PhD Dissertation Titles
2023
- Payments for Carbon Mitigation by Agriculture: Implications for Risk, Land Use, and Biomass Supply
- The Monsanto-Bayer Acquisition Case Factors that Influence M&A premiums: A Teaching Case Study
- Three Essays on the Economics and Environmental Impacts of Production Practices in Corn Belt Agriculture
- Economic, Biophysical, and Behavioral Drivers for Robotic Weed Control
- Three Essays on Water Quality Policy and Valuation
2022
- Three Essays on Quantitative Analysis in Commodity Markets
- Three Essays on Farm Policy and Agricultural Finance Essays on Heterogeneity in Outdoor Recreation Demand and Climate Change's Impact on Agriculture
- Three Essays on Health Care Disparities n the U.S.
- Three Essays on Agricultural Futures Market Liquidity: Exchange Rules, COVID-10, and Market Stress
- Quantifying the Causal Effects of Climate Change on Land Use and Bird Biodiversity
- Essays in Financial Markets and Institutions
- Three Essays on Commodity Markets' Quality
- Volatility and Risk Management in Agriculture Commodity Markets
- Essays on Extreme Events in Agricultural Futures Markets.
2021
- Three Essays on Public Finance
- Social Norms, Markets, and Land Use in a Developing Country Context
- Three Essays on the Effects of Health Policy on Health Care Financing, Demand, and Provision
- Essays on Labor and Human Capital Investment in Development Economics
- Three Essays on Rural Development
- Three Essays on Energy Economics: Policy Options and Evaluation
- Three Essays on Environmental Economics in Developing Countries
- Drivers of Adoption and Impacts of Smallholder Climate-Resilient Agricultural Technologies
- USDA Announcements and Changes in the Release Policy
- Targeting and Serving the Poor: Three Essays on Development Economics
2020
- Three Essays on Environmental Economics: Externalities and Policy Implications
- Three Essays on Commodity Markets
- Three Essays Evaluating Food and Nutrition Policies
- Impacts of a Willingness to Pay for Conservation and Restoration in the U.S.
- Three Essays on the Economics of Energy Efficiency and Conservation
- Estimating Demand for Environmental Goods and Services: Now and Later
- Three Essays on Machine Learning and Food Security
2019
- Soil Fertility Management and Economic of Soybeans in Ghana
- Rural Households and Shocks: Asset Transfer, Migration and Civil Conflict
- Essays on Driving Factors of Migration: From Regional to Metro Perspectives
- Three Essays on Agriculture, Environment and Human Capital Formation in India
- Food Security in India
- The Socioeconomics Impacts of the Superfund Program
- Price Jumps and Volatility in U.S. Agricultural Futures Markets
- Three Essays on the Relationship Between Land Conservation and Economic Diversity
- Three Essays in Experimental and Behavioral Economics of Technology Adoption in India
- The Role of Interstate Trade and Crop Insurance Programs on the U.S. Agriculture's Capacity to Adapt to Climate Change
2018
- The Socioeconomic Consequences of the U.S. Fracking Boom
- The Impact of Food Geography on Consumer and Producer Welfare
- Essays on Production Chains and Disruptions: New Input-Output Perspectives on Time, Scale and Space
- Three Essays in Applied Economics: An Evaluation of Brazilian Public Policies
2017
- Impact of Coordinated Asset Transfers and Asset Ownership on Poverty Reduction, Women's Empowerment, and Child Education: Evidence from Zambia, and Tanzania
- Essays on Early Childhood Development and Family Economics
- Three Essays on the Economics of Water Management in Agriculture
- Three Essays Investigating Post-Bubble Housing Market: Prices and Foreclosures
- Three Essays Evaluating Public Policies: Labor Markets, Education, and Measurement
- Sustainable Infrastructure Technologies: Impact and Policy
- Essays on Commodity Investing and Volatility Risk
- Three Essays in Development Economics: Private Transfers, Farmers' Retirement, and Learning Failtures
2016
- Market Entry and Exit in the Spatial Ethanol Industry
- Essays on Persistent Management Skill
- Labor Productivity, Remittance Use, and the Impact of the Poverty Alleviation Fund (PAF) Program in Nepal
2015
- Factors Affecting Farm Productivity in Rural India: Social Networks and Market Access
- Essays in the Economics of Public Housing Policy
- The Welfare Cost and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Effects of Sector-Specific Energy Policies
