[DENVER] The Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA) annual meeting was held July 27 – 29, 2025 in Denver, Colorado, and several faculty members and PhD students from the Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics were on the agenda to present papers showcasing their research.
Faculty presentations and activity:
- Dr. Chen-Ti Chen, Assistant Professor
- The Role of AFOs and CAFOs in Driving Continuous Corn Cultivation: Evidence from Two Corn Belt States (Paper Presentation)
- Property Value and Sorting Effects from Locally Undesirable Land Uses (Lightning Session)
- Anne Fitzpatrick, Associate Professor
- Learning Beyond School for Adolescent Girls (Paper Presentation)
- Sathya Gopalakrishnan, Professor
- Interdisciplinary Collaboration Helps Communicate Research (Paper Presentation)
- Exploring Careers in Academia, Extension and Government (Panel)
- Seungki Lee, Assistant Professor
- Decomposing Moral Hazard in Prevented Planting (Paper Presentation)
- Alexis Villacis, Assistant Professor
- Modexl Undergraduate Agribusiness Internships in Puerto Rico (Round Table)
- Villacis also serves as Chair of the INT section meeting
Wuyang Hu, Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Allen Klaiber, Professor, and Jared Grant, Assistant Professor, each had papers presented by co-authors. Dr. Grant is also serving as Secretary/Treasurer of COSBAE.
In addition, several other faculty members attended and worked at the meeting including Elena Irwin, Margaret Jodlowski (Past Chair of the Agricultural Finance and Management Section), Ani Katchova, Gabe Lade, Mario Miranda, Ian Sheldon, and Yao Wang.
PhD Student presentations and activity:
- Suraksha Baral
- Norm-Based Messaging and Household Food Waste Reduction: Evidence from a Randomized Intervention (Poster Presentation)
- Engaging Through Obligation: Assessing the Influence of Automatic Enrollment on Student Composting Behaviors and Attitudes (Poster Presentation)
- Eric Belleville
- Risk-Coping, Strategic Delay, and Signaling in Agglomeration Bonus Mechanisms: Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment (Poster Presentation)
- How Spillover Effects Erode Cost-Efficiency of Fishing Vessel Decommissioning Auctions, and How to Fix them using Agglomeration Bonuses (Poster Presentation)
- Zheng Hou
- Turning for the better design and preference elicitation: Consumer preferences for restaurant sustainability practices (Paper Presentation)
- Mujahidul Islam
- Are Solar Power Installations on Agricultural Land Undermining the Enrollment in Agricultural Conservation Easement Programs? (Lightning Session)
- Minseong Kang
- Navigating the Shift in the Soybean Market: River Transport as a Lens on the Renewable Diesel Boom (Paper Presentation)
- Alexander Ryan
- Financial Risks in Flooding: Bank Response to Climate-Induced Natural Disasters (Paper Presentation)
- Zhining Sun
- Competing in the Graduate Student Extension Competition
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