Departmental Working Papers
Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics Working Papers are preliminary drafts in preparation for publication. Paper numbers missing from the list were either cancelled or the papers were never given to the library. Faculty working papers are available for downloading in pdf format.
| Working Paper No. | Date | Authors | Title | No. of Pages |
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| 08-001 | June 2008 | Carlo Russo, Richard Green, Richard Howitt | Estimation of Supply and Demand Elasticities of California Commodities | 128 |
| 08-002 | October 2008 | Aslihan Arslan, J. Edward Taylor | Farmers' Subjective Valuation of Subsistence Crops: The Case of Traditional Maize in Mexico | 39 |
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| Working Paper No. | Date | Authors | Title | No. of Pages |
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| 07-001 | January 2007 | J. Edward Taylor, Antonio Yunez Naude, Nancy Jesurun-Clements | Does Agricultural Liberalization Reduce Rural Welfare in Less Developed Countries? The Case of CAFTA | 41 |
| 07-002 | July 2007 | J. Edward Taylor, | Valuing the Numismatic Legacy of Alexander the Great | 20 |
| 07-003 | November 2007 | Michael Carter, Francisco Galarza, Stephen Boucher | Underwriting Area-based Yield Insurance to Crowd-in Credit Supply and Demand | 38 |
| 07-005 | August 2007 | Catherine Guirkinger, Stephen Boucher | Credit Constraints and Productivity in Peruvian Agriculture | 41 |
| 07-006 | March 2007 | Alex F. McCalla, | FAO in the Changing Global Landscape | 19 |
| 07-007 | March 2007 | Alex F. McCalla, | FAO, Research and the CGIAR | 25 |
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| Working Paper No. | Date | Authors | Title | No. of Pages |
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| 06-001 | August 2006 | J. Edward Taylor, Jared Hardner, Micki Stewart | Ecotourism and Economic Growth in the Galapagos: An Island Economy-wide Analysis | 31 |
| 06-002 | November 2006 | J. Edward Taylor, George Dyer | Migration and the Sending Economy: A Disaggregated Rural Economy Wide Analysis | 50 |
| 06-003 | December 2006 | Fleur Wouterse, J. Edward Taylor | Migration and Income Diversification Evidence from Burkina Faso | 37 |
| 06-005 | November 2006 | Alejandro Lopez-Feldman, Jorge Mora, J. Edward Taylor | Does Natural Resource Extraction Mitigate Poverty and Inequality? Evidence from Rural Mexico and a Lacandona Rainforest Community | 34 |
| 07-004 | October 2006 | Stephen Boucher, Catherine Guirkinger, Carolina Trivelli | Direct Elicitation of Credit Constraints: Conceptual and Practical Issues with an Empirical Application to Peruvian Agriculture | 47 |
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| Working Paper No. | Date | Authors | Title | No. of Pages |
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| 05-001 | January 2005 | Aaron Smith, Prasad A. Naik, Chih-Ling Tsai , | Markov-Switching Model Selection Using Kulklback-Leibler Divergence | 43 |
| 05-002 | May 2005 | Quirino Paris | Price-Induced Technical Progress in 80 Years of U.S. Agriculture | 50 |
| 05-003 | July 2005 | J. Edward Taylor, Jorge Mora, Richard Adams, Alejandro Lopez-Feldman, | Remittances, Inequality and Poverty: Evidence from Rural Mexico | 41 |
| 05-004 | July 2005 | George A. Dyer Steve Boucher, J. Edward Taylor | Subsistence Response to Market Shocks, | 34 |
| 05-005 | August 2005 | Steve Boucher, Oded Stark, J. Edward Taylor | A Gain with a Drain? Evidence from Rural Mexico on the New Economics of Brain Drain | 34 |
| 05-006 | September 2005 | Steve Boucher, Aaron Smith, J. Edward Taylor, Antonio Yúnez-Naude | Impacts of Policy Reforms on the Supply of Mexican Labor to U.S. Farms: New Evidence from Mexico | 26 |
