Expanding Horizons

2008 AAEA & ACCI Joint Annual Meeting www.aaea.org/2008am Expanding Horizons Welcome to Orlando! I want to welcome you to the 2008 Welcome to the 2008 AAEA & ACCI Joint Annual Meeting. We are holding Joint Annual Meeting. The conference it jointly with the American Council on theme, Expanding Horizons, points Consumer Interests. You will find an to two key ideas that shape this year’s expansion of session topics and attend- meeting. First, it underscores the ees as a result of this collaboration. We multidisciplinary roots and increas- are also pleased to have outstanding ing diversity of our community of speakers for our featured presenta- researchers, educators, and practitio- tions. Our keynote speaker’s energy ners who are dedicated to enhancing impacts topic has been made even consumer well-being. The plenary more timely by recent events. The new sessions, papers, showcases, and format, starting earlier on Sunday and workshops embrace many disciplin- going through Tuesday night, should ary perspectives on key consumer encourage more intense and continued participation throughout the decisions. Second, although ACCI has meetings. We are keeping our fingers crossed that this is the result. co-sponsored a session at the AAEA Annual Meeting for several years, this joint meeting offers new opportunities for our members including a There will be more than enough to stretch your interests between con- joint keynote speaker, more co-sponsored sessions, an expanded venue current sessions, posters, the President’s, Fellows’, and Galbraith lec- for poster presentations, and pre and post-conference workshops. tures, student competitions, and the special sessions sponsored by ACCI. You will find the program intense and you will be forced to make many My sincere thanks to conference co-chairs Jeanne Hogarth and Jane opportunity cost trade-offs. If ever there were an opportunity to expand Kolodinsky who have shaped an excellent conference program that dem- your horizons, this is it. We have also allowed plenty of time to visit with onstrates the relevance of consumer research, education, and outreach friends and colleagues. I know this is one of the most important reasons in today’s policy arenas, the workplace, and in households across the for attending the meetings. globe. Almost everything is under one roof in our conference complex. This Cindy Fletcher should make the logistics of the conference easy for you. Our great AAEA ACCI President staff from Milwaukee that planned the meeting is here to assist you. Do not hesitate to visit with them if you need assistance or just to get to know them. These meetings reflect some of the changes that have been taking place in AAEA over the last several years—from our change in administrative arrangements, to the new outreach program, and to the new name and logo that will be rolled out at the business meeting. Attend the sessions, visit with your friends and colleagues, make per- sonal connections, and be stimulated by new and interesting ideas which you can capitalize on when you return home. Otto Doering AAEA President

Table of Contents AAEA, ACCI, and AERE Leadership ...... 1 Introduction to Poster & Concurrent Sessions ...... 18 Meeting Information ...... 2 Posters ...... 19–30 Caribe Royale Orlando Amenities ...... 2 Concurrent Sessions Sponsors ...... 3 Sunday ...... 31–34 Monday ...... 34–56 Exhibitors & Undergraduate Recruitment Fair Participants . . . . . 3 Tuesday ...... 56–78 Meeting Highlights ...... 4–7 Reunions & Receptions ...... 7 Topical Index ...... 79–93 AAEA Section Events & Activities ...... 8–10 Program Participants ...... 94–118 Meeting Schedule ...... 12–17 Hotel Floor and Convention Center Plan ...... 119

2008 AAEA & ACCI Joint Annual Meeting • Orlando, Florida • July 27-29 AAEA, ACCI, and AERE Leadership American Agricultural Economics Association Journal of Consumer Affairs (JCA) Executive Board Editor: Herbert Jack Rotfeld, Auburn University President: Otto C. Doering III, Purdue University Associate Editor: Brenda Cude, University of Georgia President-elect: Richard E. Just, University of Maryland Association of Environmental and Resource Past President: Steven T. Buccola, Oregon State University Economists Board of Directors Directors: Damona G. Doye, Oklahoma State University President: Trudy Ann Cameron, University of Oregon Matthew T. Holt, Purdue University President-elect: Kathleen Segerson, University of Connecticut Lisa A. House, University of Florida Helen H. Jensen, Iowa State University Vice President: Laura O. Taylor, North Carolina State University Jill J. McCluskey, Washington State University Secretary: Ann Wolverton, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Spiro E. Stefanou, Pennsylvania State University Treasurer: Joseph E. Aldy, Resources for the Future Executive Director: David Baumann Directors: J.R. DeShazo, University of California, Los Angeles American Journal of Agricultural Economics Carolyn Fischer, Resources for the Future (AJAE) Lawrence Goulder, Stanford University Editors: Jeffrey H. Dorfman, University of Georgia Gloria Helfand, University of Michigan Erik Lichtenberg, University of Maryland Carol McAusland, University of Maryland, College Park Paul V. Preckel, Purdue University Richard G. Newell, Duke University Walter N. Thurman, North Carolina State University Ex-Officio: Charles F. Mason, University of Wyoming Robert N. Stavins, Harvard University Choices, The Magazine of Food, Farm, and Resource Issues Executive Director: Marilyn M. Voigt Editor: Walter J. Armbruster, Farm Foundation, President Emeritus Journal of Environmental Economics and Submitted Articles Editor: Clement Ward, Oklahoma State Management (JEEM) University Managing Editor: Charles F. Mason, University of Wyoming Technical Editor: Patricia J. Keough-Wilson, Plains Harvest Com- Co-editors: Christopher Costello, University of California, Santa munications Barbara Arik Levinson, Georgetown University Review of Agricultural Economics (RAE) John List, The University of Chicago Editors: John Beghin, Iowa State University Arun Malik, George Washington University George B. Frisvold, University of Arizona Daniel Phaneuf, North Carolina State University Tomislav Vukina, North Carolina State University Martin Smith, Duke University Teaching and Learning Editor: Joan R. Fulton, Purdue Roberton Williams, University of Texas University Review of Environmental Economics and Policy American Council on Consumer Interests Board (REEP) of Directors Editor: Robert N. Stavins, Harvard University President: Cindy Fletcher, Iowa State University Co-editors: Carlo Carraro, University of Venice VP/President-elect: George Haynes, Montana State University Charles D. Kolstad, University of California, Santa Barbara Past President: Cathleen Zick, University of Utah Treasurer: John Grable, Kansas State University Directors: John Burton, University of Utah Jonathan Fox, The Ohio State University Deborah Haynes, Montana State University Larry Kirsch, IMR Health Economics Angela Lyons, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Teresa Mauldin, University of Georgia Karen Varcoe, University of California, Riverside Executive Director: Terri Haffner

2008 AAEA & ACCI Joint Annual Meeting • Orlando, Florida • July 27-29  Expanding Horizons Meeting Information Important Local Phone Numbers Registration Desk Hours Sunday, July 27, 7:00 am – 7:00 pm Caribe Royale All-Suites Monday, July 28, 7:00 am – 5:00 pm Hotel & Convention Center Tuesday, July 29, 7:00 am – 5:00 pm (407) 238-8000 (800) 823-8300 If you have any questions, please feel free to visit the Registration Desk, or contact AAEA staff at (407) 387-8594. Florida Hospital (407) 764-4190 Accessibility Police Department In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, please inform an AAEA staff member if you (407) 847-0176 need special assistance. Staff members are available on-site at the Registration Desk to assist you. Fire Department Guests 407-239-6036 Guests must be registered at the guest rate of $25 to attend any and all meeting functions, includ- Florida Poison Control Center ing the Welcome Receptions, plenary sessions, and all concurrent sessions. Guests include any (800) 222-1222 interested party not professionally in the field of agricultural economics or a related discipline.

Taping of Sessions For any additional information about Session content is copyright-protected by AAEA and ACCI. Recording of any session without the the area, including taxis and shuttles to consent of AAEA or ACCI is prohibited. Any taping done with the consent of the appropriate as- attractions in Orlando, please visit the sociation is for personal use only and cannot be reproduced or distributed. Caribe Royale Orlando’s Guest Services Desk. Tickets Tickets are required for all Speaker Series Luncheons & Banquets, as well as other Special Events. A limited number of tickets may be available for sale at the registration desk. Tickets are available on a first-come, first-serve basis. AAEA and ACCI are committed to the “True Cost Pledge.” The Associations attest that the fee as- sociated with each special event is the “true cost” of the price to cover that event.

The Caribe Royale All-Suites Hotel and Convention Center Amenities Business Centers Guest Services Desk Located in the Main Reception Building and the Convention Center, A professional and knowledgeable staff is available at the Guest Services the two Business Centers are available to help you with all of your last Desk that can help you with any needs. They can assist you in calling minute needs. for a taxi, finding information on attractions in the area, arranging transportation to the airport, and even finding an off-site restaurant to fit Hertz Rental Cars your tastes. If you are interested in having a rental car while you are in Orlando, you do not need to go further than the hotel’s main lobby to find a nationally Fitness recognized rental company. The Caribe Royale has many different options to stay active while attend- ing the meeting with a pool, fitness center, and tennis and basketball Airport Shuttles courts. The Caribe Royale Orlando can help you make arrangements to get to and from the airport for a nominal fee. They also offer free transporta- Dining tion to the Walt Disney World® theme parks and Downtown Disney®. You do not have to leave the Caribe Royale Orlando to find great food. They offer a variety of menus in their on-site restaurants and in-room Currency Exchange and ATMs dining. Restaurants include The Venetian Room, The Tropicale, Café For all attendees traveling from outside the United States, you will Largo Pizzeria and Deli, Calypso’s (poolside), and Parrot Isle Lounge. be able to conveniently exchange your currency at the Caribe Royale Orlando. There are also several ATMs conveniently located around the hotel for those in need of cash or other services.

 2008 AAEA & ACCI Joint Annual Meeting • Orlando, Florida • July 27-29 2008 AAEA & ACCI Joint Annual Meeting • Orlando, Florida • July 27-29 2008 Joint Annual Meeting Sponsors AAEA Foundation Center for Farm Financial Farm Bureau • Galbraith Forum Speaker Series & Banquet Management • Galbraith Forum Speaker Series & Banquet • Extension Section Reception • GSS Case Study Competition Farm Foundation • GSS Reception Direct Selling Education • Monday Afternoon Break • SS-AAEA Academic Bowl Foundation • ACCI Student Conference Scholarships USDA-Cooperative State • Pre-conference Workshop: Economic Statis- Research, Education, and tics for a Global Agricultural Economy: The Farmdoc, University of Illinois Extension Service Role of Professional Societies at Urbana-Champaign • Pre-conference Workshop: The 2008 Young • Extension Section Reception Professionals Teaching Academy

• SS-AAEA Academic Bowl Wiley-Blackwell Publishers • AAEA President’s Reception

Exhibitors AARP Public Policy Institute University of Missouri USDA-Cooperative State www.aarp.org www.fapri.missouri.edu Research, Education, and Extension Service AgEcon Search The Ohio State University, www.csrees.usda.gov http://ageconsearch.umn.edu Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and USDA-Economic Research C-FARE Developmental Economics Service www.cfare.org http://aede.osu.edu www.ers.usda.gov

Direct Marketing Association The Ohio State University, USDA-National Agricultural www.the-dma.org Department of Consumer Statistics Service Sciences www.nass.usda.gov Farm Foundation http://ehe.osu.edu/cs www.farmfoundation.org USDA-Natural Resources Purdue University Conservation Service Federal Citizen Information www.agecon.purdue.edu www.nrcs.usda.gov Center, U.S. General Services Administration RFF Press/Resources for the Wiley-Blackwell Publishers www.pueblo.gsa.gov Future www.wiley-blackwell.com www.rffpress.org

Undergraduate Recruitment Fair Participants University of Florida Louisiana State University, Purdue University www.fred.ifas.ufl.edu Department of Agricultural www.agecon.purdue.edu Economics Kansas State University, www.agecon.lsu.edu Texas A&M University Department of Agricultural www.agecon.tamu.edu Economics The Ohio State University, www.ageconomics.ksu.edu Department of Agricultural, Tufts University, Friedman Environmental, and School of Nutrition Science and Developmental Economics Policy http://aede.osu.edu http://nutrition.tufts.edu

2008 AAEA & ACCI Joint Annual Meeting • Orlando, Florida • July 27-29 2008 AAEA & ACCI Joint Annual Meeting • Orlando, Florida • July 27-29  Expanding Horizons Meeting Highlights AAEA Keynote Address/ACCI ACCI Presents: The Subprime Esther Peterson Lecture Meltdown and Implications for Sunday, July 27, 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Consumers Caribbean I-III Monday, July 28, 8:00 am – 9:15 am James Hamilton Martinique 1 University of California, San Diego Paul Willen “World Oil Markets: Implications for Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Consumers, Producers, and the World “Some Facts about the Subprime Crisis” Economy” Paul Willen is a Senior Economist and Policy James Hamilton has been a professor of Economics at the University of Advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank at Boston. He does research on California, San Diego since 1990 and served as Chair of the Economics household financial management and has devoted much of his time in Department from 1999 to 2002. He is the author of Time Series Analy- recent years to studying home mortgages. Willen has previously taught at sis, the leading text on forecasting and statistical analysis of dynamic Princeton and the University of Chicago. economic relationships. He has done extensive research on business J. Michael Collins cycles, monetary policy, and oil shocks, and has been a research adviser University of Wisconsin at Madison and visiting scholar with the Federal Reserve System for 20 years. “The Subprime Mortgage Crisis from the Gates Foundation Session on Saving Services for Consumer’s Perspective” the Rural Poor J. Michael Collins studies consumer decision- This is a ticketed event. Please see the registration desk regarding the making in the financial marketplace, including availability of tickets. the role of public policy in influencing credit, savings, and investment choices. Collins is Monday, July 28, 7:00 am – 8:30 am currently researching consumer responses to Martinique 2 foreclosure, the role of default counseling on The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Financial Services for the Poor loan repayment behavior, and the effects of consumer protection policies (FSP) initiative has organized this session in order to stimulate greater on mortgage borrowers. academic research on the topic of savings services for the rural poor, as well as identify potential academic partners who might inform the AAEA Presidential Address Foundation’s strategy as it seeks to promote savings services for the rural Monday, July 28, 8:30 am – 9:30 am poor. The purpose of this session is to analyze the barriers to offering Caribbean I-III improved deposit services for the rural poor and to determine what can Richard E. Just be done to break them down. AAEA President-elect C-FARE Review of USDA-NASS Prices University of Maryland, College Park Publications: Valuing Our Nation’s Agriculture “Distinguishing Preferences and Percep- Monday, July 28, 7:00 am – 8:30 am tions for Meaningful Policy Analysis” Antigua 1 Richard E. Just is a Distinguished University Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of C-FARE has entered into an agreement with USDA-National Agricultural Maryland, and an AAEA Fellow. He has won numerous AAEA awards, Statistics Service whereby C-FARE will conduct, through a panel of including the Publication of Enduring Quality Award an unprecedented experts, an independent and comprehensive review of their Agricultural five times. His PhD students include, among others, AAEA Fellows David Prices publications, including procedures, methods, and outputs. The Zilberman, Rulon Pope, Robert Chambers, and Gershon Feder. His pub- publications contain prices received by farmers for principal crops, lications include hundreds of refereed articles, books, and chapters. livestock, and livestock products; indexes of prices received by farmers; feed price ratios; indexes of prices paid by farmers; and parity prices. We encourage all who have utilized these publications to attend this ses- sion and provide public comments.

 2008 AAEA & ACCI Joint Annual Meeting • Orlando, Florida • July 27-29 2008 AAEA & ACCI Joint Annual Meeting • Orlando, Florida • July 27-29 Meeting Highlights ACCI Colston Warne Speaker Industry Speaker Series & Series & Luncheon Banquet This is a ticketed event. Please see the This is a ticketed event. Please see the registration desk regarding the availability of registration desk regarding the availability of tickets. tickets. Monday, July 28, 11:15 am – 1:00 pm Monday, July 28, 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm Martinique 1 Boca V Michael F. Jacobson Don Goodwin Executive Director, Center for Science in the Co-Founder, Imagination Farms Public Interest “Increasing Consumption of Fruits and Vegetables among Children” “Nutrition and the Politics of Food” Don Goodwin is one of the founders of Imagination Farms, an organiza- Michael F. Jacobson, who holds a PhD in microbiology, co-founded the tion dedicated to increasing consumption of fruits and vegetables among Center for Science in the Public Interest in 1971, along with two fellow children. Goodwin’s vast experience includes store management with scientists he met while working at the Center for the Study of Responsive HEB Grocery Company, produce leadership at Supervalu and Target Law. Jacobson has been a national leader in the movement to require Corporation and, most recently, Chief Operating Officer of Green Giant nutrition labels on all foods and most beverages to help consumers Fresh. While at Target Corporation, Goodwin led the produce team make informed decisions about what to consume. He coined the phrases through the rollout phase of the SuperTARGET strategy. “junk food” and “empty calorie”. International Speaker Series & AAEA Awards & Fellows Recognition Ceremony Banquet Finals This is a ticketed event. Please see the Monday, July 28, 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm registration desk regarding the availability of Caribbean I-III tickets. Join your peers in honoring the achievements and accomplishments of Monday, July 28, 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm association members over the past year. Awards will be granted in many Boca VI, Boca VII aspects of the agricultural economics discipline, including research, Marcos Sawaya Jank teaching, extension, policy, communication, as well as other areas. President and CEO of UNICA, Brazilian Following the Awards Ceremony, AAEA will recognize the 2008 class of Sugarcane Industry Association AAEA Fellows. “Energy: A New Paradigm for Agriculture” ACCI Awards Ceremony & Reception Prior to joining UNICA, the Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association, Monday, July 28, 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm Marcos Sawaya Jank founded and led the presidency of the Brazilian Martinique 1 Institute for International Trade Negotiations. Previously, he worked at Help us celebrate with the winners of the 2008 ACCI awards. This event the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington, DC, and was a Vis- will begin with a short awards ceremony. Immediately following the iting Professor at the Universities of Georgetown, Missouri-Columbia and ceremony, ACCI attendees will have opportunity to congratulate award others. He is also a Director of the Agribusiness Department of the São winners and socialize with other consumer professionals at a light Paulo Industry Federation and an Associate Professor at the University of reception. São Paulo.

2008 AAEA & ACCI Joint Annual Meeting • Orlando, Florida • July 27-29 2008 AAEA & ACCI Joint Annual Meeting • Orlando, Florida • July 27-29  Expanding Horizons Meeting Highlights AAEA Fellows Address COSBAE Speaker Series & Luncheon Tuesday, July 29, 8:30 am – 9:30 am This is a ticketed event. Please see the reg- Caribbean I-III istration desk regarding the availability of Sandra S. Batie tickets. Elton R. Smith Chair in Food & Agricultural Tuesday, July 29, 11:15 am – 1:00 pm Policy, Michigan State University Barbados “Wicked Problems and Applied Economics” Thomas D. Boston Sandra S. Batie has made substantial contribu- Professor, School of Economics, Georgia Institute tions to the profession within her specialty of of Technology natural resource economics and public policy. She has been a leader in CEO, EuQuant clarifying the distinctions between the environmental movement and the conservation movement in a manner that enables meaningful implications Thomas D. Boston is a professor of Economics at Georgia Tech Univer- to be drawn for the profession. Batie served as AAEA president in 1990 sity. He is a national and international consultant on the economic status and was one of the original supporters of the Committee on Women in of minority communities and small as wel as minority businesses, and Agricultural Economics. specializes in research on entrepreneurship and community develop- ment. An academic and entrepreneur, from 1994 to 2007 he was the ACCI Presents: To Infinity and President of Boston Research Group, Inc and in 2007 launched a new Beyond! A Box Luncheon and enterprise; EuQuant. Showcase of Policy-Making Research CWAE Speaker Series & Luncheon This is a ticketed event. Please see the reg- This is a ticketed event. Please see the registration desk regarding the istration desk regarding the availability of availability of tickets. tickets. Tuesday, July 29, 11:15 am – 1:00 pm Tuesday, July 29, 11:15 am – 1:00 pm Cayman Martinique 1 Marion Aller This interesting showcase will feature these four Director, Division of Food Safety, Florida Department of Agriculture and experts who will give examples of research that Consumer Services has influenced policy-makers. “Produce Safety—Today’s Challenges, Tomorrow’s Solutions” Cynthia Needles Fletche Marion Aller is the Director of the Division of Food Safety with the Iowa State University Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, where she “Reflections on Moving Poverty Research began her career as pesticide regulator, and later assumed the role of to Policy” Bureau Chief. Since 1998 she has served in her current position where her responsibilities include oversight of a comprehensive inspection and Seth Lesser compliance program regulating food processors, warehouses and retail Lock Law Office establishments (e.g. supermarkets, grocery stores, convenience stores). “Rent to Own Example—Consumer Is- sues” Alan Levy Food and Drug Administration “How Policy Research Differs from Aca- demic and Industry Research” Jan Pappalardo Federal Trade Commission “When Does Economic Research Influence Public Policy? Lessons Learned from Two Decades at the Federal Trade Commission”

 2008 AAEA & ACCI Joint Annual Meeting • Orlando, Florida • July 27-29 2008 AAEA & ACCI Joint Annual Meeting • Orlando, Florida • July 27-29 Meeting Highlights Reunions & Receptions Extension Section Speaker Series & Luncheon This is a ticketed event. Please see the registration desk regarding the Monday, July 28, availability of tickets. 9:00 pm – 11:00 pm Tuesday, July 29, 11:15 am – 1:00 pm University of California, Davis/Univer- Martinique 2 sity of California, Berkeley Lonnie O. Ingram Bonaire 5 Director, Florida Center for Renewable Chemicals and Fuels Kansas State University/Oklahoma State “Cellulosic Ethanol: Challenges and Opportunities” University/University of Missouri Lonnie O. Ingram is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Florida Bonaire 6 with 30 years of research experience in the conversion of lignocellulose to ethanol. His research University of Illinois at Urbana-Cham- has resulted in over 200 scientific publications and more than 20 pending and issued US patents. paign/Purdue University Several of these patents are now being commercialized for the production of ethanol as an auto- Bonaire 4 motive fuel and for the production of organic acids for use in biodegradable plastics. Michigan State University ACCI Open Forum Bonaire 2 Tuesday, July 29, 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm The Ohio State University Martinique 1 Bonaire 3 ACCI is in the midst of some major decisions regarding the future of the organization. The ACCI USDA-Economic Research Service Board is very interested in acquiring input from members, and this session will give ACCI members Bonaire 7-8 an opportunity to express their opinions to the ACCI Board about these decisions. All ACCI attend- Washington State University/University ees are encouraged to attend this session. of Idaho/Oregon State University Galbraith Forum Speaker Series & Banquet Bonaire 1 This is a ticketed event. Please see the registration desk regarding the availability of tickets. Tuesday, July 29, Tuesday, July 29, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm 9:00 pm – 11:00 pm Caribbean I-III University of Florida Bonaire 2 Elinor Ostrom Co-Director: Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana Iowa State University University Bonaire 1 Founding Director, Center for the Study of Institutional Diversity, Arizona Louisiana State University/University of State University Georgia/Mississippi State University/ “The Challenge of Building Trust to Solve Dilemmas of the Commons” Auburn University Elinor Ostrom is the Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Political Science and Co-Director of the Bonaire 4 Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis at Indiana University, Bloomington, as well as University of Minnesota/University of Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Institutional Diversity, Arizona State University. She Wisconsin is a recipient of the Frank E. Seidman Distinguished Award in Political Economy, the Johan Skytte Bonaire 8 Prize in Political Science, the Atlas Economic Research Foundation’s Lifetime Achievement Award, and the John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science. North Carolina State University/Univer- sity of Maryland Bonaire 7 Pennsylvania State University/Cornell University Bonaire 5 Texas A&M University Bonaire 6

2008 AAEA & ACCI Joint Annual Meeting • Orlando, Florida • July 27-29 2008 AAEA & ACCI Joint Annual Meeting • Orlando, Florida • July 27-29  Expanding Horizons AAEA Section Events & Activities

Agribusiness Economics and Management Section Committee on Women in Agricultural Economics (AEM) (CWAE) AEM Section Meeting GSS/CWAE Reception Sunday, July 27, 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Sunday, July 27, 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Bonaire 5 Boca II Industry & International Reception CWAE Section Speaker Series & Luncheon Monday, July 28, 7:30 pm – 8:00 pm Tuesday, July 29, 11:15 am – 1:00 pm Boca Foyer Cayman Industry Speaker Series & Banquet Monday, July 28, 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm Econometrics Section Boca V Econometrics Section Annual Summer Meeting AEM Section Track Sessions Sunday, July 27, 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm 1002 Identifying and Developing Professional Programs and Services Bonaire 2 for Industry Members Econometrics Section Track Sessions 2002 The Impact of Value Added Programs on Agriculture and Rural 2029 Applications of Modern Econometric Theory Communities 3031 The Role of Econometrics in Agricultural Economics PhD 2051 Challenges of Biotechnology Regulation after a Decade of Programs: Present and Future Commercialization 3034 Structural Equation Modeling—A Method Borrowed from Business Schools Extension Section 3054 Success and Management: A Family Business Perspective Pre-conference Tour: Extension Agricultural Education Tour Saturday, July 26, 7:30 am – 5:00 pm Porte Cochere Convention Center Community Economics Network (CENET) Graduate Student Extension Competition CENET Meeting Sunday, July 27, 8:00 am – 3:00 pm Sunday, July 27, 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Curacao 3 Antigua 4 Extension Section Meeting CENET Track Sessions Sunday, July 27, 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm 1001 Recent International Immigrants and their Impact on Antigua 3 America’s Rural Communities Extension Section Reception 2053 Exploring the Efficacy of Infrastructure Investments and Sunday, July 27, 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Partnerships for Rural Development Boca IV Extension Section Speaker Series & Luncheon Committee on the Opportunities and Status of Tuesday, July 29, 11:15 am – 1:00 pm Blacks in Agricultural Economics (COSBAE) Martinique 2 COSBAE Reception Extension Section Track Sessions Sunday, July 27, 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm 1003 Intersection of Agricultural Extension and Agricultural Boca III Innovations: The Case of Biofuels COSBAE Section Speaker Series & Luncheon 2003 Extension Section Livestock Outlook Tuesday, July 29, 11:15 am – 1:00 pm 2030 Extension Section Policy Outlook Barbados 2052 Managing Farm and Farm Household Financial Risk COSBAE Track Sessions 3032 Extension Section Crops Outlook 1003 Intersection of Agricultural Extension and Agricultural Innovations: The Case of Biofuels 3055 Graduate Student Extension Competition 3003 African Economic Development and Agricultural Trade: A Focus on WTO Policy and Regional Integration 3030 Showcasing Undergraduate and Graduate Student Research in Agricultural Economics Programs

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Food and Agricultural Marketing Policy Section Graduate Student Section (GSS) (FAMPS) Graduate Student Extension Competition FAMPS Business Meeting Sunday, July 27, 8:00 am – 3:00 pm Monday, July 28, 7:00 am – 8:00 am Curacao 3 Cayman GSS Case Study Competition FAMPS Track Sessions Sunday, July 27, 8:00 am – 3:30 pm 1004 Society and Industry Perceptions of Food Safety Curacao 5, 6, 7, 8 2002 The Impact of Value Added Programs on Agriculture and Rural Pre-conference Workshop: The 2008 Young Professionals Communities Teaching Academy 2031 Distillers Dried Grains: Where to Now? Sunday, July 27, 10:00 am – 2:00 pm 3033 Aquaculture in the United States: A Big Fish in Small Pond? Boca II 3056 Trends/Issues of High-value Protein Products GSS Business Meeting Sunday, July 27, 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Food Safety and Nutrition Section (FSN) Curacao 5 FSN Section Business Meeting GSS/CWAE Reception Tuesday, July 29, 7:00 am – 8:00 am Sunday, July 27, 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Cayman Boca II FSN Section Track Sessions GSS Case Study Finals 1005 HIV and AIDS, Food Security, Nutrition, and Livelihoods Monday, July 28, 1:00 pm – 3:30 pm Curacao 7, 8 2004 Antibiotic Use in Food Production and Antibiotic Resistance: Economic Dimensions of Food Safety and Public Health GSS Track Sessions Concerns 1006 Getting Involved: Steps to Becoming an Irresistible Applicant 2028 Weighing the Relative Contribution of Time Use in the Energy 2005 Reducing Rejection Rates: Steps to Getting Your Articles and Balance Equation: Implications for the Risk of Obesity Grants Noticed 2054 There Must Be 50 Ways to Price a Burger—Pricing the Foods 3004 Enticing Employers: Steps to Getting Hired We Eat 3055 Graduate Student Extension Competition 3002 The Economics of Risk-based Monitoring to Assure Safe Food

3029 Hard Hitting and Well Informed: A Conversation between Food Institutional and Behavioral Economics Section Safety Policy Advocates and Researchers (IBES) IBES Track Sessions 1007 How Best to Teach Institutional and Behavioral Economics: Across the Curriculum? As Free-standing Courses? Why Bother? 2006 Sufficient Reason for Institutional Change: Applications of Bromley’s Framework in Trade, Natural Resource, and Farm Policy 3005 Institutional Analysis of Environmental Issues—The Right Tool for the Right Job

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International Section Undergraduate Student Section (SS-AAEA) International Section Meeting Undergraduate Recruitment Fair Monday, July 28, 7:30 am – 8:30 am Sunday, July 27, 3:00 pm – 7:00 pm Barbados 2 Monday, July 28, 7:00 am – 4:00 pm Industry & International Reception Boca Lobby Monday, July 28, 7:30 pm – 8:00 pm SS-AAEA Academic Bowl Boca Foyer Sunday, July 27, 3:00 pm – 7:00 pm International Speaker Series & Banquet Monday, July 28, 7:00 am – 4:00 pm Monday, July 28, 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm Boca VI, VII, VIII; Governor’s Boardroom Boca VI, VII SS-AAEA Academic Bowl Finals International Section Track Sessions Monday, July 28, 5:30 pm – 6:00 pm 1008 Theoretical Analysis of Globalization, Standards, and Caribbean I-III Development Undergraduate Paper Competition 2007 Causal Effects of Conservation Investments: Applications of Tuesday, July 29, 8:00 am – 6:00 pm Matching Methods in Latin America Boca V 2055 Economics of Agriculture in Afghanistan: A Key Piece in the SS-AAEA Symposium & Business Meeting Puzzle of Rebuilding a Post Conflict Country Tuesday, July 29, 4:00 pm – 6:00pm Martinique 2 3006 Reform and Retrenchment of Mexico’s Agricultural and Rural Policies 3057 Assessing the Impact of EU Biofuels Policy on Agricultural Teaching, Learning, and Communication Section Markets: Alternative Modeling Approaches (TLC) Pre-conference Workshop: The 2008 Young Professionals Teaching Academy Senior Section Sunday, July 27, 10:00 am – 2:00 pm Senior Section Business Meeting Boca II Monday, July 28, 7:00 am – 8:00 am TLC Section Meeting Barbados 1 Sunday, July 27, 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm Senior Section Track Sessions Boca II 2008 Greatest Contributions to Our Profession by Agricultural and TLC Section Track Sessions Resource Economists 2032 Teaching Tips from Top Teachers: 2007 AAEA Award Recipients 2056 Whither Trade Agreements: Lessons from the Past and What 3007 Learning Outcomes and Assessment for Agricultural Lies in the Future? Economics 3058 Advising: Philosophy and Practical Lessons

10 2008 AAEA & ACCI Joint Annual Meeting • Orlando, Florida • July 27-29 2008 AAEA & ACCI Joint Annual Meeting • Orlando, Florida • July 27-29 Expanding Horizons Meeting Schedule Friday, July 25 Schedule 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM AAEA Executive Board Meeting Antigua 1 Saturday July 26

7:30 AM – 5:00 PM Pre-conference Tour: Extension Agricultural Education Tour* Porte Cochere Convention Center

8:00 AM – Noon AAEA Executive Board Meeting Antigua 1

8:00 AM – 4:00 PM Pre-conference Workshop: Economic Statistics for a Global Agricultural Economy: The Role of Professional Societies* Bonaire 1

8:00 AM – 4:00 PM Pre-conference Workshop: Simulation for Risk Analysis* Bonaire 5 Sunday, July 27

7:00 AM – 7:00 PM Registration Desk Open Convention Center Lobby

8:00 AM – 3:00 PM Graduate Student Extension Competition Curacao 3

8:00 AM – 3:30 PM GSS Case Study Competition Curacao 5, 6, 7, 8

8:00 AM – 5:00 PM ACCI Board Meeting Antigua 1

9:00 AM – 10:00 AM Leadership Breakfast (Invitation Only) Boca I

9:00 AM – 10:00 AM Employment Center Orientation Caribbean IV-VII

10:00 AM – 2:00 PM Pre-conference Workshop: The 2008 Young Professionals Teaching Academy* Boca II

10:00 AM – 3:30 PM Employment Center Open Caribbean IV-VII

10:30 AM – Noon Outreach Committee Meeting Antigua 4

11:00 AM – 1:00 PM AJAE Editors Meeting Bonaire 3

11:00 AM – 1:00 PM Membership Committee Meeting Bonaire 4

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Noon – 1:00 PM Finance Committee Meeting Antigua 3

Noon – 1:00 PM Selected Presentations Committee Meeting Antigua 4

Noon – 5:00 PM Exhibit Hall Open Grand Sierra Ballroom

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM AJAE Associate Editors Meeting Bonaire 3

1:00 PM – 3:00 PM Extension Section Meeting Antigua 3

1:00 PM – 3:00 PM CENET Meeting Antigua 4

1:00 PM – 3:00 PM Econometrics Section Annual Summer Meeting Bonaire 2

1:00 PM – 3:00 PM AEM Section Meeting Bonaire 5

2:00 PM – 3:30 PM Foundation Endowment Committee Meeting Bonaire 8

2:00 PM – 3:30 PM Communications and Publications Committee Meeting Curacao 1

2:00 PM – 3:30 PM TLC Section Meeting Boca II

2:30 PM – 3:00 PM Editors of Agricultural Economics-Related Journals Meeting Bonaire 3

3:00 PM – 7:00 PM SS-AAEA Academic Bowl & Orientation Boca VI, VII, VIII; Governor’s Boardroom

3:00 PM – 7:00 PM Undergraduate Recruitment Fair Boca Lobby

3:30 PM – 5:00 PM AAEA Concurrent Sessions

5:00 PM – 6:00 PM GSS Business Meeting Curacao 5

5:00 PM – 7:00 PM Extension Section Reception Boca IV

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6:00 PM – 7:00 PM GSS/CWAE Reception Boca II

7:00 PM – 8:00 PM AAEA Keynote Address/ACCI Esther Peterson Lecture Caribbean I-III

8:00 PM – 10:00 PM AAEA Welcome Reception Grand Sierra Ballroom

8:00 PM – 10:00 PM ACCI Welcome Reception Antigua 1, 2 Monday, July 28

7:00 AM – 8:00 AM Continental Breakfast for All Meeting Attendees Convention Center Lobby and Martinique 1

7:00 AM – 8:00 AM FAMPS Business Meeting Cayman

7:00 AM – 8:00 AM Senior Section Business Meeting Barbados 1

7:00 AM – 8:30 AM Gates Foundation Session on Saving Services for the Rural Poor* Martinique 2

7:00 AM – 8:30 AM C-FARE Review of USDA-NASS Prices Publications: Valuing Our Nation’s Agriculture Antigua 1

7:00 AM – 4:00 PM SS-AAEA Academic Bowl Boca VI, VII, VIII; Governor’s Boardroom

7:00 AM – 4:00 PM Undergraduate Recruitment Fair Boca Lobby

7:00 AM – 5:00 PM Registration Desk Open Convention Center Lobby

7:30 AM – 8:30 AM International Section Meeting Barbardos 2

8:00 AM – 9:15 AM ACCI Presents: The Subprime Meltdown and Implications for Consumers Martinique 1

8:30 AM – 9:30 AM AAEA Presidential Address Caribbean I-III

9:30 AM – 11:00 AM Concurrent Sessions

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9:30 AM – 4:30 PM Exhibit Hall Open Grand Sierra Ballroom

9:30 AM – 5:00 PM Employment Center Open Caribbean IV-VII

11:00 AM – 1:00 PM Centennial Committee Meeting Bonaire 7

11:15 AM – 1:00 PM ACCI Colston Warne Speaker Series & Luncheon* Martinique 1

1:00 PM – 2:30 PM Concurrent Sessions

1:00 PM – 3:30 PM GSS Case Study Finals Curacao 7, 8

2:30 PM – 4:00 PM Attended Poster Session Grand Sierra Ballroom

2:30 PM – 4:00 PM Afternoon Break For All Meeting Attendees Grand Sierra Ballroom

4:00 PM – 5:30 PM Concurrent Sessions

5:30 PM – 6:00 PM SS-AAEA Academic Bowl Finals Caribbean I-III

5:30 PM – 7:30 PM ACCI Awards Ceremony & Reception Martinique 1

6:00 PM – 7:30 PM AAEA Awards & Fellows Recognition Ceremony Caribbean I-III

7:30 PM – 8:00 PM Industry & International Reception Boca Foyer

8:00 PM – 9:30 PM International Speaker Series & Banquet* Boca VI, VII

8:00 PM – 9:30 PM Industry Speaker Series & Banquet* Boca V

9:00 PM – 11:00 PM Reunions & Receptions Bonaire 1–8 Tuesday, July 29

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2008 AAEA & ACCI Joint Annual Meeting • Orlando, Florida • July 27-29 2008 AAEA & ACCI Joint Annual Meeting • Orlando, Florida • July 27-29 15 Expanding Horizons Meeting Schedule Tuesday, July 29 Schedule 7:00 AM – 8:00 AM Risk Analysis Section Meeting Antigua 1

7:00 AM – 8:00 AM Continental Breakfast for All Meeting Attendees Convention Center Lobby amd Martinique 1

7:00 AM – 5:00 PM Registration Desk Open Convention Center Lobby

7:30 AM – 8:00 AM ACCI Coffee with the Board Martinique 1

8:00 AM – 8:30 AM AAEA Business Meeting Caribbean I-III

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM ACCI Business Meeting Martinique 1

8:00 AM – 6:00 PM Undergraduate Paper Competition Boca V

8:30 AM – 9:30 AM AAEA Fellows Address Caribbean I-III

9:30 AM – 11:00 AM Concurrent Sessions

9:30 AM – 4:30 PM Exhibit Hall Open Grand Sierra Ballroom

9:30 AM – 5:00 PM Employment Center Open Caribbean IV-VII

11:15 AM – 1:00 PM ACCI Presents: To Infinity and Beyond! A Box Luncheon and Showcase of Policy-Making Research* Martinique 1

11:15 AM – 1:00 PM COSBAE Speaker Series & Luncheon* Barbados

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11:15 AM – 1:00 PM Extension Section Speaker Series & Luncheon* Martinique 2

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6:00 PM – 8:00 PM Galbraith Forum Speaker Series & Banquet* Caribbean I-III

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8:00 AM – 11:00 AM Post-conference Workshop: Spatial Econometrics* Antigua 1

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2008 AAEA & ACCI Joint Annual Meeting • Orlando, Florida • July 27-29 2008 AAEA & ACCI Joint Annual Meeting • Orlando, Florida • July 27-29 17 Expanding Horizons Introduction to Concurrent and Poster Sessions This page outlines general information regarding the organization and AAEA Selected Presentations content of the Concurrent Sessions and the Poster Sessions. If you have Selected Presentations are completed academic papers that are submit- any further questions, AAEA Staff members are available on-site to help. ted for peer review individually. After being accepted, each presentation is designated as a Selected Paper or Poster. Presentations become Select- ed Papers based on their ability to form a coherent, attractive session. Organization of Sessions No quality distinction is made between Selected Papers and Posters. All sessions are first organized by date and time. Within each time block, AAEA Selected Papers sessions are sorted by their affiliation with each association (AAEA or Accepted Selected Papers are grouped with three other papers, in order ACCI). For AAEA sessions, Principal Papers are listed first, followed to form an attractive session. Each paper presenter is given about 20 by the Track sessions. After the Tracks, the Organized Symposia and minutes to present the findings in their paper and answer any questions Selected Papers are listed together, and sorted by Subject Code. Subject from the audience. One moderator is assigned to each Selected Paper Code headings are noted after the paper’s title in the description. session to help keep the presentations on time and facilitate any discus- sion about the research presented. Subject Codes AAEA Selected Posters Posters are a visual display of research conducted. Posters are on Upon submission, each session is classified within one of 27 subject display throughout the meeting in the Exhibit Hall, and can be viewed codes. The subject codes are intended to represent all the different whenever the hall is open. Poster presenters will be available during one areas of focus covered by sessions at the Joint Annual Meeting. They also of two designated time slots for Poster presentation, either on Monday allow all of the sessions to be sorted by topic. For a listing of sessions by or Tuesday, from 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm. The board number of the poster subject code, please see the Topical Index on page ## indicates which session it will be a part of, with an “M” designating participation in the Monday session and a “T” designating the Tuesday session. AAEA Posters are judged while on display and the top three AAEA Session Types Posters win a cash prize. AAEA Principal Papers Principal Papers are the most selective submission type at the AAEA An- ACCI Session Types nual Meetings, as a maximum of seven are accepted each year. The pro- posals for Principal Paper sessions are approved by the AAEA Executive ACCI Special Sessions Board and are the foundation around which the rest of the Joint Annual ACCI Special Sessions provide an opportunity to focus on specific top- Meeting is based. Principal Paper sessions have between two and four ics of interest and importance to consumer researchers, to showcase formal presentations and up to two discussants. Papers and discussions creative programs or successful teaching methodologies, or to provide a in Principal Paper sessions are published in the American Journal of roundtable discussion of “ideas that work” with your colleagues. Agricultural Economics. ACCI Competitive Presentations AAEA Track Sessions Competitive Presentations are completed academic papers that are sub- Track Sessions are groups of sessions (ranging between three and six mitted for peer review individually. After being accepted, each presenta- sessions) that appeal to a common audience. Tracks are proposed and tion is designated as a Selected Paper or Poster. sponsored by official AAEA Sections. Each Section is allotted a certain number of sessions at the Joint Annual Meeting based on the size of that ACCI Selected Papers Section’s membership. The sessions within a Track are designed for the Accepted Selected Papers are grouped with other papers on a similar members of the sponsoring AAEA Section, however anyone may attend topic, in order to form an attractive session. One presider is assigned to any Track session. Certain Track sessions may be sponsored by more each Selected Paper session to help keep the presentations on time and than one Section, or by ACCI, if the content appeals to both groups. facilitate any discussion about the research presented. ACCI Selected Posters AAEA Organized Symposia Posters are a visual display of research conducted. Posters are on Organized Symposia are sessions that focus on a particular topic of display throughout the meeting in the Exhibit Hall, and can be viewed interest. These sessions are usually discussion based, often having whenever the hall is open. Poster presenters will be available during one panelists or discussants. Symposia may also contain presentations that of two designated time slots for Poster presentation, either on Monday are meant to highlight works in progress or new data, as opposed to or Tuesday, from 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm. The board number of the poster the completed form of a Selected Paper. These sessions are organized indicates which session it will be a part of, with an “M” designating completely by individuals, and then reviewed by the AAEA President. participation in the Monday session and a “T” designating the Tuesday session. AAEA Posters are judged while on display and the top three Posters win a cash prize.

