Journal Publications by ERS Authors

ERS researchers publish in a wide array of peer-reviewed journals, providing additional ways to highlight the scientific research produced by the agency. ERS researchers published the following journal articles in Fiscal Year 2023.
  • Chen, Z., K. Paudel, and S. Davadoss. "Economic openness, financial bias, and the urban-rural income gap", Review of Development Economics 28(1),   February 2024.
  • Asravor, J., F. Tsiboe, R. Asravor, A. Wiredu, and M. Zeller. "Technology and managerial performance of farm operators by age in Ghana", Journal of Productivity Analysis,   May 2023.
  • Balagtas, J., J. Cooper, P. McLaughlin, and F. Qin. "Consumer demand for food at home and food away from home: Understanding economic linkages during the pandemic", Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy 43(3): 1604-1617,   September 2023.
  • Beckman, J., M. Ivanic, and S. Shaik. "How bilateral trade deals get in the way of multilateral agreements: Why WTO is marginalized", Journal of Policy Modeling 45(5): 877-894,   September-October 2023.
  • Beckman, J., and M. Ivanic. "Decomposing a year of uncertainty in agricultural markets", Choices 38(2): 26-33,   2023.
  • Bloem, J., and J. Farris. "The COVID-19 pandemic and food security in low- and middle-income countries: A review", Agriculture and Food Security 11,   December 2022.
  • Burke, W., S. Morgan, T. Namonje, . Muyanga, and N. Mason. "Beyond the "inverse relationship": Area mismeasurement may affect actual productivity, not just how we understand it", Journal of the International Association of Agricultural Economists 54(4): 557-569,   July 2023.
  • Burnett, J., and C. Blackwell. "Graphical causal modelling: An application to identify and estimate cause-and-effect relationships", Journal of Medical Economics,   May 2023.
  • Byrne, A., and D. Just. "What is free food worth? A nonmarket valuation approach to estimating the welfare effects of food pantry services", American Journal of Agricultural Economics 105(4): 1063-1087,   August 2023.
  • Capps, Jr., O., M. Cheng, J. Kee, and S. Priestley. "A cross-sectional analysis of the demand for coffee in the United States", Agribusiness, 39(2): 494-514,   Spring 2023.
  • Clark, M., E. Nkonya, and G. Galford. "Flocking to fire: How climate and natural hazards shape human migration across the United States", Frontiers in Human Dynamics 4,   December 2022.
  • Cohen, S., S. Rehkamp, P. Canning, M. Gomez, and H. Ge. "Overcoming data barriers in spatial agri-food systems analysis: A flexible imputation framework", Journal of Agricultural Economics 74(3): 686-701,   September 2023.
  • Collins, L., T. McDonald, A. Giri, and D. Subedi. "The relative financial performance of African American farms in the United States since the Great Recession", Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy,   February 2023.
  • Crookston, B., M. Yost, M. Bowman, K. Veum, and J. Stevens. "Microbial respiration gives early indication of soil health improvement following cover crops", Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 78(3),   May/June 2023.
  • Crowe, J., and D. Baltz. "Promoting undergraduate research", In Cabrera, S.A. and S. Sweet (eds.). Handbook of Teaching and Learning in Sociology, Edward Elgar Publishing 
  • Dimitri, C., and R. Nehring. "Thirty years of organic dairy in the United States: The influences of farms, the market and the organic regulation", Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems,   November 2022.
  • Dineva, P., C. McGranaghan, K. Messer, L. Paul, L. Palm-Forster, and A. Siders. "Promoting spatial coordination in flood buyouts in the United States: Four strategies and four challenges from the economics of land preservation literature", Natural Hazards Review 24(1),   December 2022.
  • Dong, X. "Does seasonal product rotation contribute to countercyclical pricing and cheaper turkeys during Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter?", Economic Letters 225,   April 2023.
  • Dong, X., J. Balagtas, and A. Byrne. "A closer look at the relationship between concentration, prices, and market power in food retail: A monopolistic competition and differentiated products approach", Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy 45(4)-2161-2182,   December 2023.
