Paper Sessions

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• August 10, 2020  11:30 AM - 1:00 PM (CDT)
• August 10, 2020  3:15 PM - 4:45 PM (CDT)
• August 11, 2020  11:30 AM - 1:00 PM (CDT)
• August 11, 2020  1:15 PM - 2:45 PM (CDT)

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Agricultural Production and Labor Supply

August 10, 2020
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Presentations:

1. Do Guest Workers Earn more than Domestic Workers? Evidence from Florida's Citrus Industry   
2. The Effects of a Declining Farm Labor Supply on California Agriculture   
3. Drought Shocks, Household Risk Sharing and Occupation Choices   
4. Labor Response to Agricultural Productivity Shocks in Developing Countries: Evidence from China   

Agriculture, Biofuels, and the Environment

August 10, 2020
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Presentations:

1. The Impact of Glyphosate Availability on Production and Environmental Costs   
2. Economic impacts of the U.S. Renewable Fuel Standard: An ex-post evaluation   
3. Designing payments for GHG mitigation to induce low carbon bioenergy production   
4. Economic Efficiency of Food Safety Modernization Act:  Preventing Illnesses from Contaminated Water   

Behavioral & Institutional Economics - Paper Session 1

August 10, 2020
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Presentations:

1. (Ir)rational Choice in the Real World: Exploring Relationship between Air Pollution and Preference Reversal 
2. Attribution of Blame in Food Loss and Waste   
3. Do Ewe See what I See? Evidence of Conspicuous Consumption for Sustainably Labeled Wool Clothing 
4. Bayesian Information Processing & Livestock Sector Antibiotics Administration

Climate Change

August 10, 2020
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Presentations:

1. The Impact of Carbon Fertilization on Growth in U.S. Forests   
2. Reckoning climate change damages along an envelope   
3. An Evaluation of Soybean Acreage Response to Climate Change and Irrigation Water Sustainability Concern in Eastern Arkansas   

Conflict

August 10, 2020
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Presentations:

1. Political Conflicts and Food Price: Evidence from High Frequency Daily Price Data in Bangladesh
2. Neighborhood Violence, Poverty, and Psychological Well-Being   
3. Heterogenous effects of conflict on agricultural production patterns: Evidence from Nigeria   

Consumer price responsiveness and firm behavior

August 10, 2020
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Presentations:

1. The Impacts of African Swine Fever on Vertical and Spatial Hog Pricing and Market Integration in China   
2. African Swine Fever in China: Shocks, Responses, and Implications on Trade   
3. Consumer Behavior and Salmonella Outbreak in Peanut Butter Industry   
4. Comparing methods for estimating price markups: an application to EU food retailing   

Consumers and Markets

August 10, 2020
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Presentations:

1. Predicting Voter Behavior for Animal Welfare and Genetically Modified Organisms Food Labeling Ballot Initiatives   
2. Consumer Willingness to pay for Organic and Animal Welfare Product Attributes: Do Experimental Results Align with Market Data?   
3. Maximum Order Size and Market Quality: Evidence from a Natural Experiment   
4. Pre-Committed Demand for Food in Bangladesh: Implications for Agri-Food Industry Stakeholders   

Experimental Economics

August 10, 2020
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Presentations:

1. Taking a Load Off:  Experimental Evidence of Preferences for Control with an Application to Residential Electricity Demand   
2. Incentive Alignment and Reward Strength in Pay-for-Performance Contracts   
3. Information Treatment, Cognitive Load, and Attribute Attendance in Choice Experiments   
4. Using Mixed Logit Based Models to Control Attribute Nonattendance in Choice Experiments   

Experimental Economics - Paper Session 1

August 10, 2020
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Presentations:

1. Groups and Socially Responsible Production: An Experiment with Farmers   
2. Overcoming quality uncertainty of hybrid maize seeds:  An individually-randomized trial of labeling information in Chiapas, Mexico   
3. Management of timber and non-timber forest products: Evidence from a framed field experiment in Benin, West Africa   
4. Subsidizing Agricultural Technology Adoption: An Experimental and Behavioral Economics Approach   

Farm Business Management

August 10, 2020
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Presentations:

1. Assessing Efficiency of U.S. Cow-Calf Operations   
2. Profitability of Forage-Finishing Strategies for Variable Frame Size Cattle   
3. Does higher business risk influence financial risk and induce savings among small agricultural operations? Findings from Tennessee   

Food Safety and Nutrition - Paper Session 1

August 10, 2020
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Presentations:

1. Does the World´s Most Ambitious Food Policy Improve Dietary Behavior?   
2. How Does the Spillover Effect Affect Food Safety Risk Management of Companies?-Searching New orientations of Food Safety Governance
3. Food Insecurity and the Immigrant Effect   

Health and Nutrition

August 10, 2020
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Presentations:

1. Associations between Women’s Empowerment and Child Health Status in Ethiopia
2. Sources, intake levels, and shadow prices of essential nutrients in rural Malawi:  Evidence from household surveys and market prices reveal the cost of vitamins and minerals   
3. India’s Rural Transformation and Rising Overweight Burden   

Land Use

August 10, 2020
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Presentations:

1. Crop Rotations and Risk Management in Mississippi Delta Agriculture   
2. The Impact of Trade War on Agricultural Land Uses: Evidence in the U.S. and Brazil   
3. Adoption of Cover Crops under Uncertainty: A Real Options Method   
4. Genetically Modified Rootworm-Resistant Corn, Risk, and Weather: Evidence from High Dimensional Methods   

Productivity Analysis and Emerging Technologies - Paper Session 2

August 10, 2020
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Presentations:

1. Outsourcing and Farmland Productivity in Rural China  
2. Misallocation or Measurement Error: Evidence on Agricultural Productivity Gap from Rural Vietnam   

Resource and Environmental Policy Analysis - Agriculture 1

August 10, 2020
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Presentations:

1. Conservation Tillage and Crop Profitability: A Causal Analysis of US Corn and Soybean   
2. How will changes in Title II of the 2018 Farm Bill Affect CRP Acreage?   
3. The Extent of Environmental Regulation of the U.S. Agricultural Sector   
4. Local irrigation response to ethanol production in the High Plains Aquifer   

Rural/Community Development - Rural/Community Health Issues

August 10, 2020
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Presentations:

1. Mental Health Effects of an Old Age Grant: Experimental Evidence for Ekiti State in Nigeria   
2. Could the agrochemical poisoning increase suicide attempts in the Brazilian rural areas? An econometric approach using spatial analysis methods   
3. Comparative Assessment of Mental Wellbeing, Social Networks, and Earnings of Haitian and Hispanic Farm Workers in Florida   

United States - China Trade Tensions

August 10, 2020
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Presentations:

1. Ex-Post Analysis of the 2018 and 2019 Market Facilitation Programs   
2. The U.S.-China Trade war and Impact on Land Returning to Soybean Production from the Conservation Reserve Program   
3. Distributional Impacts of MFP on Farm Incomes and Financial Position   
4. Inventory Management and Food Loss in the Field: Estimating the Loss of Soybean from the US-China Trade War using a Machine Learning Approach

Water Resource Valuation

August 10, 2020
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Presentations:

1. Lateral flows in an aquifer and groundwater valuation   
2. Quantifying the economic costs of High Plains Aquifer depletion   
3. Revealing the Value of Natural Insurance: Groundwater Stocks and Insurance Tradeoffs over the Ogallala

AEM Session

August 10, 2020
3:15 PM - 4:45 PM

Presentations:

1. Mining the Data to Identify Moral Hazard   
2. Estimating the Effects of HMR Consumption Increase on Food Industry in Korea Using a Stochastic Multi-sector and Multi-market Equilibrium Displacement Model   
3. Farm growth and land concentration   