18 2008 AAEA & ACCI Joint Annual Meeting • Orlando, Florida • July 27-29 2008 AAEA & ACCI Joint Annual Meeting • Orlando, Florida • July 27-29 Monday, July 28 2:30–4:30 pm Attended Poster Session AAEA Posters Posters M1 Livestock Producers’ Views on Access M8 Do Experimental Procedures for to Veterinary Services Eliciting Valuations Cause a WTP-WTA Kimberly L. Jensen, Burton C. English, and Jamey Menard, Disparity? Theory and Experimental University of Tennessee Evidence Matthew Rousu, Susquehanna University; Greg Hunter, California State Polytechnic University at Pomona M2 Stocker Cattle Management and Production: Factors Affecting Adoption of Best Management M9 Comparison of Complete Practices Combinatorial and Likelihood Rachel J. Johnson, Damona Doye, David L. Lalman, Derrell S. Ratio Test: Empirical Findings from Peel, and Kellie Raper, Oklahoma State University Residential Choice Experiments Taro Ohdoko, Hiroshima University, Japan

M3 Planting Real Option in Cash Rent Valuation M10 Image is Everything: The Role of Xiaodong Du and David A. Hennessy, Iowa State University Norms in Public Goods Policy Matthew G. Interis and Timothy C. Haab, The Ohio State University M4 The Structure Model Based Determinants of Capital Structure: A Seemingly Unrelated Regression M11 Adoption of Phytase by Livestock Model Farmers Yan Yan, Peter Barry, and Bruce Sherrick, University of Michael Stahlman, Laura McCann, and Haluk Gedikoglu, Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Xiangdong Shi, University of University of Missouri Minnesota; Nicholas Paulson, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign M12 Estimation of Consumer-level Food Loss for the ERS Food Availability M5 Transitory Shocks and Farm Data System Investment: A Natural Experiment Mary K. Muth, Shawn A. Karns, and Samara J. Nielsen, RTI Michael J. Roberts and Michael Brady, USDA-Economic Research International; Jean C. Buzby and Hodan F. Wells, USDA- Service Economic Research Service

M6 Finding Fun in Food Farming: M13 Will Too Many Lower Quality Fruits Characteristics of the U.S. Damage the Organic Market? Agritourism Industry Yuanong Ge and H. Holly Wang, Purdue University Irina Bondoc, University of Florida; Donna J. Lee, ENTRIX Inc.; Charles B. Moss and Ronald W. Ward, University of Florida M14 Eat Your Veggies: Determining the Fruit and Vegetable Demand among M7 Efficiency of Rural Financial U.S. College Students Institutions in the Developing Christiane Schroeter, California Polytechnic State University at Countries: A Quantitative Analysis San Luis Obispo; Lisa A. House, University of Florida Valentina Hartarska, Auburn University; Roy Mersland, Agder University College, Norway

2008 AAEA & ACCI Joint Annual Meeting • Orlando, Florida • July 27-29 2008 AAEA & ACCI Joint Annual Meeting • Orlando, Florida • July 27-29 19 Expanding Horizons Monday, July 28 2:30–4:30 pm Attended Poster Session AAEA Posters

M15 Search Costs in Identity-preserved M23 FDA Approved Health Claims and Agricultural Markets Consumers’ Behavioral Intentions: The

Posters Jeff Reimer, Oregon State University Case of Soy-based Food Wanki Moon, Southern Illinois University; Arbindra Rimal, Missouri State University; Siva K. Balasubramanian and Tonya M16 Intraday Announcements Effects in S. Lemons, Southern Illinois University the Hog Market Julieta Frank and Philip Garcia, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign M24 Consumer Acceptance of New Peanut Products: Effect of Health Claim When Taste Liking Differs M17 Measuring the Impact of the Korea- Naoya Kaneko and Stanley M. Fletcher, University of Georgia U.S. FTA on the Korean Dairy Market Sounghun Kim, Korea Rural Economic Institute M25 Factors Affecting U.S. Cheese Consumption M18 Farm-retail Price Transmission: A Don P. Blayney, Christopher G. Davis, and Biing-Hwan Lin, Modern Approach to an Old Issue USDA-Economic Research Service Lan Li, Cornell University; Hoy Carman and Richard Sexton, University of California, Davis M27 Valuing Information on GM Foods in a WTA Market: What Information is Most M19 The Role of Hosted Meals and Primary Valuable? Food Preparer’s Time in Expenditures Matthew C. Rousu, Susquehanna University; Jayson L. Lusk, on Food-away-from-Home in China Oklahoma State University Junfei Bai, Washington State University; Thomas I. Wahl, North Dakota State University; Bryan T. Lohmar, USDA-Economic Research Service; Jikun Huang, China Academy of Sciences M28 Changing Pattern of U.S. Apparel Trade Post-2008: Implications for the U.S. Cotton Industry M20 Willingness to Pay for Leak-free Maria Mutuc and Samarendu Mohanty, Texas Tech University; Plumbing Materials: Conjoint Analysis Roderick Rejesus, North Carolina State University and Contingent Valuation Approaches Eftila Tanellari, Ewa J. Kleczyk, and Darrell J. Bosch, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University M29 The Impact of the New Energy Bill on U.S. and World Agricultural Markets Amani Elobeid, Simla Tokgoz, Bruce A. Babcock, Fengxia Dong, M21 Experimental Determination of Jacinto Fabiosa, Chad Hart, Dermot J. Hayes, Jun Ruan, and Consumers’ Willingness to Pay for Tun-Hsiang Yu, Iowa State University Modified Atmosphere Packaging of Ground Beef Carola Grebitus, Helen Jensen, and Joseph G. Sebranek, Iowa M30 The Impacts of U.S. Nonprice Export State University; Sven Anders, University of Alberta; Jutta Promotion Program on Export Roosen, Technische Universität München Demand for Peanuts in Canada, the European Union, and Mexico Tullaya Boonsaeng and Stanley M. Fletcher, University of M22 Parametric and Non-parametric Georgia Estimates of Willingness to Pay for Home Drinking Water Infrastructure Eftila Tanellari and Darrell Bosch, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

20 2008 AAEA & ACCI Joint Annual Meeting • Orlando, Florida • July 27-29 2008 AAEA & ACCI Joint Annual Meeting • Orlando, Florida • July 27-29 Monday, July 28 2:30–4:30 pm Attended Poster Session AAEA Posters Posters M31 Investment Rigidity and Policy M38 Grocery Retail Price Variation and Its Measures Determinants: Evidence from Scanner Teresa Serra, Centre de Recerca en Economia i Data Desenvolupament Agroalimentari; Spiro Stefanou, Lan Li, Cornell University; Hoy Carman and Richard Sexton, Pennsylvania State University; José M. Gil, Centre de Recerca University of California, Davis en Economia i Desenvolupament Agroalimentari; Allen Featherstone, Kansas State University M39 Factors Affecting Georgia Farmland Prices: A Spatial-Temporal Approach M32 Analysis of the Technical Efficiency Mohammed Ibrahim, Fort Valley State University; Renata Elad, of Hybrid Rice Farms in Nueva Ecija Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College; John C. Bergstrom and and Isabela, Philippines Ivery Clifton, University of Georgia Catherine T. Aragon, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University M40 Is Stabilization of Potato Price and Supply Effective? Empirical Evidence M33 Do Policy Distortions Affect from Idaho Productivity in Agriculture? Christopher S. McIntosh, Kala Muthusamy, Yuliya Bolotova, and Manitra A. Rakotoarisoa, Consultative Group on International Paul E. Patterson, University of Idaho Agricultural Research

M41 Analysis of Household Demand for M34 Welfare Policies and Poverty Rate Organic Fluid Milk in the United across the 48 Continental United States States: A spatial Approach Pedro A. Alviola and Oral Capps, Texas A&M University John M. Ulimwengu, International Food Policy Research Institute; Guyslain K. Ngeleza, Mississippi State University M42 A Sectoral Study of Community Water Demand M35 Price Discriminating Procurement David R. Bell, and Ronald C. Griffin, Texas A&M University Auctions Nathaniel Higgins, University of Maryland; Daniel Hellerstein, USDA-Economic Research Service; Barrett Kirwan, University of M43 Does Demand for Ethanol-based Maryland; Michael Roberts, USDA-Economic Research Service Fuel Increase as the Ethanol Share Increases: A Contingent Valuation Study for E85 Fuel M36 A Granger Causality Analysis of Sanjoy Bhattacharjee, Daniel R. Petrolia, and Bill Herndon, Branded vs. Private Label Price Mississippi State University Leadership: The Case of Butter in Detroit Xin Wang and Leigh Maynard, University of Kentucky M44 The Impact of Retail Promotions on the Demand for Fruit Juices Erika Knight, Lisa House, and Jonq-Ying Lee, University of M37 Do Some Food Prices Vary More Than Florida Others? Hayden Stewart and Diansheng Dong, USDA-Economic Research Service M45 Does the Location of Farmland Matter in the Determination of Farmland Price Bubbles? Kwansoo Kim and Donghwan An, Seoul National University

2008 AAEA & ACCI Joint Annual Meeting • Orlando, Florida • July 27-29 2008 AAEA & ACCI Joint Annual Meeting • Orlando, Florida • July 27-29 21 Expanding Horizons Monday, July 28 2:30–4:30 pm Attended Poster Session AAEA Posters

M46 Explaining Ghana’s Good Cocoa M55 Rural Education and Out-migration in Karma: A Smuggling-incentive Reversal America

Posters Argument Alexander W. Marre and Bruce A. Weber, Oregon State Stephen E. Armah, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign University

M47 On the Price Elasticities of Whey M56 The Next Step for the Bioeconomy: Jose Toasa and Don Blayney, USDA-Economic Research Service Mapping the Impact of Corn Stover Use on Crop Choice, Land Use, and Environmental Quality M48 The Impact of Imports on the Japanese Silvia Secchi, Southern Illinois University; Lyubov Kurkalova, Hog Cycle North Carolina A&T State University; John C. Tyndall, Philip W. Kenji Adachi, University of Minnesota Gassman, and Catherine Kling, Iowa State University

M49 External Validity of Hypothetical M57 Dairy Farm Pasture Management: A Surveys and Laboratory Experiments Comparison of Biofuel Conversion Jae Bong Chang, Jayson L. Lusk, and F. Bailey Norwood, Opportunities for the Bioeconomies Oklahoma State University of the Midwest and Northeast Richard F. Nehring, USDA-Economic Research Service; Paul R. Adler, USDA-Agricultural Research Service; Kenneth W. Erickson M50 Consumers’ Welfare from New and Carmen L. Sandretto, USDA-Economic Research Service Product Introductions: The Case of Potato Chips Carlos Arnade, Rachael Dettman, and Daniel Pick, USDA- M58 Effect of Biofuels Technology Economic Research Service; Munisamy Gopinath, Oregon State Development on World Agricultural University Markets and Trade Jody L. Campiche, Henry L. Bryant, James W. Richardson, and Joe L. Outlaw, Texas A&M University M51 Do Overlapping Land Rights Reduce Agricultural Investment? Evidence from Uganda M59 International Collective Action Klaus Deininger and Daniel Ayalew Ali, World Bank in Financing Agricultural R&D: Assessing Alternative Institutional Arrangements M53 County-level Analysis of Small Philip Pardey, University of Minnesota; Eran Binenbaum, The Business Growth in Three Areas of University of Adelaide West Virginia Semoa C. Desousa-Brown, Peter V. Schaeffer, Tesfa G. Gebremedhin, and Cheryl Brown, West Virginia University M60 Agricultural Nanotechnologies and Implications on Policy and Consumer Acceptance M54 The Differential Impact of Micro- David V. Marshall and Wuyang Hu, University of Kentucky credit and Extension Services on Smallholder Behavior and Livelihood in Rural Ethiopia M61 College Students’ Perception of Saweda Onipede Liverpool and Alex Winter-Nelson, University of Obesity: Illinois vs. California Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Aslihan D. Spaulding, Illinois State University; Christiane Schroeter, California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo; Timothy J. Schmidgall, Illinois State University

22 2008 AAEA & ACCI Joint Annual Meeting • Orlando, Florida • July 27-29 2008 AAEA & ACCI Joint Annual Meeting • Orlando, Florida • July 27-29 Monday, July 28 2:30–4:30 pm Attended Poster Session AAEA Posters Posters M62 The Impact of Food Price and Access M68 Public Goods, Hysteresis, and to Food Outlets on Obesity Investment in Food Safety Christina Myers, University of Maryland Ram N. Acharya, Timothy J. Richards, and William Nganje, Arizona State University

M63 Narrowing the Dietary Gap of Fruit and Vegetable Consumption M69 Structural Change in the Meat and Kuo S. Huang and Sophia S. Huang, USDA-Economic Research Poultry Industry and the Pathogen Service Reduction Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point Rule Michael Ollinger, USDA-Economic Research Service M64 Sustaining Collective Reputation through Monitoring and Sanctioning: The Case of French Tomato Grower M70 Economic Costs of HACCP Systems: The Groups for Pesticides Residues Case of Philippine Seafood Processors Limitation Catherine Ragasa, Suzanne Thornsbury, and Satish Joshi, Raphaël Soubeyran, Zouhair Bouhsina, Jean-Marie Codron, Michigan State University and Eléonore Cordier, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique M71 A Social Marketing Approach to Reducing Eye Injuries in Hispanic Farm M65 From Punish to Prevent: The Use of Workers Co-regulation in the Enforcement of Mark A. Wade, Evans Properties, Inc.; Paul Monaghan, Food Safety Regulations University of South Florida Elodie Rouviere, University of Montpellier; Julie A. Caswell, University of Massachusetts Amherst M72 Declines in Male Employment and Family Labor Supply: Evidence from M66 Self-efficacy as a Mediator of Taiwan the Relationship between Dietary Fung-Mey Huang, National Taiwan University Knowledge and Behavior Arbindra P. Rimal, Missouri State University; Wanki Moon and Siva K. Balasubramanian, Southern Illinois University M73 Event Analysis on Labor Groups Boycott Efforts against Agricultural Related Corporations M67 Dynamic Effects of Education on the Jamille Palacios and Robert D. Emerson, University of Florida Efficiency of Food Consumption Paul McNamara and Jebaraj Asirvatham, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2008 AAEA & ACCI Joint Annual Meeting • Orlando, Florida • July 27-29 2008 AAEA & ACCI Joint Annual Meeting • Orlando, Florida • July 27-29 23 Expanding Horizons Monday, July 28 2:30–4:30 pm Attended Poster Session ACCI Posters

M74 Having Mom and Dad Pay for College: M80 Impact of Gender on Keeping Personal Financial Advantage or Disadvantage? Account Book Experience for

Posters Sheri L. Worthy, Mississippi State University; Lynn Blinn-Pike, University Students In Japan Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis; Jeffrey N. Junko Shigekawa, Saitama University Jonkman, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

M81 The Effect of Campus Shootings on M75 The Confidence in Understandings the Quality of Graduate Students’ of Retirement Concepts among College Experiences PreService Teachers Leann Rutherford and Sharon A. DeVaney, Purdue University Thomas A. Lucey and Edgar A. Norton, Illinois State University

M82 Financial Management Practices of M76 Financial Well-being among College College Students from States with Students in Malaysia: Needs for Varying Financial Education Mandates Financial Education Michael S. Gutter, University of Florida; Joseph Eisen and Wendy Mohamad Fazli Sabri, Iowa State University; Jariah Masud and L. Way, University of Wisconsin at Madison Laily Paim, Universiti Putra Malaysia; Maurice MacDonald, Iowa State University M83 Teaching Food Safety to Children: An After School-based Program M77 Financial Behavior and Problems Wendy Reiboldt, California State University, Long Beach; Diane among University Students in Carson, Texas A&M University Malaysia: Research and Education Implication Mohamad Fazli Sabri, Iowa State University; Jariah Masud, M84 Exploring the Relationship between Universiti Putra Malaysia; Tahira K. Hira and Maurice Financial Behaviors and Financial MacDonald, Iowa State University; Laily Paim, Universiti Putra Distress/Financial Well-being of Malaysia College Students Zeynep Copur and Michael S. Gutter, University of Florida; Joesph Eisen and Wendy L. Way, University of Wisconsin at M78 Promotion of a Smoke-free Campus Madison Yoon-Na Cho and Sharon A. DeVaney, Purdue University

M85 Communication among Parents and M79 The Good, The Bad, The Changed: Youth about Savings and Investments: Financial Management Behaviors Impact of Parents’ Marital Status of Young Enlisted Soldiers and the Teresa Mauldin, Michael Rupured, Yoko Mimura, Joan Koonce, Effect of Financial Education—A and Mary Jane Kabaci, University of Georgia Detailed Abstract Catherine Bell, Daniel Gorin, and Jeanne Hogarth, Federal Reserve Board

24 2008 AAEA & ACCI Joint Annual Meeting • Orlando, Florida • July 27-29 2008 AAEA & ACCI Joint Annual Meeting • Orlando, Florida • July 27-29 Tuesday, July 29 2:30 – 4:30 pm Attended Poster Session AAEA Posters Posters T1 The Racial Saving Gap Enigma: T9 Foreign Direct Investment to South Unraveling the Role of Past Africa: The Effect of Source and Host Institutions Country Characteristics on Mode of Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere and Willie Belton, Georgia Institute of Entry Choice Technology Nomathemba Mhlanga and Garrick Blalock, Cornell University

T2 Individual-based Learning and the T10 Analyzing Growth and Welfare Performance of Medical Centers in Effects of Public Policies in Models Taiwan: The Case of Laparoscopic of Endogenous Growth with Human Cholecystectomy Surgery Capital: Evidence from South Africa Chern-Jhea Luo, Fung-Mey Huang, and Yir-Hueih Luh, Thaddee M. Badibanga, University of Minnesota National Taiwan University

T11 Productivity and the Spatial T3 Resolving Expected Utility Anomalies Distribution of Korean Economic with a Social Expected Utility Model Activity Lindon J. Robison and Robert Myers, Michigan State University Hanho Kim, Seoul National University; Munisamy Gopinath, Oregon State University

T4 Managing an Externality in the Confectionary Industry T12 Effects of Institutional Measures on Allan Schmid, Michigan State University; Jon C. Phillips, Capital Market Imperfections in Latin California State Polytechnic University at Pomona American Countries Ligia Vado, North Carolina State University; Brett Gelso, American University T5 Assessment of an Agribusiness Major: A Case Study Jon C. Phillips, California State Polytechnic University at T13 Energy, Environment, and the Pomona Sustainability of Economic Development in China Xingming Fang and Xiaoping Hu, Southwestern University of T6 Illustrating Errors in Panel and Finance and Economics; H. Holly Wang, Purdue University; Long-term Recall Surveys: Evidence Boqing Wang, Washington State Department of Social and from a Food for Education Survey in Health Services Bangladesh Alan de Brauw, International Food Policy Research Institute; John Gibson, University of Waikato; Bonggeun Kim, T14 Linkages between Market Sungkyunkwan University Participation and Productivity: Results from a Multi-country Household Sample T7 Extension Educators Collecting Ana R. Rios, William A. Masters, and Gerald E. Shively, Purdue Industry-specific Stakeholder Input University Vera Bitsch and Ted Ferris, Michigan State University

T15 Land Rental Markets in the Process T8 Is Foreign Aid Beneficial for Sub- of Rural Structural Transformation: Saharan Africa? A Panel Data Analysis Productivity and Equity Impacts in Stephen E. Armah, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign China Songqing Jin, Michigan State University; Klaus Deininger, World Bank

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T16 GM-free Private Standards, Cheap T23 An Analysis as to the Casual Talk, and Perceived Commercial Risks: Relationship between Bioethanol

Posters An Analysis of the Role of Trade Issues Expansion and Agricultural Crop in Biotechnology Decision-making in Acreage Allocation in the United Developing Countries States Guillaume Gruère, International Food Policy Research Youngjae Lee and P. Lynn Kennedy, Louisiana State University Institute; Hiroyuki Takeshima, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign T24 Determining the Impact of Crawfish Imports on U.S. Domestic Prices T17 Behavior of Subsistence Producers in Youngjae Lee, P. Lynn Kennedy, and Brian Hilbun, Louisiana Response to Technological Change— State University The Elasticity of Cassava Production and Home Consumption in Benin Hiroyuki Takeshima, University of Illinois at Urbana- T25 Determinants of U.S. Broiler Meat Champaign Exports Renan Zhuang, USA Poultry & Egg Export Council

T18 Trust, Risk, and the Lender-Borrower Relationship: A Micro-lending T26 Dynamic Import Demand Modeling Experiment of Cattle in the U.S. Beef Packing Jaclyn D. Kropp, Calum G. Turvey, and David R. Just, Cornell Industry University Gulcan Onel and Barry K. Goodwin, North Carolina State University

T19 The Role of Agricultural Research Institutions in Promoting T27 Reforming Agricultural Trade: Not Agricultural Productivity in Africa: Just for the Wealthy Countries An Empirical Analysis Ann M. Tutwiler, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation; Nur Abdi and Anwar Naseem, McGill University Matthew O. Straub, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

T20 Determinants of Farmgate Cocoa T28 The Cumulative Effect of Regional Prices in Post-conflict Liberia Trade Agreements with Phase-in Alicia L. English, Michael D. Wilcox, Dayton M. Lambert, and Periods Roland K. Roberts, University of Tennessee Dayton M. Lambert, University of Tennessee; Jason Grant, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

T21 Wage Discrimination in India’s Informal Labor Markets: Exploring T29 Spread of Retailer Driven Food the Impact of Caster and Gender Quality Standards: An International Klaus Deininger, World Bank; Jin Songqing, Michigan State Perspective University; Nagarajan Hari, National Council for Applied Thomas Herzfeld, Wageningen Agricultural University; Larissa Economic Research S. Drescher, University of Alberta; Carola Grebitus, Iowa State University

T22 Biofuels: Impact on the World Grain, Livestock, and Oilseed Sectors T30 Innovation and Uncertainty: Richard Stillman, May Peters, Agapi Somwaru, and Edwin Application of Option and Portfolio Young, USDA-Economic Research Service Concepts to Strategy Development Mike Boehlje, Allan Gray, and Maud Roucan, Purdue University

26 2008 AAEA & ACCI Joint Annual Meeting • Orlando, Florida • July 27-29 2008 AAEA & ACCI Joint Annual Meeting • Orlando, Florida • July 27-29 Tuesday, July 29 2:30 – 4:30 pm Attended Poster Session AAEA Posters Posters T31 Basis and Effectiveness of Livestock T39 A Dynamic Model of Land Use Choices Price Hedging: An Empirical Copula under Climate Change Related Water Approach Scarcity Gabriel Power and Dmitry Vedenov, Texas A&M University Sorada Tapsuwan and Ram Ranjan, CSIRO Land and Water

T32 The Value of Market Uncertainty in a T40 Regional Growth and Multi-sectoral Livestock Epidemic Land Use Change in Michigan: A Jarkko K. Niemi and Heikki Lehtonen, MTT Agrifood Research Simultaneous Equations Approach Finland Soji Adelaja and Yohannes G. Hailu, Michigan State University

T33 Anaerobic Digester Investment: An T41 Econometric vs. Engineering Application of Real Options with Prediction of Water Demand and Multiple Jump Processes Value for Irrigation Elizabeth R. Leuer and Jeffrey Hyde, Pennsylvania State Steven Martin and Swagata Banerjee, Mississippi State University University

T34 Risk Analysis of Tilapia Recirculating T42 Oil Prices and Remittances: Aquaculture Systems: A Monte Carlo Impacts of Oil Price Shocks on Simulation Approach the Macroeconomy of a Small, Oil Bledar Kodra and Daniel B. Taylor, Virginia Polytechnic Importing and Labor Exporting Institute and State University Country Mahbub Morshed and Basharat Pitafi, Southern Illinois University T35 Examining Stock Price Reactions to Pet Food Recalls Ji Li and Neal H. Hooker, The Ohio State University T43 Valuation of Recycling Program Attributes on a College Campus David Gebben, Michael D. Kaplowitz, Frank Lupi, and Laurie T36 Impact of Board of Directors Thorp, Michigan State University Structure on Farm Credit Associations Performance Michael Gunderson, University of Florida; Brent Gloy, Cornell T44 Invasive Upland Plants and the University; Chris Rodgers, University of Florida Recreational Value of Wooded Parks in Florida Anafrida Bwenge, University of Florida; Donna J. Lee, ENTRIX T37 The Effects of Stated Revisitation Inc.; Damian C. Adams, Oklahoma State University; Sherry on Willingness to Pay for an Larkin and Janaki Alavalapati, University of Florida Environmental Asset: A Multivariate Probit Analysis of Stygofauna Value in Yanchep National Park, Australia T45 Macro-level Economic Evaluation of Sorada Tapsuwan, CSIRO Land and Water; Michael Burton and Manure Application Rates Using CEEOT- James Perriam, University of Western Australia MMS Edward Osei, Tarleton State University

T38 The Consistency of Multiple Choice Sets in Attribute-based Referenda T46 Network Externalities in Supermarket Model Retailing Fang Xie and Frank Lupi, Michigan State University; Laila A. Timothy J. Richards, Arizona State University; Geoffrey Pofahl, Racevskis, University of Florida Michigan State University; Stephen F. Hamilton, California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo

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T47 Assessing Wal-Mart’s Expansion and T55 Assessing the Potential for Payments Entry in Food Retailing for Watershed Services to Reduce

Posters Alessandro Bonanno, University of Connecticut Poverty in Guatemala Stefano Pagiola, Wei Zhang, and Alejandra Colom, World Bank

T48 Nontraditional Food Retailers and Market Concentration: Different T56 Can Milk Markets Save the Amazon? Implications for Producers and Investigating Land Use Choices Consumers of Small Farmers in Response to Tian Xia and Xianghong Li, Kansas State University Expanding Milk Markets in the Brazilian Amazon Shubhayu Saha, Erin Sills, North Carolina State University; T49 Strategic Forward Contracting Subhrendu K. Pattanayak, RTI International; Jill Caviglia- between Upstream and Downstream Harris, Salisbury University Firms Shinn-Shyr Wang, University of Wisconsin at Madison T57 Achieving National Priorities in Decentralized Conservation T50 Changes in Transportation Flows Programs Arising from an Expansion in Ethanol Cindy Nickerson and Marc Ribaudo, USDA-Economic Research Frank J. Dooley, Justin Quear, and Wallace Tyner, Purdue Service University

T58 Location Choice of the Shrimp T51 Volatility Transmission in the Fishermen in the Gulf of Mexico Ethanol, Gasoline, and Corn Markets Tao Ran, Walter R. Keithly, Richard F. Kazmierczak, and Zibin Zhang, Luanne Lohr, Cesar Escalante, and Michael Huizhen Nui, Louisisana State University Wetzstein, University of Georgia

T59 Combining the Use of Conjoint Choice T52 Bioenergy Supply from Public and Travel Cost Data for Estimating Forestlands the Recreational Value of Lake Robert H. Beach, RTI International Recreation Phumsith Mahasuweerachai and Tracy A. Boyer, Oklahoma State University T53 Water Communities in the Republic of Macedonia: An Empirical Analysis of Membership Satisfaction and Payment T60 Energy Cost Estimation of Sugar Behaviour Ethanol: A Comparative Analysis with Matthew Gorton, University of Newcastle; Johannes Sauer, Kent Corn Ethanol Production in the Business School, Imperial College at Wye United States Sachin Chintawar and John Westra, Louisiana State University

T54 Valuing Potential Benefits of Biocontrol Research into Californian T61 The Stochastically Efficient Biomass Thistle: A Bioeconomic Model Crop Mix: View from the Biorefinery William H. Kaye-Blake, Lincoln University, New Zealand; Roland J. Fumasi, James W. Richardson, and Joe L. Outlaw, Graeme W. Bourdôt, AgResearch, New Zealand; Bhubaneswor Texas A&M University Dhakal, Lincoln University, New Zealand

28 2008 AAEA & ACCI Joint Annual Meeting • Orlando, Florida • July 27-29 2008 AAEA & ACCI Joint Annual Meeting • Orlando, Florida • July 27-29 Tuesday, July 29 2:30 – 4:30 pm Attended Poster Session AAEA Posters Posters T62 Assessing the Impacts of the Demand T70 Productivity Change and Impact of for Corn by the Biofuels Industry Subsidies: A Comparison of French and on Hog Production: Does Location Hungarian COP Farms Matter? Jozsef Fogarasi, Agricultural Economics Research Institute, Joshua Detre, Tyler Mark, and Sachin Chintawar, Louisiana Budapest; Laure Latruffe, Institut National de la Recherche State University Agronomique

T63 Production Efficiency of Organic T71 Economic and Environmental and Conventional Dairy Farms in the Impacts of the Production and United States Transportation of Crop Residues Carlos D. Mayen, Joseph V. Balagtas, and Corinne E. Alexander, as Bioenergy Feedstocks in North Purdue University Carolina Mark Burkey, North Carolina A&T State University; Stephen Holland, University of North Carolina at Greensboro; Lyubov T64 Returns to IPM Research and Outreach Kurkalova and Abolghasem Shahbazi, North Carolina A&T State for Soybean Aphid University Feng Song and Scott M. Swinton, Michigan State University

T72 Relaxing Heteroscedasticity T65 Optimal Management of Molds in Assumptions in Crop Insurance Rating Stored Corn Ardian Harri and Keith H. Coble, Mississippi State University; Yigezu Yigezu, Paul Preckel, and Corinne Alexander, Purdue Alan Ker, University of Arizona; Barry K. Goodwin, North University Carolina State University

T66 Firm Market Value and Production T73 Economic Evaluation of Freeze Risk Technology Management in Satsuma Mandarin Maoyong Fan and Simon Firestone, University of California, Jeanne Lindsey, USDA-Risk Management Agency; Patricia Duffy Berkeley and Robert Nelson, Auburn University; Robert Ebel, University of Florida; William Dozier, Auburn University

T67 Bennet-Bowley Measure for Productivity Analysis of Georgia T74 Time-varying Yield Distributions and Agriculture the Implications for Crop Insurance Archie Flanders, Fred C. White, and John C. McKissick, Pricing University of Georgia Barry K. Goodwin and Ying Zhu, North Carolina State University

T68 Research and Development’s Role in Total Factor Productivity for the T75 California Grape Growers and Agricultural Sector Powdery Mildew Management: Can John A. Sparger, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Disease Forecasts Reduce Pesticide Use University by Improving Treatment Timing? Travis Lybbert and W. Douglas Gubler, University of California, Davis T69 Improvements of the Representation of Agricultural Productivity in the Wemac Model by Using a Nonparametric Approach Isabelle Piot-Lepetit, Magalie Houée-Bigot, Monique Le Moing, and Catherine Benjamin, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique

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T76 Financial Risk Tolerance Profile of T83 Understanding Consumer Views on Chinese American Households the Issues of Energy Policy and the

Posters Rui Yao, Weiming Ke, and Liz Gorham, South Dakota State Biofuel Industry: Does Proximity University Influence Knowledge and Attitudes? Cynthia N. Fletcher, Craig Gundersen, Michael D. Larsen, and Sarah M. Nusser, Iowa State University T77 Economic and Psychological Determinants of Savings Behavior: A Conceptual Model T84 Post-disaster Recovery and Michael S. Gutter, University of Florida; Celia Hayhoe, Virginia Rebuilding: A Consumer Perspective Polytechnic Institute and State University; Sharon DeVaney, Chuanlan Liu, Frances Lawrence, William Black, Mousumi Purdue University Bose, Yana Kuzmina, Mazen Jaber, Sandeep Bhowmick, and Anna Green, Louisiana State University

T78 Personal Financial Wellness and Workplace Productivity in Malaysia T85 The Choice of Self-employment and Mohamad Fazli Sabri, Iowa State University; Jariah Masud, the Role of Risk Tolerance and Karen Lai Kai Lin, Universiti Putra Malaysia Jaimie Sung, Korea University of Technology and Education; Zooyob Anne, Korea Labor Institute

T79 Employment Patterns, Family Resources, and Perception: Examining T86 Personality and Empowerment among Depressive Symptoms among Rural Older Consumers: Purchase of Health Low-income Mothers and Health Care Products Yoshie Sano, Washington State University at Vancouver; Laily Paim, Sharifah A. Haron, and Norfairani Ahmad, Elizabeth M. Dolan, University of New Hampshire; Leslie N. Universiti Putra Malaysia Richards, Oregon State University; Jean Bauer, University of Minnesota; Bonnie Braun, University of Maryland T87 To What Extent Do Households Practice Economizing Behaviour to T80 E-banking in the 21st Century—Is Cope with the Price Increase? Analysis the Digital Divide Still Out There? A of Household Expenditure Detailed Abstract Laily Paim, Sharifah A. Haron, Shamsul A. Badari, and Jariah Jeanne Hogarth and Catherine Bell, Federal Reserve Board; Masud, Universiti Putra Malaysia Jane Kolodinsky, University of Vermont

T88 Uncertain Health Expenditures and T81 Cultivating eXtension Communities of Precautionary Savings: Evidence from Practice the Health and Retirement Study Judy H. Branch, University of Vermont Robert L. Scharff, The Ohio State University; Tansel Yilmazer, Purdue University

T82 Banana Fibers as By-product of Agro Waste: Raw Source of Material for Paper and Handicrafts Naimah Salleh, Aziah Hashim, Rasmina Halis, and Jariah Masud, Universiti Putra Malaysia

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1001 Recent International Immigrants Foundation, President Emeritus and their Impact on America’s Rural Moderator: Sarahelen Thompson, Purdue University Communities Antigua 2 Panelists: Thomas Sporleder, The Ohio State University; J.B. Penn, Deere & Company; Derek Dictson, IAMA; David Baumann, AAEA 3:30-5:00 pm

CENET Track Session Sessions Sunday AAEA Principal Paper This session addresses one of America’s most hotly debated topics— 1003 Intersection of Agricultural international immigration. In a short order of time, the share of Extension and Agricultural foreign-born residing in the U.S. has gone from nearly an all-time low Innovations: the Case of Biofuels in 1970 to nearly the historic all-time record high that was previously Antigua 3 reached in the late 1800s. One key pattern is that the impacts of COSBAE/Extension Section Track Session immigration greatly vary across the landscape. The three papers This symposium is designed to discuss the various emerging biofuels assess this issue by 1) appraising the broad impacts of immigration issues and role of extension economists and other CES scientists in on the overall economic health of America’s rural communities; 2) the industry’s sustainability. The discussion will draw on four key asking where immigrants choose to live; and 3) examining how rural presentations by experts from the land-grant system and from the USDA- communities and agribusiness are adapting to a rapidly growing Economic Research Service. Hispanic population. Organizers: Deacue Fields, Auburn University; Duncan Chembezi, Organizers: Mark Partridge, The Ohio State University; Georgeanne Alabama A&M University; Blondel Brinkman, USDA-Animal and Plant Artz, University of Missouri Health Inspection Service Moderator: Georgeanne Artz, University of Missouri Moderators: Duncan Chembezi, Alabama A&M University; Blondel Discussant: Wallace Huffman, Iowa State University Brinkman, USDA-Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

Presentations: Discussant: Patrick Westhoff, University of Missouri Immigrants’ Selective Destination Choices by Educational Presentations: Attainment Level Background, Advances, and Trends in the Biofuels Industry Brigitte S. Waldorf and Raymond Florax, Purdue University Wallace Tyner, Purdue University Networks and Context of Reception in Asset Accumulation The Adjustments within the U.S. Agriculture Sector to Ethanol Strategies of Latino Newcomers in Rural Settlement Expansion Communities of the Midwest: A New Framework for Paul Westcott, USDA-Economic Research Service Understanding Immigration Corinne Valdivia, Pedro Dozi, Steven Jeanetta, Lisa Flores, Domingo Extension/Outreach Efforts in the Biofuels Industry: The Role of Martinez, and Anne Dannerbeck, University of Missouri Extension Economists Clark Garland, University of Tennessee Immigration and Economic Outcomes in Rural America Mark Partridge, The Ohio State University; Dan S. Rickman, Oklahoma Impact of Biofuels Production and Commercialization on Small/ State University; Kamar Ali, University of Saskatchewan Medium-Size Farms Enefiok Ekanem, Tennessee State University

1002 Identifying and Developing 1004 Society and Industry Perceptions of Professional Programs and Services Food Safety for Industry Members Bonaire 2 Bonaire 5 FAMPS Track Session AEM Section Track Session Consumers routinely find themselves hearing of or reading of safety Leaders from industry, academia, and the professional associations will issues within the U.S. agriculture food supply chain. Meat recalls, engage in a discussion and dialogue to identify specific needs of industry produce product health concerns, and underfunded regulatory bodies members, current and potential products and services of professional often make media headlines. Consumers, investors, and public policy associations, and strategies and tactics that will deliver value to current makers are perceived react to such news. This session is focused on and potential members from industry. further understanding the perceptions of society and industry related to Organizers: John Nichols, Texas A&M University; Walt Armbruster, Farm food safety issues.

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Organizer: Jayson Lusk, Oklahoma State University 1006 Getting Involved: Steps to Becoming Moderator: Dawn Thilmany, Colorado State University An Irresistible Applicant Bonaire 8 Discussant: Dawn Thilmany, Colorado State University GSS Track Session Panelists: Jayson Lusk, Oklahoma State University; Neal Hooker, The Ohio State University; Glynn Tonsor, Michigan State University In order to be an irresistible applicant in the academic job market, graduate students must plan their programs of study in order to

Sunday achieve a balance of coursework, teaching, extension, research, and Sessions 3:30-5:00 pm 1005 HIV and AIDS, Food Security, Nutrition, non-academic professional experiences. It is imperative that graduate and Livelihoods students understand how to build their portfolio while in graduate Bonaire 4 school so that they will be more marketable when entering the job market. The purpose of this organized symposium is to provide FSN Section Track Session individuals with guidelines and advice on how to build an outstanding Despite the progress in some countries in reducing the transmission portfolio while in graduate school. of HIV, HIV and AIDS remains a major public health and economic Organizer: Ross Pruitt, Louisiana State University development problem throughout the world. This session examines HIV and AIDS and its connections with nutrition, food security, and Panelists: Octavio Ramirez, University of Georgia; Mary Bohman, livelihoods in Africa and India. Four research presentations address USDA-Economic Research Service; Wayne Howard, California Polytechnic the frontier of economic research on how HIV and AIDS both impact State University at San Luis Obispo livelihoods and food security as well as how nutrition and livelihood interventions might serve to improve the care and support of people affected by HIV and AIDS. 1007 How best to teach Institutional and Behavioral Economics: Across the Organizer: Paul McNamara, University of Illinois at Urbana- curriculum? As free-standing courses? Champaign Why bother? Moderator: Paul McNamara, University of Illinois at Urbana- Bonaire 6 Champaign IBES Track Session Presentations: Institutional and behavioral economics offers a rich, diverse set of The Role of Food Security in Producing Health Outcomes for theories, frameworks, empirical analyses, and perspectives that can People in Treatment for HIV and AIDS in Delhi, India complement standard agricultural economics curriculum and course Joel Cuffey and Paul McNamara, University of Illinois at Urbana- content. This symposium will provide examples and offer a format for Champaign; Anil Cherian and Saira Paulose, Emmanuel Hospital discussing how these concepts and empirical analyses can be taught Association, Delhi, India not only as free-standing courses, but also as embedded content within The Impact of Food Assistance on Health Outcomes: The marketing, agribusiness, resource, and environmental economics Experience of TASO (The AIDS Support Organization) in and development courses. A panel of experienced teachers will offer Uganda their perspectives on how the inclusion of institutional and behavioral Paul McNamara, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Isaac economics enriches and strengthens the content of the courses that they Sebuliba, TASO, Kampala, Uganda; Suneetha Kadiyala, International teach. Food Policy Research Institute; Christine Nabiryo, TASO, Kampala, Organizer: James Sterns, University of Florida Uganda Moderator: James Sterns, University of Florida The Impact of Community-Based Highly Active Antiretroviral Panelists: Fabio Chaddad, University of Missouri; Lisa Daniels, Therapy on Livelihoods of AIDS-impacted Households in Washington College; Michael Sykuta, University of Missouri Western Uganda Sean B. Cash, Marty K. Luckert, and Walter Kipp, University of Alberta Antiretroviral Therapy and Worker Presenteeism: Preliminary Results from a Cohort Study of Kenyan Agricultural Workers Bruce A. Larson, Matthew P. Fox, and Sydney Rosen, Boston University; Margaret Bii and Carolyne Sigei, Kenya Medical Research Institute; Douglas Shaffer, United States Army Medical Research Unit-Kenya; Fredrick Sawe and Monique Wasunna, Kenya Medical Research Institute; Jonathon L. Simon, Boston University

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1008 Theoretical Analysis of Presentations: Globalization, Standards, and Energy Crops and Agricultural Conservation Practices: Development Implications for Optimal Water Quality Protection Bonaire 7 Sergey Rabotyagov, University of Washington; Phillip W. Gassman, Manoj

Jha, and Todd Campbell, Iowa State University 3:30-5:00 pm

International Section Track Session Sessions Water Quality Trading Market Efficiency in a Stochastic Sunday There is a rapidly growing set of empirical studies on the effect of Environment globalization and public and private standards on growth and equity in Gaurav S. Ghosh and James S. Shortle, Pennsylvania State University developing countries. This includes studies on the impact of modern retail companies and global supply chains on poor farmers. However, Costs and Benefits of Capturing Urban Runoff with Competitive the theoretical basis and the conceptual frameworks used for these Bidding for Decentralized BMPs studies is often weak. This session attempts to address this weakness. W. Bowman Cutter, Kenneth A. Baerenklau, Autumn DeWoody, and Ritu The session brings together three papers which attempt to provide a Sharma, University of California, Riverside; Joong Gwang Lee, Tetra Tech theory and conceptual analyses of these effects. Systematic Patterns in Willingness to Pay for Water Quality Organizer: Scott Rozelle, Stanford University Improvements in the United States and Canada: A Meta-analysis Paul J. Thomassin, McGill University; Robert J. Johnston, University of Moderator: Scott Rozelle, Stanford University Connecticut Discussant: Richard Sexton, University of California, Davis

Presentations: 1010 Land Use: Amenities and Disamenities Globalization, Capital Accumulation, and Economic Growth: The Bonaire 3 Case of the Retail Food Industry in Developing Countries AERE Session Terry Roe, University of Minnesota The economics of land use presents numerous conceptual and empirical Rethinking Governance Structures: A Theoretical Exploration of challenges. This session brings together two conceptual and two Emerging Agro-Food Chains in Developing Countries empirical papers that explore important linkages between land use and Sudha Narayanan, Cornell University amenity values. In conceptual studies, features of the landscape drive Standards and Development land use and landowner decisions, and these decisions in turn feed back Johan Swinnen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium on landscape features. The empirical papers use property value data to isolate the value of environmental attributes, including a meta-analysis of hedonic studies that value marginal changes and a sorting model that 1009 Incentives and Water Quality values non-marginal changes. Protection Antigua 4 Moderator: JunJie Wu, Oregon State University AERE Session Discussants: Gwenlyn Busby, Oregon State University; John Braden, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Yong Chen, The Ohio State The session considers research and policy challenges associated with University; H. Allen Klaiber, North Carolina State University optimal water quality protection. One paper examines the value of water quality improvements in Canada and the United States. Two papers Presentations: explore policy options for achieving improved water quality including Ecological Feedbacks and Fast Slow Dynamics in a Model of best management practices for storm water management and a water Amenity-driven Regional Growth quality trading program with nonpoint sources. A final paper investigates Yong Chen, Ciriyam Jayaprakash, and Elena G. Irwin, The Ohio State the impacts on water quality of changes in agriculture. University Moderator: Marca Weinberg, USDA-Economic Research Service Valuing Open Space in a Locational Equilibrium Model of the Discussants: Ritu Sharma, University of California, Riverside; Twin Cities Paul Thomassin, McGill University; Sergey Rabotyagov, University of H. Allen Klaiber and Daniel J. Phaneuf, North Carolina State University Washington; Gaurav Ghosh, Pennsylvania State University Public and Private Fire Risk Management: Strategic Interaction and Spatial Interdependence Gwenlyn M. Busby, Heidi J. Albers, and Claire A. Montgomery, Oregon State University

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Noxious Sites and Property Values: A Meta Analysis Organizer: Scott Irwin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign John B. Braden and Xia Feng, University of Illinois at Urbana- Moderator: Scott Irwin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Champaign; Laura Taylor, North Carolina State University; DooHwan Won, Korea Energy Economics Institute Presentations: Monetary Shocks and Commodity Prices Andrea Pescatori, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland 1011 Commodity Markets in Turmoil: Why is it Happening and What Does it Mean Futures Market Performance for the Future? Jeff Harris, Commodity Futures Trading Commission Curacao 2 Sources of Volatility and Implications for Producer Risk Demand & Price Analysis Management Dermot J. Hayes, Iowa State University AAEA Organized Symposium Monday Sessions Volatility in commodity markets has been nothing short of spectacular 9:30-11:00 am over the last year. The turmoil has attracted worldwide media coverage and calls in some quarters for tighter regulation of commodity markets. The purpose of this session is to examine the market turmoil from several perspectives. Panelists will discuss sources of volatility inside and outside of commodity markets, futures market performance, and implications for market participants and regulation.

