Poster Presentations
August 10, 2020
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM (CDT)
August 11, 2020
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM (CDT)
All times are in Central (CDT)
Ag Finance and Farm Management - Poster Session
August 10, 2020
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Poster Presentations:
- Competition, Performance and Financial Stability in the U.S. Agricultural Banking
- Can Farmland be a Common Risk factor in Asset Pricing Models
- Impact of Unanticipated USDA Corn Production Estimates on Corn Futures Prices and the Relevance of WASDE Reports in the Recent Times
- Is the relationship between land values and credit availability a thing of the past?
- Spatial Heterogeneity in Farm Exit and Government Payments within Changing Farm Structure
- Risk Management Potential of Supplemental Irrigation for Cotton in a Sub-humid Climate under Increased Drought Risk
- Fairness Perceptions in Agriculture: Views About Dicamba from the Field
- Beef Cattle Producer Motivations for Current Management Practices
- Economic and Environmental Influence of No-Till and Cover Crops on Dryland Cotton Production
Agribusiness Economics and Management - Poster Session
August 10, 2020
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Poster Presentations:
- Impact of Internet use on Health outcomes of Rural Residents: Evidence from China
- Farmers’ willingness to adopt organic farming: A Meta-analysis
- Agricultural basis from a game theoretic perspective
- Member Participation and Satisfaction in Agricultural Cooperatives: A Pilot Study of the Largest Dairy Cooperative in Northeast India
- Drop-in Ready Jet Biofuel from Carinata: A Real Options Analysis of Processing Plant Investments
- Statistical or machine learning models? Yield forecasting techniques and applications to strawberries
- The Economic Impacts of Producing Alternative Crops: Guar and Guayule in the Southwest
- The Role of Quality Characteristics in Pricing Hard Red Winter Wheat
- Power imbalances in French food retailing: Evidence from a production function approach to estimate market power
- Specialty Coffee Shops in Mexico: Factors Influencing the Likelihood of Purchasing High-Quality Coffee
- Better image for better price: how store image affects consumer’s willingness to pay for national brand in different stores
- Impact of Farmland Fragmentation on Farmers' Grain Production Technical Efficiency—A Case Study of Four Counties in Hubei Province, China
Behavioral & Institutional Economics - Poster Session
August 10, 2020
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Poster Presentations:
- The impacts of observational learning and word of mouth learning on farmers’ adoption of residue-based biogas: does interpersonal trust play a role?
- Community advocacy forums and public service delivery - Impact, and the role of information, deliberation, and administrative placement
- Start Smoking Earlier, Smoke Longer and More: Does Education Matter?
- An Evaluation of Consumer Preferences using Experimental Methods: Ground Beef vs. Ground Bison
- Am I Late for School? Peer Effects on Delayed School Entry in Rural Northwestern China
- An Acceptable CSA Program in Taiwan: A Case Study of Integrating Farmers’ Market
- An Economic Analysis of 'Buy Local' Trend
- Donation for Disaster Relief: Learnings from Economic and Non-Economic Preferences Measured in Lab
Demand and Price Analysis - Poster Session
August 10, 2020
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Poster Presentations:
- Attitudes towards Aquaculture and Seafood Purchasing Preferences: Evidence from a Consumer Survey of Atlantic States
- Beyond causality in mean: Evaluation of quantile causality between crude oil and agricultural commodity markets
- The Role of Habit Formation in Explaining Consumer Behavior and Welfare
- Feasible Estimation of a High Dimensional Demand System with Endogenous Prices: an Application to the USDA Food Plan Food Categories
- Determinants of the consumption expenditure of cereals and its products in Malawi
- Modeling Spatial Price Linkages Using a Copula-Based Error Correction Model
- Urbanization in China and it's Implications for Subsistence Consumption
- Benchmarking Analysis of Cattle Auction Prices in South Texas
- Climate change and its impacts on U.S. corn and soybean basis levels
- Economic Valuation of Supplemental Irrigation via Small-Scale Water Harvesting in Northern Ghana
- Effect of the traffic-light system for nutrition labeling in processed food products in the Ecuadorian population
- Analyzing Willingness to Pay for Meat Substitutes: Evidence from Experimental Auction for Hamburger Patty Product
Environmental and Nonmarket Valuation - Poster Session
August 10, 2020
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Poster Presentations:
- The value of healthy eating vs. the value of convenience: investigating the willingness to pay for living in food swamps
- Valuation of Prairie Strips Ecosystem Services using a Choice Experiment of Stated Preferences
- Ecosystem service values from sustainable farming practices
- Does establishing commercial Forest Management Units exacerbate deforestation? The evidence from Liberia.
