Press Releases
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Quarter 2, 2024
Quarter 1, 2024
- An Economic Analysis of the ‘Buy Local’ Trend
March 4, 2024 - Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Learning and Assessment in Agricultural and Applied Economics
February 27, 2024 - Navigating the Challenges of Building a More Resilient Infant Formula Industry
February 12, 2024 - Farm Heterogeneity and Leveraging Federal Crop Insurance for Conservation Practice Adoption
January 23, 2024 - A Reference-Price-Informed Experiment to Assess Consumer Demand for Beef with a Reduced Carbon Footprint
January 22, 2024 - Women farmers quantitatively linked to better community well-being
January 18, 2024 - Awokuse, Capps, Deller, Goodhue, Marsh, and Weersink Named Class of 2024 AAEA Fellows
January 2, 2024
Quarter 4, 2023
- Study: Extreme Rainfall Increases Ag Nutrient Runoff, Conservation Strategies Can Help
December 14, 2023 - Research Frontiers in Agricultural Trade and Policy
December 12, 2023 - Farm Labor, Immigration, Wages, and Policy Impacts
December 11, 2023 - Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) for Navigating the Intersections of Agriculture, Climate Change, Trade and Water Quality
December 8, 2023 - Encouraging Women’s Use of Agriculture-Related Financial Instruments
December 7, 2023 - Evaluating the Medium- and Longer-Term Health and Economic Impacts of Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Taxes
December 6, 2023 - New Insights of the Role of Women in Agrifood Systems
December 5, 2023 - AAEA Invites You to their 2024 Sessions at ASSA
December 4, 2023 - Undergraduate Enrollment Intentions and Willingness-to-pay for Online to In-person Teaching Modalities
November 27, 2023 - Social Networks and Technology Adoption: Evidence from Church Mergers in the U.S. Midwest
November 8, 2023 - Cover Crops, Crop Insurance Losses, and Resilience to Extreme Weather Events
November 7, 2023 - Dollar Store Expansion and Independent Grocery Retailer Contraction
October 11, 2023 - Global Container Shipping Disruptions, Pop-Up Ports, and U.S. Agricultural Exports
October 6, 2023
Quarter 3, 2023
- Racial Disparities in Farm Loan Application Processing: Are Black Farmers Disadvantaged?
September 28, 2023 - Nudging Farmers Towards Low-pesticide Practices: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Viticulture
September 25, 2023 - Consumer Preferences for Food Away from Home: Dine-in vs. Delivery
September 21, 2023 - The SNAP Effect: Food Stamps and America’s Poorest
September 14, 2023 - Do Consumers Support Farms with Beginning and Female Farmers?
August 30, 2023 - The Impact of Crop Insurance on Commercial Bank Loan Volumes
August 29, 2023 - The Economics of Water Quality
July 19, 2023 - 2023 Washington Policy Outlook
July 18, 2023 - Coping with Microaggressions and Harassment in the Profession
July 17, 2023 - Methodological Advances in Non-market Valuation
July 14, 2023 - International Development: Climate Change Adaptation
July 13, 2023 - Studying Climate Change from Different Methodological Perspectives
July 12, 2023 - The Impact of Climate Change on Global Agriculture: Recent Evidence from Three Methodological Approaches
July 11, 2023 - Best Practices for Conducting and Publishing Experiments in Agricultural and Food Economics
July 10, 2023 - Agricultural Policy - Climate, Carbon, and Conservation
July 7, 2023 - Advances in Behavioral and Experimental Economics in Applied and Agricultural Economics
July 6, 2023 - AAEA Invites Media & Press to Attend 2023 Annual Meeting
July 5, 2023
Quarter 2, 2023
- Survival and Growth of Organic Farms Over the Long-run
June 29, 2023 - Representative vs Convenience Samples
June 5, 2023 - Moving Policies Toward Racial and Ethnic Equality: The Case of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
May 22, 2023 - Household Food Waste Trending Upwards in the United States: Insights from a National Tracking Survey
May 3, 2023 - Impacts of U.S. Countervailing Duties on Phosphate Fertilizers
May 2, 2023 - Why Don’t Low Income Households Purchase Fruits and Vegetables?
May 1, 2023 - The Impacts of Cash Transfers on Household Energy Choices
April 28, 2023 - Diversification and Resilience of Firms in the Agri-Food Supply Chain
April 27, 2023 - Stocking up and stocking out: Food retail stock-outs, consumer demand, and prices during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020
April 24, 2023 - Evaluating the Tradeoff between Cost-Effectiveness and Participation in Agricultural Conservation Programs
April 19, 2023 - Can a Sustainability Facts Label Reduce the Halo Surrounding Organic Labels?