Monday, July 28 9:30 AM-11:00 AM AAEA Sessions

2001 Climate Variability: Implications for Modeling the Potential Impact of Catastrophic Weather on the Agricultural Crop Production and Crop Insurance Industry Portfolio Losses Risk Management Oscar Vergara, Gerhard Zuba, and Jack Seaquist, AIR Worldwide Antigua 2 Information Value of Weather-Based Yield Forecasts in Risk & Uncertainty Selecting Optimal Crop Insurance Coverage Denis Nadolnyak, Auburn University; Dmitry Vedenov, Texas A&M AAEA Principal Paper University; James Novak, Auburn University This principal paper session will address observed changes in crop yield variability, the impact of alterations in climate variability on crop production with particular emphasis on implications for risk 2002 The Impact of Value Added management and insurance. Programs on Agriculture and Rural Organizers: Denis Nadolnyak, Auburn University; Dmitry Vedenov, Communities Texas A&M University Bonaire 2 Moderator: Dmitry Vedenov, Texas A&M University AEM Section/FAMPS Track Session Discussant: Barry K. Goodwin, North Carolina State University Federal and state agencies provide funding, technical assistance, and educational support for producer value added initiatives. Of interest Presentations: is the impact of such valued added programs on the success rate of Climate Change, Variability, and Future Risk Management value added businesses and the impacts on the rural economic climate. Bruce A. McCarl, Ximing Wu, and Xavier Villavicencio, Texas A&M This track session features presentations on impact assessment of such University programs, practitioner experience using such programs, and how such programs facilitate rural community vitality.

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Organizer: Aaron Johnson, University of Idaho framework for managing resistance by addressing the externality Moderator: Aaron Johnson, University of Idaho associated with the use of antibiotics, and survey findings of consumers’ rankings of the risks from antibiotic use in food animal production. Panelists: Michael Boland, Kansas State University; Rodney Holcomb, Oklahoma State University; Jason Henderson, Omaha Federal Reserve Organizer: Andrew Estrin, FDA-Center for Food Safety and Applied Bank; Joe Parcell, University of Missouri Nutrition Moderator: Andrew Estrin, FDA-Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition 2003 Extension Section Livestock Outlook Discussant: Paul McNamara, University of Illinois at Urbana- Antigua 3 Champaign 9:30-11:00 am

Extension Section Track Session Sessions Presentations: Monday This organized symposium will focus on the livestock situation and Updates from the National Antimicrobial Monitoring System outlook. The Extension Outlook symposia have been an integral part of (NARMS), and the Collaboration in Animal Health and Food the AAEA meetings for more than two decades. Presenters will explore Safety Epidemiology (CAHFSE) the current trends in livestock production, trade, domestic supplies, Charlene R. Jackson, USDA-Agricultural Research Service demand factors, and price and profitability prospects for the coming year. Consumer Perceptions of the Implications for Food Safety of Antibiotic Use in Agriculture Organizer: James Robb, Livestock Marketing Information Center Michele Veeman, Department of Rural Economics, University of Alberta Moderator: James Robb, Livestock Marketing Information Center Adopting Greater Precaution in the Use of Non-Therapeutic Discussant: James Robb, Livestock Marketing Information Center Antibiotics in Food Animals Terence J. Centner, University of Georgia Presentations: Cattle and Beef Solving the “Tragedy of the Commons” Problem Associated with Curt Lacy, University of Georgia Antimicrobial Use Dermot J. Hayes, Iowa State University Hogs and Pork Steve Meyer, Paragon Economics and National Pork Board Dairy 2005 Reducing Rejection Rates: Steps to Scott Brown, University of Missouri Getting Your Articles and Grants Noticed Consensus forecast Bonaire 8 Ron Plain, University of Missouri GSS Track Session In order to be noticed in the academic job market, graduate students 2004 Antibiotic Use in Food Production considering academic positions should have publications in peer- and Antibiotic Resistance: Economic reviewed academic journals and other sources. It is also highly attractive Dimensions of Food Safety and Public if graduate students have possessed the opportunity to write a grant. The Health Concerns Graduate Student Section of the AAEA organized this symposium with the Bonaire 5 purpose of providing graduate students or young faculty with guidelines FSN Section Track Session on how to write and submit journal articles and grants. In addition, Antimicrobial resistance may be an important contributor to the risks strategies are outlined in order to increase the probability of an article from food-borne and other illnesses. The increasing prevalence of or grant being accepted. antimicrobial resistance—including in food-borne pathogens—has Moderator: Erika Knight, University of Florida raised concern about the long term effectiveness of antibiotics to treat Panelists: Brent Gloy, Cornell University; Oral Capps, Texas A&M human illness. Serotypes of E. coli, Salmonella, and Campylobacter University; Gerald Doeksen, Oklahoma State University are important food-borne pathogens that may be reservoirs for antimicrobial resistance, and which cause thousands of illnesses each year. Presentations from this track session include a quantitative description of the evidence of antimicrobial resistance, a risk analysis method to estimate the additional costs of illnesses caused by resistance in important food-borne pathogens, a description of an economic

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2006 Sufficient Reason for Institutional Presentations: Change: Applications of Bromley’s Promoting Sustainable Agriculture in the Amazon: How Effective Framework in Trade, Natural are Voluntary Farmer Associations Sponsored by NGOs ? Resource, and Farm Policy Jill Caviglia-Harris, Salisbury University Boca II Do Protected Areas Make Local Communities Worse Off ? IBES Track Session An Assessment of the Socioeconomic Effects of Costa Rica’s National Park System This symposium represents three applications of the Bromley Kwaw Andam, International Food Policy Research Institute; Paul Ferraro, framework, which sees individuals in democratic market economies Georgia State University; Margaret Holland, University of Wisconsin envisioning new futures, and implementing policy and institutional changes to realize same. The framework replaces traditional welfare Increasing Returns to Community Forestry: Estimating the Impacts economic based renditions of what policy is all about. of Micro-enterprise Development on Income and Labor Allocation Erin Sills, North Carolina State University Organizer: Gary Lynne, University of Nebraska Monday Sessions

9:30-11:00 am Moderator: Paul Thompson, Michigan State University Greatest Contributions to Our Discussants: Paul Thompson, Michigan State University; Laura 2008 McCann, University of Missouri Profession by Agricultural and Resource Economists Presentations: Antigua 1 What We Have Here is a Failure to Communicate? Examining Senior Section Track Session the Differences of Opinion between Economists and the General What are the major theory, method, and practice contributions to our Public on Trade Policy Issues profession from agricultural and resource economists (not general David Schweikhardt, Michigan State University economists or statisticians) over the last 50 or more years? Three very Empathy Conditioned Pragmatism: Finding Ways to Resolve well known Fellows of our association will constitute a panel, with each Natural Resource Conflicts offering an initial 15 minute presentation of their nominations and Robert Sheeder and Gary Lynne, University of Nebraska their supporting rationale, followed by general discussion from those Settled Beliefs and Institutional Change in Food and attending. Agricultural Policy: Reform Attempts in the 2007 Federal Farm Organizer: Marvin Hayenga, Iowa State University Bill Moderator: Marvin Hayenga, Iowa State University Thomas Dobbs, South Dakota State University Panelists: Paul Barkley, Oregon State University and Washington State University; Alex McCalla, University of California, Davis; Sandra Batie, 2007 Causal effects of conservation Michigan State University investments: Applications of matching methods in Latin America Boca IV 2009 Empirical Analyses of Environmental Health Risks International Section Track Session Bonaire 4 The impacts of conservation programs on the welfare of local AERE Session populations in tropical forest zones are hotly contested but rarely quantified. In this session, we use tools from program evaluation At least two dimensions of heterogeneity are potentially important in to obtain rigorous estimates of the causal impacts of three different explaining variation in estimates of the willingness to pay for reduced conservation initiatives in Brazil and Costa Rica. These tools—including mortality and morbidity risks: heterogeneity in terms of the attributes matching and difference in difference outcomes—allow us to construct of individuals and heterogeneity in terms of the nature of the risk the counterfactual: what would have been the outcome if a household reductions. The session reports the results of stated and revealed had not participated in or been affected by the initiative? Across the three preference analyses that examine these issues using data from developed applications, we find positive or no impact of conservation on the well- and developing countries. being of local populations. Moderator: Trudy Cameron, University of Oregon Organizer: Erin Sills, North Carolina State University Discussants: Sonia Aziz, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Discussant: Charles Towe, USDA-Economic Research Service and University; Fei Yu, Mount Holyoke College; Erica Johnson, University of University of Maryland Oregon; Laura Taylor, North Carolina State University

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Presentations: 2011 Profitability Of Cab Drivers and Coal Miners: Accounting for Risk Curacao 5 Heterogeneity in Value of Statistical Life Estimates Agricultural Finance & Farm Management Carol R. Scotten, Knox College; Laura Taylor, North Carolina State University AAEA Selected Paper Willingness to Pay for Health Risk Reductions: Differences by The papers in this session all focus on evaluating the profitability Type of Illness of various agricultural enterprises. Organic soybeans and dairy are Trudy A. Cameron, University of Oregon; J.R. DeShazo, University of investigated specifically, while the other two papers consider agricultural California, Los Angeles; Erica Johnson, University of Oregon production broadly.

Valuation of Avoiding Arsenic in Drinking Water in Rural 9:30-11:00 am Moderator: Michael Gunderson, University of Florida Sessions Bangladesh: An Averting Behavioral Analysis Monday Sonia Aziz and Kevin Boyle, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Presentations: University What Drives Agricultural Profitability in the United States: Application of the DuPont Expansion Method Measuring Health Benefits from Interventions to Reduce Indoor Ashok Mishra, Louisiana State University; Michael Harris and Kenneth Air Pollution in Rural China Erickson, USDA-Economic Research Service Fei Yu, Mount Holyoke College The Profitability of Organic Soybean Production William D. McBride and Cathy Greene, USDA-Economic Research Service 2010 Banking and Credit A Method for Identifying the Factors Affecting the Distribution Grand Sierra F of Annual Dairy Farm Income over Time Agricultural Finance & Farm Management Loren W. Tauer, Cornell University; Hung-Hao Chang, National Taiwan University; Richard Boisvert, Cornell University AAEA Selected Paper The Paradox of Risk Balancing: Do Risk-reducing Policies Lead Papers in the session explore the relationships of agricultural banking to More Risk for Farmers? and credit. Two papers focus on the competitive nature of agricultural Mei-Luan Cheng and Brent A. Gloy, Cornell University and rural credit. The other two papers focus on the role of agricultural credit constraints in investment decisions. Moderator: Joshua Detre, Louisiana State University 2012 Econometric Advances with Respect to Food Consumption Presentations: Bonaire 6 The Analysis of Branch Expansion in Rural area Consumer/Household Economics Sangjeong Nam and Paul N. Ellinger, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign AAEA Selected Paper The Pricing of Federally Guaranteed Agricultural Loans: What This session has four papers that use new sets of econometric Does It Indicate About Market Competition? techniques to advance our understanding of food consumption issues. Steven Koenig and Charles Dodson, USDA-Farm Service Agency; Ted Moderator: Craig Gundersen, Iowa State University Covey, USDA-Economic Research Service Cash Flow and Agricultural Investment: Evidence from a Natural Presentations: Experiment On the Development of an Ethical Demand Theory Barrett E. Kirwan, University of Maryland Vincent Amanor-Boadu, Kansas State University Farm Capital Structure Choice under Credit Constraint: Theory A Non-parametric Approach to Food Insecurity and Childhood and Application Obesity: Evidence from the NHANES Feng Wu and Zhengfei Guan, Michigan State University Yemisi O. Kuku, Craig Gundersen, and Steve Garasky, Iowa State University Censored Quantile Regression and Purchases of Ice Cream Geir W. Gustavsen, Norwegian Agricultural Economics Research Institute; Dean Jolliffe, USDA-Economic Research Service; Kyrre Rickertsen, Norwegian University of Life Sciences

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Changes in Fruit and Vegetable Consumption over Time and On the Optimal Design of Income Support Policy and Agri- across Regions in China: A Difference-in-Differences Analysis environmental Regulation with Quantile Regression Philippe Bontems, Toulouse School of Economics Kang E. Liu, National Chung Cheng University; Hung-Hao Chang, Correct (and Misleading) Arguments for Using Market-based National Taiwan University; Wen S. Chern, National Chung Cheng Pollution Control Policies University Larry Karp, University of California, Berkeley

2013 Commodity Prices 2015 Branding, Market Promotion, and Bonaire 7 Food Quality Information Demand & Price Analysis Boca V

AAEA Selected Paper Food & Agricultural Marketing Monday Sessions Commodity price forecasts and behavior will be discussed in this 9:30-11:00 am AAEA Selected Paper session. The papers in this session address issues related to food quality Moderator: Olga Isengildina-Massa, Clemson University information, branding, and market promotion.

Presentations: Moderator: Miguel I. Gomez, University of Illinois at Urbana- Spatial Price Adjustment Dynamics with and without Trade Champaign Emma C. Stephens, Pitzer College; Edward Mabaya, Cornell University; Presentations: Stephan Von Cramon-Taubadel, University of Gottingen; Christopher B. Estimating the Value of Retail Beef Product Brands and Other Barrett, Cornell University Attributes Price-Quality Tradeoffs in the Selection of Fresh Fruit: A Look Steve Martinez, USDA-Economic Research Service at Apples Consumer Preferences for Animal Welfare Attributes: Case of Eugene Jones, The Ohio State University Gestation Crates Quantile Regression Methods of Estimating Confidence Glynn T. Tonsor, Nicole Olynk, and Christopher Wolf, Michigan State Intervals for WASDE Price Forecasts University Olga Isengildina-Massa, Clemson University; Scott H. Irwin and Darrel L. Consumer Responses to New Food Quality Information: Are Good, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Some Consumers More Sensitive than Others Zhifeng Gao, University of Florida; Ted Schroeder, Kansas State University 2014 Agri-environmental Policy Design The Economic Effects of New Product Beef Promotion in Boca I Guatemala Amanda M. Leister, Purdue University; C. Parr Rosson and Oral Capps, Environmental Economics Texas A&M University AAEA Selected Paper Papers in this session analyze issues related to subsidies in agriculture to 2016 Labor Economics and Human Capital overcome pollution, experimental approach to address nonpoint source Boca III pollution, manure disposal policy and overall assessment of policies to control pollution under uncertainty. Human Capital & Labor Moderator: Krishna Paudel, Louisiana State University AAEA Selected Paper Presentations: Papers examine links between skilled immigrants and innovation, the Changes in Manure Management in the Hog Sector effects of proposed immigration legislation on farm labor markets, and Nigel Key, William D. McBride, and Marc Ribaudo, USDA-Economic salary structures in economics and agricultural economics departments, Research Service plus report experiment based estimates of time discount rates among middle-school children and their correlation with high school drop out Farmers as Producers of Clean Water: Getting Payments Right rates. and Inducing Farmer Participation Peter Maille and Alan Collins, West Virginia University Moderator: Christiana Hilmer, San Diego State University

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Presentations: 2018 On the Border: The Inspection and Increasing Canada’s International Competitiveness: Is there a Regulation of Imports Link between Skilled Immigrants and Innovation? Bonaire 1 Jamie Partridge and Hartley Furtan, University of Saskatchewan International Trade Proposed Immigration Policy Reform and Farm Labor Market Outcomes AAEA Organized Symposium Lurleen M. Walters, Robert D. Emerson, and Nobuyuki Iwai, University Imports increase the availability and diversity of product offerings of Florida but also introduce risks associated with security, narcotics, and pests A Comparison of Salary Structures between Agricultural (“Thugs, Drugs, and Bugs”) along with the endangerment of biological Economics and Economics Departments resources and copyright violation. Yet, the complicated resource 9:30-11:00 am Sessions Michael J. Hilmer and Christiana E. Hilmer, San Diego State University allocation problem of inspection targeting across multiple sources of Monday risk is sparsely addressed in the economics literature. Our panelists Estimating Child Time Preferences: Aiding Rural Schools in discuss their research on the distribution of agricultural and food Improving Human Capital Formation inspections across different commodity and origin pathways, optimal Jeff Jordan and Bulent Anil, University of Georgia; Reagan Petrie, Georgia risk profiling with learning, port shopping by importers, and alternatives State University; Marco Castillio, Georgia Institute of Technology; Paul regulatory mechanisms to inspection. Discussion of the future direction Ferraro, Georgia State University of inspections will be based on the 2007 Report of the Interagency Working Group on Import Safety. 2017 Food, Feeds, and Fuels: Global Effects Organizer: Peyton Ferrier, USDA-Economic Research Service of Expanded Demand for Energy Crops Moderator: Peyton Ferrier, USDA-Economic Research Service Antigua 4 Panelists: Peyton Ferrier, USDA-Economic Research Service; Michael International Trade Springborn, University of California, Santa Barbara; Linda Fernandez, University of California, Riverside; Sean Cash, University of Alberta AAEA Organized Symposium An expansion of ethanol production and ethanol by-products has significant effects on food, feeds, and livestock in the United States 2019 Economics of Land Resources and global agricultural markets. Understanding of these linkages and Curacao 6 interactions is paramount for economists, particularly government Natural Resource Economics economists who potentially will contribute to an economic analysis of renewable energy policy impacts. This symposium is designed to seek AAEA Selected Paper input, feedback, and exchange on this important subject. This session This session explores the economics of land resources, including will discuss four studies currently in progress and will present material wildlife, sustainability, and ecosystem services. that has not been presented elsewhere to shed some light on the impacts of biofuels on food, feeds, and land and water use. Each of the four Moderator: Joshua Abbott, Arizona State University presenters will have about 10 minutes to introduce their topic and main issues and there will be about 40 minutes of general discussion. Presentations: Conservation Needs Assessment: Sustainability with Substitution Organizers: Suchada Langley and Utpal Vasavada, USDA-Economic and Biased Technical Change Research Service Juan P. Sesmero and Lilyan E. Fulginiti, University of Nebraska at Moderator: Utpal Vasavada, USDA-Economic Research Service Lincoln Panelists: Ashley Winston, Monash University, Australia; Mark Gehlhar, Optimal Corridor Design for Grizzly Bear in the U.S. Northern Agapi Somwaru, and Jorge Fernandez-Cornejo, USDA-Economic Research Rockies Service; Siwa Msangi and Mark Rosegrant, International Food Policy Jordan F. Suter, Oberlin College; Jon M. Conrad, Carla P. Gomes, Ashish Research Institute; Heloisa Burnquist, Sao Paulo University; Constanza Sabharwal, and Willem-Jan van Hoeve, Cornell University Valdes, USDA-Economic Research Service Optimal Design of Government Hierarchy for Ecosystem Service Provision Edward A. Stone and JunJie Wu, Oregon State University Is There a Link between Actual and Perceived Wildfire Danger? Pamela Kaval, University of Waikato

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2020 Crop Production Decision Modeling Moderator: Fen Hunt, USDA-Cooperative State Research, Education, Curacao 7 and Extension Service Production Economics Presentations: Ethanol, Mandates, Drought and Welfare: Insights from a AAEA Selected Paper Stochastic Equilibrium Model of the U.S. Corn and Ethanol The session considers various aspects of crop production systems, Markets including crop rotation decisions under uncertainty, econometric Lihong Lu McPhail and Bruce A. Babcock, Iowa State University analysis of crop choices, and timing of input applications. Policy Options for Integrated Energy and Agricultural Markets Moderator: Lyubov Kurkalova, North Carolina A&T State University Wallace Tyner, Purdue University Presentations: Biofuels Trade Policy in the Presence of Environmental Modeling Acreage Decisions within the Multinomial Logit Externalities

Monday Framework: Profit Functions and Discrete Choice Models Christine Lasco and Madhu Khanna, University of Illinois at Urbana- Sessions

9:30-11:00 am Alain Carpentier and Elodie Letort, Institut National de la Recherche Champaign Agronomique

Optimal Crop Rotations under Uncertainty 2022 Classroom and Academic Program Michael Livingston and Michael J. Roberts, USDA-Economic Research Strategies for Success Service; John Rust, University of Maryland Curacao 8 Demographic and Management Factors Affecting the Perceived Teaching, Communication, & Extension Benefit of Winter Cover Crops in the Southeast Jason Bergtold, Kansas State University; Patricia Duffy and Diane Hite, AAEA Selected Paper Auburn University; Randy Raper, USDA-Agricultural Research Service From first impressions to graduation, this session covers these topics and more. In addition to an analysis of changes in student evaluations over the semester, this session includes a cross-institutional, U.S. Ethanol Policy: Economic and 2021 multidisciplinary analysis of the learning impact of allowing students to Welfare Effects re-do missed exam questions, a multi-institutional conjoint analysis of Bonaire 3 students’ willingness to pay for alternative multimedia, and a college- Resource & Environmental Policy Analysis wide model of time-to-degree. AAEA Organized Symposium Moderator: Michael Wetzstein, University of Georgia Congress passed the Energy Policy Act of 2005 establishing a government Presentations: mandate for renewable fuels. Since then, ethanol production has Can Faculty Change Initial Impressions on Student Evaluations increased dramatically augmented by incentives provided through of Teachings? federal commodity price support, tax, and trade policies. Ethanol Ross Pruitt, Louisiana State University; Michael R. Dicks and Daniel S. subsidies have been enthusiastically supported by consumers, farmer Tilley, Oklahoma State University groups, environmentalists, and politicians as a way to reduce fuel prices, mitigate greenhouse gas emissions relative to gasoline, support Demand for Multimedia in the Classroom: Do Students and farm income, and reduce dependence on foreign oil. This symposium Faculty Really Want It All? provides a forum for agricultural economic professionals and students Brian Briggeman, Tracy Boyer, and F. Bailey Norwood, Oklahoma State to have dialogue and debate on economic and welfare effects of ethanol University subsidies. Three agricultural economic scholars (Lihong Lu McPhail, Do College Students Learn by Correcting Missed Exam Wallace Tyner, and Christine Lasco) will present their respective Questions? research studies: 1) ethanol, mandates, drought and welfare effects, () Christiane Schroeter, California Polytechnic State University at San Luis impact of ethanol policies on agricultural markets, and 3) biofuels trade Obispo; Steven V. Green, Arkansas State University policy with environmental externalities. The result of this symposium A Model for Estimating Time-to-Degree in Colleges of will inform and stimulate interest and encourage further research to Agriculture and Natural Resources: A University of Minnesota strengthen knowledge about the impact of the U.S. ethanol policy. Case Study Organizer: Fen Hunt, USDA-Cooperative State Research, Education, and Steve Gillard and Ward E. Nefstead, University of Minnesota Extension Service

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2023 Aging in America 2025 Entrepreneurship Curacao 2 Curacao 4 Consumer/Household Economics Rural/Community Development

ACCI Selected Paper ACCI Selected Paper Presider: Tansel Yilmazer, Purdue University Presider: Jonathan Fox, The Ohio State University

Presentations: Presentations: Motivation of Intergenerational Caregiving Transfers The Impact of Access to Alternative Financing on the Economic

WonAh Yoon and Angela Lyons, University of Illinois at Urbana- Self-sufficiency of Low-Income Microentrepreneurs 9:30-11:00 am Sessions

Champaign Michele C. Schmidt and Jane M. Kolodinsky, University of Vermont Monday Factors Related to Stock Ownership among the Elderly: Wealth Accumulation Differences between Wage Earning and Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study Entrepreneurial Families: What Is Indicating the Active Saving Eun-Jin Kim, Tarleton State University; Sherman D. Hanna, The Ohio Behavior? State University Emilian Siman and Deanna L. Sharpe, University of Missouri

2024 Consumer Protections in the Sale 2026 Food Expenditures of Annuity Products: Challenges, Curacao 3 Approaches, and Lessons Learned Consumer/Household Economics Curacao 1 Consumer Financial Management & ACCI Selected Paper Education Presider: TBD

ACCI Special Session Presentations: With the shift from defined benefit to defined contribution retirement Food Consumption Behavior in Uganda: A Censored Regression plans, annuities are likely to be a more significant part of investment Analysis Using Micro-data portfolios in retirement as individuals seek to assure that they will not Gilbert J. Werema, Wayland Baptist University; Jack E. Houston and outlive their assets. The complexity of the products and the factors that Brenda Cude, University of Georgia must be considered in determining their appropriate use can pose Cohort Effects of Household Expenditures on Food Away from problems for consumers. Experience with unsuitable sales of annuities Home indicates the need for greater attention to this issue by both companies Hua Zan, The Ohio State University; Jessie X. Fan, University of Utah and regulators as the market grows. AARP’s Public Policy Institute (PPI) Consumer Acceptance and Willingness to Pay for Blueberry has commissioned a paper to review remedies to address consumer Products with Non-conventional Attributes problems in the annuities market. Moderated by Alison Shelton, Strategic Wuyang Hu, Timothy Woods, and Sandra Bastin, University of Kentucky Policy Advisor on the AARP PPI Consumer and State Affairs Team, the session will be a panel that includes a presentation of the paper’s finding and reactions by consumer groups, industry, and regulators. Organizer: Ryan Wilson, AARP Public Policy Institute Moderator: Alison Shelton, AARP Public Policy Institute Panelists: Larry Kirsch, IMR Health Economics; Ryan Wilson, AARP Public Policy Institute; Brenda Cude, University of Georgia

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2027 EFFECTS OF BIOSECURITY RISK AND FOOD will examine how features of the local food environments that have SCARE EVENTS ON FOOD PRICES AND implications for time use, in turn, alter the risk of obesity. DEMAND Organizer: Cathleen Zick, University of Utah Antigua 2 Moderator: Karen Hamrick, USDA-Economic Research Service Food Safety & Nutrition Discussant: Karen Hamrick, USDA-Economic Research Service AAEA Principal Paper Presentations: In this session we propose to discuss issues pertaining to food scare Does Better Geographic Access to Food Influence Diet and events and their consequences on agricultural markets. Specifically, Health Outcomes? Results from the Louisiana Neighborhood we will discuss policies for preparedness and response to agricultural Environment and Consumption Survey and biological terrorism using the tools of financial risk analysis and Paul Hutchinson, Diego Rose, Nick Bodor, Chris Swalm, and Janet Rice, game theory in the context of dairy industry. We will also examine Tulane University the effects of food safety scares on resiliency of demand for spinach and other leafy greens. Lastly, we will examine the relationship Childhood Obesity: Does the Quality of Parental Time Matter? between frequency and severity of food safety scares and the size and George Davis and Wen You, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State persistence of impacts on market prices and volatility measured using University different maturity contracts for commodity futures and options. Time Use and Overweight in a Low Income Population

Monday Organizer: Levan Elbakidze, University of Idaho Jane Kolodinsky, University of Vermont Sessions 1:00-2:30 pm Moderator: Yanhong Jin, Texas A&M University Running to the Store? The Relationship between Neighborhood Food Environments and the Risk of Obesity Bruce McCarl, Texas A&M University Discussant: Cathleen Zick, Ken R. Smith, Jessie X. Fan, Barbara B. Brown, Ikuho Presentations: Yamada, and Lori Kowaleski-Jones, University of Utah Real Options and Game Theoretical Models of Interdependent Security along the Milk Supply Chain Applications of Modern Econometric William Nganje, Arizona State University; Vicki Bier, University of 2029 Theory Wisconsin Bonaire 7 How Resilient Is the Demand for Food Products Following a Econometrics Section Track Session Food Safety Scare? Tom Stinson, University of Minnesota The papers in this session present rigorous new ways of applying modern econometric theory to address substantive issues in applied The Relative Effects of Food Safety Scare Frequency/Intensity econometric analysis. The theory applied spans smooth transition on the Persistence of Price and Volatility Shocks autoregression families, impulse response functions, dynamic expected Gabriel Power, Texas A&M University; Levan Elbakidze, University of utility maximization, full rank three extended Gorman systems of Idaho; Yanhong Jin, Texas A&M University demand equations, and heteroskedastic-consistent covariance estimation methods for cross-sectional units in space. Empirical application 2028 Weighing the Relative Contribution include price dynamics for North American Oriented Strand Board, of Time Use in the Energy Balance investment in farm and non-farm assets by the Agricultural Sector of the Equation: Implications for the Risk of United States, and a cross-sectional spatially correlated hedonic analysis Obesity of U.S. housing prices. Curacao 1 Organizers: Jeffrey LaFrance, University of California, Berkeley; Ron ACCI/FSN Section Track Session Mittelhammer, Washington State University Few economic research studies have focused on the role time use may Moderator: Ron Mittelhammer, Washington State University play in maintaining a healthy weight. These four papers examine the Presentations: economic factors that either directly or indirectly alter time use and North American Oriented Strand Board Markets, Arbitrage explore the link between time use and the risk of obesity. Three of Activity, and Market Price Dynamics: A Smooth Transition the papers will focus on the adult risk of obesity while the fourth will Approach focus on child obesity. In two of the papers, time use will be a direct Matthew T. Holt, Purdue University; Barry K. Goodwin, North Carolina input into the production of energy balance while the other two papers State University; Jeffrey P. Prestemon, USDA-Forest Service

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Agricultural Assets as Risky Investments 2032 Teaching Tips from Top Teachers: 2007 Jeffrey LaFrance, University of California, Berkeley; Rulon Pope, Brigham AAEA Award Recipients Young University; Eldon Ball, USDA-Economic Research Service; Ricardo Antigua 4 Cavazos and Jesse Tack, University of California, Berkeley TLC Section Track Session Heteroskedasticity-Robust Covariance Estimation with Spatial This session offers the opportunity for AAEA Teaching Award recipients Autocorrelation: Monte Carlo Experiments and an Application to share teaching tips and have a dialogue with AAEA members. The to Hedonic Pricing Models emphasis is on winning strategies that have worked for them; the Dayton M. Lambert, University of Tennessee; Raymond Florax, Purdue approaches, techniques, and/or teaching styles they consider to be University instrumental to their success in the classroom. While they may utilize specific subject-matter examples to illustrate their points, the emphasis 2030 Extension Section Policy Outlook will on pedagogical approaches to improving education in our Grand Sierra F profession. Extension Section Track Session Organizers: Gary Fairchild and Allen Wysocki, University of Florida Moderator: Allen Wysocki, University of Florida This Extension Track symposium is designed to discuss issues related to 1:00-2:30 pm Sessions what may change and what may remain the same in national agricultural Monday Presentations: policy. In this session, the chief economists for the House and Senate “Teaching Tips” from the 2007 Distinguished Undergraduate agriculture committees discuss current agricultural policy issues and Teaching Recipient, More Than Ten Years Experience seek counsel from others. Audience participants will learn about the Dixie Reaves, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Hill view of current issues and offer their own insights into issues as viewed from the farm level. Each speaker will make a 10-15 minute “Teaching Tips” from the 2000 Distinguished Graduate Teaching presentation followed by 30 minute interaction between panelists and Recipient, More Than Ten Years Experience the audience. Oral Capps, Texas A&M University Organizers: Larry Sanders, Oklahoma State University; James Novak, “Teaching Tips” from the 2007 Distinguished Graduate Teaching Auburn University Recipient, More Than Ten Years Experience Michael Wetzstein, University of Georgia Moderator: Joy Harwood, UDSA-Farm Service Agency Panelists: Hayden Milberg, Economist, Minority Staff, Senate Agriculture Committee; Craig Jagger, Economist, Majority Staff, House 2033 Issues in Climate Policy Agriculture Committee; Stephanie Mercier, Economist, Majority Staff, Curacao 5 Senate Agriculture Committee AERE Session Optimal climate change policy requires understanding society’s 2031 Distillers Dried Grains: Where to Now? preferences and the characteristics of the policy environment. Two Bonaire 4 papers in this session explore the pure rate of time preference and the resulting implications for climate policy; one paper uses numerical FAMPS Track Session methods to examine the implications of non-constant discounting As ethanol production continues an upward trend in the United States, so while another considers issues associated with intergenerational equity does the supply of distillers dried grains (DDGs). At issue is the demand and impatience. The two remaining papers examine alternative policy drivers and price risk management of DDGs. Presentations in this track options for reducing carbon emissions, a revenue-neutral tax-subsidy session focus on DDG outlook, economics of feeding DDGs, an industry policy, and a cap-and-trade policy in an alternating-current model of the perspective, and price risk management alternatives for the future. power supply system. Organizer: Glynn Tonsor, Michigan State University Moderator: Wolfram Schlenker, Columbia University Moderator: Glynn Tonsor, Michigan State University Discussants: Gregmar Galinato, Washington State University; Larry Panelists: Ted Schroeder, Kansas State University; Seth Meyer, University Karp, University of California, Berkeley; Daniel Shawhan, Cornell of Missouri; John Lawrence, Iowa State University University; Hui Su, West Virginia University

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Presentations: 2035 Food consumption issues A Regional Incentive-based Carbon Dioxide Emission Bonaire 5 Regulation in the Power Sector: Impacts Predicted Using an Consumer/Household Economics Alternating-Current Model Daniel Shawhan and Ray Zimmerman, Cornell University AAEA Selected Paper Revenue-neutral Tax-subsidy Policy for Carbon Emission This session combines four papers on various food consumption Reduction issues—obesity, fruits and vegetables, and food-away-from-home. Gregmar I. Galinato, Jonathan K. Yoder, and Joel Michalski, Washington Moderator: Christopher Davis, USDA-Economic Research Service State University Presentations: Econometric Modeling of CO2 Emission Allowances under the European Union Emission Trading Scheme An Analysis of the Hispanic Consumers: Demand for Food Eaten Hui Su, West Virginia University at Home Francisco Diaz, Jack E. Houston, and Glenn C. Ames, University of Numerical Analysis of Non-constant Pure Rate of Time Georgia Preference: A Model of Climate Policy Tomokii Fujii, Singapore Management University; Larry Karp, University Household Food Purchase Pattern on Quantity and Quality: The of California, Berkeley Case of Fruits and Vegetables Diansheng Dong and Hayden Stewart, USDA-Economic Research Service Monday Sessions

1:00-2:30 pm Economic, Environmental, and Endowment Effects on 2034 Consumer Interest in Food Policy and Childhood Obesity Labeling Minh H. Wendt, University of Minnesota Bonaire 3 Agribusiness Economics & Management 2036 Demand Estimation AAEA Selected Paper Bonaire 6 Recent events in the food value chain have stirred consumer interest Demand & Price Analysis in food policy and labeling issues. Are consumers interested in better information, and has consumer trust eroded? The presentations in AAEA Selected Paper this session look to answer some of the important issues surrounding This session features a collection of applied demand papers. consumer perceptions of food labeling and policy. Moderator: Ronald Ward, University of Florida Moderator: Joe Parcell, University of Missouri Presentations: Presentations: Effects of Container Size on Over-consumption of Carbonated The Impacts of Retail Promotions on the Demand for Orange Soft Drinks Juice: A Study of a Retail Chain Xiaoyong Zheng, North Carolina State University; Chen Zhen, RTI Jonq-Ying Lee, University of Florida; Mark G. Brown, Florida Department International; Mike Wohlgenant, North Carolina State University of Citrus; Rebecca H. Chung, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology; Erika Knight, University of Florida Derived Demand for Cottonseed Priscilla B. Arguello and Jaime Malaga, Texas Tech University Concerns for Fairness and Preferences for Organic Food Jae Bong Chang and Jayson L. Lusk, Oklahoma State University An Error-corrected Almost Ideal Demand System for Cereals in Kenya Australian Consumers’ Concerns and Preferences for Various Rakhal C. Sarker, University of Guelph; Jonathan M. Nzuma, University Food Policy Alternatives of Nairobi Wendy J. Umberger and Randy Stringer, The University of Adelaide Impact of Features and Display Ads on the Demand for Orange Juice: An Extension of the Rotterdam Demand Model Hyeyoung Kim, Ronald W. Ward, and Jonq-Ying Lee, University of Florida

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2037 Emerging Technologies & Organizer: Mark Wade, Evans Properties, Inc. Productivity I Panelists: Dorothy Hill, Society of Human Resource Management; Bonaire 8 Mark Wade, Evans Properties, Inc.; James Beierlein, Pennsylvania State Emerging Technologies & Productivity University; Andrew Barkley, Kansas State University

AAEA Selected Paper The papers in this session discuss the economics of emerging 2039 Enhancing Market Access for Poverty agricultural practices and products on developing country agricultural Reduction sectors. Boca V Moderator: Jorge Fernandez-Cornejo, USDA-Economic Research Service International Development

Presentations: AAEA Selected Paper Insecticide Use on Vegetables in Ghana: Would GM Seed Benefit These papers consider institutions to improve market access for Farmers? smallholders and herders operating in environments with limited Daniela Horna and Melinda Smale, International Food Policy Research information and great uncertainty. Papers explore contracts, trust, and 1:00-2:30 pm Sessions

Institute; Ramatu Al-Hassan, University of Ghana; José Falck-Zepeda, institutional interventions from a range of methodological perspectives. Monday International Food Policy Research Institute; Samuel E. Timpo, Moderator: Hamish Gow, Michigan State University Biotechnology and Nuclear Agricultural Research Institute, Ghana Atomic Energy Commission Presentations: The Cost of Biotechnology Regulation in the Philippines Strategies to Develop Market Access That Contribute to Jessica C. Bayer and George W. Norton, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and Resilience in the Bolivian Highlands; Case Study: PMCA and BAP State University; José Falck-Zepeda, International Food Policy Research For Chuño and Tunta Institute Maria Figueroa and Corinne Valdivia, University of Missouri Economic Impact Analysis of Marker-Assisted Breeding in Rice Traits Affecting Household Livestock Marketing Decisions in Vida B. Alpuerto, George W. Norton, and Jeffrey Alwang, Virginia Rural Kenya Polytechnic Institute and State University Katherine L. Baldwin and Kenneth Foster, Purdue University The Impact of Biofuel Expansion in Latin America and the Impact of Contract Farming on Small Farmers: The Case of Caribbean Horticulture in India José Falck-Zepeda, Siwa Msangi, Patricia Zambrano, and Timothy Sulser, Nicholas Minot, International Food Policy Research Institute; Sachiko International Food Policy Research Institute Miyata, World Bank

2038 Meeting Future Human Resource Needs 2040 Environmental Management in Agribusiness and Market Development Among Bonaire 1 Smallholders Curacao 6 Human Capital & Labor International Development AAEA Organized Symposium AAEA Selected Paper Immigration of unskilled labor into the United States has helped to fill one void in the agricultural labor market, but it has failed to meet the These papers provide empirical studies of the relationship between growing needs of global agribusiness organizations for future leaders. A market development and environmental management in tropical relevant question today might be, “Are land grant universities producing areas. The studies consider relationships between markets for factors, the type of graduates that agribusiness firms need?” This symposium inputs, and commodities and the status of environmental resources and will utilize an interdisciplinary approach to examine existing and amenities. future human resource needs in agribusiness within a global market. Moderator: Alex Winter-Nelson, University of Illinois at Urbana- Participants will discuss this question from the global, academic (both Champaign teaching and curriculum development), agribusiness needs, and leadership development perspectives.