  • Du, X., and F. Dong. "Agricultural policy uncertainty and its impact on commodity markets", Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association 2(2): 263-277,   June 2023.
  • Ehmke, M. "The role of natural resource valuation in Australian regional forestry management", Review of Environmental Economics and Policy 17(1),   Winter 2023.
  • Feng, W., E. Page, and S. Cash. "Dollar stores and food access for rural households in the United States, 2008-2020", American Journal of Public Health,   March 2023.
  • Fowler, C., and J. Cromartie. "The role of data sample uncertainty in delineations of core based statistical areas and rural urban commuting areas", Spatial Demography 11(6),   June 2023.
  • Fuglie, K., K. Wiebe , T. Sulser, N. Cenacchi, and D. Willenbockel. "Multidimensional impacts from international agricultural research: Implications for research priorities", Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems 6,   November 2022.
  • Gershon Kodwo Ansah, I., M. Appiah-Twumasi, and F. Tsiboe. "Starchy staples production shortfalls in Ghana: Technical inefficiency effects outweigh technological differences across ecologies", PlosONE 18(4),   April 2023.
  • Gerveni, M., T. Serra, S. Irwin, and T. Hubbs. "Price connectedness in U.S. ethanol terminal markets", Energy Economics 124,   August 2023.
  • Ghazaryan, A., A. Carlson, A. Rhone, and K. Roy. "Association between county-level food retail and socioeconomic environment and nutritional quality of household food purchases, 2015", Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics 123(5): 796-808,   October 2022.
  • Gillespie, J. "Feed rations fed by U.S. dairy producers", Journal of Dairy Science 106(111),   November 2023.
  • Giombi, K., M. Rabbitt, and S. Karns. "Military eligibility for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program: Simulating the exemption of the basic allowance for housing from gross income", Journal of Nutrition 153(9): 2726-2735,   September 2023.
  • Giri, A., D. Subedi, and K. Kassel. "Analysis of the payments from the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program and the market facilitation program to minority producers", Applied Economic Perspectvies and Policy,   October 2022.
  • Giri, A., D. Subedi, A. Mishra, E. Peterson, R. Baral, and H. Regmi. "(Un)forgiven paycheck protection program (PPP) loans to the farm sector", Choices 38(2): 1-7,   2023.
  • Gyawali, B., K. Paudel, R. Jean, and S. Banerjee. "Adoption of computer-based technology (CBT) in agriculture in Kentucky, USA: Opportunities and barriers", Technology in Society 72,   February 2023.
  • He, F., T. Borisova, K. Athearn, R. Hochmuth, and C. Barrett. "Choosing nitrogen application rate recommendation given Florida's regulatory water policy", Horticultural Science 57(11): 1387-1396 
  • Henly, M., D. Brucker, and A. Coleman-Jensen. "Food insecurity among those with disability: Cross-survey comparison of estimates and implications for future research", Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy,   September 2023.
  • Hodges, ., C. Lowery, P. Patel, J. McInnis, and Q. Zhang. "A systematic review of marketing practices used in online grocery shopping: Implications for WIC online ordering", Nutrients 15(2),   January 2023.
  • Howard, G., W. Zhang, A. Valcu-Lisman, and P. Gassman. "Evaluating the tradeoff between cost effectiveness and participation in agricultural conservation programs", American Journal of Agricultural Economics,   February 2023.
  • Huang, J., T. Serra, and P. Garcia. ""Fast money" around Federal statistical releases", American Journal of Agricultural Economics 105(4): 1248-1266,   August 2023.
  • Hutchins, J., and B. Hueth. "100 years of data sovereignty: Cooperative data governance and innovation in US dairy", Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy 45(3): 1551-1576,   September 2023.
  • Ismail, M., M. Ver Ploeg, V. Chomitz, and P. Wilde. "Examining the role of the excess shelter deduction in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance program benefit formula", Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy,   April 2023.
  • Ivanic, M. "GEMPACK simulations in R: A demonstration of running the GTAP model and processing its results entirely in R using packages HARr and tabloToR", Journal of Global Economic Analysis 8: 1-20,   2023.
