Barrett E. Kirwan
Education
Ph.D. Economics — Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005
B.A. Economics — Brigham Young University, 1998
Teaching
ACE 456 - Agricultural & Food Policy
ACE 592 - Advanced Microeconomic Thoery
Research
Working papers
“Who Really Benefits from Agricultural Subsidies? Further Evidence from Field-Level Data.” with Michael J. Roberts.
"Charity Hazard in Crop Insurance" with Tatyana Deryugina.
Highlighted Publications
"Aggregate and Farm-level Productivity Growth in Tobacco: Before and After the Quota Buyout” with Kirk White and Shinsuki Uchida, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Forthcoming.
"Agricultural Policy and
Childhood Obesity” with John Cawley, Handbook of the Social Science of Obesity, Oxford UP,
2011.
"Between the Corporation
and the Household: Commodity Prices, Risk Management, and
Agricultural Production in the United States” with Shawn Cole, American Journal of Agricultural
Economics, 2009, 97(5).
"The Incidence
of U.S. Agricultural Subsidies on Farmland Rental Rates,” Journal of Political Economy,
2009, 117(1).
"Food Aid and
Poverty” with Margaret McMillan, American Journal of Agricultural Economics,
2007, 89(5).