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Presentations: 2042 Economics of Natural Resources Health and Environmental Benefits of Reduced Pesticide Use in Boca III Uganda: An Experimental Economics Analysis Natural Resource Economics Jackline Bonabana-Wabbi and Daniel B. Taylor, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University AAEA Selected Paper Do Liquidity Constraints Help Preserve Tropical Forests? This session explores general economic issues associated with the use of Evidence from the Eastern Amazon renewable natural resources. Heather Klemick, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Moderator: Rebecca Moore, University of Georgia Effects of Participation in Organic Markets and Farmer-based Organizations on Adoption of Soil Conservation Practices Presentations: among Small-scale Farmers in Honduras Disease and Behavioral Dynamics for Brucellosis in Elk and Meike Wollni, The Ohio State University; David R. Lee and Janice E. Thies, Cattle in the Greater Yellowstone Area Cornell University Fang Xie and Richard Horan, Michigan State University The Adoption of Water Conservation and Intensification Rent Dissipation in Chartered Recreational Fishing: Inside the Technologies and Farm Income: A Propensity Score Analysis for Black Box Rice Farmers in Northern Ghana Joshua Abbott, Arizona State University; James E. Wilen, University of Awudu Abdulai and Liane Faltermeier, University of Kiel California, Davis Monday Sessions

1:00-2:30 pm Does Scarcity Exacerbate the Tragedy of the Commons? Evidence from Fishers’ Experimental Responses 2041 Analysis of Import Demands Rocio del Pilar Moreno-Sanchez and Jorge H. Maldonado, Universidad de Antigua 3 los Andes International Trade Competitive Exclusion, Diversification, and the Origins of Agriculture AAEA Selected Paper Richard Horan, Michigan State University; Erwin Bulte, Wageningen International demand plays an important role in the economic Agricultural University; Jason Shogren, University of Wyoming performance of the food and agricultural sector. This session examines the factors that determine world import demands for corn seed, cut flowers, shelled peanuts, and wine. 2043 The Future of Farm Policy: Moderator: Albert Allen, Mississippi State University Implications of the 2008 Farm Bill Bonaire 2 Presentations: Policy Analysis Determinants of World Demand for U.S. Corn Seeds John Beghin, Giancarlo Moschini, and Sampath Jayasinghe, Iowa State AAEA Organized Symposium University This symposium will provide an opportunity for discussion of the Allowing for Group Effects When Estimating Import Demand for future of farm policy based on the 2008 Farm Bill. Four panelists will Source and Product Differentiated Goods lead the symposium with focus on three main areas by providing short Andrew Muhammad, Mississippi State University presentations outlining their particular area followed by ample time for Import Demand for Shelled Peanuts in the European Union: questions and discussion among the symposium participants. Impacts of the U.S. Export Promotion Program Organizer: Nicholas Paulson, University of Illinois at Urbana- Stanley M. Fletcher and Tullaya Boonsaeng, University of Georgia Champaign

An Import Demand System Analysis of the South Korean Wine Presentations: Market with the Source Differentiated AIDS Model Overview of the New Farm Bill Youngjae Lee, P. Lynn Kennedy, and Brian Hilbun, Louisiana State Carl Zulauf, The Ohio State University University Farm Revenue Implications of the New Farm Bill Nicholas Paulson and Gary Schnitkey, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Trade Implications: Farm Policy and the WTO Robert L. Thompson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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2044 Production Economics Reverse Auctions: Are They a Cost-Effective Alternative to Antigua 1 Traditional Agricultural Conservation Spending? Suzie Greenhalgh, Landcare Research NZ Ltd.; Michael Taylor, Seton Hall Production Economics University; Mindy Selman and Jenny Guiling, World Resources Institute AAEA Selected Paper Predicting Effort and Protected Species Bycatch under an Effort This session includes a mix of topics in production economics including: Limit or Take Caps risk and labor allocation, productivity analysis, and determinants of cash Stephen M. Stohs, NOAA-National Marine Fisheries Service rental rates. Managing Flounder Openings for Maximum Revenue Moderator: Barrett Kirwan, University of Maryland Wei Chen, Daniel E. Kauffman, Daniel B. Taylor, and Everett Peterson, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Presentations: Agricultural Productivity, Technological Change, and Deforestation: A Global Analysis 2046 Applications Involving Modeling and Michael Brady, USDA-Economic Research Service; Brent Sohngen, The Ohio Estimating Multivariate Distributions State University and Dependency Structures 1:00-2:30 pm Sessions Determinants of Iowa Cropland Cash Rental Rates: Testing Boca IV Monday Ricardian Rent Theory Risk & Uncertainty David A. Hennessy, Xiaodong Du, and William M. Edwards, Iowa State University AAEA Selected Paper This session includes papers examining alternative methods in modeling Labor Productivity and Convergence in the Kansas Farm Sector: and estimating multivariate dependency structures. The topics include A Tripartite Decomposition Using the DEA Approach utilizing copula and nonparametric procedures in examining potential Michael Langemeier and Amin W. Mugera, Kansas State University multivariate insurance instruments. Off-farm Work, Technical Efficiency, and Production Risk: Moderator: H. Holly Wang, Purdue University Empirical Evidence from a National Farmer Survey in Taiwan Hung-Hao Chang, National Taiwan University; Fang-I Wen, Chung-Hua Presentations: Institution for Economic Research Modeling Dependence in the Design of Whole Farm Insurance—A Copula-based Model Approach Ying Zhu and Sujit K. Ghosh, North Carolina State University 2045 Approaches and Regulations for Environmental and Resource Application of Copulas to Estimation of Joint Crop Yield Management Distributions and Analysis of Insurance Contracts Boca II Dmitry Vedenov, Texas A&M University Resource & Environmental Policy Analysis Estimating Farm Level Multivariate Yield Distribution Using Nonparametric Methods AAEA Selected Paper Qiujie Zheng, Washington State University; H. Holly Wang, Purdue Papers in this session evaluate different voluntary and regulatory University; Qinghua Shi, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China approaches for environmental policy and resource management. Modeling Crop Prices through a Burr Distribution and Analysis Approaches include auctions, self-auditing, and optimization modeling of Correlation between Crop Prices and Yields Using a Copula for environmental policy and resource management. Method Moderator: Stephen Stohs, NOAA-National Marine Fisheries Service Hernan A. Tejeda, North Carolina State University

Presentations: Statutory Rewards to Environmental Self-auditing: Do They Reduce Pollution and Save Regulatory Costs? Evidence from a Cross-state Panel Santiago Guerrero, University of California, Berkeley; Robert Innes, University of Arizona

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2047 Applied spatial analysis Are High-tech Employment and Natural Amenities Linked: Boca I Answers from a Smoothed Bayesian Spatial Model Jeffrey H. Dorfman, University of Georgia; Mark Partridge, The Ohio State Rural/Community Development University; Hamilton Galloway, Economic Modeling Specialists Inc. AAEA Selected Paper Spatial Competition and Farm Tourism—A Hedonic Pricing This session contains papers using the latest methodological advances in Model spatial analysis to address various rural development issues. Hans Andersson, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences; Ruben Hoffmann, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique Moderator: Julie Hogeland, USDA-Rural Development An Efficiency Analysis of Nevada and Utah Counties: Application Presentations: of Data Envelopment Analysis and Directed Acyclic Procedure Rural-Urban Migration and the Intergenerational Transmission Man-Keun Kim and Thomas R. Harris, University of Nevada at Reno of Wealth Ayesha Enver and Mark Partridge, The Ohio State University

Monday ACCI Sessions Sessions 1:00-2:30 pm

2048 Human Capital 2049 Student Financial Education Curacao 2 Curacao 3 Consumer/Household Economics Consumer Financial Management & Education ACCI Selected Paper Presider: Vibha Bhargava, The Ohio State University ACCI Selected Paper Presider: Sharon DeVaney, Purdue University Presentations: Is Human Capital an Insurance Policy for Women Who Presentations: Experience Divorce? Mandating Financial Education in High Schools: Are the Kimberly Bridges, Sandra Huston, and Michael Finke, Texas Tech Teachers Ready? University Caezilia Loibl, The Ohio State University How Does Human Capital Affect the Decision to Work in Later Comparing Teacher Education and Finance Majors’ Agreement Life? with Financial Morality Topics Susan Brown and Yoon Lee, Utah State University Thomas A. Lucey and Alan B. Bates, Illinois State University

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2050 Bioenergy in a Global Environment Presentations: Antigua 2 Impacts of Biotechnology and Its Regulation on Consumer Behavior Natural Resource Economics Jayson Lusk, Oklahoma State University AAEA Principal Paper Biotech Challenges Faced by Regulatory Agencies With the recent U.S. energy bill mandating a sevenfold increase in David Heron, USDA-Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service biofuels, a discussion of the global market effects is warranted. The Farmers and the Adoption of New Technologies: The Case of first paper investigates the possible reduction of fuel-price volatility Genetically Engineered Crops (fuel security) from shifting to a diversified portfolio containing Jorge Fernandez-Cornejo, USDA-Economic Research Service petroleum and bio-based vehicle fuels. As addressed in the second paper, such a shift entails possible inflated food prices and volatility, Public Perception and Food Safety Challenges Regarding yielding decreased global food security. This fuel/food security tradeoff Agricultural Biotechnology maybe mitigated by the second generation bioenergy technology. The Marshall Martin, Purdue University third paper then addresses the possible global trade impacts of this second generation technology. 2052 Managing Farm and Farm Household Organizer: Michael Wetzstein, University of Georgia Financial Risk Moderator: Michael Wetzstein, University of Georgia Curacao 1 Discussant: James Duffield, USDA-Office of the Chief Economist ACCI/Extension Section Track Session The purpose of this session is to highlight the links between farm and

Presentations: 4:00-5:30 pm farm household financial risk, show how to manage that risk, and Sessions Monday Bioenergy Effects on Global Energy Stability spotlight a highly successful Extension program. There is a need to Michael Wetzstein, Zibin Zhang, Luanne Lohr, and Cesar Escalante, manage financial risk, both from the farm business and farm household University of Georgia perspectives, and recognize how the two intersect. This has always been Food Market Effects of a Global Resource Shift Toward important when farm and family funds are co-mingled, and becomes a Bioenergy higher priority as off-farm income becomes more common. Benjamin Senauer, University of Minnesota Organizer: Jane Schuchardt, USDA-Cooperative State Research, U.S. Comparative Advantage in Bioenergy: A Heckscher-Ohlin- Education, and Extension Service Ricardian Approach Moderator: Jane Schuchardt, USDA-Cooperative State Research, Ian Sheldon and Matthew Roberts, The Ohio State University Education, and Extension Service

Presentations: 2051 Challenges of Biotechnology Farm Family Consumption and Investment Patterns: Regulation after a Decade of Relationships to Farm and Nonfarm Income Commercialization Paul Ellinger, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Antigua 1 Household Perspective AEM Section Track Session John Grable, Kansas State University Biotechnology has three major stakeholders: regulatory agencies, Extension Example companies, and consumers. This symposium is designed to provide Tim Eggers, Iowa State University a forum to address the various regulatory challenges that the biotech stakeholders have faced and continue to face in the dynamic yet controversial biotech market. 2053 Exploring the Efficacy of Organizers: Blondel Brinkman, USDA-Animal and Plant Health Infrastructure Investments and Inspection Service; Duncan Chembezi, Alabama A&M University Partnerships for Rural Development Bonaire 4 Moderators: Blondel Brinkman, USDA-Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service; Duncan Chembezi, Alabama A&M University CENET Track Session This symposium will explore potential community effects from recent growth in the bio-fuels industry through three presentations of applied research on this topic. We will conclude with a question and answer session about any future research topics.

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Organizer: Georgeanne Artz, University of Missouri 2055 Economics of Agriculture in Moderator: Georgeanne Artz, University of Missouri Afghanistan: A Key Piece in the Puzzle of Rebuilding a Post Conflict Country Presentations: Curacao 6 What if the Boom Goes Bust? Estimating Potential Impacts of International Section Track Session Ethanol Plant Closures on Rural Communities Georgeanne Artz, James Kaufman, and Wyatt Thompson, University of This session features on-the-ground analysis by agricultural economists Missouri working in Afghanistan. It includes presentations on: 1) implications of policy for rehabilitating Afghan agriculture; 2) saffron production Ethanol: Implications for Rural Communities as a potential crop that fits the low labor cost, high transport cost Sarah A. Low and Andrew Isserman, University of Illinois at Urbana- Afghan context; 3) potential for higher value crop and/or livestock Champaign enterprises; and 4) the challenges in rebuilding the Afghan agricultural Sorting through the Biofuels Economic Impact Mess higher education system. Given the problems of instability/government Dave Swenson, Iowa State University legitimacy in Afghanistan, the evidence suggests strategies to stimulate private sector growth should be balanced by interventions to strengthen subsistence agriculture, food security, rural livelihoods, and government 2054 There Must be 50 Ways to Price a institutions. Burger—Pricing the Foods We Eat Organizer: Jess Lowenberg-DeBoer, Purdue University Bonaire 5 FSN Section Track Session Presentations: Agricultural Development Policy and Farming Systems in Nationally representative data on what people eat—and corresponding Afghanistan health outcomes—contain no explicit information on either the food Lenard Milich, Afghan Research and Evaluation Unit, Kabul prices people face or the prices they pay. Hence, basic questions—like, Monday

Sessions do healthy diets cost more than unhealthy diets—are still up for debate. A Strategy for Promoting Afghan Saffron Exports 4:00-5:30 pm To address such questions, the studies presented in this session explore Peter Wyeth, Washington State University different methods and data sets for generating prices to append to Evaluating Labor and Land Allocation in Mixed Crop-Livestock dietary intake data. While the research questions differ among these Systems in Afghanistan with a Dynamic Agricultural Household studies, commonalities relating to the reliability of data, methods of Model imputing prices, and validity of estimates should spark discussion. Kurt Waldman, Cornell University Organizers: Lisa Mancino, USDA-Economic Research Service; Wen You, Rebuilding Agricultural Higher Education in Afghanistan Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Kevin McNamara, Purdue University Moderator: Mark Denbaly, USDA-Economic Research Service

Presentations: 2056 Whither Trade Agreements: Lessons Estimating Prices for Food at Home to Calculate the USDA Food from the Past and What Lies in the Plans Future? Andrea Carlson, USDA-Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion Curacao 4 How Much Would It Cost to Add a Little Time? Adding Senior Section Track Session Convenience into the Thrifty Food Plan Despite the positive pronouncements of most economists, the U.S. Wen You, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Biing-Hwan attitude toward free trade agreements, whether they are of the WTO Lin, USDA-Economic Research Service; Bruce McCarl, Texas A&M University; variety or smaller bloc agreements, appears to have soured. What has George Davis and Ge Zhang, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State happened, why has it happened, what lies ahead, what can be done University; Andrea Carlson, USDA-Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion, about it? Moving on Up and Getting Cheaper Food: Neighborhood Effects Organizer: Ronald Knutson, Texas A&M University on Food-Away-From-Home Prices Oral Capps, Texas A&M University; Jean Kinsey, University of Minnesota Moderator: Ronald Knutson, Texas A&M University You Can’t Pay Me to Eat That! Well, Maybe You Can: Generating Presentations: Nutrient Demand Elasticities for Food-Away-From-Home What is Right and Wrong with the WTO Process Timothy Richards, Arizona State University; Lisa Mancino, USDA- Joe Glauber, USDA-Office of the Chief Economist Economic Research Service

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Why Pursue Smaller Bloc Free Trade Agreements? but has limited practical use in real-world fisheries management. J.B. Penn, Deere & Company This session presents generalizations to the canonical fishery model How Do We Get Trade Agreement Negotiations Back On-track, that are motivated by contemporary research in marine ecology and and What Is On-track? biological oceanography as well as an emerging emphasis on marine Tim Josling, Stanford University ecosystem-based management. To that end, the papers address spatial considerations, age structure in population dynamics, interactions Why So Much Conflict on the Hill? of multiple species, and the effects of climate variability on fishery Stephanie Mercier, Economist, Majority Staff, Senate Agriculture productivity. Committee Moderator: James Wilen, University of California, Davis Discussants: Wolfram Schlenker, Columbia University; Olli Tahvonen, 2057 Conceptual Challenges in NonMarket Finnish Forest Research Institute; Joshua Abbott, Arizona State University; Valuation Daniel Kaffine, Colorado School of Mines Bonaire 2 Presentations: AERE Session Optimal Harvesting of Age Structures Fish Populations The four papers in this session consider emerging methodological Olli Tahvonen, Finnish Forest Research Institute challenges in stated preference valuation studies. Three papers use data Competition, Spatial Choice, and the Commons: Do Fishermen from field surveys to examine respondent choice difficulty, propose a Bother with Bycatch Avoidance? method of estimating discount factors within a random utility model, and Joshua Abbott, Arizona State University; James Wilen, University of explore the empirical relevance of asymptotically bounded preferences California, Davis for the willingness to pay-willingness to accept disparity. A final paper 4:00-5:30 pm Sessions applies experimental methods to examine payment and provision Can Spatial Property Rights Fix Fisheries? Monday uncertainty as potential explanations for hypothetical bias. Christopher Costello, University of California, Santa Barbara; Daniel Kaffine, Colorado School of Mines Moderator: Sonia Aziz, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Fisheries Management under Cyclical Population Dynamics Richard T. Carson, Clive Granger, and Jeremy Jackson, University of Discussants: Yohei Mitani, University of Colorado at Boulder; Sudip California, San Diego; Wolfram Schlenker, Columbia University Chattopadhyay, San Francisco State University; Eric Duquette, University of Oregon; Andrew Meyer, University of Colorado at Boulder

Presentations: 2059 Cooperative Redesign in Potential and Subjective Choice Difficulty in Stated Preference Surveys Practice Eric Duquette and Trudy A. Cameron, University of Oregon; J.R. DeShazo, Boca I University of California, Los Angeles Agribusiness Economics & Management

Estimating Discount Factors within a Random Utility Framework AAEA Organized Symposium Andrew Meyer, University of Colorado at Boulder The session challenges and modifies contemporary theories of A New Explanation for Hypothetical Bias: Subjective Beliefs of cooperative design and conventional understandings about cooperatives Hypothetical Aspects in Payment and Provision to suggest that cooperative evolution may be more complex and Yohei Mitani and Nicholas E. Flores, University of Colorado at Boulder traditional cooperatives perhaps more resilient than anticipated. Asymptotically Bounded Preference and the Difference between Organizer: Julie Hogeland, USDA-Rural Development Willingness to Pay and Willingness to Accept Moderator: Julie Hogeland, USDA-Rural Development Sudip Chattopadhyay, San Francisco State University Discussant: Brent Hueth, University of Wisconsin at Madison

2058 New Fisheries Bioeconomics Presentations: Bonaire 3 Traditional Cooperatives with Large and Complex Business Activities—Do They Have to Choose Another Business Form? AERE Session Jerker Nilsson, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences The canonical bioeconomic model of the fishery lumps together a myriad of bio-physical and economic processes into a single state equation. The traditional approach provides potent conceptual insights

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Comparing New Generation and Traditional Cooperatives: Presentations: “Better Defined” Property Rights vs. Managerial Flexibility Agricultural Contracts and Alternative Marketing Options: A Carlo Russo, University of California, Davis Matching Analysis A Cooperative in Transition: The Case of Pro-Fac Cooperative Ani Katchova, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Brian Henehan and Todd Schmit, Cornell University The Yield/Quality Trade-off and Contractual Choice Manuel Espitia-Escuer, Marta Fernandez-Olmos, and Jorge Rosell- Martinez, Universidad de Zaragoza 2060 Ethanol Plant Effects on Crop Production, Resources, and On the Coexistence of Spot and Contract Markets: An Analysis of Commodity Market Price Quality Antigua 4 Manuel Espitia-Escuer, Marta Fernandez-Olmos, and Jorge Rosell- Martinez, Universidad de Zaragoza Agribusiness Economics & Management

AAEA Selected Paper 2062 AARES Symposium on Invasive Species Biofuel production has received tremendous attention as of late, with Boca V the recent run-up in commodity prices. This session focuses on ethanol Food & Agricultural Marketing plant effects on crop production practices, use of natural resources, and on commodity price integration. AAEA Organized Symposium Moderator: Aslihan Spaulding, Illinois State University Australia and the United States are important trading partners and home to many invasive plants and animals. Some invasive species have Presentations: damaged the environment, threatened the existence of native plants and Progress or Devastation? The Effects of Ethanol Plant Location animals, or created significant problems in agriculture. Management on Local Land Use

Monday of invasive species is a critical and perplexing problem, with responses Sessions

4:00-5:30 pm Jeremy Foltz, Randall Fortenbery, and Alan Turnquist, University of ranging from total eradication and trade bans to more targeted Wisconsin at Madison programs at the regional, national, and international levels. Economic A Case Study of the Impact of Bioenergy Development upon analysis is important to clarify and recommend policy responses to Crop Production, Livestock Feeding, and Water Resource Usage invasive species problems. in Kansas Organizers: Thomas Marsh, Washington State University; Nicholas Daniel O’Brien and Michael Woolverton, Kansas State University Piggott, North Carolina State University Examination of Ethanol Marketing and Input Procurement Moderator: Craig Osteen, USDA-Economic Research Service Practices of the U.S. Ethanol Producers Aslihan D. Spaulding and Timothy J. Schmidgall, Illinois State University Presentations: Spatial Competition and Ethanol Plant Location Decisions SPS Regulations Affecting U.S. Seed Corn Trade—Protectionism Camilo Sarmiento, Fannie Mae; William W. Wilson, North Dakota State or Science? University John Beghin and Denis McGee, Iowa State University Invasive Species Management: FMD in the Australian Beef Sector 2061 Issues with Agricultural Contracts Thomas Marsh, Washington State University; Peter R. Tozer, Curtin Boca III University Agribusiness Economics & Management The Economics of a Check-off to Indemnify Soybean Rust in the U.S. Soybean Industry AAEA Selected Paper Nicholas E. Piggott, North Carolina State University; Kenrett Jefferson- Agriculture contracts play an increasing role in the allocation of value, Moore, North Carolina A&T State University; Barry K. Goodwin and Anton risk, and decision rights. This session focuses on the structure and Bekkerman, North Carolina State University effectiveness of contract specification. Moderator: Gabriel Power, Texas A&M University

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2063 The Changing Face of Agricultural Moderator: Paul McNamara, University of Illinois at Urbana- and Food Marketing In India: Linking Champaign Farmers With Markets Bonaire 1 Presentations: The Distribution of Child Nutritional Status across Countries Food & Agricultural Marketing and over Time Priya Bhagowalia, Susan Chen, and William A. Masters, Purdue AAEA Organized Symposium University This symposium will address current and emerging issues related to agriculture and food marketing in India. It will provide a forum to Income and Price Elasticities of Food Demand and Nutrient discuss various issues including existing policy parameters from the Consumption in Malawi perspective of academia, the private sector, and government. Audience Olivier Ecker, University of Hohenheim; Matin Qaim, Georg-August- discussion on changes needed to accelerate the process of market University of Goettingen transformation in India’s agri-food marketing system, which is changing, An Analysis of Major Determinants of Poverty in Agriculture will be encouraged. Traditional Indian agriculture produce chain is Sector in Pakistan characterized by strict regulations, ad hoc sales, and large number of Dawood Jan and Anwar Chishti, NWFP Agricultural University; Phillip intermediaries leading to inefficiencies and low margins for farmers. Eberle, Southern Illinois University Carbondale In recent years there have been efforts to replace ad hoc sales by coordinated links between farmers and others in the chain and entry of corporate sector into food retailing. India’s fragmented agricultural 2065 Foreign direct investment marketing and processing system and supporting institutions however Bonaire 8

remain unprepared to compete in the global economy. 4:00-5:30 pm International Trade Sessions Monday Organizers: Surendra Singh, Fisseha Tegegne, and Enefiok Ekanem, Tennessee State University AAEA Selected Paper Foreign investment flows have contributed in important ways to the Moderator: Jay Akridge, Purdue University fast economic growth of China and India. This session examines the Discussant: Maurice R. Landes, USDA-Economic Research Service relationships between investment and growth, investment and the composition of trade, and the volatility of stock indices. Presentations: Vertical-cordination in Agribusiness and the Small Farmers in Moderator: Jeff Reimer, Oregon State University India: Will the Twain Meet? Presentations: Sukhpal Singh, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad A Dynamic Approach to the FDI-Environment Nexus: The Case The Rapid Rise of Supermarkets in India: Implications for of China and India Wholesalers, Processors, and Farmers Jungho Baek and Won W. Koo, North Dakota State University Thomas Reardon, Michigan State University; Ashok Gulati and Bart Do Foreign Direct Investment Stimulate China’s Exports? Minten, International Food Policy Research Institute Evidence from Disaggregated Sectors Perspectives from the Private Sector Titus O. Awokuse and Weishi Gu, University of Delaware; Yan Yuan, Arvind Jhamb, Adani Agrifresh, India; Balraj K. Sikka, G.B. Pant University of Tennessee University of Agriculture and Technology Developing Country Trade: Implications of China’s Changing Trade and Competitiveness in Intensive and Extensive Margin 2064 Nutrition, Health, and Poverty in Goods Agapi Somwaru, Francis Tuan, Mark Gehlhar, and Suchada Langley, Developing Countries Bonaire 7 USDA-Economic Research Service; Xinshen Diao, International Food Policy Research Institute International Development

AAEA Selected Paper This session looks at poverty in developing countries, with a specific focus on health and nutrition. Papers will look at correlates of consumption poverty as well as health poverty. Papers will also look at demand for nutrients as well as demand for specific foodstuffs (such as fruits and vegetables).

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2066 Economics of Water Resources Pests and Agricultural Commodity Losses: Evaluating Alternative Bonaire 6 Approaches to Damage Function Estimation Kelly M. Cobourn, Rachael Goodhue, Jeffrey Williams, and Frank Zalom, Natural Resource Economics University of California, Davis AAEA Selected Paper This session explores economic issues associated with groundwater 2068 Impacts of U.S. and EU biofuels policies extraction, irrigation, and water scarcity. on global commodity markets, Moderator: Laila Racevskis, University of Florida poverty and environment Antigua 3 Presentations: Groundwater Use in Asymmetric Aquifer under Incomplete Resource & Environmental Policy Analysis Information AAEA Organized Symposium Alexander E. Saak, Kansas State University This symposium will include three presentations of ongoing work all Impact of Irrigation Efficiency Improvements and Government directly related to the symposium topic. The three presentations will be Payment Programs of the Agricultural Cost of Groundwater 1) the Purdue University group working on global poverty impacts of Conservation in the Texas High Plains biofuels; 2) the IFPRI group working on global biofuels impacts; and David B. Willis, Clemson University 3) the FAO group working on food security and environmental issues The Potential Impact of a Texas High Plains Ethanol Plant on related to biofuels. Each of these groups has a major research program Local Water Supplies in this area. The symposium will consist of 15 minute presentations by Lindsey M. Higgins, James W. Richardson, and Joe L. Outlaw, Texas A&M each group followed by discussion on the similarities and differences University among their approaches. Exit Timing Decisions under Land Speculation and Resource Organizer: Wallace Tyner, Purdue University Monday Sessions

4:00-5:30 pm Scarcity in Agriculture Moderator: Wallace Tyner, Purdue University Ram Ranjan and Sorada Tapsuwan, CSIRO Land and Water Presentations: Global Poverty Impacts of U.S. and EU Biofuels Policies 2067 Applications of Limited Dependent Farzad Taheripour, Dileep Birur, Jayson Beckman, Thomas Hertel, and Variable Models to Agriculture and Wallace Tyner, Purdue University the Environment Impact of Biofuels Policy on Developing Country Agriculture Curacao 5 and Food Security Research Methods/Econometrics/Statistics Mark Rosegrant, International Food Policy Research Institute AAEA Selected Paper Prospects for Food Security and the Environment in a Papers develop limited dependent variable models to address Biofuelled World econometric issues arising with the modeling of choice experiments, Keith Wiebe and Terri Raney, Food and Agriculture Organization of the cattle mortality rates, and pest damages. United Nations; Prabhu Pingali, Gates Foundation Moderator: Xiaoyong Zheng, North Carolina State University 2069 Environmental, Disease, and Health Presentations: Risk Delving into Choice Internals: A Joint Discrete Choice/Attribute Boca IV Rating Model Tatiana Gubanova, Dmitriy Volinskiy, Wiktor Adamowicz, and Michele Risk & Uncertainty Veeman, University of Alberta AAEA Selected Paper Modeling Yeah and Nay-Saying in Conjoint Experiments This session includes papers examining environmental and health risk. Topics Wuyang Hu, University of Kentucky include water contamination, livestock disease, food safety, and invasive species Modeling Censored Data Using Zero-inflated Regressions with Moderator: Nicholas Paulson, University of Illinois at Urbana- an Application to Cattle Mortality Rates Champaign Eric Belasco, Texas Tech University; Sujit Ghosh, North Carolina State University

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Presentations: Moderator: Cheryl DeVuyst, North Dakota State University Livestock Disease Indemnity Design When Moral Hazard is Followed by Adverse Selection Presentations: Benjamin M. Gramig, Purdue University; Richard D. Horan and The Dynamics of Learning: An Economic Model of Student Christopher A. Wolf, Michigan State University Motivation and Achievement Andrew Barkley, Kansas State University Risk Perception and Altruistic Averting Behavior: Removing Arsenic in Drinking Water Teaching Innovation as Part of an Agribusiness Curriculum Yongxia Cai, Douglass Shaw, and Ximing Wu, Texas A&M University Marcia L. Tilley, California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo; Daniel S. Tilley and Rodney Holcomb, Oklahoma State University; Risk Mitigating Strategies in Food Supply Chain Amalia Yiannaka, University of Nebraska at Lincoln; Paul Weckler and Swati Agiwal, University of Minnesota; Hamid Mohtadi, University of Shelly Sitton, Oklahoma State University; Richard Cavaletto and Mark Wisconsin at Milwaukee Zohns, California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo; David Resolving Uncertainty in Invasive Species Management Jones, University of Nebraska at Lincoln; Wayne Howard, California Shefali V. Mehta, University of Minnesota; Robert G. Haight, U.S. Forest Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo; Ron Delahoussaye and Service, Northern Station; Frances R. Homans, University of Minnesota Cindy Blackwell, Oklahoma State University Enhancing Student Learning in a Retail Center Management Course by Use of a Combined Civic and Student Engagement 2070 Enhancing Learning Through Student Project Engagement Ward E. Nefstead, University of Minnesota Boca II Valuing Teams: What Influences Student Attitudes? Teaching, Communication, & Extension 4:00-5:30 pm Sessions

Molly Espey, Clemson University Monday AAEA Selected Paper Student learning can be maximized through appropriately balancing the level of challenge to students’ skills. This session will include a theoretical model of student motivation and achievement, examples of student engagement through service learning and experiential learning, and analysis of student attitudes toward team-based learning.

ACCI Sessions

2071 Bringing New Data to the Table on the Organizer: Cathleen Zick, University of Utah Energy Balance Question Moderator: Cathleen Zick, University of Utah Curacao 2 Research Methods/Econometrics/Statistics Presentations: What Can We Learn about Energy Balance from the American ACCI Special Session Time Use Survey? The prevalence of overweight and obesity in American society has grown Dori Allard, Marianne Janes, Rachel Krantz-Kent, and Jill Lacey, U.S. markedly over the past two decades. This trend has triggered a call Bureau of Labor Statistics for research on the correlates of weight gain. Social scientists have the Collecting Data on Eating Patterns, Obesity Risk, and Food potential to contribute important insights about the roles of economic, Access: The Eating and Health Module social, and psychological factors in the obesity epidemic. Panelists in Karen Hamrick, Margaret Andrews, and Joanne Guthrie, USDA-Economic this session will present an overview of several social science data sets Research Service that may be used to investigate questions related to Americans’ food consumption and physical activity. Discussion will focus on new data Examining Food Expenditures Using the Consumer Expenditure sources, creative uses of long-standing data sources, and the relative Diary Survey merits of using of public versus selected commercial data sources. Geoffrey Paulin, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

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Alternative Data Sources for Assessing Local Food Environments Presentations: Jessie X. Fan, Ikuho Yamada, Barbara B. Brown, Lori Kowaleski-Jones, Racial/Ethnic Differences in the Risk Aversion Measure of the Ken R. Smith, and Cathleen D. Zick, University of Utah 2004 Health and Retirement Study Mei-Chi Fang and Sherman D. Hanna, The Ohio State University The Decrease in Minority Stock Ownership 2072 Ethnicity Issues in Finance Suzanne Lindamood, Ohio Legislative Service Commission; Sherman D. Curacao 3 Hanna, The Ohio State University Consumer/Household Economics

ACCI Selected Paper Presider: Michael Gutter, University of Florida

Tuesday, July 29 9:30 AM-11:00 AM AAEA Sessions

3001 The Growing Role of Local Food 3002 The Economics of Risk-Based Markets Monitoring to Assure Safe Food Antigua 2 Bonaire 3 Food & Agricultural Marketing FSN Section Track Session In this session, three speakers will present empirical and conceptual AAEA Principal Paper research on efforts to use risk-based monitoring to improve and manage This session will review the most recent literature on farmers markets, food-safety in both private and public settings. A panel discussion will community supported agriculture programs and direct marketing,

Tuesday then follow to examine the large policy and market context for use of Sessions examine the institutional market for locally grown foods, and analyze 9:30-11:00 am risk-based monitoring and the role it may play in policy reform and factors affecting the shopping and product choices of consumers who innovations in food safety management by suppliers. choose to purchase directly from producers. Organizer: Sandra Hoffmann, Resources for the Future Organizer: Shermain Hardesty, University of California, Davis Moderator: Sandra Hoffmann, Resources for the Future Moderator: Shermain Hardesty, University of California, Davis Panelists: Sandra Hoffmann, Resources for the Future; Mary Muth, Discussant: Debra Tropp, USDA-Agricultural Marketing Service RTI International; Helen Jensen, Iowa State University; William Nganje, Presentations: Arizona State University; Richard Williams, George Mason University The Market for Local Produce in Institutional Foodservice Presentations: Programs Risk-Based Sampling and Imported Produce from Mexico Shermain D. Hardesty, University of California, Davis William Nganje, Al Kegan, and Ram N. Acharya, Arizona State University The Impacts of Local Markets: A Review of Research on Risk-based Initiatives for Meat and Poultry Inspection and Farmers Markets and CSAs Poultry Pathogen Testing Cheryl Brown and Stacy Miller, West Virginia University Mary Muth, RTI International Going Local: Exploring Consumer Behavior and Motivations Economic Aspects of Fruits/Vegetable Microbial Safety and for Direct Controls Food Purchases Linda Calvin, USDA-Economic Research Service; Jing Liang and Helen Dawn Thilmany, Craig Bond, and Jennifer Keeling-Bond, Colorado Jensen, Iowa State University State University

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3003 African Economic Development and Moderator: Sarah Low, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Agricultural Trade: A Focus on WTO Panelists: Darren Hudson, Mississippi State University; Sherry Larkin, Policy and Regional Integration University of Florida; James Whitaker, USDA-Economic Research Service Antigua 4 COSBAE Track Session 3005 Institutional Analysis of The primary focus of this session is international trade issues and Sub- Environmental Issues—The Right Tool Saharan Africa. There are two important issues that will be addressed: for the Right Job 1) Given the importance of European markets to African exporters, Antigua 1 what impact will WTO policies have on export growth? The primary focus is the transition from non-reciprocal agreement to reciprocal IBES Track Session economic partnership agreements (EPA). 2) Another important issue is An overview of three different institutional approaches to the analysis the development of regional trade, particularly since the development of of environmental problems will be presented. Some fairly neo-classical markets on the continent will lessen dependency on the EU for export studies incorporate transaction costs of policies in addition to abatement sales. costs. Others adapt the transaction cost economics framework Organizer: Andrew Muhammad, Mississippi State University developed by Williamson for the examination of environmental issues. Traditional institutional analysis examines fundamental sources of Moderator: Keithly Jones, USDA-Economic Research Service conflict in society over resources and environmental quality. Each Discussant: Norbert Wilson, Auburn University approach has advantages and disadvantages. We suggest that specific approaches are most suited to different issues, levels of analysis, or Presentations: stages of the problem, rather than one approach being superior. Market Integration and Efficiency in the Presence of Cross- Organizer: Laura McCann, University of Missouri border Trade Restrictions: Evidence from Selected Maize Markets in Southern Africa Moderator: David Schweikhardt, Michigan State University Emelly Mutambatsere, Ralph D. Christy, and Edward Mabaya, Cornell University Presentations:

Transaction Costs and Neoclassical Analysis of Environmental 9:30-11:00 am Sessions Effects of EU Trade Policy Reforms: An Analysis of the Namibian Policy Tuesday Beef Sector Laura McCann, University of Missouri Hikuepi B. Katjiuongua and Dave D. Weatherspoon, Michigan State University Application of Transaction Cost Economics to Environmental Issues Lomé Convention Expiration and the Demand for Imported Douadia Bougherara, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique Cut Flowers in the EU: Implications for the Kenyan Cut Flower Sector Institutional Approaches for Managing Conflicts over Andrew Muhammad, Mississippi State University; Jennifer Dennis, Purdue Agricultural Issues University; William Amponsah, Georgia Southern University Charles Abdalla, Pennsylvania State University

3004 Enticing Employers: Steps to Getting 3006 Reform and Retrenchment of Mexico’s Hired Agricultural and Rural Policies Bonaire 7 Curacao 2 GSS Track Session International Section Track Session In order to be an irresistible applicant in the academic job market, Mexico reformed its agricultural and rural policies in the late 1980s graduate students must plan their programs of study in order to and 1990s when budgetary discipline was imposed by broader achieve a balance of coursework, teaching, extension, research, and macroeconomic conditions and the failures of existing agricultural and non-academic professional experiences. It is imperative that graduate rural policies became self-evident. Now, the final stages of NAFTA are students understand how to build their portfolio while in graduate implemented, a new administration is in place, and a very different set of school so that they will be more marketable when entering the job circumstances as regards macroeconomic conditions and international market. The purpose of this organized symposium is to provide markets prevails. What is next for agricultural and rural policies in individuals considering an agricultural economics position in academia, Mexico? Will liberalization continue? Will there be a withdrawal from government, and industry with interviewing strategies that will entice market orientation? employers.

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Organizer: Wyatt Thompson, University of Missouri Presentations: Moderator: Wyatt Thompson, University of Missouri Causes and Consequences of Environmental Auditing: Evidence from Regulated Facilities in Michigan Panelists: Jesús Antón, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Mary F. Evans and Lirong Liu, University of Tennessee; Sarah Stafford, Development; Antonio Yunez-Naude, El Colegio de Mexico; Patrick College of William and Mary Westhoff, University of Missouri; Steve Zahnisser, USDA-Economic Research Service Does Pollution Prevention Reduce Toxic Emissions? A Dynamic Panel Data Model Donna Ramirez Harrington, University of Vermont; George Deltas and 3007 Learning Outcomes and Assessment Madhu Khanna, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for Agricultural Economics Environmental Regulation and Polluting Behavior of Firms: Curacao 6 Identifying Spillover Effects TLC Section Track Session Matthew Benton, University of Colorado, Boulder The general objective of this session is to start a discussion as to what learning outcomes might be appropriate for graduates from agricultural 3009 Farm Inputs Decision Making economics departments and how to assess these outcomes. Several Antigua 3 presenters will set the stage, and this will be followed by a roundtable discussion. An ultimate goal might be for an AAEA task force to be Agricultural Finance & Farm Management appointed to generate an appropriate set of learning outcomes and AAEA Selected Paper related assessment criteria. Papers in this session focus on the factors that influence the adoption of Organizers: John Foltz, University of Idaho; Mary Marchant, Virginia various production technologies in four agricultural sectors. Two papers Polytechnic Institute and State University investigate decisions in the dairy industry, while the others investigate Moderator: Dan Bernardo, Washington State University decisions in sugar cane and perennial grasses. Moderator: Brent Gloy, Cornell University Presentations: The View from the Profession Presentations: Lisa House, University of Florida Labor Cost and Technology Adoption: Least Squares Monte Carlo Method for the Case of Sugarcane Mechanization in

Tuesday The View from the Department Sessions Florida 9:30-11:00 am Frank Dooley, Purdue University; Dixie Reaves, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Nobuyuki Iwai, Robert D. Emerson, and Lurleen M. Walters, University of Florida The View from Industry Mark Krause, John Deere Biomass Yield to Nitrogen Response Functions for Four Candidate Biorefinery Feedstock Perennial Grass Species The View from College Administration Sijesh Aravindhakshan, Francis Epplin, and Charles Taliaferro, Oklahoma John Foltz, University of Idaho State University Factors Affecting Manure Handling System Choices: A Random 3008 Pollution and Firm Behavior Utility Model Approach Bonaire 5 Joleen C. Hadrich, Christopher A. Wolf, and Frank Lupi, Michigan State University AERE Session A broadening empirical literature examines the responses of firms faced Aligning Incentives for Accelerated Heifer Growth in Custom with environmental regulation and the implications of firm responses Heifer Growing Contracts Nicole J. Olynk and Christopher A. Wolf, Michigan State University for environmental quality. The three papers in this session explore these responses, focusing in particular on the impacts of mandatory and voluntary programs on firm emissions and location choices. Moderator: Madhu Khanna, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign Discussants: Lirong Liu, University of Tennessee; Matthew Benton, University of Colorado at Boulder

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3010 GM Foods and Organic Foods 3012 Nonmarket Valuation Boca VII Bonaire 8 Consumer/Household Economics Environmental Economics

AAEA Selected Paper AAEA Selected Paper This session has four papers which deal with issues across the food Different nonmarket valuation methods are used to analyze diverse consumption spectrum—from GM foods to organic foods. issues in environmental economics. Moderator: Rachel Dettman, USDA-Economic Research Service Moderator: Nirmala Devkota, Louisiana State University

Presentations: Presentations: Measuring WTP and Welfare Effects of Diverse Information: Hedonic Price Functions: Guidance on Empirical Specification Evidence from Experimental Auctions of Intragenic and Nick Kuminoff, Christopher Parmeter, and Jaren C. Pope, Virginia Transgenic GM Vegetables Polytechnic Institute and State University Greg Colson and Wallace Huffman, Iowa State University; Matthew Using Attitudes to Characterize Heterogeneous Preferences Rousu, Susquehanna University Rebecca Moore, University of Georgia Who’s Buying Organic Produce? Understanding the Whale-watching and Herring Fishing: Joint or Independent Demographic Profile of Organic Consumers Production? Rachael L. Dettmann, USDA-Economic Research Service Min-Yang Lee, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Emerging Markets for GM Foods: A Study of Consumer’s Quantifying the Economic Effects of Invasive Species: A Willingness to Pay in India Nonmarket Valuation Analysis of Eurasian Water Milfoil Satish Y. Deodhar and Sankar Ganesh, Indian Institute of Management; Eric J. Horsch and David J. Lewis, University of Wisconsin at Madison Wen S. Chern, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan U.S. Demand for Organic Fruits and Vegetables Biing-Hwan Lin, USDA-Economic Research Service; Steven T. Yen, 3013 Assessing Consumer Preferences and University of Tennessee; Chung L. Huang, University of Georgia Willingness to Pay 9:30-11:00 am Sessions Boca VIII Tuesday Food & Agricultural Marketing 3011 Energy and Agriculture Bonaire 6 AAEA Selected Paper Demand & Price Analysis The papers in this session address issues related to assessing consumer preferences and willingness to pay. AAEA Selected Paper Moderator: Leigh Maynard, University of Kentucky This session studies the impact of the changing energy markets on agriculture. Presentations: Moderator: Michael J. Roberts, USDA-Economic Research Service Determining Consumer Perceptions of and Willingness to Pay for Appalachian Grass-fed Beef: An Experimental Economics Presentations: Approach An Empirical Analysis of Linkages between Energy and Jason R. Evans, Alan R. Collins, Gerard E. D’Souza, Mark Sperow, Cheryl Agriculture Brown, and Edward B. Rayburn, West Virginia University Xiaodong Du, Dermot J. Hayes, and Fengxia Dong, Iowa State University Korean Consumers’ Preferences and Willingness to Pay for Ethanol and Food Trade-offs: An Analysis of South African Food Domestic vs. U.S. and Australian Beef with Alternative Attributes Consumption Patterns Wendy J. Umberger, The University of Adelaide; Chris Calkins, University Athur Mabiso and Dave D. Weatherspoon, Michigan State University of Nebraska at Lincoln Nonlinearities in the U.S. Corn-Ethanol-Oil Price System Measuring Retail Food Price Variation: Does the Data Source Teresa Serra, Centre de Recerca en Economia i Desenvolupament Matter? Agroalimentari; David Zilberman, University of California, Berkeley; Ephraim Leibtag, USDA-Economic Research Service Barry K. Goodwin, North Carolina State University; José M. Gil, Centre de Availability, Attitudes, and Willingness to Pay for Local Foods: Recerca en Economia i Desenvolupament Agroalimentar Results of a Preliminary Survey Damian C. Adams and Alison E. Adams, Oklahoma State University

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3014 Contracting and Vertical Intensity of Food Stamp Use and Transient and Chronic Poverty: Coordination. Evidence from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics Curacao 1 Sibel Atasoy and Bradford F. Mills, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Food & Agricultural Marketing Food Insecurity, Diet Quality, and Body Weight: Inter- AAEA Selected Paper relationships and the Effect of Smoking and Alcohol The papers in this session address issues related to contracting and Consumption vertical coordination. Patricia A. Duffy, Claire Zizza, Min Zhu, Henry Kinnucan, and Francis Tayie, Auburn University Moderator: Brenda Boetel, University of Wisconsin at River Falls

