Peter F. OrazemIowa State UniversityGreg TraxlerUniversity of WashingtonNicholas KalaitzandonakesUniversity of Missouri This introduction relates how Wallace Huffman went from a farm boy in southern Iowa to Iowa State University and the University of Chicago, and then brought the human capital approach of…
Georgeanne M. ArtzIowa State UniversityInsoo ChoYork CollegeZizhen GuoWuhan UniversityYounjun KimUniversity of NebraskaPeter F. OrazemIowa State UniversityLi YuCentral University of Finance and Economics Wallace Huffman continued the tradition of research on Midwest rural labor markets at Iowa State University that was begun in…
Philip MartinUniversity of California, Davis Hired workers do most of the work on US farms; three-fourths of these workers were born abroad, and most are unauthorized. This article assesses the current state of the labor market for hired workers in fruit and…
Jessica SchuringCentral College Matched mother/child data from the 2008 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth are used to estimate how child, maternal, and household characteristics—including the mother’s occupation and pre-pregnancy weight status—affect the probability of childhood obesity. The results suggest that a mother…
Andrew Schmitz and Charles B. MossUniversity of Florida Mechanization in such countries as the United States and Canada has dramatically reshaped the agricultural landscape since the time of early settlement. The introduction of new technologies— such as the mechanical tomato harvester, grain…
Stephen Smith and Brad KurtzDuPont Pioneer Much of the future quality of life will depend upon improved abilities to sustainably increase agricultural production while maintaining eco-system services and supporting conservation of natural diversity. Some lessons for the future reside in an improved…
C. Richard Shumway, Benjamin W. Cowan, and Daegoon LeeWashington State University Despite extensive empirical literature on the induced innovation hypothesis in US agriculture, this article reports only the second set of tests for this industry that account for supply as well as…
David Zilberman and Scott KaplanUniversity of California, BerkeleyJustus WesselerWageningen University This article introduces a framework based on a real-option approach to assess the economics of delaying the introduction of genetically modified (GM) technologies in agriculture due to concerns about their unintended effects…
Matthew C. RousuSusquehanna University It was a coincidence that GM foods became ubiquitous at the same time that researchers started using experimental auctions to study consumer preferences for food products. We explore the history of experimental auctions used to study GM food…
Xianwen Chen, Frode Alfnes, and Kyrre RickertsenNorwegian University of Life Sciences Consumers prefer ecolabeled products. However, little is known about the effects of ecolabels when consumers are simultaneously exposed to negative environmental information about the ecolabeled products. We conducted a stated choice…
