken to address issues unique to Indian Country when conducting Extension programing

related to agriculture entrepreneurship. We will discuss train-the trainer programs and support for agriculture professionals that

are located on reservations and have experience working with American Indian farmers and ranchers. These professionals include

Federally Recognized Tribal Extension Program (FRTEP) agents, 1994 Tribal Colleges Extension professionals, and non-proﬁt

organizations in Indian Country.

Organizer: Kynda R. Curtis, Utah State University

Panelists: Kynda R. Curtis, Utah State University; Ruby A. Ward, Utah State University

1058 New Frontiers in Applied Risk Analysis

Simmons, 3rd Floor

Track Session – ARA Section

This session will present frontier research in applied risk analysis; all papers use cutting-edge empirical methods.

Organizer: Marc F. Bellemare, University of Minnesota

Discussant: David R. Just, Cornell University

Do Producers Follow Bayes’ Rule? Empirical Evidence on Price Risk Ambiguity

Yu Na Lee, University of Minnesota; Marc F. Bellemare, University of Minnesota; David R. Just, Cornell University

Shortcomings of Exactly Identiﬁed Preferences Elicitations

Thomas W. Sproul, University of Rhode Island; Clayton P. Michaud, University of Rhode Island

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1059 How do You Choose Your Food? Insights from Behavioral Economics

St. Botolph, 2nd Floor

Track Session – FSN and IBES Sections

Behavioral economics provides a framework for understanding individual behavior, including behavior that may be viewed as

suboptimal from both a public health perspective and an individual point of view —behavioral anomalies; irrationality. Behavioral

economics complements traditional economic theory to help explain obesity rates and other dietary-related diseases by considering

how environmental, contextual, and cognitive factors affect choice. This session highlights behavioral aspects of healthy food choices

by discussing whether incentive-based health programs, mediated by social network effects, successfully promote improved diet

quality outcomes. Furthermore, the effectiveness of a culturally relevant healthy food label is tested, focusing on minority groups

with higher rates of diet-related health problems than the general U.S. population. In addition, a ﬁeld experiment examining the

impact of attractive displays for vegetables on produce choice at a Food Bank is presented. Finally, an eye-tracking experiment

investigating the role of brands on willingness-to-pay for beverages is discussed.

Organizers: Carola Grebitus, Arizona State University; Karen E. Lewis, University of Tennessee

Moderator: Christiane Schroeter, California Polytechnic State University

Empirical Analysis of an Incentive-Based Health Program with College Students

Christiane Schroeter, California Polytechnic State University

Impact of Culturally Relevant Healthy Food Labels on Food Choice on the Rosebud Reservation

Christopher R. Gustafson, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Matt Perlinger, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

What’s Behind Door Number Three? Effect of Behavioral Economic Nudges at a Food Shelf on Fruit and Vegetable Consumption of

Clients

Erin Roche, University of Vermont; Jane M. Kolodinsky, University of Vermont; Michelle Wallace, Vermont Foodbank

How Important are Brands in the Food Market Space? Disentangling the Effects of Attention on Consumer Valuation of Branded

versus Unbranded Products using Eye Tracking

Carola Grebitus, Arizona State University; Karen E. Lewis, University of Tennessee; Rodolfo M. Nayga, University of Arkansas

1060 How Regional Economics Has Changed and What We Learned

Suffolk, 3rd Floor

Track Session – CRENET Section

With the Rural Development Act of 1972, funding and priority of rural economic and development teaching, research, and

extension activities increased. The 1972 Act also created the Regional Rural Development Centers which have coordinated regional

community and economic development activities. During this same time period, many land grants invested in rural community and

economic development by hiring, teaching, research, and extension faculty in this area. Currently many of these faculty are actually

or contemplating retirement which mean a new cohort of community and economic development faculty will be working in this

area. With these large retirements and hires, the issue of knowledge transmission has become a point of interest. This session will

have three speakers addressing development of teaching, research, and extension programs in community and economic development

and problems that arose and were addressed. Two new faculty members will address maintaining programs that have historically been

successful and identify new opportunities for community and economic development teaching, research, and extension programs.

Organizer: Thomas R. Harris, University of Nevada, Reno

Moderator: Steven C. Deller, University of Wisconsin

Presenters: Rebekka M. Dudensing, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service; Thomas R. Harris, University of Nevada, Reno; Paul

A. Lewin, University of Idaho; Bruce A. Weber, Oregon State University; Michael D. Woods, Oklahoma State University

Concurrent Sessions — Monday, 1:00 - 2:30 PM

1061 Environmental Effects of Shale Gas Fracking

Vineyard, 4th Floor

Track Session – ENV Section

The increase in hydraulic fracturing to produce shale gas has led to several environmental concerns regarding its impact on water

consumption and water quality and its consequences for local residents. This session will include four papers that will present

analysis quantifying the water quantity and quality effects of fracking, its implications for drinking water use decisions and on

property values in the affected areas.

Organizer: Madhu Khanna, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The Effects of Unconventional Oil and Gas Development on Agriculture

Yusuke Kuwayama, Resources for the Future (RFF); Timothy Fitzgerald, Texas Tech University; Sheila Olmstead, University of

Texas-Austin; Alexandra Thompson, Resources for the Future (RFF)

No Country for Mineral Rights: A Hedonic Valuation of Tight Gas Development in Colorado

Corey Lang, University of Rhode Island; Andrew J. Boslett, University of Rhode Island; Todd Guilfoos, University of Rhode Island

Unconventional Shale Gas Development, Risk Perceptions, and Averting Behavior

Allen Klaiber, The Ohio State University; Douglas H. Wrenn, The Pennsylvania State University

The Effects of the Natural Gas and Oil Boom on Water Use in the U.S.

Minhong Xu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Yilan Xu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Madhu Khanna,

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

1062 Learning Objectives Compared to Actual Learning

Wellesley, 3rd Floor

Track Session – TLC Section

This session explores the educational value of undergraduate agribusiness and agricultural economics education. Senior students at

Colorado State University and California Polytechnic State University were given the same comprehensive, two-hour assessment

designed to test knowledge and skills in agricultural economics, ﬁnance, marketing and policy, as well as written communication

skills. To test the value gained by the four-year curriculum, ﬁrst-quarter freshmen at both institutions were provided the same

assessment. Initial data collected in Spring and Fall 2015 indicate very revealing differences as well as some striking similarities

between the seniors and freshmen performance. Further data collection is ongoing with ﬁnal results expected in June 2016. We will

also report new results on a 2015 assessment of undergraduate research experiences that surveyed alumni from six universities with

agribusiness/agricultural economics and economics programs.

Organizers: Lynn L. Hamilton, California Polytechnic State University; Gregory M. Perry, Colorado State University

Discussant: Jay Noel, California Polytechnic State University

Panelists: Lynn L. Hamilton, California Polytechnic State University; Leah G. Mathews, University of North Carolina at Asheville;

Gregory M. Perry, Colorado State University

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1063 Evaluating Trade Performance in Agriculture

Berkeley, 3rd Floor

Track Session – COSBAE and International Sections

Global livestock, meat, grains and oilseeds consumption and trade have risen steadily, driven on the demand side, by rising incomes

and expanding populations, and on the supply side by increased feed availability, technological change, changing industry structure,

and improvement in transportation, and other value-adding technologies. At the same time, a number of trade agreements have

facilitated further expansion of U.S. agricultural exports. In the last 50 years, U.S. presence in animal products, feed grains and

oilseed trade have seen dramatic changes. Markets that were once predominantly import-oriented markets have begun to export

signiﬁcant amounts of products. Understanding the drivers of these changes could be beneﬁcial to informing agricultural trade

policy. The objective of this session is to explore the changes in trade openness and competitiveness in U.S. and global livestock,

grains and oilseeds in light of the existing and ongoing bilateral and multilateral trade agreements.

Organizers: Keithly G. Jones, USDA-Economic Research Service; Ivan T. Kandilov, North Carolina State University

Moderator: Keithly G. Jones, USDA-Economic Research Service

Presenter: Lurleen M. Walters, Mississippi State University

Overview of the U.S. Agricultural Trade Performance

Ivan T. Kandilov, North Carolina State University

Revealed Comparative Advantage of U.S. Livestock, Grain and Oilseed Commodities

Lorraine S. Mitchell, USDA-Economic Research Service; Shelbi Knisley, USDA-Economic Research Service; Andy Jerardo, USDA-

Economic Research Service

Trade Performance in the Livestock Sector

Seanicaa E. Edwards, USDA-Economic Research Service; Alex Melton, USDA-Economic Research Service; Joseph G. Cessna Jr.,

USDA-Economic Research Service MTED APCOP; Mildred M. Haley, USDA-Economic Research Service; Sean Ramos, USDA-

Economic Research Service

Concurrent Sessions — Monday, 2:45 - 4:15 PM

1064 Exploring Economic and Policy Frontiers at the Intersection of Resource, Regional, and Rural

Provincetown, 4th Floor

Invited Papers

This session aims to stimulate a dialog among resource, regional and rural economists to assess the progress and prospects of research

and policies at the intersection of resource, rural and regional economics, to discuss current on-going research, and to identify

emerging topics of interest and possible directions for future research.

Organizers: Bruce A. Weber, Oregon State University; JunJie Wu, Oregon State University

Moderator: Bruce A. Weber, Oregon State University

Discussant: Maureen Kilkenny, National Center for Food and Agricultural Policy

A Framework for Exploring Nature-Human and Rural-Urban Interactions: Integrating Regional, Resource and Rural Economics

Insights

JunJie Wu, Oregon State University; Bruce A. Weber, Oregon State University; Mark D. Partridge, The Ohio State University

Spatial-Dynamic Complexities of the Climate Challenge for Rural Areas: Integrating Resource and Regional Economic Insights

Rebecca S. Epanchin-Niell, Resources for the Future; Yusuke Kuwayama, Resources for the Future; Margaret Walls, Resources for

the Future

Protected Areas and Urban Development: The Case Study of Natural Regional Parks in France

Thomas Coisnon, AGROCAMPUS OUEST; Julien Salanié, Université Jean Monnet

1065 Consumers’ Trade-offs When Different Values Conﬂict: Insights and Examples with Animal Welfare and

Environmental Sustainability as Choice Criteria

Arlington, 3rd Floor

Organized Symposium

Global food value chains are cooperating to achieve collective sustainability standards, including measurable and veriﬁable

environmental, economic and social indicators. Given the ecology of agricultural production, regulatory improvement of one

indicator e.g. animal welfare, may lead to adverse environmental (public good) or economic (private) outcomes, confounding the

common sustainability goal. We report on international research examining public perceptions and values regarding sustainability,

and consider how consumers make trade-offs in food preferences when outcomes for different social and environmental criteria are

conﬂicting. A discussion of challenges and opportunities from including neurophysiological measures for this kind of research is part

of our conversation.

Moderator: Wendy J. Umberger, University of Adelaide

Public Interest in the Use of Genomic Selection to Breed Pigs with Animal Welfare, Human Health and Environmental Outcomes

Ellen W. Goddard, University of Alberta

Understanding Australian Consumers’ Trade-off Decisions when Choosing Meat with Animal Welfare and Other Sustainable

Attributes

Lenka Malek, Women’s and Children’s Health Research Institute; Jill Windle, Central Queensland University; Wendy J. Umberger,

University of Adelaide; John C. Rolfe, Central Queensland University

Organizing Neuroeconomics around Sustainability Constructs and Ethics-based Decisions in Agriculture: The Example of Animal

Welfare

Daniel R. Hawes, University of Bonn; Monika Hartmann, University of Bonn

1066 Online Survey Data Quality and its Implication: Academia and Industry Perspective

Tremont, 1st Floor

Organized Symposium

This session will discuss data quality issues in online surveys from both academia and industry perspectives. The panel members of

the symposium will discuss the impact of potential satisﬁcing behavior of online consumer panels on data quality. They will also

demonstrate the use of different instruments that are commonly applied by online survey companies and researchers in academia.

In addition, the panel members will present several approaches that can be used to improve the quality of data collected from online

surveys.

Organizers: Zhifeng Gao, University of Florida; Lisa A. House, University of Florida

Panelists: Zhifeng Gao, University of Florida; Lisa A. House, University of Florida; Trey Malone, Oklahoma State University; Peter

Shafer, Enterprise Solutions, Toluna USA, Inc.

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1067 Price Dynamics in Agricultural and Related Markets

Salon B, 4th Floor

Selected Presentation – Lightning Session

The studies in this section use modern time series methods to explore price dynamics in agricultural and related markets.

Moderator: Evgenia Pavlova, Georg-August University

Short and Long-run Dynamics of Inﬂation and Commodity Prices

Sarah A. Stutzman, Purdue University; Luis M. Pena-Levano, Purdue University; Timothy G. Baker, Purdue University; Cesar L.

Escalante, University of Georgia

The Great Recession and Vertical Price Transmission in the U.S. Beef Market

Elham Darbandi; Sayed H. Saghaian, University of Kentucky

On The Economics of Commodity Price Dynamics and Price Volatility: A Case Study of Chinese Agricultural Commodity Market

Jean-Paul Chavas, University of Wisconsin; Jian Li, Huazhong Agricultural University

The Effect of Brazilian Corn and Soybean Crop Expansion on Price and Volatility Transmission

Jose Cesar Cruz Jr., Federal University of Sao Carlos; Daniel Henrique Dario Capitani, University of Campinas; Rodrigo L. F.

Silveira, University of Campinas; Fabiana S. P. Urso, BM&F Bovespa; Joao G. Martines-Filho, University of Sao Paulo

Estimating Relative Price Impact: The Case of Brent and WTI

Shiyu Ye, University of Georgia; Berna Karali, University of Georgia

Measuring Price Discovery in Agricultural Markets

Evgenia Pavlova, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen; Stephan Von Cramon, University of Göttingen

Vegetable Price Prediction Using Atypical Web-Search Data

Do-il Yoo, Chungbuk National University

1068 Crop and Revenue Insurance

Salon C, 4th Floor

Selected Presentation – Lightning Session

This lightning round session provides new insights into current issues related to crop and revenue insurance.

Moderator: Juan He, North Carolina State University

Estimating the Effect of Crop Insurance on Input Use When Insured Farmers are Monitored

Juan He, North Carolina State University; Roderick M. Rejesus, North Carolina State University; Xiaoyong Zheng, North Carolina

State University; Jose M. Yorobe Jr., University of the Philippines - Los Banos

The Potential to Use Futures and Options to Manage Crop Insurance Losses

Jonathon Driedger, University of Manitoba; Milton Boyd; Lysa Porth, University of Manitoba

Comparative Analysis of Producer Welfare Beneﬁts of Yield Substitution and Yield Exclusion

Shyam Adhikari, Aon Benﬁeld

The Demand for Crop Insurance: Elasticity and the Effect of Yield Shocks

Erik J. O’Donoghue, USDA-Economic Research Service; Sarah Tulman, USDA-Economic Research Service

Farmer Response to Crop Insurance Incentives Under Heterogeneous Risk-Management Strategies

Kari E. Heerman, USDA-Economic Research Service; Joseph C. Cooper, USDA-Economic Research Service; Robert C. Johansson,

USDA-Ofﬁce of the Chief Economist; Thomas W. Worth, USDA-Risk Management Agency

Impact Evaluation of the Brazilian Crop Insurance Public Program “Proagro Mais”

Carlos Andrés Oñate, University of Sao Paulo; Vitor Ozaki, University of Sao Paulo; Boris E. Bravo-Ureta, University of

Connecticut

Can Crop Productivity Indices Improve Crop Insurance Rates?

Keith H. Coble, Mississippi State University; Jesse B. Tack, Mississippi State University; Xiaofei Li, Mississippi State University;

Barry J. Barnett, Mississippi State University

Concurrent Sessions — Monday, 2:45 - 4:15 PM

1069 Gender and Decision-Making

Berkeley, 3rd Floor

Selected Presentation

All papers in this session focus on gender-empowerment and related issues in developing countries.

Moderator: Lindsey K. Novak, University of Minnesota

Change of Heart: Shifting Opinions of Female Genital Cutting

Lindsey K. Novak, University of Minnesota

Does She Have a Say? The Impact of Livestock Transfer and Associated Training on Women’s Empowerment: Evidence from Nepal

and Zambia

Kashi R. Kaﬂe, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Hope C. Michelson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Alex

E. Winter-Nelson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Gender, Agricultural Extension, and the Adoption of Improved Maize Varieties: Evidence from Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi,

and Mozambique

Ruth Meinzen-Dick, International Food Policy Research Institute; Cheryl R. Doss, Yale University; Simone Passarelli, International

Food Policy Research Institute; Greg Seymour, International Food Policy Research Institute; Paswel P. Marenya, International Food

Policy Research Institute

Decomposing the Gender Wealth Gap in Ecuador

Boaz Anglade, University of Florida; Pilar Useche, University of Florida; Carmen Diana Deere, University of Florida

1070 Water Quality Policies

Harvard, 3rd Floor

Selected Presentation

This session examines various policies and management approaches directed at reducing nutrients and pollutants in public waters.

Presentations primarily address agricultural and residential sources.

Moderator: Marc O. Ribaudo, USDA-Economic Research Service

Reducing the Dead Zone: Assessing the Costs to Agriculture

Marc O. Ribaudo, USDA-Economic Research Service; Elizabeth Marshall, USDA-Economic Research Service; Scott A. Malcolm,

USDA-Economic Research Service; Marcel P. Aillery, USDA-Economic Research Service

The Effectiveness of Overlapping Pollution Regulation: Evidence from the Ban on Phosphate in Dishwasher Detergent

David A. Keisier, Iowa State University; Alex Cohen, Yale University

Consequences of the Clean Water Act and the Demand for Water Quality

David A. Keisier, Iowa State University; Joseph S. Shapiro, Yale University and National Bureau of Economic Research

1071 Behavioral Economics in Agribusiness

Massachusetts, 5th Floor

Selected Presentation

This session discusses a range of agribusiness issues using behavioral economics concepts.

Moderator: Mazbahul Ahamad, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Envious Preference in Two-sided Matching Contract

Mazbahul Ahamad, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Adoption and Abandonment of Conservation Agriculture: The Role of Social Networks and Spouses

Alwin Dsouza, Arizona State University; Ashok K. Mishra, Arizona State University

Asymmetric Effects of Winning and Losing Experience on Bidding Behaviour in Multi-Unit Auctions

Rebecca Elskamp, University of Guelph

Motivation, Attitude, and Participation in Agricultural Fairs

Ram N. Acharya, New Mexico State University

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1072 New Methods on Food Demand Estimation

Nantucket, 4th Floor

Selected Presentation

This session examines the demand for a variety of food products, as well as new methods for estimating prediction models.

Moderator: Andrea M. Leschewski, Michigan State University

Ingredient Complexity and the Demand for Convenience Foods

Andrea M. Leschewski, Michigan State University; Dave D. Weatherspoon, Michigan State University; Annemarie Kuhns, USDA-

Economic Research Service

Interpreting Results of Demand Estimation from Machine Learning Models

Gareth P. Green, Seattle University

New Evidence on the Structure of Food Demand in China: An EASI Demand Model Estimated via IV-Panel Data Techniques

Vardges Hovhannisyan, University of Wyoming

A Country-Differentiated Import Demand Model for Fresh Tomatoes in the United States: An Estimation of Price and Income

Elasticities for 1991 through 2014

Octavio Valdez-Lafarga, Arizona State University; Troy G. Schmitz, Arizona State University

1073 Competitiveness in Agricultural and Transportation Markets

New Hampshire, 5th Floor

Selected Presentation

This session examines the impact and status of agricultural and transportation policies.

Moderator: Sarah Stutzman, Purdue University

On the Demand for Federal Crop Insurance and Subsidy Reforms

Yang Wang, North Carolina State University; Francis Annan, Columbia University in the City of New York

How Do Premium Subsidies Affect Crop Insurance Demand at Different Coverage Levels: The Case of Corn

Jing Yi, Texas A&M University

Rejuvenating Barge Transportation Efﬁciency on the Mississippi River

Brian Wetzstein, Zen-Noh Grain Corporation; Kenneth A. Foster, Purdue University; Raymond J.G.M. Florax, Purdue University;

James K. Binkley, Purdue University; Michael E. Wetzstein, Purdue University; Sarah Stutzman, Purdue University; Sarah

Stutzman, Purdue University

1074 Product Information and Food Choices

Regis, 3rd Floor

Selected Presentation

These papers determine how different types of information provided to consumers impact consumer food choices. Information may

be presented on product packaging or directly to consumers

Moderator: Meng Shen, University of Florida

Blue or Red? How Color Affects Consumer Information Processing in Food Choice

Meng Shen, University of Florida; Zhifeng Gao, University of Florida

An Effect of the List of Carcinogenic Food Categories in Consumers’ Feelings of Guilt and Purchase Behavior

Seoyoung Hwang, Seoul National University; Junghoon Moon, Seoul National University

The Challenges of Enhancing Meat Product Information in Traditional Markets: An Alternative Strategy to Observe and Remove

Starting-Point Bias

Shang-Ho Yang, National Chung Hsing University; Diogo Souza Monteiro, Newcastle University; Wei-Zeng Chen, National

Chung Hsing University

Factors Affecting Consumer Acceptance of Nano-Packaged Food Products

Shuoli Zhao, University of Minnesota; Chengyan Yue, University of Minnesota; Yumeng Wang, Renmin University of China

Concurrent Sessions — Monday, 2:45 - 4:15 PM

1075 Food-Related Consumer Behavior

Salon A, 4th Floor

Selected Presentation

Are consumers satisﬁed with food policies in South Korea? How do consumers value rice grades in South Korea? What behaviors

drive consumers’ store choice decisions in underserved communities in the United States? Are the drivers of food purchasing

decisions associated with consumer-level food waste behavior in Canada? This session addresses these questions.

Moderator: Lauren Chenarides, The Pennsylvania State University

Consumers’ Satisfaction with Food Policies: A Case Study of South Korea

Sanghyo Kim, Korea Rural Economic Institute; Seong-Yoon Heo, Korea Rural Economic Institute; Carl R. Zulauf, The Ohio State

University; Kyei-Im Lee, Korea Rural Economic Institute

Consumers’ Valuation of Rice Grade Labeling

Young Woon Choi, National Food Safety Information Service; Doo Bong Han, Korea University; Rodolfo M. Nayga, University of

Arkansas; Ji Yong Lee, Kansas State University

Store Choice and Consumer Behavior in Food Deserts: An Empirical Application of the Distance Metric Method

Lauren Chenarides, The Pennsylvania State University; Edward C. Jaenicke, The Pennsylvania State University

Determinants of Consumer Food Waste Behaviour: Homo Economics vs. Homo Moralis

Deepananda P. Herath, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada; Abdel Felfel, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

1076 Food Safety and Foodborne Illness

Salon D, 4th Floor

Selected Presentation

Safety is a critical element of any food supply. This session includes four papers that analyze food safety measures and foodborne

illness outbreaks.

Moderator: John Bovay, USDA-Economic Research Service

Welfare Effects of the U.S. Food Safety Modernization Act Produce Safety Rule

John Bovay, USDA-Economic Research Service; Peyton M. Ferrier, USDA-Economic Research Service; Chen Zhen, Research

Triangle Institute

How Foodborne Illness Outbreaks Impact Tomato Farms

Ioana (Julia) I. Marasteanu, Food and Drug Administration; Travis Minor, Food and Drug Administration

What Drives Media Reporting for Food Safety Events? Evidence from U.S. Meat Recalls

Bhagyashree Katare, Purdue University; Timothy Beatty, University of California, Davis

Foodborne Illness Outbreaks, Collective Reputation, and Voluntary Adoption of Industry-wide Food Safety Protocols by Fruit and

Vegetable Growers

Aaron A. Adalja, University of Maryland; Erik Lichtenberg, University of Maryland

1077 Competition and Pricing in Food Retailing

Salon H, 4th Floor

Selected Presentation

This session includes four empirical papers on competition and pricing in food retailing.

Moderator: Sven M. Anders, University of Alberta

Premium Private Labels, Cost-Pass Through and Retail Price Rigidity

Sven M. Anders, University of Alberta; Thomas Bittmann, University of Kiel

Pricing Complementary Products

Timothy J. Richards, Arizona State University; Stephen F. Hamilton, California Polytechnic State University

Impacts from a Retail Grocery Acquisition: Do National and Store Brand Prices Respond Differently?

William Secor, University of Minnesota; Metin Cakir, University of Minnesota

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1078 Agricultural Policy and Growth Issues

Salon I, 4th Floor

Selected Presentation

This session addresses issues related to agricultural policy and agricultural growth in developed and developing countries.

Moderator: Iryna Demko, The Pennsylvania State University

Policy Impacts from U.S. Organic Equivalency with the European Union

Iryna Demko, The Pennsylvania State University; Edward C. Jaenicke, The Pennsylvania State University

Accounting for Farm Heterogeneity in the Assessment of Agricultural Policy Impacts on Structural Change

Legrand D. F. Saint-Cyr, Agrocampus Ouest; Laurent Piet, National de la Recherche Agronomique, UMR SMART

Brazil’s Changing Macroeconomic Conditions: Impacts on Agricultural Growth and Trade

Constanza Valdes, USDA-Economic Research Service; Kim C. Hjort, Economic Analysis Systems

Can Agricultural Growth Explain the Reversal of a Declining Trend in Per Capita Calorie Consumption in India?

Deepthi Elizabeth Kolady, South Dakota State University; Shivendra K. Srivastava, National Centre for Agricultural Economics

and Policy Research; Jaspal Singh, National Institute of Agricultural Economics and Policy Research

1079 Nutrition Issues in the Developing World

Salon J, 4th Floor

Selected Presentation

Papers in this session address various aspects of the status and policy of nutrition in less developed countries.

Moderator: Leah EM Bevis, Cornell University

Who Supplies the Nutrients? The Puzzle of Crop Zinc Heterogeneity and Low-Zinc Market Crops in Rural Uganda

Leah EM Bevis, Cornell University

Food Subsidies and Nutritional Status: Evidence from ICRISAT Data

Priya Bhagowalia, Jawaharlal Nehru University; Arjita Chandna, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Inequality in the Distribution of Calories: Evidence from Bangladesh

Anna D’Souza, Baruch College, CUNY; Sharad A. Tandon, USDA-Economic Research Service

Agriculture, Nutrition, and the Green Revolution in Bangladesh

Derek Headey, International Food Policy Research Institute; John Hoddinott, Cornell University

1081 Effect of Weather on Resource Use and Management

Vermont, 5th Floor

Selected Presentation

This session explores the effects of weather stochasticity and spatial heterogeneity on public safety, crop ﬁeld days, water

infrastructure, and water quality trading program design.

Moderator: Seong Do Yun, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies

Days Suitable for Field Work in the U.S. Corn Belt: Climate, Soils and Spatial Heterogeneity

Seong Do Yun, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies

Role of Weather on Design of a Water Quality Trading Program Baseline: A Case Study of the Jordan Lake Watershed, North

Carolina.

Marzieh Motallebi, Clemson University; Ali Tasdighi, Colorado State University; Dana L. Hoag, Colorado State University;

Mazdak Arabi, Colorado State University

Water in the Balance: The Impact of Water Infrastructure on Agricultural Adaptation to Rainfall Shocks in India

Esha D. Zaveri, The Pennsylvania State University; Douglas H. Wrenn, The Pennsylvania State University; Karen Fisher-Vanden,

The Pennsylvania State University

An Empirical Analysis of Typhoons and Crime Rates in Taiwan

Chin-Hsien Yu, Southwestern University of Finance & Economics; Jianhong Mu, Oregon State University; Jinxiu Ding, Xiamen

University

Concurrent Sessions — Monday, 2:45 - 4:15 PM

1082 Climate Change and Agriculture

Vineyard, 4th Floor

Selected Presentation

Papers in this session analyze climate change impacts and adaptation in agricultural systems.

Moderator: Jianhong Mu, Oregon State University

An Empirical Analysis of Climate Uncertainty and Land-use Change in the U.S. Paciﬁc and Mountain Regions

Jianhong Mu, Oregon State University; Christopher Mihiar, Oregon State University; David Lewis, Oregon State University;

Benjamin Sleeter, U.S. Geological Survey; John Abatzoglou, University of Idaho

Can Workfare Programs Support Adaptation to Climate Change? Evidence from Indian Agriculture

Anil K. Bhargava, University of Michigan; Teevrat Garg, London School of Economics; Vis P. Taraz, Smith College

Climate Change and Adaptive Strategies in Agriculture: Assessing the Impacts on Small Farmers in the Brazilian Sertão

Alexandre Gori-Maia, State University of Campinas; Daniele Cesano, Onda Verde Consultancy; Bruno C. B. Miyamoto, State

University of Campinas; Patricia Andrade, State University of Campinas; Gabriela Santos Eusebio, State University of Campinas

Water Scarcity, Food Production, and Welfare: an Application of ENVISAGE Model

Iman Haqiqi, Purdue University

1083 Empirical Production Economics

Yarmouth, 4th Floor

Selected Presentation

This session is comprised of papers on production economics topics. The papers discuss carbon offset markets in livestock

production, cost efﬁciency of U.S. electric power plants, the substitution of electricity generation in hydraulic fracturing technology

and how crime impacts the efﬁciency of Mexican States.

Moderator: Albert K. Boaitey, University of Alberta

Optimal Livestock Management for Improved Environmental Outcomes: How Effective are Carbon Offset Markets?

Albert K. Boaitey, University of Alberta; Ellen W. Goddard, University of Alberta

Substitution in Electricity Generation: A State Level Analysis of Structural Change from Hydraulic Fracturing Technology

Levan Elbakidze, West Virginia University; Gulnara Zaynutdinova, West Virginia University

Greenhouse Gas Emissions Effect on Cost Efﬁciencies of U.S. Electric Power Plants

Melissa Lynes, U.S. Energy Information Administration; Brady E. Brewer, University of Georgia; Allen M. Featherstone, Kansas

State University

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1084 Development Issues in Latin America: Food Security, Health and Female Labor Force, Property Rights, and

Agricultural R&D

Boylston, 1st Floor

Track Session – LAS Section

The papers presented at this track session provide a mix of novel research ideas in economic development in Latin America and

the Caribbean. The ﬁrst paper estimates the effects of enrollment in a subsidized health care program on food expenditure and

food security in Colombia. On health and female labor force, the second paper turns to the relationship between physical and

psychological intimate partner violence and job exit in Colombia. The third paper explores the effects of private property rights on

agricultural investments and land market transactions among small farmers in Peru. The last paper evaluates the evolving state of

investments and returns to research and development (R&D) in the region using newly developed, long-run, country-speciﬁc data

on investments in food and agricultural R&D as well as data on scientiﬁc personnel and on the evidence on economic returns to

R&D.

Organizer: Johanna Fajardo-Gonzalez, University of Minnesota

Moderator: Luis A. Ribera, Texas A&M University

The Impact of Subsidized Health Care on Food Expenditure and Food Security: Estimates for Colombia

Camilo Bohorquez-Penuela, University of Minnesota

Intimate Partner Violence and Female Job Exit in Colombia

Johanna Fajardo-Gonzalez, University of Minnesota

Collective Property Rights and Agriculture in Peru

Margarita Gafaro, Brown University

The Economic Returns to Agricultural R&D in Latin America and The Caribbean: Is There Enough Investment?

Robert S. Andrade Lopez, University of Minnesota

1085 Life on the Tenure-Track: Keys to Strategic Choices Early in your Career

Clarendon, 3rd Floor

Track Session – GSS and FSN Sections

As a young faculty member, navigating the road to tenure can be daunting. Being “successful” in the ﬁeld often hinges on a complex

interplay of ill-deﬁned requirements that go far beyond the evaluation of one’s peer-reviewed publication record. Delivering award

winning teaching, securing external grant funding, supervising graduate students and servicing external stakeholders are some of

the expectations that department chairs and faculty committees may have for young colleagues who are applying for tenure and

promotion. However, the weight of different performance categories ranges widely and individual performance criteria may not

be easily quantiﬁed. This track session brings together early-career and more experienced members of the academic community to

provide tips, share experiences, and discuss strategies for success on the tenure track.

Organizers: Joshua G. Maples, Oklahoma State University; Christiane Schroeter, California Polytechnic State University

Moderator: Joshua G. Maples, Oklahoma State University

Looking at the Hard Facts: Results from a National Survey of Recently-Tenured Faculty

Christiane Schroeter, California Polytechnic State University; Sven M. Anders, University of Alberta

What Matters in the Tenure Decision: Perspectives from an External Reviewer

Dawn D. Thilmany McFadden, Colorado State University

Balancing Your Life Portfolio: Spousal Hires and Family Additions

Hikaru Hanawa Peterson, University of Minnesota

Toolkit for Recent Hires: Advice from a Department Head

Michael D. Woods, Oklahoma State University

Concurrent Sessions — Monday, 2:45 - 4:15 PM

1086 Rejuvenating the Battered Exhausted Abused Teacher (BEAT)

Dartmouth, 3rd Floor

Track Session – SS-AAEA and TLC Sections

The objective is to provide a non-intimidating method for instructors to work toward enhancing instruction as students matriculate

through their college education. Solutions to enhancements in learning, motivating, teamwork building, and infrastructure

developing are offered in metric form. Prior to developing the solutions, a test is provided to determine the degree an instructor is

emotionally exhausted from teaching. If the results indicate some degree of teaching exhaustion, then an instructor may want to

consider the solutions offered for rejuvenation, which enhances learning. As an aid toward customizing solutions for each instructor,

a student value calculator is employed, which determines uniquely for each instructor areas that will enhance instruction. From this

evaluation, a personalized set of ﬁve solutions for rejuvenation that add student value is derived. From this customized set of teaching

solutions, a physical “Coat of Teaching” is created with paper and markets as a continual reminder of the solutions.

Organizer: Michael E. Wetzstein, Purdue University

Discussant: Elizabeth A. Yeager, Kansas State University

Panelists: Gregory J. Colson, University of Georgia; Aslihan D. Spaulding, Illinois State University

Presenter: Michael E. Wetzstein, Purdue University

1087 The Russian Food Import Ban and the Eurasian Economic Union: Analysis of Trade Impacts

Exeter, 3rd Floor

Track Session – International Section

Resolution 830 of the Russian Federation from August 20, 2014, introduced an import embargo for certain agricultural products

originating from the United States, the EU, Canada, Australia, and Norway. Meat, dairy products, fruits, and vegetables were

the main targeted categories. On June, 25 2015, Russia announced the extension of the import embargo until August 2016. EU

total value of agricultural and food exports were higher in 2015 than in any recent year, since higher exports to other destinations

exceeded losses of exports to Russia. However, the incidence of impacts varied greatly across EU member states and in EU

neighboring countries. Also there is a broader trade disarray in this region. The goal of this session is to collect analyses from

different techniques and sources to provide a basis for discussion of the possible short and longer term impacts of these trade

disruptions.

Organizer: William H. Meyers, University of Missouri

Moderator: William H. Meyers, University of Missouri

Discussant: Joseph W. Glauber, International Food Policy Research Institute

The Regional Effects of the Russian Import Ban

Ekaterina Krivonos, Food and Agriculture Organization

Global Economic Impacts of Russian Restrictions on Food Imports

Alla Golub, Purdue University; Badri Narayanan Gopalakrishnan, Purdue University

Trade Diversion and High Food Prices - The Impact of the Russian Pig Meat Import Ban

Linde J. Goetz, Leibniz-Institute for Agricultural Development in Middle and Eastern Europe; Ivan M. Djuric, Leibniz Institute of

Agricultural Development in Transition Economies; Thomas Glauben, Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition

Economies (IAMO)

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1088 What’s in a Label? The Research, Politics and Policy of Genetically Modiﬁed Product’s Labeling in the United States

Fairﬁeld, 3rd Floor

Track Session – FSN and FAMPS Sections

The labeling of genetically modiﬁed (GM) food continues to be a predominant biotechnology policy issue in the United States.

Set to go into effect in July of 2016, Vermont’s mandatory labeling law has been challenged in court by the Grocery Manufacturers

Association, and the Federal Government is facing strong lobbying to prohibit state laws regarding GM labels. Public trust, the

media, and lobbying dollars all have played a role in the labeling debate. This session presents research related to these three issues

and adds a fourth presentation on the legal issues surrounding the policy debate. We hope that the session will engender a lively

discussion that addresses the complex issues associated with the labeling of GM foods.

Organizers: Jane M. Kolodinsky, University of Vermont; Trenton Smith, University of Otago (New Zealand)

Moderator: Jill J. McCluskey, Washington State University

Does Consumers’ Trust in Institutions Affect their Attitudes Towards GM Labeling?

Karen E. Lewis, University of Tennessee; Carola Grebitus, Arizona State University

Mediating Effects of the Media on the Informational Cues of GM labels

Jane M. Kolodinsky, University of Vermont; Ben Crosby, University of Vermont

(Mis)-Informed Consumers? Deep Capture and the GM Foods Debate

Trenton Smith, University of Otago (New Zealand)

Legal and Political Issues Surrounding Mandatory Labeling of Products Produced Using GM Ingredients

Todd Daloz, Assistant Attorney General, State of Vermont

1089 Regulation in the Brewing Industry: A Panel Discussion of Brewing Experts

Hyannis, 4th Floor

Track Session – BEER Section

The regulatory environment surrounding the production and distribution of beer is very complex. Often times, producers do

not anticipate legal restrictions in brewing and distribution and become caught in a legal quagmire. Furthermore, depending on

the location of the brewery, some of the restrictive laws have been in place since prohibition. This track session will focus on a

discussion of the legal barriers faced by brewers in the New England area and how they have overcome them to become successful

establishments. An industry panel discussion of four brewery owner and operators with a moderator will discuss the legal difﬁculties

with starting and running a successful brewery. The focus will be on the idiosyncrasies of production and distribution regulation

beyond the three-tier distribution system.

Organizer: Michael P. McCullough, California Polytechnic State University

Moderator: Richard J. Volpe III, California Polytechnic State University

Panelists: Rob North (Great North Aleworks) and Bryan Greenhagen (Mystic Brewery)

Concurrent Sessions — Monday, 2:45 - 4:15 PM

1090 Implications of Recent Empirical Evidence for the Risk-Balancing Hypothesis

Maine, 5th Floor

Track Session – ARA and Econometrics Sections

This session provides a synthesis of new empirical evidence on the risk balancing hypothesis. The papers presented develop new

identiﬁcation strategies to enable casual interpretation out of their empirical analyses and also have theoretical implications. [Du

et al.] utilize a natural experiment from China and a regression discontinuity design approach to show that hog farmers are not

taking more debt after hog insurance becomes available. However insured farmers are 20% more willing to take debt than uninsured

farms, which indicates that hog farmers in China face a credit constraint. At the same time, de Mey and Rao use detailed European

agricultural panel data to explore the occurrence and extent of risk balancing behavior in greater depth. Finally, Ifft uses a difference-

in-difference strategy to estimate the casual impact of an exogenous farm policy shock on farms’ debt use.

Organizers: Jennifer E. Ifft, Cornell Unversity; Liang Lu, University of California, Berkeley

Moderator: Liang Lu, University of California, Berkeley

Discussant: Stephen C. Gabriel, Farm Credit Administration

Risk Balancing, Credit Constraint, and on Credit Input Use: A Natural Experiment Approach from Hog Farmers in China

Xiaoxue Du, University of California, Berkeley; Calum G. Turvey, Cornell University; Yuehua Zhang, Zhejiang University; David

Zilberman, University of California, Berkeley

The 2014 Farm Act and U.S. Farm Debt Structure

Jennifer E. Ifft, Cornell Unversity

Exploring the Extent of Risk Balancing Behavior: Panel Data Evidence from European Agriculture

Yann De Mey, KULeuven; Xudong Rao, Wageningenin University

1091 Climate Risk and Uncertainty

Simmons, 3rd Floor

Track Session – ENV Section

Climate change and associated risk is arguably the most pressing environmental issue we face today. Three of the foremost economic

researchers will speak on the issue in this session in this session designed to allow extra time for questions and discussion.

Organizers: Ben Gramig, Purdue University; Matthew G. Interis, Mississippi State University

Moderator: Ben Gramig, Purdue University

The Road from Paris: International, National, & Sub-National Climate Policy

Robert Stavins, Harvard University

Abrupt Irreversible Climate Events and the Social Cost of Carbon

James H. Stock, Harvard University

Uncertainty in Climate and Crop Yields

John Reilly, M.I.T.

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1092 Agribusiness Research Methods

St. Botolph, 2nd Floor

Track Session – AEM Section

The session promotes scholarly rigor in agribusiness research by demonstrating best practices through application. For instance,

product terms in logit and probit models of binary choices may be better illustrated graphically, as demonstrated in study of

producers’ cash and contract sales. Partial least squares (PLS) offers an alternative to covariance-based structural equation models

(SEM) of latent constructs and paths effects when data are non-normal, as in a study of relationships among ﬁrms’ slack ﬁnancial

resources and innovation. Social network analysis facilitates understanding of social structures graphically represented by ties—for

example, edges, links, and connections—amongst individuals or groups, and is applied here to measure the relatedness of a ﬁrm’s

patents and its implications for a biotechnology ﬁrm’s innovative performance. Finally, when data is unavailable or insufﬁcient,

analysis of individual case studies can provide insights into economic phenomena and prove particularly useful for explaining

concepts in the classroom.

Organizer: Jason Franken, Western Illinois University

Moderator: Joost M. E. Pennings, Maastricht University

Graphical Illustration of Interaction Effects in Binary Choice Models

Joost M. E. Pennings, Maastricht University; Jason Franken, Western Illinois University

Slack Financial Resources and Firm Level Innovation: An Application of PLS-SEM

Eric T. Micheels, University of Saskatchewan; Omid Mirzaei, University of Saskatchewan

A Social Network Approach to Understanding U.S.P.T.O Patent Data: A Review and Application of Social Network Measures to

Patent Portfolio Data

Desmond W. Ng, Texas A&M University; Leonardo Sanchez, Littoral Polytechnic School

The Role of Research Cases in Teaching Environments

Michael L. Cook, University of Missouri

1093 Frontiers of Agricultural Transformation: What Has Changed?

Suffolk, 3rd Floor

Track Session – Africa and International Sections

Agricultural transformation involves a rise in productivity, market specialization and input use on farms with an associated shift in

resources towards urban nonfarm activity. This session will present new work on how these changes are unfolding now, in Africa

and other frontier regions where the transformation has both similarities and differences from the earlier experience of other regions.

James Oehmke and co-authors will begin on moving from classical and neoclassical models of transformation to a contemporary

model that focuses on rural employment, small towns and agribusinesses. Then trace the transformation of agricultural input

industries in a paper from Carl Pray and co-authors, the transformation of value chains for farm outputs from Chuck Moss and

Dave Weatherspoon, and the impacts of these changes on human nutrition from Will Masters.

Organizer: William A. Masters, Tufts University

Contemporary African Agricultural Transformation

James F. Oehmke, USAID; Carl E. Pray, Rutgers University; Anwar Naseem, Rutgers University; Latha Nagarajan, Rutgers

University; Jock R. Anderson, World Bank; Lori A. Post, Yale University

Review of Agricultural Inputs Supply Policies in Contemporary Agricultural Transformation in Africa

Carl E. Pray, Rutgers University; Latha Nagarajan, Rutgers University; Greg Traxler, Evans School of Public Policy & Governance,

University of Washington; Anwar Naseem, Rutgers University; David Gisselquist, IFDC

Household Production and Dietary Diversity: Implications for Supply Chain Development

Dave D. Weatherspoon, Michigan State University; Charles B. Moss, University of Florida

Agricultural Transformation and Human Nutrition: What Has Changed?

William A. Masters, Tufts University

Concurrent Sessions — Monday, 2:45 - 4:15 PM

1094 Extension Educational Efforts and the 2014 Farm Bill

Wellesley, 3rd Floor

Track Session – Extension Section

This symposium highlights the educational efforts of extension to inform producer and landowner decisions regarding the 2014

Farm Bill commodity title programs. Topics covered in the symposium include educational tools and strategies employed by various

universities, impacts of outreach activities on sign-up decisions and other outcomes, and a discussion of expected efforts required in

coming years regarding farm income safety net programs.

Organizer: Mykel R. Taylor, Kansas State University

Moderator: Bradley D. Lubben, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Panelists: Glenn A. Barnaby Jr., Kansas State University; Joe L. Outlaw, Texas A&M University; Gary D. Schnitkey, University of

Illinois

The 2014 Farm Bill Commodity Title Programs

Bradley D. Lubben, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Summary of National Survey of Producers and Extension Educators on use of Farm Bill Decision Aids

Brenna Ellison, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Nicholas D. Paulson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Results from Survey of Kansas Producers and Landowners on Farm Bill Sign-Up Decisions

Mykel R. Taylor, Kansas State University

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1095 Strategic Decision Making in Agribusiness

Massachusetts, 5th Floor

Case Studies

This session includes three decision cases showing how the application of economic concepts and tools may inform the public

or private sectors in making better decisions. The ﬁrst case provides alternative investment options in a corn-ethanol plant to be

analyzed with the real options approach using panel data. The second case considers innovation in the food sector and how economic

value can be created in a dynamic market environment. The third case involves the entry of a mid-size ﬁrm in the growing Chinese

food market and allows students to formalize strategic decisions in a business to business situation.

Moderator: William Secor, University of Minnesota

Ethanol Plant Investment: A Real Options Case Study

William Secor, University of Minnesota; Michael A. Boland, University of Minnesota

Local and Regional Organic Small Grains in the Northeast: Articulation of a Value

Brian P. Baker, Self-Employed

Following the Giant to an Emerging Market: Bama China

Hong Holly Wang, Purdue University; Yi-An Li, Purdue University

1096 Agricultural Economics as a Behavioral Discipline

Arlington, 3rd Floor

Organized Symposium

Agricultural economics has a strong behavioral element throughout its history. This session identiﬁes these elements and proposes

how they can inﬂuence future research in agricultural and general economics. Topics include: (i) elements of behavioral economics

in research of agricultural production, technology and risk; (ii) behavioral economics and food economics and policy; (iii) the role

of behavioral economics, and in particular social capital, in explaining patterns of trade and (iv) the role of behavioral economics,

and in particular self-efﬁcacy, in explaining technology adoption in developing countries. Each presentation will run 15 minutes,

followed by 15 minutes of Q&A.

Organizer: David Zilberman, University of California, Berkeley

Panelists: David R. Just, Cornell University; Lindon J. Robison, Michigan State University; David Wuepper, Technical University

Munich; David Zilberman, University of California, Berkeley

Behavioral Elements in the Study of Agricultural Technology and Risk

David Zilberman, University of California, Berkeley

The Average Consumer Misses the Mark: Behavioral Approaches to Fine Tuning Food Policy

David R. Just, Cornell University

Resolving Exchange Anomalies by Accounting for Relational Goods

Lindon J. Robison, Michigan State University; Jeffrey R. Oliver, Michigan State University

Self-Efﬁcacy, Economic Behavior, and Agricultural Economics

David Wuepper, Technical University Munich

Concurrent Sessions — Monday, 4:30 - 6:00 PM

1098 Food and Agricultural Policy Analysis

Salon B, 4th Floor

Selected Presentation – Lightning Session

This session includes presentations highlighting key ﬁndings in a range of topics related to food and agricultural policy analysis.

Moderator: Kolawole Ogundari, University of Delaware

Are Agricultural R&D Returns Declining and Development Dependent?