- The Role of Skilled Labor Pool in Driving Firms to Agglomerate: An Empirical Study on China's Policy Experiment
2014
- Testing Two Existing Fertilizer Recommendation Algorithms: Stanford's 1.2 Rule for Corn and Site-specific Nutrient Management for Irrigated Rice
- Essays on Food Security
- Essays in Water Resource Economics
- Price Volatility and Liquidity Costs in Grain Futures Markets
- Three Essays in Commodity Futures Markets
2013
- Three Essays on Conservation: Policy Design, Risk Management and Impact Evaluation
- Three Essays in Labor, Environmental, and Behavioral Economics
- Using Choice Experiments to Value Preferences Over Stormwater Management
- The Determinants of Agglomeration in Brazil: Input-Output, Labor and Knowledge externalities
- Three Essays on Emission Credit Markets
- Three Essays on Bubbles in Agricultural Futures Markets
- Three Essays on Environmental and Regulatory Economics
- Essays on Comodity Price Variability
2012
- Three Essays in Lending
- Three Essays in Applied Finance
- NAFTA'S Distributional Effect on Mexico: Three Essays in Regional Economics
- The Role of Agglomeration and Dispersion Forces on the Spatial Distribution of Economic Activity in Chile: An Empirical Analysis of Spatial Wage Distribution and Regional Housing Prices
- Empirical Essays in Development Economics: Evidence from Bolivia
- Essays on the Role of Markets and Institutions in Developing Economies
- Three Essays on the Economics of Education
- Essays on the Economics of Investment in Health
- Measuring the Effects of Food Price Increases and Agricultural Commercialization on Poverty and Nutrition
- Assessing Marketing and Aid Strategies to Stimulate Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa
- A Prospective Analysis of Brazilian Biofuel Economy: Land Use, Infrastructure Development and Fuel Pricing Policies
2011
- Three Essays on Households' Location Decisions: Analysis of the Processes of Gentrification and Rural-Urban Migration
- Three Essays on Agricultural Futures Traders
- The Effectiveness of the Voluntary 33/50 Program in Inducing Adoption of Pollution Prevention Techniques and Toxic Release Reduciton
- Three Essays on Investments in Children's Human Capital
- Three Essays on Investments in Child Welfare in India
- Properties of Natural Systems and the Efficiency of Market-Based Solutions to Environmental Externalities
- Essays on the Spatial Dynamic Interaction of Individual Behavior, Institutions, and the Environment
- Three Essays on Patronage Refunds and Capital Structure of Farm Credit System Associations
- A Dynamic Analysis of U.S. Biofuels Policy Impact on Land Use, Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Social Welfare
- Rins and the Ethanol Supply Chain: An Alternative View
- Three Essays on Conservation: Dynamic and Spatial Reserve Design and Values and Preferences for Econsystem Restoration
- Three Empirical Analyses of Behavioral and Nutrition Policy Influences on Dietary Choices
- Essays on the Spatial Dynamic Interaction of Individual Behavior, Institutions, and the Environment
2010
- Bioproducts and Environmental Quality: Biofuels, Greenhouse Gasses, and Water Quality
- The Impacts of Research on Philippine Rice Production
- Welfare Effects of Biofuel Policies in the Presence of Environmental Externalities and Pre-Existing Distortions
- Three Essays on Fisheries Economics
- Market Orientation|Production Agriculture: Measurement, Relationships, and Implications
- A Dynamic Analysis of U.S. Biofuels Policy Impact on Land Use, Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Social Welfare
- Market Work and Household Production in Brazil
2009
- Improving the Accuracy of Outlook Price Forecasts: An Application to Livestock Markets
- Using Asset Poverty Measures to Understand Poverty Dynamics, Poverty Traps, and Farmer Behavior in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Focus on Rural Ethiopia
- Defining and Measuring Entrepreneurship for Regional Research: A New Approach
- Empirical Analysis of Farm Credit Risk under the Structure Model
- Three Essays on Crop Insurance: RMA's Rules and Participation, and Perceptions
- Intergenerational Caregiving between Parents and Their Adult Children: Evidence from a Study of Older Americans
2008
- Trade and Welfare Effects of Japan's Revised Import Protocol for American Apples
- Implied Transaction Costs in Agricultural Futures Markets
- Do Transaction Costs and Risk Preferences Influence Marketing Arrangements in the Illinois Hog Industry?