Agricultural Productivity and Policy in Developing Countries

August 10, 2020
3:15 PM - 4:45 PM

Presentations:

1. The Net Effect of the Technical Non-Tariff Measures in OECD countries on African Exports of Plant Products   
2. A revisit of farm size and productivity: Empirical evidence from a wide range of farm sizes in Nigeria   
3. Urgent Yet Ineffective? The Welfare Impacts of Potato Price Stabilization in Peru   
4. Development Assistance and Factor Markets in Nigeria: An Application of the Test of Agricultural Household Separability   

Biodiversity Management

August 10, 2020
3:15 PM - 4:45 PM

Presentations:

1. The consumers' role for marine biodiversity   
2. Optimal Control of Mountain Pine Beetle Under Different Climate Scenarios: A Spatiotemporal Bioeconomic Model   
3. Optimal forest rotation and invasive species control when damages are heterogeneous   

Climate Change and Conservation in Agriculture

August 10, 2020
3:15 PM - 4:45 PM

Presentations:

1. Climate Change, Technology Use and Maize Production in West Africa   
2. Environmental Recovery after the Dust Bowl: Implication of Land Conservation Programs in the Great Plains   
3. An empirical estimate of value of manageable soil quality

Effects of Taxes and Media on Demand for Food and Tobacco

August 10, 2020
3:15 PM - 4:45 PM

Presentations:

1. Effect of Taxes on Cigarette Demand When Quantity and Quality Are Modelled: Evidence from Indonesia   
2. The Impact of Soda Taxes in the U.S.: Empirical Evidence and Comparison Across Jurisdictions   
3. Effect of taxes and costly regulations on the market for cannabis from licensed retailers   

Emerging Issues in Livestock Management, Farm Policy, and International Trade

August 10, 2020
3:15 PM - 4:45 PM

Presentations:

1. Does Modern Biotechnology Make a Difference? A Comparison of the Impact of GMOs on Owner Operator Income between the EU and the USA   
2. A Dynamic Model of U.S. Beef Cattle   
3. Do state-level agricultural promotion programs increase agricultural output? The case of the Livestock Friendly County designation program in Nebraska   
4. Utilizing the Dual Use Insurance Option for Stocker Cattle   

Environmental and Nonmarket Valuation

August 10, 2020
3:15 PM - 4:45 PM

Presentations:

1. The Impacts of Heat and Air Pollution on Mortality in the United States   
2. Conservation Easement Landowners’ WTA Compensation to Manage their Forest   
3. Benchmarking Conservation: A Benefit-Cost Analysis of Campus Pollinator Initiatives

Environmental Pollution and Ecosystem Services

August 10, 2020
3:15 PM - 4:45 PM

Presentations:

1. The Effect of Power Plant Closure on Local Air Quality   
2. Power Plants, Air Pollution, and Health in Colombia
3. Does preference heterogeneity over ecosystem services and peer-effect determine the private control of public bads? Evidence from a choice-experiment with forest landowners

Extension and Community Development

August 10, 2020
3:15 PM - 4:45 PM

Presentations:

1. Impact of Agricultural programs on Youth Engagement in Agribusiness: The Case of the Fadama Graduate Unemployed Youths Support Program in Nigeria
2. The value of innovation and extension information: The case of SCN-resistant soybean varieties
3. Impact of “FarmStarts” on Mitigating Barriers of U.S. Organic Dairy Farming for Beginning Organic Dairy and Feed Producers in Twelve Mid-Western States

Farm Management

August 10, 2020
3:15 PM - 4:45 PM

Presentations:

1. Precision Agriculture Technologies and Farm Profitability
2. Precision Agriculture Technology Usage and Adoption Patterns
3. Payment versus Charitable Donations to Attract Producer Survey Participation
4. Do Illinois Farmers Follow University-Based Nitrogen Recommendations?

