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2003 AAEA Annual Awards

Katherine R. Smith, presiding

Outstanding Master's Thesis

    HIROMI OUCHI, "Japanese Consumer Preferences for Biotechnology and Food Safety," Washington State University, Jill McCluskey, Advisor

    Honorable Mention
    KRISTEN KIESEL, "Consumer Response to Biotech Food Labeling: The Effects of Voluntary RBGH-Free Labels on Fluid Milk Demand," Montana State University, Vincent Smith and David Buschena, Co-chairs of Thesis Committee

Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation
    CHAD MEYERHOEFER, "The Econometrics of Non-Standard Structural Deman Modeling: Applications to Transition Country Data," Cornell University, David Sahn, Advisor

    Honorable Mention
    RENOS NICOS VIKAS, "The Impact of Market Failures on Household Behavior: Explaining Labor Market Segmentation, Technology Adoption Patterns and Transaction Costs in Rural Peru," University of California at Berkeley, Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet, Advisors

    MONICA FISHER, "Explaining Forest Degradation in Malawi: Asset Poverty, Income Shocks, and Activity," Purdue University, Gerald Shively and William Masters, Advisors

    KENNETH A. BAERENKLAU, "Promoting Voluntary Adoption of Conservation Technologies: The Case of Agricultural Nonpoint Source Pollution Control," University of Wisconsin, William Provencher, Advisor

Distinguished Teaching

Less Than Ten Years' Experience
ALLEN F. WYSOCKI, University of Florida

Undergraduate Teaching, More Than Ten Years' Experience
JAMES BEIERLEIN, Pennsylvania State University

Graduate Teaching Award, More Than Ten Years' Experience
PAUL PRECKEL, Purdue University


Distinguished Extension Program

    Individual
    CHRIS HURT, Purdue University

    Group
    JOE L. OUTLAW, JAMES W. RICHARDSON, DAVID P. ANDERSON, STEVEN L. KLOSE and JAMES D. SARTWELLE, III, members of the Texas A&M University "2002 Farm Bill Education Program" team

Distinguished Policy Contribution
    MARC RIBAUDO, USDA, Economic Research Service
Quality of Communication

    BRUCE L. GARDNER, University of Maryland, American Agriculture in the Twentieth Century; How It Flourished and What It Cost, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2002

    Honorable Mention
    TIM C. HAAB, The Ohio State University, and KENNETH E. MCCONNELL, University of Maryland, Valuing Environmental and Natural Resources: The Econometrics of Non-Market Valuation, Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc., Northampton, Massachusetts, 2002

Quality of Research Discovery

    HANAN J. JACOBY, The World Bank, GUO LI, and SCOTT ROZELLE, University of California at Davis, "Hazards of Expropriation: Tenure Insecurity and Investment in Rural China," American Economic Review, 92(5) (December 2002): 1420-1447

Outstanding Journal Article: AJAE
    JEAN-PAUL CHAVAS and DANNIEL MULLARKEY, "On the Valuation of Uncertainty in Welfare Analysis," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 84 (February): 23-38

Outstanding Journal Article: RAE

    ALFONS WEERSINK, SCOTT JEFFREY and DAVID PANNELL, "Farm-Level Modeling for Bigger Issues," Review of Agricultural Economics, 24(1): 123-140

    Honorable Mention
    KATHLEEN M. PAINTER, ROBERT DOUGLAS II, PHILIP R. WANDSCHNIEDER and KENNETH CASAVANT, "Using Contingent Valuation to Measure User and Nonuser Benefits: An Application to Public Transit," Review of Agricultural Economics, 24(2): 394-409

Outstanding CHOICES Article

    STEVEN C. BLANK, University of California at Davis, "Is Agriculture a 'Way of Life' or a Business?," Choices (Summer, 2002)
Publication of Enduring Quality
    GERSHON FEDER, RICHARD E. JUST and ANDREW SCHMITZ, "Futures Markets an the Theory of the Firm Under Price Uncertainty'

Fellows

Keith Collins
Vernon R Eidman
Ronald D. Knutson
GianCarlo Moschini
Jeffrey M. Perloff
John C. Quiggen

Poster Session Awards

    1st Place
    CATHERINE KLING, SYLVIA SECCHI, LYUBOV KURKALOVA, HONGLI FENG and PHIL GASMAN, CARD, Iowa State University, "Spatial Water Quality Tradeoffs: The Case of Hypoxia and the Upper Mississippi River Basin"

    2nd Place
     HEATHER NIVENS, Center for Agribusiness Excellence; TERRY KASTENS and KEVIN DHUYVETTER, Kansas State University, "Using Satellite Imagery in Predicting Crop Income"

    3rd Place
    PATRICIA SOTO, LONNIE VANDEVEER, STEVEN HENNING and HUIZEN NIU, Louisiana State University, "Rural-Urban Fringe Land Areas: A Spatial Snapshot"

Graduate Student Case Competition

1st Place
JING ZHANG, CINDY WANG, and MICHAEL HABTEYONAS, University of Alberta

2nd Place
JIANG LUO, SRINIVASA KONDURU, and JASON FRANKEN, University of Missouri

3rd Place
JOHN MICHAEL RILEY and LANIER NALLEY, Mississippi State University

Outstanding Student Papers Awards

1st Place
LISA PFEIFFER, University of Nebraska

2nd Place
LISA BRAGG, University of Maine

3rd Place
RYAN FURTAS, University of Alberta

Undergraduate Creative Idea Award
    Iowa State University