Richard Tolentino Yao, Purdue University
“ Impacts of Irrigation Development on Agricultural Productivity, Resource Allocation and Income Distribution: A Longitudinal Analysis from Palawan, The Philippines,”
Gerald Shively, Advisor

Honorable Mentions
Jaclyn Donna Kropp, Cornell University
“The Economics of Infra-Marginal Subsidies: Exits and Cross-Subsidization”
Harry de Gorter, Advisor

Brett Cortus, University of Alberta
“ Economics of Wetland Drainage: A Case Study of Canada's Prairie Pothole Region ”
Scott Jeffrey, Advisor

Ricardo Smith-Ramirez, University of Maryland
“Evaluation of Conservation Cost-Sharing Programs”
Eric Lichtenberg, Advisor

Wen You, Texas A&M University
“Parental Time and Children's Obesity Measures: A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation”
George Davis and Rudy Nayga, Advisors

Honorable Mentions
Dana M. Bauer, University of Rhode Island
“Cost-Effective Land Development with a Spatially Realistic Ecosystem Constraint”
Stephen Swallow, Advisor

Miriam Lankoande, Washington State University
“Three Essays on Wildfire Economics and Policy”
Jon Yoder, Advisor

Tewodaj Mogues, University of Wisconsin at Madison
“Accumulation of Social Capital: Implications for the Dynamics of Inequality and the Management of Shocks”
Michael Carter, Advisor

Less than 10 Years’ Experience
Christine Wilson, Purdue University
 
Undergraduate, More than 10 Years’ Experience
Donald Liu, University of Minnesota

Graduate, More Than 10 Years’ Experience
Richard Boisvert, Cornell University

Individual - Less than 10 Years’ Experience
Lori Lynch, University of Maryland

Individual – More than 10 Years’ Experience
Gerald White, Cornell University

Distinguished Extension Program - Group
Blake Brown, Gary Bullen, Ted Feitshans, Arnold Oltmans, Guido Van Der Hoeven and Michael Walden, North Carolina State University; Steve Isaacs, Tracy Probst and Will Snell, University of Kentucky; Kelly Tiller, University of Tennessee, members of the “Tobacco Quota Buyout Program” team

Christopher B. Barrett, Cornell University and Daniel G. Maxwell, Tufts University
“Food Aid After Fifty Years: Recasting its Role ”
Routledge: New York, 2005

Kym Anderson and Will Martin, World Bank, editors
“Agricultural Trade Reform and the Doha Development Agenda", Palgrave Macmillan: England, November 2005, and World Bank: Washington, DC

Richard E. Howitt, University of California at Davis; Siwa Msangi, International Food Policy Research Institute; Arnaud Reynaud, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique; Keith C. Knapp, University of California at Riverside,
“ Estimating Intertemporal Preferences for Natural Resource Allocation ”
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 87(4):(November 2005): 969-983

Michael R. Caputo, University of Central Florida and Quirino Paris, University of California at Davis,
“An Atemporal Microeconomic Theory and an Empirical Test of Price-Induced Technical Progress”
Journal of Productivity Analysis, 24(2005): 259-281

Takashi Yamano, The National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies; Harold Alderman and Luc Christiaensen, World Bank,
“Child Growth, Shocks, and Food Aid in Rural Ethiopia”
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 87(2): (May 2005): 273-288

Honorable Mentions
Richard D. Horan and Christopher A. Wolf, Michigan State University,
“The Economics of Managing Infectious Wildlife Disease”
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 87(3): (August 2005): 537-551

Nathalie Lavoie, University of Massachusetts at Amherst,
“Price Discrimination in the Context of Vertical Differentiation: An Application to Canadian Wheat Exports”
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 87(4): (November 2005): 835-854

Fred Kuchler, Abebayehu Tegene and J. Michael Harris, USDA-Economic Research Service,
“Taxing Snack Foods: Manipulating Diet Quality or Financing Information Programs?”
Review of Agricultural Economics, 27(1): (Spring 2005): 4-20

Honorable Mentions
Daniel A. Sumner, University of California at Davis and Norbert L.W. Wilson, Aburn University,
“Capitalization of Farm Policy Benefits and the Rate of Return to Policy-Created Assets: Evidence from California Dairy Quota”
Review of Agricultural Economics, 27(2): (Summer 2005): 245-258

Mykel R. Taylor, North Carolina State University and Gary W. Brester, Montana State University,
“Noncash Income Transfers and Agricultural Land Values”
Review of Agricultural Economics, 27(4): (Winter 2005): 526-541

Maureen Kilkenny, University of Nevada at Reno and Robert W. Jolly, Iowa State University
“Are Rural Credit Markets Competitive? Is There Room for Competition in Rural Credit Markets?”
Choices (First Quarter, 2005)

Honorable Mention
John Loomis, Colorado State University
“Economic Values without Prices: The Importance of Nonmarket Values and Valuation for Informing Public Policy Debates”
Choices (Third Quarter, 2005)

Dermot Hayes, Iowa State University, Jason Shogren, University of Wyoming; Seung-Youll Shin, Taekeuk Farm, Seoul, South Korea, and James Kliebenstein, Iowa State University
“Valuing Food Safety in Experimental Auction Markets”
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 77(1)(February 1995): 40-53

Barry K. Goodwin
Catherine Louise Kling
Philip Pardey
Catherine J. Morrison Paul
Prabhu L. Pingali
Spiro E. Stefanou

1st Place
Chengyan Yue, Helen Jensen, Daren Mueller, Gail Nonnecke and Mark Gleason, Iowa State University, "Consumers' Valuation of Cosmetically Damaged Apples: Will Buyers of Organic Apples Pay More?"

2nd Place
Silvia Secchi, Manoj Jha, Iowa State University; Lyubov Kurkalova, Southern Illinois University, Catherine Kling, Philip Gassman and Hongli Feng, Iowa State University, "Effectiveness of Agricultural Conservation Policies and Alternative Metrics of Water Quality"

3rd Place
Oscar Arreola, Frank Lupi, Michael Kaplowitz and John Hoehn, Michigan State University, "Using an Attribute Based Referendum to Value Great Lakes Wetlands Conservation and Restoration Programs"

First Place
LaMonica Glinton and Jermisha Johnson, Alabama A&M University, Duncan Chembezi, Advisor

Second Place
Vanessa Goodman, Cheryl Davie and Wanjing Hu, University of Alberta, Ellen Goddard, Advisor

Third Place
Juan Monge, Jeffrey Hignight and Johannes Graf, University of Arkansas, Michael Popp and Michael Thomsen, Advisors

First Place
Carmen Albright, University of Arkansas

Second Place
Dana L. Harper , University of Alberta

Third Place
Curtis D. Boyd , University of Alberta

First Place
Iowa State University

Second Place
University of Florida

Third Place
Texas Tech University

Iowa State University