Xudong Rao, Wageningenin University; Terrance M. Hurley, University of Minnesota; Philip G. Pardey, University of Minnesota

On the Relations Between Nutrition and Economic Growth: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Kolawole Ogundari, University of Delaware; Adebayo B. Aromolaran, Adekunle Ajasin University

What Drives India’s Rice Stocks? Empirical Evidence

Jan Brockhaus, Center for Development Research, University of Bonn; Matthias Kalkuhl, University of Bonn; Marta Kozicka,

Center for Development Research, University of Bonn

An Evaluation of the 2015 Outbreak of Avian Inﬂuenza in the United States.

James W. Richardson, Texas A&M University; Aleksandre Maisashvili, Texas A&M University; Lei Gao

The Effects of American Diets on Food System Energy Use

Sarah Rehkamp, USDA-Economic Research Service; Patrick N. Canning, USDA-Economic Research Service

Adaptations to Achieve Future Sustainable Irrigation

Jing Liu, Purdue University; Thomas W. Hertel, Purdue University; Uris Lantz C. Baldos, Purdue University; Richard Lammers,

University of New Hampshire; Alexander Prusevich, University of New Hampshire

Foreign Guest Workers or Domestic Workers? Farm Labor Decisions and Implications

Feng Wu, University of Florida; Zhengfei Guan, University of Florida

1099 Response to Concerns about Climate

Salon C, 4th Floor

Selected Presentation – Lightning Session

This lightning session presents papers about current and projected responses to climate change.

Moderator: Kevin Meyer, Iowa State University

Climate Change and Agriculture: the Role of Tile Drainage

Kevin Meyer, Iowa State University; David A. Keisier, Iowa State University

Global Land Use Changes due to the U.S. Cellulosic Biofuel Program

Xin Zhao, Purdue University; Wallace E. Tyner, Purdue University

Flexible-Fuel Automobiles and CO2 Emissions in Brazil: a Semiparametric Analysis using Panel Data

Alexandre N. Almeida, University of Sao Paulo; Alexandre Amorin, University of Sao Paulo; Tiago Diniz, University of Sao Paulo;

Leandro Gilio, University of Sao Paulo; Vinícius Halmenschlager, University of Sao Paulo; Augusto Santos, University of Sao Paulo

Valuation of Water-Related Ecosystem Services Under Climate Change: The Case of Chaparral Landscapes in National Forests

Lorie Srivastava, University of California, Davis; Cloe Garnache, Michigan State University; Frank Lupi, Michigan State

University; Michael S. Hand, U.S. Forest Service

Welfare Analysis for Climate Risk Reductions: Are Current Treatments of Outcome Uncertainty Sufﬁcient?

Christos Makriyannis, Clark University; Robert J. Johnston, Clark University

Assessing Climate Vulnerability of Agricultural Systems Using High-order Moments: A Case Study in the U.S. Paciﬁc Northwest

Hongliang Zhang, Oregon State University; John M. Antle, Oregon State University

Are U.S. Farmers Expecting Imminent Impacts from Climate Change? Evidence from Weather Shocks on the Farmland Market

Matthew L. Utterback, Cornell University

Few and Not So Far Between: A Meta-Analysis of Climate Damage Estimates

Peter H. Howard, Institute for Policy Integrity; Thomas Sterner, University of Gothenburg

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1100 Rural Economic Growth and Human Capital Accumulation

Columbus 1, 1st Floor

Selected Presentation

This session explores a series of factors affecting human capital accumulation, rural economic growth and local governance in

developing countries.

Moderator: Teevrat Garg, London School of Economics

Pro-Poor Growth in Rural Bangladesh: On the Role of Schooling, Microﬁnance and Connectivity

Md Mansur Ahmed, North Carolina State University; Madhur Gautam, World Bank

Intergenerational Effects of Childhood Shocks on Human Capital: Evidence from Ethiopia

Kibrom Tafere, Cornell University

The Role of Local Governments in Preserving the Commons: Theory and Evidence from Indonesia

Stefania Lovo, London School of Economics; Caterina Gennaioli, London School of Economics; Teevrat Garg, London School of

Economics

1101 Impacts of Biofuels

Harvard, 3rd Floor

Selected Presentation

This session focuses on the market for and trade of biofuels and their impacts on food security. Presentations address these issues at

the state and country level.

Moderator: Luis M. Pena-Levano, Purdue University

The Causes of Two-Way U.S.-Brazil Ethanol Trade and the Consequences for Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Deepayan Debnath, Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute, University of Missouri; Jarrett Whistance, University of

Missouri; Wyatt Thompson, University of Missouri

Sensitivity of Miscanthus Supply: Application of Faustmann’s Rule in Deterministic and Stochastic Cases

Nosra Ben Fradj, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique; Pierre-Alain Jayet, Institut National de la Recherche

Agronomique

The Dark Side of Biofuels on Emissions and Food Security: Economic and Environmental Effects of the European Biofuel Policy in

the Global Economy

Luis M. Pena-Levano, Purdue University; Michele Rasetti, Università Politecnica delle Marche; Grace Rocio Melo, University

of Georgia; Verena Mecklenbrauck, Purdue University; Rodrigo Vasquez-Panizza, Purdue University; Adenola O. Osinubi, The

University of Georgia

Concurrent Sessions — Monday, 4:30 - 6:00 PM

1102 Land and Water Management and the Environment

Hyannis, 4th Floor

Selected Presentation

The papers in this session address factors which inﬂuence on-farm management decisions and the inﬂuence of those practices on the

environment.

Moderator: Krishna P. Paudel, Louisiana State University

Mapping, Valuing and Maximizing the Nutrient Retention Return on Investment in Forest Conservation: The Case of the Classiﬁed

Forest and Wildlands Program in Indiana

Shadi S. Atallah, University of New Hampshire; Yangyang Wang, Purdue University; Guofan Shao, Purdue University

A Hydro-Economic Model to Analyze the Allocation of Agricultural Water in the Tennessee Basin

Lixia He, University of Tennessee; Christopher D. Clark, University of Tennessee; Dayton M. Lambert, University of Tennessee;

Jamey Menard, University of Tennessee; Burton C. English, University of Tennessee; Stephanie Owen, University of Tennessee

Spatial Relationships Between Nutrient Loading in Watersheds and Socio-Economic Factors: An Analysis with Geographically

Weighted Lasso Regression

Santosh Neupane, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Christopher D. Clark, University of Tennessee; Dayton M. Lambert,

University of Tennessee

Community Supported Agriculture and Preferences for Risk and Fairness

Kévin Bernard, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique; Aurélie Bonein, Center for Research in Economics and

Management; Douadia Bougherara, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique

1103 Food Policies and Healthy Food Choices

Maine, 5th Floor

Selected Presentation

With obesity becoming an increasingly chronic public health problem, more government policies have been geared toward affecting

dietary choices and access to healthy foods. Papers in these session examine several food related policies.

Moderator: Adelaide Fadhuile, Université Grenoble Alpes - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique

Hunger for Meat: Can Animal Protein-Based Taxation Reverse the Trend?

Adelaide Fadhuile, Université Grenoble Alpes - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique; France Caillavet, Institut National

de la Recherche Agronomique; Veronique Nichele, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique

An Economic Analysis of Beverage-Size Restrictions

Brian A. Bourquard, Purdue University; Steven Y. Wu, Purdue University

The Effect of Subsidizing Supermarkets to Enter Food Deserts on Welfare

Linlin Fan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Neighborhoods’ Food Environments Revisited: Food Deserts or Food Swamps?

Haoluan Wang, University of Alberta; Feng Qiu, University of Alberta

1104 Demand Model Speciﬁcation

Nantucket, 4th Floor

Selected Presentation

This session examines the impact and status of agricultural and transportation policies.

Moderator: Vahé Heboyan, Augusta University

Cigarette Price Elasticity of Demand for Young Adults in the United States: An Application of Panel Quantile Regression Analysis

Vahé Heboyan, Augusta University; Vardges Hovhannisyan, University of Wyoming

Carbon Tax Incidence and Household Energy Demand in the U.S.

Jun Zhang, University of Maryland

A Global Demand Analysis of Vegetable Oils for Food and Industrial Use: A Cross-Country Panel Data Analysis

Yasutomo Kojima, Cornell University; Joe L. Parcell, University of Missouri; Jewelwayne S. Cain, University of Missouri

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1105 The Demand for Eco-Labeled and Local Products

Regis, 3rd Floor

Selected Presentation

These papers investigate the characteristics of consumers of local or eco-labeled products. Consumer perceptions, estimates of the

demand, and impact of consumption for these products are analyzed. Ideas for how to improve the marketing of these products are

described as well.

Moderator: Michael Vassalos, Clemson University

Who are the Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) Consumers and How to Promote CSA to More Consumers?

Michael Vassalos, Clemson University; Zhifeng Gao, University of Florida; Lisha Zhang, University of Florida

Consumer Perception of Local Grown Produce and Causal Factors in the Southeastern States

Xuanli Liu, Fort Valley State University; Mohammed Ibrahim, Fort Valley State University; Nalini Pattanaik, Fort Valley State

University

The Effects of Emotion on Consumers’ WTP for Eco-Labeled Fresh Produce

Xuqi Chen, University of Florida; Zhifeng Gao, University of Florida

Potential Demand for Local Fresh Produce by Mobile Markets

Lydia Zepeda, University of Wisconsin; Anna Reznickova, University of Wisconsin

1106 The Effect of Climate Uncertainties on Agriculture

Salon A, 4th Floor

Selected Presentation

The papers in this session explore the interaction between the climate and agriculture. Speciﬁcally, how does the climate affect

agriculture and how does agricultural production affect climate change?

Moderator: Sunil Dhoubhadel, Fort Hays State University

Cost of Risk Exposure, Farm Disinvestment and Adaptation with Climate Uncertainties: The Case of Arable Farms in the EU

Habtamu Y. Ayenew, Technical University of Munich; Johannes Sauer, Technical University of Munich; Getachew Abate Kassa,

Technical University of Munich

Livestock Demand, Global Land Use, and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Sunil Dhoubhadel, Fort Hays State University; Farzad Taheripour, Purdue University; Matthew C. Stockton, University of

Nebraska-Lincoln

Agricultural R&D Policy Under Climate and Economic Uncertainty

Alla Golub, Purdue University; Yongyang Cai, Hoover Institution, Stanford University; Thomas W. Hertel, Purdue University;

Kenneth L. Judd, Hoover Institution, Stanford University

Climate Change and Rice Self-Sufﬁciency Policy: Exploring Adaptation Strategy through Agricultural Policy Reform in the

Philippines

Angga Pradesha, International Food Policy Research Institute

1107 Factors Impacting Healthy Food Choice

Salon D, 4th Floor

Selected Presentation

Several factors may impair individuals from choosing healthy food options. This session examines product attributes ranging from

taste to brand to examine if they impact healthy choices.

Moderator: Derek Headey, International Food Policy Research Institute

Is Exposure to Animal Feces Harmful to Child Nutrition and Health? A Multi-Country Observational Analysis

Derek Headey, International Food Policy Research Institute; Nguyen Phuong, International Food Policy Research Institute

Does Taste Trump Health? Effects of Nutritional Characteristics on Brand-Level Demand for Chips in the U.S.

Matthias Staudigel, University of Alberta; Sven M. Anders, University of Alberta

Children’s Purchase Behavior in the Snack Market: Can Branding or Low Price Motivate a Healthy Choice?

Monika Hartmann, University of Bonn; Sean B. Cash, Tufts University; Ching-Hua Yeh; Stefanie C. Landwehr, Rheinische

Concurrent Sessions — Monday, 4:30 - 6:00 PM

Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn; Anna R. McAlister, Endicott College

1108 The U.S. Biofuel Policy and the Challenges of Biomass Feedstock Supply

Salon H, 4th Floor

Selected Presentation

The papers in this session empirically and theoretically address various issues related to biofuels production and policy.

Moderator: Alicia Rosburg, University of Northern Iowa

Opportunity Costs, Supply Chain Logistics and Carbon Balances of Advanced Biofuel Production

Aaron V. De Laporte, North Dakota State University

Mitigating Feedstock Supply Risk in Corn Stover Biofuel Production

Alicia Rosburg, University of Northern Iowa; John A. Miranowski, Iowa State University; Jonathan McFadden, USDA-Economic

Research Service

Spatial Competition and Welfare-Ranking of Biofuel Policies

Juan Pablo Sesmero, Purdue University; Joseph V. Balagtas, Purdue University

1109 Emissions Policies

Salon I, 4th Floor

Selected Presentation

Papers on this session examine the role of regulations, technology transfer and ﬁrm’s organizational structure on emissions.

Moderator: Jesus Barreiro-Hurle, European Commission DG Joint Research Centre

Can Technology Transfer Avoid Emission Leakage from Unilateral Mitigation Targets in Agriculture?

Jesus Barreiro-Hurle, European Commission DG Joint Research Centre; Ignacio Perez Dominguez, European Commission;

Torbjoern Jansson, Swedish University of Agricultural Science; Thomas Fellman, European Commission; Franz Weiss, European

Commission

Emissions Leakage: A U.S. Multi-plant Firms’ Perspective

Yongjie Ji, Iowa State University and Center for Agricultural and Rural Development; Jingbo Cui, Wuhan University

ISO-14001 Standard and Firms’ Environmental Performance: Testing Cost vs. Beneﬁt Effects

Mehdi Nemati, University of Kentucky; Yuqing Zheng, University of Kentucky; Wuyang Hu, University of Kentucky

Intra-Firm Diffusion of Pollution Prevention Technologies: The Role of Organization Structure

Lifan Qian, University of Florida; Xiang Bi, University of Florida

1110 Migration Causes and Consequences

Salon J, 4th Floor

Selected Presentation

Papers presented in this session investigate the causes and implications of migration in Kyrgyzstan, Tanzania, Mali, and China.

Moderator: Elizabeth R. Bageant, Cornell University

Migration and Subjective Well Being of Left behind Household Members: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan

Elizabeth R. Bageant, Cornell University; Yanyan Liu, International Food Policy Research Institute; Kamiljon Akramov,

International Food Policy Research Institute

Intra-Rural Migration in Tanzania and Mechanisms of Welfare Change

Ayala Y. Wineman, Michigan State University; Thomas S. Jayne, Michigan State University

The Causes of Agricultural Migration: A Natural Experiment in Southern Mali

Zachary Barnett-Howell, University of Wisconsin; Jeremy D. Foltz, University of Wisconsin

Driving Factors of Rural-Urban Migration in China

Grace Rocio Melo, University of Georgia; Glenn C. W. Ames, University of Georgia

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1111 Direct Investment and Agricultural Trade

Salon K, 4th Floor

Selected Presentation

Foreign direct investment is becoming increasingly important in the agribusiness sector. These papers investigate foreign direct

investment decisions made in a variety of agricultural contexts

Moderator: Ivan T. Kandilov, North Carolina State University

Foreign Direct Investment and Trade in the U.S. Food Processing Industry: Complements or Substitutes?

Victor O. Ajaero, South Dakota State University; Evert Van Der Sluis, South Dakota State University

Similarity in Aggregated Preferences and Foreign Direct Investment in the Food Industry

Sandro Steinbach, ETH Zurich

Strategic Acquisitions: Determinants of Chinese Outward Direct Invvestment in Agrifood Industry

Ivan T. Kandilov, North Carolina State University; Kathryn A. Boys, North Carolina State University

1112 Risk and Uncertainty in the Energy Market

St. Botolph, 2nd Floor

Selected Presentation

This session addresses several dimensions of risk and uncertainty applied to energy markets. The papers address topics such as

downside risk, option value analysis and market entry related to ethanol mandate, biofuel investment, perennial energy production

and the natural gas market.

Moderator: Rebecca J. Davis, University of Tennessee

The Ethanol Mandate and Downside Risk in Agriculture

Levi A. Russell, Texas A&M University; Michael R. Langemeier, Purdue University; Jon T. Biermacher, The Samuel Roberts Noble

Foundation, Inc.; Gregory A. Ibendahl, Kansas State University

Examining the Effects of Uncertainty on Second-Generation Biofuel Investment by Using a Two Stochastic Process Approach

Evan L. Markel, University of Tennessee; Charles Sims, University of Tennessee

Contracting Arrangements for Perennial Energy Crops

Tanner McCarty, Purdue University; Juan Pablo Sesmero, Purdue University; Ben Gramig, Purdue University

To Frack or Not to Frack: Option Value Analysis on the U.S. Natural Gas Market

Rebecca J. Davis, University of Tennessee; Charles Sims, University of Tennessee

1113 Domestic Rural Policy

Suffolk, 3rd Floor

Selected Presentation

This session addresses policy components of U.S. rural development, including local and federal government programs. Policy areas

discussed include education, housing, and disaster management.

Moderator: Alexander W. Marre, USDA-Economic Research Service

School Quality and the Location and Expansion of Rural Manufacturers

Alexander W. Marre, USDA-Economic Research Service; Anil Rupasingha, USDA-Economic Research Service

Are Rural Areas Underserved by Federal Housing Assistance Programs?

Paul E. McNamara, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Han Bum Lee, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Using System Dynamics for Disaster Debris Management in a Changing Policy Environment

Alejandra R. Breve Ferrari, Louisiana State University; J. Matthew Fannin, Louisiana State University

Concurrent Sessions — Monday, 4:30 - 6:00 PM

1114 Behavioral Insights on Brand and Food Purchase Decisions

Tremont, 1st Floor

Selected Presentation

This set of papers addresses internal and external factors that inﬂuence consumers’ choice of brands and food purchase decisions.

Moderator: Marco A. Palma, Texas A&M University

The Effects of Self-Control on Subsequent Purchasing Decisions.

Marco A. Palma, Texas A&M University; Michelle Stefania Segovia Coronel, Texas A&M University; Bachir Kassas, Texas A&M

University; Luis A. Ribera, Texas A&M University; Charles Hall, Texas A&M University

Changes in Food Choices after Tray Removal in a University Dining Hall

Janani Rajbhandari Thapa, University of Georgia; Kristina Lewis, Wake Forest University; Katherine Ingerson, University of

Georgia

The Consumer Paradox: Why Bottom-Tier Consumers Are Loyal To Brand Names

Simba Pasirayi, Arizona State University; Andrea Morales, Arizona State University; Carola Grebitus, Arizona State University

Buy Locally? Big-Box Stores and Time-Inconsistent Preferences

Lindsey K. Novak, University of Minnesota

1115 Spanning the Field: Investment, Insurance, Production Decisions, and Returns to Applied Research

Vermont, 5th Floor

Selected Presentation

This session covers four exciting aspects of agricultural economics: Midwest corn-ethanol, crop choice, measurement of weather

variables, and the quality and quantity incentives in our profession.

Moderator: John K. Gibson, University of Waikato

Dynamic Modeling of Bundled Tillage-Crop Choices: Impact of Soil Erodibility on the Interactions Between Continuous

Conservation Tillage and Crop Rotations in Iowa

Dat Q. Tran, North Carolina A&T State University; Lyubov A. Kurkalova, North Carolina A&T State University

Are Returns to Research Quality Lower in Agricultural Economics than in Economics?

John K. Gibson, University of Waikato; Ethan Burton-McKenzie, University of Waikato

1116 Precision Agriculture

Yarmouth, 4th Floor

Selected Presentation

This session is comprised of four papers analyzing precision agriculture. These papers vary from estimating site-speciﬁc yield response

functions to adoption of automated technologies.

Moderator: Xiaofei Li, Mississippi State University

Estimating Site-Speciﬁc Crop Yield Response using Varying Coefﬁcient Models

Xiaofei Li, Mississippi State University; Keith H. Coble, Mississippi State University; Jesse B. Tack, Mississippi State University;

Barry J. Barnett, Mississippi State University

Factors Inﬂuencing the Adoption of Automatic Section Control Technologies and GPS Guidance Systems in Cotton Production

Brittani Edge, University of Tennessee; Margarita M. Velandia, University of Tennessee; Roland K. Roberts, University of

Tennessee; Dayton M. Lambert, University of Tennessee; James A. Larson, University of Tennessee; Christopher N. Boyer, University

of Tennessee; Burton C. English, University of Tennessee; Margarita M. Velandia, University of Tennessee; Roderick M. Rejesus,

North Carolina State University; Larry Falconer, Mississippi State University

An Assessment of the Site-Speciﬁc Nutrient Management for Irrigated Rice in Asia

Divina Gracia P. Rodriguez, Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research

The Impact of Perceptions of Future Proﬁtability on Precision Technology Adoption: An Application of Averting-decision Behavior

Doris Sande, North Carolina State University; Roderick M. Rejesus, North Carolina State University; Michele C. Marra, North

Carolina State University; Roland K. Roberts, University of Tennessee; James A. Larson, University of Tennessee; Margarita M.

Velandia, University of Tennessee

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1117 The Role of Regulation in the Agricultural Sector: The Case of Plant and Animal Diseases

Berkeley, 3rd Floor

Track Session – COSBAE Section

Plant and animal disease impose costs on society, and market mechanisms alone are not well suited to address these types of

problem. Thus, there is a role for government. The U.S. government, USDA, and other agencies, perform a variety of functions with

respect to plant and animal diseases. The regulatory process deﬁnes the scope of the functions. USDA import programs safeguard

U.S. agriculture and natural resources from the risks associated with the entry, establishment, or spread of animal and plant pests

and noxious weeds. USDA responds to new introductions of plant and animal pests and diseases to eradicate, or contain them

in cooperation with states. Plant and animal health experts work closely with other federal agencies, states, foreign governments,

industry and professional groups to enhance international trade and cooperation while preventing the introduction of dangerous and

costly pests and diseases.

Organizers: Blondel A. Brinkman, USDA-Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service; Christopher Klocek, U.S. Department of

Agriculture

Moderator: Blondel A. Brinkman, USDA-Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

Presenter: Kelly A. Grogan from University of Florida

Academic Perspective on Regulations

Clare A. Narrod, University of Maryland

Government Role in the Regulatory Process

Linda Abbott, USDA-Ofﬁce of the Chief Economist, Ofﬁce of Risk Assessment and Cost-Beneﬁt Analysis

1118 Malthus vs. Ricardo Redux: How Much Food and Farmland in 2050?

Clarendon, 3rd Floor

Track Session - International Section and IATRC

What will be the environmental cost of feeding nine-plus billion people in 2050? In light of current and anticipated adverse climate

impacts, concerns have also been raised about the long run trajectory of food prices. Given the importance of these issues, the wide

range of projections of growth in global crop output and land use from 2005 to 2050 is disturbing. What is behind these divergent

estimates for output growth and land use? How do they relate to underlying uncertainty in the drivers of global change and

economic elasticities? What can the profession do to narrow the ‘error bars’ associated with these long run projections for the global

agricultural economy? This session gathers leading experts from around the world to shed light on these questions and to chart the

way forward for future agricultural economics research on this topic.

Organizers: Thomas W. Hertel, Purdue University; Dominique Van Der Mensbrugghe, Purdue University

Moderator: Alexander F. McCalla, University of California, Davis

Discussants: Josef Georg Schmidhuber, Deputy Director, Markets and Trade Division, FAO; Frank Van Tongeren, Organization for

Economic Cooperation and Development

Predicting Long Term Food Demand, Cropland Use and Prices

Thomas W. Hertel, Purdue University; Uris Lantz C. Baldos, Purdue University; Dominique Van Der Mensbrugghe, Purdue

University

Livestock in the Global Economy: Implications for Land Use and Agricultural Production

Petr Havlík, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis; Hugo Valin, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

; David Leclère, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis ; Mario Herrero, International Livestock Research Institute;

Erwin Schmid, University Fuer Bodenkultur Wien; Michael Obersteiner, IIASA

Long Run Agricultural Projections within a General Equilibrium Context

Marijke Kuiper, LEI-Wageningen University; Hans Van Meijl, LEI-Wageningen University

Concurrent Sessions — Monday, 4:30 - 6:00 PM

1119 Scanner Data and Nutrition Links: Early Findings and Future Research Directions

Dartmouth, 3rd Floor

Track Session – FSN and FAMPS Sections – Lightning Session

The U.S. Dietary Guidelines for Americans provide evidence-based nutrition guidance for Americans who wish to consume a

healthy diet. They are the cornerstone of Federal nutrition policies and nutrition education. Scanner data provide a detailed look

at what consumers purchase, but the nutrition information included is not sufﬁcient to judge whether Americans are adhering

to dietary guidance. USDA-ERS is developing a link between the Information Resources Inc. scanner data and USDA’s extensive

nutrition databases. When this project is complete, researchers will be able to both measure how individual products in the IRI data

line up with dietary recommendations, and estimate local prices for foods reported consumed in National Health and Nutrition

Examination Survey (NHANES).

This session will provide an overview for researchers who wish to use this new set of links. We will discuss how the links were

created, how they were veriﬁed, and present some new ﬁndings on the healthfulness of ready-to-eat products. We will also discuss

other potential uses of these data and how researchers can gain access.

Organizer: Andrea C. Carlson, USDA-Economic Research Service

Moderator: Abigail M. Okrent, USDA-Economic Research Service

Limitations of Using Nutrition Facts Panel Information for Nutrition Research

Ilya M. Rahkovsky, USDA-Economic Research Service

Nuts and Bolts of How the Links are Established and Why Links are Not Enough

Andrea C. Carlson, USDA-Economic Research Service; Thea Pamer Zimmerman, Westat; Sigurd Hermansen, Westat; Elina T.

Page, USDA-Economic Research Service; Ilya M. Rahkovsky, USDA-Economic Research Service; Abigail M. Okrent, USDA-

Economic Research Service

Quality Control: Is the Product Dictionary Clean Enough to Use for This Project?

Megan D. Sweitzer, USDA-Economic Research Service

Eating Out of the Box—How Healthy Is It?

Elina T. Page, USDA-Economic Research Service; Andrea C. Carlson, USDA-Economic Research Service; Ilya M. Rahkovsky,

USDA-Economic Research Service

Linking IRI data with Nutrition and Price Information

Xiaowei Cai, California Polytechnic State University; Christiane Schroeter, California Polytechnic State University; Richard Volpe,

California Polytechnic State University; Lisa Mancino, USDA – Economic Research Service

Estimating the Effects of Food Prices and Access on Diet Quality in a Complete System of Food-at-home Demand

Chen Zhen, University of Georgia; Biing-Hwan Lin, USDA – Economic Research Service; Abigail Okrent, USDA – Economic

Research Service; Shawn Karns, RTI; David Chrest, RTI

Changes in Food Retail Market Structure and Household Produce Purchases

Christiane Schroeter, California Polytechnic State University; Xiaowei Cai, California Polytechnic State University; Richard Volpe,

California Polytechnic State University; Lisa Mancino, USDA – Economic Research Service

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1120 Under the Inﬂuence of Others: Jealousy, Risk-Sharing, and Learning

Exeter, 3rd Floor

Track Session – International and IBES Sections

The inﬂuence of social norms, emotion, altruism and other non-standard preferences is increasingly studied in the context of both

developed and developing countries. The importance of societal inﬂuences, risk sharing, and learning are especially important in

poor countries due to market imperfections such as imperfect insurance and savings markets, and imperfect information. In the

presence of market failures, humans are likely to be even more social animals than in other contexts, and insights from behavioral

economics offer alternative ways of explaining why decision-makers sometimes act in contradiction with standard models of homo

economicus. This session is motivated by a belief that understanding the various departures from the standard model of homo

economicus can help improve the design of anti-poverty programs and policies.

Organizer: Emilia Tjernström, University of Wisconsin

Discussant: Cynthia G. Kinnan, Northwestern University

Signals, Similarity and Seeds: Social Learning in the Presence of Imperfect Information and Heterogeneity

Emilia Tjernström, University of Wisconsin

Catching Up or Pulling Down? Motivations for Destructive Actions Among Dairy Famers in Bolivia

Eliana Zeballos, University of California, Davis

Does Financial Inclusion Exclude? The Effect of Access to Savings on Informal Risk-Sharing in Kenya

Felipe Dizon, University of California, Davis

1121 What’s Next? Tips on Securing a Job with an Agricultural or Applied Economics Degree

Fairﬁeld, 3rd Floor

Track Session – GSS Section

Graduate students rightfully focus much of their attention on obtaining their degree. But the true end goal is to land a job for

which that degree qualiﬁes them. This session will step out of the coursework and research arena and present an inside look at the

hiring process for Agricultural Economists. Attendees will learn from professionals in academia and industry and will gain valuable

information to help navigate the job market. This session will be beneﬁcial to anyone seeking to become a better job market

candidate.

Organizers: Joshua G. Maples, Oklahoma State University; Clinton L. Neill, Oklahoma State University

Moderator: Clinton L. Neill, Oklahoma State University

Looking Back: Advice from a Recent Hire

Brady E. Brewer, University of Georgia

Another Path: Interviewing at the AAEA (ASSA) Meetings

Ariel Ortiz-Bobea, Cornell University

Looking in: An Industry Perspective

Mathew Salois, University of Florida

Tips from the Top: Insight from a Department Head

Paul N. Ellinger, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Concurrent Sessions — Monday, 4:30 - 6:00 PM

1122 Consumer Preference for Food and Food Technology in China: Willingness to Pay and Willingness to Accept for

Food Attributes Related to Perceived Risks, Credence Quality, Animal Welfare and Eco-Friendly

New Hampshire, 5th Floor

Track Session – China Section - Lightning Session

Food safety concern has been a top agenda in China for many years and it is still growing. Meanwhile, it has attracted attentions of

policy makers and economists inside and outside of China. There is a growing body of research exploring consumers’ willingness to

pay (WTP) and willingness to accept (WTA) to consume safer agricultural products, for eco-friendly, for credence quality attribute,

for perceived risk and information exposure, etc. Others study the effectiveness of the implementation of various monitoring

mechanisms on food suppliers’ behaviors toward food safety, such as food additives and food technologies. More research methods

are evolving to better estimate the WTPs and WTAs, for instance, more researchers are using better-ﬁt economic models or carrying

out non-hypothetical experiments. A set of papers were included attempting to explore these important issues.

Organizer: Guzhen Zhou, Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics

Moderator: Wuyang Hu, University of Kentucky

Chinese Consumer Preference on Red Wine Attributes

Wuyang Hu, University of Kentucky; Ping Qing, Huazhong Agricultural University

Incorporating Incentive Compatible Consequentiality in Choice Experiments: Consumer Preference for Alaska Salmon in China

Qiujie Zheng, University of Alaska; Hong Holly Wang, Purdue University; Jason F. Shogren, University of Wyoming

Effects of Food Additives Information on Consumers’ Risk Perceptions and Willingness to Accept: Based on a Random Nth-Price

Auction

Yingqi Zhong, Zhejiang University; Zuhui Huang, Zhejiang University; Linhai Wu, Jiangnan University School of Business

Chinese Consumer Willingness to Pay for Pork with Credence Quality Attributes

Hao Dong, University of Kentucky; Wuyang Hu, University of Kentucky

An Alternative Approach to Estimate the Economic Loss of Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea (PED) via Data Envelopment Analysis: The

Case in Taiwan

Shang-Ho Yang, National Chung Hsing University; Kenny Burdine, University of Kentucky; Wu-Yueh Hu, National Chung Hsing

University

Are Consumers’ Choice of Eco-Friendly Agri-products Driven by their Environmental Motives? Evidence from Choice Experiment

in China

Liu Qing, Zhejiang University; Jiehong Zhou, Zhejiang University; Zhen Yan, Zhejiang University

Market Opportunities to Export Pork to China

John Lai, Purdue University; H. Holly Wang, Purdue University

Consumers’ Preference of and Willingness to Pay for Food Nanotechnology in China

Guzhen Zhou, Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics; Dan Pan, Institute of Poyang Lake Eco-economics,Jiangxi University

of Finance and Economics; Weidong Liao, Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics; Qing Xiao, Jiangxi University of Finance

and Economics

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1123 Regulatory Costs in California Agriculture

Provincetown, 4th Floor

Track Session – AEM and Senior Sections

California agribusinesses face increasing regulatory costs. The combined effects of air, water, pesticide, and labor regulations

drastically increases the cost of production in California relative to other states, and reduces farmers’ ability to compete globally.

We discuss results of a 2014-16 study to assess the total cost of regulation on California agriculture at both the farm and regional

level. Twenty-two case studies were completed with growers of various commodities, farm sizes, and locations. Detailed production

budgets and regulatory costs were collected and the data was used to develop stochastic farm models to estimate the current cost of

regulation and allow for marginal analysis of future possible regulation. Finally, a regional model was developed to assess the broader

impact of regulation. Presenters will discuss ﬁndings and well as describe the current and potential future impact of regulation on

California agriculture.

Organizers: Lynn L. Hamilton, California Polytechnic State University; Michael P. McCullough, California Polytechnic State

University

Discussant: Jay Noel, California Polytechnic State University

Presenters: Lynn L. Hamilton, California Polytechnic State University; Duncan MacEwan, ERA Economics; Michael P.

McCullough, California Polytechnic State University

1124 Issues about Agricultural Productions, Natural Resources and Human Capital Resources in China

Simmons, 3rd Floor

Track Session – China Section – Lightning Session

This session consists of eight papers closely related and centered on the topic of agricultural productions, natural and human capital

resources in China. The ﬁrst four papers addressed issues about production, natural resources, and their relations. Another two

papers analyzed in depth speciﬁc questions during production process: the dairy industry and vegetable production. The last two

papers selected provides the other aspect factor relating to the production—the human capital resources. One paper discussed the

potential job candidate in the market, the college students and the last paper provides a discussion of leaders by using an investment

experiment in China.

Organizer: Guzhen Zhou, Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics

Moderator: Yanhong Jin, Rutgers University

Are Resources Cursed? An Investigation of Chinese Provinces

Na Zuo, University of Kentucky; Jack Schieffer, University of Kentucky

Private R&D and Its Productivity in China’s Agriculture

Yanhong Jin, Rutgers University; Carl E. Pray, Rutgers University; Ruifa Hu, Beijing Institute of Technology; Yahong Hu, Rutgers

University

Adaptation to Climate Change and Rice Production in Southern China

Zhengfei Guan, University of Florida; Honggen Zhu, Jiangxi Agricultural Univerisity; Xi Liang, Jiangxi Agricultural University;

Feng Wu, University of Florida

Relationship Between the Development of China’s Sea and River Port Infrastructure and Dynamics in China’s Import of U.S.

Agricultural Products

Elizabeth Gooch, USDA-Economic Research Service

Whether Dairy Farmers’ Loss Could be Reduced by Dairy Cattle Insurance—Base on Survey of the Dairy Cattle Mongolia Producer

in the Inner Mongolia

Yuanfeng Zhao, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University; Xuguang Zhang, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University

Contract Farming in China: Perspectives of Smallholders in Vegetable Production

Xiaokang Li, Zhejiang University; Hongdong Guo, Zhejiang University

College Students on the Job Market and the Screening of Prospect Employers: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in China

Jian Zhang, Central University of Finance and Economics; Tao Li, Central University of Finance and Economics; Haigang Wang,

Central University of Finance and Economics

Are Leaders More Trustworthy? Evidence from an Investment Experiment in China

Haigang Wang, Central University of Finance and Economics; Tao Li, Central University of Finance and Economics; Jingyi Ma,

Central University of Finance and Economics

1125 Crop Insurance: Opportunities and Challenges Facing the Industry

Vineyard, 4th Floor

Track Session – ARA Section

Current and future economic and policy opportunities and challenges facing the crop insurance industry will be addressed by a panel

of leading experts from government, private industry, and academia. The discussion will focus on both domestic and international

policy issues affecting the crop insurance industry and the implications for producer risk management options going forward.

Organizer: Oscar Vergara, Air Worldwide

Discussant: Keith H. Coble, Mississippi State University

Crop Insurance: Domestic Opportunities and Challenges Facing the Industry

Tom Zacharias, National Crop Insurance Services

Crop Insurance: Opportunities and Challenges Facing Program Administrators

Robert C. Johansson, USDA-Ofﬁce of the Chief Economist

Crop Insurance: International Opportunities and Challenges Facing the Industry

Oscar Vergara, Air Worldwide; Julia I. Borman, Air Worldwide

1126 Food and Nutrition Issues in Sub-Saharan Africa

Wellesley, 3rd Floor

Track Session – COSBAE and International Sections

In this session, we focus on the supply and demand-side drivers of food choice and nutrition in Sub-Saharan Africa. The old

narrative about food security was that poor people and countries suffered from undernutrition while rich countries suffered from

“over-nutrition.” That narrative has been upended by the growing prevalence of obesity and chronic noncommunicable diseases such

as diabetes in developing countries, even while undernutrition continues to be a problem. We present ﬁndings on the socioeconomic

factors that inﬂuence dietary habits globally with a particular focus on the behavior of individuals and households in Sub-Saharan

Africa.

Organizer: Andrew Muhammad, USDA-Economic Research Service

Discussant: Nicole M. Mason, Michigan State University

Tapping Irrigation’s Potential for Nutritional Outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa

Dawit K. Mekonnen, International Food Policy Research Institute; Simone Passarelli, International Food Policy Research Institute;

Elizabeth Basauri Bryan, International Food Policy Research Institute; Claudia Ringler, International Food Policy Research Institute

The Inﬂuence of Income and Prices on Global Food Choices: A Focus on Sub-Saharan Africa

Andrew Muhammad, USDA-Economic Research Service; Anna D’Souza, Baruch College, City University of New York; Birgit G.

Meade, USDA-Economic Research Service; Renata Micha, Tufts University; Dariush Mozaffarian, Tufts University

Production Diversity, Dietary Quality, and Food Demand: Exploring Causality and Responsiveness in a Participatory Agricultural

Research

Beliyou A. Haile, International Food Policy Research Institute; Carlo Azzarri, International Food Policy Research Institute; Josée

Randriamamonjy, International Food Policy Research Institute; Cleophelia Roberts, International Food Policy Research Institute;

John M. Ulimwengu, International Food Policy Research Institute

Concurrent Sessions — Monday, 4:30 - 6:00 PM

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2001 Optimal Food Waste: A Theoretical and Empirical Foundation

Boylston, 1st Floor

Invited Paper

Globally, one-third of all food products, $1 trillion annually, is lost or wasted in food production and consumption. Various

governmental policies and programs can mitigate food waste, but a sound economic theory and empirical hypothesis testing is

required for achieving efﬁciency. The current implicit literature path has an objective of zero food waste. However, economic theory

indicates some optimal level of food waste. The aim is to establish a theoretical and empirical foundation for shifting the literature

toward an economically efﬁcient food waste trajectory. Only then can we develop economically efﬁcient policies.

Organizers: Jean C. Buzby, USDA-Economic Research Service; Harry De Gorter, Cornell University; Bhagyashree Katare, Purdue

University; Brian E. Roe, The Ohio State University; Mark W. Rosegrant, International Food Policy Research Institute; Michael E.

Wetzstein, Purdue University

Moderator: Jean C. Buzby, USDA-Economic Research Service

Discussant: Harry De Gorter, Cornell University

Toward an Optimal Food Waste Tax

Bhagyashree Katare, Purdue University; Dmytro Serebrennikov, Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition

Economies; Michael E. Wetzstein, Purdue University

The Rebound Effect of Food Waste Reduction Policies: Theory and Evidence

Danyi Qi, The Ohio State University; Brian E. Roe, The Ohio State University

Returns to Investment in Reducing Postharvest Food Losses and Increasing Agricultural Productivity Growth

Mark W. Rosegrant, International Food Policy Research Institute; Eduardo C. Magalhaes, Datalyze Consulting Corp; Rowena

Valmonte-Santos, International Food Policy Research Institute; Daniel Mason-D’Croz, International Food Policy Research Institute

2002 Methodological Innovations for Advancing Research on Nutrition and Agriculture

Arlington, 3rd Floor

Organized Symposium

This session draws on a new BMGF-funded project building methodological bridges between data at different analytical scales,

providing methodological innovations adapted to the challenge of quantifying agriculture-nutrition linkages in an integrated fashion.

The session will cover the full spectrum of microeconomic research based on household surveys, meso level analysis of markets

and trade within countries, and macro level simulation analyses. Some of the innovations in this ﬁeld include the construction of

synthetic data sets that merge together nutrition surveys with geographic information system (GIS) data or other aggregate data

(e.g. crop surveys, price data), nutrition-smart simulation models that go beyond household income/consumption metrics to look at

dietary patterns, and nutrition-smart agricultural household surveys that integrate best practices for both nutrition and agricultural

measurement.

Organizers: Derek Headey, International Food Policy Research Institute; William A. Masters, Tufts University

Panelists: Steven A. Block, Tufts University; Calogero Carletto, World Bank; You Liangzhi, International Food Policy Research

Institute; James Thurlow, International Food Policy Research Institute

2003 Risk, Resilience and Adaptation to Climate Change

Wellesley, 3rd Floor

Organized Symposium

This session focuses on resilience and adaptation to weather and energy shocks in domestic and non-domestic settings. It provides

new insights into the potential impacts of climate change.

Moderator: Justice T. Mensah, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

Bring Back the Light: Power Outages and Industrial Performance in Sub-Saharan Africa

Justice T. Mensah, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

The Value of Coastal Protection and Risk: Evidence from the Oregon Coast

Steven J. Dundas, Oregon State University; David Kling, Oregon State University; David Lewis, Oregon State University

Sea Level Rise, Flood Risk and Property Values: Evidence from New York City

Matthew Gibson, University of California, San Diego; Alison Hill, Williams College

Can Farmers Adapt to Extreme Heat? Evidence from India

Vis P. Taraz, Smith College

2004 Crop Insurance and Credit Access

Salon B, 4th Floor

Selected Presentation – Lightning Session

Crop insurance today constitutes the largest set of direct agricultural subsidy programs. This session explores issues related to pricing

and delivery of that program, and its interaction with credit markets.

Moderator: Christopher Burns, USDA-Economic Research Service

Do Direct Payments and Crop Insurance Inﬂuence Mid-size Farm Survival and Decisions to Expand?

Christopher Burns, USDA-Economic Research Service; Daniel Prager, USDA-Economic Research Service

How Crop Insurance Affects Farm Business Survivability

Youngjune Kim, Kansas State University; Dustin L. Pendell, Kansas State University

Income Tax Credits to Assist Beginning Farmers and Ranchers: A Look at State-Level Policies

James M. Williamson, USDA-Economic Research Service; Anthony Girardi, Iowa Department of Revenue

Dynamic Heterogeneous Agent Models of Default on Farm Real Estate Loans

Yifei Wu, University of Georgia; Jeffrey H. Dorfman, University of Georgia; Brady E. Brewer, University of Georgia

ARMS Respondent Errors: A Case of Farm Service Agency Loans

Bruce L. Ahrendsen, University of Arkansas; Bruce L. Dixon, University of Arkansas; Charles B. Dodson, Farm Service Agency/

Economic Policy Analysis Staff; Diana Danforth, University of Arkansas; Nicole McMinn, University of Arkansas

The Impact of Credit Constraints on the Performance of Chinese Agricultural Wholesalers

Lifang Hu, Renmin University of China; Yinchu Zeng, Renmin University; Rigoberto A. Lopez, University of Connecticut

Agricultural Production, Credit Constraints, and Rate Liberalization in China

Jie Lu, Renmin University of China; Zhong Tang, Renmin University of China

Concurrent Sessions — Tuesday, 9:45 - 11:15 AM

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2005 Agricultural Production Economics

Salon C, 4th Floor

Selected Presentation – Lightning Session

This session is comprised of eight papers related to Production Economics.

Moderator: Melissa McKendree, Kansas State University

Technical Efﬁciency of Dairy Farms in Uruguay: a Stochastic Production Frontier Analysis

Gabriela Perez-Quesada, Universidad de la Republica; Federico Garcia-Suarez, Universidad de la Republica

Comparisons of Real Values of Capital Input

Virgil Eldon Ball, USDA-Economic Research Service; Richard F. Nehring, USDA-Economic Research Service; Yu Sheng, Australian

Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics

Modelling of Bt Corn Production Under Choice of Abatement Speciﬁcation

Xiangdong Shi, University of Minnesota at Twin Cities; Terrance M. Hurley, University of Minnesota

Identifying Economic Hurdles to Early Adoption of Preventative Practices: The Case of Trunk Diseases in California Winegrape

Vineyards

Jonathan D. Kaplan, California State University, Sacramento; Renaud Travadon, USDA-Agricultural Research Service; Monica

Cooper, University of California Cooperative Extension; Vicken Hillis, University of California, Davis; Mark Lubell, University of

California, Davis; Kendra Baumgartner, USDA-Agricultural Research Service

Pass-through in the United States Beef Industry: An Update and Expansion

Melissa McKendree, Kansas State University; Glynn T. Tonsor, Kansas State University

The Yield Dynamics of Perennial Crops: An Application to Sugarcane in Brazil

Daniel Tregeagle, University of California, Berkeley; David Zilberman, University of California, Berkeley

2006 Political Economy and Environmental Policy

Harvard, 3rd Floor

Selected Presentation

Papers in this session focus on two main issues: the political economy of environmental regulations, and the welfare and

environmental impacts of these policies.

Moderator: Nicholas J. Pates, Kansas State University

The Political Economy of Embodied Technologies

Gal Hochman, Rutgers University; David Zilberman, University of California, Berkeley

Costly Inspections and Little Abatement: An Evaluation of I/M Efﬁciency

Christopher S. Giguere, North Carolina State University

Additionality in Payments for Environmental Services with Technology Diffusion

Nicholas J. Pates, Kansas State University; Nathan P. Hendricks, Kansas State University

Is There Life After Death? The Case of the 33/50 Program

Phi Hoang, University of Georgia; William Henry McGuire, University of Washington Tacoma; Aseem Prakash, University of

Washington

Concurrent Sessions — Tuesday, 9:45 - 11:15 AM

2007 New Insights into Index Insurance

Hyannis, 4th Floor

Selected Presentation

Index insurance is gaining attention as an alternative to indemnity-based insurance. The papers in this session discuss new research

touching on several dimensions related to index insurance.

Moderator: Khushbu Mishra, The Ohio State University

Gender Differential Impacts of Index-Based Rainfall Insurance on Technology Adoption: Evidence from Ghana

Khushbu Mishra, The Ohio State University; Richard Gallenstein, The Ohio State University; Mario J. Miranda, The Ohio State

University; Abdoul G. Sam, The Ohio State University; Patricia Toledo, The Ohio State University

The Crowd-In Effect of Index Insurance on Informal Risk Sharing

Chang Xu, The Ohio State University; Mario J. Miranda, The Ohio State University

Index Insurance and Moral Hazard in a Microﬁnance Context

John Dougherty, The Ohio State University; Richard Gallenstein, The Ohio State University; Khushbu Mishra, The Ohio State

University; Mario J. Miranda, The Ohio State University; Jon Einar Flatnes, University of California, Davis

2008 Spatial and Land Issues in Agribusiness

Maine, 5th Floor

Selected Presentation

This session addresses spatial and land-related ecosystem issues in agribusiness.

Moderator: Tun-Hsiang Yu, University of Tennessee

Determinants of Lock Delays on the Upper Mississippi River: A Spatial Econometrics Approach

Tun-Hsiang Edward Yu, University of Tennessee; Burton C. English, University of Tennessee; Bijay Sharma, University of

Tennessee

Land Rental, Farm Investment, Productivity and Efﬁciency in Burkina Faso

Didier Y. Alia, University of Kentucky; Yoko Kusunose, University of Kentucky; Veronique Theriault, Michigan State University

The Spatiotemporal Interrelatedness of Farmers’ Switching Decisions

Tim Viergutz, Goettingen University; Birgit Schulze-Ehlers, Goettingen University

Tradeoffs among Multiple Ecosystem Services and Economic Returns from Groundwater Depletion on a Farm Landscape

Kent Kovacs, University of Arkansas; Michael P. Popp, University of Arkansas; Grant H. West, University of Arkansas

2009 Choice Experiments and the Inﬂuence of Beliefs and Sensory Evaluation on Preferences

Massachusetts, 5th Floor

Selected Presentation

This session presents research on drivers of demand and willingness to pay for different food products. Furthermore, it informs on

inﬂuence of beliefs and sensory evaluation as it relates to experimental research.