- The Economic Impacts of Wildfires and Wildfire Smoke on Colorado Property Values
- Effects of Climate Change Perception and Moral Motivation on Consumer Preferences for Turfgrass Attributes
- Impact of waste pollution on infant health – Evidence from four states in the northeast of U.S
- Wildfire Containment, Protection and Structure Locations
Experimental Economics - Poster Session
August 10, 2020
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Poster Presentations:
- The Role of Gender in Conservation Implementation on Leased Farmland – Theory and Experimental Evidence
- Consumers’ Willingness to Pay for High Zinc and Low Milled Rice in Bangladesh
- Unit Sensitivity in the Stated Preference Methods of Nonmarket Valuation: Evidence from A Meta-analysis of Meat Valuation Studies
- Drivers of organic farming: Lab-in-the-field evidence on the role of social comparison and nudge in networks in Vietnam
- What Households Change Their Decision to Participate in Price Support Program for Rice in a Response to an Upward Adjustment of Price Discount Rate? A Quasi-Natural Experiment from the 2017 Policy Regime Change in Korea
- Internal Validity Check for Food-Choice Experiments
Food and Agricultural Marketing - Poster Session
August 10, 2020
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Poster Presentations:
- Product and Marketing Strategies to Boost the Liquid Milk Demand: A Hedonic Metric Approach
- Purdue Improved Cowpea Storage (PICS) technology Usage among Legume Traders in Nigeria: What are the Set-backs to the Breakthrough?
- Consumer Preferences for Dairy Products Logoed as Made with Tennessee Milk
- Does Importance Determine Beliefs in Organic Attributes? Examining Willingness to Pay for Organic Foods
- Facts vs. Fake: A Comparison of Product’s Nutritional Values and Nutritional Claims in the German Meat Market
- Consumer Basket Shopping and Seller Market Power in Food Retailing
- The Effect of Soybean Futures Forecast Accuracy on Basis in Local Cash Markets
- Seeing Food Safety in Green Labels
- The Spillover effect of Direct Competition between Marketing Cooperatives and Private Intermediaries: Evidence from Thai Rice Value Chains
- The Price Premium for Local Foods: A Nash Price Equilibrium Model
- Measuring the Effect of Direct-to-Consumer Marketing Strategy on Farm Income: A Generalized Propensity Score Approach
Food and Agricultural Policy Analysis - Poster Session
August 10, 2020
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Poster Presentations:
- Evaluating the impact of National Organic Program on pesticide use risk in organic agriculture
- Alternative Foot-and-Mouth Disease Management Strategies in Large Feedlots
- Structural Change, Investment Efficiency and Productivity Growth in the Indian Food Processing Industry
- Willingness to Pay for Access to Healthy and Unhealthy Food Suppliers: the Role of the Food Environment
- Spatial Grocery Sales Tax Competition among Local Governments: Evidence from the U.S. Counties
- Welfare Implications of Japan's Tariff Reuctions on the U.S. Egg Product Imports
- Are outliers in farmland price time series random or reasoned in political and economic events?