April 17, 2023 - Understanding the Effect of Cover Crop Use on Prevented Planting Losses
April 14, 2023 - Multi-plant Coordination in the U.S. Beef Packing Industry
April 3, 2023
Quarter 1, 2023
- Market Structure and Resilience of Food Supply Chains Under Extreme Events
March 31, 2023 - Do Large Farms Make Better Choices?
March 30, 2023 - A Closer Look at the Relationship between Concentration, Prices, and Market Power in Food Retail
March 21, 2023 - Optimal Index Insurance and Basis Risk Decomposition: An Application to Kenya
March 10, 2023 - Information Rigidities in USDA Production Forecasts
February 28, 2023 - Nutrition Assistance Program Take-Up Given Multi-Program Eligibility
February 15, 2023 - Beef Price Spread Relationship with Processing Capacity Utilization
February 8, 2023 - Behavioral Agricultural Economics
February 2, 2023 - Limits to Capital: Assessing the Role of Race on the Paycheck Protection Program for African American Farmers in America
January 26, 2023 - The Land Use Consequences of Rural to Urban Migration
January 25, 2023 - Adapting to Water Restrictions: Intensive versus Extensive Adaptation over Time Differentiated by Water Right Seniority
January 20, 2023 - Agricultural Windfalls and the Seasonality of Political Violence in Africa
January 16, 2023 - Reducing food insecurity through equitable investments in irrigation: The case of Niger
January 13, 2023 - Hemp Cross-Pollination: Spatial Network Externalities in Agriculture
January 6, 2023 - Bellemare, Fuglie, Irwin, Pannell, Thilmany, and Wang Named Class of 2023 AAEA Fellows
January 3, 2023
Quarter 4, 2022
- Estimating the Social Cost of Carbon: Progress and Challenges
December 20, 2022 - Frontiers in Food Retail Economics
December 19, 2022 - Applying New Insights from Behavioral Economics to Old Puzzels in International Agricultural Development
December 16, 2022 - Overcoming Barriers to Women’s Employment and Enterprise Development in Developing Countries
December 15, 2022 - Assessing the Role of Policy and Income in Improving Water Quality and Property Value
December 14, 2022 - Leveraging Large Existing Federal Programs to Induce the Adoption of Climate Smart Conservation Practices
December 13, 2022 - Recent Issues in Agricultural Trade and Policy
December 12, 2022 - The Effects of the Affordable Care Act on Seasonal Agricultural Workers
December 1, 2022 - ERS, AAEA Partner to Grow Diversity in Field of Agricultural Economics
November 17, 2022 - The Effects of Freer Trade on Global Agriculture
November 16, 2022 - What is free food worth? An evaluation of welfare effects on food pantries
November 11, 2022 - Disparities in Food Insecurity among Black and White Households
November 3, 2022 - The Accuracy and Informativeness of Agricultural Baselines
October 27, 2022 - Standards of identity and Imitation Milk Labeling
October 10, 2022 - Resource Booms, State Economic Conditions, and Child Food Security
October 7, 2022 - Tariffs, Agricultural Subsidies, and the 2020 US Presidential Election
October 6, 2022
Quarter 3, 2022
- Credibility Crisis in Agricultural Economics
September 26, 2022 - Design of the Renewable Fuel Standard Implicated in Leading to the Ethanol Blend Wall
September 19, 2022 - Competing Farm Programs: Does the Introduction of a Risk Management Program Reduce the Enrollment in the Conservation Reserve Program?