Presentations: Marketing Agreement, Food Safety, and Contract Design 3016 Immigration, Global Migration, and Jing Liang and Helen Jensen, Iowa State University the Agricultural Workforce Bonaire 2 Perceptions of Vertical Marketing Arrangement Performance: Cow/Calf Producers vs. Multiple Production Level Operators Human Capital & Labor Kellie Raper, Oklahoma State University; J. Roy Black and James Hilker, AAEA Organized Symposium Michigan State University The impact of global migration on both industrialized and developing Willingness to Pay for Beef Quality Attributes: A Latent nations is well documented and continues to be a source of both Segmentation Analysis opportunity and tensions around the world. Accentuated by changing Chanjin Chung, Oklahoma State University; Sungill Han, Konkuk demographics and geographical population densities, the migration University; Brian C. Briggeman, Oklahoma State University to developed nations and the emigration of talent from developing Contracting for Consistency: Hog Quality and the Use of countries poses questions as to the true value of existing immigration Marketing Contracts policies. The United States, France, Great Britain, and Australia, to name Jongick Jang and Michael Sykuta, University of Missouri a few, have all seen immigration and immigration reform pushed to the forefront of the political agenda, all while relying on foreign labor to maintain existing levels of GDP. While much of the attention to migration 3015 Food Insecurity: Causes and Solutions patterns focuses on industries like textiles, light manufacturing, Tuesday

Sessions Curacao 3 construction, and services (hotels, restaurants, etc.), agriculture is

9:30-11:00 am especially vulnerable to the impacts of immigration restrictions, both Food Safety & Nutrition domestically and abroad. Elimination or a severe reduction in the AAEA Selected Paper availability of migrant labor would dramatically impact agriculture in Food insecurity can be due to inadequate or uncertain income levels and the United States, especially the fruit and vegetable industries, which can be affected by alternative food choices and government supports. rely on large amounts of hand labor. However, migration also negatively This session examines factors affecting food insecurity and the impact of impacts countries, such as Mexico, that have seen their workforce income uncertainty on caloric intake. It also considers whether a healthy abandon their own country for more profitable opportunities in the U.S. diet could be achieved at a lower cost than Americans currently pay This symposium will utilize an interdisciplinary approach to examine the and examines some factors that affect use of a primary tool to alleviate complex issues surrounding global migration, including: 1) migration insecurity—the Food Stamp Program. and globalization, 2) the effects of illegal immigration, 3) changes in global population dynamics driving migration, 4) integration of Moderator: Chen Zhen, RTI International immigrants into society, and 5) immigration policies. A special emphasis will be placed on the impact of immigration on U.S. agriculture. Presentations: USDA’s Low-cost, Moderate-cost, and Liberal Food Plans: Organizer: Mark Wade, Evans Properties, Inc. Development and Expenditure Shares Panelists: Paul Monaghan, University of South Florida; Walter Kates, Andrea Carlson and Mark Lino, USDA-Center for Nutrition Policy and Florida Fruit & Vegetable Association; James Beierlein, Pennsylvania State Promotion University; Mark Wade, Evans Properties, Inc. Food Calorie Intake under Grain Price Uncertainty: Evidence from Nepal Suwen Pan, Texas Tech University; Cheng Fang, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations; Rod Rejesus, North Carolina State University

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3017 Contracts: Theory and Empirics 3019 Labeling, certification, and Curacao 4 international trade Industrial Organization/Supply Chain Curacao 7 Management International Trade

AAEA Selected Paper AAEA Selected Paper This session examines vertical integration and contracting issues in food This session examines the ways by which labeling and certification and agricultural industries. may inhibit or encourage international trade. Topics include organic Moderator: Alexander Saak, Kansas State University certification systems, country of origin advertising, harmonized labeling, and the biosafety protocol. Presentations: Moderator: Jeff Reimer, Oregon State University Homogenous and Heterogeneous Contestants in Cardinal Tournament Games: Theory and Empirical Analysis Presentations: Tomislav Vukina and Xiaoyong Zheng, North Carolina State University Vertical Differentiation and Credence Goods: Harmonized A Financial Contracting Approach to the Role of Supermarkets Labeling and Gains from International Integration in Farmer’s Credit Access Ian Sheldon and Brian Roe, The Ohio State University Luc Veyssiere and Philippe Marcoul, Iowa State University Organic Certification Systems and International Trading of Interactions between Explicit and Implicit Contracts: Evidence Agricultural Products in Gravity Models from California Agriculture Maurizio Canavari and Nicola Cantore, Alma Mater Studiorum- Brent Hueth, University of Wisconsin at Madison; Ethan Ligon, University University of Bologna of California, Berkeley; Tigran Melkonyan, University of Nevado at Reno Country of Origin Advertising and U.S. Wine Imports Stanley R. Thompson and Abdoul G. Sam, The Ohio State University

3018 Policies and Priorities for Raising

Agricultural Productivity in the 3020 Biofuels, Oil and Gas: Effects of 9:30-11:00 am Sessions

Least Developed Economies Increased Production and Changes in Tuesday Curacao 5 Lease Sale Design International Development Curacao 8 Policy Analysis AAEA Selected Paper Papers in this session explore the welfare impacts of increased AAEA Selected Paper agricultural productivity as well as the degree to which specific public Surging oil prices have increased interest in biofuels and other policies, investments, and institutions contribute to productivity growth. alternative energy sources. This session focuses on expanded biofuel Empirical applications consider economies in the early stages of the production and the economic and environmental implications of structural transformation. expanded production. It also addresses the Outer Continental Shelf Moderator: William A. Masters, Purdue University (OCS) as a potential supplement to energy needs and the leasing and revenue collection for the OCS. Presentations: Moderator: Nicholas Paulson, University of Illinois at Urbana- Impact of Land Reform on Productivity, Land Value, and Human Champaign Capital Investment: Household Level Evidence from West Bengal Vandana Yadav, Michigan State University; Klaus Deininger, World Bank; Presentations: Songqing Jin, Michigan State University Biofuels and Their By-products: Global Economic and Regaining Competitiveness of the Cotton Sector in Francophone Environmental Implications West Africa: Increase Productivity or Policy Reform? Farzad Taheripour, Dileep Birur, Jayson F. Beckman, Thomas W. Hertel, Felix G. Baquedano and John H. Sanders, Purdue University and Wallace Tyner, Purdue University The Impact of Fertilizer Subsidies on the Private Sector and Crop Based Biofuel Production under Acreage Constraints and National Level Fertilizer Use: An Example from Malawi Uncertainty Jacob E. Ricker-Gilbert and Thomas S. Jayne, Michigan State University Mindy L. Baker, Dermot J. Hayes, and Bruce A. Babcock, Iowa State University

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Expanding Ethanol Production: Implications for Agriculture, The New Economics of Livestock Production Management Water Demand, and Water Quality Todd Hubbs, Paul Preckel, and Allan Schinckel, Purdue University; John Daniel G. De La Torre Ugarte, Lixia Lambert, Kimberly L. Jensen, and Deen, University of Minnesota; Kenneth Foster, Purdue University; Stan Burton C. English, University of Tennessee Curtis and Wayne Johnson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign An Econometric Analysis of MMS Lease Sale Design: Does The Adoption and Disadoption of Recombinant Bovine Area-wide Leasing Result in Lower Revenue to the Federal Somatotropin in the U.S. Dairy Industry Government and Coastal States? Henry An, University of California, Davis Brett Gelso, American University Adoption and Abandonment of Precision Soil Sampling in Cotton Production Jonathon C. Walton, Roland K. Roberts, Dayton M. Lambert, James A. 3021 Sustainable Biorefining Systems: Larson, and Burton C. English, University of Tennessee; Steven Martin, Preliminary Findings from the NC506 Mississippi State University; Sherry L. Larkin, University of Florida; Michele Project C. Marra, North Carolina State University; Kenneth W. Paxton, Louisiana Bonaire 4 State University; Jeanne M. Reeves, Cotton Incorporated Policy Analysis

AAEA Organized Symposium 3023 Back to the Basics: What is a Farm? NC506 is a rapid response, multi-disciplinary regional research project What is Rural? created to examine the sustainability of corn biorefining systems in the Bonaire 1 North Central Region. Two economic research components, involving Research Methods/Econometrics/Statistics economists from ten states, were identified and initiated during 2007, a study of regional impacts of ethanol growth under alternative policies, AAEA Organized Symposium and a study of cost structure and greenhouse gas contributions of ten The building blocks of the agricultural economic data systems are regional ethanol plants. Results are to be completed and disseminated in the units of observations. Two of the most basic units of observations 2008. This symposium reports preliminary results from those studies. are farms and rural spaces. How we define these terms identifies the Organizers: Evert Van der Sluis, South Dakota State University; Richard populations for which we report descriptive statistics and on which we Perrin, University of Nebraska at Lincoln conduct complex analyses. Consequently, these definitions play a large role in how we characterize the agricultural sector and rural places,

Tuesday Moderator: William Lazarus, University of Minnesota Sessions and how the public perceives them. In particular, the definitions play 9:30-11:00 am Panelists: Evert Van der Sluis, South Dakota State University; Richard a pivotal role in our ability to capture transformations occurring in Perrin, University of Nebraska at Lincoln; Randall Fortenbery, University agriculture and rural areas in a timely manner. of Wisconsin at Madison; James Hilker, Michigan State University Organizers: Julie Hogeland, USDA-Rural Development; Mary Ahearn, USDA-Economic Research Service 3022 Production Management Strategies Moderator: Barrett Kirwan, University of Maryland Boca I Discussants: Ben Anderson, USDA-Rural Development; Joseph Reilly, Production Economics USDA-National Agricultural Statistics Service

AAEA Selected Paper Presentations: This session includes papers examining production management issues What is a Farm? such as pest control and adoption of precision technologies. Mike Duffy, Iowa State University Moderator: Michael Livingston, USDA-Economic Research Service What is Rural? John Cromartie, USDA-Economic Research Service; Shawn Bucholtz, Presentations: USDA-Farm Service Agency Economics Analysis of Mitigation Strategies for FMD Introduction in Highly Concentrated Animal Feeding Regions Levan Elbakidze, University of Idaho; Linda Highfield, Michael Ward, Bruce A. McCarl, and Bo Norby, Texas A&M University

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3024 Credit and Delinquency 3026 Financial Education Boca II Boca III Consumer & Mortgage Credit Saving Consumer Financial Management & Education ACCI Selected Paper Presider: Liz Gorham, South Dakota State University ACCI Selected Paper Presider: Deborah Haynes, Montana State University Presentations: Credit Crunched: The Relationship between Credit Denials and Presentations: Use of Alternative Financial Institutions The Bold and the Bankable: How the Nuestro Barrio Telenovela Jeff Dew, University of Virginia Reaches Latino Immigrants with Financial Education Racial/Ethnic Patterns in Credit Delinquency Jonathan Spader and Janneke Ratcliffe, University of North Carolina at Jonghee Lee and Sherman D. Hanna, The Ohio State University Chapel Hill; Jorge Montoya, Sentient Research; Peter Skillern, Community Reinvestment Association of North Carolina Credit Scores as a Predictor of Manufactured Housing Delinquency Personal Financial Knowledge among College Students: Jane M. Kolodinsky and Erin Roche, University of Vermont Associations between Individual Characteristics and Scores on an Experimental Measure of Financial Knowledge Cliff A. Robb, University of Alabama; Russell N. James, University of 3025 Economics of Health Georgia Boca IV Demand & Price Analysis 3027 Information and Regulation Boca VI ACCI Selected Paper Presider: Deanna Sharpe, University of Missouri Political Economy

ACCI Selected Paper 9:30-11:00 am

Presentations: Sessions Demand for Complementary and Alternative Medicine Presider: Cathleen Zick, University of Utah Tuesday Vibha Bhargava, Gong-Soog Hong, and Catherine P. Montalto, The Ohio State University Presentations: Advertising and Its Critics: Consumer Activism during the Health Problems and Reallocation of Living Expenditures Second World War among Older Adults Inger L. Stole, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Hyungsoo Kim, University of Kentucky; Michitoshi Yamaguchi, University of Kyoto Finding the Information You Need: The Role of Self-confidence in Consumer Information Search Determinants of Elderly Obesity in Urban, Suburban, and Rural Caezilia Loibl, Soo Hyun Cho, Florian Diekmann, and Marv Batte, The Communities Ohio State University Mei-Chi Fang and Robert Scharff, The Ohio State University Toward an Internationally Comparative Measure of Consumer Policy Robert N. Mayer and Daniel Duersch, University of Utah

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3028 Using Numerical Methods to Address Organizers: Janet Garkey, Credit Union National Association; Parke Water Supply and Reliability Issues Wilde, Tufts University; Larry Kirsch, IMR Health Economics Antigua 2 Moderator: Parke Wilde, Tufts University Natural Resource Modeling & Valuation Presentations: AAEA Principal Paper Food Safety: USDA and FDA Policies toward Bacterial Water allocation and reliability are increasingly pressing issues for Contamination in Meat policymakers around the world. Water problems are complex and Chris Waldrop, Consumer Federation of America influenced by a variety of factors, including economics, politics, A University-based Agricultural Economist’s Perspective on infrastructure, and hydrology. Uncertainty regarding supply confounds Food Safety Research Needs and Prospects the task of predicting future outcomes. This session highlights Victoria Salin, Texas A&M University the power of numerical analysis in addressing such problems. New Food Production Technologies—New Risks Numerical methods allow researchers to develop far more realistic Michael Hansen, Consumers Union representations of real world systems than is possible with analytical modeling alone. The session presents one application regarding A University-based Consumer Economist Responds to the Food supply reliability in California and another regarding political Safety Research Agenda on New Food Production Technologies groundwater allocation in Spain. Jane Kolodinsky, University of Vermont Organizers: Kristiana Hansen, University of California, Davis; Susan Stratton, University of California, Berkeley 3030 Showcasing Undergraduate and Moderator: Siwa Msangi, International Food Policy Research Institute Graduate Student Research in Agricultural Economics Programs Discussants: Jeffrey Peterson, Kansas State University; Karina Antigua 1 Schoengold, University of Nebraska COSBAE Track Session Presentations: The organized symposium will address student experimental learning Managing Supply Risk: Options in California Water Markets experiences through research, particularly minority undergraduate and Kristiana Hansen, Richard Howitt, and Jeffrey Williams, University of graduate students in U.S. agricultural economics programs. Although California, Davis the 1862 and 1890 land grant institutions are the primary producers Setting the Rules of Devolution: Promoting Groundwater of agricultural economics professionals, this symposia is extended to Reform in the Guadiana Basin all minority students who have had an opportunity to learn through Carmen Marchiori, London School of Economics; Leo K. Simon and research at their respective agricultural programs. Experimental Susan E. Stratton, University of California, Berkeley learning experiences through research will have a significant impact on the matriculation of minorities, especially African Americans. Tuesday Sessions Organizers: Kenrett Jefferson-Moore, North Carolina A&T State 1:00-2:30 pm 3029 Hard Hitting and Well Informed: A Conversation Between Food Safety University; Deacue Fields, Auburn University; Jennifer Dennis, Purdue Policy Advocates and Researchers University; Andrew Muhammad, Mississippi State University Boca II Moderator: Kenrett Jefferson-Moore, North Carolina A&T State ACCI/FSN Section Track Session University This symposium presents a conversation between policy advocates and Presentations: social scientists about: 1) USDA and FDA policies regarding bacterial The Economic Impact of Soybean Rust Spread on GM Soybeans contamination, and 2) new food production technologies and risks. in the United States Policy advocates from the Consumer Federation of America and the Sherrie Godette and Kenrett Y. Jefferson-Moore, North Carolina A&T State Consumers Union will be paired with researcher/respondents from University agricultural economics and consumer economics. The policy advocates Analyzing the Firm’s Business Strategies for Supply Chain will summarize a current food safety campaign and describe their Procurement of Specialty Food Items perception of the campaign’s current social science research base and Marcus Coleman and Dave D. Weatherspoon, Michigan State University future research needs. The researcher/respondent will comment on the current research base and the prospects of the proposed research Measuring the Likelihood of Food Insecurity and Food Deserts agenda. in Ohio Ketra Rice and Dave Kraybill, The Ohio State University

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3031 The Role of Econometrics in Presentations: Agricultural Economics PhD Corn Programs: Present and Future John Anderson, Mississippi State University Curacao 2 Cotton Econometrics Section Track Session Steven Martin, Mississippi State University This session explores the current and potential future state of Wheat econometric training in PhD programs throughout the United States. Mark Welch, Texas A&M The investigation includes documentation and an assessment of the Premier Forecaster topical content, course sequences, and course loads associated with Ron Plain, University of Missouri econometrics training in PhD programs across the United States, provides both a positive and normative perspective on how econometrics training is and should be taught in United States PhD programs, 3033 Aquaculture in the UNITED STATES: A respectively, and concludes with specific recommendations for the Big Fish in Small Pond? design and delivery of econometrics training curriculum at the PhD Antigua 4 level. An open discussion with session attendees concludes the session. FAMPS Track Session Organizers: Thomas Marsh and Ron Mittelhammer, Washington State Aquaculture consumption globally and domestically is on the rise, and University demand for aquaculture products is evolving as domestic preferences Presentations: change. At the same time, environmental and economic issues on the What is the Current Role of Econometrics in Agricultural production side are changing seafood and freshwater fish supply chains. Economics PhD Programs? This track session has proposals related to economic and policy issues Thomas Marsh, Washington State University within the domestic aquaculture industry. What Should Be the Role of Econometrics in Agricultural Organizer: Chris Boessen, University of Missouri Economics PhD Programs? Moderator: Chris Boessen, University of Missouri Alan Ker, University of Arizona Panelists: Carole Engle, University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff; Charles Leading with Mathematical Statistics in Agricultural Economics Adams, University of Florida; Jeff Silverstein, USDA-Agricultural Research PhD Programs: A Luxury or Necessity? Service; Paul Zajicek, Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Ron Mittelhammer, Washington State University Services The Role of Econometrics in Agricultural Economics PhD 1:00-2:30 pm

Programs: Summary, Conclusions, and Open Discussion Sessions Structural Equation Modeling—A Tuesday Ron Mittelhammer, Washington State University 3034 Method Borrowed from Business Schools 3032 Extension Section Crops Outlook Bonaire 4 Curacao 5 AEM Section Track Session Extension Section Track Session Even though agribusiness researchers have been expanding their This organized symposium will focus on the grain, oilseed, and research tool box over the past two decades, there are more lessons to cotton inputs situation and outlook. The Extension Outlook symposia be learned by the profession from other disciplines. Structural Equation have been an integral part of the AAEA meetings for more than two Modeling, a method utilized by researchers across a broad scope of decades. Presenters will explore the current trends in grain and oilseed experts, including business management researchers, is another tool production, demand factors, price outlook, and an overview of changes that can offer value. This session presents the fundamentals of SEM, why in land use and prices due to ethanol production. and when to use it, and practical thoughts in applying the method. Organizer: Kim Anderson, Oklahoma State University Organizer: Heather Johnson, Washington State University Moderator: Kim Anderson, Oklahoma State University Moderator: Randall Westgren, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign Discussant: Ron Plain, University of Missouri

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Presentations: 3036 Food Industry Performance Structural Equation Modeling—It’s Not the Structure of Bonaire 6 Equations Agribusiness Economics & Management Heather Johnson, Washington State University The When, Why, and How of SEM AAEA Selected Paper Peter Goldsmith, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Agribusinesses operate to profit and investors seek a fair return on their Notes Regarding the Application of SEM stock investment. This session examines factors related to agribusiness Stephen Sivo, University of Central Florida profitability and investor returns. Moderator: Ani Katchova, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

3035 The Economics of Conservation Presentations: Bonaire 5 Working Capital and Stock Returns for American Agribusiness AERE Session Firms Carlos Trejo-Pech, Universidad Panamericana; Rick Weldon and Michael The session investigates the challenges faced by developing countries in Gunderson, University of Florida allocating resources between conservation and economic development. Two papers present conceptual models of optimal conservation, one Determinants of Food Industry Performance—Empirical jointly modeling small-scale farmer decision making and land use, Evidence Based on a Survey another allowing for a feedback between land conversion decisions Hartley Furtan, University of Saskatchewan; Johannes Sauer, Kent and conservation benefits. Two remaining papers explore the incentives Business School, Imperial College at Wye associated with and the effects of programs designed to encourage Market Orientation and Profitability: Evidence from reforestation. Homogeneous Markets Moderator: Erin Sills, North Carolina State University Eric Micheels, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Hamish Gow, Michigan State University Presentations: Effects of Horizontal and Vertical Market Power on Trade Rethinking the Cycle of Abandonment: A Dynamic Model of Promotion Budget and Allocation in the U.S. Supermarket Frontier Expansion and Environmental Degradation Industry: An Experimental and Empirical Analysis Luke Jones, University of Tennessee; Jill Caviglia-Harris, Salisbury Hong Yuan and Miguel I. Gomez, University of Illinois at Urbana- University Champaign; Vithala Rao, Cornell University Evaluating Temporary Certified Emission Reductions in Reforestation and Afforestation Programs Shinsuke Uchida, University of Maryland; Gregmar I. Galinato, 3037 Going Beyond Energy Technology: Washington State University Building Markets, Measuring

Tuesday Community Impacts Sessions Optimal Conservation, Extinction, Debt, and the Augmented 1:00-2:30 pm Bonaire 2 Quasi-option Value Anke D. Leroux, La Trobe University; Vance Martin, University of Agribusiness Economics & Management Melbourne; Timo Goeschl, University of Heidelberg AAEA Organized Symposium Exploring the Demand for Forestry in Lake Victoria Basin Intensive study of energy production technologies has overlooked the (Western Kenya): An Economics Approach socioeconomic incentives and consequences of energy development for Rohit Jindal, Michigan State University rural communities. Ethanol development has resulted in monocultures, overinvestment, and high commodity prices. A more rational, systematic basis for the development of second generation cellulosic energy is explored by evaluating alternative marketing options, potential partnerships between the public and private sector, and various levels of involvement by farmers and rural communities. Organizer: Julie Hogeland, USDA-Rural Development Moderator: Julie Hogeland, USDA-Rural Development

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Presentations: Do rBST-Free and Organic Milk Stigmatize Conventionally Local Ownership in Biofuels Production: A Strategy for Rural Produced Milk? Development? Christopher Kanter, Cornell University; Kent Messer, University of Brent Hueth, University of Wisconsin at Madison Delaware; Harry M. Kaiser, Cornell University The Impact of New Energy and Farm Legislation on the Biofuels Observing Changes in Canadian Demand for Food Diversity over Sector Time Anthony Crooks, USDA-Rural Development Larissa S. Drescher and Ellen Goddard, University of Alberta An Overview of Potential Cellulosic Feedstock Marketing Systems for Biofuels Production 3040 Emerging Technologies & Frayne Olson and Roger Ginder, Iowa State University Productivity II Curacao 1 3038 Urban Food Consumption Trends in Emerging Technologies & Productivity China: Recent Survey Results Bonaire 1 AAEA Selected Paper Implications of new production practices and processes on U.S. farm Consumer/Household Economics pesticide use, land use, and farm structure. AAEA Organized Symposium Moderator: Silvia Secchi, Southern Illinois University This session is designed to highlight a work-in-progress by USDA- Economic Research Service, land grant universities, and the Center for Presentations: Chinese Agricultural Policy on food consumption issues in China. The Impact of GMO Crop Adoption on Quality-adjusted Pesticide program brings together specialists on food consumption issues to Use in Corn and Soybean States: A Full Picture critique and discuss preliminary findings from a survey conducted in Jorge Fernandez-Cornejo, USDA-Economic Research Service; Alexandre Beijing in July 2007. Vialou, University of Maryland at College Park; Richard Nehring, USDA- Economic Research Service; Arthur Grube, U.S. Environmental Protection Organizer: Bryan Lohmar, USDA-Economic Research Service Agency Moderator: Bryan Lohmar, USDA-Economic Research Service Did the Baby Boom Cause the Farm-size Boom? Discussants: Laurian Unnevehr, USDA-Economic Research Service; Nigel Key and Michael J. Roberts, USDA-Economic Research Service James Seale, University of Florida Switchgrass Production in Marginal Environments: A Panelists: Junfei Bai, Washington State University; Bryan Lohmar, Comparative Economic Analysis across Four West Tennessee 1:00-2:30 pm Sessions

USDA-Economic Research Service; Thomas Wahl, North Dakota State Landscapes Tuesday University; Jikun Huang, China Academy of Sciences Daniel F. Mooney, Roland K. Roberts, Burton C. English, Donald D. Tyler, and James A. Larson, University of Tennessee Renewable Energy Development and Implications to 3039 Health and Food Demand Agricultural Viability Bonaire 7 Soji Adelaja and Yohannes Hailu, Michigan State University Demand & Price Analysis

AAEA Selected Paper 3041 Politics, Policies, and Environmental This session examines how various food safety and health concerns Protection impact food demand. Curacao 3 Moderator: Eugene Jones, The Ohio State University Environmental Economics

Presentations: AAEA Selected Paper Grass-fed vs. Organic Dairy Production: Southeastern United Papers in this session deal with political pressure on pollution release by States Willingness to Pay firms, impact of boycott and proxy threat on firms’ behavior, technology Jonathan Wong, Cesar Escalante, Uthra Raghunathan, and Kent Wolfe, adoption by firms, and pollution dynamic of firms over time. University of Georgia Moderator: Sonam Gupta, University of Arizona

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Presentations: 3043 Causes of Obesity: An international Does Politics Matter in EPA’s Monitoring Activities? Evidence comparison from Facility Level Data on Enforcement of Clean Air Laws Curacao 6 Robert Innes and Arnab Mitra, University of Arizona Food Safety & Nutrition Determinants and Impact of Private Politics: An Empirical Analysis AAEA Selected Paper Sonam Gupta and Robert Innes, University of Arizona The causes of obesity and government policies attempting to address it Impact of EPA’s Voluntary 33/50 Program on Pollution have been the subject of much debate. This session offers a discussion Prevention and Toxic Releases of the causes of obesity in two developing countries, allowing a cross- Xiang Bi and Madhu Khanna, University of Illinois at Urbana- country comparison to the causes of obesity in the United States. The Champaign session also focuses on government actions that can affect obesity. The Environmental Consequences of Globalization: A Country- Moderator: Derrick Jones, Food Standards Agency specific Time-series Analysis Presentations: Jungho Baek, North Dakota State University; Yongsung Cho, Korea The Rise of Obesity in Transition Economies: Theory and University; Won W Koo, North Dakota State University Evidence from Russia Sonya Huffman, Iowa State University; Marian Rizov, Middlesex 3042 Country of Origin Labeling and University Business School Traceability Of Fat and the Farm Bill: U.S. Agricultural Policy and Obesity Curacao 4 John H. Cawley, Cornell University; Barrett E. Kirwan, University of Food & Agricultural Marketing Maryland Food Labels and Weight Loss: Evidence from the NLSY79 Panel AAEA Selected Paper Data Issues associated with country of origin labeling and traceability will be Bidisha Mandal, Washington State University analyzed. New Evidence on Overweight Children in Urban China and the Moderator: Kimberly Jensen, University of Tennessee Role of Socioeconomic Factors Fengxia Dong and Helen Jensen, Iowa State University Presentations: Differences in U.S. Consumer Preferences for Certified Pork Chops When Facing Branded vs. Non-branded Choices 3044 Market Structure and Pricing I David Ubilava and Kenneth A. Foster, Purdue University; Jayson L. Lusk, Curacao 7 Oklahoma State University; Tomas Nilsson, University of Alberta Industrial Organization/Supply Chain

Tuesday Market and Welfare Effects of COOL in the U.S. Markets for

Sessions Management 1:00-2:30 pm Tomatoes and Apples Alejandro S. Plastina, International Cotton Advisory Committee; AAEA Selected Paper Konstantinos Giannakas, University of Nebraska at Lincoln; Daniel Pick, This session discusses new industrial organization techniques to USDA-Economic Research Service measure market power from production to final consumption. Papers Estimating the Benefits and Costs of Cattle Traceability in the examine industries in livestock, beverages, and supermarket retailing. Province of Québec in Canada Moderator: Richard Sexton, University of California, Davis Sebastien Pouliot, University of California, Davis Presentations: Consumer Preferences for Extra Virgin Olive with Country of Competition, Bargaining Power, and the Cattle Cycle Origin and Geographical Indication Labels Ii Canada John M. Crespi, Tian Xia, and Rodney Jones, Kansas State University Luisa Menapace and Carola Grebitus, Iowa State University; Maria Facendola, Istituto di Servizi per il Mercato Agricolo Alimentare; Greg Monopsony Power in the Market for Broiler Grower Services: Colson, Iowa State University Evidence from a Survey of Growers Nigel Key and James M. MacDonald, USDA-Economic Research Service

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What is a Beverage Worth? Arbitrage Pricing and the Value of Presentations: New Products: An Attribute-space Approach Optimizing Farmland Preservation Choices across Communities Geoffrey M. Pofahl, Michigan State University; Timothy J. Richards, and Jurisdictional Scales: To What Extent Are Amenity Values Arizona State University and Selection Criteria Transferable? Measuring Wal-Mart’s Monopsony Power in Local labor Markets Robert J. Johnston, University of Connecticut; Joshua M. Duke, University Alessandro Bonanno and Rigoberto A. Lopez, University of Connecticut of Delaware; Jessica Kukielka, University of Connecticut Systematic Variation in Willingness to Pay for Agricultural Land Preservation and Implications for Benefit Transfer: A Meta- 3045 Remittances, Risk, and Finance in analysis Developing Countries Jessica Kukielka and Robert J. Johnston, University of Connecticut; Joshua Curacao 8 M. Duke, University of Delaware International Development Incentive Compatibility in an Attribute-based Referendum Model AAEA Selected Paper Laila Racevskis, University of Florida; Frank Lupi, Michigan State This session looks at the effects of remittances on consumption, credit, University and risk. It also explores the effects of self-help groups which are tied into a credit program. Lastly, it looks at risk in contracts between Applying Geographically Weighted Regression to Conjoint farmers and processors. Analysis: Empirical Findings from Urban Park Amenities Katsuya Tanaka, Hiroshima University; Kentaro Yoshida and Yasushi Moderator: Klaus Deininger, World Bank Kawase, University of Tsukuba Presentations: The Insurance Role of Remittances on Household Credit 3047 Role of Economics in Animal and Plant Demand Health Protection Regulations Susan M. Richter, University of California, Davis Bonaire 3 Migrant Labor Markets and the Welfare of Rural Households in Policy Analysis the Developing World: Evidence from China Alan de Brauw, International Food Policy Research Institute; John Giles, AAEA Organized Symposium World Bank This symposium focuses on the role of economic analysis in the Economic and Social Impacts of Self-help Groups in Andhra rulemaking process followed by APHIS. The primary goal is to Pradesh, India generate a discussion that is relevant to all economists directly or 1:00-2:30 pm

Klaus Deininger and Yanyan Liu, World Bank indirectly involved in the rulemaking process, whether it be as personal Sessions Tuesday stakeholders or purely academic. Furthermore, discussion generated Dance of the Dragon Heads: Contracts between Agricultural is intended to create awareness among agricultural economists of Processors and Farmers in China the growing importance and demand for expertise centered on the Xiaohua Yu and David Abler, Pennsylvania State University; Chao Peng, economics of invasive species management and other animal and plant Renmin University of China health protection initiatives. The panel is comprised of economists with an expertise in evaluating APHIS regulations in terms of economic 3046 Valuation and Land Use benefits and costs. Antigua 3 Organizers: Marisa Zansler and Parveen Setia, USDA-Animal and Natural Resource Modeling & Valuation Plant Health Inspection Service Moderator: Parveen Setia, USDA-Animal and Plant Health Inspection AAEA Selected Paper Service This session addresses public preferences and values for land use Panelists: James Schaub, USDA-Office of the Chief Economist; Paul and preservation. Papers emphasize spatial and non-spatial factors Rodgers, American Sheep Industry Association; Thomas Spreen, University that influence willingness to pay for land preservation and amenities, of Florida together with implications for valuation methodology, land preservation, and benefit transfer. Moderator: Jessica Kukielka, University of Connecticut

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3048 Biofuel Mandates and the Presentations: Environment Optimal Design of Weather Bonds Boca VI Martin Odening, Oliver Musshoff, and Wei Xu, Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin Resource & Environmental Policy Analysis Catastrophic Risk Assessment Model and the Flood Insurance AAEA Selected Paper Program in Taiwan With increasing interests in the economic and environmental effects of Ching-Cheng Chang, Academia Sinica; Wen-Ko Hsu, National Central biofuels policies, the papers in this session examine the economic and University; Ming-Daw Su, National Taiwan University environmental consequences of recent biofuel policy developments. Social Learning and Parameter Uncertainty in Irreversible Models examine impacts of the biofuel industry on land use, water use, Investment—Evidence from Greenhouse Adoption in Northern and greenhouse gases. Potential use of the carbon market to mitigate China unintended consequences on land use is also considered. Honglin Wang, Michigan State University Moderator: Wallace Tyner, Purdue University

Presentations: 3050 Impact of agritourism and other land The Global Impacts of Multi-national Biofuel Mandates uses on rural economies Dileep K. Birur, Thomas W. Hertel, and Wallace Tyner, Purdue University Boca VIII Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions Impacts of U.S. Biofuels Rural/Community Development Thomas Hertel and Alla Golub, Purdue University; Steven Rose, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Brent Sohngen, The Ohio State AAEA Selected Paper University This session contains papers on the impact of agritourism and land use Biofuel Boom, Aquifer Doom? efforts on rural development Matthew K. Clark and Jeffrey Peterson, Kansas State University Moderator: Jeffrey Dorfman, University of Georgia

Presentations: 3049 Financial Risk and Insurance Determinants of Agricultural Landowners’ Willingness to Supply Boca VII Open Space through Conservation Easements Ashley D. Miller, Christopher T. Bastian, and Donald M. McLeod, Risk & Uncertainty University of Wyoming; Catherine M. Keske and Dana L. Hoag, Colorado AAEA Selected Paper State University This session includes papers examining various aspects of financial risk Understanding the Links between Land Use and Schools and insurance. Topics include catastrophic risk assessment, firm scope Soji Adelaja and Melissa Gibson, Michigan State University and risk, investment irreversibility, and the optimal design of weather Tuesday How Beneficial is Tourism? An Analysis of the Economic Impact Sessions 1:00-2:30 pm bonds of Tourism in Il N’gwesi, Kenya Moderator: Dmitry Vedenov, Texas A&M University Vanessa M. DeVeau and Maria Marshall, Purdue University Distributional Impacts of Agritourism in the Arkansas Delta Byways Region Biswa R. Das and Daniel V. Rainey, University of Arkansas

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3051 Consumers and Financial Risk 3052 Savings and Wealth Boca III Boca IV Risk & Uncertainty Consumer Financial Management & Education ACCI Selected Paper Presider: Jessie X. Fan, University of Utah ACCI Selected Paper Presider: Jeff Dew, University of Virginia Presentations: An Estimate of the Reliability of the Survey of Consumer Presentations: Finances Risk-tolerance Question Variation of the Capital Accumulation Ratio and Wealth John Grable and Walter Schumm, Kansas State University Nathan Harness and Swarn Chatterjee, University of Georgia; Michael The Effect of Financial Goal and Wealth Change on Risk Finke, Texas Tech University Tolerance: An Experimental Investigation Determinants of Household Saving Practices Yi Cai, California State University, Northridge; Yali Yang Yoonkyung Yuh, Ewha Womans University; Sherman D. Hanna, The Ohio A Qualitative Analysis of Coping Strategies for Financial Losses State University after a Natural Disaster The Impact of College Financial Aid Rules on Household Linda Bradley and Raymond E. Forgue, University of Kentucky Portfolio Choice Patryk Babiarz and Tansel Yilmazer, Purdue University

Tuesday, July 29 4:00 PM-5:30 PM AAEA Sessions

Trading German Agricultural Payment Entitlements: An 3053 “Whispering in the Ears of Princes”: Experimental Investigation of Bilateral Negotiations Using Experimental Economics to Enno Bahrs, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences; Evaluate Agricultural and Natural Stephan Kroll, California State University, Sacramento; Matthias Sutter, Resource Policies University of Innsbruck Antigua 2 Ex Ante Evaluation of Alternative Agricultural Policies in Policy Analysis Laboratory Posted Bid Markets Christopher T. Bastian, Dale J. Menkhaus, Amy M. Nagler, and Nicole S. AAEA Principal Paper Ballenger, University of Wyoming The goal of this session is to apply experimental economics methods 4:00-5:30 pm Sessions

to current issues in agricultural policy. The appeal of this session is Tuesday broad. The material presented should be of interest to professionals 3054 Success and Management: A Family who work on issues related to agricultural and natural resource Business Perspective policies, behavioral economics, environmental economics, commodity Boca II markets, and also to those who do theoretical work. ACCI/AEM Section Track Session Organizers: Christopher Bastian and Dale Menkhaus, University of Resources are exchanged between the business and the family. As Wyoming shocks occur in the family and business systems, the systems are forced Moderator: Katherine Smith, USDA-Economic Research Service to work together to adapt, thereby causing a reallocation of resources. Several empirical studies have focused on the reciprocal nature of the James Whitaker, USDA-Economic Research Service Discussant: family business system as it exchanges human resources and financial Presentations: resources between systems. This is especially important for farm Smart Subsidies for Conservation businesses of which the majority can be defined as family businesses. Gregory M. Parkhurst; Jason F. Shogren, University of Wyoming The symposium will discuss the success factors of family businesses as they experience shocks to the family and business systems.