Moderator: Renee Shaw Hughner, Arizona State University

Drivers of Demand for Specialty Crops – The Example of Arizona-Grown Medjool Dates

Carola Grebitus, Arizona State University; Renee Shaw Hughner, Arizona State University; Anne O. Peschel, Aarhus University

What Consumers Don’t Know About GM Food and How That Affects Beliefs

Brandon R. McFadden, University of Florida; Jayson L. Lusk, Oklahoma State University

Combining Sensory Evaluation and Mental Models in the Assessment of Consumer Preferences for and Choice of Healthy Products:

Experience from a Field Experiment in Kenya

Julius J. Okello, International Potato Center; Carl Johan Lagerkvist, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences; Penina Muoki,

International Potato Center; Simon Heck, International Potato Center; Gordon Prain, International Potato Center

Concurrent Sessions — Tuesday, 9:45 - 11:15 AM

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2010 Information and Consumer Decision

MIT, 3rd Floor

Selected Presentation

This set of papers present evidence on how information and risk in a variety of contexts affects consumer decisions and behavior.

Moderator: Zack Dorner, Monash University

Have Smart Meters Been Used Smartly by Electricity Customers? Evidence from a Case Study in Vermont

Samantha W. Lewandowski, University of Vermont; Qingbin Wang, University of Vermont; Robert L. Parsons, University of

Vermont

To Tell or Not to Tell: How the Initial Information Impacts Participants’ Behavior

Gnel Gabrielyan, Washington State University

Investigating the U.S. Consumer Response to the Chinese Takeover of a U.S. Firm

Yu Yvette Zhang, Texas A&M University; Marco A. Palma, Texas A&M University; Shaosheng Jin, Zhejiang University; Xiaotong

Yuan, Texas A&M University

Eliciting Risk Preferences for Intrinsic Attributes

Zack Dorner, Monash University; Daniel A. Brent, Monash University; Anke Leroux, Monash University

2011 Impact of Energy Shocks on Agricultural and Related Markets

Nantucket, 4th Floor

Selected Presentation

This session focuses on empirical applications that examine the effects of energy shocks on energy and agricultural commodities and

input prices.

Moderator: Vladimir Bejan, Seattle University

Oil Price Volatility and Asymmetric Leverage Effects

Eunhee Lee, Korea University; Doo Bong Han, Korea University

Identiﬁcation in Structural Models Linking Energy and Corn Commodity Markets

Veronica F. Pozo, Utah State University; Vladimir Bejan, Seattle University

Energy Shocks and Price Adjustment: National Brands vs. Private Labels

Xun Li, Wuhan University; Rui Wang

Not All Energy Shocks Are Alike: Disentangling Shocks in the U.S. Fertilizer Market

Vladimir Bejan, Seattle University; Veronica F. Pozo, Utah State University

2012 Applied Environment and Natural Resource Valuation

New Hampshire, 5th Floor

Selected Presentation

The papers in this session utilize hedonic and sorting models to evaluate the relationship between amenities/disamenities and

residential housing.

Moderator: David M. Wolf, The Ohio State University

Blue-Green Algae’s Impact on Ohio’s Inland Lake Housing Markets

David M. Wolf, The Ohio State University; Allen Klaiber, The Ohio State University

Hedonic Analysis and Time Varying Amenities: An Application Using School Quality

Charles A. Towe, University of Connecticut; Constant Tra, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Do Superfund Sites Affect Local Property Values? Evidence from a Spatial Hedonic Approach

GwanSeon Kim; Jack Schieffer, University of Kentucky; Tyler B. Mark, University of Kentucky

The Impact of Pollution Burden on Micro-level Residential Sorting

Mitchell R. Livy, California State University, Fullerton; Cristina Connolly, The Ohio State University

Concurrent Sessions — Tuesday, 9:45 - 11:15 AM

2013 Child Health and Development

Northeastern, 3rd Floor

Selected Presentation

Three papers in this session investigate various issues related to child health and development.

Moderator: Hope C. Michelson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Agricultural Production Subsidies and Child Health: Evidence from Malawi

Hope C. Michelson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Gillian Galford, University of Vermont

Climate Shocks and Child Health: Sex-speciﬁc Vulnerability and Protective Effects of Sanitation and Food Markets in Nepal

Steven A. Block, Tufts University; William A. Masters, Tufts University; Prajula Mulmi, Tufts University; Gerald E. Shively, Purdue

University

Associations Between Food Scarcity During Pregnancy and Children’s Survival and Growth in Zambia

Maria Christina J. Foreman, University of New Hampshire; Guenther Fink, Harvard School of Public Health; Wafaie Fawzi,

Harvard School of Public Health; Ibironke Oloﬁn, Harvard School of Public Health

Immiserizing Biotechnology: Is Semisynthetic Artemisinin Good for Global Health?

K. Aleks Schaefer, University of California, Davis

2014 Economic Analyses of Obesity

Provincetown, 4th Floor

Selected Presentation

In this session four papers examine obesity, its economics causes, and its economic impacts.

Moderator: Abigail M. Okrent, USDA-Economic Research Service

Obesity as a Modiﬁer of Price Sensitivity in the United States

Abigail M. Okrent, USDA-Economic Research Service; Megan D. Sweitzer, USDA-Economic Research Service

The Impact of the Food Environment on Childhood Obesity using the BMI Report Card in Worcester MA

Belkis J. Cerrato Caceres, Edgewood College; John Brown, Clark University; Jacqueline Geoghegan, Clark University

Mindlessness and Mindfulness of Secondary Eating

Fuad Alagsam, University of Kentucky; Jack Schieffer, University of Kentucky

2015 The Impacts of Advertising on Food Consumption

Regis, 3rd Floor

Selected Presentation

These papers examine the motivation for advertising food products, the effects on brand choice, and how advertising regulations

impact product choices and related outcomes. Different types of advertising, products, and locations are considered.

Moderator: Xi He, University of Connecticut

Do Firms Advertise and Price to Maximize Proﬁts? Evidence from U.S. Food Industries

Xi He, University of Connecticut; Rigoberto A. Lopez, University of Connecticut

The Impact of Child-Directed TV Food Advertising Regulations on Pocket Money Allowances

Lindsey M. Higgins, California Polytechnic State University; Andres Silva, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique

Does Self-Regulation Work? The Case of Television Food Advertisement to Children in Germany

Stefanie C. Landwehr, University of Bonn; Monika Hartmann, University of Bonn

Concurrent Sessions — Tuesday, 9:45 - 11:15 AM

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2016 Plant Breeding: Market Analysis and Policy

Salon A, 4th Floor

Selected Presentation

Proponents of genetically modiﬁed (GM) crops list increased yields, enhanced resistance to adverse weather, diseases and pests, and

increased nutritional content, among other beneﬁts. The controversy lies in the effect genetic modiﬁcations may have on human

health. The papers in this session address some of the market and policy impacts of plant breeding programs with special emphasis

on GM crops.

Moderator: Wallace E. Tyner, Purdue University

Economic and Environmental Impacts of a Global GMO Ban

Harrison H. Mahaffey, Purdue University; Farzad Taheripour, Purdue University; Wallace E. Tyner, Purdue University

Modeling the Optimal Strategies for Mitigating Genetically Modiﬁed (GM) Wheat Contamination Risks

Houtian Ge, The Pennsylvania State University; Stephan J. Goetz, The Pennsylvania State University; Richard Gray, University of

Saskatchewan; James F. Nolan, University of Saskatchewan

Are WTP Estimates for Fruit Quality Similar between Producers and Consumers? Results of a Choice Experiment on Five Rosaceous

Fruit Crops

R. Karina Gallardo, Washington State University; Chengyan Yue, University of Minnesota; Vicki A. McCracken, Washington State

University; James Luby, University of Minnesota; James R. McFerson, Washington Tree Fruit Research Commission

2017 Carbon Sequestration and Emissions in Forests

Salon D, 4th Floor

Selected Presentation

Papers in this session explore the role of management and policies on forest carbon, as well as aim to quantify the difﬁcult tradeoffs

between forests and agriculture in the Amazon.

Moderator: WanYu Liu, Aletheia University

A Study on the Forest Thinning Planning Problem Considering Carbon Sequestration and Emission

WanYu Liu, National Chung Hsing University

Trade-offs Between the Amazon Forest and Agriculture in Brazil

Felipe De Figueiredo Silva, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Richard K. Perrin, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Lilyan E. Fulginiti,

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

The Role of Management in Greenhouse Gas Emissions Projections for the U.S. Forest Sector

Xiaohui Tian, Renmin University of China; Brent Sohngen, The Ohio State University; Justin S. Baker, RTI International

Cost Efﬁciency of Payment Systems for Forest Carbon Sequestration Incorporating Spatial and Temporal Heterogeneities

Mohamed-Amine Ben Ayara, University of Tennessee; Seong-Hoon Cho, University of Tennessee; Cristopher Clark, University of

Tennessee; Dayton M. Lambert, University of Tennessee; Paul R. Armsworth, University of Tennessee

2018 Retail Price Dispersion and Downstream Competition

Salon H, 4th Floor

Selected Presentation

This session addresses empirical issues related to competition at the manufacturing and retailing stages of the supply chain.

Moderator: Matthew Elliott, University of South Dakota

Dynamic Pricing, Price Fairness, and Market Stability

Timothy J. Richards, Arizona State University; Jura Liaukonyte, Cornell University; Nadia A. Streletskaya, Cornell University

The Relationship between Price and Market Structure: New Evidence from the U.S. Food Retail Industry

Vardges Hovhannisyan, University of Wyoming; Marin Bozic, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

The Structure and Competitiveness of Energy Drinks Market

Mahdi Asgari, University of Kentucky; Yuqing Zheng, University of Kentucky

Concurrent Sessions — Tuesday, 9:45 - 11:15 AM

2019 Household Food Demand

Salon I, 4th Floor

Selected Presentation

This session includes a set of papers that analyze household food demand in a variety of settings.

Moderator: Rapheal O. Babatunde, University of Ilorin, Nigeria

Does Community-based Health Insurance Improve Food Consumption of Low-income Households? Evidence from Kwara State

Health Insurance in Nigeria

Rapheal O. Babatunde, University of Ilorin, Nigeria

Neighborhoods Matter: Variation in Food Insecurity Not Explained by Household Characteristics

Olayemi Olabiyi, Southern Alberta Institute of Technology

Is it Hot in Here or is it Your Food Choices? Examining the Carbon Footprint of U.S. Household Food Spending and Travel to

Acquire Food and Linkages to Nutrition and Aggregate Economic Activity

Rebecca L. Boehm, Tufts University; Sean B. Cash, Tufts University; Parke E. Wilde, Tufts University; Michele L. Ver Ploeg, USDA-

Economic Research Service; Christine Costello, University of Missouri

The Demand for Food in France: The Case of Consumption at Retirement

Gayaneh S. Kyureghian, Korea University; Louis Georges Soler, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique

2020 Land Rights and Development

Salon J, 4th Floor

Selected Presentation

Papers presented in this session investigate issues related to land rights and values in developing countries.

Moderator: Ayala Y. Wineman, Michigan State University

Land Markets and Equity of Land Access in Northwestern Tanzania

Ayala Y. Wineman, Michigan State University; Saweda Liverpool-Tasie, Michigan State University

What is Driving Farmland Rental Prices in Sub-Saharan Africa? Evidence from Malawi

Jacob Ricker-Gilbert, Purdue University; Nicole M. Mason, Michigan State University; Jordan Chamberlin, International Maize

and Wheat Improvement Center

Land Rights and Women’s Empowerment: Insights from Item Response Theory

María José Montenegro, University of Alberta; Sandeep Mohapatra, University of Alberta; Brent M. Swallow, University of Alberta

Direct Measurement of Efﬁciency Gains from Land Titling: PROCEDE’s Effect upon the Productivity of Mexican Agriculture

Travis McArthur, University of Wisconsin

2021 Free Trade Agreements and Agricultural Trade: Commodities and Geography

Salon K, 4th Floor

Selected Presentation

This session features papers looking at speciﬁc effects of regional trade agreements on agricultural trade ﬂows and related issues. Both

commodity speciﬁc concerns and geographic factors are investigated.

Moderator: Lorraine S. Mitchell, USDA-Economic Research Service

Trade Creation and Diversion Under NAFTA: The North American Strawberry Market

P. Lynn Kennedy, Louisiana State University; Youngjae Lee, Louisiana State University

Determining the Effect of NAFTA on the North American Sweet Potato Market

P. Lynn Kennedy, Louisiana State University; Youngjae Lee, Louisiana State University

Protected Geographic Indicators in Trade Agreements

Lorraine S. Mitchell, USDA-Economic Research Service

Live and Let Die – Exporter Experience and Sequential Exporting in the International Coffee Market

Sven M. Anders, University of Alberta; Heiko Dreyer, University of Giessen

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2022 Sector-Based Economic Development Approaches

Suffolk, 3rd Floor

Selected Presentation

Papers in this session discuss economic development approaches targeting speciﬁc industries, including retail, agritourism, women-

owned farms, and wind energy.

Moderator: Steven C. Deller, University of Wisconsin

Big-Box Retailers and Regional Income Growth

Man-Keun Kim, Utah State University; Denis Peralta, Utah State University

Exploring the Economics of Agritourists: Customizing Travel Cost Methods to Evaluate Differences Across the Western United

States

Anders T. Van Sandt, Colorado State University; Dawn D. Thilmany McFadden, Colorado State University; Rebecca Hill,

Colorado State University; Martha J. Sullins, Colorado State University

Women Farmers and Rural Economic Growth and Development

Steven C. Deller, University of Wisconsin; Tessa Conroy, University of Wisconsin

2023 Land Use, Climate Change and Agriculture

Tremont, 1st Floor

Selected Presentation

Papers in this session explore land use and technology changes as agriculture adapts to climate change.

Moderator: Ernst Bertone Oehninger, University of California, Davis

The Effects of Climate Change on Groundwater Extraction for Agriculture and Land-use Change

Ernst Bertone Oehninger, University of California, Davis; C.-Y. Cynthia Lin Lawell, University of California, Davis

The Role of Climate Factors in Shaping China’s Crop Mix: An Empirical Exploration

Yuquan W. Zhang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Jianhong Mu, Oregon State University; Mark Musumba, The Earth Institute at

Columbia University

Farmers’ Rankings of the Determinants of Land Use Decisions at the Margins of the Corn Belt

Tong Wang, Texas AgriLife Research; David A. Hennessy, Michigan State University; Larry L. Janssen, South Dakota State

University; Hongli Feng, Michigan State University; Michael Wimberly, South Dakota State University; Moses Luri, Washington

State University

Changing Agricultural Land-use in the United States and its Implications on Ecosystem Services

Jerome R. Dumortier, Purdue University

2024 Methods in Valuing the Environment and Natural Resources

Tufts, 3rd Floor

Selected Presentation

The papers in this session address methodological aspects associated with valuing the environment and natural resources.

Moderator: Abdulallah S. Abdulrahman, Clark University

Correcting Systematic Response Bias in Discrete Choice Experiments: Implications for the Valuation of Climate Risk Reductions

Abdulallah S. Abdulrahman, Clark University; Robert J. Johnston, Clark University

Comparing Performance of Discrete Choice Models in Stated Choice Methods: A Prediction-based Approach Using Preference

Order Data

Yau-Huo Shr, The Pennsylvania State University; Richard C. Ready, The Pennsylvania State University

Accommodating Satisﬁcing Behaviour in Stated Choice Experiments

Erlend D. Sandorf, Arctic University of Norway; Danny Campbell, University of Stirling

The Wisdom of the Economic Crowd: Calibrating Integrated Assessment Models Using Consensus

Derek Sylvan, Institute for Policy Integrity; Peter H. Howard, Institute for Policy Integrity

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2025 Modeling Methods in Agriculture

Vermont, 5th Floor

Selected Presentation

This session offers a diverse set of papers utilizing empirical and theoretical modeling frameworks, such as Computable General

Equilibrium (CGE) modeling and game theoretic models, to investigate various issues in agriculture.

Moderator: Margaret C. Jodlowski, Cornell University

Is ICE Freezing U.S. Agriculture? An Instrumental Variable Approach

Margaret C. Jodlowski, Cornell University; Jennifer E. Ifft, Cornell Unversity

Study of Grain Markets Price Behavior in Mali Using a Co-integration Approach

Jean Claude Bizimana, Texas A&M University; David A. Bessler, Texas A&M University; Francis Keita, Agricultural Market

Observatory

Potential Poverty Effects of the Special Safeguard Mechanism: The Case of Wheat

Amanda M. (Leister) Countryman, Colorado State University; Danielle Ufer, Colorado State University

The Effects of Residue Tolerance on Pesticide Use, Hop Marketing, and Social Welfare

Ruojin Zhang, Washington State University

2026 Food Security and Consumption

Vineyard, 4th Floor

Selected Presentation

This session examines the effects of income and food access on food security and consumption.

Moderator: Qihui Chen, China Agricultural University

Better Estimating How Food Price Shocks Inﬂuence Mexican Poverty Levels

Benjamin D. K. Wood, International Initiative for Impact Evaluation; Charles H. Nelson, University of Illinois at Urbana-

Champaign; Rafael Garduno-Rivera, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, A.C.

Disentangling the Retirement-Consumption Puzzle through the Lens of Food Consumption - Evidence from Urban China

Tinghe Deng, China Agricultural University; Qihui Chen, China Agricultural University; Junfei Bai, China Agricultural University

Neighborhoods Matter: Variation in Food Insecurity Not Explained by Household Characteristics

Olayemi Olabiyi, Southern Alberta Institute of Technology

2027 Big Data and Precision Agriculture

Yarmouth, 4th Floor

Selected Presentation

Presentations in this session evaluate the impact of information technology in agriculture.

Moderator: Joshua D. Woodard, Cornell University

Value of Information: Costs and Returns of Precision Corn Production in Livingston County, Illinois

Edward Osei, Tarleton State University; Huijun Li, Victoria College

Evaluating Economic Threshold for Dynamically Optimal Disease Management

Yangxuan Liu, Purdue University; Michael R. Langemeier, Purdue University; Ben Gramig, Purdue University; Paul V. Preckel,

Purdue University; Ian M. Small, Cornell University; William E. Fry, Cornell University; Laura Joseph, Cornell University, lje5@

cornell.edu; Yuanhan Wu, Cornell University

Information Technologies and Field-level Chemical Use for Corn Production

Jae-hoon Sung, Iowa State University; John A. Miranowski, Iowa State University

Integrating Genomic Data into Crop Yield Distribution Estimation: Implications for Climate Change, Risk Management, and Plant

Breeding

Joshua D. Woodard, Cornell University; Diane Wang, Cornell University; Anna McClung, U.S. Department of Agriculture; Lewis

Ziska, U.S. Department of Agriculture; Tridib Dutta, Cornell University; Susan McCouch, Cornell University

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2028 An Introduction to Econometric Modeling using Stan

Berkeley, 3rd Floor

Track Session – Econometrics Section

Stan includes a programming language for expressing essentially any empirical model that is a differentiable function of the

unknown parameters, which can then be estimated using one of the algorithms in the Stan Library. In particular, the Stan Library

includes the most advanced implementation of Hamiltonian Monte Carlo, which allows researchers to efﬁciently draw from the

posterior distribution of the unknown parameters given the known data. Alternatively, the mode of the posterior distribution can

be found using conventional optimization algorithms. This talk will focus on the R interface to Stan and demonstrate how several

popular regression models can be estimated using pre-written Stan code and will brieﬂy outline how more complicated econometric

models could be written using the Stan language.

Organizer: Jesse B. Tack, Mississippi State University

Moderator: Jesse B. Tack, Mississippi State University

Presenter: Ben Goodrich, Columbia University

2029 U.S.-Cuba Agricultural Trade: Past, Present, and Future

Boston University, 3rd Floor

Track Session – International Section

The U.S. government placed a partial trade embargo on Cuba in 1960 and a full trade embargo in 1962. However, the Trade

Sanctions Reform and Export Enhancement Act (TSRA) of 2000 permit the export of agricultural, food, and medical products to

Cuba on a cash-in-advance basis. Since then, U.S. exports expanded, reaching a record $711 million in 2008 before falling to less

than $300 million in 2014. Cuba and the United States, re-establish diplomatic relation in December of 2014 and embassies reopen

in Havana and Washington in July 2015.

Cuba made a major infrastructure investment on the Port of Mariel, which is being promoted as the Hub of the Americas. The

Port of Mariel has four cranes capable of handling 850,000 TEUs annually and has the capacity of Post-Panamax shipping. This

investment has the potential to increase agricultural trade between Cuba and United States

Organizers: Linda S. Calvin, USDA-Economic Research Service; Marco A. Palma, Texas A&M University; Luis A. Ribera, Texas

A&M University

Moderator: Linda S. Calvin, USDA-Economic Research Service

Discussant: William A. Messina Jr., University of Florida

U.S.-Cuba Agricultural Trade: Understanding Its Past, Present, and Potential

Bryce W. Cooke, USDA-Economic Research Service; Steven S. Zahniser, USDA-Economic Research Service

Economic Impacts of U.S. Agricultural Exports to Cuba

Luis A. Ribera, Texas A&M University; Flynn J. Adcock, Texas A&M University; Daniel Hanselka, Texas A&M University

An Evaluation of Bilateral Agricultural Trade between the United States and Cuba under Normal Trading Relations

Jonathan Coleman, U.S. International Trade Commission; Sabina Neumann, U.S. International Trade Commission

2030 Food Safety Research and Big Data

Brandeis, 3rd Floor

Track Session – Senior and Econometrics Sections

What are the results of government investments in research? How do universities affect economic outcomes? These questions are

beginning to be answered by an effort of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) based on UMETRICS. The CIC was

at ﬁrst a consortium of 11 member universities. The foundation of UMETRICS is a common, large-scale, automated data platform

on the research enterprise made possible by the Federal STAR METRICS project and massive advances in the methods and tools to

combine, mine, and analyze big data on research. We evaluate outcomes of graduate students, post docs and alumni with research on

food safety. The session will ﬁrst address the UMETRICS data base, its content and how it has expanded to other universities. Next

we will present issues related to food safety based on a workshop with leading scholars. The ﬁnal session will report on econometric

and related analysis of the data on food safety research and implications for industry results on food safety.

Organizers: Stanley R. Johnson, National Center for Food and Agricultural Policy; Alexander F. McCalla, University of California,

Davis

Moderator: Alexander F. McCalla, University of California, Davis

Discussant: Stanley R. Johnson, National Center for Food and Agricultural Policy

Identifying Impacts of Food Safety Research: A Use for Big Data

Kaye Husbands Fealing, Georgia Institute of Technology

A Real World View on the Role of Food Safety Research Funding and its Outcomes

Sandra Hoffmann, USDA-Economic Research Service

Estimating Impacts of Food Safety Research on Job Placement, Salaries, and Patents

John King, University of California, Davis; Stanley R. Johnson, National Center for Food and Agricultural Policy

2031 Market and Public Policy Response to Pollinator Losses

Clarendon, 3rd Floor

Track Session – ENV Section

Since the emergence of colony collapse disorder in 2006, substantial attention has been paid to the role that wild and managed

pollinators play in both providing ecosystem services and increasing horticultural crop yields. Although CCD’s speciﬁc cause has not

been isolated, concern that high over-wintering loss rates for bee colonies may permanently reduce pollinators stocks have raised calls

to ban commonly used pesticides and subsidize pollinator habitat through the Conservation Reserve Program. This session considers

the issues of honey bee health, pollinator losses, and possible remedies.

Organizers: Peyton M. Ferrier, USDA-Economic Research Service; Daniel M. Hellerstein, USDA-Economic Research Service

The Impact of Honey Bee Losses on Pollinator Service Prices and Crop Markets

Peyton M. Ferrier, USDA-Economic Research Service; Randal R. Rucker, Montana State University; Wally Thurman, North

Carolina State University

Impacts of Almond Market Conditions on Honey Bee Populations

Hyunok Lee, University of California, Davis; Daniel A. Sumner, University of California, Davis

Factors Affecting Honey Bee Health

Kathy Baylis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Dennis Van EnglesDorp, University of Maryland

Landuse and Pollinator Health: What Matters

Daniel M. Hellerstein, USDA-Economic Research Service; Claudia Hitaj, USDA-Economic Research Service; David J. Smith,

University of Minnesota

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2032 Soybean Expansion in the Tropics

Dartmouth, 3rd Floor

Track Session – AEM and LAS Sections

Soybean has been the fastest growing grain crop over the last 15 years, growing at a compound average growth rate of 2.92%,

outpacing the number two crop, rape, by 25% and the number three crop, maize, by 34%. Much of the soybean growth now occurs

in the low latitude regions of the world. Soybeans have been successfully adapted to tropical growing conditions, where yields equal

the temperate and sub-tropical regions of the United States, Argentina, and southern Brazil. Rising global incomes and urbanization,

resulting dietary shifts to meat consumption, and preferences for food away from home, indirectly drive the demand for soybean, as

a livestock protein feed and human food oil. Soybeans’ high yield and nutrient density economically provide a key macro nutrient,

protein, for livestock feed rations, along with an optimum balance of essential amino acids.

Organizer: Peter D. Goldsmith, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Discussant: Robert Bertram, U.S. Agency for International Development

Panelists: Jill L. Findeis, University of Missouri; Peter D. Goldsmith, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Peter Richards,

U.S. Agency for International Development

2033 Towards Understanding Small Farm Proﬁtability: Impacts of Market Channel Selection

Exeter, 3rd Floor

Track Session – CRENET and Senior Sections

This session highlights recent research projects that each utilize U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Resource Management

Survey (USDA-ARMS) data, the primary source of farm ﬁnancial information, to understand the farm proﬁtability impacts of sales

through diverse market channels. The ﬁrst paper uses the ARMS data to explore the determinants of small farm proﬁtability in the

U.S. The second paper examines the extent to which small farms are better off diversifying their income through different on-and

off-farm diversiﬁcation strategies. Finally, the third paper divides the ARMS sample of local and regional food marketers into high

and low performing quartiles by net cash income to explore what operator, regional and production characteristics may vary among

those farms that report the strongest (and weakest) ﬁnancial outcomes.

Organizer: Becca B. R. Jablonski, Colorado State University

Moderator: Becca B. R. Jablonski, Colorado State University

Discussant: Todd M. Schmit, Cornell University

Determinants of Small Farm Proﬁtability: How Important are Local Foods?

Stephen J. Vogel, USDA-Economic Research Service; Becca B. R. Jablonski, Colorado State University; Todd M. Schmit, Cornell

University

Survival Strategies for Small Farms in the United States

Ashok K. Mishra, Arizona State University; James Michael Harris, USDA-Economic Research Service

The Financial Performance Implications of Differential Marketing Strategies: Exploring Farms That Pursue Local Merkets and a

Core Competitive Advantage

Dawn D. Thilmany McFadden, Colorado State University; Allison Bauman, Colorado State University; Becca B.R. Jablonski,

Colorado State University

2034 Where Are They Now? Research Updates from Graduates of the Behavioral Economics Workshop

Fairﬁeld, 3rd Floor

Track Session – GSS and FSN Sections

The FSN-sponsored Behavioral Economics Post-conference Workshop received great positive feedback from young professionals.

We selected four projects which were discussed during the mini-mentoring meeting at the workshop. As such, the ﬁrst presentation

will be investigating the ‘economics of hope’ in rural Myanmar. Speciﬁcally, the presenter will show results from a survey instrument

designed to measure locus of control, self-efﬁcacy, personal agency, and constraints on pathways. The second presentation will

apply lessons from consumer psychology targeted toward developing more accurate choice experiments. The third speaker presents

an experimental design and preliminary results from experimental research that tests whether farm operators’ behaviors depart

from predicted risk-neutral, solely proﬁt-maximizing entities in farm-to-school markets. In the fourth study, the researcher uses an

experimental survey to measure the perceptions and preferences of direct-marketing farmers in regards to risk, liability and the Food

Safety Modernization Act.

Organizers: Carola Grebitus, Arizona State University; Christiane Schroeter, California Polytechnic State University

Moderator: Julie A. Caswell, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Measuring Hope in Rural Myanmar: An Empirical Approach

Jeffrey Bloem, Michigan State University

How Lessons from Consumer Psychology can Create Better Choice Experiments

Trey Malone, Oklahoma State University

An Experimental Investigation of Social Preferences in Agri-Environmental Marketing Choice: Preliminary Findings

Jill Ann Fitzsimmons, University of Massachusetts; Daniel A. Lass, University of Massachusetts Amherst; John Spraggon, University

of Massachusetts Amherst; Hernan D. Bejarano, Chapman University; Nathalie Lavoie, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Risk Preferences and Liability Decisions: A Survey of Direct-marketing Farmers

Cristina Connolly, The Ohio State University

2035 Extension Section Crops Outlook

Simmons, 3rd Floor

Track Session – Extension Section

This session continues the tradition of Extension Section Outlook organized symposium and will focus on crop situation and

outlook. The presenters will discuss market conditions, supply, demand, and prices.

Organizers: John Michael Riley, Oklahoma State University; Suzanne D. Thornsbury, USDA-Economic Research Service; Linwood

Hoffman, USDA-ERS

Overview of ERS Commodity Outlook Program

Presenter: Linwood Hoffman, USDA-ERS

U.S. Corn, Situation and Outlook

Thomas C. Capehart, USDA-Economic Research Service

U.S. Soybeans, Situation and Outlook

Mark S. Ash, USDA-Economic Research Service

U.S. Wheat, Situation and Outlook

Jennifer K. Bond, USDA-Economic Research Service

U.S. Sugar and Suspension Agreement with Mexico

Michael J. McConnell, USDA-Economic Research Service

Overview of ERS Commodity Outlook Program

Presenter: Linwood Hoffman, USDA-ERS

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2036 Teaching Tips from AAEA Winners

St. Botolph, 2nd Floor

Track Session – GSS and TLC Sections

This session offers the opportunity for AAEA Teaching Award recipients to share teaching tips and have a dialogue with AAEA

members. The emphasis is on winning strategies that have worked for them; the approaches, techniques, and teaching styles

they consider to be instrumental to their points, the emphasis will be on pedagogical approaches to improving education in our

profession.

The goal is to share ideas on what successful teachers are doing in and out of the classroom to facilitate learning. Contributions from

audience members, in the form of shared experiences, questions, and observations, are both welcomed and considered a key part of

this organized symposium.

Organizer: Elizabeth A. Yeager, Kansas State University

Moderator: Elizabeth A. Yeager, Kansas State University

Presenters: W. Marshall Frasier, Colorado State University; Nicholas D. Paulson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign;

Richard J. Sexton, University of California, Davis; Andrew Stevens, University of California, Berkeley

Concurrent Sessions — Tuesday, 1:00 - 2:30 PM

2037 Regulatory Technology Policies: A Real Option View

Boylston, 1st Floor

Invited Papers

Option value and the real option approach have become major tools for analysis and explanation of adoption of agricultural

technologies. But these techniques can also be effective to assess the impact and timing of regulations. While the seminal Arrow and

Fisher paper shows that considering option value justify to delay in regulations, the approach also allows to assess the cost and gain

from delay—and can be applied to assess regularly approaches—like the delay in the approval of GMOs and other new technologies

such as those reducing greenhouse gas emission.

Organizers: Justus H. Wesseler, Wageningen University; David Zilberman, University of California, Berkeley

Moderator: David Zilberman, University of California, Berkeley

Discussant: David A. Hennessy, Michigan State University

Learn about Plants: Consumer Demand, Regulatory Delay and Regulatory Restrictions

Jinhua Zhao, Michigan State University

Foregone Beneﬁts of Important Food Crop Improvements in Sub-Saharan Africa

Richard Danvers Smart; Jennifer Thomson, University of Cape Town; Justus H. Wesseler, Wageningen University; David

Zilberman, University of California, Berkeley

GM-free Production: Worth Investing? The Case of GM-free Labelled Dairy Products in Germany

Thomas Johann Venus, Wageningen University; Justus H. Wesseler, Wageningen University

2038 Evolving U.S. Policy toward Cuba: Implications for U.S. and Cuban Agriculture and Natural Resources

Arlington, 3rd Floor

Organized Symposium

While the U.S. embargo of Cuba is a law and remains in force, U.S. farmers, ranchers and agricultural product suppliers have been

actively involved with Cuba for 15 years since passage of the Trade Sanctions Reform and Export Enhancement Act (TSRA) of 2000

that allowed U.S. ﬁrms to sell agricultural and food products (and medicine) to Cuba. Over that period, U.S. suppliers have shipped

over $5 billion worth of food and agricultural products to Cuba, and for 11 of the past 13 years, the United States had been Cuba’s

most important supplier of imported food products by value (USDA/GATS database and GTIS database).

Organizers: William A. Messina Jr., University of Florida; Andrew Schmitz, University of Florida

Moderator: William A. Messina Jr., University of Florida

Discussants: Jonathan Coleman, U.S. International Trade Commission; Mechel S. Paggi, California State University, Fresno; Daniel

B. Whitley, USDA-Foreign Acriculture Service; Parr Rosson, Texas A&M University

2039 Impacts and Determinants of Agricultural Labor Supply

Salon B, 4th Floor

Selected Presentation – Lightning Session

The papers in this session examine the role of government programs, government interventions, external shocks, and off-farm

opportunities on agricultural labor supply in a variety of settings.

Moderator: Amanda C. Clayton Walsh, North Carolina State University

Impacts of Dengue Epidemics on Household Labor Market Outcomes

Amanda C. Clayton Walsh, North Carolina State University

Imperfect Substitution between Immigrant and Native Farm Workers in the United States

Xuan Wei, University of Florida; Zhengfei Guan, University of Florida; Gulcan Onel, University of Florida

The Labor Market Impacts of Endangered Species Regulation

Richard T. Melstrom, Oklahoma State University; Kangil Lee, Oklahoma State University; Jacob Byl, Vanderbilt Law School

The Agricultural Labor Market and Participation in U.S. Social Beneﬁt Programs

Alexandra E. Hill, University of California, Davis; Timothy Beatty, University of California, Davis

Impact of Off-Farm Labor Supply and Government Subsidy on Korean Farmland Value

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Hyunjeong Joo, Louisiana State University; Ashok K. Mishra, Arizona State University

Do Off-farm Work and Remittances Alter Household Food Consumption Patterns? Evidence from Albania

Ayuba Seidu, University of Florida; Onel Gulcan, University of Florida; James L. Seale Jr., University of Florida; Charles B. Moss,

University of Florida

Evaluating the Impacts of the 2008-2009 Great Recession on Labor Supply of Family Farm Households

Hung-Hao Chang, National Taiwan University

Determinants of Changes in Youth and Women Agricultural Labor Participation in Selected African Countries

Eugenie W.H. Maiga, Université de Koudougou

2040 Food Safety and Nutrition

Salon C, 4th Floor

Selected Presentation – Lightning Session

Topics in this session range from food borne illness outbreaks in organic versus conventional markets to consumers’ willingness to

pay for health-enhancing attributes in food products.

Moderator: Patrick W. McLaughlin, USDA-Economic Research Service

Evolution of the Food-Away-From-Home Industry: Recent and Emerging Trends

Patrick W. McLaughlin, USDA-Economic Research Service; Christopher W. Dicken, USDA-Economic Research Service

Where to Shop in a Desert: Shopping Behavior and Food Store Access

Timothy Beatty, University of California, Davis; Joel Cuffey, University of Minnesota

The Use of Food Pantries and Soup Kitchens by Low-Income Households

Craig G. Gundersen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Linlin Fan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Kathy

Baylis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Theresa DelVecchio Dys, Feeding America; Timothy A. Park, USDA-Economic

Research Service; Monica Hake, Feeding America

The Value of Delegated Quality Control and Market Size with an Application to Kyrgyzstan Dairy

Alexander E. Saak, International Food Policy Research Institute

Foodborne Illness Outbreaks and Organic versus Conventional Markets: The Case of Listeriosis in Cantaloupes

Ioana (Julia) I. Marasteanu, Food and Drug Administration

Is My Plate Really Affordable? An Analysis of SNAP Beneﬁts and the Actual Cost of Eating According to the Dietary Guidelines

Kranti Mulik, Union of Concerned Scientists; Lindsey Haynes-Maslow, Union of Concerned Scientists

Consumers’ Willingness to Pay for Health-enhancing Attributes in Food Products: A Meta-analysis

Irina S. Dolgopolova, Technical University of Munich; Ramona Teuber, University of Copenhagen

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2041 Food Security in Developing Countries

Boston University, 3rd Floor

Selected Presentation

This session examines the relationship between food security and agricultural trade, input subsidies and agricultural productivity in

developing countries.

Moderator: Marilyne Huchet-Bourdon, Agrocampus Ouest

The Effects of Tanzanian Maize Export Bans on Producers’ Welfare and Food Security

Wilfred Makombe, University of Florida; Jaclyn D. Kropp, University of Florida

Modelling Farm-household Level Impacts of Fertilizer Subsidy Programs on Productivity and Food Security: The Case of Ethiopia

Kamel Louhichi, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies; Laura Riesgo, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies;

Sergio Gomez Y Paloma, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies

Assessing the Contribution of Agricultural Productivity to Food Security in Sub-Saharan African Countries

Kolawole Ogundari, University of Delaware; Titus O. Awokuse, Michigan State University

2042 Forest Conservation

Hyannis, 4th Floor

Selected Presentation

This session addresses the effects of forest conservation on local communities and economies. The driving force for forest

conservation is addressed from the standpoint of private and community preferences as well as large scale policy.

Moderator: Jayash Paudel, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Community-Managed Forests and HouseholdWelfare: Empirical Evidence from Nepal

Jayash Paudel, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Public and Private Preferences for Urban Forest Ecosystem Services

José R. Soto, University of Florida; Francisco J. Escobedo, Universidad del Rosario; Damian C. Adams, University of Florida; Hayk

Khachatryan, University of Florida

Modeling the Environmental Reserve Quota Market in Brazil’s Forest Legislation

Ruohong Cai, Environmental Defense Fund; Ruben Lubowski, Environmental Defense Fund; Tiago Reis, Amazon Environmental

Research Institute; Marcelo Stabile, Amazon Environmental Research Institute

2043 Price Analysis and Future Markets

Massachusetts, 5th Floor

Selected Presentation

Papers in this session examine issues related to agricultural future markets in the United States.

Moderator: Joshua D. Woodard, Cornell University

Impacts of Transportation Networks on Space-time Commodity Basis Behavior

Joshua D. Woodard, Cornell University; Peter M. Feather, USDA-Economic Research Service

A Controversial Debate Between Financial Speculation and Changes in Agricultural Commodity Spot Prices

Amilcar J.C. Serrao, University of Evora

Evaluation of Copula-based Dependence Structure in the U.S. Agricultural Future Market

Kuan-Ju Chen, Washington State University; Kuan-Heng Chen, Stevens Institute of Technology

The Value of Government Information in an Era of Declining Budgets

Michael K. Adjemian, USDA-Economic Research Service; Robert C. Johansson, USDA-Ofﬁce of the Chief Economist; Andrew M.

McKenzie, University of Arkansas; Michael R. Thomsen, University of Arkansas

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2044 Social Responsility and Resource Extraction/Use

MIT, 3rd Floor

Selected Presentation

Papers in this session address the tradeoffs that are faced with increased competition between societal concern for the environment

and demand for resource extraction.

Moderator: David L. Ortega, Michigan State University

Long-term Financial Incentive of Environmental Responsibility - Socially Responsible Investing and Firm Cost of Capital

Yanbing Wang, Purdue University; Michael Delgado, Purdue University; Jin Xu, Virginia Tech

Consumer Preferences for Packaging Material and Recyclability

Kimberly Klaiman, Michigan State University; David L. Ortega, Michigan State University; Cloe Garnache, Michigan State

University

The Housing Market Impacts of Wastewater Injection Induced Seismicity Risk

Haiyan Liu, University of Georgia; Susana Ferreira, University of Georgia; Brady E. Brewer, University of Georgia; Joshua Philips,

University of Georgia

Angler Behavior and the Welfare Effects of Stream Restorations

Michele Baggio, University of Connecticut; Charles A. Towe, University of Connecticut

2045 Market Events in Agricultural and Food Markets

Nantucket, 4th Floor

Selected Presentation

This session focuses on analyzing the impacts of food safety and policy-related market events on livestock, crop, and food prices.

Moderator: Veronica F. Pozo, Utah State University

Disentangling Supply and Demand Shocks to Identify Changes in the Live Cattle’s Market Structure Post Livestock Mandatory Price

Reporting Act

Veronica F. Pozo, Utah State University; Man-Keun Kim, Utah State University; Hernan A. Tejeda, Utah State University

The Relative Impact of StarLink and MIR162

Xue Han, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Philip Garcia, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Times Series Analysis of Peanut Butter Demand in Light of the Food Safety Issue.

Rafael Bakhtavoryan, Texas A&M University - Commerce; Oral Capps Jr., Texas A&M University; Victoria Salin, Texas A&M

University

Commodity Price Bubbles and Agriculture: The Case of China

Jian Li, Huazhong Agricultural University; Jean-Paul Chavas, University of Wisconsin; Chongguang Li, Huazhong Agricultural

University

2046 Issues in Developing Country Food Demand

New Hampshire, 5th Floor

Selected Presentation

Papers in this session examine topics related to food consumption, procurement, and prices in developing countries.

Moderator: Akinori Kitsuki, University of Minnesota

Seasonal Hunger: Heterogenous Impacts of Seasonal Price Changes and Credit Constraints on Seasonal Consumption Patterns in

Rural Zambia

Akinori Kitsuki, University of Minnesota; Takeshi Sakurai, Hitotsubashi University

Examining Pricing Mechanics in the Poultry Value Chain - Empirical Evidence from Pakistan

Muhammad Imran Chaudhry, The Ohio State University; Ani Katchova, The Ohio State University; Mario J. Miranda, The Ohio

State University

Finding Default? Understanding the Drivers of Default on Contracts with Farmers’ Organizations Under the World Food

Programme Purchase for Progress Pilot

Joanna B. Upton, Cornell University; Erin C. Lentz, University of Texas

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2047 Methodological Advancements in Experimental Economics

Northeastern, 3rd Floor

Selected Presentation

This session presents innovative results on experimental auctions and choice experiments as well as modeling including attribute

non-attendance and attribute-level non-attendance.

Moderator: Gal Hochman, Rutgers University

The Effects of Allowing Substitutes on Bidding Behavior in a Private Value Experimental Auction

Ji Yong Lee, Kansas State University; John A. Fox, Kansas State University

On the Use of the BDM Mechanism in Non-hypothetical Choice Experiments

Claudia Bazzani, University of Arkansas; Rodolfo M. Nayga, University of Arkansas; Vincenzina Caputo, Korea University;

Maurizio Canavari, University of Bologna; Diana Danforth, University of Arkansas

Application of Regression Discontinuity Approach in Experimental Auctions: A Case Study of Participants’ Trust and Their

Willingness to Pay

Hao Li, Washington State University; Levan Elbakidze, West Virginia University

Attribute Non-attendance or Attribute-level Non-attendance? A Choice Experiment Application on Extra Virgin Olive Oil

Vincenzina Caputo, Korea University; Giovanna Sacchi, Ca’Foscari University of Venice; Rodolfo M. Nayga, University of

Arkansas; Riccardo Scarpa, Queens University - Belfast

2048 Vertical Price Transmission in Agricultural Markets

Regis, 3rd Floor

Selected Presentation

This session focuses on evaluating vertical asymmetric price transmissions in livestock and ﬂuid milk markets.

Moderator: Shuwei Zeng, University of Wisconsin

Is There Asymmetric Price Transmission in U.S. Fluid Milk Market?

Shuwei Zeng, University of Wisconsin; Brian W. Gould, University of Wisconsin

Modelling Market Linkages along the Vertical Supply Chain: Price Transmission and Volatility Spillovers in the U.S. Pork Industry

Yanan Zheng, University of Alberta

Heterogeneous Effects of Private Label and Branded Products on Farm-Retail Price Transmission: The Case of the U.S. Fluid Milk

Market

Yizao Liu, University of Connecticut; Adam N. Rabinowitz, University of Connecticut; Xuan Chen, University of Connecticut

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2049 The Role of Agricultural Policies in Less Developed Countries

Salon A, 4th Floor

Selected Presentation

Agriculture plays an important role in many developing countries and the papers in this session investigate a wide range of impacts

of policies intended to beneﬁt agricultural producers.

Moderator: Eva-Marie Meemken, University of Goettingen

Smallholder Preferences for the Design of Certiﬁcation Schemes: Does Gender Matter?

Eva-Marie Meemken, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen; Prakashan Chellattan Veettil, International Rice Research Institute

(IRRI); Matin Qaim, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

Farm Input Subsidies and the Adoption of Natural Resource Management Technologies

Stefan Koppmair, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen; Menale Kassie, International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology;

Matin Qaim, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

The Effect of China’s Pork Reserve Program on Pork Price Volatility

Yi Yu, Nanjing Agricultural University; David Brian Willis, Clemson University

Impact of Microcredit on Small-Farm Agricultural Production: Evidence from Brazil

Alexandre Gori-Maia, State University of Campinas; Gabriela Santos Eusebio, State University of Campinas; Rodrigo L. F. Silveira,

State University of Campinas

2050 Farm Households and Technology Adoption

Salon D, 4th Floor

Selected Presentation

This session examines issues of technology adoption among farm households in developing countries.

Moderator: Kajal Gulati, University of California, Davis

Who’s The Boss? Preference Heterogeneity, Bargaining, and Intrahousehold Valuation of an Agricultural Technology in Bihar, India

Kajal Gulati, University of California, Davis; Patrick S. Ward, International Food Policy Research Institute; Travis J. Lybbert,

University of California, Davis; David J. Spielman, International Food Policy Research Institute

Off-Farm Labor Supply Effects of Farm Mechanization: Evidence from a Panel Survey from Bangladesh

Md Mansur Ahmed, North Carolina State University; Barry K. Goodwin, North Carolina State University

Farmer Heterogeneity and Fifferential Livelihood Impacts of Oil Palm Expansion among Smallholders in Sumatra, Indonesia

Vijesh V. Krishna, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen; Michael Euler, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen; Hermanto Siregar,

Bogor Agricultural University, Indonesia; Matin Qaim, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

Ex-post Livestock Diseases and Pastoralist’s Averting Decision in Tanzania

Mazbahul Ahamad, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Christopher R. Gustafson, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Elizabeth

VanWormer, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

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2051 Upstream Market Structure and Competition

Salon H, 4th Floor

Selected Presentation

This session explores issues related to market structure in upstream markets. Three papers focus on agricultural markets and one

paper on electricity generation.

Moderator: Cornelia Ilin, University of Wisconsin

The Effect of Competition on Price Dispersion: Evidence from the U.S. Corn Seed Industry

Cornelia Ilin, University of Wisconsin; Guanming Shi, University of Wisconsin

A Theoretical Analysis of Multiproduct Mergers: Application in the Major Meat Sectors

Benjamin L. Sanderson, Mississippi State University; Kalyn T. Coatney, Mississippi State University; Bryon J. Parman, Mississippi

State University; Jesse B. Tack, Mississippi State University

A New Approach to Identify Market Power along Agri-food Supply Chains – The German Dairy Supply Chain

Aaron Grau, Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO); Heinrich Hockmann, Leibniz

Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO)

An Effect of Vertical Integration for Non-Vertically Integrated Firms: An Analysis of Electric Distribution Cooperatives

Brent M. Hueth, University of Wisconsin; Heesun Jang, University of Wisconsin

2052 Getting Over Hurdles with Limited Dependent Variables

Salon I, 4th Floor

Selected Presentation

Limited dependent variables techniques are widely used throughout all areas of applied research. This collection of papers addresses

aspects of reliability and implementation.