Industrial Org./Supply Chain Management

August 10, 2020
3:15 PM - 4:45 PM

Presentations:

1. Processor-Retailer Relationship and the Marketing Margin: Explaining the Rising Farm-Retail Spread of U.S. Beef during 2011-16
2. The Price Effects of Milk Supply Control in the U.S. Dairy Industry

International Trade - Paper Session 2

August 10, 2020
3:15 PM - 4:45 PM

Presentations:

1. Modern Time Trade Wars: Chinese Retaliatory Tariffs vs California’s Tree Nuts industry
2. Trade War and Incomplete Labeling Regulation: Lose-Lose Situation for U.S. Consumers
3. The Effect of Trump’s Trade War on the 2018 Congressional Election: Did China’s Soy Tariffs Affect Republican Vote Share?
4. The Impact of the 2018 Trade War on Agricultural and Food Trade

International Trade - Paper Session 3

August 10, 2020
3:15 PM - 4:45 PM

Presentations:

1. The Nexus between Natural disasters, Supply Chains and Trade – Revisiting the Role of FTAs in Disaster Risk Reduction
2. Impact of Climate Change on Global Agricultural Trade through Yield Variations
3. Can Trade Liberalization in Agricultural Products Mitigate the Effect of Climate Change on Civil Strife?

Misallocation

August 10, 2020
3:15 PM - 4:45 PM

Presentations:

1. Internal constraints to risk-sharing and demand for insurance: A lab-in-the-field analysis in Ghana
2. Are credit constraints limiting demand for electricity among rural consumers? Evidence from Rwanda
3. Identifying effective incentive mechanisms for smallholder farmers to exploit inter-seasonal price arbitrage opportunities for grain legumes: Experimental evidence from Malawi
4. “Sell Low, Buy High?” - A New Explanation for a Persistent Puzzle

Resource and Environmental Policy Analysis - Energy 1

August 10, 2020
3:15 PM - 4:45 PM

Presentations:

1. Firm Behavior Under Unanticipated Change in Regulation: Power Plant Emissions During the 2018-2019 Federal Government Shutdown
2. Effects of State and Federal Policy on Renewable Electricity Generation
3. How does the Coastal Housing Market View Flood zone-A Risk Signal or Mandatory Costs?

Resource and Environmental Policy Analysis - Regulation 1

August 10, 2020
3:15 PM - 4:45 PM

Presentations:

1. Can embedded knowledge of pollution prevention techniques reduce greenhouse gas emissions?
2. Property Tenure and Determinants of Sensitivity to Price and Non-Price Conservation Instruments
3. Do Safety Inspections Improve Safety? Evidence from the Safety Inspection Program for Commercial Motor Vehicles
4. Water Supply Planning in a Thirsty Region: Experiences from Florida

Risk and Uncertainty

August 10, 2020
3:15 PM - 4:45 PM

Presentations:

1. Agricultural Input Use and Index Insurance Adoption: Concept and Evidence
2. Crop Insurance Decision under Expected Revenue
3. Nudge to Insure: Can Informational Nudges Increase Enrollment in Pasture, Rangeland and Forage Rainfall Index Insurance?

Technology Adoption and Uncertainty

August 10, 2020
3:15 PM - 4:45 PM

Presentations:

1. The demand for (fake?) fertilizer:  Using an experimental auction to examine the role of beliefs on agricultural input demand in Tanzania
2. The Long-Term Effects of Relaxing Information and Credit Constraints on Adoption, Retention, and Soil Perceptions: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Tanzania
3. The inverse farm size-productivity relationship under land size mis-measurement and in the presence of weather and price risks: Panel data evidence from Uganda
4. Climate Change and the Formation of Risk and Time Preferences: A Panel Data Study of Rice Farmers in Bangladesh

U.S. Food Assistance Programs: Dimensions and Issues

August 10, 2020
3:15 PM - 4:45 PM

Presentations:

1. How Households Waste Food at Home: Estimating Household Food Waste in a Dynamic Decision Model under Uncertainty
2. Rural-Urban Difference in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Participation with Medicaid Expansion
3. The Effect of SNAP on Dietary Quality: Evidence from FoodAPS
4. The Effect of Sprawl Development on Grocery Store Location and Food Access

Water Resource Modeling

August 10, 2020
3:15 PM - 4:45 PM

Presentations:

1. Groundwater Under Open Access:  A Structural Model of the Dynamic Common Pool Extraction Game
2. Optimal groundwater augmentation through managed aquifer recharge and on-farm reservoir under uncertainty and risk
3. Impacts of conservation policy and water-saving technology in irrigation energy cost in the Mississippi River Alluvial Aquifer (MRAA)
4. State Regulatory Heterogeneity and Clean Water Act Compliance

Behavioral & Institutional Economics - Paper Session 2

August 11, 2020
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Presentations:

1. “Elections have Consequences”: Partisan Politics are Literally Killing Us
2. Effects of Health Insurance Expansions on Non-health Consumption of Low-Income Households
3. Evaluating the Effects of Peer Information and Social Influence on Food Purchase in Social Settings

Farm Income and Risk

August 11, 2020
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Presentations:

1. Drivers of Farm Profitability in Iowa
2. Farm-Household Consumption and the Riskiness of Farming
3. Farm- or area-based insurance ? New insights from satellite data

Farmland Markets and Credit

August 11, 2020
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Presentations:

1. Do Aggressive Business Growth Strategies Lead to Bank Failure?  An Application of the Sustainable Growth Challenge Paradigm to Banking Failures of the Late 2000s Great Recession
2. Testing the no-bubble condition without a structural valuation model: The case of Iowa farmland
3. Old Order Amish Population Growth and New York Farmland Markets

Food Security and Climate Around the World

August 11, 2020
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Presentations:

1. The adoption of climate-smart agricultural practices and their impact on food security in China
2. Extreme Weather and Food Security: The Case of Malawi
3. Evaluating Food Policy Options in Bangladesh: Economywide Analysis Under Uncertainty
4. Risk and Climate change: Evidence from historical rice yield trials in India

Global Topics in Production Agriculture

August 11, 2020
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Presentations:

1. Group Heterogeneity and the Economic Effect of Farmer Organization Participation: Evidence from Taiwan
2. Coffee Price Shock and Local Economic Performance: Evidence from Colombia
3. Supply response of staple food crops in the presence of policy distortions: Some evidence from India

Hot Topics in Domestic Crop Production

August 11, 2020
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Presentations:

1. The Response of Corn Futures to USDA Corn Production Forecasts: Impacts and Implications Concerning Market Efficiency
2. Rescuing the Decoupling Literature from Incomparable Chaos
3. Estimating the spatially heterogeneous elasticities of land supply to U.S. crop agriculture

Innovations in Analytical Methods Used to Analyze Consumer Behavior

August 11, 2020
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Presentations:

1. Online Grocery Retailing as a Tool for Price Discrimination
2. Reminder Nudge, Attribute Nonattendance, and Willingness to Pay in a Discrete Choice Experiment
3. Would a Supermarket Cart Nudge Designed to Stimulate Fruit and Vegetable Consumption Crowd-Out Consumption of Other (Food) Products? A Supermarket Experiment Approach

International Trade - Paper Session 4

August 11, 2020
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Presentations:

1. Institutional Determinants of Market Concentration and Trade in a General Equilibrium Framework
2. EU–Mercosur Free Trade Agreement: Implications for Agriculture

Land use, Conservation, and Conflict

August 11, 2020
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Presentations:

1. The critical role of conversion cost and comparative advantage in modeling agricultural land use change
2. Effect of Nuclear Power Plants on local crop yields
3. Do Property Rights Institutions Mitigate Drought-Induced Conflict?
4. Conservation Practice Adoption and On-field Resource Concerns

New Approaches to Measurement Error

August 11, 2020
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Presentations:

1. Measurement error, validation data, and program evaluation
2. Beyond the “inverse relationship”:  Area mismeasurement affects actual productivity, not just how we understand it
3. Do Fertilizer Subsidies Improve Soil Quality: Myopic vs. Dynamic Analysis of Smallholder Farmers in Ghana
4. Does Unobserved Land Quality Bias Separability Tests?