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Organizers: Maria Marshall, Purdue University; George Haynes, 3057 Assessing the Impact of EU Biofuels Montana State University Policy on Agricultural Markets: Moderator: Helen Pushkarskaya, University of Kentucky Alternative Modeling Approaches Antigua 4 Presentations: International Section Track Session Characteristics of Successful Family Businesses: A Longitudinal Approach Using the National Family Business Study The 2003 Biofuels Directive, including a 10% binding minimum target Yoon G. Lee, Utah State University for the share of biofuels in overall EU transport petrol and diesel consumption by 2020, prompted EU member states to introduce Farm and Non-farm Family Business Management Strategies differing policies to meet their national targets for biofuel consumption. Maria I. Marshall, Purdue University Clearly this policy will be a major driver on EU and world markets An Analysis of Successful Farm Family Businesses in the years ahead. In this session, a variety of modeling analyses Christine Wilson, Purdue University will be presented to explore the many dimensions of policy impacts The Impact of Natural Disasters on Family Businesses and enhance future modeling efforts, while also informing a broader George Haynes, Montana State University audience on forces driving the evolution of the biofuel sector within the EU. Organizer: William Meyers, University of Missouri 3055 Graduate Student Extension Moderator: William Meyers, University of Missouri Competition Curacao 8 Discussant: Martin Von Lampe, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development Extension Section/GSS Track Session The purpose of this symposium is to allow the three winners of the Presentations: Graduate Student Competition in Extension Economics to present Is the 10% Biofuel Share in Transportation a Realistic Target? their program as part of the Joint Annual Meeting. The winners of the An Economic Assessment of EU Biofuel Policies competition will be determined on-site, prior to the symposium. Martin Banse and Hans van Meijl, Agricultural Economics Research Institute Organizers: Larry Sanders, Oklahoma State University; Ross Pruitt, Louisiana State University EU Policy and National Targets for Biofuels: An Analysis of the Impact of Biodiesel Production on European and Global Agricultural Markets 3056 Trends/Issues of High-value Protein Catherine Benjamin, Magalie Houeé-Bigot, and Olivier Moulois, Institut Products National de la Recherche Agronomique Curacao 2 Linking a Partial Equilibrium Model of Biofuels to EU FAMPS Track Session Agriculture Markets and Beyond Trends and issues with global demand for commodity protein products Julian Binfield and Patrick Westhoff, University of Missouri (e.g., pork, beef, poultry, dairy) have been well researched. Also, the income-demand relationship for these low to intermediate-level protein sources is well understood. However, as income levels continue to climb 3058 Advising: Philosophy and Practical the demand for higher-value protein sources is on the rise. Presentations Lessons Tuesday

Sessions Bonaire 6 4:00-5:30 pm in this session focus on emerging high-value protein source issues and trends. TLC Section Track Session Organizer: Joe Parcell, University of Missouri The general objective of this organized symposium is to promote advising as part of the students’ educational experience. Specific Moderator: Joe Parcell, University of Missouri objectives are: introduce the different philosophies about and objectives Panelists: Peter Goldsmith, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; for advising; identify the struggles of first time advisors and practical Hoy Carman, University of California, Davis; Thomas Marsh, Washington suggestions to avoid pitfalls; and provide practical suggestions for State University; Ann Wilkinson, Food Protein Consultant procedures and processes crafted from years of experience. Organizers: Aaron Johnson, University of Idaho; Cheryl DeVuyst, North Dakota State University Moderator: Allen Wysocki, University of Florida

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Presentations: 3060 Property Rights, Liquidity Issues, and An Overview of Advising Philosophies Strategic Options in CoOperatives Molly Espey, Clemson University Bonaire 2 Lessons from a First Year Advisor Agribusiness Economics & Management Aaron Johnson, University of Idaho AAEA Organized Symposium Lessons from Sage Advisors—Part 1 Cheryl DeVuyst, North Dakota State University Participants will compare and contrast the predictions of financial options reasoning with that of organization theory in exploring the value Lessons from Sage Advisors—Part 2 of members’ equity in cooperatives. Panel discussions will address Paul Wilson, University of Arizona theory and empirical issues, including: 1) options on permanent equity; 2) options on allocated equity/revolving fund, controlled by the board; and 3) options on exit/restructuring, a put option held by management 3059 Renewable Energy: Intended and and exercised on behalf of members. The value of these options depends Unintended Consequences on time horizon, volatility of the existing or prospective businesses, and Bonaire 4 size of the cooperative. Discussions will touch on incentives for action AERE Session (or inaction) and will lead to further applied research on decision rules Concerns about climate change and energy security have sparked that managers, boards, and members will be able to use in strategic considerable interest in developing renewable energy sources. This decision-making. session explores the economic and environmental consequences of Organizer: Victoria Salin, Texas A&M University policies that affect the renewable energy sector. The papers reveal that Moderators: Victoria Salin and John L. Park, Texas A&M University generating environmental benefits from renewable energy is not as simple as it may seem. The authors illustrate this point by incorporating Presentations: price feedbacks into a traditional life cycle model, showing how Panel 1: Control Rights and Strategic Options conservation-driven limits to oil drilling impacts the market for biofuels, Michael L. Cook and Fabio Chaddad, University of Missouri; Gabriel and measuring how growth in biofuels will affect regional water quality. Power, Texas A&M University Moderator: Michael Caputo, University of Central Florida Panel 2: Testing the Theory Discussants: Deepak Rajagopal, University of California, Berkeley; John L. Park, Texas A&M University; Phil Kenkel, Oklahoma State Christian Langpap, Oregon State University; Silvia Secchi, Southern Illinois University; Jimmy Roppolo, Farmers Co-op of El Campo, El Campo, TX University

Presentations: 3061 Econometric Methods A New Microeconomics Based Environmental Life Cycle Model Bonaire 3 Deepak Rajagopal and David Zilberman, University of California, Demand & Price Analysis Berkeley The Environmental Quality Effects of Increased Reliance on AAEA Selected Paper 4:00-5:30 pm

Bioenergy This session features new econometric approaches to Demand & Price Sessions Tuesday JunJie Wu and Christian Langpap, Oregon State University Analysis. Rotation and Water Quality Effects of Harvesting Corn Stover Moderator: Xiaoyong Zheng, North Carolina State University Silvia Secchi, Southern Illinois University; Lyubov Kurkalova, North Carolina A&T State University; Catherine Kling, Phillip W. Gassman, and Presentations: Jha Manoj, Iowa State University Further Evidence of Price Transmission and Asymmetric Adjustment in the U.S. Beef and Pork Sectors Brenda L. Boetel, University of Wisconsin at River Falls; Donald J. Liu, University of Minnesota Does Price Cause Demand or Vice Versa? Evidence from Demand Analyses for Soft Drinks in the United States Dae-Heum Kwon, North Dakota State University

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Do Inventory and Time-to-delivery Effects Vary across Futures Presentations: Contracts? Insights from a Smoothed Bayesian Estimator Powering Wind Berna Karali and Jeffrey H. Dorfman, University of Georgia; Walter N. Joseph Cullen, University of Arizona Thurman, North Carolina State University Economics of Biofuels for Electricity Generation: A Case Study Bayesian Estimation of a Censored AIDS Model with Crop Residues Ariun Ishdorj and Helen Jensen, Iowa State University Thein Maung and Bruce McCarl, Texas A&M University Non-linearity in Belief and Environmental Risk Dynamics Ram Ranjan, CSIRO Land and Water 3062 Meat Demand Antigua 3 Demand & Price Analysis 3064 Risk Management and Futures Markets Bonaire 5 AAEA Selected Paper Food & Agricultural Marketing This session discusses econometric analysis of U.S. meat demand. Moderator: Joshua D. Woodard, University of Illinois at Urbana- AAEA Selected Paper Champaign The papers in this session address issues related to risk management and futures markets. Presentations: Complements and Meat Demand in the U.S. Moderator: Ronald Ward, University of Florida Christopher G. Davis, USDA-Economic Research Service; Stela Stefanova, Presentations: University of Delaware; William Hahn, USDA-Economic Research Service; Quarterly Storage Model of U.S. Cotton Market: Estimation of Steven Yen, University of Tennessee the Basis under Rational Expectations Changes in Import Demand Elasticity for Red Meat and Oleksiy Tokovenko and Lewell F. Gunter, University of Georgia Livestock: Measuring the Impacts of Animal Disease and Trade Empirical Analysis of the Determinants of Marketing Contract Policy Structures Dwi Susanto and C. Parr Rosson, Texas A&M University; Shida Nicholas Paulson and Ani Katchova, University of Illinois at Urbana- Henneberry, Oklahoma State University Champaign; Sergio Lence, Iowa State University Estimating a System of Equations with Overlapping Data: An In Search of a Time-varying Risk Premium in the Cocoa Futures Application to the U.S. Meat Demand System Market: An Econometric Analysis Ardian Harri, Andrew Muhammad, and John D. Anderson, Mississippi Stephen E. Armah, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign State University Demand Analysis for Shrimp in the United States Xia Zhou, University of Tennessee; Saleem Shaik, North Dakota State 3065 Food Safety Crises: Market Reactions University and Public Policy Responses Bonaire 7 Food Safety & Nutrition 3063 Strategies and Issues in Climate Change Mitigation AAEA Selected Paper Tuesday Sessions

4:00-5:30 pm Curacao 5 Food safety crises have been becoming common news events. This Environmental Economics session offers a cross country comparison of price responsiveness to separate food safety events and provides discussions of efficient ways to AAEA Selected Paper trace products through the supply chain and to conduct product recalls. Overcoming global warming is possible by utilizing wind power and Moderator: Julie Caswell, University of Massachusetts Amherst biofuel to some extent. However, what are the impacts due to resulting land use change and water use? Papers will address these concerns. Moderator: Michael Thomas, Florida A&M University

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Presentations: Moderator: Julie Hogeland, USDA-Rural Development Mandatory Food Recalls Michael Thomsen, University of Arkansas; Michael Ollinger, USDA- Presentations: Economic Research Service; Philip Crandall and Corliss O’Bryan, Why Aren’t There Age-based Hedonic Markets for Perishable University of Arkansas Goods? Debbie Kerley, Cornell University; Kent D. Messer, University of Delaware; Market Response to a Food Safety Shock: The 2006 Food-borne Harry M. Kaiser, William D. Schulze, and Brian Wansink, Cornell Illness Outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 Linked to Spinach University Linda Calvin, Carlos Arnade, and Fred Kuchler, USDA-Economic Research Service Toward a Measurement of Free Riding within Private Collective Action Organizations The Impacts of Animal Disease Crises on the Korean Meat Frayne Olson, Iowa State University; Michael L. Cook, University of Market Missouri Moonsoo Park, Yanhong H. Jin, and David A. Bessler, Texas A&M University Those with Blue Hair Please Step Forward: An Economic Theory of Group Formation and Application to Cajas Rurales in Honduras 3066 Market Structure and Pricing II Carlos Elias and Jeffrey Alwang, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Boca VI University; Steven Buck, University of California, Berkeley Industrial Organization/Supply Chain Management 3068 Trade policy AAEA Selected Paper Curacao 1 Analyses of market structure, pricing strategies, and trade issues International Trade are presented. Industries examined include wine, avocados, and biotechnology, as well as examination of trade barriers from minimum AAEA Selected Paper quality standards. This session considers how emerging trade policies affect trade patterns and welfare. Topics include non-indigenous species and preemptive Moderator: Brent Hueth, University of Wisconsin at Madison trade policy, intellectual property rights, multi-lateral trade agreements, Presentations: and regional trade agreements. Countercyclical Retail Price Movements During Periods of Peak Moderator: Jason Grant, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Demand: Evidence for Avocados University Lan Li, Cornell University; Richard Sexton and Hoy Carman, University of California, Davis Presentations: Non-indigenous Species and Preemptive Trade Policy Are Minimum Quality Standards Acting as Non-tariff Trade Chad Lawley, University of Maryland Barriers? Tina L. Saitone, University of California, Davis Does Stronger Intellectual Property Rights Protection Induce

More Bilateral Trade? 4:00-5:30 pm Sessions The Biotechnology Sector: “Bounds” to Market Structure Titus O. Awokuse and Hong Yin, University of Delaware Tuesday Ian Sheldon, The Ohio State University An Economy-wide Analysis of Impacts on Taiwan of Reducing Tariff Escalation on Agriculture-related Products in WTO Doha 3067 Institutional and Behavioral Round Negotiations Economics Ching-Cheng Chang, Academia Sinica; Shih-Hsun Hsu, National Taiwan Antigua 1 University Institutional & Behavioral Economics Has the World Trade Organization Promoted Successful Regional Trade Agreements? AAEA Selected Paper Jason H. Grant and Christopher Parmeter, Virginia Polytechnic Institute Experimental economic methods applied to understanding the and State University cognitive processes in selecting a wine and pricing of perishable goods. Institutional economic frameworks for understanding free riding and the evolution of unity within groups.

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3069 Agricultural Energy Conservation Presentations: AND Efficiency Greenhouse Gas Impacts of Ethanol from Iowa Corn: Life Cycle Bonaire 1 Assessment vs. System Wide Accounting Hongli Feng, Ofir Rubin, and Bruce Babcock, Iowa State University Natural Resource Economics A Spatial Look at Negative Externalities in Agricultural AAEA Organized Symposium Landscapes: Seedless Mandarins and Honey Bee Pollination in Across the United States, skyrocketing energy costs have elevated California. energy conservation to a high priority for many agricultural producers. Antoine Champetier de Ribes, University of California, Davis Reducing and substituting cheaper inputs without sacrificing production Accounting for Activity and Geographic Heterogeneity in is key. Maintaining or growing production is critical as high energy Recreation Demand Models prices and scarce fuel resources increase the demand for biofuels Kavita Sardanam and John C. Bergstrom, University of Georgia; James M. and feedstocks to provide U.S. energy security. Currently, federally Bowker, USDA-Forest Service funded programs exist that assist agricultural producers in becoming more energy efficient. As there is greater emphasis on energy issues, understanding energy conservation will be critical to developing energy 3071 Analysis of Decoupled Payments policies that best serve U.S. agricultural industry and society at large. Curacao 3 Organizers: Lynn Knight, Ensave, Inc.; James Duffield, USDA-Office of Policy Analysis the Chief Economist AAEA Selected Paper Moderator: Lynn Knight, Ensave, Inc. The effects of decoupled payments are a point of contention during Discussants: James Duffield, USDA-Office of the Chief Economist; Craig international negotiations. This session examines the effects of Metz, EnSave, Inc.; John Miranowski, Iowa State University decoupled payments on production. The findings have important policy implications for World Trade Organization negotiations. Presentations: The Energy Pyramid Moderator: Kenrett Jefferson-Moore, North Carolina A&T State Craig Metz, EnSave, Inc. University

Pay for Performance Energy Efficiency Programs Presentations: Craig Metz and Lynn G. Knight, EnSave, Inc. Decoupled Farm Payments and the Role of Base Updating under Producer Response to Energy Prices—A Historical Perspective Uncertainty John Miranowski, Iowa State University Arathi Bhaskar, Iowa State University; John C. Beghin, Iowa State University U.S. Agriculture Energy Conservation and Efficiency Policy Chuck Zelek, USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service Farmers’ Crop Acreage Decisions in the Presence of Credit Constraints. Do Decoupled Payments Matter? Maria Joana Girante and Barry K. Goodwin, North Carolina State 3070 Spatial Issues in Valuation and Policy University; Allen M. Featherstone, Kansas State University Analysis Do Decoupled Payments Stimulate Production? Estimating the Boca VIII Effect on Program Crop Acreage Using Matching Natural Resource Modeling & Valuation Nigel Key and Michael J. Roberts, USDA-Economic Research Service Tuesday Sessions 4:00-5:30 pm AAEA Selected Paper This session illustrates models that address inherently spatial aspects 3072 Food Consumption and Health of the environment and natural resources. Included papers illustrate Bonaire 8 means to incorporate spatial relationships within valuation and policy Policy Analysis analysis. Moderator: Robert J. Johnston, University of Connecticut AAEA Selected Paper The papers in this session analyze food insecurity, children’s health, and selected factors that influence food consumption. Moderator: Elizabeth Appiah, University of Maryland at Baltimore

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Presentations: 3074 Production Efficiency Estimation Food Insecurity and the Food Stamp Program Boca VII Elton Mykerezi, University of Minnesota; Bradford F. Mills, Virginia Productivity Analysis Polytechnic Institute and State University Socioeconomic Status, Neighborhood, Household Behavior, and AAEA Selected Paper Children’s Health in the United States: Evidence from Children’s The analyses reported in these papers use both parametric and Health Survey Data nonparametric methods to estimate production efficiency. Satheesh Aradhyula and Tauhidur Rahman, University of Arizona Moderator: Albert Allen, Mississippi State University “A Definition at Last, but What Does It All Mean?”—Newspaper Coverage of the USDA Organic Seal and Its Effects on Food Presentations: Purchases Quota Deregulation and Organic vs. Conventional Milk—A Kristin Kiesel, University of California, Berkeley Bayesian Distance Function Approach Johannes Sauer, Kent Business School, Imperial College at Wye Effectiveness of COOL in the U.S. Seafood Industry Siny Joseph and Nathalie Lavoie, University of Massachusetts Amherst Explaining Production Inefficiency in China’s Agriculture Using Data Envelope Analysis and Semi-parametric Bootstrapping Daniel Monchuk, University of Southern Mississippi; Zhuo Chen, Centers 3073 Implications and Impacts of Farm for Disease Control and Prevention Program Payments Measuring Eco-efficiency of Agricultural Activities in European Curacao 4 Countries: A Data Envelopment Analysis Policy Analysis Amilcar J. Serrao, Evora University

AAEA Selected Paper Estimation of Efficiency with Heteroskedasticity: A Monte Carlo Study This session addresses the effects of current and alternative farm Taeyoon Kim, Oklahoma State University program payments. Moderator: Zacch Olorunnipa, Florida A&M University 3075 Econometric Models of Spatial and Presentations: Dynamic Processes Effects of U.S. Farm Policy on Equity and Efficiency Curacao 6 Micah Pope and Roman Keeney, Purdue University Research Methods/Econometrics/Statistics Climate Information and Agricultural Disaster Payments in the Southeastern U.S.: Is there Room for Climate Forecasts? AAEA Selected Paper Denis A. Nadolnyak and Valentina M. Hartarska, Auburn University Papers develop and empirically evaluate spatial and dynamic Government Program Payments, Farmland Prices, and the econometric models. Applications include housing hedonics, U.S. Overall Risk to U.S. Agriculture: A Structural Equation-latent economic growth, and cattle forecasts.

Variable Model Moderator: Eric Belasco, Texas Tech University 4:00-5:30 pm Sessions Ashok Mishra and Cheikhna Dedah, Louisiana State University; Kenneth Tuesday Erickson, USDA-Economic Research Service Presentations: A Spatial Hedonic Model with Time-varying Parameters: A New A Revenue-based Alternative to the Counter-cyclical Payment Method Using Flexible Least Squares Program Todd H. Kuethe, Kenneth Foster, and Raymond Florax, Purdue University Joseph Cooper, USDA-Economic Research Service Modeling Non-Linear Spatial Dynamics: A Family of Spatial STAR Models and an Application to U.S. Economic Growth Valerien O. Pede, Raymond Florax, and Matthew T. Holt, Purdue University

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3076 Land Development and Multiple 3077 The impact of biofuels and farm Landscape Benefits spending on rural economies Curacao 7 Boca I Resource & Environmental Policy Analysis Rural/Community Development

AAEA Selected Paper AAEA Selected Paper This session presents models of land-use decisions, land values, and This session contains papers analyzing the impact of biofuels production location choice to evaluate policies for open space conservation. Papers and farm spending on rural communities also consider modeling land-use choices when agents have multiple Moderator: Dayton M. Lambert, University of Tennessee objectives as well as the development of a possible market for bundled ecosystem benefits. Presentations: Moderator: Suzie Greenhalgh, Landcare Research NZ Ltd. Are Biofuels Revitalizing Rural Economies? Projected vs. Actual Labor Market Impacts in the Great Plains Presentations: Janet A. Schlosser, John C. Leatherman, and Jeffrey M. Peterson, Kansas An Agent-based Model of Multifunctional Agricultural State University Landscape Using Genetic Algorithms Biofuel Subsidies, Rural Economies, and Absentee Landlords: Sethuram Soman, Girmay Misgna, Steven Kraft, Christopher Lant, and How Much of the Economic Benefit of the Ethanol Tax Credit Jeffrey Beaulieu, Southern Illinois University Carbondale Stays in the Rural Economy? Bundled Ecosystem Markets—Are They the Future? Michael Brady and Vince Breneman, USDA-Economic Research Service Suzie Greenhalgh, Landcare Research NZ Ltd. Farm Business and Household Expenditure Patterns and Moderating Urban Sprawl through Land Value Taxation Community Linkages Seong-Hoon Cho, Dayton M. Lambert, Roland K. Roberts, and Seung Gyu Dayton M. Lambert, University of Tennessee; Patrick Sullivan, Tim Wojan, Kim, University of Tennessee and David McGranahan, USDA-Economic Research Service

ACCI Sessions

3078 Electronic Banking 3079 Transfer Payments and Policy Boca III Boca IV Emerging Technologies & Productivity Policy Analysis

ACCI Selected Paper ACCI Selected Paper Presider: John Grable, Kansas State University Presider: Michael Finke, Texas Tech University

Presentations: Presentations: Tuesday Sessions

4:00-5:30 pm Consumers’ Adoption of Electronic Banking Technologies: Do Food Stamps Improve Household Food Security? Results Socio-Demographic Comparison from a National Sample of Food Pantry Clients Mohamad Fazli Sabri, Iowa State University; Mei Cher Lee and Jariah Patricia Duffy, Auburn University Masud, Universiti Putra Malaysia Use of E-banking: The Impacts of Time and Technological Affinity Jane Kolodinsky, University of Vermont; Jeanne Hogarth, Federal Reserve Board

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AEM Track Sessions Econometrics Section Track Sessions

1002 Identifying and Developing 2029 Applications of Modern Econometric Professional Programs and Services Theory for Industry Members Monday, July 28, 2008 1:00 PM–2:30 PM Sunday, July 27, 2008 3:30 PM–5:00 PM 3031 The Role of Econometrics in 2002 The Impact of Value Added Agricultural Economics PhD Programs on Agriculture and Rural Programs: Present and Future Communities Tuesday, July 29, 2008 1:00 PM–2:30 PM Monday, July 28, 2008 9:30 AM–11:00 AM

2051 Challenges of Biotechnology Extension Section Track Sessions Regulation after a Decade of 1003 Intersection of Agricultural Commercialization Extension and Agricultural Monday, July 28, 2008 4:00 PM–5:30 PM Innovations: the Case of Biofuels 3034 Structural Equation Modeling—A Sunday, July 27, 2008 3:30 PM–5:00 PM Method Borrowed from Business 2003 Extension Section Livestock Outlook Schools Monday, July 28, 2008 9:30 AM–11:00 AM Tuesday, July 29, 2008 9:30 AM–11:00 AM 2030 Extension Section Policy Outlook 3054 Success and Management: A Family Monday, July 28, 2008 1:00 PM–2:30 PM Business Perspective Tuesday, July 29, 2008 4:00 PM–5:30 PM 2052 Managing Farm and Farm Household Financial Risk CENET Track Sessions Monday, July 28, 2008 4:00 PM–5:30 PM

1001 Recent International Immigrants 3032 Extension Section Crops Outlook and their Impact on America’s Rural Tuesday, July 29, 2008 1:00 PM–2:30 PM Communities Sunday, July 27, 2008 3:30 PM–5:00 PM 3055 Graduate Student Extension Competition 2053 Exploring the Efficacy of Tuesday, July 29, 2008 4:00 PM–5:30 PM Infrastructure Investments and Partnerships for Rural Development FAMPS Track Sessions Monday, July 28, 2008 4:00 PM–5:30 PM 1004 Society and Industry Perceptions of COSBAE Track Sessions Food Safety Sunday, July 27, 2008 3:30 PM–5:00 PM 1003 Intersection of Agricultural Extension and Agricultural 2002 The Impact of Value Added Innovations: The Case of Biofuels Programs on Agriculture and Rural Sunday, July 27, 2008 3:30 PM–5:00 PM Communities Monday, July 28, 2008 9:30 AM–11:00 AM 3003 African Economic Development and Topical Index Agricultural Trade: A Focus on WTO 2031 Distillers Dried Grains: Where to Now? Policy and Regional Integration Monday, July 28, 2008 1:00 PM–2:30 PM Tuesday, July 29, 2008 9:30 AM–11:00 AM 3033 Aquaculture in the United States: A 3030 Showcasing Undergraduate and Big Fish in Small Pond? Graduate Student Research in Tuesday, July 29, 2008 1:00 PM–2:30 PM Agricultural Economics Programs 3056 Trends/Issues of High-value Protein Tuesday, July 29, 2008 1:00 PM–2:30 PM Products Tuesday, July 29, 2008 4:00 PM–5:30 PM

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FSN Section Track Sessions IBES Track Sessions

1005 HIV and AIDS, Food Security, Nutrition, 1007 How Best to Teach Institutional and and Livelihoods Behavioral Economics: Across the Sunday, July 27, 2008 3:30 PM–5:00 PM Curriculum? As Free-standing Courses? Why Bother? 2004 Antibiotic Use in Food Production Sunday, July 27, 2008 3:30 PM–5:00 PM and Antibiotic Resistance: Economic Dimensions of Food Safety and Public 2006 Sufficient Reason for Institutional Health Concerns Change: Applications of Bromley’s Monday, July 28, 2008 9:30 AM–11:00 AM Framework in Trade, Natural Resource, and Farm Policy 2028 Weighing the Relative Contribution Monday, July 28, 2008 9:30 AM–11:00 AM of Time Use in the Energy Balance Equation: Implications for the Risk of 3005 Institutional Analysis of Obesity Environmental Issues—The Right Tool Monday, July 28, 2008 1:00 PM–2:30 PM for the Right Job Tuesday, July 29, 2008 9:30 AM–11:00 AM 2054 There Must Be 50 Ways to Price a Burger—Pricing the Foods We Eat Monday, July 28, 2008 4:00 PM–5:30 PM International Section Track Sessions

3002 The Economics of Risk-based 1008 Theoretical Analysis of Monitoring to Assure Safe Food Globalization, Standards, and Tuesday, July 29, 2008 1:00 PM–2:30 PM Development Sunday, July 27, 2008 3:30 PM–5:00 PM 3029 Hard Hitting and Well Informed: A Conversation between Food Safety 2007 Causal Effects of Conservation Policy Advocates and Researchers Investments: Applications of Matching Tuesday, July 29, 2008 1:00 PM–2:30 PM Methods in Latin America Monday, July 28, 2008 9:30 AM–11:00 AM

GSS Track Sessions 2055 Economics of Agriculture in Afghanistan: A Key Piece in the Puzzle 1006 Getting Involved: Steps to Becoming of Rebuilding a Post Conflict Country an Irresistible Applicant Monday, July 28, 2008 4:00 PM–5:30 PM Sunday, July 27, 2008 3:30 PM–5:00 PM 3006 Reform and Retrenchment of Mexico’s 2005 Reducing Rejection Rates: Steps to Agricultural and Rural Policies Getting Your Articles and Grants Tuesday, July 29, 2008 9:30 AM–11:00 AM Noticed Monday, July 28, 2008 9:30 AM–11:00 AM 3057 Assessing the Impact of EU Biofuels Policy on Agricultural Markets: 3004 Enticing Employers: Steps to Getting Alternative Modeling Approaches Hired Tuesday, July 29, 2008 4:00 PM–5:30 PM Tuesday, July 29, 2008 9:30 AM–11:00 AM

3055 Graduate Student Extension Senior Section Track Sessions Competition Tuesday, July 29, 2008 4:00 PM–5:30 PM 2008 Greatest Contributions to Our Profession by Agricultural and Resource Economists Topical Index Topical Monday, July 28, 2008 9:30 AM–11:00 AM

2056 Whither Trade Agreements: Lessons from the Past and What Lies in the Future? Monday, July 28, 2008 4:00 PM–5:30 PM

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TLC Section Track Sessions M1 Livestock Producers’ Views on Access 2032 Teaching Tips from Top Teachers: 2007 to Veterinary Services AAEA Award Recipients Monday, July 28, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM Monday, July 28, 2008 1:00 PM–2:30 PM M2 Stocker Cattle Management and 3007 Learning Outcomes and Assessment Production: Factors Affecting for Agricultural Economics Adoption of Best Management Tuesday, July 29, 2008 9:30 AM–11:00 AM Practices Monday, July 28, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM 3058 Advising: Philosophy and Practical Lessons M3 Planting Real Option in Cash Rent Tuesday, July 29, 2008 4:00 PM–5:30 PM Valuation Monday, July 28, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM AERE Sessions M4 The Structure Model Based 1009 Incentives and Water Quality Determinants of Capital Structure: Protection A Seemingly Unrelated Regression Sunday, July 27, 2008 3:30 PM–5:00 PM Model Monday, July 28, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM 1010 Land Use: Amenities and Disamenities Sunday, July 27, 2008 3:30 PM–5:00 PM M5 Transitory Shocks and Farm Investment: A Natural Experiment 2009 Empirical Analyses of Environmental Monday, July 28, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM Health Risks Monday, July 28, 2008 9:30 AM–11:00 AM M6 Finding Fun in Food Farming: Characteristics of the U.S. 2033 Issues in Climate Policy Agritourism Industry Monday, July 28, 2008 1:00 PM–2:30 PM Monday, July 28, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM

2057 Conceptual Challenges in Nonmarket M7 Efficiency of Rural Financial Valuation Institutions in the Developing Monday, July 28, 2008 4:00 PM–5:30 PM Countries: A Quantitative Analysis Monday, July 28, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM 2058 New Fisheries Bioeconomics Monday, July 28, 2008 4:00 PM–5:30 PM Agribusiness Economics & Management 3008 Pollution and Firm Behavior 2034 Consumer Interest in Food Policy and Tuesday, July 29, 2008 9:30 AM–11:00 AM Labeling 3035 The Economics of Conservation Monday, July 28, 2008 1:00 PM–2:30 PM Tuesday, July 29, 2008 1:00 PM–2:30 PM 2059 Cooperative Redesign in Potential and 3059 Renewable Energy: Intended and Practice Unintended Consequences Monday, July 28, 2008 4:00 PM–5:30 PM Tuesday, July 29, 2008 4:00 PM–5:30 PM 2060 Ethanol Plant Effects on Crop

Production, Resources, and Topical Index Agricultural Finance & Farm Management Commodity Market Price Monday, July 28, 2008 4:00 PM–5:30 PM 2010 Banking and Credit Monday, July 28, 2008 9:30 AM–11:00 AM 2061 Issues with Agricultural Contracts Monday, July 28, 2008 4:00 PM–5:30 PM 2011 Profitability Monday, July 28, 2008 9:30 AM–11:00 AM 3036 Food Industry Performance Tuesday, July 29, 2008 1:00 PM–2:30 PM 3009 Farm Inputs Decision Making Tuesday, July 29, 2008 9:30 AM–11:00 AM

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3037 Going beyond Energy Technology: M20 Willingness to Pay for Leak-free Building Markets, Measuring Plumbing Materials: Conjoint Analysis Community Impacts and Contingent Valuation Approaches Tuesday, July 29, 2008 1:00 PM–2:30 PM Monday, July 28, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM

3060 Property Rights, Liquidity Issues, and M21 Experimental Determination of Strategic Options in Co-operatives Consumers’ Willingness to Pay for Tuesday, July 29, 2008 4:00 PM–5:30 PM Modified Atmosphere Packaging of Ground Beef T30 Innovation and Uncertainty: Monday, July 28, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM Application of Option and Portfolio Concepts to Strategy Development M22 Parametric and Non-parametric Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM Estimates of Willingness to Pay for Home Drinking Water Infrastructure T31 Basis and Effectiveness of Livestock Monday, July 28, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM Price Hedging: An Empirical Copula Approach M23 FDA Approved Health Claims and Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM Consumers’ Behavioral Intentions: The Case of Soy-based Food T32 The Value of Market Uncertainty in a Monday, July 28, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM Livestock Epidemic Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM M24 Consumer Acceptance of New Peanut Products: Effect of Health Claim T33 Anaerobic Digester Investment: An When Taste Liking Differs Application of Real Options with Monday, July 28, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM Multiple Jump Processes Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM M25 Factors Affecting U.S. Cheese Consumption T34 Risk Analysis of Tilapia Recirculating Monday, July 28, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM Aquaculture Systems: A Monte Carlo Simulation Approach M26 Mother’s Education and Sex Selection—A Theoretical and T35 Examining Stock Price Reactions to Empirical Analysis Pet Food Recalls Monday, July 28, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM M27 Valuing Information on GM foods in a T36 Impact of Board of Directors WTA market: What Information is Most Structure on Farm Credit Valuable? Associations Performance Monday, July 28, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM Demand & Price Analysis Consumer/Household Economics 1011 Commodity Markets in Turmoil: Why 2012 Econometric Advances with Respect Is It Happening and What Does It Mean to Food Consumption for the Future? Monday, July 28, 2008 9:30 AM–11:00 AM Sunday, July 27, 2008 3:30 PM–5:00 PM

2035 Food Consumption Issues 2013 Commodity Prices Monday, July 28, 2008 1:00 PM–2:30 PM Monday, July 28, 2008 9:30 AM–11:00 AM Topical Index Topical 3010 GM Foods and Organic Foods 2036 Demand Estimation Tuesday, July 29, 2008 9:30 AM–11:00 AM Monday, July 28, 2008 1:00 PM–2:30 PM

3038 Urban Food Consumption Trends in 3011 Energy and Agriculture China: Recent Survey Results Tuesday, July 29, 2008 9:30 AM–11:00 AM Tuesday, July 29, 2008 1:00 PM–2:30 PM

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3039 Health and Food Demand M46 Explaining Ghana’s Good Cocoa Tuesday, July 29, 2008 1:00 PM–2:30 PM Karma: A Smuggling-incentive Reversal Argument 3061 Econometric Methods Monday, July 28, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM Tuesday, July 29, 2008 4:00 PM–5:30 PM M47 On the Price Elasticities of Whey 3062 Meat Demand Monday, July 28, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM Tuesday, July 29, 2008 4:00 PM–5:30 PM M48 The Impact of Imports on the Japanese M36 A Granger Causality Analysis of Hog Cycle Branded vs. Private Label Price Monday, July 28, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM Leadership: The Case of Butter in Detroit M49 External Validity of Hypothetical Monday, July 28, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM Surveys and Laboratory Experiments Monday, July 28, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM M37 Do Some Food Prices Vary More than Others? M50 Consumers’ Welfare from New Monday, July 28, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM Product Introductions: The Case of Potato Chips M38 Grocery Retail Price Variation and Its Monday, July 28, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM Determinants: Evidence from Scanner Data Monday, July 28, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM Emerging Technologies & Productivity

M39 Factors Affecting Georgia Farmland 2037 Emerging Technologies and Prices: A Spatial-Temporal Approach Productivity I Monday, July 28, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM Monday, July 28, 2008 1:00 PM–2:30 PM

M40 Is Stabilization of Potato Price and 3040 Emerging Technologies and Supply Effective? Empirical Evidence Productivity II from Idaho Tuesday, July 29, 2008 1:00 PM–2:30 PM Monday, July 28, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM M56 The Next Step for the Bioeconomy: M41 Analysis of Household Demand for Mapping the Impact of Corn Stover Organic Fluid Milk in the United Use on Crop Choice, Land Use, and States Environmental Quality Monday, July 28, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM Monday, July 28, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM

M42 A Sectoral Study of Community Water M57 Dairy Farm Pasture Management: A Demand Comparison of Biofuel Conversion Monday, July 28, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM Opportunities for the Bio-economies of the Midwest and Northeast M43 Does Demand for Ethanol-based Monday, July 28, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM Fuel Increase as the Ethanol Share Increases: A Contingent Valuation M58 Effect of Biofuels Technology Study for E85 Fuel Development on World Agricultural Monday, July 28, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM Markets and Trade Topical Index Monday, July 28, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM M44 The Impact of Retail Promotions on the Demand for Fruit Juices M59 International Collective Action Monday, July 28, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM in Financing Agricultural R&D: Assessing Alternative Institutional M45 Does the Location of Farmland Arrangements Matter in the Determination of Monday, July 28, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM Farmland Price Bubbles? Monday, July 28, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM

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M60 Agricultural Nanotechnologies and 3001 The Growing Role of Local Food Implications on Policy and Consumer Markets Acceptance Tuesday, July 29, 2008 9:30 AM–11:00 AM Monday, July 28, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM 3013 Assessing Consumer Preferences and Willingness to Pay Environmental Economics Tuesday, July 29, 2008 9:30 AM–11:00 AM

2014 Agri-environmental Policy Design 3014 Contracting and Vertical Monday, July 28, 2008 9:30 AM–11:00 AM Coordination Tuesday, July 29, 2008 9:30 AM–11:00 AM 3012 Nonmarket Valuation Tuesday, July 29, 2008 9:30 AM–11:00 AM 3042 Country of Origin Labeling and Traceability 3041 Politics, Policies, and Environmental Tuesday, July 29, 2008 1:00 PM–2:30 PM Protection Tuesday, July 29, 2008 1:00 PM–2:30 PM 3064 Risk Management and Futures Markets Tuesday, July 29, 2008 4:00 PM–5:30 PM 3063 Strategies and Issues in Climate Change Mitigation M12 Estimation of Consumer-level Food Tuesday, July 29, 2008 4:00 PM–5:30 PM Loss for the ERS Food Availability Data System M8 Do Experimental Procedures for Monday, July 28, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM Eliciting Valuations Cause a WTP-WTA Disparity? Theory and Experimental M13 Will Too Many Lower Quality Fruits Evidence Damage the Organic Market? Monday, July 28, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM Monday, July 28, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM

M9 Comparison of Complete M14 Eat Your Veggies: Determining the Combinatorial and Likelihood Fruit and Vegetable Demand among Ratio Test: Empirical Findings from U.S. College Students Residential Choice Experiments Monday, July 28, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM Monday, July 28, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM M15 Search Costs in Identity-preserved M10 Image is Everything: The Role of Agricultural Markets Norms in Public Goods Policy Monday, July 28, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM Monday, July 28, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM M16 Intraday Announcements Effects in M11 Adoption of Phytase by Livestock the Hog Market Farmers Monday, July 28, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM Monday, July 28, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM M17 Measuring the Impact of the Korea- Food & Agricultural Marketing U.S. FTA on the Korean Dairy Market Monday, July 28, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM 2015 Branding, Market Promotion, and Food Quality Information M18 Farm-retail Price Transmission: A Monday, July 28, 2008 9:30 AM–11:00 AM Modern Approach to an Old Issue Monday, July 28, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM 2062 AARES Symposium on Invasive Species Monday, July 28, 2008 4:00 PM–5:30 PM M19 The Role of Hosted Meals and Primary

Topical Index Topical Food Preparer’s Time in Expenditures 2063 The Changing Face of Agricultural on Food-away-from-Home in China and Food Marketing in India: Linking Monday, July 28, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM Farmers with Markets Monday, July 28, 2008 4:00 PM–5:30 PM

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Food Safety & Nutrition M69 Structural Change in the Meat and 2027 Effects of Biosecurity Risk and Food Poultry Industry and the Pathogen Scare Events on Food Prices and Reduction Hazard Analysis Critical Demand Control Point Rule Monday, July 28, 2008 1:00 PM–2:30 PM Monday, July 28, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM

3015 Food Insecurity: Causes and Solutions M70 Economic Costs of HACCP Systems: The Tuesday, July 29, 2008 9:30 AM–11:00 AM Case of Philippine Seafood Processors Monday, July 28, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM 3043 Causes of Obesity: An International Comparison Tuesday, July 29, 2008 1:00 PM–2:30 PM Human Capital & Labor

3065 Food Safety Crises: Market Reactions 2016 Labor Economics and Human Capital and Public Policy Responses Monday, July 28, 2008 9:30 AM–11:00 AM Tuesday, July 29, 2008 4:00 PM–5:30 PM 2038 Meeting Future Human Resource Needs M61 College Students’ Perception of in Agribusiness Obesity: Illinois vs. California Monday, July 28, 2008 1:00 PM–2:30 PM Monday, July 28, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM 3016 Immigration, Global Migration, and M62 The Impact of Food Price and Access the Agricultural Workforce to Food Outlets on Obesity Tuesday, July 29, 2008 9:30 AM–11:00 AM Monday, July 28, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM M71 A Social Marketing Approach to M63 Narrowing the Dietary Gap of Fruit Reducing Eye Injuries in Hispanic Farm and Vegetable Consumption Workers Monday, July 28, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM Monday, July 28, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM

M64 Sustaining Collective Reputation M72 Declines in Male Employment and through Monitoring and Sanctioning: Family Labor Supply: Evidence from The Case of French Tomato Grower Taiwan Groups for Pesticides Residues Monday, July 28, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM Limitation Monday, July 28, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM M73 Event Analysis on Labor Groups Boycott Efforts against Agricultural M65 From Punish to Prevent: The Use of Related Corporations Co-regulation in the Enforcement of Monday, July 28, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM Food Safety Regulations Monday, July 28, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM Industrial Organization/Supply Chain Management

M66 Self-efficacy as a Mediator of 3017 Contracts: Theory and Empirics the Relationship between Dietary Tuesday, July 29, 2008 9:30 AM–11:00 AM Knowledge and Behavior Monday, July 28, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM 3044 Market Structure and Pricing I Tuesday, July 29, 2008 1:00 PM–2:30 PM M67 Dynamic Effects of Education on the Topical Index Efficiency of Food Consumption 3066 Market Structure and Pricing II Monday, July 28, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM Tuesday, July 29, 2008 4:00 PM–5:30 PM

M68 Public Goods, Hysteresis, and T46 Network Externalities in Supermarket Investment in Food Safety Retailing Monday, July 28, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM

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T47 Assessing Wal-Mart’s Expansion and 2064 Nutrition, Health, and Poverty in Entry in Food Retailing Developing Countries Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM Monday, July 28, 2008 4:00 PM–5:30 PM

T48 Nontraditional Food Retailers and 3018 Policies and Priorities for Raising Market Concentration: Different Agricultural Productivity in the Implications for Producers and Least Developed Economies. Consumers Tuesday, July 29, 2008 9:30 AM–11:00 AM Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM 3045 Remittances, Risk, and Finance in T49 Strategic Forward Contracting Developing Countries between Upstream and Downstream Tuesday, July 29, 2008 1:00 PM–2:30 PM Firms Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM T8 Is Foreign Aid Beneficial for Sub- Saharan Africa? A Panel Data Analysis T50 Changes in Transportation Flows Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM Arising from an Expansion in Ethanol Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM T9 Foreign Direct Investment to South Africa: The Effect of Source and Host Country Characteristics on Mode of Institutional & Behavioral Economics Entry Choice Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM 3067 Institutional and Behavioral Economics T10 Analyzing Growth and Welfare Tuesday, July 29, 2008 4:00 PM–5:30 PM Effects of Public Policies in Models of Endogenous Growth with Human T1 The Racial Saving Gap Enigma: Capital: Evidence from South Africa Unraveling the Role of Past Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM Institutions Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM T11 Productivity and the Spatial Distribution of Korean Economic T2 Individual-based Learning and the Activity Performance of Medical Centers in Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM Taiwan: The Case of Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy Surgery T12 Effects of Institutional Measures on Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM Capital Market Imperfections in Latin American Countries T3 Resolving Expected Utility Anomalies Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM with a Social Expected Utility Model Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM T13 Energy, Environment, and the Sustainability of Economic T4 Managing an Externality in the Development in China Confectionary Industry Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM T14 Linkages between Market International Development Participation and Productivity: Results from a Multi-country 2039 Enhancing Market Access for Poverty Household Sample Reduction Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM Monday, July 28, 2008 1:00 PM–2:30 PM Topical Index Topical T15 Land Rental Markets in the Process 2040 Environmental Management of Rural Structural Transformation: and Market Development among Productivity and Equity Impacts in Smallholders China Monday, July 28, 2008 1:00 PM–2:30 PM Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM

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T17 Behavior of Subsistence Producers in T23 An Analysis As to the Casual Response to Technological Change— Relationship between Bioethanol The Elasticity of Cassava Production Expansion and Agricultural Crop and Home Consumption in Benin Acreage Allocation in the United Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM States Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM T18 Trust, Risk, and the Lender-Borrower Relationship: A Micro-lending T24 Determining the Impact of Crawfish Experiment Imports on U.S. Domestic Prices Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM

T19 The Role of Agricultural Research T25 Determinants of U.S. Broiler Meat Institutions in Promoting Exports Agricultural Productivity in Africa: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM An Empirical Analysis Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM T26 Dynamic Import Demand Modeling of Cattle in the U.S. Beef Packing T20 Determinants of Farmgate Cocoa Industry Prices in Post-conflict Liberia Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM T27 Reforming Agricultural Trade: Not T21 Wage Discrimination in India’s Just for the Wealthy Countries Informal Labor Markets: Exploring Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM the Impact of Caster and Gender Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM T28 The Cumulative Effect of Regional Trade Agreements with Phase-in Periods International Trade Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM

2017 Food, Feeds, and Fuels: Global Effects T29 Spread of Retailer Driven Food of Expanded Demand for Energy Crops Quality Standards: An International Monday, July 28, 2008 9:30 AM–11:00 AM Perspective Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM 2018 On the Border: The Inspection and Regulation of Imports Monday, July 28, 2008 9:30 AM–11:00 AM Natural Resource Economics

2041 Analysis of Import Demands 2019 Economics of Land Resources Monday, July 28, 2008 1:00 PM–2:30 PM Monday, July 28, 2008 9:30 AM–11:00 AM

2065 Foreign Direct Investment 2042 Economics of Natural Resources Monday, July 28, 2008 4:00 PM–5:30 PM Monday, July 28, 2008 1:00 PM–2:30 PM

3019 Labeling, Certification, and 2050 Bioenergy in a Global Environment International Trade Monday, July 28, 2008 4:00 PM–5:30 PM Tuesday, July 29, 2008 9:30 AM–11:00 AM

2066 Economics of Water Resources Topical Index 3068 Trade Policy Monday, July 28, 2008 4:00 PM–5:30 PM Tuesday, July 29, 2008 4:00 PM–5:30 PM 3069 Agricultural Energy Conservation & T22 Biofuels: Impact on the World Grain, Efficiency Livestock, and Oilseed Sectors Tuesday, July 29, 2008 4:00 PM–5:30 PM Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM T38 The Consistency of Multiple Choice Sets in Attribute-based Referenda Model Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM

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Policy Analysis T39 A Dynamic Model of Land Use Choices under Climate Change Related Water 2043 The Future of Farm Policy: Scarcity Implications of the 2008 Farm Bill Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM Monday, July 28, 2008 1:00 PM–2:30 PM

T40 Regional Growth and Multi-sectoral 3020 Biofuels, Oil, and Gas: Effects of Land Use Change in Michigan: A Increased Production and Changes in Simultaneous Equations Approach Lease Sale Design Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM Tuesday, July 29, 2008 9:30 AM–11:00 AM

T41 Econometric vs. Engineering 3021 Sustainable Biorefining Systems: Prediction of Water Demand and Preliminary Findings from the NC506 Value for Irrigation Project Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM Tuesday, July 29, 2008 9:30 AM–11:00 AM

T42 Oil Prices and Remittances: 3047 Role of Economics in Animal and Plant Impacts of Oil Price Shocks on Health Protection Regulations the Macroeconomy of a Small, Oil Tuesday, July 29, 2008 1:00 PM–2:30 PM Importing, and Labor Exporting Country 3053 ‘Whispering in the Ears of Princes’: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM Using Experimental Economics to Evaluate Agricultural and Natural Resource Policies Natural Resource Modeling & Valuation Tuesday, July 29, 2008 4:00 PM–5:30 PM

3028 Using Numerical Methods to Address 3071 Analysis of Decoupled Payments Water Supply and Reliability Issues Tuesday, July 29, 2008 4:00 PM–5:30 PM Tuesday, July 29, 2008 1:00 PM–2:30 PM 3072 Food Consumption and Health 3046 Valuation and Land Use Tuesday, July 29, 2008 4:00 PM–5:30 PM Tuesday, July 29, 2008 1:00 PM–2:30 PM 3073 Implications and Impacts of Farm 3070 Spatial Issues in Valuation and Policy Program Payments Analysis Tuesday, July 29, 2008 4:00 PM–5:30 PM Tuesday, July 29, 2008 4:00 PM–5:30 PM M28 Changing Pattern of U.S. Apparel T37 The Effects of Stated Revisitation Trade Post-2008: Implications for the on Willingness to Pay for an U.S. Cotton Industry Environmental Asset: A Multivariate Monday, July 28, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM Probit Analysis of Stygofauna Value in Yanchep National Park, Australia M29 The Impact of the New Energy Bill on Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM U.S. and World Agricultural Markets Monday, July 28, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM T43 Valuation of Recycling Program Attributes on a College Campus M30 The Impacts of U.S. Nonprice Export Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM Promotion Program on Export Demand for Peanuts in Canada, the T44 Invasive Upland Plants and the European Union, and Mexico Recreational Value of Wooded Parks Monday, July 28, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM in Florida