| 05-007 | October 2005 | Susan M. Richter, J. Edward Taylor | Policy Reforms and the Gender Dynamics of Rural Mexico-to-U.S. Migration | 40 |
| 05-008 | September 2005 | Hossein Farzin, Ken-Ichi Akao, | Non-pecuniary Work Incentive and Labor Supply | 33 |
| 05-009 | November 2005 | Hossein Farzin, Ken-Ichi Akao , | Non-pecuniary Value of Employment and Natural Resource Extinction | 27 |
| 05-010 | November 2005 | Stephen Boucher, Michael R. Carter, Catherine Guirkinger | Risk Rationing and Wealth Effects in Credit Markets | 44 |
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| Working Paper No. | Date | Authors | Title | No. of Pages |
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| 04-001 | March 2004 | William Sutton , Douglas M. Larson, Lovell S. Jarvis, | A New Approach for Assessing the Costs of Living with Wildlife in Developing Countries | 37 |
| 04-002 | March 2004 | Lovell S. Jarvis, Esperanza Vera-Toscano | The Impact of Chilean Fruit Sector , Development on Female Employment and Household Income | 42 |
| 04-003 | May 2004 | Craig A. Bond, Hossein Farzin | Freedom from Pollution? The State, the People, and the Environmental Kuznets Curve | 33 |
| 04-004 | June 2004 | Lovell S. Jarvis | The Rise and Decline of Rent-Seeking Activity in the Brazilian Coffee Sector: Lessons from the Imposition and Removal of Coffee Export Quotas | 54 |
| 04-005 | August 2004 | Hoy Carman | The California Nursery Industry, 2002-2003: Value, Growth and Economic Impacts | 20 |
| 04-006 | October 2004 | Hoy Carman, Ana Maria Rodriguez | The Hass Avocado Promotion and Research Order: Offsetting Price Impacts from Imports with Advertising and Promotion | 24 |
| 04-007 | August 2004 | Quirino Paris | Robust Estimators of Errors-In-Variables Models Part 1 | 60 |
| 04-008 | September 2004 | Quirino Paris, Michael R. Caputo | A Primal-Dual Estimator of Production and Cost Functions Within an Errors-in-Variables Context | 27 |
| 04-009 | October 2004 | Michael R. Caputo, Quirino Paris | An Atemporal Microeconomic Theory and an Empirical Test of Price-Induced Technical Progress | 32 |
| 04-010 | January 2004 | Aaron Smith, Catherine J. Morrison Paul , W. Richard Goe, Martin Kenney | Computer and Internet Use by Great Plains Farmers | 38 |
| 04-011 | July 2004 | Aaron Smith | Level Shifts and the Illusion of Long Memory in Economic Time Series | 47 |
| 04-012 | August 2004 | Colin Carter Aaron Smith | The Market Effect of a Food Scare: The Case of Genetically Modified StarLink Corn | 37 |
| 04-013 | September 2004 | Aaron Smith | Partially Overlapping Time Series: A New Model for Volatility Dynamics In Commodity Futures | 37 |
| 04-014 | December 2004 | Aaron Smith | Forecasting in the Presence of Level Shifts | 35 |
| 04-015 | June 2004 | Quirino Paris,Federico Perali, Luca Piccoli | Primal-Dual Estimation of a Linear Expenditure Demand System | 37 |
| 04-016 | August 2004 | Quirino Paris, Michael R. Caputo | Efficient Estimates of a Model of Production and Cost | 8 |
| 04-017 | 2004 | Quirino Paris, Michael R. Caputo | A Nonlinear Generalized Additive Error Model of Production and Cost | 30 |
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| Working Paper No. | Date | Authors | Title | No. of Pages |
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| 03-001 | January 2003 | Colin A. Carter, Caroline Gunning-Trant | Trade Remedy Laws and NAFTA Agricultural Trade | 20 |
| 03-002 | August 2003 | Lovell S. Jarvis | How Brazil Transferred Billions to Foreign Coffee Importers: The International Coffee Agreement, Rent Seeking and Export Tax Rebates | 38 |
| 03-003 | November 2003 | Julian Alston, Jikun Huang, Songqing Jin, Scott Rozelle | Economies of Scale and Scope, and the Economic Efficiency of China's Agricultural Research System | 45 |
| 03-004 | September 2003 | Quirino Paris | Estimation of Consumer Demand Functions When the Observed Prices Are the Same for All Sample Units | 14 |
