Jeffrey T. LaFrance

•  Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Berkeley, 1998-present
• Professor of Economics, University of Arizona, 1994-1998
• Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics , University of Arizona, 1990-1998
• Visiting Professor of Agricultural Economics and Economics, Montana State University, 1996
• Senior Fulbright Scholar, LaTrobe University, Melbourne Australia, 1989
• Visiting Professor of Economics and Business, North Carolina State University, 1988
• Assistant and Associate Professor of Agricultural Economics and Economics, Montana State University, 1982-1990.
• Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Washington, 1984-1985.
• Ph.D., Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley CA, 1983.
• M.S., Applied Economics, Montana State University, Bozeman MT, 1979.
• B.S., Economics, Montana State University, Bozeman MT, 1977.

The research of Jeffrey T. LaFrance covers a broad range of topics, including economic dynamics, land degradation and sustainable agriculture, natural resource use and management, demand theory, nutrition and food demand, public range policy, and crop insurance. He has made significant contributions to modeling supply and demand relationships and to analyzing economic choices over time. He earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees in economics at Montana State University, and his Ph.D. in agricultural and resource economics at the University of California, Berkeley. His Ph.D. dissertation on nutrients and food demand won the AAEA's Outstanding Dissertation award and was a seminal contribution in an area central to many current questions of agricultural and food policy. He has been a Senior Fulbright Scholar, received numerous awards from the AAEA and WAEA, and has served on editorial councils of the WJAE, JEEM, and JARE, as associate editor of the AJAE, as editor of the JARE, as a referee for 35 scholarly journals, and on numerous committees of the AAEA and WAEA. During his career, he has been a faculty member at Montana State University, the University of Arizona, and the University of California, Berkeley.