  • Jablonski, B., J. Pender, A. Bauman, A. Rupasingha, and J. Clark. "Stocks of wealth and the value-added food and agriculture sector", Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 38(3): 560-580,   December 2022.
  • Janzen, J., B. Swearingen, and J. Yu. "Buying time: The effect of market facilitation program payments on the supply of grain storage", Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association 2(3): 370-385,   September 2023.
  • Jiang, M., K. Paudel, Y. Mi, and J. Li. "Farmland transfer and rural financial structure: Evidence from China", International Reivew of Financial Analysis 90,   November 2023.
  • Kapelko, M., A. Lansink, and S. Stefanou. "Multidirectional dynamic inefficiency analysis: An extension to include corporate social responsibility", In: Macedo, P., V. Moutinho, and M. Madaleno (eds). Advanced Mathematical Methods for Economic Efficiency Analysis. Lecture notes in economic and mathematical systems, vol 692, Springer,   2023.
  • Kee, J., M. Segovia, and M. Palma. "Slim or plus-size burrito? A natural experiment of consumers' restaurant choice", Food Policy 120,   October 2023.
  • Key, N. "Direct-to-consumer marketing and the survival and growth of beginning farms", Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 49(1): 81-101 
  • Khanh Nam, P., B. Restrepo, M. Rieger, and N. Wagner. "Can information enhanced with nudges mitigate the rise of childhood obesity in the global south?", Journal of Human Resources 58(6),   November 2022.
  • Kourakos, G., G. Brunetti, D. Bigelow, S. Wallander, and H. Dahlke. "Optimizing managed aquifer recharge locations in California's Central Valley using an evolutionary multi-objective genetic algorithm coupled with a hydrological simulation model", Water Resources Research 59(5),   May 2023.
  • Li, S., X. Cai, S. Niroula, K. Wallington, B. Gramig, R. Cusick, V. Singh, G. McIsaac, S. Oh, C. Kurambhatti, S. Emaminejad, and S. John. "Integrated agricultural practices and engineering technologies enhance synergies of food-energy-water systems in corn belt watersheds", Sustainable Systems 57(25): 9194-9203,   May 2023.
  • Li, T., L. Paul, K. Messer, and H. Kaiser. "It's all relative: Consistent marginal effects with willingness to pay and willingness to accept framing in experimental auctions", Applied Economics,   August 2023.
  • Lim, K., and W. Hu. "Contextual reference price in choice experiments", American Journal of Agricultural Economics 104(4): 1288-1306,   August 2023.
  • Lim, K., and M. Zabek. "Women's labor force exits during COVID-19: Differences by motherhood, race, and ethnicity", Journal of Family and Economic Issues,   July 2023.
  • Lora, K., . Hodges, C. Ryan-Claytor, M. Ver Ploeg, and J. Guthrie. "Factors that influence children's exits form the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children: A systematic review", Nutrients 15(3),   February 2023.
  • Lu, J., P. Ranjan, K. Floress, J. Arbuckle, S. Church, F. Eanes, Y. Gao, B. Gramig, A. Singh, and L. Prokopy. "A meta-analysis of agricultural conservation intentions, behaviors, and practices: Insights from 35 years of quantitative literature in the United States", Journal of Environmental Management 323,   December 2022.
  • Malacarne, J., and L. Paul. "Do the benefits of improved management practices to nutritional outcomes "dry up" in the presence of drought? Evidence from East Africa", Food Policy 113,   November 2022.
  • McBride, L., T. Foster, . Bhaskar, M. Prell, M. Perez-Patron, E. Vickstrom, B. Knop, and M. Dillon. "Integrating administrative and survey data to estimate WIC eligibility and access", Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology 11(3): 668-687,   June 2023.
  • McLaughlin, P., A. Stevens, S. Arita, and X. Dong. "Stocking up and stocking out: Food retail stock-outs, consumer demand, and prices during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020", Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy 45(3): 1618-1633,   September 2023.
  • Michaud, C., J. Burnett, S. Callahan, A. Keller, M. Williams, and S. Harakat. "Land-use patterns on heirs' property in the American South", Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy,   March 2023.