September 15, 2022 - Over 50 Recognized at 2022 AAEA Annual Meeting in Anaheim, CA
September 14, 2022 - Minimum Wages and Restaurant Employment for Teens and Adults in Metropolitan and Non-Metropolitan Areas
September 13, 2022 - The Impact of No-Till on Agricultural Land Values in the United States Midwest
September 12, 2022 - Assessing the Affordability of Nutrient-Adequate Diets
September 8, 2022 - Food Safety Incidents in a Modern Agricultural Market: E. coli in the Romaine Lettuce Industry
September 6, 2022 - Farm Labor Supply and Fruit and Vegetable Production
September 1, 2022 - Making it Count: Applying Science to Support Universal Broadband
August 31, 2022 - Out-sourcing the Dry Season: Cattle Ranchers' Responses to Weather Shocks in the Brazilian Amazon
August 30, 2022 - Product Sales and Unintentional Name Association with the Coronavirus Pandemic
August 18, 2022 - The Achilles Heel of the U.S. Food Industries: Exposure to Labor and Upstream Industries in the Supply Chain
August 15, 2022 - Changes in the Local Food-at-Home Environment, SNAP Participation, and Dietary Quality: Evidence from FoodAPS
August 12, 2022 - Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging in Agricultural and Applied Economics
August 11, 2022 - International Comparisons of Food Consumption Changes and Strategies during the COVID-19 Pandemic
July 11, 2022 - [Risk and] Supply Chain Resilience: Lessons from the Pandemic
July 8, 2022 - Economics of Wildfires in Australia and the United States
July 7, 2022 - Issues and Challenges with the Beef Supply Chain
July 6, 2022 - Current Opportunities and Future Prospects of Carbon Markets in Agriculture and the Environment
July 5, 2022 - World Food Consequences of the War on Ukraine
July 1, 2022
Quarter 2, 2022
- Heterogeneous Impacts of Rural Broadband and Broadband Programs
June 30, 2022 - Food Inflation during the Pandemic: Dissecting Supply Chains and Scanner Data
June 29, 2022 - Carbon Markets: Learning from Experience and Visioning for the Future
June 28, 2022 - AAEA Invites Media & Press to Attend 2022 Annual Meeting
June 27, 2022 - Promotional Achievement of Economists: Does Being Agricultural or Female Matter?
June 22, 2022 - Measuring the American Farm Size Distribution: New Evidence of Farm Consolidation
June 21, 2022 - Is Beef is Better than Plant-based in Terms of Taste, Price, and Appearance?
May 23, 2022 - The Impact of COVID-19 Trade Measures on Agricultural and Food Trade
May 18, 2022 - Food Insecurity and Time use in Elderly vs. Non-elderly: An Exploratory Analysis
May 13, 2022 - Consumer Spending Patterns for Plant-Based Meat Alternatives
May 12, 2022 - AAEA & Wiley Publish First Articles in New Open Access Journal
May 3, 2022 - EU Regulation of Genetically Modified Microorganisms in Light of New Policy Developments
May 2, 2022 - Access to Health Care and Rural Worker Productivity
April 29, 2022 - Impacts of Climate Change on Water Management in the South Central Texas Region
April 27, 2022 - Preferences for Sustainability and Supply Chain Essential Worker Conditions: Survey Evidence during COVID-19
April 20, 2022 - Using tweets to predict real-time food shortages
April 12, 2022 - The EU's farm to fork strategy: An assessment from the perspective of agricultural economics
April 4, 2022
Quarter 1, 2022
- Market Potential of New Plant-based Protein Alternatives: Insights from Four U.S. Consumer Experiments
March 29, 2022 - Do Plant-Based and Blend Meat Alternatives Taste Like Meat?
March 24, 2022 - Are Students More Behavied After Eating During School Hours?
March 17, 2022 - U.S. Agricultural University Students’ Mental Well-being and Resilience During the First Wave of COVID-19
March 1, 2022 - Something Fishy in Seafood Trade? The Relation between Tariff and Non-Tariff Barriers
February 22, 2022 - Corn and Soybean Prevented Planting Acres Response to Weather
February 21, 2022 - Mitigating Implicit Bias in Student Evaluations: A Randomized Intervention
February 16, 2022 - Meet the Meatless: Demand for New Generation Plant-Based Meat Alternatives
February 9, 2022 - Using Truck-to-Trunk Programs to Increase Food Security and Help Support Farm Incomes
February 2, 2022 - The U.S.’s Power-Based Bargaining and the WTO: Has Anything Really Been Gained?
January 24, 2022 - It's in the bag? The effect of plastic carryout bag bans on where and what people purchase to eat
January 20, 2022 - Investigating Dairy Merger and its Effects on Market Pricing
January 6, 2022 - Food Insecurity Among Older Adults in the U.S.: The Role of Mortgage Borrowing
January 5, 2022 - Coble, Gundersen, Nayga, Mishra, Roe, and Smale Named Class of 2022 AAEA Fellows
January 3, 2022
Quarter 4, 2021
- Did the Distribution of Ad Hoc Farm Payments Affect the 2020 Presidential Election?
December 27, 2021 - Effects of Land Property Rights: Cases from Three Continents
December 23, 2021 - Frontiers in Applied Productivity Analysis
December 22, 2021 - How Climate Change is affecting Agricultural Production
December 21, 2021 - Land Use and Emerging Policy Challenges: Impacts on Society
December 20, 2021 - Food Prices and the Affordability of Healthy Diets: New Data and Methods to Inform Agriculture, Food Systems, Safety Nets and Nutrition Programs
December 17, 2021 - COVID-19, Agricultural Markets, and Trade
December 16, 2021 - Toward a Circular Corn Belt: Science and Stakeholders, Landscapes and Leadership
December 15, 2021 - What’s the Impact of Contract Farming on Profits and Food Losses of Okra Growers?
