• Gates K. Agnew, U of Arizona, "Linquad: An Incomplete Demand
System Approach to Demand Estimation and Exact Welfare Measures",
Jeffrey LaFrance, Advisor.
• Shane M. Sherlund, Utah State U, "Exogenous Shocks and Technical
Efficiency Among Ivorien Rice Farmers", Christopher Barrett, Advisor.
Honorable Mention
• Alice M. Harmon, Purdue U, "Maximum Entropy-based Seemingly
Unrelated Regression", James Eales and Paul Preckel, Advisors.
• Alexei L. Soshnin, Cornell U, "Estimation of Elasticities
of Demand for Imported Meat in Russia", Harry DeGorter and William
Tomek, Advisors.
Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation
• John Russell Crooker, Iowa State U, "Valuing Environmental
Amenities with Nonparametric and Semiparametric Methods", Joseph
Herriges and Catherine Kling, Advisors.
• Eleni Gabre-Madhin, Stanford U, "Transactions Costs, Institutions,
and Contractual Choices in the Ethiopian Grain Market", Carl Gotsch,
Advisor
• James N. Sanchirico, U of California - Davis, "The Bioeconomics
of Spatial and Intertemporal Exploitation: Implications for Management",
James Wilen, Advisor
Honorable Mention
• Thomas Marsh, Washington State U, "Linking Natural Processes
to Output Quality in Pest Control: PRLV Net Necrosis in Potatoes˛,
Ray Huffaker, Advisor Distinguished Teaching.
Distinguished Teaching
Less Than Ten Years' Experience
Mary A. Marchant, U of Kentucky. Undergraduate Teaching, More Than Ten
Years' Experience
Carl R. Zulauf, The Ohio State U. Graduate Teaching Award, More Than Ten
Years' Experience
JOral Capps, Jr., Texas A&M U.
Distinguished Extension Program
Individual
Lynn Harvey, Michigan State U.
Group
Group: Purdue University project, "Food System 21: Gearing Up
for the New Millennium", Over 50 faculty and staff in the Department
of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Biological Engineering,
Agronomy, Animal Sciences, Food Sciences, Forestry and Natural
Resources, and Horticulture and Landscape Architecture. Co-Chairs
in the Department of Agricultural Economics: Michael Boehlje
and Wallace Tyner.
Distinguished Policy Contribution
Individual
Thomas W. Hertel,for his contribution to the profession as the
initiator and leader of the Global Trade Analysis Project, Purdue
U.
Quality of Communications
• Mary Burfisher and Elizabeth Jones, USDA, Economic Research
Service, "Regional Trade Agreements and U.S. Agriculture", Agricultural
Economics Review, No. 771.
Quality of Research Discovery
• Matthew Holt and Satheesh Aradhyula, "Endogenous Risk
in Rational-expectations Commodity Models: A Multivariate Generalized
ARCH-M Approach", Journal of Empirical Finance, 5, (1998): 99-129.
• Giancarlo Moschini, "The Semiflexible Almost Ideal Demand
System", European Economic Review, 42, (1998): 349-364.
Outstanding Journal Article: AJAE
• Timothy J. Richards and Paul M. Patterson, "Hysteresis
and the Shortage of Agricultural Labor", 80, (1998): 683-695.
Honorable
Mention
• Hanan Jacoby and Emmanuel Skoufias, "Testing Theories
of Consumption Behavior Using Information on Aggregate Shocks:
Income Seasonality and Rainfall in Rural India", 80, (1998):
1-14.
Outstanding Journal Article: RAE
• James T. Bonnen and David B. Schweikhardt, "The Future
of U.S. Agricultural Policy: Reflections on the Disappearance
of the 'Farm Problem'", 20, (1998): 2-36.
Outstanding CHOICES Article
• Sandra S. Batie and David E. Ervin, "Will Business-led
Environmental Initiatives Grow in Agriculture?", Fourth Quarter,
1998: 4-10.
Honorable
Mention
• John Mellor, "Closing the Last Chapter on U.S. Foreign
Aid: What to Do About Africa", Fourth Quarter, 1998: 38-42.
Publication of Enduring Quality
• Robert G. Chambers, Applied Production Analysis, Cambridge
University Press, 1998.
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