- Spatial Dimensions of Economic Valuation: A Comparison of Hedonic Models
- Essays on Futures Trading Under Non-Standard Assumptions
- Assessing Comparative Advantage in Soybean Production: A Global Perspective
- The Effects of Certification Cobrand and Price on Consumers' Product Evaluations and Purchase Intentions
- Ambient Air Pollution and the Allocation of Environmental Enforcement Effort
- Economic Models of Recreational and Commercial Fishing and Their Impact on the Great Lakes Ecosystem
- Ex-Ante Welfare Effects from Scale-Neutral Productivity Growth for Semi-Subsistence Orphan Crops: Genetically Modified Cassava in Sub-Sahara Africa
- The Regional Economic Effects of Commercial Passenger Air Service at Small Airports
- Three Essays on Systemic Risk and Rating in Crop Insurance Markets
- Spatial Econometric Analysis of Property Values: The Impact of Sports Facilities on Local Residential Property Values
2007
- Modeling Farmers' Decision to Use Conservation Tillage and Genetically Modified Soybean Seed in a Joint Framework
- Farmer Welfare and Agricultural Biotechnology
- A Conjoint Analysis of Consumer Preferences for Product Attributes: The Case of Illinois Apples
- Evaluating the Economic Returns to Entrepreneurial Behavior
- Three Essays on Commodity Risk Management
- Are Agricultural Options Too Expensive?
- Essays on the Economic Value of Environmental Cleanup
- Farm Financing Strategy and the Lending Policy from Financial Institutions
- Economic Modeling of Bioenergy Crop Production and Carbon Emission Reduction in Illinois
2006
- Three Essays on Land Conservation Programs
- Three Essays on Performance and Behavior of Agricultural Market Advisory Services in Corn and Soybeans
- Welfare Impacts of Alternative Public Policies for Environmental Protection in Agriculture in an Open Economy: A General Equilibrium Framework
- Essays on Intellectual Property Protection and Innovation in Agriculture
2005
- Irrigation Water Pricing: Technology Adoption, Welfare, and Political Economy
- Volatility and Price Information Contained in Selected Agricultural Futures Options
- Urban and Suburban Farmers Markets in Illinois: A Comparative Analysis of Consumer Segmentation Using Demographics, Preferences, and Behaviors
- Modeling Farm-Level Impacts of Federal Income Tax Reforms: A Stochastic Simulation Approach
- The Profitability of Technical Trading Rules in US Futures Markets
- Natural Resource Damage Policy: Political Economy and Optimal Assessment Accuracy
- Spatial Models of Animal Disease Control in South America: The Case of Foot-and-Mouth Disease
- Investigations in Land Use Modelling: Comparing Analytical Techniques, Data Volumes, and Policy Scenarios in Sumatra
- Designing Contiguous and Minimally Fragmented Nature Conservation Reserve Networks
- Incentives and Institutions: A Comparative Legal and Economic Study of Food Safety