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Barrett E. Kirwan

Assistant Professor
Phone: (217) 244-1388

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).