  • Miller, L., and J. Malacarne. "What role can farmers markets play in the larger context of food access? A simulation model with application to the state of Maine", Applied Geography 158,   September 2023.
  • Moore, J., D. Manter, M. Bowman, M. Hunter, E. Bruner, and S. McClelland. "A framework to estimate climate mitigation potential for U.S. cropland using publicly available data", Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 78(2): 193-206,   March 2023.
  • Nalley, L., J. Massey, A. Durand-Morat, A. Shew, R. Parajuli, and F. Tsiboe. "Comparative economic and environmental assessments of furrow- and flood-irrigated rice production systems", Agricultural Water Management 274,   December 2022.
  • Nava, N., W. Ridley, and S. Dall’erba. "A model of the U.S. food system: What are the determinants of the state vulnerabilities to production shocks and supply chain disruptions?", Agricultural Economics 54(1): 95-109,   January 2023.
  • Neupane, H., K. Paudel, and Q. He. "Impact of cooperative membership on market performance of Nepali goat farmers", Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics 94(3): 905-930,   June 2023.
  • Oh, S., and B. Gramig. "Valuing ecosystem services and downstream water quality improvement in the U.S. corn belt", Enviornmental and Resource Economics 85: 823-872,   June 2023.
  • Ojinnaka, C., I. Arteaga, . Hodges, and C. Heflin. "Supplemental nutrition assistance program participation and medication adherence among medicaid-insured older adults living with hypertension", Journal of General Internal Medicine 38: 1349-1356,   January 2023.
  • Ojinnaka, C., I. Arteaga, . Hodges, and C. Heflin. "SNAP participation and medication adherence among older Black Medicaid-insured individuals living with hypertension", American Journal of Hypertension 36(9): 485-490,   September 2023.
  • Ollinger, M., K. Lim, and T. Knott. "Incentives for salmonella control in chicken broilers: Why the sampling protocol matters", Food Control 155,   January 2024.
  • Padilla, S., M. MacLachlan, K. Vaiknoras, and L. Schulz. "Disasters, population trends, and their impact on the U.S. pork packing sector", Food Policy 118,   July 2023.
  • Paudel, K. "Nutrition, multidimensional poverty and income: The case of Nepal", Journal of International Development 35(7): 1962-1984,   October 2023.
  • Pratt, B. "A fine is more than a price: Evidence from drought restrictions", Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 119,   May 2023.
  • Restrepo, B., and E. Zeballos . "Working from home and emotional well-being during major daily activities", International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 20(4),   February 2023.
  • Restrepo, B. "The protective effect of SNAP during economic downturns: Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic", Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy 45(4): 2141-2160,   December 2023.
  • Rosenberg, A., D. Newburn, and C. Towe. "Household willingness to pay for stream restoration on private and public land: Evidence from the Baltimore metropolitan region", Journal of the American Water Resources Association 59(2): 376-395,   April 2023.
  • Rosenberg, A., and B. Pratt. "Land use impacts of the Conservation Reserve Program: An analysis of rejected offers", American Journal of Agricultural Economics,   August 2023.
  • Rupasingha, A., J. Pender, R. Williams, J. Goldstein, and D. Mahoney-Nair. "Place-based subsidies and employment growth in rural America: Evidence from the broadband initiatives programme", Papers in Regional Science 102(4): 677-708,   August 2023.
  • Rupasingha, A. "Do businesses vote with their feet to access credit: Local financial structure and business relocation?", Annals of Regional Science,   July 2023.
  • Sassine, A., M. Rabbitt, A. Coleman-Jensen, A. Moshfegh, and N. Sahyoun. "Development and validation of a physical food security tool for older adults", Journal of Nutrition 153(4): 1273-1282,   April 2023.
  • Seligman, H., R. Levi, V. Adebiyi, A. Coleman-Jensen, J. Guthrie, and E. Frongillo. "Assessing and monitoring nutrition security to promote healthy dietary intake and outcomes in the United States", Annual Review of Nutrition 43: 409-429,   August 2023.
  • Simnitt, S., and G. Onel. "Earnings differentials between H-2A and unauthorized citrus harvesters in Florida", Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 52(3),   May 2023.
