Agricultural & Applied Economics Association
To date, six women have been elected Fellows of the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association. They are:
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Click on their names to find out more about each of these women. CWAE looks forward to this list growing!
Irma Adelman
Dr. Adelman was elected a Fellow of the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association in 1998. She is a Professor in the Graduate School, University of California, Berkeley. Her research interests include: income distribution and poverty in developing countries, economic development and institutional change, industrialization and agricultural policy in developing countries, economic planning and operations research, and international trade and economic development.
Dr. Adelman received her B.S., M.A., and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.
Sandra S. Batie
Dr. Batie was elected a Fellow of the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association in 1994.
Her areas of research include agricultural and environmental public policy, rural development policy, sustainable development economics. As the first holder of the Elton R. Smith Professorship in Food and Agricultural Policy in the Department of Agricultural Economics at Michigan State University, Dr. Batie conducts research addressing food, agricultural, and environmental policy issues at the state, federal and international level. Recent research projects include examining the influence of agricultural contractual arrangements on producer's financial and environmental performance, and corporate environmental management strategies in the agricultural sector. Other research topics include tradeable permits as nonpoint pollution policies.
Dr. Batie received her B.S. in Economics from the University of Washington in 1967, her M.S. in Agricultural Economics from Oregon State University in 1971, and her Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from Oregon State University in 1973.
Dr. Batie was born on October 11, 1946. She is married to Robert Edward Batie. The Baties have a son, Neal, born September 22, 1982.
Nancy E. Bockstael
Dr. Bockstael was elected a Fellow of the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association in 2000.
She is Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Maryland.
Her research efforts include are now being directed toward land use issues. Recently, Professor Bockstael has begun a cooperative modeling effort that integrates economics and ecology. The economics modeling uses spatially explicit data to analyze land use changes in environmentally sensitive areas. She is studying how policy changes in land use management, transportation, and environmental regulation affect the pattern of land use so that ecologists can determine the ultimate effects of these policies on the ecosystem.
Dr. Bockstael serves on the editorial board of Land Economics, the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, and Environment and Development Economics, and is currently president of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists.
Dr. Bockstael received her B.A. in Economics from Connecticut College in 1971, her M.A. in Economics from Brown University in 1973, and her Ph.D. in Resource Economics from University of Rhode Island in 1976.
Jean D. Kinsey
Dr. Kinsey was elected a Fellow of the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association in 2000.
Through her research interests, which include changes in consumer demand and food trends and how these changes feed back to agricultural producers and processors and foretells changes in their business decisions, and public policy effects on food consumption, Dr. Kinsey has sent consistent messages: a) consumers' knowledge and preferences will ultimately determine what farmers and food processors can sell, b) consumers' time is valuable, therefore value added products are in demand, c) consumers' information is imperfect and some prefer risky choices; therefore, food safety and quality assurances are important public policies issues, and d) consumers are the agents ultimately served or hurt by public policy and private production practices.
Dr. Kinsey currently directs The Retail Food Industry Center, where she overseas numerous research projects and graduate students studying how food moves from farm to fork, and is Professor in the Department of Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota.
Dr. Kinsey received her undergraduate degree from St. Olaf College, her M.S. in Agricultural Economics from University of California, Davis in 1966, and her Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from University of California, Davis in 1976.
Sylvia Lane
Dr. Lane was the first woman to be elected a Fellow of the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association. She was elected in 1984.
Dr. Lane is now retired, but was a Professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics at the University of California - Davis. She is Professor Emerita in the same department. Throughout her academic career, she has consistently focused on consumer interests and had a genuine concern for consumer welfare. Dr. Lane was the first consumer economist appointed in the Department of Agricultural Economics at Davis. Over the course of her career, her research interests included consumer credit, consumer class actions, health care and rural health service delivery, housing, tax incidence, elderly needs assessment, low income nutrition, and food stamps.
CWAE administers the Sylvia Lane Mentor Fellowship in her honor.
Dr. Lane received her B.A. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley, her M.A. in Economics from University of California, Berkeley, and her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1957.
Uma Lele
Dr. Lele was elected a Fellow of the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association in 1999. She is currently an Advisor, Operations Evaluation Department, at The World Bank. Dr. Lele just completed a major review of the World Bank's 1991 Forest Policy and its Implementation involving a global review of the Bank's lending and nonlending operations that influence forest cover and its quality in the Bank's member countries. It is due to be released soon. Her research interests include: environment and development, participatory development, and technology, growth and sustainability.
Between 1991 and 1995, Dr. Lele was Graduate Research Professor in the Food and Resource Economics Department at the University of Florida. While at the University of Florida, she served as the founding Director of International Studies, and founding Director of President Carter's Global Development Initiative.
Dr. Lele received her B.A. from Ferguson College in Pune, India, and her M.S. and Ph.D. from Cornell University.
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