| 03-005 | November 2003 | Quirino Paris, Michael R. Caputo | A Dual Approach to Estimation With Constant Prices | 21 |
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| Working Paper No. | Date | Authors | Title | No. of Pages |
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| 02-001 | April 2002 | Linxiu Zhang, Jikun Huang, Scott Rozelle | Employment, Emerging Labor Markets, and the Role of Education in Rural China | 32 |
| 02-002 | January 2002 | Jikun Huang, Scott Rozelle | China's Accession to WTO and Shifts in the Agriculture Policy | 44 |
| 02-003 | March 2002 | Alan de Brauw, Jikun Huang, Scott Rozelle, Linxiu Zhang, Yigang Zhang | The Evolution of China's Rural Labor Markets during the Reforms | 45 |
| 02-004 | February 2002 | Loren Brandt, Scott Rozelle, Matthew A. Turner | Local Government Behavior and Property Rights Formation in Rural China | 43 |
| 02-005 | February 2002 | Alan de Brauw, Jikun Huang, Scott Rozelle | Sequencing and the Success of Gradualism: Empirical Evidence from China's Agricultural Reform | 45 |
| 02-006 | February 2002 | Jikun Huang, Scott Rozelle | The Nature of Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in China and Implications of WTO Accession | 70 |
| 02-007 | January 2002 | Hanan G. Jacoby, Guo Li, Scott Rozelle | Hazards of Expropriation: Tenure Insecurity and Investment in Rural China | 50 |
| 02-008 | February 2002 | John Gibson, Scott Rozelle | Poverty and Access to Infrastructure in Papua New Guinea | 36 |
| 02-009 | March 2002 | Scott Rozelle , Vince Benzinger, Jikun Huang | Continuity and Change in China's Rural Periodic Markets | 37 |
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| Working Paper No. | Date | Authors | Title | No. of Pages |
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| 01-001 | June 2001 | James Kirkley, Catherine J. Morrison Paul, Stephen Cunningham, Joseph Catanzano | Technical Progress in the Sete Trawl Fishery, 1985-1999 | 40 |
| 01-002 | June 2001 | Colin A. Carter , Andrew J. Estrin | Market Reforms Versus Structural Reforms in Rural China | 30 |
| 01-003 | April 2001 | Quirino Paris | MELE: Maximum Entropy Leuven Estimators | 34 |
| 01-004 | August 2001 | Jeffrey P. Cohen, Catherine J. Morrison Paul | Spatial and Supply/Demand Agglomeration Economies: An Evaluation of State-and-Industry-Linkages in the U.S. Food System | 34 |
| 01-005 | August 2001 | Quirino Paris | Dynamic Positive Equilibrium Problem | 37 |
| 01-006 | November 2001 | Quirino Paris, Michael R. Caputo | Comparative Statics of Money-Goods Specifications of the Utility Function | 21 |
| 01-007 | September 2001 | Quirino Paris , Michael R. Caputo | The Economic Record versus AER:Twenty-Six Years Ahead on the Money-Goods Model | 18 |
| 01-008 | August 2001 | Quirino Paris, Michael R. Caputo | Sensitivity of the GME Estimates to Support Bounds | 18 |
| 01-009 | May 2001 | Jeffrey P. Cohen, Catherine J. Morrison Paul | Public Infrastructure Investment, Costs, and Inter-State Spatial Spillovers in U.S. Manufacturing: 1982-96 | 43 |
| 01-010 | October 2001 | Jeffrey P. Cohen, Catherine J. Morrison Paul | Agglomeration Economies and Industry Location Decisions: The Impacts of Vertical and Horizontal Spillovers | 44 |
| 01-011 | December 2001 | Jeffrey P. Cohen, Catherine J. Morrison Paul | Hub and Spoke Airport Networks and State Airport Infrastructure Spillovers: A Spatial Econometrics Approach | 37 |
| 01-012 | February 2001 | Catherine J. Morrison Paul | Cost Economies: A Driving Force for Consolidation and Concentration? | 36 |
| 01-013 | October 2001 | Lovell Jarvis, Esperanza Vera-Toscana | Seasonal Adjustment in a Market for Female Agricultural Workers in Chile | 40 |