Topical Index Topical Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM M31 Investment Rigidity and Policy Measures T45 Macro-level Economic Evaluation of Monday, July 28, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM Manure Application Rates Using CEEOT- MMS Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM

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M32 Analysis of the Technical Efficiency T63 Production Efficiency of Organic of Hybrid Rice Farms in Nueva Ecija and Conventional Dairy Farms in the and Isabela, Philippines United States Monday, July 28, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM

M33 Do Policy Distortions Affect T64 Returns to IPM Research and Outreach Productivity in Agriculture? for Soybean Aphid Monday, July 28, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM

M34 Welfare Policies and Poverty Rate T65 Optimal Management of Molds in across the 48 Continental United Stored Corn States: A Spatial Approach Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM Monday, July 28, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM T66 Firm Market Value and Production M35 Price Discriminating Procurement Technology Auctions Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM Monday, July 28, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM Productivity Analysis Political Economy 3074 Production Efficiency Estimation T16 GM-free Private Standards, Cheap Tuesday, July 29, 2008 4:00 PM–5:30 PM Talk, and Perceived Commercial Risks: An Analysis of the Role of Trade Issues T67 Bennet-Bowley Measure for in Biotechnology Decision-making in Productivity Analysis of Georgia Developing Countries Agriculture Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM

T68 Research and Development’s Role in Production Economics Total Factor Productivity for the Agricultural Sector 2020 Crop Production Decision Modeling Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM Monday, July 28, 2008 9:30 AM–11:00 AM T69 Improvements of the Representation 2044 Production Economics of Agricultural Productivity Monday, July 28, 2008 1:00 PM–2:30 PM in the WEMAC Model by Using a Nonparametric Approach 3022 Production Management Strategies Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM Tuesday, July 29, 2008 9:30 AM–11:00 AM T70 Productivity Change and Impact of T60 Energy Cost Estimation of Sugar Subsidies: A Comparison of French and Ethanol: A Comparative Analysis with Hungarian COP Farms Corn Ethanol Production in the Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM United States Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM T71 Economic and Environmental Impacts of the Production and T61 The Stochastically Efficient Biomass Transportation of Crop Residues Topical Index Crop Mix: View from the Biorefinery as Bioenergy Feedstocks in North Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM Carolina T62 Assessing the Impacts of the Demand Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM for Corn by the Biofuels Industry on Hog Production: Does Location Matter? Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM

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Research Methods/Econometrics/Statistics T53 Water Communities in the Republic of 2067 Applications of Limited Dependent Macedonia: An Empirical Analysis of Variable Models to Agriculture and Membership Satisfaction and Payment the Environment Behaviour Monday, July 28, 2008 4:00 PM–5:30 PM Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM

3023 Back to the Basics: What is a Farm? T54 Valuing Potential Benefits of What is Rural? Biocontrol Research into Californian Tuesday, July 29, 2008 9:30 AM–11:00 AM Thistle: A Bioeconomic Model Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM 3075 Econometric Models of Spatial and Dynamic Processes T55 Assessing the Potential for Payments Tuesday, July 29, 2008 4:00 PM–5:30 PM for Watershed Services to Reduce Poverty in Guatemala T6 Illustrating Errors in Panel and Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM Long-term Recall Surveys: Evidence from a Food for Education Survey in T56 Can Milk Markets Save the Amazon? Bangladesh Investigating Land Use Choices Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM of Small Farmers in Response to Expanding Milk Markets in the Resource & Environmental Policy Analysis Brazilian Amazon Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM 2021 U.S. Ethanol Policy: Economic and Welfare Effects T57 Achieving National Priorities Monday, July 28, 2008 9:30 AM–11:00 AM in Decentralized Conservation Programs 2045 Approaches and Regulations for Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM Environmental and Resource Management T58 Location Choice of the Shrimp Monday, July 28, 2008 1:00 PM–2:30 PM Fishermen in the Gulf of Mexico Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM 2068 Impacts of U.S. and EU Biofuels Policies on Global Commodity Markets, T59 Combining the Use of Conjoint Choice Poverty, and Environment and Travel Cost Data for Estimating Monday, July 28, 2008 4:00 PM–5:30 PM the Recreational Value of Lake Recreation 3048 Biofuel Mandates and the Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM Environment Tuesday, July 29, 2008 1:00 PM–2:30 PM Risk & Uncertainty

3076 Land Development and Multiple 2001 Climate Variability: Implications for Landscape Benefits Agricultural Crop Production and Tuesday, July 29, 2008 4:00 PM–5:30 PM Risk Management Monday, July 28, 2008 9:30 AM–11:00 AM T51 Volatility Transmission in the Ethanol, Gasoline, and Corn Markets 2046 Applications Involving Modeling and Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM Estimating Multivariate Distributions and Dependency Structures T52 Bioenergy Supply from Public Monday, July 28, 2008 1:00 PM–2:30 PM Forestlands Topical Index Topical Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM 2069 Environmental, Disease, and Health Risk Monday, July 28, 2008 4:00 PM–5:30 PM

3049 Financial Risk and Insurance Tuesday, July 29, 2008 1:00 PM–2:30 PM

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T72 Relaxing Heteroscedasticity M53 County-level Analysis of Small Assumptions in Crop Insurance Rating Business Growth in Three Areas of Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM West Virginia Monday, July 28, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM T73 Economic Evaluation of Freeze Risk Management in Satsuma Mandarin M54 The Differential Impact of Micro- Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM credit and Extension Services on Smallholder Behavior and Livelihood T74 Time-varying Yield Distributions and in Rural Ethiopia the Implications for Crop Insurance Monday, July 28, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM Pricing Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM M55 Rural Education and Out-migration in America T75 California Grape Growers & Powdery Monday, July 28, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM Mildew Management: Can Disease Forecasts Reduce Pesticide Use by Improving Treatment Timing? Teaching, Communication, and Extension Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM 2022 Classroom and Academic Program Strategies for Success Rural/Community Development Monday, July 28, 2008 9:30 AM–11:00 AM

2047 Applied Spatial Analysis Section 2070 Enhancing Learning through Student Monday, July 28, 2008 1:00 PM–2:30 PM Engagement Monday, July 28, 2008 4:00 PM–5:30 PM 3050 Impact of Agritourism and Other Land Uses on Rural Economies T5 Assessment of an Agribusiness Major: A Tuesday, July 29, 2008 1:00 PM–2:30 PM Case Study Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM 3077 The Impact of Biofuels and Farm Spending on Rural Economies T7 Extension Educators Collecting Tuesday, July 29, 2008 4:00 PM–5:30 PM Industry-specific Stakeholder Input Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM M51 Do Overlapping Land Rights Reduce Agricultural Investment? Evidence from Uganda Monday, July 28, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM Topical Index

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ACCI Sessions Posters Numbers Begin with Either an M or T; Session Numbers Begin with Either a 10, 20, or 30.

Jointly Sponsored ACCI & AAEA Sessions M79 The Good, the Bad, the Changed: 2028 Weighing the Relative Contribution Financial Management Behaviors of Time Use in the Energy Balance of Young Enlisted Soldiers and the Equation: Implications for the Risk of Effect of Financial Education—A Obesity Detailed Abstract Monday, July 28, 2008 1:00 PM–2:30 PM Monday, July 28, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM

2052 Managing Farm and Farm Household M80 Impact of Gender on Keeping Personal Financial Risk Account Book Experience for Monday, July 28, 2008 4:00 PM–5:30 PM University Students in Japan Monday, July 28, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM 3029 Hard Hitting and Well Informed: A Conversation between Food Safety M82 Financial Management Practices of Policy Advocates and Researchers College Students from States with Tuesday, July 29, 2008 1:00 PM–2:30 PM Varying Financial Education Mandates Monday, July 28, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM 3054 Success and Management: A Family Business Perspective M84 Exploring the Relationship between Tuesday, July 29, 2008 4:00 PM–5:30 PM Financial Behaviors and Financial Distress/Financial Well-being of Consumer and Mortgage Credit Saving College Students Monday, July 28, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM 3024 Credit and Delinquency Tuesday, July 29, 2008 9:30 AM–11:00 AM M85 Communication among Parents and Youth about Savings and Investments: Impact of Parents’ Marital Status Consumer Financial Management and Education Monday, July 28, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM

2024 Consumer Protections in the Sale T76 Financial Risk Tolerance Profile of of Annuity Products: Challenges, Chinese American Households Approaches, and Lessons Learned Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM Monday, July 28, 2008 9:30 AM–11:00 AM T77 Economic and Psychological 2049 Student Financial Education Determinants of Savings Behavior: A Monday, July 28, 2008 1:00 PM–2:30 PM Conceptual Model Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM 3026 Financial Education Tuesday, July 29, 2008 9:30 AM–11:00 AM T78 Personal Financial Wellness and Workplace Productivity in Malaysia 3052 Savings and Wealth Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM Tuesday, July 29, 2008 1:00 PM–2:30 PM T80 E-banking in the 21st Century—Is M74 Having Mom and Dad Pay for College: the Digital Divide Still Out There? A Financial Advantage or Disadvantage? Detailed Abstract Monday, July 28, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM M76 Financial Well-being among College Students in Malaysia: Needs for Consumer/Household Economics Financial Education Monday, July 28, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM 2023 Aging in America

Topical Index Topical Monday, July 28, 2008 9:30 AM–11:00 AM M77 Financial Behavior and Problems among University Students in 2026 Food Expenditures Malaysia: Research and Education Monday, July 28, 2008 9:30 AM–11:00 AM Implication Monday, July 28, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM 2048 Human Capital Monday, July 28, 2008 1:00 PM–2:30 PM

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Policy Analysis 2072 Ethnicity Issues in Finance Monday, July 28, 2008 4:00 PM–5:30 PM 3079 Transfer Payments and Policy Tuesday, July 29, 2008 4:00 PM–5:30 PM M78 Promotion of a Smoke-free Campus Monday, July 28, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM Political Economy M81 The Effect of Campus Shootings on 3027 Information and Regulation the Quality of Graduate Students’ Tuesday, July 29, 2008 9:30 AM–11:00 AM College Experiences Monday, July 28, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM Research Methods/Econometrics/Statistics T83 Understanding Consumer Views on the Issues of Energy Policy and the 2071 Bringing New Data to the Table on the Biofuel Industry: Does Proximity Energy Balance Question Influence Knowledge and Attitudes? Monday, July 28, 2008 4:00 PM–5:30 PM Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM

T84 Post-disaster Recovery and Risk & Uncertainty Rebuilding: A Consumer Perspective 3051 Consumers and Financial Risk Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM Tuesday, July 29, 2008 1:00 PM–2:30 PM T86 Personality and Empowerment among T85 The Choice of Self-employment and Older Consumers: Purchase of Health the Role of Risk Tolerance and Health Care Products Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM T88 Uncertain Health Expenditures and T87 To What Extent Do Households Precautionary Savings: Evidence from Practice Economizing Behaviour to the Health and Retirement Study Cope with the Price Increase? Analysis Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM of Household Expenditure Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM Rural/Community Development Demand & Price Analysis 2025 Entrepreneurship 3025 Economics of Health Monday, July 28, 2008 9:30 AM–11:00 AM Tuesday, July 29, 2008 9:30 AM–11:00 AM T82 Banana Fibers As By-product of Agro Waste: Raw Source of Material for Emerging Technologies & Productivity Paper and Handicrafts 3078 Electronic Banking Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM Tuesday, July 29, 2008 4:00 PM–5:30 PM Teaching, Communication, and Extension Food Safety & Nutrition M75 The Confidence in Understandings M83 Teaching Food Safety to Children: An of Retirement Concepts among

After School-based Program PreService Teachers Topical Index Monday, July 28, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM Monday, July 28, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM

T81 Cultivating eXtension Communities of Human Capital & Labor Practice Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM T79 Employment Patterns, Family Resources, and Perception: Examining Depressive Symptoms among Rural Low-income Mothers Tuesday, July 29, 2008 2:30 PM–4:00 PM

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Posters Numbers Begin with Either an M or T; Session Numbers Begin with Either a 10, 20, or 30. Program Participants Abbott, Joshua Alexander, Corinne Anderson, Kim Arizona State University; 2019, 2042, 2058 Purdue University; T63, T65 Oklahoma State University; 3032

Abdalla, Charles Al-Hassan, Ramatu Andersson, Hans Pennsylvania State University; 3005 University of Ghana; 2037 Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences; 2047 Abdi, Nur Ali, Daniel Ayalew McGill University; T19 World Bank; M51 Andrews, Margaret USDA-Economic Research Service; 2071 Abdulai, Awudu Ali, Kamar University of Kiel; 2040 University of Saskatchewan; 1001 Anil, Bulent University of Georgia; 2016 Abler, David Allard, Dori Pennsylvania State University; 3045 U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics; 2071 Anne, Zooyob Korea Labor Institute; T85 Acharya, Ram Allen, Albert Arizona State University; M68, 3002 Mississippi State University; 2041, 3074 Antón, Jesús Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Adachi, Kenji Alpuerto, Vida Development; 3006 University of Minnesota; M48 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; 2037 Appiah, Elizabeth Adamowicz, Wiktor Universityof Maryland at Baltimore; 3072 University of Alberta; 2067 Alviola, Pedro Texas A&M University; M41 Aradhyula, Satheesh Adams, Alison University of Arizona; 3072 Oklahoma State University; 3013 Alwang, Jeffrey Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Aragon, Catherine Adams, Charles University; 2037, 3067 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University of Florida; 3033 University; M32 Amanor-Boadu, Vincent Adams, Damian Kansas State University; 2012 Aravindhakshan, Sijesh Oklahoma State University; T44, 3013 Oklahoma State University; 3009 Ames, Glenn Adelaja, Soji University of Georgia; 2035 Arguello, Priscilla Michigan State University; T40, 3040, 3050 Texas Tech University; 2036 Amponsah, William Adler, Paul Georgia Southern University; 3003 Armah, Stephen USDA-Agricultural Research Service; M57 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; An, Donghwan M46, T8, 3064 Agiwal, Swati Seoul National University; M45 University of Minnesota; 2069 Armbruster, Walt An, Henry Farm Foundation, President Emeritus; 1002 Ahearn, Mary University of California, Davis; 3022 USDA-Economic Research Service; 3023 Arnade, Carlos Andam, Kwaw USDA-Economic Research Service; M50, Ahmad, Norfairani International Food Policy Research Institute; 3065 Universiti Putra Malaysia; T86 2007 Artz, Georgeanne Akridge, Jay Anders, Sven University of Missouri; 1001, 2053 Purdue University; 2063 University of Alberta; M21 Asirvatham, Jebaraj

Alavalapati, Janaki Anderson, Ben University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; University of Florida; T44 USDA-Rural Development; 3023 M67

Program Albers, Heidi Anderson, John Participants Oregon State University; 1010 Mississippi State University; 3032, 3062

94 2008 AAEA & ACCI Joint Annual Meeting • Orlando, Florida • July 27-29 2008 AAEA & ACCI Joint Annual Meeting • Orlando, Florida • July 27-29 Posters Numbers Begin with Either an M or T; Session Numbers Begin with Either a 10, 20, or 30. Program Participants Atasoy, Sibel Banerjee, Swagata Beckman, Jayson Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Mississippi State University; T41 Purdue University; 2068, 3020 University; 3015 Banse, Martin Beghin, John Awokuse, Titus Agricultural Economics Research Institute; Iowa State University; 2041, 2062, 3071 University of Delaware; 2065, 3068 3057 Beierlein, James Aziz, Sonia Baquedano, Felix Pennsylvania State University; 2038, 3016 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Purdue University; 3018 University; 2009, 2057 Bekkerman, Anton Barkley, Andrew North Carolina State University; 2062 Babcock, Bruce Kansas State University; 2038, 2070 Iowa State University; M29, 2021, 3020, Belasco, Eric 3070 Barkley, Paul Texas Tech University; 2067, 3075 Oregon State University and Washington State Babiarz, Patryk University; 2008 Bell, Catherine Purdue University; 3052 Federal Reserve Board; M79, T80 Barrett, Christopher Badari, Shamsul Cornell University; 2013 Bell, David Universiti Putra Malaysia; T87 Texas A&M University; M42 Barry, Peter Badibanga, Thaddee University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Belton, Willie University of Minnesota; T10 M4 Georgia Institute of Technology; T1

Baek, Jungho Bastian, Christopher Benjamin, Catherine North Dakota State University; 2065, 3041 University of Wyoming; 3050, 3053 Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique; T69, 3057 Baerenklau, Kenneth Bastin, Sandra University of California, Riverside; 1009 University of Kentucky; 2026 Benton, Matthew University of Colorado at Boulder; 3008 Bahrs, Enno Bates, Alan University of Natural Resources and Applied Illinois State University; 2049 Bergstrom, John Life Sciences; 3053 University of Georgia; M39, 3070 Batie, Sandra Bai, Junfei Michigan State University; 2008 Bergtold, Jason Washington State University; M19, 3038 Kansas State University; 2020 Batte, Marv Baker, Mindy The Ohio State University; 3027 Bernardo, Dan Iowa State University; 3020 Washington State University; 3007 Bauer, Jean Balagtas, Joseph University of Minnesota; T79 Bessler, David Purdue University; T63 Texas A&M University; 3065 Baumann, David Balasubramanian, Siva AAEA; 1002 Bhagowalia, Priya Southern Illinois University; M23, M66 Purdue University; 2064 Bayer, Jessica Baldwin, Katherine Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Bhargava, Vibha Purdue University; 2039 University; 2037 The Ohio State University; 2048, 3025

Ball, Eldon Beach, Robert Bhaskar, Arathi USDA-Economic Research Service; 2029 RTI International; T52 Iowa State University; 3071 Participants Program Ballenger, Nicole Beaulieu, Jeffrey Bhattacharjee, Sanjoy University of Wyoming; 3053 Southern Illinois University Carbondale; 3076 Mississippi State University; M43

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Posters Numbers Begin with Either an M or T; Session Numbers Begin with Either a 10, 20, or 30. Program Participants Bhowmick, Sandeep Boetel, Brenda Boyer, Tracy Louisiana State University; T84 University of Wisconsin at River Falls; 3014, Oklahoma State University; T59, 2022 3061 Bi, Xiang Boyle, Kevin University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Bohman, Mary Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State 3041 USDA-Economic Research Service; 1006 University; 2009

Bier, Vicki Boisvert, Richard Braden, John University of Wisconsin; 2027 Cornell University; 2011 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; 1010 Bii, Margaret Boland, Michael Kenya Medical Research Institute; 1005 Kansas State University; 2002 Bradley, Linda University of Kentucky; 3051 Binenbaum, Eran Bolotova, Yuliya The University of Adelaide; M59 University of Idaho; M40 Brady, Michael USDA-Economic Research Service; M5, Binfield, Julian Bonabana-Wabbi, Jackline 2044, 3077 University of Missouri; 3057 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 2040 Branch, Judy Birur, Dileep University of Vermont; T81 Purdue University; 2068, 3020, 3048 Bonanno, Alessandro University of Connecticut; T47, 3044 Braun, Bonnie Bitsch, Vera University of Maryland; T79 Michigan State University; T7 Bond, Craig Colorado State University; 3001 Breneman, Vince Black, J. Roy USDA-Economic Research Service; 3077 Michigan State University; 3014 Bondoc, Irina University of Florida; M6 Bridges, Kimberly Black, William Texas Tech University; 2048 Louisiana State University; T84 Bontems, Philippe Toulouse School of Economics; 2014 Briggeman, Brian Blackwell, Cindy Oklahoma State University; 2022, 3014 Oklahoma State University; 2070 Boonsaeng, Tullaya University of Georgia; M30, 2041 Brinkman, Blondel Blalock, Garrick USDA-Animal and Plant Health Inspection Cornell University; T9 Bosch, Darrell Service; 1003, 2051 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Blayney, Don University; M20, M22 Brown, Barbara USDA-Economic Research Service; M25, University of Utah; 2028, 2071 M47 Bose, Mousumi Louisiana State University; T84 Brown, Cheryl Blinn-Pike, Lynn West Virginia University; M53, 3001, 3013 Indiana University-Purdue University Bougherara, Douadia Indianapolis; M74 Institut National de la Recherche Brown, Mark Agronomique; 3005 Florida Department of Citrus; 2034 Bodor, Nick Tulane, University; 2028 Bouhsina, Zouhair Brown, Scott Institut National de la Recherche University of Missouri; 2003 Boehlje, Mike Agronomique; M64 Purdue University; T30 Brown, Susan Bourdôt, Graeme Utah State University; 2048

Boessen, Chris AgResearch, New Zealand; T54 University of Missouri; 3033 Bryant, Henry Bowker, James Texas A&M University; M58

Program USDA-Forest Service; 3070 Participants

96 2008 AAEA & ACCI Joint Annual Meeting • Orlando, Florida • July 27-29 2008 AAEA & ACCI Joint Annual Meeting • Orlando, Florida • July 27-29 Posters Numbers Begin with Either an M or T; Session Numbers Begin with Either a 10, 20, or 30. Program Participants Bucholtz, Shawn Capps, Oral Chang, Ching-Cheng USDA-Farm Service Agency; 3023 Texas A&M University; M41, 2005, 2015, Academia Sinica; 3049, 3068 2032, 2054 Buck, Steven Chang, Hung-Hao University of California, Berkeley; 3067 Caputo, Michael National Taiwan University; 2011, 2012, University of Central Florida; 3059 2044 Bulte, Erwin Wageningen Agricultural University; 2042 Carlson, Andrea Chang, Jae Bong USDA-Center for Nutrition Policy and Oklahoma State University; M49, 2034 Burkey, Mark Promotion; 2054, 3015 North Carolina A&T State University; T71 Chatterjee, Swarn Carman, Hoy University of Georgia; 3052 Burnquist, Heloisa University of California, Davis; M18, M38, Sao Paulo University; 2017 3056, 3066 Chattopadhyay, Sudip San Francisco State University; 2057 Burton, Michael Carpentier, Alain University of Western Australia; T37 Institut National de la Recherche Chembezi, Duncan Agronomique; 2020 Alabama A&M University; 1003, 2051 Busby, Gwenlyn Oregon State University; 1010 Carson, Diane Chen, Susan Texas A&M University; M83 Purdue University; 2064 Buzby, Jean USDA-Economic Research Service; M12 Carson, Richard Chen, Wei University of California, San Diego; 2058 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Bwenge, Anafrida University; 2045 University of Florida; T44 Cash, Sean University of Alberta; 1005, 2018 Chen, Yong Cai, Yi The Ohio State University; 1010 California State University, Northridge; 3051 Castillio, Marco Georgia Institute of Technology; 2016 Chen, Zhuo Cai, Yongxia Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Texas A&M University; 2069 Caswell, Julie 3074 University of Massachusetts Amherst; M65, Calkins, Chris 3065 Cheng, Mei-Luan University of Nebraska at Lincoln; 3013 Cornell University; 2011 Cavaletto, Richard Calvin, Linda California Polytechnic State University at San Cherian, Anil USDA-Economic Research Service; 3002, Luis Obispo; 2070 Emmanuel Hospital Association, Delhi, India; 3065 1005 Cavazos, Ricardo Cameron, Trudy University of California, Berkeley; 2029 Chern, Wen University of Oregon; 2009, 2057 National Chung Cheng University; 2012, Caviglia-Harris, Jill 3010 Campbell, Todd Salisbury University; T56, 2007, 3035 Iowa State University; 1009 Chintawar, Sachin Cawley, John Louisiana State University; T60, T62 Campiche, Jody Cornell University; 3043 Texas A&M University; M58 Chishti, Anwar Centner, Terence NWFP Agricultural University; 2064 Canavari, Maurizio University of Georgia; 2004 Alma Mater Studiorum-University of Bologna; Cho, Seong-Hoon Participants

3019 Chaddad, Fabio University of Tennessee; 3076 Program University of Missouri; 1007, 3060 Cantore, Nicola Cho, Soo Hyun

Alma Mater Studiorum-University of Bologna; Champetier de Ribes, Antoine The Ohio State University; 3027 3019 University of California, Davis; 3070

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Posters Numbers Begin with Either an M or T; Session Numbers Begin with Either a 10, 20, or 30. Program Participants Cho, Yongsung Cordier, Eléonore de Brauw, Alan Korea University; 3041 Institut National de la Recherche International Food Policy Research Institute; Agronomique; M64 T6, 3045 Cho, Yoon-Na Purdue University; M78 Costello, Christopher De La Torre Ugarte, Daniel University of California, Santa Barbara; 2058 University of Tennessee; 3020 Christy, Ralph Cornell University; 3003 Covey, Ted Dedah, Cheikhna USDA-Economic Research Service; 2010 Louisiana State University; 3073 Chung, Chanjin Oklahoma State University; 3014 Crandall, Philip Deen, John University of Arkansas; 3065 University of Minnesota; 3022 Chung, Rebecca National Pingtung University of Science and Crespi, John Deininger, Klaus Technology; 2034 Kansas State University; 3044 World Bank; M51, T15, T21, 3018, 3045 Clark, Matthew Cromartie, John Kansas State University; 3048 USDA-Economic Research Service; 3023 del Pilar Moreno-Sanchez, Rocio Universidad de los Andes; 2042 Clifton, Ivery Crooks, Anthony University of Georgia; M39 USDA-Rural Development; 3037 Delahoussaye, Ron Oklahoma State University; 2070 Coble, Keith Cude, Brenda Mississippi State University; T72 University of Georgia; 2024, 2026 Deltas, George University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Cobourn, Kelly Cuffey, Joel 3008 University of California, Davis; 2067 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; 1005 Denbaly, Mark Codron, Jean-Marie USDA-Economic Research Service; 2054 Institut National de la Recherche Cullen, Joseph Agronomique; M64 University of Arizona; 3063 Dennis, Jennifer Purdue University; 3003, 3030 Coleman, Marcus Curtis, Stan Michigan State University; 3030 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Deodhar, Satish 3022 Indian Institute of Management; 3010 Collins, Alan West Virginia University; 2014, 3013 Cutter, W. Bowman DeShazo, J.R. University of California, Riverside; 1009 University of California, Los Angeles; 2009, Colom, Alejandra 2057 The World Bank; T55 Daniels, Lisa Washington College; 1007 Desousa-Brown, Semoa Colson, Greg West Virginia University; M53 Iowa State University; 3010, 3042 Dannerbeck, Anne University of Missouri; 1001 Detre, Joshua Conrad, Jon Louisiana State University; T62, 2010 Cornell University; 2019 Das, Biswa University of Arkansas; 3050 Dettmann, Rachael Cook, Michael USDA-Economic Research Service; M50, University of Missouri; 3060, 3067 Davis, Christopher 3010 USDA-Economic Research Service; M25, Cooper, Joseph 2035, 3062 DeVaney, Sharon

USDA-Economic Research Service; 3073 Purdue University; M78, M81, T77, 2049 Davis, George Copur, Zeynep Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State DeVeau, Vanessa

Program University of Florida; M84 University; 2028, 2054 Purdue University; 3050 Participants

98 2008 AAEA & ACCI Joint Annual Meeting • Orlando, Florida • July 27-29 2008 AAEA & ACCI Joint Annual Meeting • Orlando, Florida • July 27-29 Posters Numbers Begin with Either an M or T; Session Numbers Begin with Either a 10, 20, or 30. Program Participants Devkota, Nirmala Doye, Damona Ekanem, Enefiok Louisiana State University 3012 Oklahoma State University; M2 Tennessee State University; 1003, 2063

DeVuyst, Cheryl Dozi, Pedro Elad, Renata North Dakota State University; 2070, 3058 University of Missouri; 1001 Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College; M39

Dew, Jeff Dozier, William Elbakidze, Levan University of Virginia; 3024, 3052 Auburn University; T73 University of Idaho; 2027, 3022

DeWoody, Autumn Drescher, Larissa Elias, Carlos University of California, Riverside; 1009 University of Alberta; T29, 3039 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; 3067 Dhakal, Bhubaneswor D’Souza, Gerard Lincoln University, New Zealand; T54 West Virginia University; 3013 Ellinger, Paul University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Diao, Xinshen Du, Xiaodong 2010, 2052 International Food Policy Research Institute; Iowa State University; M3, 2044, 3011 2065 Elobeid, Amani Duersch, Daniel Iowa State University; M29 Diaz, Francisco University of Utah; 3027 University of Georgia; 2035 Emerson, Robert Duffield, James University of Florida; M73, 2016, 3009 Dicks, Michael USDA-Office of the Chief Economist; 2050, Oklahoma State University; 2022 3069 Engle, Carole University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff; 3033 Dictson, Derek Duffy, Mike IAMA; 1002 Iowa State University; 3023 English, Alicia University of Tennessee; T20 Diekmann, Florian Duffy, Patricia The Ohio State University; 3027 Auburn University; T73, 2020, 3015, English, Burton 3079 University of Tennessee; M1, 3020, 3022, Dobbs, Thomas 3040 South Dakota State University; 2006 Duke, Joshua University of Delaware; 3046 Enver, Ayesha Dodson, Charles The Ohio State University; 2047 USDA-Farm Service Agency; 2010 Duquette, Eric University of Oregon; 2057 Epplin, Francis Doeksen, Gerald Oklahoma State University; 3009 Oklahoma State University; 2005 Ebel, Robert University of Florida; T73 Erickson, Kenneth Dolan, Elizabeth USDA-Economic Research Service; M57, University of New Hampshire; T79 Eberle, Phillip 2011, 3073 Southern Illinois University Carbondale; 2064 Dong, Diansheng Escalante, Cesar USDA-Economic Research Service; M37, Ecker, Olivier University of Georgia; T51, 2050, 3039 2035 University of Hohenheim; 2064 Espey, Molly Dong, Fengxia Edwards, William Clemson University; 2070, 3058 Iowa State University; M29, 3011, 3043 Iowa State University; 2044 Espitia-Escuer, Manuel Dooley, Frank Eggers, Tim Universidad de Zaragoza; 2061 Participants

Purdue University; T50, 3007 Iowa State University; 2052 Program Estrin, Andrew Dorfman, Jeffrey Eisen, Joesph FDA-Center for Food Safety and Applied

University of Georgia; 2047, 3050, 3061 University of Wisconsin at Madison; M82, Nutrition; 2004 M84

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Posters Numbers Begin with Either an M or T; Session Numbers Begin with Either a 10, 20, or 30. Program Participants Evans, Jason Fernandez-Cornejo, Jorge Forgue, Raymond West Virginia University; 3013 USDA-Economic Research Service; 2017, University of Kentucky; 3051 2037, 2051, 3040 Evans, Mary Fortenbery, Randall University of Tennessee; 3008 Fernandez-Olmos, Marta University of Wisconsin at Madison; 2060, Universidad de Zaragoza; 2061 3021 Fabiosa, Jacinto Iowa State University; M29 Ferraro, Paul Foster, Kenneth Georgia State University; 2007, 2016 Purdue University; 2039, 3022, 3042, Facendola, Maria 3075 Istituto di Servizi per il Mercato Agricolo Ferrier, Peyton Alimentare; 3042 USDA-Economic Research Service; 2018 Fox, Jonathan The Ohio State University; 2025 Fairchild, Gary Ferris, Ted University of Florida; 2032 Michigan State University; T7 Fox, Matthew Boston University; 1005 Falck-Zepeda, José Fields, Deacue International Food Policy Research Institute; Auburn University; 1003, 3030 Frank, Julieta 2037 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Figueroa, Maria M16 Faltermeier, Liane University of Missouri; 2039 University of Kiel; 2040 Fujii, Tomokii Finke, Michael Singapore Management University; 2033 Fan, Jessie Texas Tech University; 2048, 3052, 3079 University of Utah; 2026, 2028, 2071, Fulginiti, Lilyan 3051 Firestone, Simon University of Nebraska at Lincoln; 2019 University of California, Berkeley; T66 Fan, Maoyong Fumasi, Roland University of California, Berkeley; T66 Flanders, Archie Texas A&M University; T61 University of Georgia; T67 Fang, Cheng Furtan, Hartley Food and Agriculture Organization of the Fletcher, Cynthia University of Saskatchewan; 2016, 3036 United Nations; 3015 Iowa State University; T83 Galinato, Gregmar Fang, Mei-Chi Fletcher, Stanley Washington State University; 2033, 3035 The Ohio State University; 2072, 3025 University of Georgia; M24, M30, 2041 Galloway, Hamilton Fang, Xingming Florax, Raymond Economic Modeling Specialists Inc.; 2047 Southwestern University of Finance and Purdue University; 1001, 2029, 3075 Economics; T13 Ganesh, Sankar Flores, Lisa Indian Institute of Management; 3010 Featherstone, Allen University of Missouri; 1001 Kansas State University; M31, 3071 Gao, Zhifeng Flores, Nicholas University of Florida; 2015 Feng, Hongli University of Colorado, Boulder; 2057 Iowa State University; 3070 Garasky, Steve Fogarasi, Jozsef Iowa State University; 2012 Feng, Xia Agricultural Economics Research Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Budapest; T70 Garcia, Philip 1010 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Foltz, Jeremy M16

Fernandez, Linda University of Wisconsin at Madison; 2060 University of California, Riverside; 2018 Garkey, Janet Foltz, John Credit Union National Association; 3029

Program University of Idaho; 3007 Participants

100 2008 AAEA & ACCI Joint Annual Meeting • Orlando, Florida • July 27-29 2008 AAEA & ACCI Joint Annual Meeting • Orlando, Florida • July 27-29 Posters Numbers Begin with Either an M or T; Session Numbers Begin with Either a 10, 20, or 30. Program Participants Garland, Clark Glauber, Joe Grable, John University of Tennessee; 1003 USDA-Office of the Chief Economist; 2056 Kansas State University; 2052, 3051, 3078

Gassman, Philip Gloy, Brent Gramig, Benjamin Iowa State University; M56, 1009, 3059 Cornell University; T36, 2005, 2011, Purdue University; 2069 3009 Ge, Yuanong Granger, Clive Purdue University; M13 Goddard, Ellen University of California, San Diego; 2058 University of Alberta; 3039 Gebben, David Grant, Jason Michigan State University; T43 Godette, Sherrie Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State North Carolina A&T State University; 3030 University; T28, 3068 Gebremedhin, Tesfa West Virginia University; M53 Goeschl, Timo Gray, Allan University of Heidelberg; 3035 Purdue University; T30 Gedikoglu, Haluk University of Missouri; M11 Goldsmith, Peter Grebitus, Carola University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Iowa State University; M21, T29, 3042 Gehlhar, Mark 3034, 3056 USDA-Economic Research Service; 2017, Green, Anna 2065 Golub, Alla Louisiana State University; T84 Purdue University; 3048 Gelso, Brett Green, Steven American University; T12, 3020 Gomes, Carla Arkansas State University; 2022 Cornell University; 2019 Ghosh, Gaurav Greene, Cathy Pennsylvania State University; 1009 Gomez, Miguel USDA-Economic Research Service; 2011 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Ghosh, Sujit 2015, 3036 Greenhalgh, Suzie North Carolina State University; 2046, 2067 Landcare Research NZ Ltd.; 2045, 3076 Good, Darrel Giannakas, Konstantinos University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Griffin, Ronald University of Nebraska at Lincoln; 3042 2013 Texas A&M University; M42

Gibson, John Goodhue, Rachael Grube, Arthur University of Waikato; T6 University of California, Davis; 2067 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; 3040

Gibson, Melissa Goodwin, Barry Gruère, Guillaume Michigan State University; 3050 North Carolina State University; T26, T72, International Food Policy Research Institute; T74, 2001, 2029, 2062, 3011, 3071 T16 Gil, José Centre de Recerca en Economia i Gopinath, Munisamy Gu, Weishi Desenvolupament Agroalimentari; M31, Oregon State University, M50, T11 University of Delaware; 2065 3011 Gorham, Liz Guan, Zhengfei Giles, John South Dakota State University; T76, 3024 Michigan State University; 2010 World Bank; 3045 Gorin, Daniel Gubanova, Tatiana Gillard, Steve Federal Reserve Board; M79 University of Alberta; 2067 University of Minnesota; 2022 Gorton, Matthew Gubler, W. Douglas Participants

Ginder, Roger University of Newcastle; T53 University of California, Davis; T75 Program Iowa State University; 3037 Gow, Hamish Guerrero, Santiago

Girante, Maria Joana Michigan State University; 2039, 3036 University of California, Berkeley; 2045 North Carolina State University; 3071

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Posters Numbers Begin with Either an M or T; Session Numbers Begin with Either a 10, 20, or 30. Program Participants Guiling, Jenny Han, Sungill Hayes, Dermot World Resources Institute; 2045 Konkuk University; 3014 Iowa State University; M29, 1011, 2004, 3011, 3020 Gulati, Ashok Hanna, Sherman International Food Policy Research Institute; The Ohio State University; 2023, 2072, Hayhoe, Celia 2063 3024, 3052 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; T77 Gundersen, Craig Hansen, Kristiana Iowa State University; T83, 2012 University of California, Davis; 3028 Haynes, Deborah Montana State University; 3026 Gunderson, Michael Hansen, Michael University of Florida; T36, 2011, 3036 Consumers Union; 3029 Haynes, George Montana State University; 3054 Gunter, Lewell Hardesty, Shermain University of Georgia; 3064 University of California, Davis; 3001 Hellerstein, Daniel USDA-Economic Research Service; M35 Gupta, Sonam Hari, Nagarajan University of Arizona; 3041 National Council for Applied Economic Henderson, Jason Research; T21 Omaha Federal Reserve Bank; 2002 Gustavsen, Geir Norwegian Agricultural Economics Research Harness, Nathan Henehan, Brian Institute; 2012 University of Georgia; 3052 Cornell University; 2059

Guthrie, Joanne Haron, Sharifah Henneberry, Shida USDA-Economic Research Service; 2071 Universiti Putra Malaysia; T86, T87 Oklahoma State University; 3062

Gutter, Michael Harri, Ardian Hennessy, David University of Florida; M82, M84, T77, Mississippi State University; T72, 3062 Iowa State University; M3, 2044 2072 Harrington, Donna Ramirez Herndon, Bill Haab, Timothy University of Vermont; 3008 Mississippi State University; M43 The Ohio State University; M10 Harris, Jeffrey Heron, David Hadrich, Joleen Commodity Futures Trading Commission; USDA-Animal and Plant Health Inspection Michigan State University; 3009 1011 Service; 2051

Hahn, William Harris, Michael Hertel, Thomas USDA-Economic Research Service; 3062 USDA-Economic Research Service; 2011 Purdue University; 2068, 3020, 3048

Haight, Robert Harris, Thomas Herzfeld, Thomas U.S. Forest Service, Northern Station; 2069 University of Nevada at Reno; 2047 Wageningen Agricultural University; T29

Hailu, Yohannes Hart, Chad Higgins, Lindsey Michigan State University; T40, 3040 Iowa State University; M29 Texas A&M University; 2066

Halis, Rasmina Hartarska, Valentina Higgins, Nathaniel Universiti Putra Malaysia; T82 Auburn University; M7, 3073 University of Maryland; M35

Hamilton, Stephen Harwood, Joy Highfield, Linda California Polytechnic State University at San UDSA-Farm Service Agency; 2030 Texas A&M University; 3022 Luis Obispo; T46

Hashim, Aziah Hilbun, Brian Hamrick, Karen Universiti Putra Malaysia; T82 Louisiana State University; T24, 2041 USDA-Economic Research Service; 2028,

Program 2071 Hayenga, Marvin Hilker, James Participants Iowa State University; 2008 Michigan State University; 3014, 3021

102 2008 AAEA & ACCI Joint Annual Meeting • Orlando, Florida • July 27-29 2008 AAEA & ACCI Joint Annual Meeting • Orlando, Florida • July 27-29 Posters Numbers Begin with Either an M or T; Session Numbers Begin with Either a 10, 20, or 30. Program Participants Hill, Dorothy Horan, Richard Hubbs, Todd Society of Human Resource Management; Michigan State University; 2042, 2069 Purdue University; 3022 2038 Horna, Daniela Hudson, Darren Hilmer, Christiana International Food Policy Research Institute; Mississippi State University; 3004 San Diego State University; 2016 2037 Hueth, Brent Hilmer, Michael Horsch, Eric University of Wisconsin at Madison; 2059, San Diego State University; 2016 University of Wisconsin at Madison; 3012 3017, 3037, 3066

Hira, Tahira K. Houeé-Bigot, Magalie Huffman, Sonya Iowa State University; M77 Institut National de la Recherche Iowa State University; 3043 Agronomique; T69, 3057 Hite, Diane Huffman, Wallace Auburn University; 2020 House, Lisa Iowa State University; 1001, 3010 University of Florida; M14, M44, 3007 Hoag, Dana Hunt, Fen Colorado State University; 3050 Houston, Jack USDA-Cooperative State Research, Education, University of Georgia; 2026, 2035 and Extension Service; 2021 Hoffmann, Ruben Institut National de la Recherche Howard, Wayne Hunter, Greg Agronomique; 2047 California Polytechnic State University at San California State Polytechnic University at Luis Obispo; 1006, 2070 Pomona; M8 Hoffmann, Sandra Resources for the Future; 3002 Howitt, Richard Huston, Sandra University of California, Davis; 3028 Texas Tech University; 2048 Hogarth, Jeanne Federal Reserve Board; M79, T80, 3078 Hsu, Shih-Hsun Hatchinson, Paul National Taiwan University; 3068 Tulane University, 2028 Hogeland, Julie USDA-Rural Development; 2047, 2059, Hsu, Wen-Ko Hyde, Jeffrey 3023, 3037, 3067 National Central University; 3049 Pennsylvania State University; T33

Holcomb, Rodney Hu, Wuyang Ibrahim, Mohammed Oklahoma State University; 2002, 2070 University of Kentucky; M60, 2026, 2067 Fort Valley State University; M39

Holland, Margaret Hu, Xiaoping Innes, Robert University of Wisconsin; 2007 Southwestern University of Finance and University of Arizona; 2045, 3041 Economics; T13 Holland, Stephen Interis, Matthew University of North Carolina at Greensboro; Huang, Chung The Ohio State University; M10 T71 University of Georgia; 3010 Irwin, Elena Holt, Matthew Huang, Fung-Mey The Ohio State University; 1010 Purdue University; 2029, 3075 National Taiwan University; M72, T2 Irwin, Scott Homans, Frances Huang, Jikun University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; University of Minnesota; 2069 China Academy of Sciences; M19, 3038 1011, 2013

Hong, Gong-Soog Huang, Kuo Isengildina-Massa, Olga The Ohio State University; 3025 USDA-Economic Research Service; M63 Clemson University; 2013 Participants Program Hooker, Neal Huang, Sophia Ishdorj, Ariun The Ohio State University; T35, 1004 USDA-Economic Research Service; M63 Iowa State University; 3061