Moderator: Marco A. Palma, Texas A&M University

The Order of Variables, Simulation Noise and Accuracy of Mixed Logit Estimates.

Marco A. Palma, Texas A&M University; Yajuan Li, Texas A&M University; Dmitry Vedenov, Texas A&M University; David A.

Bessler, Texas A&M University

Developing Consistent Estimates of Marginal Effects in a Simultaneous Equation Model with Limited Dependent Variables

Joseph A. Atwood, Montana State University; Alison Joglekar, University of Minnesota; Vincent H. Smith, Montana State University

On the Evaluation of Probability Forecasts: An Application to Discrete Choice Models

Senarath Dharmasena, Texas A&M University; David A. Bessler, Texas A&M University; Oral Capps Jr., Texas A&M University

Estimating Latent Variable Models under the Presence of Heteroscedasticity When the Latent Variable is Observable

James K. Binkley, Purdue University; Luis M. Pena-Levano, Purdue University

2053 Conﬂict and Economic

Salon J, 4th Floor

Selected Presentation

Papers in this session cover issues related to civil conﬂict and development with a particular focus on foreign aid, slave trading, and

rural infrastructure.

Moderator: Yu Zhang, Texas A&M University

How Wealth of Nations Interact with Aid and Peace: A Time and Country Variant Analysis

Shahriar Kibriya, Conﬂict and Development Center; Yu Zhang, Texas A&M University; David A. Bessler, Texas A&M University;

Edwin C. Price, Texas A&M University

The Impact of a Rural Road Development Project on Multidimensional Poverty in Nepal

José R. Bucheli, University of New Mexico; Alok Bohara, University of New Mexico; Kira M. Villa, University of New Mexico

The Impact of Slave Trade on Current Civil Conﬂict in Sub-Saharan Africa

Yu Zhang, Texas A&M University; Shahriar Kibriya, Conﬂict and Development Center

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2054 The Impact of Tariffs and Non-Tariff Barriers to Trade

Salon K, 4th Floor

Selected Presentation

Understanding the impact of tariffs and non-tariff barriers are important for a more informed policy debate. These papers take a

closer look at these barriers in the context of agricultural trade ﬂows.

Moderator: Byung Min Soon, University of Missouri

Measuring Non-Tariff Barriers by Combining Cointegration Tests and Simulation Models with an Application to Russian Chicken

Imports

Byung Min Soon, University of Missouri; Wyatt Thompson, University of Missouri

Does Tariff Reduction Have a Positive Effect on the World’s Grain Self-Sufﬁciency?

Byeong-il Ahn, Korea University; Younghyeon Jeon, Korea Rural Economic Institute

China’s Agricultural Exports and Their Effects on Other Exporters

Huong T. Nguyen, Deakin University, Australia

China’s Emerging Dairy Markets and Impacts on U.S. Alfalfa and Dairy Product Exports

Qingbin Wang, University of Vermont; James M. Hansen, USDA-Economic Research Service; Xu Fang, Southwestern University of

Finance and Economics; Hao Cui, University of Vermont

2055 Economic Policy and Natural Hazards

Simmons, 3rd Floor

Selected Presentation

Papers in this section use novel economic and econometric techniques to evaluate the impacts of natural disaster and climate change

on economic outcomes.

Moderator: Mona Ahmadiani, University of Georgia

Defending the Shoreline: A Duration Model of Beach Re-Nourishment

Yun Qiu, The Ohio State University; Sathya Gopalakrishnan, The Ohio State University

Well-being Effects of Extreme Weather Events in the U.S.

Mona Ahmadiani, University of Georgia; Susana Ferreira, University of Georgia

Market Response to Flood Risk: A Matching Study of Farmland Values Using Boundary Discontinuities

Haoying Wang, Cornell University

Temperature and U.S. Economic Activity: Evidence from Disaggregated Data

Ding Du, Northern Arizona University; Xiaobing Zhao, Northern Arizona University

2056 Producers’ Risk Preferences and Perceptions

St. Botolph, 2nd Floor

Selected Presentation

This session focuses on producers’ risk preferences and producers’ risk perceptions, discussing new ideas on elicitation procedures

and empirical applications.

Moderator: Gaurav Arora, Iowa State University

Risk Aversion and Inconsistencies: Does the Choice of Risk Elicitation Task and Display Format Inﬂuence the Outcomes?

Golo Bauermeister, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen; Oliver Musshoff, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

Role of Farmer’s Risk Attitude in the Relationship Between Trust and Contract Decision: The Fresh Apple Market in South Korea

Kyeong Ah Ahn, Seoul National University; Young-Chan Choe, Seoul National University

Producers’ Perceptions of Risk of Intensiﬁed Conservation Practices on-Farm

Steven Ramsey, Kansas State University; Jason S. Bergtold, Kansas State University; Elizabeth Canales Medina, Roll Global LLC

Can Stated Risk Preferences Accurately Reﬂect True Risk Preferences?

Sankalp Sharma, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Karina Schoengold, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

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2057 Teaching Evaluation Methods

Suffolk, 3rd Floor

Selected Presentation

This session will focus on teaching evaluation methods in the classroom and in the ﬁeld.

Moderator: Elizabeth A. Yeager, Kansas State University

Academic, Demographic and Spatial Factors in the Classroom Affecting Student Performance in Principles of Agricultural

Economics Courses

Jason S. Bergtold, Kansas State University; Elizabeth A. Yeager, Kansas State University

Quest- A Virtual Faculty Teaching Community

Siny Joseph, Kansas State University; Jung Oh, Kansas State University; Patricia Ackerman, Kansas State University

Reshaped for High-Level Learning: Student Outcomes in the Redesign of an Undergraduate Macroeconomics Course

Lawrence P. DeBoer, Purdue University; David Nelson, Purdue University; Angelika N. Zissimopoulos, Purdue University; Anna

Josephson, Purdue University

2058 Applied Environment and Natural Resource Valuation: Water

Tremont, 1st Floor

Selected Presentation

Papers in this session estimate values of water quality, quantity, and damages utilizing various valuation methodologies.

Moderator: Wendong Zhang, Iowa State University

Valuing Complementarity between Environmental Goods and Housing Attributes with the Beneﬁt Function: An Application to

Flood Hazards

Yau-Huo Shr, The Pennsylvania State University; Katherine Y. Zipp, The Pennsylvania State University

Combining Revealed and Stated Preferences to Value Water Quality at Great Lakes Beaches

Li Cheng, Michigan State University; Frank Lupi, Michigan State University

Estimating the Capitalization Effects of Harmful Algal Bloom Incidence, Intensity and Duration? A Repeated Sales Model of Lake

Erie Lakefront Property Values

Aneil Baron, The Ohio State University; Wendong Zhang, Iowa State University; Elena G. Irwin, The Ohio State University

Water-based Recreation and Water Quality Indices: A Revealed Preference Approach

Yongjie Ji, Iowa State University; David A. Keisier, Iowa State University

2059 Economics of Water Use in Agriculture

Tufts, 3rd Floor

Selected Presentation

Papers in this session examine the economics of water in agriculture.

Moderator: Farzad Taheripour, Purdue University

Economic and Land Use Impacts of Improving Water Use Efﬁciency in South Asia

Farzad Taheripour, Purdue University; Thomas W. Hertel, Purdue University; Sebnem Sahin, World Bank

Well Capacity and the Gains from Coordination in a Spatially Explicit Aquifer: An Application to Groundwater Management

Districts in Colorado

Jordan F. Suter, Colorado State University; Robert A. Hrozencik, Colorado State University

Retiring Land to Conserve Water: Evidence from Colorado and Nebraska

Randall G. Monger, Colorado State University; Jordan F. Suter, Colorado State University; Dale Manning, Colorado State

University; Joel Schneekloth, Colorado State University

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2060 Agricultural Water Use Efﬁciency

Vermont, 5th Floor

Selected Presentation

This session consists of four papers related to water use efﬁciency in agriculture.

Moderator: Maria Vrachioli, University of Florida

Agricultural Water Productivity under Spatial Adjustments

Maria Vrachioli, University of Florida; Spiro E. Stefanou, University of Florida

Determining Water use Efﬁciency for Wheat and Cotton: A Meta-analysis

Yubing Fan, University of Missouri; Chenggang Wang, Texas Tech University; Zhibiao Nan, Lanzhou University, China

Rebound Effect of Irrigation Technologies: The Role of Water Rights

Haoyang Li, Michigan State University; Jinhua Zhao, Michigan State University

Climatic Variability and Irrigation Water Efﬁciency in the United States: An Empirical Assessment of the 1987-2012 Period

Eric Njuki, University of Connecticut; Boris E. Bravo-Ureta, University of Connecticut

2061 The Efﬁcacy of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)

Vineyard, 4th Floor

Selected Presentation

The Supplemental Nutrition Assitance Program (SNAP) is designed to reduce food insecurity in the United States This session

dicusses the effectiveness of SNAP in reducing food insecurity in a variety of ways.

Moderator: Jeffrey J. Reimer, Oregon State University

Effects of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program on Rural and Urban Areas in Oregon

Senal A. Weerasooriya, Oregon State University; Jeffrey J. Reimer, Oregon State University

Do Personal Attitudes About Welfare Inﬂuence Food Stamp Participation?

Roshini Brizmohun, Auburn University; Patricia A. Duffy, Auburn University

Price Variation Over the SNAP Beneﬁt Cycle

Timothy Beatty, University of California, Davis; Xinzhe H. Cheng, University of California, Davis

Do Grocery Taxes Cause Food Insecurity?

Norbert L.W. Wilson, Auburn University; Yuqing Zheng, University of Kentucky; Harry M. Kaiser, Cornell University; Shaheer

Burney, University of Kentucky

2062 Food Demand Studies in Asia

Wellesley, 3rd Floor

Selected Presentation

These presentations explore food consumption and preferences in China and South Korea.

Moderator: Jinhyeung Kim, Seoul National University

A Study on Consumer Characteristics of Processed Rice and Meat Products on Food-related Lifestyles using Beta Regression Model

Jinhyeung Kim, Seoul National University; Young-Chan Choe, Seoul National University

The Consumption Pattern of Convenience Food: A Comparison of Different Income Levels in South Korea

Yeseul Hwang, Seoul National University; Young-Chan Choe, Seoul National University

Societal Context and its Impact on Demand for New Products: The Case of Grapefruit in South Korea

Hyeyoung Kim, University of Florida; Lisa A. House, University of Florida

Consumer Preference for Supermarket Food Sampling in China

Lijun Chen, University of Missouri

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2063 Agricultural R&D and Science Policy

Yarmouth, 4th Floor

Selected Presentation

Presentations in this session analyze science policy impacts by examining knowledge spillovers and agricultural, environmental, and

ﬁrm innovation.

Moderator: Yoo Hwan Lee, Colorado State University

Innovation and Firm Productivity: Evidence from the U.S. Patent Data

Jingbo Cui, Wuhan University; Xiaogang Li, Iowa State University

Academic Knowledge Spillovers and the Role of Geographic Proximity and Network in Regional Agriculture-related Sectors

Yoo Hwan Lee, Colorado State University; Gregory D. Graff, Colorado State University

Promoting Environmental Innovation: R&D Subsidies and Carbon taxes

Matthew S. Clancy, USDA-Economic Research Service; GianCarlo Moschini, Iowa State University

2064 Applications of Financial Engineering in Agriculture

Berkeley, 3rd Floor

Track Session – AFM and ARA Sections

Motivation: Financial engineering uses mathematical methods to generate new ﬁnancial products for pricing assets and hedging risk.

Financial engineering is now being used in agriculture as a means to provide more effective risk management by tailoring contracts

to the speciﬁc risk preferences of ﬁrms. While agribusiness ﬁrms have used ﬁnancial engineering techniques and ﬁnancial engineering

products have been offered to farmers, the methods underlying these products have largely been ignored in academic circles.

Presenters in this session will provide three applications of ﬁnancial engineering to agriculture in order to introduce the audience

to these methods. The ﬁnal presenter will speak to the general nature of ﬁnancial engineering and its relationship to agricultural

economics.

Organizer: Eric Belasco, Montana State University

When Does Sophisticated Hedging Help?

Gabriel Power, Laval University; Dmitry Vedenov, Texas A&M University; Pan Liu, Texas A&M University

Grain Marketing with Upside Contracts

Eric Belasco, Montana State University; Joseph A. Atwood, Montana State University

Financial Engineering and Agricultural Insurance

Hirbod Assa, University of Liverpool

Financial Engineering and the Securitization of Biomedical Research

Roger Stein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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2065 Gender and Generation: Intrahousehold Perspectives on Technology Adoption in the West Africa Sahel

Brandeis, 3rd Floor

Track Session – International Section

This session brings together innovative research on intrahousehold technology adoption in the West African Sahel, with special focus

on gender and generations. Especially, this session explores: 1) the nature of linkages between fertilizer use decisions on collective

and individual maize plots in Burkina Faso, 2) the gender and intra-generational differences in fertilizer adoption on cereals in

the Sudanian Savanna of Mali, 3) the effects of both organic and inorganic fertilizer use on cereals on a wide range of welfare

outcomes (i.e., yields, diet diversity) in the West African Sahel, and 4) the gender differences in herbicide adoption in the high

productive sorghum zone in Mali. The results offer critical perspectives on the intrahousehold adoption of agricultural technology,

and contribute to the discussion on how to design and implement more comprehensive and inclusive policies in order to stimulate

agricultural productivity.

Organizer: Veronique Theriault, Michigan State University

Discussants: Timothy J. Dalton, Kansas State University; Catherine Larochelle, Virginia Tech

Intensiﬁcation and Intra-Household Decisions: Fertilizer Adoption on Collective and Individual Fields in Burkina Faso

Melinda Smale, Michigan State University

Gender, Generation and Agricultural Intensiﬁcation: A Case of Two Cereals in the Sudanian Savanna of Mali

Alpha O. Kergna; Veronique Theriault, Michigan State University

Effects of Organic and Inorganic Fertilizer Use on (Intra) Household Welfare in Burkina Faso

Hamza Haider, Michigan State University

Gender Differences in Herbicide Adoption in the High Productive Sorghum Zone in Mali

Steven Haggblade, Michigan State University

2066 Marketing Sustainability: Consumer Interest in Sustainability and Health Attributes on Food and Beverage Products

Clarendon, 3rd Floor

Track Session – FAMPS and FSN Sections

This session is focused on examining consumer demand for sustainability and health-related credence attributes of food and beverage

products and implications for producers and food markets. Two of these presentations will discuss how sensory evaluations of

food products can be linked to choice experiments in order to understand how willingness to pay for environmental attributes is

inﬂuenced by consumer perceptions of quality. In the second half of this session results from two studies using retail scanner data

from U.S. and UK will show how consumer purchasing behavior inﬂuences prices and ﬁrm behavior. More detailed abstracts for

each presentation are attached below.

Organizers: Rebecca L. Boehm, Tufts University; Sean B. Cash, Tufts University

Climate Change and Consumer Food Choices: Linking a Choice Experiment and Product Sensory Evaluation to Elicit Consumer

Interest in Carbon Footprint Mitigation, Seasonality, and Climate-driven Quality Changes

Rebecca L. Boehm, Tufts University; Sean B. Cash, Tufts University; Amanda Kowalsick, Tufts University; Nicole Kfoury, Tufts

University; Tim Grifﬁn, Tufts University; Albert Robbat Jr., Tufts University; Richard Stepp, University of Florida; Selena Ahmed,

Montana State University; Colin M. Orians, Tufts University

Effect of Quality Attributes and Local Label on Consumer Purchase and Repurchase of Fresh Produce: An Application of Sensory

Evaluation and Auctions for Fresh Strawberries

Chenyi He, University of Florida; Zhifeng Gao, University of Florida; Charles Sims, University of Florida; Lisa A. House, University

of Florida; Zhengfei Guan, University of Florida

Voluntary Non-GMO Food Labeling: Consumer WTP and Firm Behavior

Aaron A. Adalja, University of Maryland

The Demand for Sustainable Food Attributes: The Case of the British Egg Market

Diogo M. Souza Monteiro, Newcastle University; Luca A. Panzone, Newcastle University

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2067 Statistical Approaches for Addressing Data-Driven Concerns Regarding the Rating of Crop Insurance

Dartmouth, 3rd Floor

Track Session – Econometrics Section

It is widely recognized that dependence between individual sources of risk plays an important role in pricing insurance coverage.

In addition, research focused on crop insurance is often plagued by a paucity of data from which premium rates can be estimated.

Other pertinent issues include the identiﬁcation of systemic risk and spatial basis risk, which are detrimental to the supply of and

demand for index based insurance. This session will explore each of these issues with a focus on the statistical techniques being used

to address them.

Organizer: Jesse B. Tack, Mississippi State University

Moderator: Jesse B. Tack, Mississippi State University

Accounting for Dependence in the Federal Crop Insurance Program

Barry K. Goodwin, North Carolina State University

Using Extraneous Data to Rate Crop Insurance Contracts: Issues of Correlation and Consistency

Alan P. Ker, University of Guelph

Modeling Systemic Risk and Spatial Basis Risk in Index-Based Insurance

Martin Odening, Humboldt University Berlin; Zhiwei Shen, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

2068 Transformations in Food Systems: Opportunities and Challenges for Alternative Food Systems

Exeter, 3rd Floor

Track Session – CRENET and China Sections – Lightning Session

In order to feed the increasing urban population alternative food production systems need to be identiﬁed and implemented. Among

those are Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) and other urban farming systems. This session aims to highlight opportunities

and challenges of these food production systems along the supply chain. In particular, the presentations will focus on consumers’

perception of urban farming, and their acceptance of and willingness to pay for produce grown in a vertical farm production system.

The impacts of CSA program participation on consumer attitudes and behaviors related to food consumption and preparation

are discussed. Teaching Gardens that provide school children with opportunities to learn about food and nutrition while planting,

maintaining, harvesting, and preparing produce from their school garden are analyzed. Presenters examine whether subsidizing

the cost of CSAs, integrated with tailored education increases produce consumption and improves overall diet quality. Finally, this

session provides a discussion on the emerging marketing and business strategies in the CSA sector, with a focus on multi-farm

operations. Speciﬁcally, the impact of these innovations on ﬁrm and producer-level proﬁtability are evaluated and prospects for the

future evolution of the sector are assessed.

Organizer: Carola Grebitus, Arizona State University

Moderator: Dawn D. Thilmany McFadden, Colorado State University

Consumer Perception of Urban Agriculture

Carola Grebitus, Arizona State University; Antonios Printezis, Arizona State University; Iryna Printezis, Arizona State University

Consumer Acceptance of Alternative Production Systems: The Case of Vertical Farming

Bradford Coyle, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Brenna Ellison, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

CSA Programs and Dietary Behavioral Change

Kynda R. Curtis, Utah State University; Karin Allen, Utah State University; Ruby A. Ward, Utah State University

Impacts of the American Heart Association Teaching Gardens Program on Fruit and Vegetable Consumption: A National Study

Erin Roche, University of Vermont; Jane M. Kolodinsky, University of Vermont; Rachel Johnson, University of Vermont

Economic Contribution and Potential Impact of Farm to School Programs in Vermont

Florence Becot, University of Vermont; Erin Roche, University of Vermont; Jane Kolodinsky, University of Vermont

Cost-offset CSAs: Working Toward Better Nutrition for Resource Challenged Families and Better Livelihoods for Farmers

Jane Kolodinsky, University of Vermont; Rebecca Sequin, Cornell University; Stephanie Bell Jilcott, Eastern Carolina University;

Marilyn Sitaker, Battelle Memorial Institute

The Changing CSA Strategic Business Model

Debra Tropp, USDA-Agricultural Marketing Service; Timothy Woods, University of Kentucky

The Promise of Urban Agriculture: National Study of Commercial Farming in Urban Areas

Samantha Schaffstall, USDA-Agricultural Marketing Service; Anu Rangarajan, Cornell University

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2069 Agricultural Data Linkages for Research and Policy Illumination

Fairﬁeld, 3rd Floor

Track Session – Senior Section

This session provides an opportunity for broad input from AAEA members on what agricultural data linkages would be most useful

to research and analysis and how they can be achieved. Speakers will summarize agricultural data linkage priorities identiﬁed at a

small, invited Workshop, report on successful linkages achieved and the policy insights that have arisen from their use in analysis,

demonstrate the value of using administrative data to illuminate program and policy issues, and discuss the feasibility of potentially

gainful linkages. The discussion portion of the session focuses on exploring speciﬁc actions that could be taken by individual

researchers or by institutions to open up opportunities for data linkage across federal agencies that have agriculturally-related survey

and administrative data. The speakers bring to the table the views of statistical agencies and academics from within and outside food

and agriculture.

Organizer: Katherine R. Smith, Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics

Moderator: Katherine R. Smith, Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics

Discussant: Mary E. Bohman, USDA-Economic Research Service

Opportunities for Linking Household Statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau with Statistics from the Agricultural Resource

Management Survey (ARMS)

James M. MacDonald, USDA-Economic Research Service; Lucia Foster, Census Bureau

Using Census and IRS Data to Deﬁne and Describe Non-Farm Activities in the U.S. Food and Agriculture Supply Chain

Brent M. Hueth, University of Wisconsin; Richard Dunn, University of Connecticut

Utilizing Farmland and Financial Transactions Data to Better Understand Agricultural Structure and Performance

Bruce J. Sherrick, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Linking Spatial and Agricultural Program Data

Patrick Flanagan, USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service; Vincent E. Breneman, USDA-Economic Research Service

2070 Extension Section Livestock Outlook

Harvard, 3rd Floor

Track Session – Extension Section

This session continues the tradition of Extension Section Outlook organized symposium and will focus on livestock situation and

outlook. The presenters will discuss the trends in domestic and global livestock production, trade, supplies, demand and prices as

well as the prospects for proﬁtability for the coming year.

Organizer: Jeremy Ross Pruitt, University of Tennessee at Martin

Discussant: Jeremy Ross Pruitt, University of Tennessee at Martin

Cattle and Beef Outlook

Kathleen R. Brooks, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Hogs and Pork Outlook

Brenda L. Boetel, University of Wisconsin-River Falls

Dairy Outlook

John C. Newton, National Milk Producers Federation

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2071 Emerging Issues in Rural China: Health Insurance, Children Education, Children Nutrition, and Decision Behavior

Provincetown, 4th Floor

Track Session – China Section – Lightning Session

China’s rural economics and labor resources issues continues to draw attentions from the public and researchers. Eight papers are

selected to address different aspects that a typical rural household would face in practice. The ﬁrst paper examined the impact of a

public health insurance program and found that it did not in fact improve health outcomes, but increased the use of preventative

health services in the short term. The followed three papers discussed the issues of rural children’s education, cognition, nutrition,

and the relationships among them using continuing tracking surveys about left-behind children and infant and caregivers. The rest

four papers discussed other decision making issues and decision behavior patterns of the rural households, including whether take

off-farm employment, whether choose online shopping, whether adopt of agricultural machinery service and production systems.

Organizer: Guzhen Zhou, Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics

Moderator: Songqing Jin, Michigan State University

Heterogeneous Effects of Health Insurance Coverage on Health Service Utilization and Health in Rural China

Yiqiu Wang, Nanjing Agricultural University; Maria Porter, Michigan State University; Songqing Jin, Michigan State University

Effect of Parental Migration on the Left Behind Children’s the Academic Performance: Evidence from Rural China

Chengfang Liu, Peking University; Yu Bai, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Linxiu Zhang, CCAP; Yaojiang Shi, Shaanxi Normal

University; Di Mo, Stanford University; Scott D. Rozelle, Stanford University

Effect of Deworming on Indices of Health, Cognition, and Education among Schoolchildren in Rural China: A Cluster-randomized

Controlled Trial

Linxiu Zhang, CCAP; Chengfang Liu, Peking University; Louis Lu, Stanford University; Renfu Luo, Peking University; Sean Y.

Sylvia, University of Maryland; Alexis Medina, Stanford University; Scott D. Rozelle, Stanford University; Yingdan Che, Chinese

Center for Disease Control and Prevention; Tingjun Zhu, Chinese Center for Disease Control and prevention

Nourishing the Future: Targeting Infants and Their Caregivers to Reduce Malnutrition in Rural China

Renfu Luo, Peking University; Linxiu Zhang, Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy; Ai Yue, Shaanxi Normal University; Yaojiang

Shi, Shaanxi Normal University; Huan Zhou, Sichuang University; Sean Sylvia, Remin University of China; Alexis Medina, Stanford

University; Scott Rozelle, Stanford University

Assessing Off-farm Employment Decisions of Rural Households in China

Xuan Chen, University of Maine; Jing Chen, University of Maine; Chien-Yu, Huang, Southwestern University of Finance and

Economics

Chinese Rural Consumers’ Online Shopping

Hua Zhong, University of Kentucky; Ping Qing, Huazhong Agricultural University; Wuyang, Hu, University of Kentucky

The Relationship Between Household Endowments of Labor and Land and the Adoption of Agricultural Machinery Service in Rural

China

Yating Zeng, The State University of New Jersey; Yanhong Jin, The State University of New Jersey; Zhong Tang, The State

University of New Jersey

Investigating the “One Farm Household, Two Production Systems” for Rural Farmers in China

Man Zhang, Rutgers University; Yanhong Jin, Rutgers University; Fengtian Zheng, Renmin University of China

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2072 Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)

Maine, 5th Floor

Selected Presentation

The U.S. government offers nutrition assistance to millions of eligible, low income individuals and families through the

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). This session includes four papers that analyze SNAP.

Moderator: Lisa Mancino, USDA-Economic Research Service

Who Beneﬁts Most from SNAP?

Christian A. Gregory, USDA-Economic Research Service; Partha Deb, Hunter College

How do SNAP Participation, Food Access and Food Prices Affect Nutritional Quality of Food Purchases? An Analysis of Food APS

Data

Lisa Mancino, USDA-Economic Research Service; Michele L. Ver Ploeg, USDA-Economic Research Service; Biing-Hwan Lin,

USDA-Economic Research Service; Joanne Guthrie, USDA-Economic Research Service

Do SNAP Recipients Get the Best Prices?

Raymond March, Texas Tech University; Carlos E. Carpio, Texas Tech University; Tullaya Boonsaeng, Texas Tech University;

Conrad P. Lyford, Texas Tech University

Incorporating Time Costs into SNAP Allotment Calculation: A Home Food Production Time Use Analysis

Wen You, Virginia Tech; George C. Davis, Virginia Tech

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Concurrent Sessions — Tuesday, 2:45 - 4:15 PM

2073 Frontiers of Data Science in Agricultural, Environmental, Natural Resource, and Applied Economics

Boylston, 1st Floor

Invited Paper

Increased availability of high resolution biophysical, demographic, and economic data, coupled with dramatic increases in storage

and computational capacities, are creating exciting new opportunities for data-driven scientiﬁc discovery. Adoption of state-of-

the-art data-analytic tools and methods by social and biophysical scientists, and incorporation of behavioral, socioeconomic, and

biophysical structure by computational scientists in “Big Data” statistical models, represent critical bottlenecks for advancing data-

driven discovery. This session will explore current issues related to data-analytic platforms and methods, institutional partnerships,

and prospects for applied economics researchers.

Organizer: Joshua D. Woodard, Cornell University

Discussants: Katherine R. Smith, Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics; Thomas W. Sproul, University of Rhode

Island

Data Science and Open Data Platforms in Agricultural and Applied Economics

Joshua D. Woodard, Cornell University

Food and Agricultural Industries: Opportunitiees for Improving Measurement and Reporting

Brent M. Hueth, University of Wisconsin; Richard Dunn, University of Connecticut

2074 Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Identiﬁcation (But Were Afraid to Ask)

Arlington, 3rd Floor

Organized Symposium

The Credibility Revolution in empirical economics has brought with itself increased standards for causal identiﬁcation in applied

microeconomic research. The purpose of this symposium is to provide some practical insight into identiﬁcation in agricultural and

applied economics. The symposium brings together journal editors, well-respected practitioners, and applied econometricians to

discuss the increased standards for identiﬁcation in modern research, the demands which the Credibility Revolution places upon

researchers seeking to publish their work, and answering questions from the ﬂoor.

Organizer: Jeffrey D. Michler, Purdue University

Moderator: Jeffrey D. Michler, Purdue University

Panelists: Marc F. Bellemare, University of Minnesota; Michael Delgado, Purdue University; Travis J. Lybbert, University of

California, Davis; Agnes R. Quisumbing, International Food Policy Research Institute

2075 Measuring Food and Nutrition Security: FSIN’s Independent Assessment of Indicators

Provincetown,4thFloor

Organized Symposium

This session addresses the methods used by global, national and local organizations to measure food security and nutrition, building

on an independent assessment of 140 prevailing indicators conducted by a Technical Working Group convened by the Food Security

Information Network. The TWG’s ﬁnal report, in the form of a User’s Guide to the available indicators, is available on the FSIN

website here: http://www.fsincop.net/topics/fns-measurement.

Organizer: Uma Lele, Independent Scholar

Panelists: Gero Carleto, World Bank; Josef Georg Schmidhuber, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations;

Maximo Torero, International Food Policy Research Institute

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2076 Technology Assessment and Adoption

Salon B, 4th Floor

Selected Presentation – Lightning Session

Presentations evaluate country and commodity speciﬁc cases of agricultural productivity and new technology adoption.

Moderator: Poornima Varma, Indian Institute of Management

Climate, Shocks, Weather, and Maize Intensiﬁcation Decisions in Rural Kenya

Martina Bozzola, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies; Melinda Smale, Michigan State University;

Salvatore DiFalco, University of Geneva

Exploring the Role of Legume Crops in the Agriculture, Nutrition and Food Security Nexus: Evidence from Zambia

Christine M. Sauer, Michigan State University; Mywish K. Maredia, Michigan State University; Nicole M. Mason, Michigan State

University

How Efﬁcient Is Maize Production among Smallholder Farmers in Zimbabwe?

Douglas Mugabe, West Virginia University; Xiaoli L. Etienne, West Virginia University

Women’s Participation in Agriculture and Gender Productivity Gap: The Case of Coffee Farmers in Southern Colombia and

Northern Ecuador

Jorge Jair Avila-Santamaria, University of Florida; Maria P. Useche, University of Florida

Agricultural Technology Adoption Under Multiple Constraints: An Analysis of the System of Rice Intensiﬁcation (SRI) in India.

Poornima Varma, Indian Institute of Management

Into the Weeds: A Structural Model of Herbicide Demand and Glyphosate Resistance on U.S. Corn Farms

Seth J. Wechsler, USDA-Economic Research Service; Jonathan McFadden, USDA-Economic Research Service; David J. Smith,

University of Minnesota

2077 The Lightning Strikes: Agricultural, Regulatory, and Resource Policy

Salon C, 4th Floor

Selected Presentation – Lightning Session

This lightning round session provides new insights into current issues related to agricultural and resources regulations and policies.

Moderator: Fanny Moffette, University of Wisconsin

Consequences of Protected Areas for Forest Extraction and Human Well-Being: Evidence from Nepal

Aparna Howlader, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Amy W. Ando, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Firm Structure, Environmental Regulation and Plant Death

Jingbo Cui, Wuhan University; GianCarlo Moschini, Iowa State University; Harvey E. Lapan, Iowa State University

Voluntary and Mandatory Regulation: Impacts of Responsible Care on OSHA Enforcement

Huan Li, Purdue University; Neha Khanna, Binghamton University

Decomposing Irrigation Water Use Changes in Equilibrium Models

Iman Haqiqi, Purdue University; Thomas W. Hertel, Purdue University

The Effectiveness of State Initiatives for Increasing the Recycling Rate in Florida

Meena Thiyagarajah, University of Florida; Xiang Bi, University of Florida; John J. VanSickle, University of Florida

Irrigation Adoption, Groundwater Demand and Policy in the U.S. Corn Belt, 2040-2070

Presenter: Molly Van Dop

Authors: Molly Van Dop, Ben Graming, Juan Pablo Sesmero

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2078 Natural Resources Use and Development

Brandeis, 3rd Floor

Selected Presentation

Papers in this session examine issues at the intersection between the economics of natural resources use and development.

Moderator: Patrick S. Ward, International Food Policy Research Institute

Understanding Compliance in Programs Promoting Conservation Agriculture in Malawi

Patrick S. Ward, International Food Policy Research Institute; Andrew R. Bell, New York University; Klaus Droppelmann,

Independent Consultant

Where to Invest in the Indus Basin Irrigation System in Pakistan to Improve Land and Water Productivity? Insights from a

Hierarchical Model

Dawit K. Mekonnen, International Food Policy Research Institute; Hira Channa, Purdue University

Perceived, Measured, and Estimated Soil Fertility: Implications for Farmer Management Practices in East Africa

Julia Berazneva, Middlebury College; Linden McBride, Cornell University; Megan B. Sheahan, Precision Agriculture for

Development; David T. Guerena, Cornell University

Land Use Change in Nepal and the Role of Agricultural Technologies and Input Use

Wei Zhang, International Food Policy Research Institute; Yanyan Liu, International Food Policy Research Institute; Man Li,

International Food Policy Research Institute; Zhe Guo, International Food Policy Research Institute; Prapti Bhandary, International

Food Policy Research Institute

2079 Peer and Social Network Inﬂuences on Consumer Purchase Decisions

Harvard, 3rd Floor

Selected Presentation

Recognizing that decisions are not made in a bubble of isolation, this session provides behavioral insights into the inﬂuence of peers

and social networks on consumer preferences and purchases.

Moderator: Di Fang, Arizona State University

De Gustibus Non Est Disputandum Revisited: The Inﬂuence of Social Networks and Health Status on Preferences for Functional

Food

Christian H.C.A. Henning, University of Kiel; Nana Zubek, University of Kiel; Kai-Uwe Strelow, University of Mainz

Social Presence and Shopping Behavior: Evidence from Video Data

Nadia A. Streletskaya, Cornell University

Modeling Product Choices in a Peer Network

Di Fang, Arizona State University; Carola Grebitus, Arizona State University; Timothy J. Richards, Arizona State University

The Impact of Impulsive Behavior on Fresh Produce Purchase: Do the Shopping Companions Matter?

Xuqi Chen, University of Florida; Zhifeng Gao, University of Florida

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2080 Agribusiness Management

Maine, 5th Floor

Selected Presentation

This session focuses on the ways in which the external environment and the ﬁrm’s core competencies affect managerial decisions and

proﬁtability in agribusiness ﬁrms.

Moderator: Michael Gunderson, Purdue University

Inﬂuence of Firm Size and Structure on Performance Management Practices

Michael A. Gunderson, Purdue University; Ryan Pearson, Purdue University

Characteristics of Hog Producers and How Those Characteristics Affect the Rate of Adoption of Technologies Used in the Hog

Industry: Evidence from Hog Producers in the United States

Mario R. Carrillo, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

The Impact of Dodd-Frank on Small Community Commercial Lenders

Brady E. Brewer, University of Georgia; Levi A. Russell, Texas A&M University

Evaluating Scale and Technical Efﬁciency among Farms and Ranches with a Local Market Orientation

Allison Bauman, Colorado State University; Becca B. R. Jablonski, Colorado State University; Dawn D. Thilmany McFadden,

Colorado State University

2081 Economic Assessment of Non-Traditional Agricultural Production

Massachusetts, 5th Floor

Selected Presentation

The economics of alternative agricultural production systems have not been fully analyzed. Papers in this section examine the

economic performance of organic cropping systems and dairy farms, as well as farming on forested land.

Moderator: Aditya R. Khanal, Tennessee State University

Are All Farms Better-off Growing Organic? An Unconditional Quantile Regression Approach

Aditya R. Khanal, Tennessee State University; Ashok K. Mishra, Arizona State University

Farmers and Their Groves: How Efﬁcient are Farms with Forested Land?

Anna M. Klepacka, Warsaw University of Life Sciences; Cesar Revoredo-Giha, Scotland’s Agricultural College; Wojciech J.

Florkowski, University of Georgia

Agronomic and Economic Performance of Soybean Following Three Previous Crops during the First Transition Year from

Conventional to an Organic Cropping System

William J. Cox, Cornell University; Miguel I. Gomez, Cornell University; Samantha Kannan, Cornell University

Economic, Environmental, and Social Sustainability of New England Organic Dairy Farms

Robert L. Parsons, University of Vermont; Qingbin Wang, University of Vermont

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Concurrent Sessions — Tuesday, 2:45 - 4:15 PM

2082 Consumer Valuation, Demand and Preferences

MIT, 3rd Floor

Selected Presentation

This session focuses on the analysis of consumer demand and valuation of the attributes in a variety of food and non-food products.

Moderator: Aaron M. Shew, University of Arkansas

Are All Biotechnologies the Same? Consumer Valuation of Non-GMO RNA Interference and GMO Bacillus Yhuringiensis for

Insect Control in Rice Production in the USA, Canada, Belgium, France, and Australia

Aaron M. Shew, University of Arkansas; Francis Tsiboe, University of Arkansas; Lawton L. Nalley, University of Arkansas; Bruce L.

Dixon, University of Arkansas; Diana Danforth, University of Arkansas; Rodolfo M. Nayga, University of Arkansas

Demand for Varied Fruit and Vegetable Colors from a Supermarket in Detroit, MI

Marie E. Steele, Michigan State University; Dave D. Weatherspoon, Michigan State University

Does Time Spent Preparing Food Affect Consumers’ Food Choices?

Gianna Short, University of Minnesota

Estimates of the Demand for E85 Using Stated-Preference Data off Revealed-peference Choices

Kenneth Liao, Iowa State University; Sebastien Pouliot, Iowa State University

2083 Spatial Price Relationships in the United States and World Markets

Nantucket, 4th Floor

Selected Presentation

This session examines price determination and price transmissions in major agricultural commodities, as well as barge rates.

Moderator: Md Zabid Iqbal, Iowa State University

A Simple Spatial Forecasting Model: Case Study of Mississippi Barge Rates

Brian Wetzstein, Zen-Noh Grain Corporation; Raymond J.G.M. Florax, Purdue University; Kenneth A. Foster, Purdue University;

James K. Binkley, Purdue University; Michael E. Wetzstein, Purdue University

Estimating the Location of World Wheat Price Determination

Joseph Janzen, Montana State University; Michael K. Adjemian, USDA-Economic Research Service

The U.S. Role in the Price Determination of Major Agricultural Commodities

Getachew S. Nigatu, USDA-Economic Research Service; Michael K. Adjemian, USDA-Economic Research Service

Transmission of Global Commodity Prices to Domestic Producer Prices: A Comprehensive Analysis

Md Zabid Iqbal, Iowa State University; Bruce A. Babcock, Iowa State University

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2084 On the Economics of Diets

Northeastern, 3rd Floor

Selected Presentation

A balanced diet is a key to longevity and health. This session includes four papers analyzing diets and nutrition intake.

Moderator: Sonya K. Huffman, Iowa State University

A Novel Discrete Choice Experiment to Determine the Effects of Nutrition Knowledge and Information Provision on Preferences

for Dietary Supplements During Pregnancy

Lenka Malek, WCHRI; Wendy J. Umberger, University of Adelaide; Jo Zhou, University of Adelaide; Maria Makrides, Women’s

and Children’s Health Research Institute and the University of Adelaide

Life Satisfaction and Diet: Evidence from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey

Sonya K. Huffman, Iowa State University; Marian Rizov, University of Lincoln

Ascertaining the Role of Socio-economic-demographic and Government Food Policy Related Factors on the Per Capita Intake of

Dietary Fiber Derived from Consumption of Various Foods and Beverages in the United States

Mark C. Senia, Texas A&M University; Senarath Dharmasena, Texas A&M University; Oral Capps Jr., Texas A&M University

Is it Hot in Here or is it Your Food Choices? Examining the Carbon Footprint of U.S. Household Food Spending and Travel to

Acquire Food and Linkages to Nutrition and Aggregate Economic Activity

Rebecca L. Boehm, Tufts University; Sean B. Cash, Tufts University; Parke E. Wilde, Tufts University; Michele L. Ver Ploeg, USDA-

Economic Research Service; Christine Costello, University of Missouri

2086 Exploring the U.S. Farm Bill

Salon A, 4th Floor

Selected Presentation

This session explores a number of topics on the U.S. Farm Bill ranging from assessing potential changes in farm program

participation decisions to how historical events impact the actions of farming lobbies and legislators.

Moderator: John C. Newton, National Milk Producers Federation

2Rethinking Revenue: Policy Design Options for Farm Bill Commodity Programs

John C. Newton, National Milk Producers Federation; Jonathan Coppess, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

General Equilibrium Analysis of the Farm Bill: SNAP versus Farm Programs

Senal A. Weerasooriya, Oregon State University; Jeffrey J. Reimer, Oregon State University

Implication of 2014 Farm Policies for Wheat Production

Jeff Luckstead, University of Arkansas; Stephen Devadoss, Texas Tech University

The Impact of Congressional Donations on Repeated Farm Bill Votes

Scott Callahan, North Carolina State University

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Concurrent Sessions — Tuesday, 2:45 - 4:15 PM

2087 The Impacts of Migration on Labor Markets

Salon D, 4th Floor

Selected Presentation

The papers in this session analyze the role of migration in local and national labor markets.

Moderator: Ruben I. Rojas Valdes, University of California, Davis

Strategic Interactions in Migration Decisions in Rural Mexico

Ruben I. Rojas Valdes, University of California, Davis; C.-Y. Cynthia Lin Lawell, University of California, Davis; Edward Taylor,

University of California

Examining the Labor Market Consequences of Endogenous Low-skill Migration with a Market-based Immigration Policy: A

General Equilibrium Analysis

German A. Marquez Alcala, Purdue University; Thomas W. Hertel, Purdue University; Roman M. Keeney, Purdue University

Emigration, Local Labor-Markets and Labor Supply for Own Farming in Nepal

Lokendra Phadera, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2088 Emerging Issues in Agri-Food Economics: Lessons from Applied Models

Salon H, 4th Floor

Selected Presentation

This session investigates agri-food economics issues through the lens of applied modeling. Issues include monopsony power by food

processors, innovation transfer in genetic engineering, generic and brand advertising, and food gleaning programs.

Moderator: Damien Rousseliere, Agrocampus Ouest

“Happy Cows” vs. “Laughing Cow”: Endogenous Market Structure under Generic and Brand Advertising

Benjamin C. Anderson, Colgate University

Innovation Led Alliances: Theory and Application to the GM Plant Industry

Damien Rousseliere, Agrocampus Ouest; Samira Rousseliere, ONIRIS; Shyama Ramani, United Nations University-Merit

An Operational Analysis of Multi-crop Food Bank Gleaning Programs

Erkut Sonmez, Boston College; Deishin Lee, Boston College; Miguel I. Gomez, Cornell University; Xiaoli Fan, Cornell University

2089 Remittances, Moral Hazard, and Storage Decisions in Developing Countries

Salon I, 4th Floor

Selected Presentation

The papers in this session investigate developing country issues related to household effects of remittances, moral hazard in group

lending, and how risk and liquidity constraints affect storage decisions in developing countries.

Moderator: Vincent Amanor-Boadu, Kansas State University

Remittance Frequency, Transactions Fees and Household Impacts

Heng Zhu, University of California, Davis

Effects of Risk and Liquidity Constraints on Storage Decisions: Evidence from Maize and Legume Producers in Uganda

Oluwatoba J. Omotilewa, Purdue University; Jacob Ricker-Gilbert, Purdue University; Corinne E. Alexander, Purdue University

A Little Skin in the Microﬁnance Game: Reducing Moral Hazard in Joint Liability Group Lending Through a Mandatory Collateral

Requirement

Jon Einar Flatnes, University of California, Davis; Michael R. Carter, University of California, Davis

The Effect of Shocks and Remittances on Household’s Vulnerability to Poverty: Evidence from Bangladesh

Yacob A. Zereyesus, Kansas State University; Francis Tsiboe, University of Arkansas; Weldensie T. Embaye, Kansas State University

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2090 Public Goods, Market Failures, and Public Work

Salon J, 4th Floor

Selected Presentation

The papers in this session highlight public goods issues in developing countries, including eco-tourism, public works, market

failures, and preserving the commons.

Moderator: Lisa Elliott, South Dakota State University

On the Role of Community Management in Correcting Market Failures of Rural Developing Areas: Evidence from a Randomized

Field Experiment of COGES Project in Burkina Faso

Yasuyuki Sawada, University of Tokyo; Takeshi Aida, National Graduate Research Institute for Policy Studies; Andrew S. Griffen,

University of Tokyo; Harounan Kazianga, Oklahoma State University; Eiji Kozuka, Hiroshima University; Haruko Noguchi,

Waseda University; Yasuyuki Todo, Waseda University

Can Ecotourism Reduce Overﬁshing and Alleviate Poverty in Developing Countries? A Recursive-Dynamic Local Economy-wide

Perspective

Ted E. Gilliland, University of California, Davis; James N. Sanchirico, University of California, Davis; J. Edward Taylor, University

of California, Davis

Does Providing Public Works Increase Workers’ Wage Bargaining Power in Private Sectors?

Yanan Li, Cornell University; Yanyan Liu, International Food Policy Research Institute

2092 Food and Environment

Simmons, 3rd Floor

Selected Presentation

This session focuses on the relationships between agricultural productions, food marketing, consumption, and environmental

quality.

Moderator: Yi Li, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law

Competing Eco-Labels and Product Market Competition

Yi Li, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law

Can Information Help Reduce Imbalanced Application of Fertilizers in India? Experimental Evidence from Bihar, India

Ram Fishman; Avinash Kishore, International Food Policy Research Institute; Yoav Rothler, Tel Aviv University; Patrick S. Ward,

International Food Policy Research Institute

The Effect of a CO2 Emissions Tax on American Diets

Patrick N. Canning, USDA-Economic Research Service; Sarah Rehkamp, USDA-Economic Research Service

Voluntary Programs to Encourage Compliance with Refuge Regulations for Pesticide Resistance Management: Results from a Quasi-

Experiment

Zachary S. Brown, North Carolina State University

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Concurrent Sessions — Tuesday, 2:45 - 4:15 PM

2093 Risk in Agricultural Decisions

St. Botolph, 2nd Floor

Selected Presentation

The presentations in this session focus on analyzing the impact of risk during the production process. Topics include technology

adoption, contract provisions, water supply uncertainty, and different approaches to model farmer’s choices.

Moderator: Lisa Elliott, South Dakota State University

Bt Cotton Cultivation under Production Risk: Evidence from Pakistan

Muhammad Watto, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad; Amin William Mugera, University of Western Australia

The Roles of Risk and Honey Bee Colony Strength in Determining Pollination Contract Provisions

Brittney K. Goodrich, University of California, Davis

Irrigation, Risk Aversion, and Water Rights under Water Supply Uncertainty

Man Li, International Food Policy Research Institute; Wenchao Xu, Boise State University; Mark W. Rosegrant, International Food

Policy Research Institute

U.S. Farmers’ Choices under Expected Utility Theory and Cumulative Prospect Theory

Harun Bulut, National Crop Insurance Services

2094 Energy Policy

Suffolk, 3rd Floor

Selected Presentation

This session focuses on the effects of energy policy on agricultural and energy markets and natural resources.