| 01-014 | December 2001 | Songqing Jin, Jikun Huang, Ruifa Hu, Scott Rozelle | The Creation and Spread of Technology and Total Factor Productivity in China's Agriculture | 32 |
| 01-015 | March 2001 | Jikun Huang, Ruifa Hu, Scott Rozelle, Fangbin Qiao, Carl E. Pray | Small holders, Transgenic Varieties, and Production Efficiency: The Case of Cotton Farmers in China | 30 |
| 01-016 | June 2001 | Scott Rozelle | Trade and Investment Liberalization and China's Rural Economy: Impacts and Policy Responses | 59 |
| 01-017 | November 2001 | Hongbin Li, Scott Rozelle | Insider Privatization with a Tail: The Buyout Price and Performance of Privatized Firms in Rural China | 49 |
| 01-018 | April 2001 | John Gibson, Jikun Huang, Scott Rozelle | Improving Estimates of Inequality and Poverty From Urban China's Household Income and Expenditure Survey | 28 |
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| Working Paper No. | Date | Authors | Title | No. of Pages |
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| 00-020 | October 2000 | Bryan Lohmar, Scott Rozelle, Changbao Zhao | The Rise of Rural-to-Rural Labor Markets in China | 44 |
| 00-021 | October 2000 | Scott Rozelle, Johan F.M. Swinnen | Transition and Agriculture | 39 |
| 00-022 | May 2000 | John Gibson, Scott Rozelle | How Elastic is Calorie Demand? Parametric, Nonparametric, and Semiparametric Results for Urban Papua New Guinea | 32 |
| 00-023 | December 2000 | John Gibson, Scott Rozelle | Is It Better to Be a Boy? A Disaggregated Outlay Equivalent Analysis of Gender Bias in Papua New Guinea | 30 |
| 00-024 | December 2000 | Guo Li, Scott Rozelle, Jikun Huang | Land Rights, Farmer Investment Incentives, and Agricultural Production in China | 43 |
| 00-025 | May 2000 | Catherine J. Morrison, Paul V. Eldon Ball, Ronald G. Felthoven, Richard Nehring | Effective Costs and Chemical Use in U.S. Agricultural Production: Benefits and Costs of Using the Environment as a "Free" Input | 28 |
| 00-026 | April 2000 | Catherine J. Morrison Paul | Productivity and Efficiency in the U.S. Food System, or, Might Cost Factors Support Increasing Mergers and Concentration? | 39 |
| 00-027 | May 2000 | Jeremiah Paknawin-Mock, Lovell Jarvis, Abas Jahari, Madhin Husaini, Ernesto Pollitt | Community-Level Determinants of Child Growth | 40 |
| 00-028 | May 2000 | Constance Newman, Lovell Jarvis | Worker and Firm Determinants of Piece Rate Variation in an Agricultural Labor Market | 36 |
| 00-029 | May 2000 | Corinne Alexander, Rachael E. Goodhue, Gordon C. Rausser | Do Quality Incentives Matter?, | 27 |
| 00-030 | October 2000 | Catherine J. Morrison Paul | Cost Economies and Market Power: The Case of the U.S. Meat Packing Industry | 32 |
| 00-031 | December 2000 | Catherine J. Morrison Paul | Thoughts on Productivity, Efficiency and Capacity Utilization Measurement for Fisheries | 33 |
| 00-032 | November 2000 | Catherine J. Morrison Paul, James M. MacDonald | Tracing the Effects of Agricultural Commodity Prices on Food Processing Costs | 42 |
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| Working Paper No. | Date | Authors | Title | No. of Pages |
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| 99-001 | January 1999 | Colin A. Carter, Jing Chen, Baojin Chu | Agricultural Productivity Growth in China: Farm Level versus National Measurement | 15 |
| 99-002 | July 1999 | Colin A. Carter, Donald MacLaren, Alper Yilmaz | How Competitive is the World Wheat Market? | 22 |
| 99-003 | July 1999 | Colin A. Carter, Xianghong Li | Economic Reform and the Changing Pattern of China's Agricultural Trade | 30 |
| 99-004 | 1999 | Mary Bohman, Lovell Jarvis | The International Coffee Agreement: a tax on coffee producers and consumers? | 39 |
| 99-005 | 1999 | Quirino Paris, Michael R. Caputo | A Recurrent Utility Function of Fictitious Generality | 11 |
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