  • Smith, T., and C. Gregory. "Food insecurity in the United States: Measurement, economic modeling, and food assistance effectiveness", Annual Review of Resource Economics 15:279-303,   October 2023.
  • Sonik, R., A. Coleman-Jensen, T. Creedon, and X. Yang. "SNAP participation and emergency department use", Pediatrics 151(2),   February 2023.
  • Tokgoz, S., and F. Traore. "Understanding E10 markets in the U.S.: Evidence from spatial data", Economic Analysis and Policy 78: 1267-1281,   June 2023.
  • Toossi, S. "The distribution of and access to free meal sites serving school aged children during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from Texas", Journal of School Health 93(5): 395-401,   May 2023.
  • Tran, D., T. Borisova, and K. Beggs. "The cost of alternative water supply and efficiency options under uncertainty: An application of modern portfolio theory and Chebyshev's inequality", Earth 4(1): 40-65,   January 2023.
  • Tsiboe, F., . Armah, Y. Zereyesus, and S. Kobina Annim. "Food poverty assessment in Ghana: A closer look at the spatial and temporal dimensions of poverty", Scientific African 19,   March 2023.
  • Tsiboe, F., and D. Turner. "Econometric identification of crop insurance participation", Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 52(3),   May 2023.
  • Tsiboe, F., J. Tack, K. Coble, A. Harris, and J. Cooper. "Simulating corn futures market reaction and prices under weekly yield forecasts", Agricultural Finance Review 83(4/5), 655-674 
  • Tsiboe, F., and D. Turner. "The crop insurance demand response to premium subsidies: Evidence from U.S. agriculture", Food Policy 119,   August 2023.
  • Ufer, D., S. Christensen, E. Pomeranz, and D. Ortega. "A behavioral economic assessment of the role of stakeholder preferences in managing an infectious wildlife disease", Wildlife Society Bulletin 47(2),   June 2023.
  • Ufer, D., and D. Ortega. "The complexity of food purchase motivations: Impacts of key priorities, knowledge, and information sources on active purchase of food labels", Food Quality and Preference 109,   July 2023.
  • Vaiknoras, K., and C. Larochelle. "Training and seed production spillovers and technology adoption: The case of seed producer groups in Nepal", Agricultural Economics 54(6): 921-942,   November 2023.
  • Vandeveer, M., J. Holman, A. Schlegel, D. O’Brien, A. Obour, L. Haag, and Y. Assefa. "Economics of alternative tillage systems in dryland crop rotations in U.S. Great Plains", Soil and Tillage Research 232,   August 2023.
  • Wallander, S., L. Paul, P. Ferraro, K. Messer, and R. Iovanna . "Informational nudges in conservation auctions: A field experiment with U.S. farmers", Food Policy 120,   October 2023.
  • Wen, L., K. Paudel, and Q. He. "Temporary migration and land renting behavior", Economic Analysis and Policy 78: 137201391,   June 2023.
  • Wen, L., K. Paudel, and Q. He. "The power of securing property rights: Evidence from China's land titling policy", Economic Development and Cultural Change 72(2),   April 2023.
  • Yehouenou, L., S. Morgan, and K. Grogan. "Management of timber and nontimber forest products: Evidence from a framed field experiment in Benin, West Africa", Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists 10(2),   March 2023.
  • Zang, D., K. Paudel, Y. Liu, D. Liu, and Y. He. "Financial decision-making behaviors of ethnic Tibetan households based on mental accounting", Financial Innovation 9(93),   May 2023.
  • Zereyesus, Y., A. Mzyece, A. Shanoyan, V. Amanor-Boadu, K. Ross, and J. Ng’ombe. "How does who-you-sell-to-affect your extent of market participation? ", Development Economics,   February 2023.
  • Zhen, C., Y. Chen, B. Lin, S. Karns, L. Mancino, and M. Ver Ploeg. "Do obese and nonobese consumers respond different to price changes? Implications of preference heterogeneity for obesity-oriented food taxes and subsidies", American Journal of Agricultural Economics,   June 2023.