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Posters Numbers Begin with Either an M or T; Session Numbers Begin with Either a 10, 20, or 30. Program Participants Isserman, Andrew Jha, Manoj Jonkman, Jeffrey University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Iowa State University; 1009 University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences; 2053 M74 Jhamb, Arvind Iwai, Nobuyuki Adani Agrifresh, India; 2063 Jordan, Jeff University of Florida; 2016, 3009 University of Georgia; 2016 Jin, Songqing Jaber, Mazen Michigan State University; T15, 3018 Joseph, Siny Louisiana State University; T84 University of Massachusetts, Amherst; 3072 Jin, Yanhong Jackson, Charlene Texas A&M University; 2027, 3065 Joshi, Satish USDA-Agricultural Research Service; 2004 Michigan State University; M70 Jindal, Rohit Jackson, Jeremy Michigan State University; 3035 Josling, Tim University of California, San Diego; 2058 Stanford University; 2056 Johnson, Aaron Jagger, Craig University of Idaho; 2002, 3058 Just, David Economist, Majority Staff, House Agriculture Cornell University; T18 Committee; 2030 Johnson, Erica University of Oregon; 2009 Kabaci, Mary Jane James, Russell University of Georgia; M85 University of Georgia; 3026 Johnson, Heather Washington State University; 3034 Kadiyala, Suneetha Jan, Dawood International Food Policy Research Institute; NWFP Agricultural University; 2064 Johnson, Rachel 1005 Oklahoma State University; M2 Janes, Marianne Kaffine, Daniel U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics; 2071 Johnson, Wayne Colorado School of Mines; 2058 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Jang, Jongick 3022 Kai Lin, Karen Lai University of Missouri; 3014 Universiti Putra Malaysia; T78 Johnston, Robert Jayaprakash, Ciriyam University of Connecticut; 1009, 3046, Kaiser, Harry The Ohio State University; 1010 3070 Cornell University; 3039, 3067

Jayasinghe, Sampath Jolliffe, Dean Kaneko, Naoya Iowa State University; 2041 USDA-Economic Research Service; 2012 University of Georgia; M24

Jayne, Thomas Jones, David Kanter, Christopher Michigan State University; 3018 University of Nebraska at Lincoln; 2070 Cornell University; 3039

Jeanetta, Steven Jones, Derrick Kaplowitz, Michael University of Missouri; 1001 Food Standards Agency; 3043 Michigan State University; T43

Jefferson-Moore, Kenrett Jones, Eugene Karali, Berna North Carolina A&T State University; 2062, The Ohio State University; 2013, 3039 University of Georgia; 3061 3030, 3071 Jones, Keithly Karns, Shawn Jensen, Helen USDA-Economic Research Service; 3003 RTI International; M12 Iowa State University; M21, 3014, 3002, 3043, 3061 Jones, Luke Karp, Larry

University of Tennessee; 3035 University of California, Berkeley; 2014, Jensen, Kimberly 2033 University of Tennessee; M1, 3020, 3042 Jones, Rodney

Program Kansas State University; 3044 Participants

104 2008 AAEA & ACCI Joint Annual Meeting • Orlando, Florida • July 27-29 2008 AAEA & ACCI Joint Annual Meeting • Orlando, Florida • July 27-29 Posters Numbers Begin with Either an M or T; Session Numbers Begin with Either a 10, 20, or 30. Program Participants Katchova, Ani Keske, Catherine Kirwan, Barrett University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Colorado State University; 3050 University of Maryland; M35, 2010, 2044, 2061, 3036, 3064 3023, 3043 Key, Nigel Kates, Walter USDA-Economic Research Service; 2014, Klaiber, H. Allen Florida Fruit & Vegetable Association; 3016 3040, 3044, 3071 North Carolina State University; 1010

Katjiuongua, Hikuepi Khanna, Madhu Kleczyk, Ewa Michigan State University; 3003 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State 2021, 3008, 3041 University; M20 Kauffman, Daniel Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Kiesel, Kristin Klemick, Heather University Virginia; 2045 University of California, Berkeley; 3072 US Environmental Protection Agency; 2040

Kaufman, James Kim, Bonggeun Kling, Catherine University of Missouri; 2053 Sungkyunkwan University; T6 Iowa State University; M56, 3059

Kaval, Pamela Kim, Eun-Jin Knight, Erika University of Waikato; 2019 Tarleton State University; 2023 University of Florida; M44, 2005, 2034

Kawase, Yasushi Kim, Hanho Knight, Lynn University of Tsukuba; 3046 Seoul National University; T11 Ensave, Inc.; 3069

Kaye-Blake, William Kim, Hyeyoung Knutson, Ronald Lincoln University, New Zealand; T54 University of Florida; 2036 Texas A&M University; 2056

Kazmierczak, Richard Kim, Hyungsoo Kodra, Bledar Louisisana State University; T58 University of Kentucky; 3025 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; T34 Ke, Weiming Kim, Kwansoo South Dakota State University; T76 Seoul National University; M45 Koenig, Steven USDA-Farm Service Agency; 2010 Keeling-Bond, Jennifer Kim, Man-Keun Colorado State University; 3001 University of Nevada at Reno; 2047 Kolodinsky, Jane University of Vermont; T80, 2025, 2028, Keeney, Roman Kim, Seung Gyu 3024, 3029, 3078 Purdue University; 3073 University of Tennessee; 3076 Koo, Won W. Kegan, Al Kim, Sounghun North Dakota State University; 2065, 3041 Arizona State University; 3002 Korea Rural Economic Institute; M17 Koonce, Joan Keithly, Walter Kim, Taeyoon University of Georgia; M85 Louisiana State University; T58 Oklahoma State University; 3074 Kowaleski-Jones, Lori Kenkel, Phil Kinnucan, Henry University of Utah; 2028, 2071 Oklahoma State University; 3060 Auburn University; 3015 Kraft, Steven Kennedy, P. Lynn Kinsey, Jean Southern Illinois University Carbondale; 3076 Louisiana State University; T23, T24, 2041 University of Minnesota; 2054 Krantz-Kent, Rachel Ker, Alan Kipp, Walter U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics; 2071 Participants

University of Arizona; T72, 3031 University of Alberta; 1005 Program Krause, Mark Kerley, Debbie Kirsch, Larry John Deere; 3007

Cornell University; 3067 IMR Health Economics; 2024, 3029

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Posters Numbers Begin with Either an M or T; Session Numbers Begin with Either a 10, 20, or 30. Program Participants Kraybill, Dave Langemeier, Michael Lee, David The Ohio State University; 3030 Kansas State University; 2044 Cornell University; 2040

Kroll, Stephan Langley, Suchada Lee, Donna California State University, Sacramento; 3053 USDA-Economic Research Service; 2017, ENTRIX Inc.; M6, T44 2065 Kropp, Jaclyn Lee, Jonghee Cornell University; T18 Langpap, Christian The Ohio State University; 3024 Oregon State University; 3059 Kuchler, Fred Lee, Jonq-Ying USDA-Economic Research Service; 3065 Lant, Christopher University of Florida; M44, 2034, 2036 Southern Illinois University Carbondale; 3076 Kuethe, Todd Lee, Joong Gwang Purdue University; 3075 Larkin, Sherry Tetra Tech; 1009 University of Florida; T44, 3004, 3022 Kukielka, Jessica Lee, Mei Cher University of Connecticut; 3046 Larsen, Michael Universiti Putra Malaysia; 3078 Iowa State University; T83 Kuku, Yemisi Lee, Min-Yang Iowa State University; 2012 Larson, Bruce University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Boston University; 1005 3012 Kuminoff, Nick Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Larson, James Lee, Yoon University; 3012 University of Tennessee; 3022, 3040 Utah State University; 2048, 3054

Kurkalova, Lyubov Lasco, Christine Lee, Youngjae North Carolina A&T State University; M56, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Louisiana State University; T23, T24, 2041 T71, 2020, 3059 2021 Lehtonen, Heikki Kuzmina, Yana Latruffe, Laure MTT Agrifood Research Finland; T32 Louisiana State University; T84 Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique; T70 Leibtag, Ephraim Kwon, Dae-Heum USDA-Economic Research Service; 3013 North Dakota State University; 3061 Lavoie, Nathalie University of Massachusetts Amherst; 3072 Leister, Amanda Lacey, Jill Purdue University; 2015 U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics; 2071 Lawley, Chad University of Maryland; 3068 Lemons, Tonya Lacy, Curt Southern Illinois University; M23 University of Georgia; 2003 Lawrence, Frances Louisiana State University; T84 Lence, Sergio LaFrance, Jeffrey Iowa State University; 3064 University of California, Berkeley; 2029 Lawrence, John Iowa State University; 2031 Leroux, Anke Lalman, David La Trobe University; 3035 Oklahoma State University; M2 Lazarus, William University of Minnesota; 3021 Letort, Elodie Lambert, Dayton Institut National de la Recherche University of Tennessee; T20, T28, 2029, Le Moing, Monique Agronomique; 2020 3022, 3076, 3077 Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique; T69 Leuer, Elizabeth

Lambert, Lixia Pennsylvania State University; T33 University of Tennessee; 3020 Leatherman, John Kansas State University; 3077 Lewis, David

Program Landes, Maurice University of Wisconsin at Madison; 3012 Participants USDA-Economic Research Service; 2063

106 2008 AAEA & ACCI Joint Annual Meeting • Orlando, Florida • July 27-29 2008 AAEA & ACCI Joint Annual Meeting • Orlando, Florida • July 27-29 Posters Numbers Begin with Either an M or T; Session Numbers Begin with Either a 10, 20, or 30. Program Participants Li, Ji Lohr, Luanne MacDonald, Maurice The Ohio State University; T35 University of Georgia; T51, 2050 Iowa State University; M76, M77

Li, Lan Loibl, Caezilia Mahasuweerachai, Phumsith Cornell University; M18, M38, 3066 The Ohio State University; 2049, 3027 Oklahoma State University; T59

Li, Xianghong Lopez, Rigoberto A. Maille, Peter Kansas State University; T48 University of Connecticut; 3044 West Virginia University; 2014

Liang, Jing Low, Sarah Malaga, Jaime Iowa State University; 3002, 3014, 3034 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Texas Tech University; 2036 2053, 3004 Ligon, Ethan Maldonado, Jorge University of California, Berkeley; 3017 Lowenberg-DeBoer, Jess Universidad de los Andes; 2042 Purdue University; 2055 Lin, Biing-Hwan Mancino, Lisa USDA-Economic Research Service; M25, Lucey, Thomas USDA-Economic Research Service; 2054 2054, 3010 Illinois State University; M75, 2049 Mandal, Bidisha Lindamood, Suzanne Luckert, Marty Washington State University; 3043 Ohio Legislative Service Commission; 2072 University of Alberta; 1005 Manoj, Jha Lindsey, Jeanne Luh, Yir-Hueih Iowa State University; 3059 USDA-Risk Management Agency; T73 National Taiwan University; T2 Marchant, Mary Lino, Mark Luo, Chern-Jhea Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State USDA-Center for Nutrition Policy and National Taiwan University; T2 University; 3007 Promotion; 3015 Lupi, Frank Marchiori, Carmen Liu, Chuanlan Michigan State University; T38, T43, 3009, London School of Economics; 3028 Louisiana State University; T84 3046 Marcoul, Philippe Liu, Donald Lusk, Jayson Iowa State University; 3017 University of Minnesota; 3061 Oklahoma State University; M27, M49, 1004, 2034, 2051, 3042 Mark, Tyler Liu, Kang Louisiana State University; T62 National Chung Cheng University; 2012 Lybbert, Travis University of California, Davis; T75 Marra, Michele Liu, Lirong North Carolina State University; 3022 University of Tennessee; 3008 Lynne, Gary University of Nebraska; 2006 Marre, Alexander Liu, Yanyan Oregon State University; M55 World Bank; 3045 Lyons, Angela University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Marsh, Thomas Liverpool, Saweda Onipede 2023 Washington State University; 2062, 3031, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; 3056 M54 Mabaya, Edward Cornell University; 2013, 3003 Marshall, David Livingston, Michael University of Kentucky; M60 USDA-Economic Research Service; 2020, Mabiso, Athur 3022 Michigan State University; 3011 Marshall, Maria Participants

Purdue University; 3050, 3054 Program Lohmar, Bryan MacDonald, James USDA-Economic Research Service; M19, USDA-Economic Research Service; 3044 Martin, Marshall

3038 Purdue University; 2051

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Posters Numbers Begin with Either an M or T; Session Numbers Begin with Either a 10, 20, or 30. Program Participants Martin, Steven McIntosh, Christopher Meyers, William Mississippi State University; T41, 3022, University of Idaho; M40 University of Missouri; 3057 3032 McKissick, John Mhlanga, Nomathemba Martin, Vance University of Georgia; T67 Cornell University; T9 University of Melbourne; 3035 McLeod, Donald Michalski, Joel Martinez, Domingo University of Wyoming; 3050 Washington State University; 2033 University of Missouri; 1001 McNamara, Kevin Micheels, Eric Martinez, Steve Purdue University; 2055 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; USDA-Economic Research Service; 2015 3036 McNamara, Paul Masters, William University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Milberg, Hayden Purdue University; T14, 2064, 3018 M67, 1005, 2004, 2064 Economist, Minority Staff, Senate Agriculture Committee; 2030 Masud, Jariah McPhail, Lihong Lu Universiti Putra Malaysia; M76, M77, T78, Iowa State University; 2021 Milich, Lenard T82, T87, 3078 Afghan Research and Evaluation Unit, Kabul; Mehta, Shefali 2055 Mauldin, Teresa University of Minnesota; 2069 University of Georgia; M85 Miller, Ashley Melkonyan, Tigran University of Wyoming; 3050 Maung, Thein University of Nevado at Reno; 3017 Texas A&M University; 3063 Miller, Stacy Menapace, Luisa West Virginia University; 3001 Mayen, Carlos Iowa State University; 3042 Purdue University; T63 Mills, Bradford Menard, Jamey Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Mayer, Robert University of Tennessee; M1 University; 3015, 3072 University of Utah; 3027 Menkhaus, Dale Mimura, Yoko Maynard, Leigh University of Wyoming; 3053 University of Georgia; M85 University of Kentucky; M36, 3013 Mercier, Stephanie Minot, Nicholas McBride, William Economist, Majority Staff, Senate Agriculture International Food Policy Research Institute; USDA-Economic Research Service; 2011, Committee; 2030, 2056 2039 2014 Mersland, Roy Minten, Bart McCalla, Alex Agder University College, Norway; M7 International Food Policy Research Institute; University of California, Davis; 2008 2063 Messer, Kent McCann, Laura University of Delaware; 3039, 3067 Miranowski, John University of Missouri; M11, 2006, 3005 Iowa State University; 3069 Metz, Craig McCarl, Bruce EnSave, Inc.; 3069 Misgna, Girmay Texas A&M University; 2001, 2027, 2054, Southern Illinois University Carbondale; 3076 3022, 3063 Meyer, Andrew University of Colorado at Boulder; 2057 Mishra, Ashok McGee, Denis Louisiana State University; 2011, 3073 Iowa State University; 2062 Meyer, Seth

University of Missouri; 2031 Mitani, Yohei McGranahan, David University of Colorado at Boulder; 2057 USDA-Economic Research Service; 3077 Meyer, Steve

Program Paragon Economics and National Pork Board; Mitra, Arnab Participants 2003 University of Arizona; 3041

108 2008 AAEA & ACCI Joint Annual Meeting • Orlando, Florida • July 27-29 2008 AAEA & ACCI Joint Annual Meeting • Orlando, Florida • July 27-29 Posters Numbers Begin with Either an M or T; Session Numbers Begin with Either a 10, 20, or 30. Program Participants Mittelhammer, Ron Muhammad, Andrew Nganje, William Washington State University; 2029, 3031 Mississippi State University; 2041, 3003, Arizona State University; M68, 2027, 3002 3030, 3062 Miyata, Sachiko Ngeleza, Guyslain World Bank; 2039 Musshoff, Oliver Mississippi State University; M34 Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin; 3049 Mohanty, Samarendu Nichols, John Texas Tech University; M28 Mutambatsere, Emelly Texas A&M University; 1002 Cornell University; 3003 Mohtadi, Hamid Nickerson, Cindy University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee; 2069 Muth, Mary USDA-Economic Research Service; T57 RTI International; M12, 3002 Monaghan, Paul Nielsen, Samara University of South Florida; M71, 3016 Muthusamy, Kala RTI International; M12 University of Idaho; M40 Monchuk, Daniel Niemi, Jarkko University of Southern Mississippi; 3074 Mutuc, Maria MTT Agrifood Research Finland; T32 Texas Tech University; M28 Montalto, Catherine Nilsson, Jerker The Ohio State University; 3025 Myers, Christina Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences; University of Maryland; M62 2059 Montgomery, Claire Oregon State University; 1010 Myers, Robert Nilsson, Tomas Michigan State University; T3 University of Alberta; 3042 Montoya, Jorge Sentient Research; 3026 Mykerezi, Elton Norby, Bo University of Minnesota; 3072 Texas A&M University; 3022 Moon, Wanki Southern Illinois University; M23, M66 Nabiryo, Christine Norton, Edgar TASO, Kampala, Uganda; 1005 Illinois State University; M75 Mooney, Daniel University of Tennessee; 3040 Nadolnyak, Denis Norton, George Auburn University; 2001, 3073 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univer- Moore, Rebecca sity; 2037 University of Georgia; 2042, 3012 Nagler, Amy University of Wyoming; 3053 Norwood, F. Bailey Morshed, Mahbub Oklahoma State University; M49, 2022 Southern Illinois University; T42 Nam, Sangjeong University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Novak, James Moschini, Giancarlo 2010 Auburn University; 2001, 2030 Iowa State University; 2041 Narayanan, Sudha Nui, Huizhen Moss, Charles Cornell University; 1008 Louisiana State University; T58 University of Florida; M6 Naseem, Anwar Nusser, Sarah Moulois, Olivier McGill University; T19 Iowa State University; T83 Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique; 3057 Nefstead, Ward Nzuma, Jonathan University of Minnesota; 2022, 2070 University of Nairobi; 2036 Msangi, Siwa International Food Policy Research Institute; Nehring, Richard O’Brien, Daniel Participants

2017, 2037, 3028 USDA-Economic Research Service; M57, Kansas State University; 2060 Program 3040 Mugera, Amin O’Bryan, Corliss

Kansas State University; 2044 Nelson, Robert University of Arkansas; 3065 Auburn University; T73

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Posters Numbers Begin with Either an M or T; Session Numbers Begin with Either a 10, 20, or 30. Program Participants Odening, Martin Parkhurst, Gregory Peters, May Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin; 3049 3053 USDA-Economic Research Service; T22

Ohdoko, Taro Parmeter, Christopher Peterson, Everett Hiroshima University, Japan; M9 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; 3012, 3068 University; 2045 Ollinger, Michael USDA-Economic Research Service; M69, Partridge, Jamie Peterson, Jeffrey 3065 University of Saskatchewan; 2016 Kansas State University; 3028, 3048, 3077

Olorunnipa, Zacch Partridge, Mark Petrie, Reagan Florida A&M University; 3073 The Ohio State University; 1001, 2047 Georgia State University; 2016

Olson, Frayne Pattanayak, Subhrendu Petrolia, Daniel Iowa State University; 3037, 3067 RTI International; T56 Mississippi State University; M43

Olynk, Nicole Patterson, Paul Phaneuf, Daniel Michigan State University; 2015, 3009 University of Idaho; M40 North Carolina State University; 1010

Onel, Gulcan Paudel, Krishna Phillips, Jon North Carolina State University; T26 Louisiana State University 2014 California State Polytechnic University at Pomona; T4, T5 Osei, Edward Paulin, Geoffrey Tarleton State University; T45 U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics; 2071 Pick, Daniel USDA-Economic Research Service; M50, Osteen, Craig Paulose, Saira 3042 USDA-Economic Research Service; 2062 Emmanuel Hospital Association, Delhi, India; 1005 Piggott, Nicholas Outlaw, Joe North Carolina State University; 2062 Texas A&M University; M58, T61, 2066 Paulson, Nicholas University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Pingali, Prabhu Pagiola, Stefano M4, 2043, 2069, 3020, 3064 Gates Foundation; 2068 World Bank; T55 Paxton, Kenneth Piot-Lepetit, Isabelle Paim, Laily Louisiana State University; 3022 Institut National de la Recherche Universiti Putra Malaysia; M76, M77, T86, Agronomique; T69 T87 Pede, Valerien Purdue University; 3075 Pitafi, Basharat Palacios, Jamille Southern Illinois University; T42 University of Florida; M73 Peel, Derrell Oklahoma State University; M2 Plain, Ron Pan, Suwen University of Missouri; 2003, 3032 Texas Tech University; 3015 Peng, Chao Renmin University of China; 3045 Plastina, Alejandro Parcell, Joe International Cotton Advisory Committee; University of Missouri; 2002, 2034, 3056 Penn, J.B. 3042 Deere & Company; 1002, 2056 Pardey, Philip Pofahl, Geoffrey University of Minnesota; M59 Perriam, James Michigan State University; T46, 3044 University of Western Australia; T37 Park, John Pope, Jaren

Texas A&M University; 3060 Perrin, Richard Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University of Nebraska at Lincoln; 3021 University; 3012 Park, Moonsoo

Program Texas A&M University; 3065 Pescatori, Andrea Pope, Micah Participants Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland; 1011 Purdue University; 3073

110 2008 AAEA & ACCI Joint Annual Meeting • Orlando, Florida • July 27-29 2008 AAEA & ACCI Joint Annual Meeting • Orlando, Florida • July 27-29 Posters Numbers Begin with Either an M or T; Session Numbers Begin with Either a 10, 20, or 30. Program Participants Pope, Rulon Ran, Tao Rice, Ketra Brigham Young University; 2029 Louisiana State University; T58 The Ohio State University; 3030

Pouliot, Sebastien Raney, Terri Richards, Leslie University of California, Davis; 3042 Food and Agriculture Organization of the Oregon State University; T79 United Nations; 2068 Power, Gabriel Richards, Timothy Texas A&M University; T31, 2027, 2061, Ranjan, Ram Arizona State University; M68, T46, 2054, 3060 CSIRO Land and Water; T39, 2066, 3063 3044

Preckel, Paul Rao, Vithala Richardson, James Purdue University; T65, 3022 Cornell University; 3036 Texas A&M University; M58, T61, 2066

Prestemon, Jeffrey Raper, Kellie Richter, Susan USDA-Forest Service; 2029 Oklahoma State University; M2, 3014 University of California, Davis; 3045

Pruitt, Ross Raper, Randy Ricker-Gilbert, Jacob Louisiana State University; 1006, 2022, USDA-Agricultural Research Service; 2020 Michigan State University; 3018 3055 Ratcliffe, Janneke Rickertsen, Kyrre Pushkarskaya, Helen University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Norwegian University of Life Sciences; 2012 University of Kentucky; 3054 3026 Rickman, Dan Qaim, Matin Rayburn, Edward Oklahoma State University; 1001 Georg-August-University of Goettingen; 2064 West Virginia University; 3013 Rimal, Arbindra Quear, Justin Reardon, Thomas Missouri State University; M23, M66 Purdue Univesity; T50 Michigan State University; 2063 Rios, Ana Rabotyagov, Sergey Reaves, Dixie Purdue University; T14 University of Washington; 1009 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; 2032, 3007 Rizov, Marian Racevskis, Laila Middlesex University Business School; 3043 University of Florida; T38, 2066, 3046 Reeves, Jeanne Cotton Incorporated; 3022 Robb, Cliff Ragasa, Catherine University of Alabama; 3026 Michigan State University; M70 Reiboldt, Wendy California State University, Long Beach; M83 Robb, James Raghunathan, Uthra Livestock Marketing Information Center; University of Georgia; 3039 Reilly, Joseph 2003 USDA-National Agricultural Statistics Service; Rahman, Tauhidur 3023 Roberts, Matthew University of Arizona; 3072 The Ohio State University; 2050 Reimer, Jeff Rainey, Daniel Oregon State University; M15, 2065, 3019 Roberts, Michael University of Arkansas; 3050 USDA-Economic Research Service; M5, Rejesus, Roderick M35, 2020, 3011, 3040, 3071 Rajagopal, Deepak North Carolina State University; M28, 3015 University of California, Berkeley; 3059 Roberts, Roland Ribaudo, Marc University of Tennessee; T20, 3022, 3040, Rakotoarisoa, Manitra USDA-Economic Research Service; T57, 3076 Participants

Consultative Group on International 2014 Program Agricultural Research; M33 Robison, Lindon Rice, Janet Michigan State University; T3

Ramirez, Octavio Tulane University; 2028 University of Georgia; 1006

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Posters Numbers Begin with Either an M or T; Session Numbers Begin with Either a 10, 20, or 30. Program Participants Roche, Erin Rubin, Ofir Sarker, Rakhal University of Vermont; 3024 Iowa State University; 3070 University of Guelph; 2036

Rodgers, Chris Rupured, Michael Sarmiento, Camilo University of Florida; T36 University of Georgia; M85 Fannie Mae; 2060

Rodgers, Paul Russo, Carlo Sauer, Johannes American Sheep Industry Association; 3047 University of California, Davis; 2059 Kent Business School, Imperial College at Wye; T53, 3036, 3074 Roe, Brian Rust, John The Ohio State University; 3019 University of Maryland; 2020 Sawe, Fredrick Kenya Medical Research Institute; 1005 Roe, Terry Rutherford, Leann University of Minnesota; 1008 Purdue University; M81 Schaeffer, Peter West Virginia University; M53 Roosen, Jutta Saak, Alexander Technische Universität München; M21 Kansas State University; 2066, 3017 Scharff, Robert The Ohio State University; T88, 3025 Roppolo, Jimmy Sabharwal, Ashish Farmers Co-op of El Campo, El Campo, TX; Cornell University; 2019 Schaub, James 3060 USDA-Office of the Chief Economist; 3047 Sabri, Mohamad Fazli Rose, Diego Iowa State University; M76, M77, T78, Schinckel, Allan Tulane University; 2028 3078 Purdue University; 3022

Rose, Steven Saha, Shubhayu Schlenker, Wolfram U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; 3048 North Carolina State University; T56 Columbia University; 2033, 2058

Rosegrant, Mark Saitone, Tina Schlosser, Janet International Food Policy Research Institute; University of California, Davis; 3066 Kansas State University; 3077 2017, 2068 Salin, Victoria Schmid, Allan Rosell-Martinez, Jorge Texas A&M University; 3029, 3060 Michigan State University; T4 Universidad de Zaragoza; 2061 Salleh, Naimah Schmidgall, Timothy Rosen, Sydney Universiti Putra Malaysia.; T82 Illinois State University; M61, 2060 Boston University; 1005 Sam, Abdoul Schmidt, Michele Rosson, C. Parr The Ohio State University; 3019 University of Vermont; 2025 Texas A&M University; 2015, 3062 Sanders, John Schmit, Todd Roucan, Maud Purdue University; 3018 Cornell University; 2059 Purdue University; T30 Sanders, Larry Schnitkey, Gary Rousu, Matthew Oklahoma State University; 2030, 3055 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Susquehanna University; M8, M27, 3010 2043 Sandretto, Carmen Rouviere, Elodie USDA-Economic Research Service; M57 Schoengold, Karina University of Montpellier; M65 University of Nebraska; 3028 Sano, Yoshie Rozelle, Scott Washington State University at Vancouver; Schroeder, Ted

Stanford University; 1008 T79 Kansas State University; 2015, 2031

Ruan, Jun Sardana, Kavita Schroeter, Christiane

Program Iowa State University; M29 University of Georgia; 3070 California Polytechnic State University at San Participants Luis Obispo; M14, M61, 2022

112 2008 AAEA & ACCI Joint Annual Meeting • Orlando, Florida • July 27-29 2008 AAEA & ACCI Joint Annual Meeting • Orlando, Florida • July 27-29 Posters Numbers Begin with Either an M or T; Session Numbers Begin with Either a 10, 20, or 30. Program Participants Schuchardt, Jane Shaffer, Douglas Sikka, Balraj USDA-Cooperative State Research, Education, United States Army Medical Research Unit- G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and and Extension Service; 2052 Kenya; 1005 Technology; 2063

Schulze, William Shahbazi, Abolghasem Sills, Erin Cornell University; 3067 North Carolina A&T State University; T71 North Carolina State University; T56, 2007, 3035 Schumm, Walter Shaik, Saleem Kansas State University; 3051 North Dakota State University; 3062 Silverstein, Jeff USDA-Agricultural Research Service; 3033 Schweikhardt, David Sharma, Ritu Michigan State University; 2006, 3005 University of California, Riverside; 1009 Siman, Emilian University of Missouri; 2025 Scotten, Carol Sharpe, Deanna Knox College; 2009 University of Missouri; 2025, 3025 Simon, Jonathon Boston University; 1005 Seale, James Shaw, Douglass University of Florida; 3038 Texas A&M University; 2069 Simon, Leo University of California, Berkeley; 3028 Seaquist, Jack Shawhan, Daniel AIR Worldwide; 2001 Cornell University; 2033 Singh, Sukhpal Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad; Sebranek, Joseph Sheeder, Robert 2063 Iowa State University; M21 University of Nebraska; 2006 Singh, Surendra Sebuliba, Isaac Sheldon, Ian Tennessee State University; 2063 TASO, Kampala, Uganda; 1005 The Ohio State University; 2050, 3019, 3066 Sitton, Shelly Secchi, Silvia Oklahoma State University; 2070 Southern Illinois University; M56, 3040, Shelton, Alison 3059 AARP Public Policy Institute; 2024 Sivo, Stephen University of Central Florida; 3034 Selman, Mindy Sherrick, Bruce World Resources Institute; 2045 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Skillern, Peter M4 Community Reinvestment Association of North Senauer, Benjamin Carolina; 3026 University of Minnesota; 2050 Shi, Qinghua Shanghai Jiaotong University, China; 2046 Smale, Melinda Serra, Teresa International Food Policy Research Institute; Centre de Recerca en Economia i Shi, Xiangdong 2037 Desenvolupament Agroalimentari; M31, University of Minnesota; M4 3011 Smith, Katherine Shigekawa, Junko USDA-Economic Research Service; 3053 Serrao, Amilcar Saitama University; M80 Evora University; 3074 Smith, Ken Shively, Gerald University of Utah; 2028, 2071 Sesmero, Juan Purdue University; T14 University of Nebraska at Lincoln; 2019 Sohngen, Brent Shogren, Jason The Ohio State University; 2044, 3048 Setia, Parveen University of Wyoming; 2042, 3053 USDA-Animal and Plant Health Inspection Soman, Sethuram Participants

Service; 3047 Shortle, James Southern Illinois University Carbondale; 3076 Program Pennsylvania State University; 1009 Sexton, Richard Somwaru, Agapi

University of California, Davis; M18, M38, Sigei, Carolyne USDA-Economic Research Service; T22, 1008, 3044, 3066 Kenya Medical Research Institute; 1005 2017, 2065

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Posters Numbers Begin with Either an M or T; Session Numbers Begin with Either a 10, 20, or 30. Program Participants Song, Feng Stillman, Richard Swinnen, Johan Michigan State University; T64 USDA-Economic Research Service; T22 K.U.Leuven, Belgium; 1008

Songqing, Jin Stinson, Tom Swinton, Scott Michigan State University; T21 University of Minnesota; 2027 Michigan State University; T64

Soubeyran, Raphaël Stohs, Stephen Sykuta, Michael Institut National de la Recherche NOAA-National Marine Fisheries Service; University of Missouri; 1007, 3014 Agronomique; M64 2045 Tack, Jesse Spader, Jonathan Stole, Inger University of California, Berkeley; 2029 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; 3026 3027 Taheripour, Farzad Purdue University; 2068, 3020 Sparger, John Stone, Edward Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Oregon State University; 2019 Tahvonen, Olli University; T68 Finnish Forest Research Institute; 2058 Stratton, Susan Spaulding, Aslihan University of California, Berkeley; 3028 Takeshima, Hiroyuki Illinois State University; M61, 2060 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Straub, Matthew T16, T17 Sperow, Mark Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada; T27 West Virginia University; 3013 Taliaferro, Charles Stringer, Randy Oklahoma State University; 3009 Sporleder, Thomas The University of Adelaide; 2034 The Ohio State University; 1002 Tanaka, Katsuya Su, Hui Hiroshima University; 3046 Spreen, Thomas West Virginia University; 2033 University of Florida; 3047 Tanellari, Eftila Su, Ming-Daw Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Springborn, Michael National Taiwan University; 3049 University; M20, M22 University of California at Santa Barbara; 2018 Sullivan, Patrick Tapsuwan, Sorada USDA-Economic Research Service; 3077 CSIRO Land and Water; T37, T39, 2066 Stafford, Sarah College of William and Mary; 3008 Sulser, Timothy Tauer, Loren International Food Policy Research Institute; Cornell University; 2011 Stahlman, Michael 2037 University of Missouri; M11 Tayie, Francis Sung, Jaimie Auburn University; 3015 Stefanou, Spiro Korea University of Technology; T85 Pennsylvania State University; M31 Taylor, Daniel Susanto, Dwi Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Stefanova, Stela Texas A&M University; 3062 University; T34, 2040, 2045 University of Delaware; 3062 Suter, Jordan Taylor, Laura Stephens, Emma Oberlin College; 2019 North Carolina State University; 1010, 2009 Pitzer College; 2013 Sutter, Matthias Taylor, Michael Sterns, James University of Innsbruck; 3053 Seton Hall University; 2045 University of Florida; 1007

Swalm, Chris Tegegne, Fisseha Stewart, Hayden Tulane University; 2028 Tennessee State University; 2063 USDA-Economic Research Service; M37,

Program 2035 Swenson, Dave Tejeda, Hernan Participants Iowa State University; 2053 North Carolina State University; 2046

114 2008 AAEA & ACCI Joint Annual Meeting • Orlando, Florida • July 27-29 2008 AAEA & ACCI Joint Annual Meeting • Orlando, Florida • July 27-29 Posters Numbers Begin with Either an M or T; Session Numbers Begin with Either a 10, 20, or 30. Program Participants Thies, Janice Tokgoz, Simla Umberger, Wendy Cornell University; 2040 Iowa State University; M29 The University of Adelaide; 2034, 3013

Thilmany, Dawn Tokovenko, Oleksiy Unnevehr, Laurian Colorado State University; 1004, 3001 University of Georgia; 3064 USDA-Economic Research Service; 3038

Thomas, Michael Tonsor, Glynn Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth Florida A&M University 3063 Michigan State University; 1004, 2015, Georgia Institute of Technology; T1 2031 Thomassin, Paul Vado, Ligia McGill University; 1009 Towe, Charles North Carolina State University; T12 USDA-Economic Research Service and Thompson, Paul University of Maryland; 2007 Valdes, Constanza Michigan State University; 2006 USDA-Economic Research Service; 2017 Tozer, Peter Thompson, Robert Curtin University; 2062 Valdivia, Corinne University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; University of Missouri; 1001, 2039 2043 Trejo-Pech, Carlos Universidad Panamericana; 3036 Van der Sluis, Evert Thompson, Sarahelen South Dakota State University; 3021 Purdue University; 1002 Tropp, Debra USDA-Agricultural Marketing Service; 3001 van Hoeve, Willem-Jan Thompson, Stanley Cornell University; 2019 The Ohio State University; 3019 Tuan, Francis USDA-Economic Research Service; 2065 van Meijl, Hans Thompson, Wyatt Agricultural Economics Research Institute; University of Missouri; 2053, 3006 Turnquist, Alan 3057 University of Wisconsin at Madison; 2060 Thomsen, Michael Vasavada, Utpal University of Arkansas; 3065 Turvey, Calum USDA-Economic Research Service; 2017 Cornell University; T18 Thornsbury, Suzanne Vedenov, Dmitry Michigan State University; M70 Tutwiler, Ann Texas A&M University; T31, 2001, 2046, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation; 3049 Thorp, Laurie T27 Michigan State University; T43 Veeman, Michele Tyler, Donald University of Alberta; 2004, 2067 Thurman, Walter University of Tennessee; 3040 North Carolina State University; 3061 Vergara, Oscar Tyndall, John AIR Worldwide; 2001 Tilley, Daniel Iowa State University; M56 Oklahoma State University; 2022, 2070 Veyssiere, Luc Tyner, Wallace Iowa State University; 3017 Tilley, Marcia Purdue University; T50, 1003, 2021, California Polytechnic State University at San 2068, 3020, 3048 Vialou, Alexandre Luis Obispo; 2070 University of Maryland at College Park; 3040 Ubilava, David Timpo, Samuel Purdue University; 3042 Villavicencio, Xavier Biotechnology and Nuclear Agricultural Texas A&M University; 2001 Research Institute, Ghana Atomic Energy Uchida, Shinsuke Commission; 2037 University of Maryland; 3035 Volinskiy, Dmitriy Participants

University of Alberta; 2067 Program Toasa, Jose Ulimwengu, John USDA-Economic Research Service; M47 International Food Policy Research Institute; Von Cramon-Taubadel, Stephan

M34 University of Gottingen; 2013

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Posters Numbers Begin with Either an M or T; Session Numbers Begin with Either a 10, 20, or 30. Program Participants Von Lampe, Martin Way, Wendy White, Fred Organisation for Economic Cooperation and University of Wisconsin at Madison; M82, University of Georgia; T67 Development; 3057 M84 Wiebe, Keith Vukina, Tomislav Weatherspoon, Dave Food and Agriculture Organization of the North Carolina State University; 3017 Michigan State University; 3003, 3011, United Nations; 2068 3030 Wade, Mark Wilcox, Michael Evans Properties, Inc.; M71, 2038, 3016 Weber, Bruce University of Tennessee; T20 Oregon State University; M55 Wahl, Thomas Wilde, Parke North Dakota State University; M19, 3038 Weckler, Paul Tufts University; 3029 Oklahoma State University; 2070 Waldman, Kurt Wilen, James Cornell University; 2055 Weinberg, Marca University of California, Davis; 2042, 2058 USDA-Economic Research Service; 1009 Waldorf, Brigitte Wilkinson, Ann Purdue University; 1001 Welch, Mark Food Protein Consultant; 3056 Texas A&M University; 3032 Waldrop, Chris Williams, Jeffrey Consumer Federation of America; 3029 Weldon, Rick University of California, Davis; 2067, 3028 University of Florida; 3036 Walters, Lurleen Williams, Richard University of Florida; 2016, 3009 Wells, Hodan George Mason University; 3002 USDA-Economic Research Service; M12 Walton, Jonathon Willis, David University of Tennessee; 3022 Wen, Fang-I Clemson University; 2066 Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research; Wang, Boqing 2044 Wilson, Christine Washington State Department of Social and Purdue University; 3054 Health Services; T13 Wendt, Minh University of Minnesota; 2035 Wilson, Norbert Wang, H. Holly Auburn University; 3003 Purdue University; M13, T13, 2046 Werema, Gilbert Wayland Baptist University; 2026 Wilson, Paul Wang, Honglin University of Arizona; 3058 Michigan State University; 3049 Westcott, Paul USDA-Economic Research Service; 1003 Wilson, Ryan Wang, Shinn-Shyr AARP Public Policy Institute; 2024 University of Wisconsin at Madison; T49 Westgren, Randall University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Wilson, William Wang, Xin 3034 North Dakota State University; 2060 University of Kentucky; M36 Westhoff, Patrick Winston, Ashley Wansink, Brian University of Missouri; 1003, 3006, 3057 Monash University, Australia; 2017 Cornell University; 3067 Westra, John Winter-Nelson, Alex Ward, Michael Louisiana State University; T60 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Texas A&M University; 3022 M54, 2040 Wetzstein, Michael Ward, Ronald University of Georgia; T51, 2022, 2032, Wohlgenant, Mike

University of Florida; M6, 2036, 3064 2050 North Carolina State University; 2036

Wasunna, Monique Whitaker, James Wojan, Tim

Program Kenya Medical Research Institute; 1005 USDA-Economic Research Service; 3004, USDA-Economic Research Service; 3077 Participants 3053

116 2008 AAEA & ACCI Joint Annual Meeting • Orlando, Florida • July 27-29 2008 AAEA & ACCI Joint Annual Meeting • Orlando, Florida • July 27-29 Posters Numbers Begin with Either an M or T; Session Numbers Begin with Either a 10, 20, or 30. Program Participants Wolf, Christopher Yamada, Ikuho Yuan, Hong Michigan State University; 2015, 2069, University of Utah; 2028, 2071 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; 3009 3036 Yamaguchi, Michitoshi Wolfe, Kent University of Kyoto; 3025 Yuan, Yan University of Georgia; 3039 University of Tennessee; 2065 Yan, Yan Wollni, Meike University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Yuh, Yoonkyung The Ohio State University; 2040 M4 Ewha Womans University; 3052

Won, DooHwan Yang, Yali Yunez-Naude, Antonio Korea Energy Economics Institute; 1010 3051 El Colegio de Mexico; 3006

Wong, Jonathan Yao, Rui Zahnisser, Steve University of Georgia; 3039 South Dakota State University; T76 USDA-Economic Research Service; 3006

Woodard, Joshua Yen, Steven Zajicek, Paul University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; University of Tennessee; 3010, 3062 Florida Department of Agriculture and 3062 Consumer Services; 3033 Yiannaka, Amalia Woods, Timothy University of Nebraska at Lincoln; 2070 Zalom, Frank University of Kentucky; 2026 University of California, Davis; 2067 Yigezu, Yigezu Woolverton, Michael Purdue University; T65 Zambrano, Patricia Kansas State University; 2060 International Food Policy Research Institute; Yilmazer, Tansel 2037 Worthy, Sheri Purdue University; T88, 2023, 3052 Mississippi State University; M74 Zan, Hua Yin, Hong The Ohio State University; 2026 Wu, Feng University of Delaware; 3068 Michigan State University; 2010 Zansler, Marisa Yoder, Jonathan USDA- Animal and Plant Health Inspection Wu, JunJie Washington State University; 2033 Service; 3047 Oregon State University; 1010, 2019, 3059 Yoon, WonAh Zelek, Chuck University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service; Wu, Ximing 2023 3069 Texas A&M University; 2001, 2069 Yoshida, Kentaro Zhang, Ge Wyeth, Peter University of Tsukuba; 3046 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Washington State University; 2055 University; 2054 You, Wen Wysocki, Allen Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Zhang, Wei University of Florida; 2032, 3058 University; 2028, 2054 World Bank; T55

Xia, Tian Young, Edwin Zhang, Zibin Kansas State University; T48, 3044 USDA-Economic Research Service; T22 University of Georgia; T51, 2050

Xie, Fang Yu, Fei Zhen, Chen Michigan State University; T38, 2042 Mount Holyoke College; 2009 RTI International; 2036, 3015 Participants

Xu, Wei Yu, Tun-Hsiang Zheng, Qiujie Program Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin; 3049 Iowa State University; M29 Washington State University; 2046

Yadav, Vandana Yu, Xiaohua Michigan State University; 3018 Pennsylvania State University; 3045

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Posters Numbers Begin with Either an M or T; Session Numbers Begin with Either a 10, 20, or 30. Program Participants Zheng, Xiaoyong Zhuang, Renan Zizza, Claire North Carolina State University; 2036, USA Poultry & Egg Export Council; T25 Auburn University; 3015 2067, 3017, 3061 Zick, Cathleen Zohns, Mark Zhou, Xia University of Utah; 2028, 2071, 3027 California Polytechnic State University at San Louis University of Tennessee; 3062 Obispo; 2070 Zilberman, David Zhu, Min University of California, Berkeley; 3011, Zuba, Gerhard Auburn University; 3015 3059 AIR Worldwide; 2001

Zhu, Ying Zimmerman, Ray Zulauf, Carl North Carolina State University; T74, 2046 Cornell University; 2033 The Ohio State University; 2043

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