Moderator: Jason P H Jones, RTI International

Market Organization and Productive Efﬁciency: Evidence from Texas Electricity Market Redesign

Yiyuan Zhang, University of Michigan

Impacts of U.S. Production-Dependent Ethanol Policy on Agricultural Markets

Jason P H Jones, RTI International; Bruce A. McCarl, Texas A&M University

Shale Oil Production Expansion and Water-energy Nexus in North Dakota: A Decentralized Agent-based Modeling Approach

Siew Hoon Lim, North Dakota State University; Zhulu Lin, North Dakota State University; Michael Borders, North Dakota State

University; Tong Lin, North Dakota State University

2095 Energy Markets and Industrial Emissions

Tufts, 3rd Floor

Selected Presentation

Papers in this session examine economic aspects and environmental impacts of different energy markets. Some also focus on policies

and management options addressing industrial emissions. Presentations provide insight on the design of policies and on the role of

markets, taking into account how ﬁrms may respond.

Moderator: Ling Huang, University of Connecticut

U.S. County Level Effects of Solar Energy Development

Seth Wiggins, West Virginia University

Temperature Effects are more Complex than Degrees: A Case Study on Residential Energy Consumption

Gi-Eu Lee, Michigan State University; Scott Loveridge, Michigan State University

Pollution Permits, Green Taxes, and the Environmental Poverty Trap

David M. Aadland, University of Wyoming; Sichao Wei, University of Wyoming

Industry Dynamics and the Incentives of Emission Markets

Ling Huang, University of Connecticut

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2096 Land Use Allocation, Farm Growth, and Production Contracts

Vermont, 5th Floor

Selected Presentation

This session consists of papers discussing land use allocation, impacts of spatial interdependence on farm growth, and sugarcane

production contracts.

Moderator: Ana Claudia Sant’Anna, Kansas State University

The Impact of CRP and Crop Prices on Land Allocation: A Differential Model Panel Data Application

Ekaterina A. Vorotnikova, University of Idaho; Serhat Asci, California State University, Fresno

Direct and Indirect Spatial Interaction of Farm Growth

Hugo Storm, Bonn of University; Thomas Heckelei, University of Bonn

Analyzing Sugarcane Production Contracts in Brazil: What do the Farmers Really Want?

Ana Claudia Sant’Anna, Kansas State University; Jason S. Bergtold, Kansas State University; Marcellus Caldas, Kansas State

University; Gabriel Granco, Kansas State University

2097 Agricultural Production in Less Developed Countries

Vineyard, 4th Floor

Selected Presentation

Two papers in this session focus on agricultural production in India. The remaining two papers address issues related to agricultural

production in China.

Moderator: Flavius Badau, USDA-Economic Research Service

Evaluating Inefﬁciency in Indian Agriculture

Flavius Badau, USDA-Economic Research Service; Nicholas E. Rada, USDA-Economic Research Service

Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in India: Evidence from Agricultural Value Chains

Simla Tokgoz, International Food Policy Research Institute; Fahd Majeed, International Food Policy Research Institute

The Restructuring of Grain Production in Rural China: Regional Heterogeneity and its Reasons

Chunhui Ye, Zhejiang University, China; Xuyuan Zheng, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University; Zhigang Xu, Nanjing

Agricultural University; Wei Bian, Zhejiang University, China

Does the Adoption of Weather Tolerant Variety Contribute to Reduction in Rice Yield Loss? Panel Data Survey from Chinese Rice

Farmers

Jiehong Zhou, Management School of Zhejiang University; Liqun Tang, Zhejiang University; Zhen Yan, Zhejiang University

2098 Overcoming Problems with Missing Data and Omitted Variables

Wellesley, 3rd Floor

Selected Presentation

The papers in this session provide methods and discussion for overcoming omitted variables bias and missing data. The tools

discussed in this session have wide applicability across all areas of applied economic research.

Moderator: Jingyu Song, Purdue University

Down-scaling Land Use Data: Predicting Where Crops Grow at a Fine Spatial Scale

Jingyu Song, Purdue University; Michael Delgado, Purdue University; Paul V. Preckel, Purdue University; Nelson B. Villoria, Kansas

State University

The Effects of Honesty Oath and Consequentiality in Choice Experiments

Nathan Kemper, University of Arkansas; Jennie S. Popp, University of Arkansas; Rodolfo M. Nayga, University of Arkansas;

Claudia Bazzani, University of Arkansas

Estimating Multi-product Production Functions and Productivity Using Control Functions

Emir Malikov, St. Lawrence University

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2099 Agricultural Productivity Dynamics

Yarmouth, 4th Floor

Selected Presentation

Presentations in this session evaluate agricultural productivity growth at the national and regional level.

Moderator: Alejandro Plastina, Iowa State University

Measuring U.S. Agriculture Productivity: Primal vs. Dual Approaches

Alejandro Plastina, Iowa State University; Sergio H. Lence, Iowa State University

Evaluation of Dairy Farm Technical Efﬁciency: Production of Milk Components as Output Measures

Shuwei Zeng, University of Wisconsin; Brian W. Gould, University of Wisconsin; Xiaodong Du, University of Wisconsin

China’s Regional Agricultural Productivity Growth: Catching Up or Lagging Behind

Sun Ling Wang, USDA-Economic Research Service; Jikun Huang, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Xiaobing Wang, Center for

Chinese Agricultural Policy, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Francis C. Tuan, World Agricultural Economic and Environmental

Services

Examining the Productivity Growth of Agricultural Cooperatives

Krishna P. Pokharel, Kansas State University; Allen M. Featherstone, Kansas State University

2100 Alternative Methods in Valuing the Environment

Boston University, 3rd Floor

Selected Presentation

The papers in this session present alternative methodologies for valuing the environment and natural resources.

Moderator: Richard T. Melstrom, Oklahoma State University

Two-Stage Estimation in RUM Models of Recreation Demand

Richard T. Melstrom, Oklahoma State University; Deshamithra H. W. Jayasekera, Oklahoma State University

Valuing Natural Resources Allocated by Dynamic Lottery

Carson Reeling, Western Michigan University; Valentin Verdier, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Frank Lupi, Michigan

State University

A Latent Class Analysis on Public Attitudes Towards Water Resources: Implications for Recreational Demand

Oren Ehrlich, University of Florida; Xiang Bi, University of Florida; Tatiana Borisova, University of Florida; Sherry L. Larkin,

University of Florida

Recovering Marginal Willingness to Pays from Hedonic Prices Under Imperfect Competition

Ju-Chin Huang, University of New Hampshire; Min Qiang Zhao, Xiamen University; Laura Beaudin, Bryant University

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2101 Measuring Wealth for Developing and Evaluating Rural Development Policy and Strategy 2.0

Clarendon, 3rd Floor

Track Session – CRENET Section

Creating and sustaining wealth is being re-positioned for contemporary rural development policy and strategy. The optimal

combination of wealth investments has the potential to improve the long-run prosperity, resiliency, and upward mobility of people in

rural places. However, what constitutes wealth and how it is measured in the 21st century has differences to wealth assets of the 19th

century highlighted by Thomas Piketty’s book Capital. This session is a follow up to a 2015 AAEA Session, presenting results from

three on-going research efforts to measure wealth in rural regions and understand the place-based implications of these wealth assets.

Organizers: J. Matthew Fannin, Louisiana State University; Paul A. Lewin, University of Idaho; Todd M. Schmit, Cornell

University

Comprehensive Wealth Measurement and Spatial Hedonic Analysis: Social Amenities as Externalities of Social Capital

Jinhyoung Kim; Thomas G. Johnson, University of Missouri; John L. Pender, USDA-Economic Research Service; J. Matthew

Fannin, Louisiana State University

Applying Comprehensive Wealth Accounting to Evaluating the Impacts of Local Food System Initiatives

Becca B. R. Jablonski, Colorado State University; Todd M. Schmit, Cornell University; David Kay, Cornell University

Does the Level of Local Inequality Affect Community Economic Resilience: An Exploration of Possible Links

Xiurou Wu, Oregon State University; Mallory L. Rahe, Oregon State University; Bruce A. Weber, Oregon State University

Land Ownership, Heir Property and Community Development: The Case of the African American Farmer

Robert Zabawa, Tuskegee University; Conner Bailey, Auburn University; Ntam Baharanyi, Tuskegee University; Rebecca Barlow,

Auburn University

2102 Statistical Techniques Used to Identify Climate Change Implications and Potential Adaptations

Dartmouth, 3rd Floor

Track Session – Econometrics Section

There’s been a rapid rise in statistical studies exploring the effects of temperature shocks on agriculture and other sectors with the

goal of assessing potential impacts of climate change. In addition, more research is being dedicated toward measuring how and

how much economic activity can adapt to climate change and thereby mitigate potential damages. This session will explore three

fundamental research questions related to these issues and the techniques being used to address them.

Organizer: Jesse B. Tack, Mississippi State University

Moderator: Jesse B. Tack, Mississippi State University

What Matters More, Adaptation or Price Response to Climate Change?

Michael James Roberts, University of Hawaii at Manoa

Measurement Error of Extreme Temperature Events and its Consequences for Climate Change Impact Projections

Ariel Ortiz-Bobea, Cornell University

The Role of El Niño Southern Oscillation in Commodity Price Movement and Predictability

David Ubilava, University of Sydney

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2103 U.S. Agribusiness Exporters to China: Challenges and Success Stories

Exeter, 3rd Floor

Track Session – AEM and China Sections

Imports by China, one of the most important markets for U.S. agricultural exports, are affected by China’s agricultural and trade

policies along with domestic demand and supply. Since joining the WTO, China adopted more open trade policies; however, it

enacted policies promoting food security, price stability and higher incomes for farmers, which lead to increased distortions between

Chinese and international markets. Most recently, China continues to expand free trade agreements to diversify its agricultural

suppliers. Concurrently, the Trans-Paciﬁc Partnership does not include China. This session provides information of potential risks

and opportunities on exporting to China. Discussion stems from interviews with agribusiness leaders and government ofﬁcials

working to facilitate U.S.-China trade while identifying challenges and successes. Interviews were conducted in China and the U.S.

as part of the “Expanding U.S. Market Access in China’s Evolving Agricultural and Trade Policy Environment” project, funded by

USDA-NIFA as an AFRI grant.

Organizers: James M. Hansen, USDA-Economic Research Service; Mary Marchant, Virginia Tech

Moderator: Francis C. Tuan, World Agricultural Economic and Environmental Services

Discussant: Funing Zhong, Nanjing Agricultural University

China’s Evolving Agricultural and Trade Policies – Impact on U.S. Exports

Mina Hejazi, Virginia Tech; Funing Zhong, Nanjing Agricultural University; Jing Zhu, Nanjing Agricultural University

Challenges and Successes by U.S. Agribusiness Exporters to China

James M. Hansen, USDA-Economic Research Service; Francis C. Tuan, World Agricultural Economic and Environmental Services;

Agapi L. Somwaru

A Case Study - Supplying China’s Growing Appetite for Poultry

Mary Marchant, Virginia Tech; Wei Zhang, Virginia Tech; Wei Chen, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics

2104 Agricultural Productivity, Nutrition and Food Security in Latin America

Fairﬁeld, 3rd Floor

Track Session – LAS Section

Latin America has managed to reach both targets of the Millennium Development Goals of eradicating extreme poverty and hunger.

By halving the proportion of people whose income is less than $1, and the proportion of people who suffer from hunger, signiﬁcant

progress have been made toward achieving food and nutrition security, yet signiﬁcant work remains to be done. This session will

focus on two interconnected food security issues: agricultural productivity and nutrition. Presentations made by researchers from

academic institutions and international development and research organizations will provide an up-to date view of these two issues.

The session also includes presentations providing an overall view of the issues in the region as well as case studies from two countries:

Peru and Guatemala.

Organizers: Carlos E. Carpio, Texas Tech University; Luis Sandoval, Texas Tech University

Moderator: Carlos E. Carpio, Texas Tech University

Agricultural Productivity, Climate Change, and Food Security in Latin American Countries

Carlos Ludeña, Inter-American Development Bank

Impacts of CIP Potato Variety Development on Food Security in Highland Peru

Jeffrey Alwang, Virginia Tech

Policy Implications of Two Food Security Measurement Methodologies in Guatemala

Luis Sandoval, Texas Tech University; Manuel Garcia, Zamorano University; Carlos E. Carpio, Texas Tech University

Seasonality, Birth Order and Stunting: Evidence from Guatemala

Manuel A. Hernandez, International Food Policy Research Institute; Francisco Ceballos, International Food Policy Research

Institute; Miguel Robles, International Food Policy Research Institute

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2105 Financing Innovation for Agriculture and Food: What Next? Part 1: Evolving Funding Models

Hyannis, 4th Floor

Track Session – Australasia Section

This is the ﬁrst of two linked sessions on the same topic, with a mixture of speakers from government, universities, and industry.

Each session will have a set of short presentations followed by a general discussion.

Organizer: Julian M. Alston, University of California, Davis

Moderator: Julian M. Alston, University of California, Davis

Investments in Agricultural and Food R&D: The New Global Landscape

Philip G. Pardey, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

The Evolving Institutional Structure of Public and Private Agricultural Research

Keith O. Fuglie, USDA-Economic Research Service

Public-Private-Producer Partnerships: Theory and Practice

Richard S. Gray, University of Saskatchewan

Financing Innovation for Agriculture and Food: The Role of Value Chains

Johan F.M. Swinnen, University of Leuven

2106 Does Food Safety Regulation Pay?

New Hampshire, 5th Floor

Track Session – FSN and FAMPS Sections

Recent food safety regulations such as the Food Safety Modernization Act for FDA and the Modernization of Poultry Slaughter

Inspection for USDA have imposed new requirements on food producers with the goal of reducing the risk of foodborne illness.

When implementing major regulations, government agencies must assess whether the health beneﬁts of the regulation exceed the

costs of required actions. Regulatory agencies typically must conduct analyses in a situation with limited data and time and following

speciﬁc statutory requirements. The purpose of this session is to discuss the methods that have been used to estimate the beneﬁts and

costs of recent regulations, discuss how economic analyses improve regulations, identify the challenges associated with conducting

economic analyses of regulation, and identify areas in which additional research could improve analyses conducted for food safety

regulations.

Organizers: Sandra Hoffmann, USDA-Economic Research Service; Mary K. Muth, RTI International

Moderator: Christiane Schroeter, California Polytechnic State University

USDA Perspective

April Regonlinski, USDA-Food Safety and Inspection Service

FDA Perspective

James Bradley Brown, U.S. Food and Drug Administration

Beneﬁt Estimation Methodologies

Jean C. Buzby, USDA-Economic Research Service

Cost Estimation Methodologies

Mary K. Muth, RTI International

OMB Perspective

Elizabeth Ashley, Ofﬁce of Management and Budget

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2107 Are Checkoff Programs Good for Nutrition?

Berkeley, 3rd Floor

Track Session – FAMPS Section

The nutrition quality of federal generic commodity promotion programs is important and controversial. This panel

discussion session will address the question “Are checkoff programs good for nutrition?” Harry Kaiser will provide a

20-minute presentation that takes the “yea” view. Parke Wilde will give a 20-minute talk that gives the “nay” view. The

two presenters have planned their presentations to set up an engaging contrast while still reﬂecting favorably on both areas

of work. As discussant, John Crespi will present his own thoughts on the balance of evidence (15 min). The discussant/

moderator, Kristin Kiesel, will engage the audience in a vigorous discussion period. Like the moderator in a political debate,

her mandate includes the authority to probe for greater detail and to engage the arguments at stake.

Organizer: Parke E. Wilde, Tufts University

Discussants: John M. Crespi, Iowa State University; Kristin Kiesel, University of California, Davis

Presenters: Harry M. Kaiser, Cornell University; Parke E. Wilde, Tufts University

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2108 Understanding Global Consumers’ Motivations for Adopting a Vegetarian/Vegan Diet: A Comparison of Methods,

Results and Policy Implications

Arlington, 3rd Floor

Organized Symposium

The focus of this session is to examine gaps in the literature around vegetarian/vegan/ﬂexitarian behavior across countries, and across

disciplines with respect to the broader literature. Speciﬁcally, this session adds to the discussion by ﬁrst, providing insights across

three countries from three continents (US, Australia, Germany) based on quantitative analysis, and second, by adding for Germany

the results of qualitative methods. The insights derived from the session will allow for a better understanding of the factors and

concerns motivating consumers to adopt a vegetarian and/or vegan diet, the implications of changing diets for the food industry and

related policymakers, including the livestock and meat sector, and strategies for addressing issues that may arise from changing meat

eating behavior, particularly those centered around misinformation.

What Drives German Consumers to Become Vegetarians/Vegans: Analysis Based on Morphological Market Research

Monika Hartmann, University of Bonn

2109 Agricultural Practices and Technologies

Salon B, 4th Floor

Selected Presentation – Lightning Session

The 8 papers in this lightning session consider the consequences of a range of production practices such as contracting and

technologies such as Bt cotton and improved seeds in various developing countries.

Moderator: Anna M. Fairbairn, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Impact of Modern Irrigation on Household Production and Welfare Outcomes: Evidence from the PASIDP project in Ethiopia

Alessandra Garbero, International Fund for Agricultural Development; Tisorn Songsermsawas, International Fund for Agricultural

Development

Mineral Fertilizer Quality: Implications for Markets and Small Farmers in Tanzania

Anna M. Fairbairn, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Hope C. Michelson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign;

Brenna Ellison, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Victor M. Manyong, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture

A Question of Integrity: Variants of Bt Cotton, Pesticides, and Productivity in Pakistan

Xingliang Ma, International Food Policy Research Institute; Melinda Smale, Michigan State University; David J. Spielman,

International Food Policy Research Institute; Patricia Zambrano, International Food Policy Research Institute; Hina Nazli, IFPRI’s

Pakistan Strategy Support Program; Fatima Zaidi, International Food Policy Research Institute

Novel IPM Intervention in West Africa: Smallholder Farmers’ Preferences for Biological versus Synthetic Control Strategies for

Cowpea Pests

Michael Agyekum, Michigan State University; Frank Lupi, Michigan State University; Cynthia Donovan, Michigan State University

A Duration Analysis Approach to Variety Change on Wheat Farms in Bihar, India

Mukesh K. Ray, Michigan State University; Mywish K. Maredia, Michigan State University

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2110 International Trade

Salon C, 4th Floor

Selected Presentation –Lightning Session

The lightning session deals with the interactions of agricultural trade and other economic and social topics. The analyses allow us to

re-examine agricultural trade from the broad perspective of economic development, environmental sustainability, labor markets, and

cultural trends.

Moderator: Nikhil Damodaran, Louisiana State University

Corruption and Agricultural Trade

Trina Biswas, Louisiana State University; P. Lynn Kennedy, Louisiana State University

Eco-Labelling and the Gains from Agricultural and Food Trade: A Ricardian Approach

Kari E. Heerman, USDA-Economic Research Service; Ian M. Sheldon, The Ohio State University

Reinvigorating Economy in the Euro Area: Use of Fiscal Policy to ‘Beggar-Thy-Neighbor’

Nikhil Damodaran, Louisiana State University

Forest Stewardship Standards: Voluntary Governance as a Trade Facilitation Strategy?

Bruno Kanieski Da Silva, North Carolina State University; Kathryn A. Boys, North Carolina State University

2111 International Development

Boylston, 1st Floor

Selected Presentation

Papers in this session focus on evaluating the effectiveness of development efforts in Asia, Africa, and Central America.

Moderator: Johanna Fajardo-Gonzalez, University of Minnesota

Migration and Household Decision on Occupational Choice and Input Reallocation: Evidence from Bangladesh

Marup Hossain, University of Florida; Gulcan Onel, University of Florida; Conner Mullally, University of Florida

Long-Term Impacts of Poverty Programs: A Local-Economy Cost-Beneﬁt Analysis of Lesotho’s Child Grants Programme

Anubhab Gupta, University of California, Davis; J. Edward Taylor, University of California, Davis; Mateusz J. Filipski,

International Food Policy Research Institute; Karen E. Thome, USDA-Economic Research Service; Benjamin Davis, Food and

Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations; Luca Pellerano, International Labour Organization; Ousmane Niang, United

Nations Children’s Emergency Fund

Longitudinal Analysis of the Intrahousehold Distribution of Foods in Rural Nepal: Effectiveness of a Community Development

Intervention

Amelia F. Darrouzet-Nardi, Allegheny College; Laurie C. Miller, Tufts Medical Center; Neena Joshi, Heifer International Nepal;

S. Mahato, Heifer International Nepal; Mahendra Lohani, Heifer International; Beatrice L. Rogers, Tufts University; Julia

Drozdowsky, Allegheny College

Determinants of Sustainability of Community Seed Banks in Nicaragua: A Duration Analysis Approach

David J. De Young, Michigan State University; Mywish K. Maredia, Michigan State University

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2112 Agricultural Productivity in Developing Countries

Brandeis, 3rd Floor

Selected Presentation

The four papers in this session focus on issues in agricultural productivity in developing countries, including the effects of gender,

farm size, weather, and technical change.

Moderator: Leah EM Bevis, Cornell University

The Inverse Size-Productivity Puzzle: Might There Be Behavioral Explanations?

Leah EM Bevis, Cornell University; Christopher B. Barrett, Cornell University

Weather Variability, Technical Change, and Agricultural Production: 40 Years of Evidence from India

Jeffrey D. Michler, University of Illinois at Urbana, Champaign

The Impact of the Use of New Technologies on Farmers’ Wheat Yield in Ethiopia: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial

Gashaw Abate, International Food Policy Research Institute; Tanguy Bernard, International Food Policy Research Institute; Alan D.

De Brauw, International Food Policy Research Institute; Nicholas Minot, International Food Policy Research Institute

Asymmetric Trade Flows and Their Implications for Competitiveness, Efﬁciency and Trade

Youngjae Lee, Louisiana State University; P. Lynn Kennedy; Louisiana State University

2113 Water Resource Management

Harvard, 3rd Floor

Selected Presentation

This session focuses on management of water resources for agricultural, industrial, and residential uses. Spatial heterogeneity and

welfare impacts are examined in the presentations.

Moderator: Sanchari Ghosh, Northeastern State University

The Welfare Consequences of the 2015 California Drought Mandate: Evidence from New Results on Monthly Water Demand

Steven C. Buck, University of Kentucky; Stephen F. Hamilton, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; Mehdi

Nemati, University of Kentucky; David L. Sunding, University of California, Berkeley

A Hydro-Economic Model to Analyze the Allocation of Agricultural Water in the Tennessee Basin

Lixia He, University of Tennessee; Christopher D. Clark, University of Tennessee; Dayton M. Lambert, University of Tennessee;

Jamey Menard, University of Tennessee; Burton C. English, University of Tennessee; Stephanie Owen, University of Tennessee

Hydroeconomic Modeling of the Beneﬁts and Costs of Water Management in the Santa Cruz Border Region

Sanchari Ghosh, Northeastern State University; Keith D. Willett, Oklahoma State University

Groundwater Management Policy Evaluation with a Spatial-Dynamic Hydro-Economic Modelling Framework

Robert A. Hrozencik, Colorado State University; Dale Manning, Colorado State University; Jordan F. Suter, Colorado State

University; Christopher Goemans, Colorado State University; Ryan T. Bailey, Colorado State University

Meandering Water in the Prairie Pothole Region of South Dakota and its Economic Impact

Matthew Elliott, South Dakota State University; Tong Wang, Texas AgriLife Research; Dennis Todey, South Dakota State University

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2114 Wine and Coffee Economics

Maine, 5th Floor

Selected Presentation

This session focuses on emerging issues relevant to agribusinesses in the wine grape and coffee industries. Business strategy,

technological innovation, and labeling are discussed.

Moderator: Bruno V. Miranda, University of Missouri

Transaction Costs, Capabilities and Grape Procurement Strategies in U.S. Emerging Wine Regions

Bruno V. Miranda, University of Missouri; Fabio R. Chaddad, University of Missouri

Evaluating the Potential for Robotic Technology Development in U.S. Wine Grape Production

Dean A. McCorkle, Texas A&M University; Rebekka M. Dudensing, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service; Daniel Hanselka,

Texas A&M University; Ed W. Hellman, Texas A&M University

Price Determinants of California Wine in the U.S. Market: Does the Type Matter?

Ali Asgari, University of Kentucky; Michael R. Reed, University of Kentucky

Costly Choices: Does the U.S. Retail Market Reward Coffee Origin Labeling?

John Hoehn, Michigan State University

2115 Effect of Exogenous and Endogenous Factors on Farm Proﬁtability and Wealth

Massachusetts, 5th Floor

Selected Presentation

External inﬂuences as well as management decisions can have profound impacts on farm ﬁnances. Papers in this session examine how

exogenous and endogenous factors such as urban development, invasive pests, avoided demand charges and timing of wealth transfer

affect farm assets, revenues, and cost of production.

Moderator: Sean P. Hurley, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

A Model for Estimating Revenue from Avoided Demand Charges for Agricultural Operations Utilizing Anaerobic Digesters

Sean P. Hurley, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Economic Impact of the Sugarcane Aphid Outbreak in South Texas

Samuel D. Zapata, Texas A&M University; Raul Villanueva, Texas A&M University; Rebekka M. Dudensing, Texas A&M AgriLife

Extension Service; Danielle Sekula, Texas A&M University; Gabriela Esparza-Diaz, Texas A&M University

The Effect of Timing of Farm Transfer Initiation on Terminal Wealth in the Business: Simulation Model.

Iuliia Protopop, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Michael Boehlje, Purdue University

Urban Inﬂuence on Costs of Production in Selected Regions: A Frontier Approach

Richard F. Nehring, USDA-Economic Research Service; Ani Katchova, The Ohio State University; Charles Hallahan, USDA-

Economic Research Service; Michael Harris, USDA-Economic Research Service; Kenneth W. Erickson, USDA-Economic Research

Service

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2116 New Evidence on Milk and Dairy Demand

MIT, 3rd Floor

Selected Presentation

Milk and dairy is becoming highly differentiated. This session examines the effects of private labeling on market power, as well as the

effects of differentiation on demand for milk and dairy products.

Moderator: Senarath Dharmasena, Texas A&M University

Investigating Economic and Demographic Factors Affecting Consumer Demand for Coconut-milk in the United States

Senarath Dharmasena, Texas A&M University

Private Label Market Power: Evidence from the Italian Dairy Sector

Giulia Tiboldo, University of Connecticut; Rigoberto A. Lopez, University of Connecticut; Stefan Hirsch, University of Bonn

Demand for Niche Local Brands in the Fluid Milk Sector

Adam N. Rabinowitz, University of Connecticut; Yizao Liu, University of Connecticut; Xuan Chen, University of Connecticut;

Benjamin L. Campbell, University of Georgia

Private Label Competition and Retailer Market Power: The Case of Fluid Milk in New England

Adam N. Rabinowitz, University of Connecticut; Xuan Chen, University of Connecticut; Yizao Liu, University of Connecticut

2117 Diffusion of Technologies

Nantucket, 4th Floor

Selected Presentation

Papers in this session emphasize the roles of information technology, extension, and transgenerational learning in enhancing

decision-making in developing countries.

Moderator: Annemie Maertens, University of Sussex

Demonstration Plots as a Tool to Promote Farmer Learning: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Malawi

Annemie Maertens, University of Sussex; Hope C. Michelson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Vesall Nourani, Cornell

University

Ties that Bind: Redistributive Pressure and Economic Decisions in Village Economies

Salvatore DiFalco, University of Geneva; Francesco Feri, University of London; Paolo Pin, University of Siena; Xavier Vollenweider,

London School of Economics and Political Science

Agricultural Extension through Information Technologies in Schools: Do the Cobbler’s Parents Go Barefoot?

Eduardo A. Nakasone, Michigan State University; Maximo Torero, International Food Policy Research Institute

Did You Really Get the Message? Using Text Reminders to Stimulate Adoption of Agricultural Technologies

Catherine Larochelle, Virginia Tech; Jeffrey Alwang, Virginia Tech; Elli Travis, Virginia Tech

2118 Using Experimental Economics to Investigate Intra-Household Allocation

Northeastern, 3rd Floor

Selected Presentation

This session presents research regarding the measurement of regulatory participation and compliance, productive resource control

and intra-household labor allocation as well as the impact of gender differences in risk preferences on household investment

decisions. Finally, credit access as improvement of technical efﬁciency of farmers is discussed.

Moderator: Stephen N. Morgan, Michigan State University

Farmers as Policymakers: Measuring Regulatory Participation and Compliance in Michigan

Stephen N. Morgan, Michigan State University; Nicole M. Mason, Michigan State University; Robert S. Shupp, Michigan State

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University

Productive Resource Control and Intrahousehold Labor Allocation

Aissatou Ouedraogo, Michigan State University

A Study on Intra-household and Gender Differences in Risk Preferences and Their Effect on Household Investment Decisions in

Rural Cameroon

M. Jimena Gonzalez Ramirez, Iowa State University; Niccolo F. Meriggi, Wageningen University

Does Credit Access Improve Technical Efﬁciency of Farmers? Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh

Nusrat A. Jimi, The State University of New York; Subal C. Kumbhakar, The State University of New York; Plamen Nikolov, The

State University of New York

2119 Food Choice Experiments

Regis, 3rd Floor

Selected Presentation

These presentations employ experiments to examine food choices and preferences.

Moderator: Chinonso E. Etumnu, University of San Francisco

Behavioral Determinants of Biofortiﬁed Food Selection: The Case of Orange-ﬂeshed Sweet Potato in Ghana

Chinonso E. Etumnu, University of San Francisco

Product Bundling as a Behavioral Nudge: Investigating Consumer Fruit and Vegetable Selection using Dual-Self Theory

Kathryn A. Carroll, University of Wisconsin; Anya Samek, University of Southern California; Lydia Zepeda, University of Wisconsin

Understanding the Effect of Product Displays on Consumer Choice and Food Waste: A Field Experiment

Devon P. Meadowcroft, University of Delaware; John C. Bernard, University of Delaware; Ulrich C. Toensmeyer, University of

Delaware

2120 Agricultural Trade: Market and Policy Analyses

Salon D, 4th Floor

Selected Presentation

This session outlines the factors affecting agricultural trade, including agricultural and trade policies.

Moderator: Jaya Jha, Colby College

Agricultural Protection, Domestic Politics, and International Political Economy: What is the Role of the State in Explaining

Agricultural Protection?

Wanki Moon, Southern Illinois University; Gabriel Pino, Universidad de Talca; Jebaraj Asirvatham, Southern Illinois University

A COOL Repeal: Potential Outcomes of U.S. Mandatory Country of Origin Labeling Requirements on Dairy and Beef Sectors

Amanda M. (Leister) Countryman, Colorado State University; Alessandro Bonanno, Colorado State University; Joleen C. Hadrich,

Colorado State University

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2121 Impact of Food Policies on the Poor: Studies in the United States and India

Salon H, 4th Floor

Selected Presentation

How affective are food assistance programs in addressing hunger and malnutrition among the poor in both developed and

developing countries? This session examines this question for the U.S and India.

Moderator: Danhong Chen, University of Arkansas

Evaluating the Impact of Participation in the Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program on Childhood Obesity Using Synthetic Difference-

in-Difference Method

Danhong Chen, University of Arkansas; Rodolfo M. Nayga, University of Arkansas; Michael R. Thomsen, University of Arkansas;

Sangsoo Park, Korea University; Judy Bennett, Arkansas Center for Health Improvement

Food Access, Food Deserts, and the Women, Infants, and Children Program

Qi Wu, University of California, Davis; Tina L. Saitone, University of California, Davis; Richard J. Sexton, University of California,

Davis

Effectiveness of Food Subsidies in Raising Consumption of Healthy Food: The Case of Pulses in Public Distribution System in India

Suman Chakrabarti, International Food Policy Research Institute; Avinash Kishore, International Food Policy Research Institute;

Devesh Roy, International Food Policy Research Institute

Arbitrage and Corruption in Food Subsidy Programs? Evidence from India’s Targeted Public Distribution System

Suman Chakrabarti, International Food Policy Research Institute; Tajuddin Khan, International Food Policy Research Institute;

Avinash Kishore, International Food Policy Research Institute

2122 Nutrition in K-12 Education

Salon J, 4th Floor

Selected Presentation

Examining nutrition in youth is important in light of the obesity epidemic while malnutrition is still observed. This session includes

four papers that examine nutrition trends in K-12 education.

Moderator: Michael E. Ollinger, USDA-Economic Research Service

The Effect of Nutrition and Physical Education on Student Achievement: Evidence from Traverse City Area Public Schools

Gerard L. Taylor, Michigan State University; Dave D. Weatherspoon, Michigan State University; Marci Scott, Michigan Fitness

Foundation; Sarah Jones, Michigan Fitness Foundation

The Role of Calorie Content, Menu Items, and Health Beliefs on the School Lunch Perceived Health Rating

Matthew V. Pham, Landmark College; Brian E. Roe, The Ohio State University

Trends in Soda, Milk, and Juice Consumption among U.S. High School Students from 2007 to 2015

Caitlin Merlo, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Sohyun Park, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Zewditu

Demissie, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Sarah Sliwa, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Gabrielle Miller,

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Do Large School Food Authorities Pay Less for Food used in the National School Lunch Program?

Michael E. Ollinger, USDA-Economic Research Service; Joanne Guthrie, USDA-Economic Research Service; Audrey J. Peo,

University of Delaware

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2123 Demand and Price Analysis of International Trade

Salon K, 4th Floor

Selected Presentation

These papers seek to analyze empirically the demand conditions for agricultural traded commodities. Policy implications are

emphasized.

Moderator: Haiyan Wang, Texas Tech University

Potential Scenarios for China’s Future Excess Demand for Grain Sorghum

Haiyan Wang, Texas Tech University; Jaime E. Malaga, Texas Tech University

Estimating Import Demand Functions in Major Beef Importing Countries by Bayesian Hierarchical Linear Model

Byung Min Soon, University of Missouri; Wyatt Thompson, University of Missouri

Price Discovery in U.S. and World Rice Markets using Tournament Approach

Man-Keun Kim, Utah State University; Hernan A. Tejeda, Utah State University

The Effect of HPAI on ECOWAS Meat Prices Using Price Transmission Analysis

Fawzi A. Taha, USDA-Economic Research Service; Anthony Shkrelja, USDA-Economic Research Service

2124 Analyses of Risk, Adaptation, and Habit Formation in Developing Countries

St. Botolph, 2nd Floor

Selected Presentation

Presentations in this session focus on risk management in speciﬁc situations that are particularly relevant for developing countries.

Moderator: Shaikh M. Eskander, London School of Economics

Agricultural Adaptation to Disaster through Land Rental Market: Evidence from Bangladesh

Shaikh M. Eskander, London School of Economics; Edward B. Barbier, University of Wyoming

Income Risk, Habit Formation, and Precautionary Savings: The Case of Rural Households

Aditya R. Khanal, Tennessee State University; Ashok K. Mishra, Arizona State University

Replanting Guarantee in Developing Countries

Yiting Li, The Ohio State University; Mario J. Miranda, The Ohio State University

2125 Marketing Strategies of Smallholder Farmers

Tufts, 3rd Floor

Selected Presentation

This set of presentations explore various marketing strategies employed by smallholder farmers around the world.

Moderator: Dennis O. Ochieng, Goettingen University

Farmers’ Preferences for Supermarket Contracts in Kenya

Dennis O. Ochieng, Goettingen University; Prakashan Chellattan Veettil, International Rice Research Institute; Matin Qaim,

Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

Implications of Seasonal Price and Productivity Changes at the Household Level in Uganda – A Heterogeneous Agent Approach

Mark Musumba, Earth Institute at Columbia University; Yuquan W. Zhang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

The Changing Structure of Retail Food Stores, Direct Marketing Sales and its Impact on Farmer’s Financial Performance

Krishna P. Paudel, Louisiana State University; Seydina O. Sene Sr., Louisiana State University; Timothy A. Park, USDA-Economic

Research Service

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2126 Climate Variability and Impacts on World Agricultural Production

Vermont, 5th Floor

Selected Presentation

This sessions consists of four papers analyzing the impact of climate variability on agricultural production.

Moderator: Pierre Mérel, University of California, Davis

Modeling Temperature and Precipitation Inﬂuences on Yield Distributions of Canola and Spring Wheat in Saskatchewan

Richard Carew, Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada; Ting Meng, University of Pennsylvania; Wojciech J. Florkowski, University of

Georgia; Anna M. Klepacka, Warsaw University of Life Sciences

Adapting Agronomic Metrics to Climate-Yield Models in Northern Latitudes: The Importance of Cold Temperature Stress

Alan P. Ker, University of Guelph; Tor N. Tolhurst, University of California, Davis

The Impact of Climate Change on Cereal Yields: Statistical Evidence from France

Matthew Gammans, University of California, Davis; Pierre Mérel, University of California, Davis; Ariel Ortiz-Bobea, Cornell

University

2127 Agriculture and GHG Emissions

Wellesley, 3rd Floor

Selected Presentation

Papers in this session address different dimensions of the interface between agriculture and GHG emissions.

Moderator: WanYu Liu, Aletheia University

Optimal Pricing of Carbon Trading Market Based on a Demand-Supply Model

WanYu Liu, National Chung Hsing University

Quantifying Spatial Differences in Methane Emissions from Rice Production

Francis Tsiboe, University of Arkansas; Aaron M. Shew, University of Arkansas; Lawton L. Nalley, University of Arkansas; Bruce

L. Dixon, University of Arkansas; Jesse B. Tack, Mississippi State University; Andrew P. Barkley, Kansas State University; Kris Brye,

University of Arkansas

Renewable Natural Gas as a Solution to Climate Goals: Supply Estimates and Response to California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard

Daniel P. Scheitrum, University of California, Davis; Nathan C. Parker, Arizona State University

Abatement Costs of Emissions from Crop Residue Burning in Major Crop Producing Regions of China: Balancing Food Security

with the Environment

Lingling Hou, Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Dana L. Hoag, Colorado State University;

Jikun Huang, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Catherine M. Keske, Colorado State University

2128 Ecosystems/Conservation

Boston University, 3rd Floor

Selected Presentation

Papers in this session evaluate conservation practices and ecosystem management.

Moderator: Seong Do Yun, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies

The Wealth of Ecosystems: Valuing Natural Capital in the Context of Ecosystem Based Management

Seong Do Yun, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies; Barbara Hutniczak, National Oceanic and Atmospheric

Administration (NOAA); Eli P. Fenichel, Yale University; Joshua K. Abbott, Arizona State University

What Matters for Farmers’ Willingness to Accept Compensation for Restoring Wetland: Environmental Beneﬁts or Economic

Concerns

Xuan Wei, University of Florida; Honggen Zhu, Jiangxi Agricultural Univerisity

Effects of Protected Area Size on Conservation Return on Investment

Kristen Thiel, University of Tennessee; Seong-Hoon Cho, University of Tennessee

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2129 Are Poor Soils a Blessing or a Curse? Estimating the Relationships among Soil Quality, Agricultural Productivity,

and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa

Berkeley, 3rd Floor

Track Session – International and Africa Sections

The United Nation’s declaration of 2015 as the International Year of Soils and the Montpellier Panel report, “No Ordinary Matter:

Conserving, Restoring, and Enhancing Africa’s Soils”, pushed issues of soil quality and agricultural productivity to near the top

of the development agenda in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). While this has stimulated considerable research, dialogue, and some

renewed donor support for efforts to address soil and land degradation challenges, the relationships among soil quality, agricultural

productivity, and rural poverty remain poorly understood. Moreover, there is an emerging debate in the literature over whether good

soils are a blessing (the conventional wisdom) or a curse (Wantchekon and Stanig, 2015). This track session will bring new empirical

evidence from Kenya, Malawi, and Zambia to bear on these issues and debates.

Organizers: Nicole M. Mason, Michigan State University; Milu Muyanga, Michigan State University; Jacob Ricker-Gilbert, Purdue

University

Moderator: Thomas S. Jayne, Michigan State University

Discussant: Mark W. Rosegrant, International Food Policy Research Institute

Pinned to the Ground: Examining Soil Degradation Poverty Traps in Rural Kenya

Milu Muyanga, Michigan State University; Thomas S. Jayne, Michigan State University

Micro-Level Welfare Impacts of Agricultural Productivity: Evidence from Rural Malawi

Francis A. Darko, Purdue University; Amparo Palacios-Lopez, World Bank; Talip Kilic, World Bank; Jacob Ricker-Gilbert, Purdue

University

Female Access to Fertile Land in Zambia

William J. Burke, Stanford University

2130 Behavioral Economics and School Food Policy: Nudging Towards Better Choices

Clarendon, 3rd Floor

Track Session – FSN and IBES Sections

Behavioral Economics applications to improving health, choice, and the bottom lines of school cafeterias have expanded since the

Smarter Lunchroom Initiative of 2009 which continues to strive to provide schools with research-based solutions to encourage

healthier eating in the lunchroom while maintaining participation and revenue. This session includes three papers with “nudges”

and lunchroom architecture inﬂuences that aim to increasing school lunch participation and increasing consumption of fruits and

vegetables.

Organizer: Jane M. Kolodinsky, University of Vermont

Moderator: David R. Just, Cornell University

Discussant: David R. Just, Cornell University

Sampling Tomorrow’s Lunch Today: A Partial Solution to the School Lunch Trilemma?

Jane M. Kolodinsky, University of Vermont; Elizabeth Pope, University of Vermont; Erin Roche, University of Vermont

The Effect of Elementary Student Involvement in the Design of Healthy Food Promotional Materials on Vegetable Consumption

Christopher R. Gustafson, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Lunchroom Table Talkers Talk School Students into Eating Fruits and Vegetables

Janani Rajbhandari Thapa, University of Georgia; Michelle VanDellan, University of Georgia

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2131 Strengthening Impact Assessment in the CGIAR: Lessons Learned

Dartmouth, 3rd Floor

Track Session – International and Senior Sections

The session consist of four presentations providing an overview of challenges faced by CG centers in conducting credible impact

assessments, steps to improve impact assessment in a comodity (CIP), and natural resource (CIFOR) center, and a summary of

recommendations. The ﬁrst presents an overview of challenges to credible impact assessment faced and a discussion of means

of overcoming them. The second presentation approaches the challenge from a Center perspective. It synthesizes lessons about

challenges and means of improving impact assessment. The third discusses experiences in a addressing a huge challenge in assessing

impacts for commodity-focused research: measuring adoption. An ongoing project is extending methods for estimating adoption

of improved varieties across South and Southeast Asia. The fourth presentation summarizes CIAT’s recent experience in impact

assessment. This center was not involved in the strengthening effort and an overview of its challenges provides context for other

centers.

Organizer: Jeffrey Alwang, Virginia Tech

Discussant: Bradford F. Mills, Virginia Tech

Challenges to impact assessment in the CG: Building credibility within the context of a complex research program

Jeffrey Alwang, Virginia Tech

Impact Assessment at CIP & CIFOR: Challenges of Attribution and Impact Assessment Prioritization in Different Research Centers

Guy G. Hareau, International Potato Center; Daniel Suryadarma, Center for International Forestry Research

Tracking Varietal Adoption through Expert Elicitation Methodology: Recent Experiences from More Than 130 Crop-Country-

Combinations (CCCs) in South and Southeast Asia

Mywish K. Maredia, Michigan State University

New Methods and Tools in the Documentation of Development Outcomes and Impacts of Tropical Agriculture: The CIAT

Experience

Ricardo A. Labarta, International Center for Tropical Agriculture

2132 The Use of Academic Performance Metrics when Evaluating Faculty, Programs, and Departments

Exeter, 3rd Floor

Track Session – NAAEA Section

Metrics are useful in making absolute and relative decisions. Universities now use electron faculty reporting systems to capture and

store annual evaluations. Digital Measures and MyVita are third-party programs for gathering information. External third-party

entities—e.g., Google Scholar or ResearchGate—track journal impact factors and citations rates for faculty and journals. This

comprehensive look at productivity is used to evaluate discipline speciﬁc departments across multiple universities, across departments

within an institution, and individual faculty members as targeted hires. The objective of this panel discussion is three-fold. First,

begin a dialogue for effective use of metrics in decision making for evaluation of faculty member performance and recruitment of

faculty members. Second, touch on strategies for communicating these metrics during department program reviews. Third, explore

what steps the AAEA might take to offer support to third-party vendors in developing metrics.

Organizer: Joe L. Parcell, University of Missouri

Moderator: Joe L. Parcell, University of Missouri

Discussant: Jill L. Findeis, University of Missouri

Panelists: Steve A. Halbrook, University of Arkansas; Jill J. McCluskey, Washington State University; Steven C. Turner, Mississippi

State University

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2133 Attention and Choice: Use of Eye-Tracking in Choice Behavior Research

Fairﬁeld, 3rd Floor

Track Session – Experimental Economics and IBES Sections

Attention is an important step in the consumer decision making process, being a prerequisite for information processing. With eye-

tracking technology, respondents’ gaze can be recorded to monitor their visual attention when making food choices. Recent research

has underlined the importance of visual processing in consumer decision-making. Visual attention is inﬂuenced by bottom-up (or

stimulus-driven) and top-down (goal-directed) factors. This session focuses on visual attention during food choice and its inﬂuencing

factors. Speciﬁcally, three issues related to eye-tracking and food choice are covered: (1) the role of attention in predicting choice in

choice experiments, (2) the effect of the visual stimulus characteristics and the positioning on the likelihood of ﬁxation, and (3) the

effect of the hypothetical or non-hypothetical nature of the choice experiment on visual attention in terms of ﬁxation count and

ﬁxation time.

Organizer: Ellen J. Van Loo, Ghent University

Moderator: Carola Grebitus, Arizona State University

Discussant: Benjamin L. Campbell, University of Georgia

The Role of Attention in Predicting Choice

Jutta Roosen, Technical University of Munich; Carola Grebitus, Arizona State University

Effects of Visual Stimulus Characteristics on Attention to Front-of-Pack Food Product Information

Klaus G. Grunert, Aarhus University; Jacob L. Orquin, Aarhus University; Erik Lahm, Aarhus University; Linda Redere, Aarhus

University; Martin P. Bagger, Aarhus University; George Tsalis, Aarhus University

Does Visual Attention Differ in Hypothetical and Non-hypothetical Choice Experiments?

Ellen J. Van Loo, Ghent University, Belgium; Rodolfo M. Nayga, University of Arkansas; Terhi Latvala, Natural Resources Institute

Finland; Wim A.J. Verbeke, University of Ghent

2134 Financing Innovation for Agriculture and Food: What Next? Part 2: Practitioner Perspectives

Hyannis, 4th Floor

Track Session – Australasia Section

This is the second of two linked sessions on the same topic, with a mixture of speakers from government, universities, and industry.

Each session will have a set of short presentations followed by a general discussion.

Organizer: Julian M. Alston, University of California, Davis

Moderator: Julian M. Alston, University of California, Davis

Lessons from the Workshop in Ravello

Davide Gaeta, University of Verona

Government Agency Perspectives

Robbin Shoemaker, National Institute of Food and Agriculture

Technology Provider Perspectives

Eric Sachs, Monsanto Corporation

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2135 Economics of Animal Health

New Hampshire, 5th Floor

Track Session – AEM Section

Examines industry relevant topics in animal health including the economic impact of zoonotic diseases (avian inﬂuenza), the role

of biosecurity in reducing the threat and impact of animal disease, and the impact of antibiotic-free production on animal health

(chickens).

Organizer: Matthew J. Salois, Elanco Animal Health

Discussant: Michael Dicks, American Veterinary Medical Association

The Impact of Antibiotic-free Production on Broiler Health and Welfare

Matthew J. Salois, Elanco Animal Health

Economics of Zoonotic Diseases

Thomas L. Marsh, Washington State University

Why Do Producers Partially Implement Biosecurity Recommendations of Experts?