Production and the Environment

August 11, 2020
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Presentations:

1. Effects of CO2 and Climate on Rice Yields over time
2. Investigating the Economic Effect of Plant Growth Regulators on Shrub Maintenance: A Forecasted Partial Cost Analysis
3. How do input and output markets respond to droughts and drought induced water curtailments? A dynamic partial equilibrium study in Washington State

Productivity Analysis and Emerging Technologies - Paper Session 3

August 11, 2020
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Presentations:

1. Economic consequences of genetically edited technology in U.S. soybean production
2. Genetic resources and agricultural productivity in the developing world
3. How much crop insurance premium subsidy is too much? Allocative and technical inefficiency in the U.S. cornbelt

Resource and Environmental Policy Analysis - Water 1

August 11, 2020
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Presentations:

1. Flood Your Neighbors: The Economic Impacts of Levee Building
2. Subsidies vs. subsidies in the conservation of common property groundwater resources
3. The Clean Water Act and CAFOs: Effects of Regulatory Avoidance on Productivity

Resource and Environmental Policy Analysis - Water 2

August 11, 2020
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Presentations:

1. Water Quality Trading Feasibility and Additionality in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed: A Partial Equilibrium Model
2. Groundwater Quality and Crop Choice: Implications for the Cost of Seawater Intrusion
3. Agricultural Water Rights Reforms and Irrigation Water Demand: Evidence from Household Panel Data in China

Risk and Uncertainty - New Topics and Methods

August 11, 2020
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Presentations:

1. Yield and price dependence structure: A copula-based model of French farm income
2. Trading Risk for Ambiguity: Consumption versus Health under Pesticide Application
3. The Scope of Risk Pooling

Rural/Community Development - Impacts of New Technologies, Institutions, and Anti-Poverty Programs in China

August 11, 2020
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Presentations:

1. Moving to Opportunity: The Effects of the Targeted Poverty Alleviation Relocation Program in China
2. The joint effects of ICT adoption and access to credit on household income in China
3. Combating Poverty and Inequality: Social Network Structure, Microfinance Performance and Poverty Alleviation Effects

Safety Net Programs

August 11, 2020
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Presentations:

1. The Impact of the Affordable Care Act Depended Coverage Expansion on Young Adults’ Income, Health Care Utilization and Expenditure
2. Time in labor force, domestic violence, and women's empowerment
3. Timing of SNAP Payment and Crime Rate in the U.S.

Technical Efficiency

August 11, 2020
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Presentations:

1. Sustainable Pest Management Under Uncertainty: A Dynamic Bioeconomic Analysis of Lowbush Blueberry Production
2. Measuring and Achieving World Agricultural Convergence
3. A stochastic techno-economic analysis of aviation biofuel production from pennycress seed oil
4. Global Yield Distributions since 1960

Food Retail Markets: Economic Impacts of Food Policies

August 11, 2020
1:15 PM - 2:45 PM

Presentations:

1. Impact of WIC EBT implementation on retailer participation and sales
2. Cash transfers and consumption of healthy and unhealthy food: evidence from tax refunds
3. A Baseline Assessment of School Food Spending and Local Procurement Related to the Passage of CO HB19-1132 “School Incentives to Use Colorado Food and Producers”

Food Safety and Nutrition - Paper Session 3

August 11, 2020
1:15 PM - 2:45 PM

Presentations:

1. Income, Urbanization, and Consumption of Processed Foods: Implications for Nutrition and Health Policies for India
2. Can shorter mothers have taller children? Nutritional mobility, health equity, and the intergenerational transmission of relative height

Forestry Management

August 11, 2020
1:15 PM - 2:45 PM

Presentations:

1. Modeling and predicting forest movement: An analysis of timber market and climate change
2. The Impact on Deforestation of Transparent and Near-Real Time Information about Forest Change
3. Can Markets Save the Brazilian Forests?
4. A forest model inter-comparison project (For-MIP) to assess the future of forests under climate, policy and technological stressors

Growth and productivity

August 11, 2020
1:15 PM - 2:45 PM

Presentations:

1. Economic Growth and Deforestation in Developing Countries: Is the Environmental Kuznets Curve Hypothesis Still Applicable? Evidence from a Panel of Selected African Countries 
2. Productivity dispersion and persistence among the world's most numerous firms   
3. New Growth Accounting   

Information and Announcement Effects in Commodity Markets

August 11, 2020
1:15 PM - 2:45 PM

Presentations:

1. Cattle Cycle Dynamics in a Modern Agricultural Market: Competition in Holstein Cattle Procurement   
2. The 2019 Government Shutdown Increased Uncertainty in Major Agricultural Commodity Markets   
3. Time-Varying Storage Announcement Effect in Natural Gas Market   
4. Market Uncertainty and Sentiment around USDA Announcements   

International Trade - Paper Session 1

August 11, 2020
1:15 PM - 2:45 PM

Presentations:

1. The role of international trade in wheat supply resilience
2. Exploring the effect of Chief Executive social media engagement on agricultural commodity prices   

Land Use and Off-Farm Employment Decisions

August 11, 2020
1:15 PM - 2:45 PM

Presentations:

1. Land certification, rental market participation and dynamics of income structure in rural China   
2. Chinese Farmers’ Preference for Rural Homestead Land Use: Mechanism, Knowledge and Perception   
3. The impact of productive safety nets and index-based insurance on labor allocation decisions: A comparative analysis from East Africa   
4. Is mechanization in agriculture curse or blessing for the rural labor market in Bangladesh?   

Livestock and Dairy Production

August 11, 2020
1:15 PM - 2:45 PM

Presentations:

1. Utilizing Soil Attributes to Improve Existing U.S. Crop Insurance Product Rating   
2. Productivity Impacts of Agricultural Water under Weather Variability: Irrigation Development Program in Ethiopia   
3. Exploring the Determinants of Perceived Benefits of Rotational Grazing in the U. S. Great Plains   
4. The changing role of veterinarians in the use of medically important antibiotics in cattle production 

Modernizing Food Markets in Developing Countries

August 11, 2020
1:15 PM - 2:45 PM

Presentations:

1. The groundnuts Fairtrade arrangement and its spillover effects on agricultural commercialization and household welfare outcomes: Empirical evidence from central Malawi   
2. Quantifying the U.S. market response to the African swine fever outbreak in China   
3. Do transaction costs prevent smallholder’s participation in Supermarket? Empirical Evidences from India   
4. Private Enforcement Mechanisms and Contract Stability in Agri-food Supply Chain: An Empirical Evidence from China   

Nutrition and Consumer Purchasing Behavior

August 11, 2020
1:15 PM - 2:45 PM

Presentations:

1. The nutritional impact of policies: reduced form models versus demand systems     
2. Consumer Purchasing Response to Mandatory Genetically Engineered Labeling   
3. Effect of Mandatory Front-of-package Nutrition Warning Labels  on Healthy Food Choices   

Production Economics

August 11, 2020
1:15 PM - 2:45 PM

Presentations: 

