Recent
When Timing Matters: Early, Late, and Never Adoption of Improved Maize Seeds in Tanzania.
Agribusiness: An International Journal
Scholarship
Research
My research spans environmental and resource economics, climate and agricultural economics, and behavioral and experimental economics. The common thread is decision-making, productivity, welfare, and policy under changing environmental and economic conditions.
Current projects & working papers
Fossil Fuel Endgame? The Economics of Coal, Solar Energy, and Policy Trade-offs in South Africa
With Tsvetan Tsvetanov and Farhed Shah.
Farming on the Edge: A Global Take on Agricultural Productivity in a Changing Climate
With Boris E. Bravo-Ureta, Eric Njuki, and Jayson Beckman.
Weathering Uncertainty: Experimental Insights into Farmers’ Climate Decisions in California, Florida, Illinois, and Nebraska
With Thomas Hopson, Simone Tilmes, Forrest Lacey, John Hamman, and James Timothy Schulte.
Is There a Behavioral Divide? Farmers vs. General Public in Risk, Time, and Social Preferences: Implications for Climate Adaptation Policy Design
With Nicholas Reynolds, Thomas Hopson, Simone Tilmes, Forrest Lacey, John Hamman, and James Timothy Schulte.
Publications
Recent
Grappling with Epistemic Risk in Community-Based Climate Science Scholarship.
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
2025
Agricultural Productivity Convergence in Latin America: The Role of Research and Development, Knowledge Spillovers, and Education Spending.
Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1–22
2025
The Case of Ecuador.
In Agricultural Productivity in Latin America and the Caribbean: What We Know and Where We Are Heading, Inter-American Development Bank
2025
Underserved or Not Served? Participation Rates Explain Much of the Difference in Agricultural Program and Credit Use across Farms in Different Demographic Groups.
Choices, 40(2)
2025
Ethnic and Gender Disparities in US Agriculture: An Analysis of Technology and Technical Efficiency Differentials.
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 107(4), 993–1015
2024
An Overview of the History, Role, and Struggles of Agricultural Economics and Business Programs at 1890 Land-Grant Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU).
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 46(3), 889–904
2024
Propensity Score Matching and Difference-in-Difference Estimator for Impact Evaluations: A Case Study from Zimbabwe.
In Applied Econometric Analysis using Cross Section and Panel Data, Springer Nature
2023
Connecting Physical and Social Science Datasets: Challenges and Pathways Forward.
Environmental Research Communications, 5, 095007
2022
A Bayesian Statistical Analysis of Return to Agricultural R&D Investment in Latin America: Implications for Food Security.
Technology in Society, 70, 102054
2022
Impacts of Climatic Variability on Agricultural Total Factor Productivity Growth in the Southern United States.
Environments, 9(10), 129
2021
Economic Effects of Climate Change on Agricultural Production and Productivity in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Agricultural Economics
2020
Agricultural Productivity Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean: An Analysis of Climatic Effects, Catch-up, and Convergence.
Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 65, 143–170
2018
The Impact of Agri-Business Skills Training in Zimbabwe: An Evaluation of the Training for Rural Economic Empowerment (TREE) Program.
Journal of Development Effectiveness, 10(3), 376–391
2017
Agricultural Productivity in Latin America and the Caribbean in the Presence of Unobserved Heterogeneity and Climatic Effects.
Climatic Change, 143(3–4), 445–460
2014
Effects of Social Network Factors on Information Acquisition and Adoption of Improved Groundnut Varieties: The Case of Uganda and Kenya.
Agriculture and Human Values, 31(3), 339–353
2011
Aproximación al cálculo del crecimiento real de Colombia: aportes metodológicos para la inclusión en las cuentas nacionales de los impactos del agotamiento del carbón y del gas natural.
Revista de Economía del Rosario, 14(1), 1–29
Policy briefs & other reports
Modélisation de l’inflation sous-jacente en Haïti à partir de l’approche d’un VAR structurel 1990–2003.
CTPEA, D.E.S. Thesis, 2005
Annual Report of the Drug Information Haitian System.
CICAD/OAS Report, 2009
Information, Needs and Resource Analysis (INRA).
CICAD/OAS Report, 2009
Agricultural Productivity Growth and Water: Meta-Analysis and Evidence from the Frontier.
Zwick Center, 2017
Summary Report of the Science Review of the NOAA Weather Program Office.
NOAA Weather Program Office
Agricultural Productivity in Focus: Evidence from Ecuador.
Inter-American Development Bank, 2025
Renforcement des Capacités pour Favoriser l’Élevage en Haiti: Le Cas des Filières Bovine, Caprine, Porcine, et Cunicole.
Projet Tchala Developman, Haiti, 2025