Glynn T. Tonsor, Kansas State University

2136 Are Online Food Sales Ready to Go Mainstream? Developments in Ecommerce

Provincetown, 4th Floor

Track Session – AEM Section

For more than 30 years entrepreneur producers are experimenting with electronic marketing opportunities. However, for a number

of reasons, the majority of the early endeavors were not successful. Nevertheless, over the last few years, producers and retailers are

re-embracing electronic food sales as a marketing strategy. Some examples of these marketing endeavors include: Online Food Hubs,

electronic food trade websites (i.e. MarketMaker), direct sales through farm websites, Amazon Fresh etc. Despite their increasing

popularity, both among producers and consumers, the research regarding electronic food marketing is rather limited. The purpose of

this session is to discuss and examine: i) the development of electronic marketing, ii) future opportunities both for the industry and

in terms of research needs, and iii) the potential problems in the development of this marketing outlet.

Organizers: Kar Ho Lim, Tennessee State University; Michael Vassalos, Clemson University

Moderator: Michael Vassalos, Clemson University

Current Status and Perspectives of E-commerce in the Food Marketing System

Carlos E. Carpio, Texas Tech University; Kelly Lange, Texas Tech University

The Power of Customer Review in Online Grocery Shopping Revealed by Amazon Big Data

Xuqi Chen, University of Florida; Zhifeng Gao, University of Florida

Consumer Preference for Grocery Shopping Mode: Comparing Online, Farmers Market and Supermarket

Kar Ho Lim, Tennessee State University; Michael Vassalos, Clemson University; Joe L. Parcell, University of Missouri; Chao Chen,

Nanjing Agricultural University; Harvey S. James, Jr., University of Missouri; Danning Xu, Nanjing Agricultural University

Characteristics of Facebook Marketing Messages Used by Agribusinesses in the United States: Some Qualitative and Quantitative

Results

James N. Barnes III, Mississippi State University; Kalyn T. Coatney, Mississippi State University

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2137 Competitive Factors of Latin American Countries in the U.S. Fruit and Vegetable Markets

Salon I, 4th Floor

Track Session – LAS and Senior Sections

Global fruit and vegetable (F&V) consumption and production have been increasing steadily over several decades. Latin American

countries have considerably expanded their exports to the U.S. F&V markets with different market penetration rates. Latin

American exports of F&V have generated new production systems, expanded rural employment and helped reduce poverty.

Notwithstanding, foodborne illness outbreaks in the U.S. have been linked to domestic and imported produce and food safety

standards are getting stricter. The new Food Safety and Modernization Act (FSMA) requires both the U.S. and imported produce to

comply with new food safety standards. The session analyzes U.S. market penetration rates, source of origin as an intrinsic quality

attribute for U.S. consumers, F&V trends and seasonality, major south land port of entries, and the compliance challenges of the

new FSMA rules and its impact on future competitiveness of produce imports.

Organizers: Jose A. Lopez, Texas A&M University; Jaime E. Malaga, Texas Tech University

Moderator: Marco A. Palma, Texas A&M University

Latin American Competition for the U.S. Fruit and Vegetable Markets: Trends, Cases and Lessons Learned

Jaime E. Malaga, Texas Tech University

A Case Study of U.S. Fruits and Vegetables Trade among NAFTA Countries

Jose A. Lopez, Texas A&M University - Commerce

Flow Trends and Infrastructure Needs for Land Imports of Fruits and Vegetables

Luis A. Ribera, Texas A&M University; Flynn J. Adcock, Texas A&M University

The Impact of Food Safety on Competitiveness of Latin American Produce Imports

Linda S. Calvin, USDA-Economic Research Service; Belem D. Avendano, Universidad Autonoma De Baja California

Concurrent Sessions — Tuesday, 4:30 - 6:00 PM

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Africa Section .....................................................................142

Ag Finance and Farm Management ....................................142

Agribusiness Economics and Management .........................143

Agribusiness Economics and Management (AEM) .............143

Agricultural Finance and Management (AFM) ...................143

Applied Risk Analysis (ARA) ..............................................143

Association of Environmental and Resource Economists

(AERE) ..............................................................................143

Australasia (AUS) ...............................................................143

Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society

(AARES) ............................................................................143

Behavioral & Institutional Economics ................................143

Brewing and Enology Economic Research (BEER) ............. 143

China Section .....................................................................143

Committee on the Opportunities and Status of Blacks in

Agricultural Economics (COSBAE) ...................................144

Committee on Women in Agricultural Economics (CWAE) 144

Community and Regional Economics Network (CRENET) 144

Demand and Price Analysis ................................................144

Econometrics Section .........................................................144

Environmental and Nonmarket Valuation .......................... 144

European Association of Agricultural Economists (EAAE) .144

Experimental Economics ....................................................144

Experimental Economics (EXECON) ................................145

Extension Section (EXT) .................................................... 145

Food and Agricultural Marketing .......................................145

Food and Agricultural Marketing Policy Section (FAMPS) . 145

Food and Agricultural Policy Analysis.................................145

Food Safety and Nutrition .................................................. 146

Food Safety and Nutrition Section (FSN) ..........................146

Graduate Student Section (GSS) ........................................146

Household and Labor Economics ....................................... 146

Industrial Org. / Supply Chain Management .....................146

Institutional and Behavioral Economics Section (IBES) .....146

International Association of Agricultural Economists

(IAAE) ...............................................................................146

International Development ................................................147

International Section ..........................................................147

International Trade .............................................................147

Land, Water and Environmental Economics (ENV)147

Latin American Section (LAS) ............................................ 147

National Association of Agricultural Economics Administrators

(NAAEA) ...........................................................................147

Natural Resource Economics ..............................................148

Production Economics .......................................................148

Productivity Analysis and Emerging Technologies ..............148

Research Methods/Econometrics/Stats ...............................148

Resource and Environmental Policy Analysis ...................... 148

Risk and Uncertainty..........................................................149

Rural/Community Development ........................................ 149

Senior Section ....................................................................149

Teaching, Communication, and Extension ......................... 149

Teaching, Learning, and Communications Section (TLC)..149

Undergraduate Student Section (SS-AAEA) .......................149

Africa Section

1055 Agri-Food System and Structural Transformation in

Africa

1093 Frontiers of Agricultural Transformation: What Has

Changed?

2129 Are Poor Soils a Blessing or a Curse? Estimating

the Relationships among Soil Quality, Agricultural

Productivity, and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa

Ag Finance and Farm Management

2004 Crop Insurance and Credit Access

2043 Price Analysis and Future Markets

2081 Economic Assessment of Non-Traditional Agricultural

Production

2115 Effect of Exogenous and Endogenous Factors on Farm

Proﬁtability and Wealth

Posters 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 80, 81, 103, 104, 105, 108,

127

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Agribusiness Economics and Management

1009 Agricultural Cooperatives

1036 Agribusiness Marketing

1039 International Agribusiness

1071 Behavioral Economics in Agribusiness

2008 Spatial and Land Issues in Agribusiness

2080 Agribusiness Management

2114 Wine and Coffee Economics

Posters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 18, 41, 42, 46, 47, 48, 50, 51, 60,

62, 64, 66, 76, 78, 80, 128, 129

Agribusiness Economics and Management (AEM)

1092 Agribusiness Research Methods

1123 Regulatory Costs in California Agriculture

2032 Soybean Expansion in the Tropics

2103 U.S. Agribusiness Exporters to China: Challenges and

Success Stories

2135 Economics of Animal Health

2136 Are Online Food Sales Ready to Go Mainstream?

Developments in Ecommerce

Agricultural Finance and Management (AFM)

1023 Monetary Policy and Implications for Agriculture

1026 Behavioral Economic Insights in Agricultural Finance

and Farm Asset Markets

2064 Applications of Financial Engineering in Agriculture

Applied Risk Analysis (ARA)

1058 New Frontiers in Applied Risk Analysis

1090 Implications of Recent Empirical Evidence for the

Risk-Balancing Hypothesis

1125 Crop Insurance: Opportunities and Challenges Facing

the Industry

2064 Applications of Financial Engineering in Agriculture

Association of Environmental and Resource

Economists (AERE)

1033 Policy Instruments, Conservation and Efﬁciency in

Water and Energy

2003 Risk, Resilience and Adaptation to Climate Change

Australasia (AUS)

2105 Financing Innovation for Agriculture and Food: What

Next? Part 1: Evolving Funding Models

2134 Financing Innovation for Agriculture and Food: What

Next? Part 2: Practitioner Perspectives

Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics

Society (AARES)

1065 Consumers’ Trade-offs When Different Values

Conﬂict: Insights and Examples with Animal Welfare

and Environmental Sustainability as Choice Criteria

Behavioral & Institutional Economics

1004 Food Consumption, Preferences, and Willingness to

Pay

1040 Environmental and Farm Management Incorporating

Behavioral Insights

1096 Agricultural Economics as a Behavioral Discipline

1114 Behavioral Insights on Brand and Food Purchase

Decisions

2010 Information and Consumer Decision

2079 Peer and Social Network Inﬂuences on Consumer

Purchase Decisions

Posters 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 24, 39, 40, 48, 67, 70, 73,

74, 112, 123, 132

Brewing and Enology Economic Research

(BEER)

1089 Regulation in the Brewing Industry: A Panel

Discussion of Brewing Experts

China Section

1122 Consumer Preference for Food and Food Technology

in China: Willingness to Pay and Willingness to

Accept for Food Attributes Related to Perceived Risks,

Credence Quality, Animal Welfare and Eco-Friendly

1124 Issues about Agricultural Productions, Natural

Resources and Human Capital Resources in China

2068 Transformations in Food Systems: Opportunities and

Challenges for Alternative Food Systems

2071 Emerging Issues in Rural China: Health Insurance,

Children Education, Children Nutrition, and Decision

Behavior

2103 U.S. Agribusiness Exporters to China: Challenges and

Success Stories

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Committee on the Opportunities and Status of

Blacks in Agricultural Economics (COSBAE)

1063 Evaluating Trade Performance in Agriculture

1117 The Role of Regulation in the Agricultural Sector: The

Case of Plant and Animal Diseases

1126 Food and Nutrition Issues in Sub-Saharan Africa

Committee on Women in Agricultural Economics

(CWAE)

1031 How to Get What You Need to Thrive: Achieving

Extraordinary Productivity AND Work-Life Balance

Community and Regional Economics Network

(CRENET)

1060 How Regional Economics Has Changed and What We

Learned

2033 Towards Understanding Small Farm Proﬁtability:

Impacts of Market Channel Selection

2068 Transformations in Food Systems: Opportunities and

Challenges for Alternative Food Systems

2101 Measuring Wealth for Developing and Evaluating

Rural Development Policy and Strategy 2.0

Demand and Price Analysis

1011 Market Reactions to USDA Reports: Issues and

Potential Solutions

1041 Storage and Inventory Decisions in Agricultural

Markets

1044 Attributes Inﬂuencing Beverage Consumption

1067 Price Dynamics in Agricultural and Related Markets

1072 New Methods on Food Demand Estimation

1073 Competitiveness in Agricultural and Transportation

Markets

1104 Demand Model Speciﬁcation

2011 Impact of Energy Shocks on Agricultural and Related

Markets

2026 Food Security and Consumption

2045 Market Events in Agricultural and Food Markets

2048 Vertical Price Transmission in Agricultural Markets

2082 Consumer Valuation, Demand and Preferences

2083 Spatial Price Relationships in the United States and

World Markets

2116 New Evidence on Milk and Dairy Demand

Posters 3, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 42, 43,

44, 46, 49, 51, 55, 63, 68, 75, 90, 101, 111, 114, 129

Econometrics Section

1027 Mixture Models in Agricultural and Applied

Economics

1090 Implications of Recent Empirical Evidence for the

Risk-balancing Hypothesis

1092 Agribusiness Research Methods

2028 An Introduction to Econometric Modeling using Stan

2030 Food Safety Research and Big Data

2067 Statistical Approaches for Addressing Data-driven

Concerns Regarding the Rating of Crop Insurance

2102 Statistical Techniques used to Identify Climate Change

Implications and Potential Adaptations

Environmental and Nonmarket Valuation

1012 Health Outcomes

1042 Methods in Valuing the Environment through Survey

Design

1099 Response to Concerns about Climate

1102 Land Management and the Environment

2003 Risk, Resilience and Adaptation to Climate Change

2012 Applied Environment and Natural Resource Valuation

2024 Methods in Valuing the Environment and Natural

Resources

2044 Social Responsibility and Resource Extraction/Use

2058 Applied Environment and Natural Resource Valuation:

Water

2100 Alternative Methods in Valuing the Environment

2128 Ecosystems/Conservation

Posters 6, 15, 16, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 75, 116, 121,

134

European Association of Agricultural Economists

(EAAE)

2133 Attention and Choice: Use of Eye-tracking in Choice

Behavior Research

Experimental Economics

1010 The Role of Experiments in Explaining Innovation and

the Demand for/use of New Technologies

2009 Choice Experiments and the Inﬂuence of Beliefs and

Sensory Evaluation on Preferences

2047 Methodological Advancements in Experimental

Economics

2118 Using Experimental Economics to Investigate Intra-

household Allocation

Posters 30, 37, 38, 39, 40, 61, 68, 88, 112, 123, 124

146

Topical Index

Experimental Economics (EXECON)

1025 Using Behavioral Economic Experiments to Inform

Government Risk Management Programs

1056 Using Experimental Economics to Offer Insight into

Ethical and Environmental Issues

2133 Attention and Choice: Use of Eye-tracking in Choice

Behavior Research

Extension Section (EXT)

1028 Graduate Student Extension Competition Winners

1029 Washington Policy Update

1054 Not Your Grandparents’ Farm Bill (or Does the U.S.

Farm Bill Still Matter?)

1057 Building Management Capacity for American Indian

Agricultural Businesses

1094 Extension Educational Efforts and the 2014 Farm Bill

2035 Extension Section Crops Outlook

2070 Extension Section Livestock Outlook

Food and Agricultural Marketing

1013 Hedging, Futures and Agricultural Product Reports

1035 Food and Agricultural Marketing

1043 How Different Types of Credence Attributes Affect

Consumer Preferences

1065 Consumers’ Trade-offs When Different Values

Conﬂict: Insights and Examples with Animal Welfare

and Environmental Sustainability as Choice Criteria

1066 Online Survey Data Quality and its Implication:

Academia and Industry Perspective

1074 Product Information and Food Choices

1105 The Demand for Eco-labeled and Local Products

2015 The Impacts of Advertising on Food Consumption

2062 Food Demand Studies in Asia

2108 Understanding Global Consumers’ Motivations for

Adopting a Vegetarian/Vegan Diet: A Comparison of

Methods, Results and Policy

2119 Food Choice Experiments

2125 Marketing Strategies of Smallholder Farmers

Posters 4, 15, 21, 22, 27, 30, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48,

49, 50, 51, 52, 57, 65, 76, 78, 85, 113

Food and Agricultural Marketing Policy Section

(FAMPS)

1088 What’s in a Label? The Research, Politics and Policy of

Genetically Modiﬁed Product’s Labeling in the U.S.

1119 Scanner Data and Nutrition Links: Early Findings and

Future Research Directions

2066 Marketing Sustainability: Consumer Interest in

Sustainability and Health Attributes on Food and

Beverage Products

2106 Does Food Safety Regulation Pay?

2107 Are Checkoff Programs Good for Nutrition?

Food and Agricultural Policy Analysis

1001 The Economics of Taxes and Marketing Restrictions

to Reduce Consumption of Speciﬁc Foods and

Ingredients

1006 Implications of Biofuel Production

1019 Factors Affecting Food Consumption in the United

States

1032 Economic Drivers and Consequences of Large Food

Retailers’ Location

1045 Topics on Crop Insurance

1050 The Livestock Sector: Topics on Health and

Productivity

1075 Food-related Consumer Behavior

1078 Agricultural Policy and Growth Issues

1098 Food and Agricultural Policy Analysis

1103 Food Policies and Healthy Food Choices

1106 The Effect of Climate Uncertainties on Agriculture

2016 Plant Breeding: Market Analysis and Policy

2025 Modeling Methods in Agriculture

2037 Regulatory Technology Policies: A Real Option View

2041 Food Security in Developing Countries

2049 The Role of Agricultural Policies in Less Developed

Countries

2061 The Efﬁcacy of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance

Program (SNAP)

2073 Frontiers of Data Science in Agricultural,

Environmental, Natural Resource, and Applied

Economics

2086 Exploring the U.S. Farm Bill

2097 Agricultural Production in Less Developed Countries

2120 Agricultural Trade: Market and Policy Analyses

2121 Impact of Food Policies on the Poor: Studies in the

United States and India

Posters 1, 9, 10, 12, 14, 17, 19, 20, 21, 25, 26, 27, 28, 37, 41,

43, 44, 50, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62,

63, 64, 67, 69, 74, 77, 79, 81, 84, 86,

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Food Safety and Nutrition

1003 The Food Safety Modernization Act and the Produce

Industry

1018 Health and Nutrition Around the World

1076 Food Safety and Foodborne Illness

1107 Factors Impacting Healthy Food Choice

2014 Economic Analyses of Obesity

2040 Food Safety and Nutrition

2072 Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)

2084 On the Economics of Diets

2122 Nutrition in K-12 Education

Posters 7, 14, 19, 37, 49, 52, 57, 61, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 84,

85, 99, 135

Food Safety and Nutrition Section (FSN)

1059 How Do You Choose Your Food? Insights from

Behavioral Economics

1085 Life on the Tenure-Track: Keys to Strategic Choices

Early in your Career

1088 What’s in a Label? The Research, Politics and Policy of

Genetically Modiﬁed Product’s Labeling in the U.S.

1119 Scanner Data and Nutrition Links: Early Findings and

Future Research Directions

2034 Where are They Now? Research Updates from

Graduates of the Behavioral Economics Workshop

2066 Marketing Sustainability: Consumer Interest in

Sustainability and Health Attributes on Food and

Beverage Products

2106 Does Food Safety Regulation Pay?

2130 Behavioral Economics and School Food Policy:

Nudging Towards Better Choices

Graduate Student Section (GSS)

1028 Graduate Student Extension Competition Winners

1085 Life on the Tenure-Track: Keys to Strategic Choices

Early in your Career

1121 What’s Next? Tips on Securing a Job with an

Agricultural or Applied Economics Degree

2034 Where are They Now? Research Updates from

Graduates of the Behavioral Economics Workshop

2036 Teaching Tips from AAEA Winners

Household and Labor Economics

1014 The Role of Transfer Programs on Household Well-

being

2039 Impacts and Determinants of Agricultural Labor

Supply

2050 Farm Households and Technology Adoption

2087 The Impacts of Migration on Labor Markets

Posters 12, 40, 59, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 86, 89, 98, 115

Industrial Org. / Supply Chain Management

1077 Competition and Pricing in Food Retailing

1108 The U.S. Biofuel Policy and the Challenges of Biomass

Feedstock Supply

2018 Retail Price Dispersion and Downstream Competition

2051 Upstream Market Structure and Competition

2088 Emerging Issues in Agri-food Economics: Lessons from

Applied Models

Posters 4, 18, 45, 47, 66, 75, 76, 77, 78, 113

Institutional and Behavioral Economics Section

(IBES)

1025 Using Behavioral Economic Experiments to Inform

Government Risk Management Programs

1026 Behavioral Economic Insights in Agricultural Finance

and Farm Asset Markets

1059 How Do You Choose Your Food? Insights from

Behavioral Economics

1120 Under the Inﬂuence of Others: Jealousy, Risk-Sharing,

and Learning

2130 Behavioral Economics and School Food Policy:

Nudging Towards Better Choices

2133 Attention and Choice: Use of Eye-tracking in Choice

Behavior Research

International Association of Agricultural

Economists (IAAE)

1034 Some Fundamental Determinants of Agricultural

Growth

148

Topical Index

International Development

1016 Issues in African Food Production and Consumption

1034 Some Fundamental Determinants of Agricultural

Growth

1046 Risk and Insurance in the Developing World

1047 Labor Supply and Outcomes in Developing Countries

1069 Gender and Decision-making

1079 Nutrition Issues in the Developing World

1100 Rural Economic Erowth and Human Capital

Accumulation

1110 Migration Causes and Consequences

2002 Methodological Innovations for Advancing Research

on Nutrition and Agriculture

2013 Child Health and Development

2020 Land Rights and Development

2046 Issues in Developing Country Food Demand

2053 Conﬂict and Economic

2089 Remittances, Moral Hazard, and Storage Decisions in

Developing Countries

2090 Public Goods, Market Failures, and Public Work

2109 Agricultural Practices and Technologies

2112 Agricultural Productivity in Developing Countries

2117 Diffusion of Technologies

Posters 31, 38, 56, 59, 65, 71, 72, 77, 79, 80, 81, 82, 84, 85,

86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 96, 97, 104, 107, 109, 124,

131, 133, 135

International Section

1087 The Russian Food Import Ban and the Eurasian

Economic Union: Analysis of Trade Impacts

1093 Frontiers of Agricultural Transformation: What Has

Changed?

1118 Malthus vs. Ricardo Redux: How Much Food and

Farmland in 2050?

1120 Under the Inﬂuence of Others: Jealousy, Risk-Sharing,

and Learning

1126 Food and Nutrition Issues in Sub-Saharan Africa

2029 U.S.-Cuba Agricultural Trade: Past, Present and Future

2065 Gender and Generation: Intra-household Perspectives

on Technology Adoption in the West Africa Sahel

2129 Are Poor Soils a Blessing or a Curse? Estimating

the Relationships among Soil quality, Agricultural

Productivity, and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa

2131 Strengthening Impact Assessment in the CGIAR:

Lessons Learned

International Trade

1017 Impacts of Trade Agreements on International

Agricultural Markets

1048 Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures in Agricultural

Trade

1111 Direct Investment and Agricultural Trade

2021 Free Trade Agreements and Agricultural Trade:

Commodities and Geography

2038 Evolving U.S. Policy toward Cuba: Implications for

U.S. and Cuban Agriculture and Natural Resources

2054 The Impact of Tariffs and Non-Tariff Barriers to Trade

2110 International Trade

2123 Demand and Price Analysis of International Trade

Posters 45, 55, 91, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 133

Land, Water, and Environmental Economics

(ENV)

1030 Effectiveness of the Clean Power Plan in the United

States

1061 Environmental Effects of Shale Gas Fracking

1091 Climate Risk and Uncertainty

2031 Market and Public Policy Response to Pollinator Losses

Latin American Section (LAS)

1024 Study Abroad in Agricultural Economics &

Agribusiness Programs

1063 Evaluating Trade Performance in Agriculture

1084 Development Issues in Latin America: Food Security,

Health and Female Labor Force, Property Rights, and

Agricultural R&D

2029 U.S.-Cuba Agricultural Trade: Past, Present, and

Future

2032 Soybean Expansion in the Tropics

2104 Agricultural Productivity, Nutrition and Food Security

in Latin America

2137 Competitive Factors of Latin American Countries in

the U.S. Fruit and Vegetable Markets

National Association of Agricultural Economics

Administrators (NAAEA)

2132 The Use of Academic Performance Metrics when

Evaluating Faculty, Programs, and Departments

2016 AAEA Annual Meeting Program

149

Topical Index

Natural Resource Economics

1005 Integrated Modeling Applications

1015 The Economics of Soil Conservation

1037 Common Pool Resources

1049 Economics of Biofuels

1081 Effect of Weather on Resource Use and Management

1082 Climate Change and Agriculture

2017 Carbon Sequestration and Emissions in Forests

2023 Land Use, Climate Change, and Agriculture

2059 Economics of Water Use in Agriculture

2078 Natural Resources Use and Development

2095 Energy Markets

2127 Agriculture and GHG Emissions

Posters 2, 23, 25, 28, 32, 34, 35, 36, 79, 95, 116, 117, 118,

119, 120, 121, 122, 125, 126, 130

Production Economics

1020 Theoretical and Empirical Aspects in Production

Economics

1051 Climate Variability and Drought Impacts on U.S.

Agricultural Production

1083 Empirical Production Economics

1116 Precision Agriculture

2005 Agricultural Production Economics

2060 Agricultural Water Use Efﬁciency

2096 Land Use Allocation, Farm Growth, and Production

Contracts

2126 Climate Variability and Impacts on World Agricultural

Production

Posters 7, 23, 33, 53, 64, 87, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 107,

108, 110

Productivity Analysis and Emerging Technologies

2027 Big Data and Precision Agriculture

2063 Agricultural R&D and Science Policy

2076 Technology Assessment and Adoption

2099 Agricultural Productivity Dynamics

Posters 1, 33, 53, 62, 87, 98, 101, 103, 106, 107, 108, 109,

110, 136

Research Methods/Econometrics/Stats

1052 Modeling Space and Time in Agricultural Economics

1115 Spanning the Field: Investment, Insurance, Production

Decisions, and Returns to Applied Research

2052 Getting Over Hurdles with Limited Dependent

Variables

2074 Everything You Always Wanted to Know About

Identiﬁcation (But Were Afraid to Ask)

2098 Overcoming Problems with Missing Data and Omitted

Variables

Posters 2, 20, 22, 54, 69, 73, 82, 93, 94, 100, 102, 106, 110,

111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 117, 120, 126

Resource and Environmental Policy Analysis

1007 Wildlife Management

1021 Agricultural Production and Environmental Policy

1033 Policy Instruments, Conservation and Efﬁciency in

Water and Energy

1053 Renewable Energy

1064 Exploring Economic and Policy Frontiers at the

Intersection of Resource, Regional, and Rural

1070 Water Quality Policies

1101 Impacts of Biofuels

1109 Emissions Policies

2001 Optimal Food Waste: A Theoretical and Empirical

Foundation

2006 Political Economy and Environmental Policy

2042 Forest Conservation

2055 Economic Policy and Natural Hazards

2077 The Lightning Strikes: Agricultural, Regulatory, and

Resource Policy

2092 Food and Environment

2094 Energy Policy

2113 Water Resource Management

Posters 10, 13, 31, 32, 34, 35, 36, 39, 54, 58, 60, 63, 71, 106,

116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 125, 130

150

Topical Index

Risk and Uncertainty

1008 New Developments in Risk Modeling

1068 Crop and Revenue Insurance

1112 Risk and Uncertainty in the Energy Market

2007 New Insights into Index Insurance

2056 Producers’ Risk Preferences and Perceptions

2093 Risk in Agricultural Decisions

2124 Analyses of Risk, Adaptation, and Habit Formation in

Developing Countries

Posters 8, 13, 16, 24, 26, 89, 95, 97, 109, 115, 118, 123, 124,

125, 126, 127, 128, 129

Rural/Community Development

1038 Rural Health and Healthcare

1113 Domestic Rural Policy

2022 Sector-based Economic Development Approaches

2111 International Development

Posters 9, 11, 17, 38, 56, 58, 70, 72, 82, 88, 90, 92, 127, 130,

131, 132, 133, 134, 136

Senior Section

1054 Not Your Grandparents’ Farm Bill (or Does the U.S.

Farm Bill Still Matter?)

1123 Regulatory Costs in California Agriculture

2030 Food Safety Research and Big Data

2033 Towards Understanding Small Farm Proﬁtability:

Impacts of Market Channel Selection

2069 Agricultural Data Linkages for Research and Policy

Illumination

2131 Strengthening Impact Assessment in the CGIAR:

Lessons Learned

2137 Competitive Factors of Latin American Countries in

the U.S. Fruit and Vegetable Markets

Teaching, Communication, and Extension

1002 Public Economists: What You May Encounter When

You Leave the Ivory Tower

2057 Teaching Evaluation Methods

Posters 5, 132, 135, 136

Teaching, Learning, and Communications Section

(TLC)

1022 The Use of Real World Business Cases as Teaching

Tools

1062 Learning Objectives Compared to Actual Learning

1086 Rejuvenating the Battered Exhausted Abused Teacher

(BEAT)

2036 Teaching Tips from AAEA Winners

Undergraduate Student Section (SS-AAEA)

1022 The use of Real World Business Cases as Teaching

Tools

1086 Rejuvenating the Battered Exhausted Abused Teacher

(BEAT)

2016 AAEA Annual Meeting Program

151

Participant and Author Index

Aadland, David M., University of Wyoming: 2095

Abate Kassa, Getachew, Technical University of Munich: 13,

1106

Abate, Gashaw, International Food Policy Research Institute:

2112

Abatzoglou, John, University of Idaho: 1082

Abbott, Joshua K., Arizona State University: 2128

Abbott, Linda, U.S. Department of Agriculture, OCE/

ORACBA: 1117

Abbott, Philip C., Purdue University: 1013

Abdulai, Awudu, University of Kiel: 1055

Abdulrahman, Abdulallah S., Clark University: 2024

Acharya, Ram N., New Mexico State University: 1018, 1071

Ackerman, Patricia, Kansas State University, Salina: 2057

Adalja, Aaron A., University of Maryland: 1076, 2066

Adam, Brian D., Oklahoma State University: 47

Adams, Damian C., University of Florida: 2042

Adcock, Flynn J., Texas A&M University: 2029, 2137

Adelaja, Adesoji O., Michigan State University: 1055

Adhikari, Shyam, Aon Benﬁeld: 1068

Adjemian, Michael K., USDA-Economic Research Service:

1011, 1041, 2043, 2083

Adjognon, Serge G., Michigan State University: 1016

Agarwal, Sandip, Iowa State University: 1040

Agyekum, Michael, Michigan State University: 2109

Ahamad, Mazbahul, University of Nebraska-Lincoln: 1071,

2050

Ahmadiani, Mona, University of Georgia: 2055

Ahmed, Md Mansur, North Carolina State University: 1100,

2050

Ahmed, Selena, Montana State University: 2066

Ahn, Byeong-il, Korea University: 2054

Ahn, Kyeong Ah, Seoul National University: 2056

Ahola, Sara C., USDA-Animal and Plant Health Inspection

Service: 1050

Ahrendsen, Bruce L., University of Arkansas: 8, 2004

Ahsanuzzaman, Ahsanuzzaman, North South University: 123

Aida, Takeshi, National Graduate Research Institute for Policy

Studies: 2090

Aillery, Marcel P., USDA-Economic Research Service: 1070

Ajaero, Victor O., South Dakota State University: : 1111

Akhundjanov, Sherzod B., Washington State University: 1010,

1037

Akram, Waqar, Sukkur Institute of Business Administration: 21

Alagsam, Fuad, University of Kentucky: 14, 2014

Alamdari, Nasrin, Virginia Tech: 118

Alexander, Corinne E., Purdue University: 85, 1016, 2089

Alia, Didier Y., University of Kentucky: 86, 2008

Allen, Karin, Utah State University: 2068

Almeida, Alexandre N., University of Sao Paulo: 1099

Alston, Julian M., University of California, Davis: 1034, 2105,

2134

Alwang, Jeffrey, Virginia Tech: 2104, 2117, 2131

Amanor-Boadu, Vincent, Kansas State University: 38, 1047,

1055

Ames, Glenn C. W., University of Georgia: 1024, 1110

Amorin, Alexandre, University of Sao Paulo: 1099

Amugeh, Naomi, South Dakota State University: 132

Anders, Sven M., University of Alberta: 1043, 1077, 1085,

1107, 2021

Andersen, Matthew A., University of Wyoming: 1034

Anderson, Benjamin C., Colgate University: 2088

Anderson, Christopher, Iowa State University: 1051

Anderson, Jock R., World Bank: 1093

Ando, Amy W., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign:

2077

Andrade Lopez, Robert S., University of Minnesota: 1084

Andrade, Patricia, State University of Campinas: 1082

Anglade, Boaz, University of Florida: 1069

Anim-Somuah, Henry, University of Guelph: 2124

Annan, Francis, Columbia University in the City of New York:

1073

Antle, John M., Oregon State University: 1099

Antognoli, Maria C., USDA-Animal and Plant Health

Inspection Service: 1050

Arabi, Mazdak, Colorado State University: 1081

Arita, Shawn, USDA-Economic Research Service: 100, 1048

Armah, Ralph, Kansas State University: 65

Armsworth, Paul R., University of Tennessee: 2017

Aromolaran, Adebayo B., Adekunle Ajasin University, PMB

001

Akungba-Akoko, Ondo State: 1098

Arora, Gaurav, Iowa State University: 1015, 1051

Asci, Serhat, California State University, Fresno: 2096

Asgari, Ali, University of Kentucky: 2114

Asgari, Mahdi, University of Kentucky: 2018

Ash, Mark S., USDA-Economic Research Service: 64, 1036,

2035

Ashley, Elizabeth, Ofﬁce of Management and Budget: 2106

Asirvatham, Jebaraj, Southern Illinois University Carbondale:

2120

Assa, Hirbod, University of Liverpool: 2064

Atallah, Shadi S., University of New Hampshire: 1005, 1007,

1102

Ates, Aaron M., Oklahoma State University: 68

152

Participant and Author Index

Atlas, Stephen, University of Rhode Island: 40

Atwood, Joseph A., Montana State University: 110, 2052, 2064

Avendano, Belem D., Universidad Autonoma De Baja

California: 2137

Avila-Santamaria, Jorge Jair, University of Florida: 2076

Awokuse, Titus O., Michigan State University: 2041

Ayenew, Habtamu Y., Technical University of Munich: 13,

1106

Ayieko, Miltone W., Egerton University: 57

Azzarri, Carlo, International Food Policy Research Institute:

1126

Babcock, Bruce A., Iowa State University: 2083

Baco, Nasser, Universite de Parakou: 85

Badau, Flavius, USDA-Economic Research Service: 2097

Bagger, Martin P., Aarhus University: 2133

Baggio, Michele, University of Connecticut: 2044

Baharanyi, Ntam, Tuskegee University: 2101

Bai, Junfei, China Agricultural University: 50, 2026

Bai, Yu, Chinese Academy of Sciences: 2071

Bailey, Conner, Auburn University: 2101

Bailey, Ryan T., Colorado State University: 2113

Bajrami, Egzon, University of Arkansas: 53

Baker, Brian P., Self-Employed: 1095

Baker, Jonathan, Harvard University: 1033

Baker, Justin S., RTI International: 1101, 2017

Baker, Timothy G., Purdue University: 1067

Bakhtavoryan, Rafael, Texas A&M University - Commerce:

2045

Balagtas, Joseph V., Purdue University: 1001, 1108

Baldos, Uris Lantz C., Purdue University: 1098, 1118

Ball, Virgil Eldon, USDA-Economic Research Service: 2005

Ballenger, Nicole Susan, University of Wyoming: 1054

Bampasidou, Maria, Louisiana State University: 1027

Bansal, Sangeeta, Jawaharlal Nehru University: 1046

Barbier, Edward B., University of Wyoming: 1037, 2124

Barﬁeld, Ashley, University of Georgia: 1042

Barham, Bradford L., University of Wisconsin: 134

Barkley, Andrew P., Kansas State University: 2127

Barlow, Rebecca, Auburn University: 2101

Barnaby, Glenn A., Kansas State University: 1094

Barnes, James N., Mississippi State University: 2136

Barnett, Barry J., Mississippi State University: 1068, 1116

Barnett-Howell, Zachary, University of Wisconsin: 1110

Baron, Aneil, The Ohio State University: 2058

Barreiro-Hurle, Jesus, European Commission DG Joint

Research Centre: 1109

Barrett, Christopher B., Cornell University: 1047, 2112

Basauri Bryan, Elizabeth, International Food Policy Research

Insitute: 1126

Bauermeister, Golo, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen:

2056

Bauman, Allison, Colorado State University: 2033, 2080

Baumgartner, Kendra, USDA-Agricultural Research Service:

2005

Baylis, Kathy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign:

2031, 2040

Bazzani, Claudia, University of Arkansas: 1043, 2047, 2098

Beach, Robert H., RTI International: 1101

Beatty, Timothy, University of California, Davis: 1076, 2039,

2040, 2061

Beaudin, Laura, Bryant University: 2100

Becot, Florence, University of Vermont: 2068

Beghin, John C., Iowa State University: 1017

Behe, Bridget, Michigan State University: 1056

Bejan, Vladimir, Seattle University: 2011

Bejarano, Hernan D., Chapman University: 2034

Belasco, Eric, Montana State University: 1027, 2064

Bell, Andrew R., New York University: 1020, 2078

Bellemare, Marc F., University of Minnesota: 1002, 1058,

2074

Ben Ayara, Mohamed-Amine, University of Tennessee: 2017

Ben Fradj, Nosra, Institut National de la Recherche

Agronomique: 1005

Ben Slimane, Mehdi, Carthage University, Agrocampus Ouest:

2110

Bennett, Judy, Arkansas Center for Health Improvement: 2121

Berazneva, Julia, Middlebury College: 2078

Bergstrom, John C., University of Georgia: 23, 32

Bergtold, Jason S., Kansas State University: 104, 108, 2056,

2057, 2096

Bernard, John C., University of Delaware: 37, 2119

Bernard, Kévin, Institut National de la Recherche

Agronomique: 1102

Bernard, Tanguy, International Food Policy Research Institute:

2112

Berning, Joshua P., University of Georgia: 12

Berto Villas-Boas, Soﬁa, University of California, Berkeley:

1019

Bertone Oehninger, Ernst, University of California, Davis:

2023

Bertram, Robert, Bureau of Food Security, USAID: 2032

Bessler, David A., Texas A&M University: : 1019, 2025, 2052,

2053

Bevis, Leah EM, Cornell University: 1079, 2112

Bhagowalia, Priya, Jawaharlal Nehru University: 1079

2016 AAEA Annual Meeting Program

153

Participant and Author Index

Bhandary, Prapti, International Food Policy Research Institute:

2078

Bhargava, Anil K., University of Michigan: 1082, 2109

Bhatnagar, Akshay, International Food Policy Research

Institute: 101

Bhattarai, Madhusudan, International Food Policy Research

Institute: : 59, 81

Bi, Xiang, University of Florida: 17, 1109, 2077, 2100

Bian, Wei, Zhejiang University, China: 2097

Biermacher, Jon T., Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Inc.:

1112

Binkley, James K., Purdue University: 113, 1049, 1073, 2052,

2083

Biswas, Trina, Louisiana State University: 2110

Bittmann, Thomas, University of Kiel: 1077

Bizimana, Jean Claude, Texas A&M University: 2025

Block, Steven A., Tufts University: 2002, 2013

Bloem, Jeffrey, Michigan State University: 2034

Boaitey, Albert K., University of Alberta: 1083

Bobenrieth, Eugenio, Pontiﬁcia Universidad Católica De

Chile: 1041

Bobenrieth, Juan R.A., Universidad del Bio-Bio: 1041

Boehlje, Michael, Purdue University: 2115

Boehm, Rebecca L., Tufts University: 2066, 2084

Boetel, Brenda L., University of Wisconsin - River Falls: 2070

Bohara, Alok, University of New Mexico: 2053

Bohman, Mary E., USDA-Economic Research Service: 2069

Bohorquez-Penuela, Camilo, University of Minnesota: 1084

Boland, Michael A., University of Minnesota: 1095

Bolotova, Yuliya, Clemson University: 4, 18, 76

Bonanno, Alessandro, Colorado State University: 1032, 2120

Bond, Jennifer K., USDA-Economic Research Service: 2035

Bonein, Aurélie, Center for Research in Economics and

Management: 1102

Boonsaeng, Tullaya, Texas Tech University: 2072

Borchers, Allison M., USDA-Economic Research Service:

1026

Borders, Michael, North Dakota State University: 2094

Borisova, Tatiana, University of Florida: 2100

Borman, Julia I., AIR Worldwide: 1125

Bosch, Darrell J., Virginia Tech: 118

Boslett, Andrew J., University of Rhode Island: 1061

Bougherara, Douadia, Institut National de la Recherche

Agronomique: 1102

Bourquard, Brian A., Purdue University: 1103

Boussios, David, Purdue University: 1013

Bovay, John, USDA-Economic Research Service: 1076

Boyd, Milton, University of Manitoba: 1068, 1115

Boyer, Christopher N., University of Tennessee: 42, 1045,

1116

Boys, Kathryn A., North Carolina State University: 1111,

2110

Bozic, Marin, University of Minnesota: 1036, 2018

Bozzola, Martina, Graduate Institute of International and

Development Studies: 2076

Branan, Matthew A., Colorado State University: 1050

Bravo-Ureta, Boris E., University of Connecticut: 87, 1068,

2060

Breneman, Vincent E., USDA-Economic Research Service:

2069

Brent, Daniel A., Monash University: 2010

Breve Ferrari, Alejandra R., Louisiana State University: 1113

Brewer, Brady E., University of Georgia: 1083, 1121, 2004,

2044, 2080

Bridges, William, Clemson University: 18

Briggeman, Brian C., Kansas State University: 1009, 1023

Brinkman, Blondel A., USDA-Animal and Plant Health

Inspection Service: 1117

Britwum, Koﬁ, University of Nebraska-Lincoln: 1035

Brizmohun, Roshini, Auburn University: 91, 2061

Bro, Aniseh S., Michigan State University: 88

Brockhaus, Jan, Center for Development Research, University

of Bonn: 1098

Brooks, Karen M., International Food Policy Research Institute

1034

Brooks, Kathleen R., University of Nebraska-Lincoln: 2070

Brorsen, Wade, Oklahoma State University: 1052

Broussard, Nzinga H., USDA-Economic Research Service:

1047

Brown, James Bradley, U.S. Food and Drug Administration:

2106

Brown, John, Clark University: 2014

Brown, Zachary S., North Carolina State University: 33, 2092

Bruno, Valentina, American University: 1011

Brye, Kris, University of Arkansas: 2127

Bucheli, José R., University of New Mexico: 2053

Buck, Steven C., University of Kentucky: 49, 2113

Bulut, Harun, National Crop Insurance Services: 1008, 2093

Burke, William J., Stanford University: 2129

Burney, Shaheer, University of Kentucky: 2061

Burns, Christopher, USDA-Economic Research Service: 2004

Burton, Michael, University of Western Australia: 1012

Burton-McKenzie, Ethan, University of Waikato: 1115

Burtraw, Dallas, Resources for the Future: 1030

154

Participant and Author Index

Buzby, Jean C., USDA-Economic Research Service: 2001,

2106

Byl, Jacob, Vanderbilt Law School: 2039

Cadoux, Jon, Peak Organic Brewing Company: 1089

Cai, Ruohong, Environmental Defense Fund: 2042

Cai, Yongyang, Hoover Institution, Stanford University: 1106

Caillavet, France, Institut National de la Recherche

Agronomique: 1032, 1103

Cain, Jewelwayne S., University of Missouri-Columbia: 1104

Cakir, Metin, University of Minnesota: 1077

Caldas, Marcellus, Kansas State University: 2096

Callahan, Scott, North Carolina State University: 2086

Calvin, Linda S., USDA-Economic Research Service: 1003,

2029, 2137

Campbell, Ben, University of Connecticut: 1056

Campbell, Benjamin L., University of Georgia: 1056, 2116,

2133

Campbell, Danny, University of Stirling: 1042, 2024

Canales Medina, Elizabeth, Roll Global LLC: 2056

Canavari, Maurizio, University of Bologna: 2047

Canning, Patrick N., USDA-Economic Research Service:

1010, 1098, 2092

Cao, Jessica Y., University of Guelph: 1056

Capehart, Thomas C., USDA-Economic Research Service:

2035

Capitani, Daniel Henrique Dario, University of Campinas:

1067

Capps, Oral, Texas A&M University: 2045, 2052, 2084

Caputo, Vincenzina, Korea University: 2047

Carew, Richard, Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada: 1044, 2126

Carletto, Calogero, World Bank: 2002

Carlson, Andrea C., USDA-Economic Research Service: 1119

Carpio, Carlos E., Texas Tech University: 1024, 2072, 2104,

2136

Carrillo, Mario R., University of Minnesota: 2080

Carriquiry, Miguel A., Universidad de la Republica: 114, 1006

Carroll, Kathryn A., University of Wisconsin: 2119

Carter, Michael R., University of California, Davis: 1046,

2089

Cash, Sean B., Tufts University: 1107, 2066, 2084

Castellari, Elena, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore: 1032

Caswell, Julie A., University of Massachusetts Amherst: 1003,

2034

Ceballos, Francisco, International Food Policy Research

Institute: 2104

Cerrato Caceres, Belkis J., Edgewood College: 2014

Cesano, Daniele, Onda Verde Consultancy: 1082

Cessna, Joseph G., USDA-Economic Research Service,

MTED/APCOP: 1063

Chaddad, Fabio R., University of Missouri: 2114

Chakrabarti, Suman, International Food Policy Research

Institute: 2121

Chalak, Morteza, University of Western Australia: 1012

Chamberlin, Jordan, International Maize and Wheat

Improvement Center: 2020

Chambers, Chelsea E., University of Georgia: 12

Chandna, Arjita, Jawaharlal Nehru University: 1079

Chang, Ching-Cheng, Academia Sinica: 16, 133

Chang, Hung-Hao, National Taiwan University: 2039

Channa, Hira, Purdue University: 2078

Chatterjee, Diti, University of California, Riverside: 1

Chaudhry, Muhammad Imran, The Ohio State University:

2046

Chavas, Jean-Paul, University of Wisconsin: 1025, 1067, 2045

Chavez, Daniel E., Texas A&M University: 112

Che, Yingdan, Chinese Center for Disease Control and

Prevention: 2071

Chen, Danhong, University of Arkansas: 2121

Chen, Jian, The Ohio State University: 127

Chen, Kuan-Heng, Stevens Institute of Technology: 2043

Chen, Kuan-Ju, Washington State University: 75, 2043

Chen, Lijun, University of Missouri: 2062

Chen, Qihui, China Agricultural University: 2026

Chen, Rui, Auburn University: 99

Chen, Shu-Ling, National Taipei University: 16

Chen, Sihong, Texas A&M University: 1052

Chen, Sixia, University of Oklahoma: 93

Chen, Wei-Zeng, National Chung Hsing University: 1074

Chen, Wei, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics:

2103

Chen, Xuan, University of Connecticut: 2048, 2116

Chen, Xuan, University of Maine: 1036, 2071

Chen, Xuqi, University of Florida: 1105, 2079, 2136

Chen, Zhenshan, University of Connecticut: 58

Chenarides, Lauren, The Pennsylvania State University: 1032,

1075

Cheng, Li, Michigan State University: 2058

Cheng, Xinzhe H., University of California, Davis: 2061

Cho, Seong-Hoon, University of Tennessee: 2017, 2128

Choe, Young-Chan, Seoul National University: 1036, 2056,

2062

Choi, Donggul, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities: 79

Choi, Young Woon, National Food Safety Information Service:

1075

2016 AAEA Annual Meeting Program

155

Participant and Author Index

Chou, Shin-yi, Lehigh University & National Bureau of

Economic Research: 1038

Cisse, Jennifer D., Cornell University: 89

Clancy, Matthew S., USDA-Economic Research Service: 2063

Clark, Christopher D., University of Tennessee: 1005, 1102

Clark, Cristopher, University of Tennessee, Knoxville: 2017

Clay, Daniel, Michigan State University: 88

Clayton Walsh, Amanda C., North Carolina State University:

2039

Cleary, Rebecca L.O., The Pennsylvania State University: 1032

Coatney, Kalyn T., Mississippi State University: 2051, 2136

Coble, Keith H., Mississippi State University: 1002, 1068,

1116, 1125

Cochrane, Nancy J., USDA-Economic Research Service: 84,

1016

Cohen, Alex, Yale University: 1070

Coisnon, Thomas, Agrocampus Ouest: 1064

Colby, Scott, The Pennsylvania State University: 1019

Colella, Florencia, Michigan State University: 1036

Coleman, Jonathan, U.S. International Trade Commission:

2029, 2038

Collart, Alba J., Mississippi State University: 112

Colson, Gregory J., University of Georgia: 1086

Conklin, Neilson C., Farm Foundation: 1054

Connolly, Cristina, The Ohio State University: 2012, 2034

Connolly, Jenny R., Washington State University: : 41

Connor, Lawson, North Carolina State University: 33, 109

Conrad, Jon M., Cornell University: 1007

Conroy, Tessa, University of Wisconsin: 2022

Cook, Joseph C., University of Idaho: 1036

Cook, Michael L., University of Missouri: 1009, 1092

Cooke, Bryce W., USDA-Economic Research Service: 100,

2029

Cooper, Joseph C., USDA-Economic Research Service: 1025,

1068

Cooper, Monica, University of California Cooperative

Extension: 2005

Coppess, Jonathan, University of Illinois at Urbana-

Champaign: 2086

Costanigro, Marco, Colorado State University: 1019

Costello, Christine, University of Missouri: 2084

Countryman (Leister), Amanda M., Colorado State

University: 2025, 2120

Cox, William J., Cornell University: 2081

Coyle, Bradford, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign:

2068

Cranﬁeld, John, University of Guelph: 1056

Creason, Jared, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: 1101

Crespi, John M., Iowa State University: 2107

Crosby, Ben, University of Vermont: 1088

Cruz, Jose Cesar, Federal University of Sao Carlos: 1067

Cuffey, Joel, University of Minnesota: 2040

Cui, Hao, University of Vermont: 2054

Cui, Jingbo, Wuhan University: 1109, 2063, 2077

Cui, Xiurui, University of Kentucky: 24

Curtis, Kynda R., Utah State University: 1057, 2068

D’Souza, Anna, Baruch College, CUNY: 1079, 1126

Daigneault, Adam J., Landcare Research: 119

Daloz, Todd, Assistant Attorney General, State of Vermont:

1088

Dalton, Timothy J., Kansas State University: 2065

Damodaran, Nikhil, Louisiana State university: 2110

Danforth, Diana, University of Arkansas: 8, 2004, 2047, 2082

Darbandi, Elham, University of Kentucky: 1067

Darko, Francis A., Purdue University: 2129

Darrouzet-Nardi, Amelia F., Allegheny College: 2111

Davis, Benjamin, Food and Agricultural Organization of the

United Nations: 2111

Davis, George C., Virginia Tech: 67, 2072

Davis, Rebecca J., University of Tennessee: 1112

De Brauw, Alan D., International Food Policy Research

Institute: 2112

De Figueiredo Silva, Felipe, University of Nebraska-Lincoln:

2017

De Gorter, Harry, Cornell University: 63, 2001

De Laporte, Aaron V., North Dakota State University: 1108

De Mey, Yann, KU Leuven: 1090

De Young, David J., Michigan State University: 2111

Deb, Partha, Hunter College: 2072

Debnath, Deepayan, Food and Agricultural Policy Research

Institute, University of Missouri: 1101

DeBoer, Lawrence P., Purdue University: 2057

Deere, Carmen Diana, University of Florida: 1069

Deininger, Klaus W., World Bank: 92

Delgado, Michael, Purdue University: 70, 2044, 2074, 2098

Deller, Steven C., University of Wisconsin: 1060, 2022

DelVecchio Dys, Theresa, Feeding America: 2040

Demissie, Zewditu, Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention: 2122

Demko, Iryna, The Pennsylvania State University: 1078

Deng, Tinghe, China Agricultural University: 2026

Dennis, Elliott J., Kansas State University: 1050

Devadoss, Stephen, University of Idaho: 2086

Dharmasena, Senarath, Texas A&M University: 44, 1019,

2052, 2084, 2116

156

Participant and Author Index

Dhoubhadel, Sunil, Fort Hays State University: 1106

Dicken, Christopher W., USDA-Economic Research Service:

2040

Dicks, Michael, American Veterinary Medical Association:

2135

DiFalco, Salvatore, University of Geneva: 2076, 2117

Ding, Jinxiu, Xiamen University: 1081

Diniz, Tiago, University of Sao Paulo: 1099

Dixon, Bruce L., University of Arkansas: 8, 53, 2004, 2082,

2127

Dizon, Felipe, University of California, Davis: 1120

Djuric, Ivan M., Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development

in Transition Economies: 1087

Dodson, Charles B., Farm Service Agency, Economic Policy

Analysis Staff: 2004

Doering, Otto C., Purdue University: 1015

Dolgopolova, Irina S., Technical University of Munich: 2040

Dong, Fengxia, University of Wisconsin: 105, 1036

Dong, Hao, University of Kentucky: 1122

Donovan, Cynthia, Michigan State University: 2109

Dorfman, Jeffrey H., University of Georgia: 1002, 2004

Dorner, Zack, Monash University: 2010

Doss, Cheryl R., Yale University: 1069

Dougherty, John, The Ohio State University: 2007

Dow, Scott, Shipyard Brewing Company: 1089

Downey, W. Scott, Purdue University: 1022

Drabik, Dušan, Wageningen University: 27, 63

Dreyer, Heiko, University of Giessen: 2021

Driedger, Jonathon, University of Manitoba: 1068

Droppelmann, Klaus, Independent Consultant: 2078

Drozdowsky, Julia, Allegheny College: 2111

Dsouza, Alwin, Arizona State University: 1071

Du, Ding, Northern Arizona University: 2055

Du, Xiaodong, University of Wisconsin: 1036, 2099

Du, Xiaoxue, University of California, Berkeley: 1090

Dudensing, Rebekka M., Texas A&M AgriLife Extension

Service: 1060, 2114, 2115

Duffy, Patricia A., Auburn University: 2061

Dulys, Elena, Michigan State University: 1053

Dumortier, Jerome R., Indiana University – Purdue University

Indianapolis: 1030, 2023

Dundas, Steven J., Oregon State University: 2003

Dunn, Richard, University of Connecticut: 2069, 2073

Dutta, Tridib, Cornell University: 2027

Dwyer, Janet, Countryside and Community Research Institute:

Edge, Brittani, University of Tennessee: 1116

Edwards, Seanicaa E., USDA-Economic Research Service: 1063

Ehrlich, Oren, University of Florida: 2100

Elbakidze, Levan, West Virginia University: 1083, 2047

Ellinger, Paul N., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign:

1121

Elliott, Matthew, South Dakota State University: 2113

Ellison, Brenna, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign:

1004, 1094, 2068, 2109

Elobeid, Amani E., Iowa State University: 1006

Elskamp, Rebecca, University of Guelph: 1071

Embaye, Weldensie T., Kansas State University: 104, 1047,

2089

English, Burton C., University of Tennessee: 1005, 1116,

2008

Epanchin-Niell, Rebecca S., Resources for the Future: 1064

Erdem, Seda, University of Stirling: 15, 1004

Erickson, Kenneth W., USDA-Economic Research Service:

2115

Erickson, Matt, Senate Agricultural Committee: 1029

Escalante, Cesar L., University of Georgia - Athens: 74, 80,

1067

Escobedo, Francisco J., Universidad del Rosario: 2042

Eskander, Shaikh M., London School of Economics: 1037,

2124

Esparza-Diaz, Gabriela, Texas A&M University: 2115

Etienne, Xiaoli L., West Virginia University: 2076

Etumnu, Chinonso E., University of San Francisco: 2119

Euler, Michael, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen: 2050

Eum, Jihyun, The Ohio State University: 1048

Evans, Keith S., University of Maine: 122

Everett, Connie, University of Tennessee: 42

Fadhuile, Adelaide, Univ. Grenoble Alpes - INRA GAEL:

1032, 1103

Fairbairn, Anna M., University of Illinois at Urbana-

Champaign: 2109

Fajardo-Gonzalez, Johanna, University of Minnesota: 1084

Falconer, Larry, Mississippi State University: 5, 1116

Fan, Linlin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: 1103,

2040

Fan, Xiaoli, Cornell University: 78, 1007, 2088

Fan, Yubing, University of Missouri: 2060

Fang, Di, Arizona State University: 1039, 2079

Fang, Xu, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics:

2054

Fannin, J. Matthew, Louisiana State University: 1113, 2101

Fawzi, Wafaie, Harvard School of Public Health: 2013

Feather, Peter M., USDA-Economic Research Service: 2043

2016 AAEA Annual Meeting Program

157

Participant and Author Index

Featherstone, Allen M., Kansas State University: 11, 108,

1009, 1083, 2099

Felfel, Abdel, Agriculture and Agri-food Canada: 1075

Fellman, Thomas, European Commission: 1109

Feng, Hongli, Michigan State University: 1015, 1051, 2023

Feng, Xiaoguang, Iowa State University: 1008

Fenichel, Eli P., Yale University: 2128

Feri, Francesco, University of London: 2117

Ferreira, Susana, University of Georgia: 2044, 2055

Ferrier, Peyton M., USDA-Economic Research Service: 1076,

2031

Fiala, Nathan, University of Connecticut: 77, 107, 1018

Filipski, Mateusz J., International Food Policy Research

Institute: 2111

Findeis, Jill L., University of Missouri: 2032, 2132

Fink, Guenther, Harvard School of Public Health: 2013

Fischer, Bart L., U.S. House of Representatives: 1029

Fisher-Vanden, Karen, The Pennsylvania State University:

1033, 1081

Fishman, Ram, George Washington University: 2092

Fitzgerald, Timothy, Texas Tech University: 1061

Fitzsimmons, Jill Ann, University of Massachusetts: 2034

Flanagan, Patrick, USDA-Natural Resources Conservation

Service: 2069

Flatnes, Jon Einar, University of California, Davis: 2007, 2089

Florax, Raymond J.G.M., Purdue University: 1049, 1073,

2083

Florkowski, Wojciech J., University of Georgia: 1035, 1044,

2081, 2126

Foltz, Jeremy D., University of Wisconsin: 1110

Fonner, Robert C., National Oceanic and Atmospheric

Administration Fisheries: 1007

Foreman, Maria Christina J., University of New Hampshire:

2013

Fortenbery, T. Randall, Washington State University: 129

Foster, Kenneth A., Purdue University: 1052, 1073, 2083

Foster, Lucia, Census Bureau: 2069

Fox, John A., Kansas State University: 2047

Franken, Jason, Western Illinois University: 1092

Frasier, W. Marshall, Colorado State University: 2036

Frick, Fabian, Technical University of Munich: 1050

Fry, William E., Cornell University: 2027

Fu, Shengfei, University of Georgia: 1035

Fuglie, Keith O., USDA-Economic Research Service: 2105

Fukase, Emiko, World Bank: 1034

Fulginiti, Lilyan E., University of Nebraska-Lincoln: 1037,

2017

Gabriel, Stephen C., Farm Credit Administration: 1090

Gabrielyan, Gnel, Washington State University: 2010

Gaeta, Davide, University of Verona: 2134

Gafaro, Margarita, Brown University: 1084

Gajate Garrido, Gissele, IMPAQ International: 1016

Galford, Gillian, University of Vermont: 2013

Gallardo, R. Karina, Washington State University: 1010, 2016

Gallenstein, Richard, The Ohio State University: 2007

Gammans, Matthew, University of California, Davis: 2126

Gao, Lei, Texas A&M University: 1098

Gao, Zhifeng, University of Florida: 50, 1066, 1074, 1105,

2066, 2079, 2136

Garbero, Alessandra, International Fund for Agricultural

Development: 2109

Garcia, Manuel, Zamorano University: 2104

Garcia, Philip, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign:

1011, 1013, 2045

Garcia-Fuentes, Pablo A., Louisiana State University: 1010

Garcia-Suarez, Federico, School of Agronomy - Universidad de

la Republica: 2005

Garduno-Rivera, Rafael, Centro de Investigación y Docencia

Económicas, A.C. (CIDE): 2026

Garg, Teevrat, London School of Economics: 1082, 1100

Garnache, Cloe, Michigan State University: 1099, 2044

Gasques, Jose, Brazil Ministry of Agriculture: 1021

Gassner, Anja, World Agroforesty Centre: 2109

Gautam, Madhur, World Bank: 1100

Ge, Candi, Oklahoma State University: 47

Ge, Houtian, The Pennsylvania State University: 1010, 2016

Gennaioli, Caterina, London School of Economics: 1100

Geoghegan, Jacqueline, Clark University: 2014

Ghosh, Sanchari, Northeastern State University: 2113

Giannakas, Konstantinos, University of Nebraska-Lincoln:

1004

Gibson, John K., University of Waikato: 1115

Gibson, Matthew, University of California, San Diego: 2003

Giguere, Christopher S., North Carolina State University:

2006

Gilio, Leandro, University of Sao Paulo: 1099

Gill, Carrie A., University of Rhode Island: 40

Gilliland, Ted E., University of California, Davis: 2090

Girardi, Anthony, Iowa Department of Revenue: 2004

Giri, Anil, University of Central Missouri: 1051

Gisselquist, David, International Fertilizer Development

Center: 1093

Giuffria, Jonathon M., Virginia Tech: 118

Glauben, Thomas, Leibniz Institute of Agricultural

Development in Transition Economies: 46, 1087

158

Participant and Author Index

Glauber, Joseph W., International Food Policy Research

Institute: 1087

Goddard, Ellen W., University of Alberta: 1065, 1083

Godza, Tariro, Case Western Reserve University: 1035

Goeb, Joseph C., Michigan State University: 135

Goemans, Christopher, Colorado State University: 2113

Goetz, Linde J., Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Development

in Transition Economies (IAMO): 1087

Goetz, Stephan J., The Pennsylvania State University: 1010,

1032, 2016

Goldsmith, Peter D., University of Illinois at Urbana-

Champaign: 2032

Golub, Alla, Purdue University: 1087, 1106

Gomez Y Paloma, Sergio, European Commission-Joint

Research Centre, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies:

2041

Gomez, Miguel I., Cornell University: 60, 69, 78, 1007, 2081,

2088

Gonzalez Ramirez, M. Jimena, Iowa State University: 2118

Gooch, Elizabeth, USDA-Economic Research Service: 1124

Goodrich, Ben, Columbia University: 2028

Goodrich, Brittney K., University of California, Davis: 2093

Goodwin, Barry K., North Carolina State University: 2050,

2067

Gopalakrishnan, Sathya, The Ohio State University: 2055

Gori-Maia, Alexandre, State University of Campinas: 1082,

2049

Gottlieb, Paul D., Rutgers University: 130

Gouel, Christophe, Institut National de la Recherche

Agronomique: 1041

Gould, Brian W., University of Wisconsin: 2048, 2099

Graff, Gregory D., Colorado State University: 2063

Gramig, Ben, Purdue University: 1015, 1091, 1112, 2027,

2077

Granco, Gabriel, Kansas State University: 2096

Grant, Jason, Virginia Tech: 1017, 1048

Grashuis, Jasper, University of Missouri: 1009

Grau, Aaron, Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in

Transition Economies (IAMO): 2051

Gray, Richard S., University of Saskatchewan: 2016, 2105

Graziano, Marcello, University of the Highlands and the

Islands: 1032

Grebitus, Carola, Arizona State University: 1056, 1059, 1088,

1114, 2009, 2034, 2068, 2079, 2133

Green, Gareth P., Seattle University: 1072

Greenhalgh, Suzie, Landcare Research: 119

Gregory, Christian A., USDA-Economic Research Service:

2072

Griffen, Andrew S., University of Tokyo: 2090

Grifﬁn, Tim, Tufts University: 2066

Grogger, Jeffrey, University of Chicago: 1001

Grohn, Yrjo, Cornell University: 7

Grunert, Klaus G., Aarhus University: 2133

Guan, Zhengfei, University of Florida: 45, 1098, 1124, 2039,

2066, 2087

Guerena, David T., Cornell University: 2078

Guidry, Kurt M., Louisiana State University: 5

Guilfoos, Todd, University of Rhode Island: 1061

Gulati, Kajal, University of California, Davis: 2050

Gulcan, Onel, University of Florida: 2039

Gundersen, Craig G., University of Illinois at Urbana-

Champaign: 2040

Gunderson, Michael A., Purdue University: 1022, 2080

Guo, Jianxin, Beijing Academy of Agricultural and Forestry

Sciences: 136

Guo, Zhe, International Food Policy Research Institute: 2078

Gupta, Anubhab, University of California, Davis: 2111

Gustafson, Christopher R., University of Nebraska-Lincoln:

1059, 2050, 2130

Gustafson, Lori L., USDA-Animal and Plant Health Inspection

Service: 1050

Gustavsen, Geir W., Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy

Research: 1043

Guthrie, Joanne, USDA-Economic Research Service: 2072,

2122

Hadrich, Joleen C., Colorado State University: 1007, 1023,

1040, 2120

Haggblade, Steven, Michigan State University: 2065

Haider, Hamza, Michigan State University: 2065

Haile, Beliyou A., International Food Policy Research Institute:

1126

Hake, Monica, Feeding America: 2040

Halbrook, Steve A., University of Arkansas: 2132

Haley, Mildred M., USDA-Economic Research Service: 1063

Hall, Charles, Texas A&M University: 1056, 1114

Hallahan, Charles, USDA-Economic Research Service: 2115

Halmenschlager, Vinícius, University of Sao Paulo: 1099

Halstead, John M., University of New Hampshire: 1036

Hamilton, Lynn L., California Polytechnic State University:

1062, 1123

Hamilton, Stephen F., California Polytechnic State University:

1001, 1077, 2113

Han, Dae Hee, Virginia Tech: 67

Han, Doo Bong, Korea University: 1075, 2011

Han, Xue, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: 2045

Hand, Michael S., U.S. Forest Service: 1099

2016 AAEA Annual Meeting Program

159

Participant and Author Index

Hanes, Samuel, University of Maine: 122

Hanselka, Daniel, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service:

2029, 2114

Hansen, Charlotte R., University of Kentucky: 3

Hansen, James M., USDA-Economic Research Service: 1016,

2054, 2103

Hansen, LeRoy T., USDA-Economic Research Service: 116

Haqiqi, Iman, Purdue University: : 1082, 2077

Hardin, John, Hardin Farms, Indiana: 1054

Hareau, Guy G., International Potato Center: 2131

Harker, Amanda J., University of Georgia: 32

Harri, Ardian, Mississippi State University: 1052

Harris, James Michael, USDA-Economic Research Service: 9,

2033

Harris, Michael, USDA-Economic Research Service: 2115

Harris, Thomas R., University of Nevada, Reno: 1060

Hartarska, Valentina M., Auburn University: 99

Hartmann, Monika, University of Bonn: 1004, 1065, 1107,

2015

Haß, Julia, University of Bonn: 1004

Havlík, Petr, International Institute for Applied Systems

Analysis: 1118

Hawes, Daniel R., University of Bonn: 1065

Hayes, Dermot J., Iowa State University: 1008, 1013

Haynes-Maslow, Lindsey, Union of Concerned Scientists:

2040

He, Chenyi, University of Florida: 2066

He, Jen, University of Maryland: 106

He, Juan, North Carolina State University: 1068

He, Lixia, University of Tennessee: 1005

He, Xi, University of Connecticut: 77, 107, 2015

Headey, Derek, International Food Policy Research Institute:

1079, 1107, 2002

Heboyan, Vahé, Augusta University: 1104

Heck, Simon, International Potato Center: 2009

Heckelei, Thomas, University of Bonn: 2096

Heerman, Kari E., USDA-Economic Research Service: 1068,

2110

Hejazi, Mina, Virginia Tech: 1048, 2103

Hellerstein, Daniel M., USDA-Economic Research Service:

2031

Hellman, Ed W., Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service: 2114

Hendricks, Nathan P., Kansas State University: 2006

Heng, Yan, University of Florida: 1044

Henneberry, Shida Rastegari, Oklahoma State University: 21,

1024

Hennessy, David A., Michigan State University: 1015, 1051,

2023, 2037

Henning, Christian H.C.A., University of Kiel: 2079

Heo, Seong-Yoon, Korea Rural Economic Institute: 1075

Herath, Deepananda P., Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada:

1075

Hermansen, Sigurd, Westat: 1119

Hernandez, Manuel A., International Food Policy Research

Institute: 2104

Herrera Almanza, Catalina, Northeastern University: 1047

Herrero, Mario, International Livestock Research Institute:

1118

Hertel, Thomas W., Purdue University: 1098, 1106, 1118,

2059, 2077, 2087

Higgins, Lindsey M., California Polytechnic State University:

1022, 2015

Hill, Alexandra E., University of California, Davis: 2039

Hill, Alison, Williams College: 2003

Hill, Rebecca, Colorado State University: 2022

Hillis, Vicken, University of California, Davis: 2005

Hirsch, Stefan, University Bonn: 2116

Hitaj, Claudia, USDA-Economic Research Service: 2031

Hjort, Kim C., Economic Analysis Systems: 1078

Hoag, Dana L., Colorado State University: 1021, 1081, 2127

Hoang, Phi, University of Georgia: 2006

Hoang, Tram, Michigan State University: 92

Hochman, Gal, Rutgers University: 1049, 2006

Hockmann, Heinrich, Leibniz Institute of Agricultural

Development in Transition Economies (IAMO): 2051

Hodde, Whitney, Purdue University: 1015

Hoddinott, John, Cornell University: 1079

Hoehn, John, Michigan State University: 2114

Hoffmann, Sandra, USDA-Economic Research Service: 2030,

2106

Hoffmann, Vivian E., University of Maryland: 1016

Holcomb, Rodney B., Oklahoma State University: 43

Holderieath, Jason J., Colorado State University: 1007, 1040

Hossain, Marup, University of Florida: 2111

Hou, Lingling, Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy, Chinese

Academy of Sciences: 2127

House, Lisa A., University of Florida: 22, 48, 1035, 1044,

1066, 2062, 2066

Hovhannisyan, Vardges, University of Wyoming: 1072, 1104,

2018

Howard, Dave, Wachusett Brewing Company: 1089

Howard, Peter H., Institute for Policy Integrity: 1099, 2024

Howlader, Aparna, University of Illinois at Urbana-

Champaign: 2077

Hrozencik, Robert A., Colorado State University: 2059, 2113

160

Participant and Author Index

Hsi, David J., USDA-Animal and Plant Health Inspection

Service: 1050

Hsieh, Te-Yen, National Taiwan University: 133

Hsu, Sheng-Ming, National Taiwan University: 133

Hsu, Shih-Hsun, National Taiwan University: 133

Hu, Lifang, Renmin University of China: 2004

Hu, Ruifa, Beijing Institute of Technology: 1124

Hu, Wuyang, University of Kentucky: 1017, 1042, 1109, 1122

Hu, Yahong, Rutgers University: 1124

Huang, Jikun, Chinese Academy of Sciences: 2099, 2127

Huang, Ju-Chin, University of New Hampshire: 1036, 2100

Huang, Ling, University of Connecticut: 2095

Huang, Zuhui, Zhejiang University: 1122

Hubbs, Todd, USDA-Economic Research Service: 1041

Huchet-Bourdon, Marilyne, Agrocampus Ouest: 2041, 2110

Hueth, Brent M., University of Wisconsin: 2051, 2069, 2073

Huffman, Sonya K., Iowa State University: 2084

Hughes, David W., University of Tennessee: 42

Hungerford, Ashley E., USDA-Economic Research Service:

1045

Hurley, Sean P., California Polytechnic State University: 2115

Hurley, Terrance M., University of Minnesota: 1098, 2005

Husbands Fealing, Kaye, Georgia Institute of Technology: 2030

Hutniczak, Barbara, National Oceanic and Atmospheric

Administration (NOAA): 2128

Hwang, Seoyoung, Seoul National University: 1074

Hwang, Yeseul, Seoul National University: 2062

Ibendahl, Gregory A., Kansas State University: 1112

Ibrahim, Mohammed, Fort Valley State University: 1105

Ifft, Jennifer E., Cornell University: 1026, 1053, 1090, 2025

Ilin, Cornelia, University of Wisconsin: 2051

Ingerson, Katherine, University of Georgia: 1114

Interis, Matthew G., Mississippi State University: 1091

Iqbal, Md Zabid, Iowa State University: 20, 102, 2083

Irhamni, Milda, University of Minnesota: 73

Irwin, Elena G., The Ohio State University: 2058

Irwin, Scott H., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: 2,

1011

Isengildina Massa, Olga, Virginia Tech University: 1011

Jablonski, Becca B. R., Colorado State University: 2033, 2080,

2101

Jacobs, Keri L., Iowa State University: 1013, 1040

Jaenicke, Edward C., The Pennsylvania State University: 1075,

1078

Jaffar, Aeliya, CIGNA-HealthSpring: 1038

Jafri, Syed H., Tarleton State University: 1038, 1051

Jang, Heesun, University of Wisconsin: 2051

Jang, Ikhoon, Seoul National University: 1036

Janssen, Larry L., South Dakota State University: 2023

Jansson, Torbjoern, Swedish University of Agricultural Science:

1109

Janus, Thorsten, University of Wyoming: 1037

Janzen, Joseph, Montana State University: 2083

Jayasekera, Deshamithra H. W., Oklahoma State University:

2100

Jayet, Pierre-Alain, Institut National de la Recherche

Agronomique: 1005

Jayne, Thomas S., Michigan State University: 1110, 2129

Jensen, Kimberly L., University of Tennessee: 42, 1045

Jeon, Younghyeon, Korea Rural Economic Institute: 2054

Jerardo, Andy, USDA-Economic Research Service: 1063

Jessoe, Katrina K., University of California, Davis: 1033

Jha, Jaya, Colby College: 2120

Ji, Yongjie, Iowa State University and Center for Agricultural

and Rural Development: 1109, 2058

Jiang, Jingze, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania: 126

Jiang, Yuan, University of Florida: 22, 48

Jimi, Nusrat A., State University of New York : 2118

Jin, Shaosheng, Zhejiang University: 2010

Jin, Songqing, Michigan State University: : 92, 136, 2071

Jin, Yanhong, Rutgers University: 1124

Jo, Jisung, Oklahoma State University: 61

Jodlowski, Margaret C., Cornell University: 2025

Joglekar, Alison, University of Minnesota: 2052

Johansson, Robert C., USDA-Ofﬁce of the Chief Economist:

1029, 1068, 1125, 2043

Johnson, Aaron J., University of Idaho: 1022

Johnson, Bruce, University of Nebraska-Lincoln: 1051

Johnson, Kamina K., USDA-Animal and Plant Health

Inspection Service: 1050

Johnson, Rachel, University of Vermont: 2068

Johnson, Stanley R., National Center for Food and Agricultural

Policy: 2030

Johnson, Thomas G., University of Missouri: 2101

Johnston, Robert J., Clark University: 1099, 2024

Johnston, Zachary A., University of Delaware: 37

Jones, Jason P H, RTI International: 1101, 2094

Jones, Keithly G., USDA-Economic Research Service: 1063

Jones, Rebecca D., USDA-Animal and Plant Health Inspection

Service: 1050

Jones, Sarah, Michigan Fitness Foundation: 2122

Joo, Hyunjeong, Louisiana State University: 2039

Joseph, Kishore, California State University, Chico: 1013

Joseph, Siny, Kansas State University, Salina: 2057

2016 AAEA Annual Meeting Program

161

Participant and Author Index

Josephson, Anna, Purdue University: 2057

Joshi, Neena, Heifer International Nepal: 2111

Joshi, P K, International Food Policy Research Institute: 30,

56, 59, 81, 1039

Judd, Kenneth L., Hoover Institution, Stanford University:

1106

Julien, Jacques C., University of Connecticut: 87

Just, David R., Cornell University: 1026, 1058, 1096, 2130

Kadjo, Didier K., Purdue University: 85

Kaﬂe, Kashi R., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign:

1069

Kaiser, Harry M., Cornell University: 37, 69, 2061, 2107

Kalkuhl, Matthias, University of Bonn: 1098

Kandilov, Ivan T., North Carolina State University: 1063,

1111

Kanieski Da Silva, Bruno, North Carolina State University:

2110

Kannan, Samantha, Cornell University: 2081

Kaplan, Jonathan D., California State University, Sacramento:

2005

Kaplan, Scott, University of California, Berkeley: 1019

Karali, Berna, University of Georgia: 1011, 1067

Kassas, Bachir, Texas A&M University: 1114

Kassie, Menale, International Centre of Insect Physiology and

Ecology (ICIPE): 2049

Katare, Bhagyashree, Purdue University: 1076, 2001

Katchova, Ani, The Ohio State University: 2046, 2115

Kauffman, Nathan S., Federal Reserve Bank - Omaha Branch:

1023

Kay, David, Cornell University: 2101

Kazianga, Harounan, Oklahoma State University: 2090

Keeney, Roman M., Purdue University: 2087

Keisier, David A., Iowa State University: 1070, 1099, 2058

Keita, Francis, Agricultural Market Observatory - Mali: 2025

Kemeze, Francis H., University of Ghana: 2124

Kemper, Nathan, University of Arkansas: 2098

Kennedy, P. Lynn, Louisiana State University: 96, 1010, 2021,

2110, 2112

Ker, Alan P., University of Guelph: 2067, 2126

Kergna, Alpha O., Institut D’Economie Rurale: 2065

Keske, Catherine M., Colorado State University: 2127

Kfoury, Nicole, Tufts University: 2066

Khachatryan, Hayk, University of Florida: 1056, 2042

Khan, Md Tajuddin, International Food Policy Research

Institute: 30

Khan, Tajuddin, International Food Policy Research Institute:

2121

Khanal, Aditya R., Tennessee State University: 2081, 2124

Khanna, Madhu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign:

1030, 1053, 1061, 2096

Khanna, Neha, Binghamton University: 2077

Kibriya, Shahriar, Conﬂict and Development Center: 2053

Kiesel, Kristin, University of California, Davis: 2107

Kilic, Talip, World Bank: 2129

Kilkenny, Maureen, National Center for Food and Agricultural

Policy: 1064

Kim, GwanSeon, University of Kentucky: 2012

Kim, Hjort, USDA-Economic Research Service: 1021

Kim, Hyeyoung, University of Florida: 22, 48, 1035, 1117,

2062

Kim, Hyunseok, Iowa State University: 1006

Kim, Jinhyeung, Seoul National University: 2062

Kim, Jinhyoung, University of Missouri-Columbia: 2101

Kim, Man-Keun, Utah State University: 2022, 2045, 2123

Kim, Moon Joon, North Carolina State University: 31

Kim, Sanghyo, Korea Rural Economic Institute: 1075

Kim, Youngjune, Kansas State University: 2004

King, John, University of California, Davis: 2030

Kinnan, Cynthia G., Northwestern University: 1120

Kishore, Avinash, International Food Policy Research Institute:

30, 56, 101, 2092, 2121

Kitsuki, Akinori, University of Minnesota: 2046

Klaiber, Allen, The Ohio State University: 1061, 2012

Klaiman, Kimberly, Michigan State University: 2044

Klammer, Sarah S.H., Michigan State University: 1053

Klepacka, Anna M., Warsaw University of Life Sciences: 2081,

2126

Kling, David, Oregon State University: 2003

Klocek, Christopher, U.S. Department of Agriculture: 1117

Klose, Steven L., Texas A&M University: 1029

Knapp, Keith C., University of California, Riverside: 2059

Knisley, Shelbi, USDA-Economic Research Service: 64, 1063

Kojima, Yasutomo, Cornell University: 1104

Kolady, Deepthi Elizabeth, South Dakota State University:

1078

Kolodinsky, Jane M., University of Vermont: 1059, 1088,

2068, 2130

Koppmair, Stefan, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen: 2049

Kovacs, Kent, University of Arkansas: 2008

Kowalsick, Amanda, Tufts University: 2066

Kozicka, Marta, University of Bonn: 1098

Kozuka, Eiji, Hiroshima University: 2090

Krishna, Vijesh V., Georg-August-Universität Göttingen: 2050

Krivonos, Ekaterina, Food and Agriculture Organization of the

United Nations: 1087

Kropp, Jaclyn D., University of Florida: 2041

162

Participant and Author Index

KS, Aditya, Indian Agricultural Research Institute: 56

Kuethe, Todd H., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign:

1026

Kuhns, Annemarie, USDA-Economic Research Service: 1010,

1072

Kuiper, Marijke, LEI-Wageningnen: 1118

Kumar, Anjani, International Food Policy Research Institute:

1039

Kumbhakar, Subal C., State University of New York: 2118

Kurkalova, Lyubov A., North Carolina Agricultural and

Technical State University: 1115

Kusunose, Yoko, University of Kentucky: 86, 2008

Kuwayama, Yusuke, Resources for the Future: 1061, 1064

Kuwornu, John K.M., Wageningen University: 2124

Kwikiriza, Norman, International Potato Center: 2109

Kyureghian, Gayaneh S., Korea University: 1014, 1032

Labarta, Ricardo A., International Center for Tropical

Agriculture: 2131

Lade, Gabriel, Iowa State University: 1033

Lagerkvist, Carl Johan, Swedish University of Agricultural

Sciences: 2009

Lahm, Erik, Aarhus University: 2133

Lai, John, Purdue University: 1122

Lai, Wangyang, The Ohio State University: 1012

Lambert, Dayton M., University of Tennessee: 1005, 1049,

1102, 1116, 2017

Lammers, Richard, University of New Hampshire: 1098

Lan, Hao, University of East Anglia: 2018

Landry, Craig, University of Georgia: 32

Landwehr, Stefanie C., Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-

Universität Bonn: 1107, 2015

Lang, Corey, University of Rhode Island: 1061

Lange, Kelly, Texas Tech University: 2136

Langemeier, Michael R., Purdue University: 1112, 2027

Langen, Nina, University of Bonn: 1004

Lapan, Harvey E., Iowa State University: 1006, 2077

Larkin, Sherry L., University of Florida: 2100

Laroche-Dupraz, Cathie, Agrocampus Ouest: 2041

Larochelle, Catherine, Virginia Tech: 2065, 2117

Larsen, Ryan, North Dakota State University: 1023

Larson, James A., University of Tennessee: 1045, 1116

Larson, Ronald B., Independent: 1043

Lass, Daniel A., University of Massachusetts Amherst: 2034

Latta, Gregory, Oregon State University: 1101

Latvala, Terhi, Natural Resources Institute Finland: 2133

Lavoie, Nathalie, University of Massachusetts Amherst: 2034

Leard, Benjamin, Resources for the future: 106

Leclère, David, International Institute for Applied Systems

Analysis: 1118

Leder, Harald T., Louisiana State University: 1024

Lee, Deishin, Boston College: 2088

Lee, Eunhee, Korea University: 2011

Lee, Gi-Eu, Michigan State University: 2095

Lee, Han Bum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign:

1113

Lee, Hyunok, University of California, Davis: 2031

Lee, Ji Yong, Kansas State University: 1075, 2047

Lee, Kangil, Oklahoma State University: 2039

Lee, Kyei-Im, Korea Rural Economic Institute: 1075

Lee, Tani, USDA-Economic Research Service: 100

Lee, Thomas D., University of New Hampshire: 1005

Lee, Yoo Hwan, Colorado State University: 2063

Lee, Youngjae, Louisiana State University: 96, 2021, 2112

Lee, Yu Na, University of Minnesota: 1058

Legrand, Nicolas, Institut National de la Recherche

Agronomique: 1041

Lence, Sergio H., Iowa State University: 55, 1020, 2099

Lentz, Erin C., University of Texas, Austin: 2046

Leroux, Anke, Monash University: 2010

Leschewski, Andrea M., Michigan State University: 1072

Lewandowski, Samantha W., University of Vermont: 2010

Lewandrowski, Jan, USDA-Economic Research Service: 1101

Lewin, Paul A., University of Idaho: 1060, 2101

Lewis, David, Oregon State University: 1082, 2003

Lewis, Karen E., University of Tennessee: 1059, 1088

Lewis, Kristina, Wake Forest University: 1114

Li, Chenguang, University College Dublin: 50

Li, Chongguang, Huazhong Agricultural University: 2045

Li, Dengwang, Renmin University of China: 17

Li, Hao, Washington State University: 2047

Li, Haoyang, Michigan State University: 2060

Li, Huan, Purdue University: 2077

Li, Huijun, Victoria College: 2027

Li, Jian, Huazhong Agricultural University: 1067, 2045

Li, Man, International Food Policy Research Institute: 2078,

2093

Li, Tongzhe, University of Delaware: 37

Li, Xiaofei, Mississippi State University: 1068, 1116

Li, Xiaogang, Iowa State University: 2063

Li, Xiaokang, Zhejiang University: 1124

Li, Xun, Wuhan University: 1052, 2011

Li, Yajuan, Texas A&M University: 2052

Li, Yanan, Cornell University: 2090

2016 AAEA Annual Meeting Program

163

Participant and Author Index

Li, Yi-An, Purdue University: 1095

Li, Yi, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law: 2092

Li, Yijia, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: 2096

Li, Yiting, The Ohio State University: 2124

Li, Yunhan, University of Georgia: 1041

Li, Ziran, Iowa State University: 1013

Li, Zongyu, Washington State University: 41

Liang, Xi, Jiangxi Agricultural University: 1124

Liangzhi, You, International Food Policy Research Institute:

2002

Liao, Kenneth, Iowa State University: 2082

Liaukonyte, Jura, Cornell University: 2018

Lichtenberg, Erik, University of Maryland: 1076

Liebhold, Andrew, U.S. Forest Service: 95

Lim, Kar Ho, Tennessee State University: 2136

Lim, Siew Hoon, North Dakota State University: 2094

Lin Lawell, C.-Y. Cynthia, University of California, Davis:

2023, 2087

Lin, Benxi, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University: 131

Lin, Biing-Hwan, USDA-Economic Research Service: 2072

Lin, Hsing-Chun, National Chiayi University: 133

Lin, Kuo-Jung, Chihlee University of Technology: 133

Lin, Tong, North Dakota State University: 2094

Lin, Zhulu, North Dakota State University: 2094

Lin, Zongjian, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University: 131

Linn, Joshua, Resources for the Future: 106

Liou, Ruey-Wan, Chihlee University of Technology: 133

Litzenberg, Kerry K., Texas A&M University: 1022

Liu, Chengfang, Peking University: 2071

Liu, Fangge, Iowa State University: 6

Liu, Haiyan, University of Georgia: 2044

Liu, Jing, Purdue University: 1098

Liu, Pengfei, University of Connecticut: 1042

Liu, WanYu, Aletheia University: 2017, 2127

Liu, Weiping, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University: 131

Liu, Xuanli, Fort Valley State University: 1105

Liu, Yangxuan, Purdue University: 2027

Liu, Yanyan, International Food Policy Research Institute:

1020, 1047, 2078, 2090

Liu, Yizao, University of Connecticut: 1056, 2048, 2116

Liverpool-Tasie, Lenis S., Michigan State University: 1016 ,

2020

Livy, Mitchell R., California State University, Fullerton: 2012

Loge, Frank, University of California, Davis: 1033

Lohani, Mahendra, Heifer International: 2111

Lopez, Jose A., Texas A&M University: 2137

Lopez, Rigoberto A., University of Connecticut: 2015, 2116

Lorenz, Bettina A., Bonn University: 1004

Louhichi, Kamel, Institute for Prospective Technological

Studies: 2041

Loveridge, Scott, Michigan State University: 2095

Lovo, Stefania, London School of Economics: 1100

Lowenberg-DeBoer, James M., Purdue University: 1013

Loy, Jens-Peter, University of Kiel: 46

Lu, Jie, Renmin University of China: 2004

Lu, Liang, University of California, Berkeley: 1090

Lu, Louis, Stanford University: 2071

Lubben, Bradley D., University of Nebraska-Lincoln: 1054,

1094

Lubeck, Meggan, Rutgers University: 130

Lubell, Mark, University of California, Davis: 2005

Lubowski, Ruben, Environmental Defense Fund: 2042

Luby, James, University of Minnesota: 2016

Luckstead, Jeff, University of Arkansas: 2086

Ludeña, Carlos, Inter-American Development Bank: 2104

Luo, Renfu, Peking University: 2071

Luo, Rui, Washington State University: 129

Luo, Tianyuan, University of Georgia: 74

Lupi, Frank, Michigan State University: 1099, 2058, 2100,

2109

Luri, Moses, Washington State University: 2023

Lusk, Jayson L., Oklahoma State University: 61, 68, 1004,

2009

Lybbert, Travis J., University of California, Davis: 2050, 2074

Lyford, Conrad P., Texas Tech University: 2072

Lynch, Kathryn E., University of Massachusetts: 1003

Lynes, Melissa, U.S. Energy Information Administration: 1083

Lyu, Ya-Pin, Asia-Paciﬁc Economic Cooperation Research

Center for Typhoon and Society: 16

Ma, Xingliang, International Food Policy Research Institute:

2109

MacDonald, James M., USDA-Economic Research Service:

2069

MacDonald, Stephen A., USDA-Economic Research Service:

1036

MacDougall, Neal A., California Polytechnic State University:

1038

MacEwan, Duncan, ERA Economics: 1123

MacLachlan, Matthew J., University of California, Davis: 95

Maertens, Annemie, University of Sussex: 2117

Magalhaes, Eduardo C., Datalyze Consulting Corporation:

2001

Magnan, Nicholas P., University of Georgia: 1016

Mahaffey, Harrison H., Purdue University: 2016

Mahasuweerachai, Phumsith, Khon Kaen University: 1012

164

Participant and Author Index

Mahato, S., Heifer International Nepal: 2111

Maiga, Eugenie W.H., Université de Koudougou: 2039

Maisashvili, Aleksandre, Texas A&M University: 1098

Majeed, Fahd, International Food Policy Research Institute:

2097

Makombe, Wilfred, University of Florida: 2041

Makrides, Maria, Women’s and Children’s Health Research

Institute and the University of Adelaide: 2084

Makriyannis, Christos, Clark University: 1099

Malaga, Jaime E., Texas Tech University: 1024, 2123, 2137

Malcolm, Scott A., USDA-Economic Research Service: 1070

Malek, Lenka, Women and Children’s Health Research

Institute: 1043, 1065, 2084

Malikov, Emir, St. Lawrence University: 2098

Malina, Robert, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 125

Mallory, Mindy L., University of Illinois at Urbana-

Champaign: 1011

Malone, Trey, Oklahoma State University: 1066, 2034

Mancino, Lisa, USDA-Economic Research Service: 2072

Manning, Dale, Colorado State University: 1021, 2059, 2113

Manyong, Victor M., International Institute of Tropical

Agriculture: 2109

Maples, Joshua G., Oklahoma State University: 1004, 1028,

1085, 1121

Marasteanu, Ioana (Julia) I., Food and Drug Administration:

1076, 2040

March, Raymond, Texas Tech University: 2072

Marchant, Mary, Virginia Tech: 1017, 2103

Maredia, Mywish K., Michigan State University: 82, 124,

2076, 2109, 2111, 2131

Marenya, Paswel P., International Food Policy Research

Institute: 1069

Mark, Tyler B., University of Kentucky: 2012

Markel, Evan L., University of Tennessee, Knoxville: 1049,

1112

Marquez Alcala, German A., Purdue University: 2087

Marra, Michele C., North Carolina State University: 1116

Marre, Alexander W., USDA-Economic Research Service: 1113

Marsh, Thomas L., Washington State University: 126, 2135

Marshall, Elizabeth, USDA-Economic Research Service: 1070

Marshall, Kandice K., USDA-Economic Research Service:

1041

Marshall, Maria I., Purdue University: 70

Martin, William J., International Food Policy Research

Institute: 1034

Martines-Filho, Joao G., University of Sao Paulo: 1067

Marxen, Lucas, New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station,

Rutgers University: 130

Mason, Nicole M., Michigan State University: 1055, 1126,

2020, 2076, 2118, 2129

Mason-D’Croz, Daniel, International Food Policy Research

Institute: 2001

Masters, William A., Tufts University: 1093, 2002, 2013

Mata, Anna D., Centro de Investigacion y Docencia

Economicas: 1006

Mathews, Leah G., University of North Carolina - Asheville:

1062

Matsuda, Norihiko, University of Wisconsin: 1014

Matsutaka, Daiki, University of Tokyo: 54

Mbarek, Marouene, Agrocampus Ouest: 117

McAlister, Anna R., Endicott College: 1107

McArthur, Travis, University of Wisconsin: 2020

McBride, Linden, Cornell University: 2078

McCalla, Alexander F., University of California, Davis: 1054,

1118, 2030

McCarl, Bruce A., Texas A&M University: 1101, 2094

McCarty, Tanner, Purdue University: 1112

McClung, Anna, United States Department of Agriculture:

2027

McCluskey, Jill J., Washington State University: 75, 1010,

1031, 1043, 1088, 2132

McConnell, Michael J., USDA-Economic Research Service:

2035

McConnell, Virginia, University of Maryland, Baltimore

County and Resources for the Future: 106

McCorkle, Dean A., Texas A&M University: 2114

McCouch, Susan, Cornell University: 2027

McCoy, Stacy, Purdue University: 1016

McCracken, Vicki A., Washington State University: 41, 2016

McCullough, Michael P., California Polytechnic State

University: 1089, 1123

McFadden, Brandon R., University of Florida: 2009

McFadden, Jonathan, USDA-Economic Research Service:

1108, 2076

McFerson, James R., Washington Tree Fruit Research

Commission: 2016

McGuire, William Henry, University of Washington Tacoma:

2006

McKendree, Melissa, Kansas State University: 2005

McKenzie, Andrew M., University of Arkansas: 2043

McLaughlin, Edward, Cornell University: 1019

McLaughlin, Patrick W., USDA-Economic Research Service:

2040

McLeod, Elizabeth, Clemson University: 1045

Mcmillan, Margaret, International Food Policy Research

Institute: 1055

2016 AAEA Annual Meeting Program

165

Participant and Author Index

McMinn, Nicole, University of Arkansas: 2004

McNamara, Paul E., University of Illinois at Urbana-

Champaign: 1113

Meade, Birgit G., USDA-Economic Research Service: 1126

Meadowcroft, Devon P., University of Delaware: 2119

Mecklenbrauck, Verena, Purdue University: 1101

Medina, Alexis, Stanford University: 2071

Meemken, Eva-Marie, University of Goettingen: 2049

Meinzen-Dick, Ruth, International Food Policy Research

Institute: 1069

Mekonnen, Dawit K., International Food Policy Research

Institute: 1126, 2078

Melo, Grace Rocio, University of Georgia: 1101, 1110

Melstrom, Richard T., Oklahoma State University: 2039, 2100

Melton, Alex, USDA-Economic Research Service: 1063

Menard, Jamey, University of Tennessee: 1005

Meng, Ting, University of Pennsylvania: 1044, 2126

Meng, Xianwei, University of Wisconsin: 1111

Mensah, Justice T., Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences:

2003

Mérel, Pierre, University of California, Davis: 2126

Meriggi, Niccolo F., Wageningen University: 2118

Merlo, Caitlin, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention:

2122

Messer, Kent D., University of Delaware: 37, 39

Messina, William A., University of Florida: 2029, 2038

Meyer, Kevin, Iowa State University: 1099

Meyerhoefer, Chad D., Lehigh University: 1038

Meyers, William H., University of Missouri: 1087

Miao, Ruiqing, Auburn University: 1015, 2096

Micha, Renata, Tufts University: 1126

Michaud, Clayton P., University of Rhode Island: 1027, 1058

Micheels, Eric T., University of Saskatchewan: 1092

Michelson, Hope C., University of Illinois at Urbana-

Champaign: 1069, 2013, 2109, 2117

Michler, Jeffrey D., Purdue University: 2074, 2112

Mihiar, Christopher, Oregon State University: 1082

Miller, Gabrielle, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention:

2122

Miller, Laurie C., Tufts Medical Center: 2111

Miller, Noah J., Kansas State University: 108

Mills, Bradford F., Virginia Tech: 2131

Minor, Travis, Food and Drug Administration: 1076

Minot, Nicholas, International Food Policy Research Institute:

2112

Miranda, Bruno V., University of Missouri-Columbia: 2114

Miranda, Mario J., The Ohio State University: 127, 2007,

2046, 2124

Miranowski, John A., Iowa State University: 1108, 2027

Mirzaei, Omid, University of Saskatchewan: 1092

Mishra, Ashok K., Arizona State University: 9, 1018, 1027,

1071, 2033, 2039, 2081, 2124

Mishra, Khushbu, The Ohio State University: 2007

Misra, Sukant K., Texas Tech University: 1024

Mitchell, Lorraine S., USDA-Economic Research Service:

1063, 2021

Mitchell, Paul D., University of Wisconsin: 105

Miyamoto, Bruno C. B., State University of Campinas: 1082

Mo, Di, Stanford University: 2071

Mohapatra, Sandeep, University of Alberta: 2020

Mondesir, Ralph I., Clemson University: 18

Monger, Randall G., Colorado State University: 2059

Monteiro, Diogo Souza, Newcastle University: 1074

Montenegro Guerra, María José, University of Alberta: 2020

Moon, Junghoon, Seoul National University: 1074

Moon, Wanki, Southern Illinois University Carbondale: 2120

Mooney, Daniel F., University of Wisconsin: 134

Morales, Andrea, Arizona State University: 1114

Morgan, Kimberly L., Virginia Tech: 1031

Morgan, Stephen N., Michigan State University: 2118

Moschini, GianCarlo, Iowa State University: 1006, 2063,

2077

Moss, Charles B., University of Florida: 1027, 1093, 2039

Motallebi, Marzieh, Clemson University: 1081

Motamed, Mesbah J., USDA-Economic Research Service: 128

Mozaffarian, Dariush, Tufts University: 1126

Mu, Jianhong, Oregon State University: 1081, 1082, 2023

Mugabe, Douglas, West Virginia University: 2076

Mugera, Amin William, University of Western Australia: 2093

Muhammad, Andrew, USDA-Economic Research Service:

1126

Mulik, Kranti, Union of Concerned Scientists: 2040

Mullally, Conner, University of Florida: 2111

Muller, Laurent F., Institut National de la Recherche

Agronomique: 61

Mulmi, Prajula, Tufts University: 2013

Muoki, Penina, International Potato Center: 2009

Musliu, Arben, University of Prishtina: 53

Musshoff, Oliver, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen: 2056

Musumba, Mark, Columbia University: 2023, 2125

Muth, Mary K., RTI International: 2106

Muyanga, Milu, Michigan State University: 2129

Myers, Will, Cambridge Brewing Company: 1089

166

Participant and Author Index

Nagarajan, Latha, Rutgers University: 1093

Nakajima, Toru, University of Tokyo: 54, 1035

Nakasone, Eduardo A., Michigan State University: 2117

Nalley, Lawton L., University of Arkansas: 2082, 2127

Nan, Zhibiao, Lanzhou University, China: 2060

Narayanan Gopalakrishnan, Badri, Purdue University: 1087

Narayanan, Sudha, Indira Gandhi Institute for Development

Research: 1047

Narrod, Clare A., University of Maryland: 1117

Naschold, Felix, University of Wyoming: 115, 1046

Naseem, Anwar, Rutgers University: 1093

Nayga, Rodolfo M., University of Arkansas: 1032, 1043,

1059, 1075, 2047, 2082, 2098, 2121, 2133

Nazli, Hina, IFPRI’s Pakistan Strategy Support Program: 2109

Nehring, Richard F., USDA-Economic Research Service: 2005,

2115

Neill, Clinton L., Oklahoma State University: 43, 1028, 1121

Nelson, Charles H., University of Illinois at Urbana-

Champaign: 2026

Nelson, David, Purdue University: 2057

Nemati, Mehdi, University of Kentucky: 1017, 1109, 2113

Neumann, Sabina, United States International Trade

Commission: 2029

Neupane, Santosh, University of Tennessee, Knoxville: 1102

Newton, John C., National Milk Producers Federation: 2070,

2086

Ng, Desmond W., Texas A&M University: 1092

Nguyen, Huong T., Deakin University, Australia: 2054

Niang, Ousmane, United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund:

2111

Nichele, Veronique, Institut National de la Recherche

Agronomique: 1103

Nigatu, Getachew S., USDA-Economic Research Service:

1016, 2083

Nikolov, Plamen, State University of New York: 2118

Niu, Chiyu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: 1014

Njuki, Eric, University of Connecticut: 2060

Noel, Jay, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis

Obispo: 1062, 1123

Noguchi, Haruko, Waseda University: 2090

Nolan, James F., University of Saskatchewan: 2016

Norton, George W., Virginia Tech: 123

Nourani, Vesall, Cornell University: 2117

Novak, Lindsey K., University of Minnesota: 1069, 1114

Novan, Kevin, University of California, Davis: 1033

Nuñez, Hector M., Centro de Investigación y Docencia

Económicas: 1006

Nuno-Ledesma, Jose, Purdue University: 1001

O’Brien, Daniel M., Kansas State University: 1009

O’Donoghue, Erik J., USDA-Economic Research Service: 128,

1068

Obersteiner, Michael, International Institute for Applied

Systems Analysis: 1118

Ochieng, Dennis O., Goettingen University: 2125

Odening, Martin, Humboldt University Berlin: 2067

Oehmke, James F., United States Agency for International

Development: 1093

Ofori, Eric M. K., Mississippi State University: 1039

Ogundari, Kolawole, University of Delaware: 1098, 2041

Oh, Jung, Kansas State University, Salina: 2057

Ohrel, Sara B., U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: 1101

Okello, Julius J., International Potato Center: 2009, 2109

Okrent, Abigail M., USDA-Economic Research Service: 1119,

2014

Olabiyi, Olayemi, Southern Alberta Institute of Technology:

2026

Oliver, Anthony, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign:

1030

Oliver, Jeffrey R., Michigan State University: 1026, 1096

Ollinger, Michael E., USDA-Economic Research Service: 2122

Olmstead, Sheila, Resources for the Future: 1033

Olmstead, Sheila, University of Texas-Austin: 1061

Oloﬁn, Ibironke, Harvard School of Public Health: 2013

Olson, Frayne, North Dakota State University: 1023

Omotilewa, Oluwatoba J., Purdue University: 2089

Oñate, Carlos Andrés, University of Sao Paulo: 1068

Onel, Gulcan, University of Florida: 2039, 2111

Opoku, Nelson, University for Development Studies: 1016

Orians, Colin M., Tufts University: 2066

Orloski, Kathleen A., USDA-Animal and Plant Health

Inspection Service: 1050

Orlowski, Jan A., University of Sydney: 1051

Orquin, Jacob L., Aarhus University: 2133

Ortega, David L., Michigan State University: 88, 1036, 2044

Ortiz-Bobea, Ariel, Cornell University: 1099, 1121, 2102,

2126

Osei, Edward, Tarleton State University: 1015, 1038, 1051,

2027

Osei-Asare, Yaw, University Ghana: 1039

Osinubi, Adenola O., University of Georgia: 1101

Ouedraogo, Aissatou, Michigan State University: 2118

Outlaw, Joe L., Texas A&M University: 5, 1094

Owen, Stephanie, University of Tennessee: 1005

Ozaki, Vitor, University of Sao Paulo: 1068

P, Padmaja, Centre for Economic and Social Studies,

Hyderabad: 59

2016 AAEA Annual Meeting Program

167

Participant and Author Index

Page, Elina T., USDA-Economic Research Service: 1119

Paggi, Mechel S., California State University, Fresno: 2038

Palacios-Lopez, Amparo, World Bank: 2129

Palm-Forster, Leah H., University of Delaware: 39

Palma, Marco A., Texas A&M University: 112, 1114, 2010,

2029, 2052, 2137

Palmer, Karen L., Resources for the Future: 1030

Pangjai, Siwarut, Khon Kaen University: 1012

Pannell, David J., University of Western Australia: 1012

Panzone, Luca A., Newcastle University: 2066

Parcell, Joe L., University of Missouri: 1104, 2132

Pardey, Philip G., University of Minnesota: 1034, 1098, 2105

Park, Eunchun, Oklahoma State University: 1052

Park, Sangsoo, Korea University: 2121

Park, Sohyun, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention:

2122

Park, Timothy A., USDA-Economic Research Service: 2040,

2125

Parker, Nathan C., Arizona State University: 2127

Parks, Moon, University of California, Berkeley: 1046

Parman, Bryon J., Mississippi State University: 2051

Parsons, Robert L., University of Vermont: 2010, 2081

Partridge, Mark D., The Ohio State University: 1064

Pasirayi, Simba, Arizona State University: 1035, 1114

Passarelli, Simone, International Food Policy Research

Institute: 1069, 1126

Pates, Nicholas J., Kansas State University: 2006

Pattanaik, Nalini, Fort Valley State University: 1105

Paudel, Jayash, University of Massachusetts Amherst: 2042

Paudel, Krishna P., Louisiana State University: 72, 1024, 2125

Paukett, Michelle, Texas A&M University: 44

Paul, Anthony, Resources for the Future: 1030

Paulson, Nicholas D., University of Illinois at Urbana-

Champaign: 1094, 2036

Pavlova, Evgenia, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen: 1067

Pearson, Ryan, Purdue University: 2080

Peel, Derrell, Oklahoma State University: 1004

Pellerano, Luca, International Labour Organization: 2111

Pena-Levano, Luis M., Purdue University: 98, 1021, 1052,

1067, 1101, 2052

Pendell, Dustin L., Kansas State University: 1007, 1048, 2004

Pender, John L., USDA-Economic Research Service: 2101

Peng, Lizhong, American Institutes for Research: 1038

Penn, Jerrod, University of Kentucky: 1041, 1042

Pennings, Joost M. E., Maastricht University: 1092

Peo, Audrey J., University of Delaware: 2122

Peralta, Denis, Utah State University: 2022

Percival, Susan S., University of Florida: 22, 48

Perez Dominguez, Ignacio, European Commission: 1109

Perez, Agnes, USDA-Economic Research Service: 1010

Perez-Quesada, Gabriela, Universidad de la Republica: 2005

Perlinger, Matt, University of Nebraska-Lincoln: 1059

Perrin, Richard K., University of Nebraska-Lincoln: 1037,

2017

Perry, Gregory M., Colorado State University: 1062

Peschel, Anne O., Aarhus University: 2009

Peterson, Everett B., Virginia Tech: 1017, 1048

Peterson, Hikaru Hanawa, University of Minnesota: 51, 1085

Peterson, Paul E., Chicago Mercantile Exchange: 1013

Phadera, Lokendra, University of Illinois at Urbana-

Champaign: 2087

Pham, Cong S., Deakin University: 2054

Pham, Matthew V., Landmark College: 2122

Philips, Joshua, University of Georgia: 2044

Phuong, Nguyen, International Food Policy Research Institute:

1107

Piet, Laurent, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique:

1078

Pin, Paolo, University of Siena: 2117

Pino, Gabriel, Universidad de Talca: 2120

Plastina, Alejandro, Iowa State University: 6, 2099

Pokharel, Krishna P., Kansas State University: 1009, 2099

Pon, Shirley, University of Maryland, College Park: 1050

Pope, Elizabeth, University of Vermont: 2130

Popp, Jennie S., University of Arkansas: 2098

Popp, Michael P., University of Arkansas: 2008

Poppe, Robert, Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Internationale

Zusammenarbeit: 1047

Porter, Maria, Michigan State University: 2071

Porth, Lysa, University of Manitoba: 1008, 1068, 1115

Post, Lori A., Yale University: 1093

Pouliot, Sebastien, Iowa State University: 2082

Power, Gabriel, Laval University: 2064

Pozo, Veronica F., Utah State University: 2011, 2045

Pradesha, Angga, International Food Policy Research Institute:

1106

Prager, Daniel, USDA-Economic Research Service: 2004

Prain, Gordon, International Potato Center: 2009

Prakash, Aseem, University of Washington: 2006

Pray, Carl E., Rutgers University: 1093, 1124

Preckel, Paul V., Purdue University: 2027, 2098

Price, Edwin C., Texas A&M University: 2053

Printezis, Antonios, Arizona State University: 1056, 2068

Printezis, Iryna, Arizona State University: 1056, 2068

168

Participant and Author Index

Protopop, Iuliia, University of Nebraska-Lincoln: 2115

Pruitt, Ross, University of Tennessee at Martin: 2070

Prusevich, Alexander, University of New Hampshire: 1098

Puggioni, Daniela, The Pennsylvania State University: 1020

Qaim, Matin, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen: 2049,

2050, 2125

Qenani, Eivis, California Polytechnic State University: 1038

Qi, Danyi, The Ohio State University: 2001

Qian, Lifan, University of Florida: 1109

Qing, Liu, Zhejiang University: 1122

Qing, Ping, Huazhong Agricultural University: 1122

Qiu, Feng, University of Alberta: 120, 1021, 1103, 2048

Qiu, Huanguang, Renmin University of China: 17

Qiu, Yun, The Ohio State University: 2055

Qu, Mingyang, Cornell University: 1019

Quagrainie, Kwamena K., Purdue University: 1012

Quisumbing, Agnes R., International Food Policy Research

Institute: 2074

Rabinowitz, Adam N., University of Connecticut: 1032, 1056,

2048, 2116

Rada, Nicholas E., USDA-Economic Research Service: 2097

Rahe, Mallory L., Oregon State University: 2101

Rahkovsky, Ilya M., USDA-Economic Research Service: 1119

Rajagopal, Deepak, University of California, Los Angeles:

1053

Rajbhandari Thapa, Janani, University of Georgia: 1004,

1114, 2130

Ramani, Shyama, United Nations University - Merit: 2088

Ramos, Sean, USDA-Economic Research Service: 1063

Ramsey, Steven, Kansas State University: 2056

Randriamamonjy, Josée, International Food Policy Research

Institute: 1126

Rao, Xudong, Wageningenin University: 1090, 1098

Rasetti, Michele, Università Politecnica delle Marche: 1101

Ray, Mukesh K., Michigan State University: 82, 124, 2109

Ready, Richard C., The Pennsylvania State University: 2024

Reardon, Thomas A., Michigan State University: 1016

Redere, Linda, Aarhus University: 2133

Reed, Michael R., University of Kentucky: 1017, 2114

Reeling, Carson, Western Michigan University: 2100

Regmi, Madhav, Kansas State University: 25

Regonlinski, April, USDA-Food Safety and Inspection Service:

2106

Rehkamp, Sarah, USDA-Economic Research Service: 1098,

2092

Reilly, John M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 1091

Reimer, Jeffrey J., Oregon State University: 2061, 2086

Reis, Tiago, Amazon Environmental Research Institute: 2042

Rejesus, Roderick M., North Carolina State University: 33,

109, 1068, 1116

Remmenga, Marta D., USDA-Animal and Plant Health

Inspection Service: 1050

Renter, David G., Kansas State University: 1050

Requillart, Vincent, Toulouse School of Economics, Institut

National de la Recherche Agronomique/GREMAQ/IDEI: 1001

Revoredo-Giha, Cesar, Scotland’s Agricultural College: 2081

Reznickova, Anna, University of Wisconsin: 1105

Ribaudo, Marc O., USDA-Economic Research Service: 116,

1070

Ribera, Luis A., Texas A&M University: 1084, 1114, 2029,

2137

Richards, Peter, USAID-Bureau of Food Security: 2032

Richards, Timothy J., Arizona State University: 1039, 1044,

1077, 2018, 2079

Richardson, James W., Texas A&M University: 5, 1098

Richburg, Nicholas, Texas A&M University: 5

Rickard, Bradley J., Cornell University: 1010, 1019

Ricker-Gilbert, Jacob, Purdue University: 85, 1016, 2020,

2089, 2129

Rickertsen, Kyrre, Norwegian University of Life Sciences: 1043

Riesgo, Laura, European Commission, Institute for Prospective

Technological Studies: 2041

Rihn, Alicia, University of Florida: 1056

Riley, John Michael, Oklahoma State University: 1028, 2035

Rimsaite, Renata, The Pennsylvania State University: 1033

Ringler, Claudia, International Food Policy Research Institute:

1126

Rizov, Marian, University of Lincoln: 2084

Robbat, Albert, Tufts University: 2066

Robe, Michel A., American University: 1011

Roberts, Cleophelia, International Food Policy Research

Institute: 1126

Roberts, Michael James, University of Hawaii at Manoa: 2102

Roberts, Roland K., University of Tennessee: 1116

Robichaud, Christina A., University of Maine: 122

Robison, Lindon J., Michigan State University: 1026, 1096

Robles, Miguel, International Food Policy Research Institute:

2104

Roche, Erin, University of Vermont: 1059, 2068, 2130

Rodriguez, Divina Gracia P., Norwegian Institute of

Bioeconomy Research: 1116

Rodriguez, Nestor M., USDA-Economic Research Service: 66,

1036, 1107

Roe, Brian E., The Ohio State University: 1012, 2001, 2122

Roe, Terry L., University of Minnesota: 2120

2016 AAEA Annual Meeting Program

169

Participant and Author Index

Rogers, Beatrice L., Tufts University: 2111

Rojas Valdes, Ruben I., University of California, Davis: 2087

Rolfe, John C., Central Queensland University: 1043, 1065

Rollins, Kimberly S., University of Nevada, Reno: 35

Roosen, Jutta, Technical University of Munich: 2133

Rosas, Juan F., Universidad ORT Uruguay: 1020

Rosburg, Alicia, University of Northern Iowa: 1108

Rosch, Stephanie D., USDA-Economic Research Service:

1025, 1045

Rosegrant, Mark W., International Food Policy Research

Institute: 2001, 2093, 2129

Roson, Roberto, Ca’Foscari University: 98

Ross, Kara, Kansas State University: 38

Rothler, Yoav, Tel Aviv University: 2092

Rousseliere, Damien, Agrocampus Ouest: 117, 2088

Rousseliere, Samira, ONIRIS: 2088

Roy, Devesh, International Food Policy Research Institute: 101,

1039, 2121

Roy, Soma, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis

Obispo: 1038

Rozelle, Scott D., Stanford University: 2071

Ruan, Xiaofeng, University of Alberta: 1021

Rucker, Randal R., Montana State University: 2031

Rudi, Jeta, University of Minnesota: 52

Rufﬁeux, Bernard, Institut National de la Recherche

Agronomique: 61

Rupasingha, Anil, USDA-Economic Research Service: 1113

Rusiana, Hofner D., University of Georgia: 80

Rusmevichientong, Pimbucha, California State University,

Fullerton: 69

Russell, Levi A., Texas A&M University: 5, 1112, 2080

Saak, Alexander E., International Food Policy Research

Institute: 2040

Sacchi, Giovanna, Ca’Foscari University of Venice: 2047

Sachs, Eric, Monsanto Corporation: 2134

Saghaian, Sayed H., University of Kentucky: 1067

Sahin, Sebnem, World Bank: 2059

Sahn, David Ezra, Cornell University: 1047

Saint-Cyr, Legrand D. F., Agrocampus Ouest: 1078

Saitone, Tina L., University of California, Davis: 2121

Saksena, Michelle, USDA-Economic Research Service: 1010

Sakurai, Takeshi, Hitotsubashi University: 2046

Salanié, Julien, Université Jean Monnet: 117, 1064

Salin, Victoria, Texas A&M University: 2045

Sall, Moussa, Institut Sénégalais de Recherches Agricoles

(ISRA): 1016

Salois, Mathew, University of Florida: 1121

Salois, Matthew J., Elanco Animal Health: 2135

Sam, Abdoul G., The Ohio State University: 2007

Samarasinghe, Oshadhi, Landcare Research: 119

Samek, Anya, University of Southern California: 2119

Sanchez, Leonardo, Littoral Polytechnic School: 1092

Sanchirico, James N., University of California, Davis: 2090

Sande, Doris, North Carolina State University: 1116

Sanders, Dwight R., Southern Illinois University: 2

Sanderson, Benjamin L., Mississippi State University: 2051

Sandorf, Erlend D., Arctic University of Norway: 2024

Sandoval, Luis, Texas Tech University: 2104

Sanou, Awa, Michigan State University: 1016

Sant’Anna, Ana Claudia, Kansas State University: 2096

Santos Eusebio, Gabriela, State University of Campinas: 1082,

2049

Santos, Augusto, University of Sao Paulo: 1099

Sarica, Kemal, Isik University: 1030

Sauer, Christine M., Michigan State University: 2076

Sauer, Johannes, Technical University of Munich: 13, 1050,

1106

Sawada, Yasuyuki, University of Tokyo: 2090

Scarpa, Riccardo, Queens University - Belfast: 2047

Schaefer, K. Aleks, University of California, Davis: 2013

Schafer, Mark J., Louisiana State University: 72

Schaffstall, Samantha, USDA-Agricultural Marketing Service:

2068

Scheitrum, Daniel P., University of California, Davis: 2127

Schieffer, Jack, University of Kentucky: 14, 1124, 2012, 2014

Schmid, Erwin, University Fuer Bodenkultur Wien: 1118

Schmidhuber, Josef Georg, Food and Agriculture Organization

of the United Nations: 1118

Schmit, Todd M., Cornell University: 2033, 2101

Schmitz, Andrew, University of Florida: 2038

Schmitz, Troy G., Arizona State University: 1072

Schneekloth, Joel, Colorado State University: 2059

Schnitkey, Gary D., University of Illinois at Urbana-

Champaign: 1023, 1094

Schoengold, Karina, University of Nebraska-Lincoln: 2056

Schroeder, Ted C., Kansas State University: 1050

Schroeter, Christiane, California Polytechnic State University:

1059, 1085, 1119, 2034, 2106

Schulte-Geldermann, Elmar, International Potato Center:

2109

Schulze Bisping, Christin, University of Göttingen: 111

Schulze-Ehlers, Birgit, University of Goettingen: 2008

Schwab, Benjamin, Kansas State University: 65, 104

Schweizer, Heidi, University of California, Davis: 28

170

Participant and Author Index

Scott, Marci, Michigan Fitness Foundation: 2122

Scuderi, Samuel B., University of Maine: 1036

Seale, James L., University of Florida: 2039

Secor, William, University of Minnesota: 1077, 1095

Seeley, Ralph M., USDA-Economic Research Service: 1016

Segovia Coronel, Michelle Stefania, Texas A&M University:

1114

Seidu, Ayuba, University of Florida: 2039

Sekula, Danielle, Texas A&M University: 2115

Sene, Seydina O., Louisiana State University: 2125

Senia, Mark C., Texas A&M University: 2084

Serebrennikov, Dmytro, Leibniz Institute of Agricultural

Development in Transition Economies: 2001

Serrao, Amilcar J.C., University of Evora: 2043

Sesmero, Juan Pablo, Purdue University: 1015, 1037, 1108,

1112, 2077

Sexton, Richard J., University of California, Davis: 2036, 2121

Seymour, Greg, International Food Policy Research Institute:

1069

Shafer, Peter, Enterprise Solutions Inc: 1066

Shaik, Saleem, North Dakota State University: 110

Shang, Quanbiao, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign:

1011

Shanoyan, Aleksan, Kansas State University: 38

Shao, Guofan, Purdue University: 1102

Shapiro, Joseph S., Yale University and National Bureau of

Economic Research: 1070

Sharma, Bijay, University of Tennessee: 2008

Sharma, Sankalp, University of Nebraska-Lincoln: 2056

Sharp, Misti D., Colorado State University: 1021

Shaw Hughner, Renee, Arizona State University: 2009

Sheahan, Megan B., Precision Agriculture for Development:

1047, 2078

Shekhawat, Ravindra Singh, ICAR-Indian Agricultural

Statistics Research Institute: 81

Sheldon, Ian M., The Ohio State University: 2110

Shen, Meng, University of Florida: 1074

Shen, Zhiwei, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin: 2067

Sheng, Yu, Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource

Economics: 2005

Sherrick, Bruce J., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign:

2069

Shew, Aaron M., University of Arkansas: 2082, 2127

Shi, Guanming, University of Wisconsin: 2051

Shi, Wei, University of New Hampshire: 1036

Shi, Xiangdong, University of Minnesota at Twin Cities: 2005

Shi, Yaojiang, Shaanxi Normal University: 2071

Shively, Gerald E., Purdue University: 2013

Shkrelja, Anthony, USDA-Economic Research Service: 2123

Shoemaker, Robbin, National Institute of Food and

Agriculture: 2134

Shogren, Jason F., University of Wyoming: 1122

Shonkwiler, J. Scott, University of Georgia: 1041, 1042

Short, Gianna, University of Minnesota: 2082

Shortle, James S., The Pennsylvania State University: 1037

Shr, Yau-Huo, The Pennsylvania State University: 2024, 2058

Shupp, Robert S., Michigan State University: 124, 2118

Silva, Andres, French National Institute for Agricultural

Research: 2015

Silveira, Rodrigo L. F., University of Campinas: 1067, 2049

Silverio Murillo, Adan, University of Minnesota: 1046

Sims, Charles, University of Florida: 2066

Sims, Charles, University of Tennessee: 1112

Singerman, Ariel, University of Florida: 55, 62

Singh, Jaspal, National Institute of Agricultural Economics and

Policy Research: 1078

Siregar, Hermanto, Bogor Agricultural University, Indonesia:

2050

Sleeter, Benjamin, U.S. Geological Survey: 1082

Sliwa, Sarah, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: 2122

Smale, Melinda, Michigan State University: 2065, 2076, 2109

Small, Ian M., Cornell University: 2027

Smart, Richard Danvers, Technical University of Munich:

2037

Smith, Aaron D., University of California, Davis: 1033

Smith, David J., University of Minnesota: 1006, 2031, 2076

Smith, Katherine R., Council of Professional Associations on

Federal Statistics: 2069, 2073

Smith, Nathan, University of Georgia: 5

Smith, Travis A., University of Georgia: 19

Smith, Trenton, University of Otago: 1088

Smith, Vincent H., Montana State University: 1002, 2052

Sneeringer, Stacy E., USDA-Economic Research Service: 1003,

1050

Sohngen, Brent, The Ohio State University: 2017

Soler, Louis Georges, Institut National de la Recherche

Agronomique: 1001, 1014

Somwaru, Agapi L.: 2103

Song, Jingyu, Purdue University: 2098

Songqing, Jin, Michigan State University: 57

Songsermsawas, Tisorn, International Fund for Agricultural

Development: 2109

Sonmez, Erkut, Boston College: 2088

Sonoda, Tadashi, Nagoya University: 1018

Soon, Byung Min, University of Missouri: 2054, 2123

2016 AAEA Annual Meeting Program

171

Participant and Author Index

Soto, José R., University of Florida: 2042

Souza Monteiro, Diogo M., Newcastle University: 2066

Spang, Edward, University of California, Davis: 1033

Spaulding, Aslihan D., Illinois State University: 1086

Spielman, David J., International Food Policy Research

Institute: 2050, 2109

Spraggon, John, University of Massachusetts Amherst: 2034

Sprenger, Charles, University of California, San Diego: 1025

Springborn, Michael R., University of California, Davis: 95

Sproul, Thomas W., University of Rhode Island: 1027, 1058,

2073

Srivastava, Lorie, University of California, Davis: 1099

Srivastava, Shivendra K., National Centre for Agricultural

Economics and Policy Research: 1078

Stabile, Marcelo, Amazon Environmental Research Institute:

2042

Staples, Mark D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 125

Staudigel, Matthias, University of Alberta: 1107

Stavins, Robert, Harvard University: 1091

Steed, Steve, Tarleton State University: 1038

Steele, Marie E., Michigan State University: 2082

Stefanou, Spiro E., University of Florida: 1020, 2060

Stein, Roger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 2064

Steinbach, Sandro, ETH Zurich: 97, 1111

Stepp, Richard, University of Florida: 2066

Sterner, Thomas, University of Gothenburg: 1099

Sterns, James A., Oregon State University: 1031

Stock, James, Harvard University: 1030, 1091

Stockton, Matthew C., University of Nebraska-Lincoln: 1106

Stoefﬂer, Quentin, University of California, Davis: 1046

Storm, Hugo, Bonn University: 2096

Stowe, Christina Jill, University of Kentucky: 3

Streletskaya, Nadia A., Cornell University: 2018, 2079

Strelow, Kai-Uwe, University of Mainz: 2079

Stutzman, Sarah A., Purdue University: 1067

Sullins, Martha J., Colorado State University: 2022

Sumner, Daniel A., University of California, Davis: 1045, 2031

Sun, Yu, Virginia Tech: 1018

Sunding, David L., University of California, Berkeley: 2113

Sung, Jae-hoon, Iowa State University: 2027

Supalla, Raymond J., University of Nebraska-Lincoln: 1051

Suryadarma, Daniel, Center for International Forestry

Research: 2131

Suter, Jordan F., Colorado State University: 39, 2059, 2113

Swallow, Brent M., University of Alberta: 2020

Swallow, Stephen K., University of Connecticut: 1042

Sweitzer, Megan D., USDA-Economic Research Service: 1119,

2014

Swinnen, Johan F.M., University of Leuven: 1034, 2105

Swinton, Scott M., Michigan State University: 103, 1053

Sydow, Sharon, USDA-Ofﬁce of the Chief Economist: 1017

Sylvan, Derek, New York University: 2024

Sylvia, Sean Y., University of Maryland: 2071

Tack, Jesse B., Mississippi State University: 1068, 1116, 2028,

2051, 2067, 2102, 2127

Tafere, Kibrom, Cornell University: 1100

Taha, Fawzi A., USDA-Economic Research Service: 2123

Taheripour, Farzad, Purdue University: 1021, 1106, 2016,

2059

Tahirou, Abdoulaye, International Institute of Tropical

Agriculture: 85

Takahashi, Taro, University of Bristol: 54

Tan, Ken Seng, University of Waterloo: 1008, 1115

Tandon, Sharad A., USDA-Economic Research Service: 1079

Tang, Liqun, Zhejiang University: 2097

Tang, Zhong, Renmin University of China: 2004

Taraz, Vis P., Smith College: 1082, 2003

Tasdighi, Ali, Colorado State University: 1081

Tauer, Loren W., Cornell University: 7

Taylor, Daniel B., Virginia Tech: 118

Taylor, Edward, University of California, Davis: 2087

Taylor, Gerard L., Michigan State University: 2122

Taylor, J. Edward, University of California, Davis: 2090, 2111

Taylor, Michael H., University of Nevada, Reno: 35

Taylor, Mykel R., Kansas State University: 11, 1094

Taylor, Rebecca, University of California, Berkeley: 1019

Tejeda, Hernan A., Utah State University: 2045, 2123

Tekleselassie, Tsegay G., University of Sussex: 1047

Templeton, Scott R., Clemson University: 18

Teuber, Ramona, University of Copenhagen: 2040

Theriault, Veronique, Michigan State University: 86, 2008,

2065

Thiel, Kristen, University of Tennessee: 2128

Thilmany McFadden, Dawn D., Colorado State University:

1085, 2022, 2033, 2068, 2080

Thiyagarajah, Meena, University of Florida: 2077

Thomassin, Paul J., McGill University: 10

Thome, Karen E., USDA-Economic Research Service: 2111

Thompson, Alexandra, Resources for the Future: 1061

Thompson, Jada, Colorado State University: 1048

Thompson, Stanley R., The Ohio State University: 1048

Thompson, Wyatt, University of Missouri: 1101, 2054, 2123

Thomsen, Michael R., University of Arkansas: 2043, 2121

172

Participant and Author Index

Thomson, Jennifer, University of Cape Town: 2037

Thornsbury, Suzanne D., USDA-Economic Research Service:

2035

Thurlow, James, International Food Policy Research Institute:

2002

Thurman, Wally, North Carolina State University: 2031

Tian, Xiaohui, Renmin University of China: 17, 2017

Tiboldo, Giulia, University of Connecticut: 2116

Tjernström, Emilia, University of Wisconsin: 1120

Todd, Jessica E., USDA-Economic Research Service: 1019

Todey, Dennis, South Dakota State University: 2113

Todo, Yasuyuki, Waseda University: 2090

Toensmeyer, Ulrich C., University of Delaware: 2119

Tokgoz, Simla, International Food Policy Research Institute:

2097

Toledo, Patricia, Ohio University: 2007

Tomek, William G., Cornell University: 1067

Tonsor, Glynn T., Kansas State University: 2005, 2135

Torero, Maximo, International Food Policy Research Institute:

2117

Torres, Ariana, Purdue University: 70

Towe, Charles A., University of Connecticut: 26, 58, 2012,

2044

Tra, Constant, University of Nevada, Las Vegas: 26, 2012

Tran, Anh Nam, University of Missouri: 1016

Tran, Dat Q., North Carolina A&T State University: 1115

Tran, Miah Van, University of Nebraska-Lincoln: 1004

Travadon, Renaud, USDA-Agricultural Research Service: 2005

Travis, Elli, Virginia Tech: 2117

Traxler, Greg, Evans School of Public Policy & Governance,

University of Washington: 1093

Tregeagle, Daniel, University of California, Berkeley: 2005

Tripathi, Gaurav, International Food Policy Research Institute:

1039

Troendle, Jason, Cornell University: 7

Tropp, Debra S., USDA-Agricultural Marketing Service: 2068

Tsalis, George, Aarhus University: 2133

Tschirley, David L., Michigan State University: 57

Tsiboe, Francis, University of Arkansas: 38, 1047, 2082, 2089,

2127

Tsusaka, Takuji W., International Crops Research Institute for

the Semi-Arid Tropics: 1035

Tuan, Francis C., World Agricultural Economic and

Environmental Services: 2099, 2103

Tulman, Sarah, USDA-Economic Research Service: 1068

Turner, Steven C., Mississippi State University: 1031, 2132

Turvey, Calum G., Cornell University: 1090

Ty, Dyna, University of Georgia: 23

Tyagi, Ashish, The Pennsylvania State University: 121, 1037

Tyner, Wallace E., Purdue University: 125, 1021, 1030, 1049,

1099, 2016

Ubilava, David, University of Sydney: 1051, 2102

Ufer, Danielle, Colorado State University: 2025

Ulimwengu, John M., International Food Policy Research

Institute: 1126

Umberger, Wendy J., University of Adelaide: 1043, 1065,

2084

Upton, Joanna B., Cornell University: 2046

Urso, Fabiana S. P., BM&F Bovespa: 1067

Useche, Maria P., University of Florida: 62, 2076

Useche, Pilar, University of Florida: 1069

Utterback, Matthew L., Cornell University: 1099

Valdes, Constanza, USDA-Economic Research Service: 1021,

1078

Valdez-Lafarga, Octavio, Arizona State University: 1072

Valin, Hugo, International Institute for Applied Systems

Analysis: 1118

Valizadeh, Pourya, University of Georgia: 19

Valmonte-Santos, Rowena, International Food Policy Research

Institute: 2001

Van Der Mensbrugghe, Dominique, Purdue University: 1118

Van Der Sluis, Evert, South Dakota State University: 132,

1111

Van Deynze, Braeden, Michigan State University: 103

Van Dop, Molly, Purdue University: 2077

Van EnglesDorp, Dennis, University of Maryland: 2031

Van Loo, Ellen J., Ghent University, Belgium: 2133

Van Meijl, Hans, LEI-Wageningen University: 1118

Van Sandt, Anders T., Colorado State University: 2022

Van Tongeren, Frank, Organisation for Economic Co-

operation and Development: 1118

VanDellan, Michelle, University of Georgia: 2130

VanSickle, John J., University of Florida: 2077

VanWormer, Elizabeth, University of Nebraska-Lincoln: 2050

Varma, Poornima, Indian Institute of Management: 2076

Vasquez-Panizza, Rodrigo, Purdue University: 1101

Vassalos, Michael, Clemson University: 1105, 2136

Vedenov, Dmitry, Texas A&M University: 2052, 2064

Veettil, Prakashan Chellattan, International Rice Research

Institute: 2049, 2125

Velandia, Margarita M., University of Tennessee: 1116

Venus, Thomas Johann, Wageningen University: 27, 63, 2037

Ver Ploeg, Michele L., USDA-Economic Research Service:

1032, 2072, 2084

Verbeke, Wim A.J., University of Ghent: 2133

2016 AAEA Annual Meeting Program

173

Participant and Author Index

Verdier, Valentin, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill:

2100

Vergara, Oscar, Air Worldwide: 1125

Verteramo Chiu, Leslie J., Cornell University: 60, 1067

Viceisza, Angelino, Spelman College: 1025

Vielma Delano, Soﬁa K., Purdue University: 1012

Viergutz, Tim, University of Goettingen: 2008

Villa, Kira M., University of New Mexico: 1047, 2053

Villanueva, Raul, Texas A&M University: 2115

Villoria, Nelson B., Kansas State University: 2098

Vogel, Stephen J., USDA-Economic Research Service: 2033

Vollenweider, Xavier, London School of Economics and

Political Science: 2117

Volpe, Richard J., California Polytechnic University: 1089

Von Cramon, Stephan, University of Göttingen: 111, 1034,

1067

Vorotnikova, Ekaterina A., University of Idaho: 1036, 2096

Vrachioli, Maria, University of Florida: 2060

Vu, Lien T. B., Matsuyama University: 1018

Vyn, Tony, Purdue University: 1015

Wailes, Eric J., University of Arkansas: 53

Waldrop, Megan, Washington State University: 1043

Wallace, Michelle, Vermont Foodbank: 1059

Waller, Mark L., Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service: 5

Walls, Margaret, Resources for the Future: 1064

Walters, Lurleen M., Mississippi State University: 1031, 1063

Wang, Chenggang, Texas Tech University: 2060

Wang, Diane, Cornell University: 2027

Wang, Haigang, Central University of Finance and Economics:

1124

Wang, Haiyan, Texas Tech University: 2123

Wang, Haoluan, University of Alberta: 1021, 1103

Wang, Haoying, Cornell University: 2055

Wang, Hong Holly, Purdue University: 1095, 1122

Wang, Ping, Auburn University: 91

Wang, Qingbin, University of Vermont: 2010, 2054, 2081

Wang, Rui, Tulane University: 1052, 2011

Wang, Shuo, University of Manitoba: 1115

Wang, Sun Ling, USDA-Economic Research Service: 2099

Wang, Tong, Texas AgriLife Research: 2023, 2113

Wang, Weiwei, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign:

1053

Wang, Xiaobing, Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy,

Chinese Academy of Sciences: 2099

Wang, Xiaojin, University of Kentucky: 1044

Wang, Yanbing, Purdue University: 2044

Wang, Yang, North Carolina State University: 1073

Wang, Yangyang, Purdue University: 1102

Wang, Yiqiu, Nanjing Agricultural University: 2071

Wang, Yongli, General Ofﬁce, the People’s Government of

Fujian Province, P. R. China: 131

Wang, Yumeng, Renmin University of China: 1074

Ward, Patrick S., International Food Policy Research Institute:

2050, 2078, 2092

Ward, Ruby A., Utah State University: 1057, 2068

Watto, Muhammad, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad:

2093

Weatherspoon, Dave D., Michigan State University: 1072,

1093, 2082, 2122

Weber, Bruce A., Oregon State University: 1060, 1064, 2101

Wechsler, Seth J., USDA-Economic Research Service: 2076

Weerasooriya, Senal A., Oregon State University: 2061, 2086

Wei, Sichao, University of Wyoming: 2095

Wei, Xuan, University of Florida: 2039, 2128

Weiss, Christoph, Vienna University of Economics: 46

Weiss, Franz, European Commission: 1109

Welch, Mark, Texas A&M University: 5

Weldzius, Ryan, University of California, Los Angeles: 1053

Weninger, Quinn, Iowa State University: 1040

Wesseler, Justus H., Wageningen University: 2037

West, Grant H., University of Arkansas: 2008

Wetzstein, Brian, Zen-Noh Grain Corporation: 1073, 2083

Wetzstein, Michael E., Purdue University: 1073, 1086, 2001,

2083

Whistance, Jarrett, University of Missouri: 1101

Whitley, Daniel B., USDA-Foreign Agriculture Service: 2038

Wiggins, Seth, West Virginia University: 2095

Wilde, Parke E., Tufts University: 2084, 2107

Willett, Keith D., Oklahoma State University: 2113

Williams, Deborah A., Louisiana State University: 72

Williams, Niall, Connecticut College: 71

Williamson, James M., USDA-Economic Research Service:

2004

Willis, David Brian, Clemson University: 2049

Wilson, Norbert L.W., Auburn University: 91, 99, 2061

Wimberly, Michael, South Dakota State University: 2023

Windle, Jill, Central Queensland University: 1043, 1065

Wineman, Ayala Y., Michigan State University: 1110, 2020

Winter-Nelson, Alex E., University of Illinois at Urbana-

Champaign: 1069

Wolf, David M., The Ohio State University: 2012

Wolter, Peter T., Iowa State University: 1015

Wood, Benjamin D. K., International Initiative for Impact

Evaluation: 2026

174

Participant and Author Index

Wood, Dallas W., RTI International: 36

Woodard, Joshua D., Cornell University: 1027, 1045, 2027,

2043, 2073

Woods, Michael D., Oklahoma State University: 1060, 1085

Woods, Timothy A., University of Kentucky: 49

Worth, Thomas W., USDA-Risk Management Agency: 1068

Wrenn, Douglas H., The Pennsylvania State University: 1061,

1081

Wright, Brian D., University of California, Berkeley: 1041

Wu, Feng, University of Florida: 1098, 1124, 2087

Wu, JunJie, Oregon State University: 1064

Wu, Linhai, Jiangnan University School of Business: 1122

Wu, Qi, University of California, Davis: 2121

Wu, Steven Y., Purdue University: 1001, 1103

Wu, Ximing, Texas A&M University: 1052

Wu, Xiurou, Oregon State University: 2101

Wu, Yifei, University of Georgia: 2004

Wuepper, David, Technical University Munich: 1096

Xia, Tian, Kansas State University: 45

Xie, Yi, Arizona State University: 1044

Xiong, Bo, California Department of Social Services: 93, 94,

1017

Xu, Chang, The Ohio State University: 2007

Xu, Jin, Virginia Tech: 2044

Xu, Minhong, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign:

1061

Xu, Wenchao, Boise State University: 2093

Xu, Yilan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: 1061

Xu, Zhigang, Nanjing Agricultural University: 2097

Yamaura, Koichi, Tokyo University of Agriculture and

Technology: 51

Yan, Lei, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: 2

Yan, Zhen, Zhejiang University: 2097

Yang, Meng, University of Alberta: 120

Yang, Shang-Ho, National Chung Hsing University: 1074,

1122

Yang, Wei, University of Auckland: 1040

Yang, Yanliang, Virginia Tech: 67

Yao, Guolin, Purdue University: 125, 1049

Ye, Chunhui, Zhejiang University, China: 2097

Ye, Shiyu, University of Georgia: 1067

Yeager, Elizabeth A., Kansas State University: 1022, 1086,

2036, 2057

Yeboah, Felix K., Michigan State University: 1055

Yeh, Ching-Hua, University of Bonn: 1107

Yi, Jing, Texas A&M University: 1073

Yiannaka, Amalia, University of Nebraska-Lincoln: 1004,

1035

Yoo, Do-il, Chungbuk National University: 1067

Yoo, James, California Baptist University: 34

Yorobe, Jose M., University of the Philippines - Los Banos: 33,

109, 1068

You, Wen, Virginia Tech: 1018, 2072

Young, Jeffrey S., Purdue University: 113, 1049

Yu, Chin-Hsien, Southwestern University of Finance &

Economics: 1081

Yu, Jisang, University of California, Davis: 1045

Yu, Qiushuo, University of Connecticut: 1056

Yu, Tun-Hsiang Edward, University of Tennessee: 2008

Yu, Yi, Nanjing Agricultural University: 2049

Yuan, Xiaotong, Texas A&M University: 2010

Yue, Chengyan, University of Minnesota: 1056, 1074, 2016

Yun, Seong Do, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental

Studies: 1081, 2128

Zabawa, Robert, Tuskegee University: 2101

Zacharias, Tom, National Crop Insurance Services: 1125

Zahniser, Steven S., USDA-Economic Research Service: 2029

Zaidi, Fatima, International Food Policy Research Institute:

2109

Zambrano, Patricia, International Food Policy Research

Institute: 2109

Zansler, Marisa L., Florida Department of Citrus: 1035

Zapata, Hector O., Louisiana State University: 1024

Zapata, Samuel D., Texas A&M University: 2115

Zarebanadkoki, Samane, University of Kentucky: 49

Zaveri, Esha D., The Pennsylvania State University: 1081

Zaynutdinova, Gulnara, West Virginia University: 1083

Zeballos, Eliana, University of California, Davis: 1120

Zeng, Di, University of Arkansas: 1041

Zeng, Shuwei, University of Wisconsin: 2048, 2099

Zeng, Yating, Renmin University: 2071

Zeng, Yinchu, Renmin University: 2004

Zepeda, Lydia, University of Wisconsin: 1105, 2119

Zereyesus, Yacob A., Kansas State University: 38, 90, 1047,

2089

Zhang, Hongliang, Oregon State University: 1099

Zhang, Jian, University of California, Davis: 1124

Zhang, Jun, University of Maryland: 1104

Zhang, Junfeng, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry

Sciences: 136

Zhang, Linxiu, Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy: 2071

Zhang, Lisha, University of Florida: 1105

Zhang, Man, Rutgers University: 2071

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Participant and Author Index

Zhang, Ruojin, Washington State University: 2025

Zhang, Wei, Connecticut College: 71

Zhang, Wei, International Food Policy Research Institute:

1020, 2078

Zhang, Wei, Virginia Tech: 2103

Zhang, Wendong, Iowa State University: 17, 1026, 2058

Zhang, Yiyuan, University of Michigan: 2094

Zhang, Yu Yvette, Texas A&M University: 131, 2010

Zhang, Yu, Texas A&M University: 2053

Zhang, Yuehua, Zhejiang University: 1090

Zhang, Yuquan W., Shanghai Jiao Tong University: 2023, 2125

Zhao, Jinhua, Michigan State University: 2037, 2060

Zhao, Min Qiang, Xiamen University: 2100

Zhao, Shuoli, University of Minnesota: 1074

Zhao, Xiaobing, Northern Arizona University: 2055

Zhao, Xin, Purdue University: 1049, 1099

Zhao, Yuanfeng, Purdue University: 1124

Zhao, Yuying, University of Arkansas: 8

Zhen, Chen, Research Triangle Institute: 1076, 1119

Zheng, Qiujie, University of Alaska: 1122

Zheng, Xiaoyong, North Carolina State University: 1068

Zheng, Xuyuan, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University:

2097

Zheng, Yanan, University of Alberta: 2048

Zheng, Yuqing, University of Kentucky: 49, 1044, 1109,

2018, 2061

Zhong, Funing, Nanjing Agricultural University: 2103

Zhong, Hua, University of Kentucky: 2071

Zhong, Yingqi, Zhejiang University: 1122

Zhou, Guzhen, Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics:

1122, 1124, 2071

Zhou, Jiehong, Management School of Zhejiang University:

2097

Zhou, Jo, University of Adelaide: 2084

Zhou, Tianxia, University of California, Davis: 1033

Zhu, Heng, University of California, Davis: 2089

Zhu, Honggen, Jiangxi Agricultural University: 1124, 2128

Zhu, Jing, Nanjing Agricultural University: 2103

Zhu, Tingjun, Chinese Center for Disease Control and

prevention: 2071

Zhu, Wenjun, School of Finance, Nankai University: 1008

Zilberman, David, University of California, Berkeley: 1046,

1049, 1090, 1096, 2005, 2006, 2037

Zimmerman, Thea Pamer, Westat: 1119

Zipp, Katherine Y., The Pennsylvania State University: 2058

Ziska, Lewis, U.S. Department of Agriculture: 2027

Zissimopoulos, Angelika N., Purdue University: 2057

Zitouna, Habib, Tunisian Institute for Competitiveness and

Quantitative Studies: 2110

Zubek, Nana, University of Kiel: 2079

Zulauf, Carl R., The Ohio State University: 1075

Zuo, Na, University of Kentucky: 1124

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