- Potential Impact of Increased Immigration Cost on State Level Agriculture: A Differential Supply Approach
- U.S. Consumer Acceptance of Novel Biotechnologies to Improve Farm Animal Welfare
- A new empirical evidence on the impact of climate change on rice market equilibrium in West Africa: Dealing with future uncertainties through Monte Carlo simulations
- The effects of market access on the input market structure in Zambia
- The Effect of Revised CACFP on Food and Nutrient Intake of Children
- Treatment Effects of Joint participation in SNAP and Private Food Charities with treatment validated SNAP
- China’s Food Security and Its Tariff Rate Quota Reform
- Measuring National Socio-economic Aspects of Sustainable Agriculture and the Interactions with Environmental Indicators
Food Safety and Nutrition - Poster Session
August 10, 2020
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Poster Presentations:
- Quantifying Grocery Tax Impacts on Local Food Stamps (SNAP) Participations
- Making cash crop value chains nutrition-sensitive: Evidence from rural Sierra Leone
- Minimum Cost Diets as a Food Security Indicator in Central America
- Resource Booms, Economic Conditions, and Child Food Security
- Does Better Market Access Improve Nutrition? Evidence from China’s Relocation Program
- Health Implications of Obesity: An Evidence from India
- Food Environment, Diet Quality and Online Grocery Shopping
- The differential impact of SSB taxation over time and by income: Evidence from Nielsen Homescan and Retail Data
- Characterizing Crop Diversification In The U.S. Specialty Crops Industry
- Tradeoffs between On-Farm Food Safety and Environmental Conservation for U.S. Produce Growers
- Does Household Wealth Level Affect the Body Mass Index of Women in Benin?
Household and Labor Economics - Poster Session
August 11, 2020
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Poster Presentations:
- Revisiting Demand and Supply of Farm Labor in the United States: A Panel Data Approach
- Coping with the Consequences of Short-Term Illness Shocks: The Role of Intra-Household Labour Allocation
- Classroom Peer Effects on Student Learning: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from the China Education Panel Survey
- Estimating and Comparing Empirical Measures of Household Energy Insecurity
- Consumers’ Perceptions and Behaviors Regarding Food Waste across Countries
- Impact of Boarding on Mental Health - Evidence from Rural Primary Schools in Northwestern China
- Income and Happiness Effects: Investigating the Multidimensional Benefits of Bio-Technology Adoption
- The Impact of Physical Capital Accumulation and Income Inequality on Private Education Investment: Evidence from Rural China
- Infrastructure and the impact of weather shocks on local labor markets
- Return on Agricultural Training in South Africa
Industrial Org./Supply Chain Management - Poster Session
August 11, 2020
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Poster Presentations:
- Chinese Wholesale Vegetable Markets: Testing the Theories of Relational Contracts
- The Economics of Label Misperception in Food Markets
- Droughts and the Food Retail Sector
- The Economic Impacts of Private Politics in Food Markets
- Mergers, Acquisition and Market Power: The Case of the U.S. Agribusiness
- Scarcity Pricing in the Dynamic Setting
International Development - Poster Session
August 11, 2020
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Poster Presentations:
- Impacts of Rice Research Investment on Food Security and Poverty: A Foresight Quantification
- Effects of Weather Shocks on Millet Markets in Sub Saharan Africa: Evidence from Niger
- Consumer Willingness-To-Pay to End Deforestation in West African Cocoa Production.
- Assessing an on-farm storage intervention for maize farmers in Kenya
- Demonstration plots, seed trial packs, bidirectional learning, and modern input sales: Evidence from a field experiment in Tanzania
- Salient Risks and Contract Quality: Estimating Demand for Index Insurance in Mozambique and Tanzania
- The Agricultural Resource Curse? The Welfare Effects of the Vanilla Price Surge
- Does the expansion of midstream activities along value chains improve smallholder welfare? Evidence of milling firms in Zambia
- Improved Technology Dissemination and Adoption in Sub-Saharan Africa: Global and Regional Food Security, Economic and Environmental Implications
- On Why and How Agriculture Has Not Declined With Economic Growth In North Africa
- Climate risk, adaptation, and technology adoption in the midstream of crop value chains: Evidence from Nigerian maize traders
- When can private sector prizes achieve agriculture development goals? -- Lessons from two impact evaluations.
- Side-Selling and the Returns to Cooperative Participation: The Role of Comparative Advantage in Smallholder Livestock Cooperatives
- Resilience and Persistence of a Policy Intervention: An Analysis of the Effect of SPREAD in Rwanda
- “After the Project is Over? Measuring Longer-Term Impacts of a Food Safety Intervention in Senegal”
- International R&D Spillovers: The Case of Aquaculture
- Universal Basic Income, Targeted Cash Transfers, and Progressive Taxation: Reducing Income Inequality in South Africa
- Do Property Rights Affect the Intrahousehold Allocation of Productive Resources? Evidence from Rural Ethiopia
- Aquaculture Production Clustering and Inland Fish Market Integration in Bangladesh
- Impacts of Anti-poverty Programs on Land Use Change – The Case of NREGS in India
International Trade - Poster Session
August 11, 2020
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Poster Presentations:
- The Investigation of Export-Driving Forces of U.S. Distiller Industry: Insights from Bourbon Whiskey
- Will the folly of protectionism affect the global rice bowl in the future?
