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Open Position: Assistant Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics - Financial and Agricultural Commodity Market Economics
The appointee is expected to establish a research program in financial and agricultural commodity market economics. The appointee will be responsible for teaching in the undergraduate joint business major, managerial …
Open Position: Junior Specialist, Predoctoral Fellow in Applied Economics and Local Food Systems
The position will entail close collaboration with and assistance of Professor Kristin Kiesel and Co-PI Stamatina Kotsakou (Cal State, San Lius Obispo). This is a one-year position with a clear …
Open Position: Lecturer - Agricultural & Resource Economics
The Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Davis invites applications for lecturer positions to teach courses in its undergraduate Managerial Economics major during the 2025-2026 …
ARE Ph.D. and Masters Students Celebrate 2025 Graduation Ceremony
On Thursday, June 12, 2025, ARE celebrated the accomplishments of its new Ph.D. and Masters graduates. Congratulations to the graduating class of 2025!
ARE Students and Faculty Tour Agave Fields and Farm Producers in Yolo County
On October 10th, ARE students and faculty toured an agave farm in Woodland, CA as well as visited a olive mill and diversified organic farming operation in the Capay Valley. …
ARE Welcomes Sylvia Klosin to the Department
The Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics is pleased to welcome Dr. Sylvia Klosin to our department as an assistant professor. Professor Klosin earned her Ph.D. in economics from MIT, …
Distinguished Professor Richard Sexton Retires
After a career at UC Davis ARE that began as an assistant professor in 1984 and included a position as department chair twice from 1994–1998 and from 2011–2016, as well …
ARE Ph.D. Alum Tina Kotsakou Awarded Richardson-Applebaum Outstanding Graduate Research Award for Best Ph.D. Dissertation from the Food Distribution Research Society
ARE Alum Tina Kotsakou (Ph.D. 2024) was awarded the 2025 Richardson-Applebaum Outstanding Graduate Research Award for Best Ph.D. Dissertation from the Food Distribution Research Society for her thesis "Demand For …
Upcoming Seminars
David Brown, University of Alberta
Take the Load Off: Effort and Technology as Determinants of Electricity Demand Response
January 27, 12:10 PM - 1:30 PM
Yanan Zheng, University of California, Davis
Environmental and Health Impacts of the Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) Regulation in the San Joaquin Valley
February 12, 4:10 PM - 5:00 PM
Jill McCluskey, Washington State University
How Science, Technology, and Environmental and Health Concerns are Transforming Food Markets
February 19, 4:10 PM - 5:30 PM
Shuo Yu, University of California, Berkeley
Social Returns to Conservation: Incentives for Cover Crops and Water Quality in the Midwest
February 26, 4:10 PM - 5:30 PM
Jeff Luckstead, Washington State University
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March 5, 4:10 PM - 5:30 PM
Our faculty participate actively in the Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics. The broad mission of the Foundation is to promote and support research and outreach activities in agricultural economics and rural development relevant to California.
Continuing in celebration of the Ph.D. program's 50th anniversary, The UC Davis Agricultural and Resource Economics PhD Program: The First 50 Years by Alex F. McCalla, Julian M. Alston, and K. Aleks Schaefer is available to read.
Selected Publications
B. Gress, Y. Zheng, R. Goodhue, M. Grieneisen, H. Wei, A. Del Pozo-Valdivia, et al. Journal of Environmental Management (2024) 359.
J.N. Davis, S.M. Kumordzie, C.D. Arnold, K.R. Wessells, K.W. Nyaaba, … S.A. Vosti, et al. Current Developments in Nutrition (2024) 8 (3).
C. Kieran, D. Doledec, R. Klemm, E.N. Waithera, and S.A. Vosti. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences (2025) 1544 (1): 125-142.
B. Everett, A. Hobbs, B. Wong, E. Herdocia, … T.J. Lybbert, and B. Wydick. Global Public Health (2026) 21 (1).
Latest ARE Update
ARE Update Vol. 29, No. 2, Nov/Dec, 2025
- Saitone, Tina L. and Tracy K. Schohr. "The Beyem Seyo Wolf Pack: Economic Toll of Unprecedented Livestock Conflict in California."
- Ambrozek, Charlotte. "Predicted Impacts to Nutrition Programs in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act."
- Smith, Aaron. "California Now Allows More Ethanol in Gasoline: Is This Going to Save Drivers Money?"
- Kishore, Siddharth, Boya Zhang, Lisa Wu, Erin Hestir, Alvar Escriva-Bou and Josué Medellín-Azuara. "Estimating Extended Flood Damage to California’s Agricultural Lands Using Remote Sensing."
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