1. Profitability and Efficiency of U.S. Cow-Calf Farms   
2. Climate change impacts, gains in productivity and producer welfare in U.S. Agriculture   
3. Organic and Conventional Milk Production Practices and Costs between 2005 and 2016: Comparisons and Contrasts by Farm Size, Region and Pasture Use   

Productivity Analysis and Emerging Technologies

August 11, 2020
1:15 PM - 2:45 PM

Presentations:

1. Do Farmers’ Organizations Impact Production Efficiency of Rice Farmers?  Empirical Evidence from Bangladesh   
2. Precision Agriculture Technology Adoption and Technical Efficiency   
3. The role of hired labour in technical efficiency on Irish dairy farms   
4. Rural off-farm employment and agricultural production efficiency: evidence from Tazania.   

Productivity Analysis and Emerging Technologies - Paper Session 1

August 11, 2020
1:15 PM - 2:45 PM

Presentations:

1. Farm-level Innovation and Productivity: Evidence from Groundnut Farming in Malawi
2. Lemon Technologies: Learning about Poor Quality Inputs and their Substitutes   
3. The Effect of Remote Sensing Drought Indicators on Agricultural Yield: Evidence from Southern Brazil   
4. Impact of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) services on farmers’ productivity: Evidence from a randomized control trial in rice farming systems in Benin (West Africa)

Resource and Environmental Policy Analysis - Agriculture 2

August 11, 2020
1:15 PM - 2:45 PM

Presentations: 

1. Facing fungicide resistance in grape production: a game theoretic approach
2. Farmers’ Adoption of Pressure Irrigation Systems: The Case of Cotton Producers in the Southeastern versus Southwestern U.S.   
3. Climate Adaptation and Innovation: Evidence from the Double-cropping Boom in Brazil   

Risk and Uncertainty - Crop Insurance

August 11, 2020
1:15 PM - 2:45 PM

Presentations:

1. Measuring the Relationship between Price and Yield   
2. Implications of U.S. Crop Insurance -- A Perspective from Copulas   
3. Crowding out or crowding in? The influence of subsidised crop insurance on climate change adaptation   

Rural/Community Development Issues in the United States and Canada

August 11, 2020
1:15 PM - 2:45 PM

Presentations:

1. Value-Added Food and Agriculture Sector and Rural Wealth Creation
2. The Impact of Food Deserts on Consumer Behavior: A case Study in Guilford County, North Carolina

Sin Taxes and and their Welfare Implications

August 11, 2020
1:15 PM - 2:45 PM

Presentations:

1. Estimating the Effects of E-cigarette Taxes on the Consumption and Price of E-cigarettes with a Generalized Synthetic Control Approach
2. The Impacts of Soda Taxes in U.S. Localities
3. Distributional Income Level Effects of a Meat Tax: Results from a Basket-Based Choice Experiment

Spillovers and collective action

August 11, 2020
1:15 PM - 2:45 PM

Presentations:

1. Investigating the Inclusive-Performance Tradeoff in Agricultural Cooperatives: Evidence from Nepal
2. Collective action and smallholder rural households:  Implications for income and asset aspirations
3. Understanding the Mechanisms for Spillover Effects from Medium Scale Farms to Smallholder Farms in Africa: Evidence from Nigeria

Valuation of Recreation, Conservation, and Water

August 11, 2020
1:15 PM - 2:45 PM

Presentations:

1. Early Exposure to Nature and Willingness-To-Pay for Conservation
2. Valuation of Environmental Resources: Structural Estimation with Recreation Demand and Contingent Valuation Data for Consistent Welfare Measurement

Valuing, Protecting, and Managing Water

August 11, 2020
1:15 PM - 2:45 PM

Presentations:

1. Estimation of the preferences for the intertemporal services from groundwater
2. Transaction Costs and Household Adoption of Stormwater Best Management Practices
3. The Consequences of Source Water Protection Grants: Evidence from the Minnesota Clean Water Fund

Important Dates

• December 15
  • 2020 AAEA Business Meeting