- Selection into outsourcing versus integration strategies for heterogeneous multinationals
- Estimated impacts of Japan bilateral tariff reductions on beef trade
- Does reducing import-related transactions cost increase fertilizer imports? Evidence from a cross-country panel analysis
- Agricultural trade performance and potential: a retrospective panel data analysis of U.S. exports of corn and soybeans
- U.S. Tariff on EU Olive Oil: Impacts on U.S. Consumer and World Market
- Impacts of Economic Growth and Depression in the U.S., China, and India on Global Land and Water Resources
- Implicit Cost of Retaliatory Tariffs by Mexico on U.S. Cheese Exports
- Does the Notification Frequency of Non-Tariff Measures Affect Product Exports?
- Impacts of Trade Agreements on U.S. Beef Exports and Agribusinesses
Natural Resource Economics - Poster Session
August 11, 2020
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Poster Presentations:
- Resource Requirements of Food Demand in the United States
- Integration of the Economic and Hydrologic Modeling to Evaluate - and Communicate - the Tradeoffs between Water Quality and Economic Benefits at Farm Scale
- Deforestation and Energy Poverty: Longitudinal Evidence from Malawi
- Do Exploitations of Marcellus and Utica Shale Formations Improve Regional Economy in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia? A Synthetic Control Analysis
- Bundling Irrigation Technologies to Improve Water Table Management in Florida Plastic Mulch Vegetable Production
- Wetland Proximity: A Meta-Analysis of Hedonic Property Values
- Roads and deforestation, the role of forest governance: Evidence from Brazil
- Impact of the Florida Red Tide Events on Recreational Fishing in the Western Florida
- Agricultural Decisions in Response to Groundwater Salinity on Irrigated Lands in Kansas
Production Economics - Poster Session
August 11, 2020
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Poster Presentations:
- Duration analysis of adoption of intensive agricultural practices in Rwanda
- The Impacts of the 2012 Midwest Drought on U.S. Agriculture
- Responses of global agriculture to climate and biophysical variability
- Do Warming Temperatures Influence Yield Response to Higher Planting Density?
- Robotic Harvesters or Migrant Workers? A Mechanization Adoption Model
- Mechanization Services and Technical Efficiency in China’s Crop Production
- Understanding the Yield Impacts of Alternative Cover Crop Types: Evidence from Plot-level Panel Data
- Measuring the Effect of Extreme Weather on Production Efficiency using Zero-inefficiencies Stochastic Frontier Model
- Future US Soybean Yields: What A Deep Learning Approach Can Tell Us
- The ‘Arab Spring’ and Drought: Agricultural Productivity Growth in North Africa
- Evidence on the Private-Excess Fertilization Hypothesis
- The effects of forced displacement on agricultural productivity: Evidence from Colombian civil conflict
Productivity Analysis and Emerging Technologies - Poster Session
August 11, 2020
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Poster Presentations:
- The Effectiveness of Investment Promotion on Firm Productivity: Evidence from Thai Food Manufacturing
- Sustainable food systems under changing climate and household welfare in Pakistan
- Adopting African Indigenous Vegetables: A Dynamic Panel Analysis of Smallholder Farmers in Kenya
- Do Commodity Check-Off Programs Pay for Themselves? The Case of the Rice Check-off.
- Agricultural Extension Services, Agricultural Productivity and WEAI Nexus: Quasi-Experimental Evidence
- Does Agricultural Growth lead to Methane Emissions?
