Award-Winning Papers and Theses

Master's Thesis

Winner: David Kaczan (University of Alberta), “Designing an incentive program to reduce on-farm deforestation in the East Usambara Mountains, Tanzania.” Advisors were Brent Swallow and Wiktor (Vic) Adamowicz.

Honorable Mention: Elizabeth Dobis (Purdue University), “A Sociodemographic Analysis of Health Care Utilization in the United States.” Advisor was Raymond J.G.M. Florax.

Honorable Mention: Zachary Kaufman (Pennsylvania State University), “Agricultural Best Management Practice Adoption Decisions and Spatial Dependence in Southeastern Pennsylvania Farms and Watersheds.” Advisors were James Shortle, Richard Ready, and Joseph Bishop.

Doctoral Dissertation

Winner: Zachary Brown (Duke University), “The Economics of Malaria Vector Control.” Advisor was Randall Kramer.

Honorable Mention: Gulcan Onel (North Carolina State University), “Modeling Nonlinearities in Agricultural Factor Markets.” Advisor was Barry Goodwin.

Gardner Prize for Applied Policy Analysis

Winner: “Assessing the Value of Water Quality Preservation and Restoration: The Iowa Lakes and Rivers Projects,” by Joseph A. Herriges, Catherine L. Kling, Daniel Otto, and John Downing (Iowa State University).

Publication of Enduring Quality

“Testing the Theory of Tournaments: An Empirical Analysis of Broiler Production.” Journal of Labor Economics 12(1994): 155–179. By Charles R. Knoeber and Walter N. Thurman (North Carolina State University).

Quality of Research Discovery

Winner: “Parsimonious Multi-Dimensional Impact Assessment.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 93(5):1292–1311. By John M. Antle (Oregon State University).

Honorable Mention: “Global Identification of Risk Preferences with Revealed Preference Data.” Journal of Econometrics 162:6–17. By Richard E. Just (University of Maryland) and David R. Just (Cornell University).

Quality of Communication

Winner: Genetically Modified Food and Global Welfare. Bingley, UK: Emerald. By Colin Carter (University of California-Davis), Giancarlo Moschini (Iowa State University), and Ian Sheldon (Ohio State University), (editors).

Honorable mention: Investing in a Better Future through Public Agricultural Research. Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST) Commentary QTA2011-1. Ames, Iowa: CAST. By Wallace Huffman (Iowa State University), George Norton (Virginia Tech University), and Luther Tweeten (Ohio State University).

Honorable mention: “Cotton Subsidies, the WTO, and the ‘Cotton Problem.” The World Economy 34:1534–1556. By John Baffes (The World Bank).

Extension/Outreach

Individual, 10 years or more of experience: Thomas Stinson, University of Minnesota.

Individual, less than 10 years of experience: Marco A. Palma, Texas A& M University.

Group Program: Annie's Project (Tim Eggers, Bob Wells, Kelvin Leibold, Iowa State University; Mary Sobba, Karisha Devlin, University of Missouri; Ruth Hambleton, University of Illinois (retired).

Teaching

Under 10 years experience Michael Gunderson, University of Florida.

More than 10 years experience – Undergraduate Stephen Devadoss, University of Idaho.

More than 10 years experience – Graduate Terry Roe, University of Minnesota.