December 15, 2021 - Does Crop Insurance Participation Affect Cover Crop Adoption?
December 1, 2021 - Food Insecurity and COVID-19 Risk in Low- and Middle-income Countries
October 22, 2021 - Can China meet its purchase obligations under the Phase One Trade Agreement?
October 21, 2021 - Past, Present, and Future: Status of Women and Minorities in Agricultural and Applied Economics
October 14, 2021 - How Women Saved Agricultural Economics
October 12, 2021 - Competition Issues in the U.S. Beef Industry: Market Concentration, Market Power, and Price-Fixing
October 11, 2021
Quarter 3, 2021
- Over 40 Recognized at 2021 AAEA & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting
August 30, 2021 - New Frontiers for Agricultural Economics Research Using Data from the U.S. Federal Statistical System
July 22, 2021 - AAEA & WAEA Invite You to Attend the 2021 Hybrid Joint Annual Meeting
July 13, 2021 - AJAE & AEPP Impact Factors Soar in Agricultural Economics & Policy
July 6, 2021 - Should we use Antitrust Policies on Big Agriculture?
July 2, 2021
Quarter 2, 2021
- How has COVID-19 Changed the Political Economy?
June 11, 2021 - Three AAEA Members Elected to Association’s Leadership
May 28, 2021 - Agricultural Market Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
May 19, 2021 - Can More People in the Household Save Extra Money?
April 23, 2021 - Economic Study Quantifies the Cost of the Trade War on U.S. Agriculture
April 20, 2021 - Consumer Perceptions After Long‐term Use of Alternative Irrigation Water
April 19, 2021 - Global Food Trade and the Costs of Non‐Adoption of Genetic Engineering
April 16, 2021
Quarter 1, 2021
- How Consumer Behaviors May Change Post-Pandemic
March 16, 2021 - Can Digital Technologies Reshape Rural Microfinance?
March 9, 2021 - Examining Food Purchase Behavior and Food Values During the COVID-19 Pandemic
February 26, 2021 - Would You Pay More for Milk that has a Redundant Label?
February 25, 2021 - The Effect of Scientific Information on Possible Gene-Edited Solutions for Citrus Greening
February 19, 2021 - An Examination of Monthly Food Pantry Cycles in the Context of SNAP Benefits
February 11, 2021 - COVID-19 Effects on National Parks and Recreation
February 10, 2021 - Modern Markets for Functional Foods: Fad or Path to Prosperity?
January 14, 2021 - AAEA Hires Representation in Washington D.C.
January 8, 2021
Quarter 4, 2020
- Planning for Future Pandemics Using Supply Chain Mapping
December 21, 2020 - How Produce Farmers are Feeling the Effects of the Pandemic
December 18, 2020 - Big Data and Near-Real-Time Monitoring of Food Emergencies
December 17, 2020 - The Impact of COVID-19 on Rural Economies
December 16, 2020 - Reconsidering the Economics of Identity: Position, Power, and Property
December 15, 2020 - Food Quality Inspection, Certification, and Disclosure
December 14, 2020 - Worldwide Contracting in Agriculture: Experimental Evidence and Costs
December 11, 2020 - The COVID-19 Pandemic: Insights from Agricultural Economists
December 10, 2020 - AAEA Invites You to their 2021 Sessions at ASSA
December 9, 2020 - Local Food Supply Chain Dynamics and Resilience During COVID-19
December 8, 2020 - Potential Impacts of a Pandemic on the U.S. Farm Labor Market
December 7, 2020 - The On-going Gender Pay Gaps in Academia Faculty
November 2, 2020 - How Many Stores Does it Take to Make Healthy Purchases Easier?
October 28, 2020 - Has Media Saturation on COVID-19 Changed Labor and Food Supply Chain?
October 27, 2020 - What can Household to Everyday to Reduce Food Waste
October 26, 2020 - How the Pandemic Could Impact the Price of Chicken Dinner
October 21, 2020 - New School Food Standards Improve Children’s Diets
October 20, 2020 - Food Insecurity Changes in the United States during the Global Pandemic
October 19, 2020 - COVID-19 Pandemic and its Influence on Food Supply Chains
October 15, 2020 - Rushing to Concessions: The Cause and Effects of Soda Tax
October 13, 2020 - The Impact