- Climate change impacts on agriculture: evidence from global agricultural productivity
- Strategic Drainage: Yield and Pollution improvements from Controlled Drainage under Optimization
- Value-Added Technologies in the Specialty Crop Industry: Exploring Farmers’ Drivers and Technology Impacts on Economic Performance
Research Methods/Econometrics/Stats - Poster Session
August 11, 2020
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Poster Presentations:
- Conflict in sub-Saharan Africa through the lens of supervised classification (prediction) models
- Analyzing the determinants of adaptation to flood using semiparametric approach
Resource and Environmental Policy Analysis - Poster Session
August 11, 2020
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Poster Presentations:
- Aviation biofuels: A viable and sustainable option to curb aviation emissions
- Effects of Grocery Bag Regulations on Grocery Sales and Shopping Behaviors: Evidence of Natural Experiments in the United States
- The Environmental Policy Induced Persistence Risk: Impulse Response Analysis of China’s Plastics Bans in Oil, Plastics and Exchange Markets
- The Impact of China's Location-Based Environmental Regulations on Hog Industry and Water Quality: A Synthetic Difference-in-differences Approach
- Government Funding Assistance, Farm Investment and Irrigation System Improvements: Insights from the United States
- Impact Evaluation of Livestock Environmental Regulation on the Structural Change in Agricultural Sector in China
- Land-use Change at the Peri-Urban Nexus: The Greenbelt Act Study
- Climate Change and the Role of Public Policy in Sustaining Agricultural Growth
- Agri-Environmental Policy Spillovers: Predicting Joint and Conditional Participation in BMP, Conservation, and Agricultural Programs
- Organization of environmental R&D in a duopoly under unequal costs and asymmetric information
- The Social Cost of Managing Invasive Species: The Case of Citrus Greening
- Cattle producers’ willingness to adopt winter patch grazing vs. patch burn grazing in the Northern Great Plains
- Incorporating Large-scale Double-cropping into the Identification of Agricultural Supply Elasticities: Implications for Biofuel and Conservation Policies
- Does organic farming improve the nitrogen balance in agricultural land?
- Balancing Food Security and Environmental Sustainability through Seasonal Crop Allocation in Bangladesh
- Impacts of Grassland Ecological Compensation Policy on Household’s Supplementary Feeding Using: An Empirical Study in Inner Mongolia
- Groundwater Management Policy Strategies for Effective Conservation of the Ogallala Aquifer
- The Impacts of Biomass Use on Residential Property Values in Central Africa: An Application of the Hedonic Spatial Quantile Regression
- Efficiency of pesticide use in agricultural production: Evidence from Vietnam
- Quantifying Economic Damages of Climate Change: A Revisit
Risk and Uncertainty - Poster Session
August 11, 2020
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Poster Presentations:
- A Bayesian Copula Approach to Valuing an Option on Corn Prices in North Carolina
- A National Basis: Aggregation Techniques for a more Useful Picture of Basis
- Crop Insurance Rate Making, Land Quality and Adverse Selection
- Basis Risk Associated with the Pasture, Rangeland, and Forage Insurance Program: Evidence from California
- Understanding the Determinants of Crop (Under)Insurance Purchases
- An Economic Risk Analysis of Alternative Irrigation Regimes and Transitioning Tillage Systems in Cotton Production
- Building Resilience for Agriculture Through Index-Based Insurance in Developing Country Context: New Insights for Public Policy in Nigeria
- Economic Risk Analysis of Modern Irrigation Scheduling Methods on Cotton Production in Georgia
- The Optimal Mix of Owned and Rented Farmland Investment
- Forgivable Premium: Strategy for Lowering Crop Insurance Subsidies
Rural/Community Development - Poster Session
August 11, 2020
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Poster Presentations:
- Differential Impact of Gender of Household Head on Food Security: Empirical Evidence from Vietnam
- Fertility and Sex Choice in Rural China
- Changes in butter prices and regional economies in Poland
- Bottom-up approach of land use transfer in market-driven land reform: using Web Crawling and Spatial Analysis on Zhejiang, China
- The Effect of the Natural Disaster on Health Expenditure in Japan: The Great East Japan Earthquake
- Does resilience capacity influence households' perception of control to environmental shocks? Evidence from the Bolivian Altiplano
- Land Consolidation and Rural Labor Markets in Colombia
- Rural Households’ Willingness to Pay for Improving Environmental Quality in China: A Double-Hurdle Approach
Teaching, Communication, and Extension - Poster Session
August 11, 2020
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Poster Presentations:
- Knowledge Acquisition and Retention in Agricultural Finance Courses
- Enhancing Student Learning Using an International Trade Simulation Project
- Experiential Learning Trading Agricultural Contracts in a Commodity Fund
