We use a variety of well-tested and novel approaches to understanding how to balance economic, social and environmental objectives. From cost-benefit analysis to machine learning, CEOS members use and advance methods to model complex social-environmental systems, estimate impact of interventions and design optimal policy solutions to enable us to build a more sustainable society.
Research Output
| Title | Publication | Authors | Year Published | Category | Method | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Decision-Making Behavior Evaluation Framework for LLMs under Uncertain Context | NeurIPS | Jingru Jia, Zehua Yuan, Junhao Pan, Paul McNamara, Deming Chen | 2024 | O | (OM) Other | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| The spatiotemporal pattern of surface ozone and its impact on agricultural productivity in China | PNAS Nexus | Madhu Khanna, Xiaoguang Chen, Jing Gao, Luoye Chen, Binlei Gong, Maximilian Auffhammer | 2024 | O | (IE) Impact Evaluation | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| Corporate Social Responsibility: Motivations and Effectiveness in Developing Countries | International Review of Environmental and Resource Economics | Sangeeta Bansal, Madhu Khanna | 2024 | O | (OM) Other | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| Conservation agrivoltaics for sustainable food‐energy production | Plants, People, Planet | Alson Time, Nuria Gomez‐Casanovas, Paul Mwebaze, Wilgince Apollon, Madhu Khanna, Evan H DeLucia, Carl J Bernacchi | 2024 | O | (OM) Other | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| What the Judge Ate for Breakfast: Reasonable Consumer Challenges in Misleading Food Labeling Claims | Loyola Consumer Law Review | A. Bryan Endres, Jessica Guarino, Nabilah Nathani | 2023 | O | N/A | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| Inferential and behavioral implications of measurement error in agricultural data | Annual Review of Resource Economics | Hope Michelson, Kibrom A Abay, Tesfamicheal Wossen, Gashaw T Abate, James R Stevenson, Christopher B Barrett | 2023 | O | N/A | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| The costs and benefits of primary prevention of zoonotic pandemics | Science Advances | Bernstein, A.S., Ando, A.W., and authors | 2022 | O | (SM) System Modeling | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| Breakthroughs at the disciplinary nexus: Rewards and challenges for applied economists | American Journal of Agricultural Economics | Khanna, M. | 2022 | O | (OM) Other | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| The impact of management systems on technical change: the adoption of pollution prevention techniques | Economic Change and Restructuring | Deltas, G., Harrington, D.R., & Khanna, M. | 2021 | O | (IE) Impact Evaluation | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| Restaurant disclosure of food allergens: Analysis and economic implications | Tourism and Hospitality Research | Renata Endres, A Bryan Endres, Marinela Krstinić Nižić | 2021 | O | N/A | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| Incentives for corporate social responsibility in India: Mandate, peer pressure and crowding-out effects | Journal of Environmental Economics and Management | Sangeeta Bansal, S., Khanna, M., & J. Sydlowski | 2020 | O | (IE) Impact Evaluation, (PD) Policy Design | |
| Can irrigation infrastructure mitigate the effect of rainfall shocks on conflict? Evidence from Indonesia | American Journal of Agricultural Economics | Gatti, N., Baylis, K., & Crost, B. |
2020 | FA, O | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| The price of biodiesel RINs and economic fundamentals | American Journal of Agricultural Economics | Irwin, S. H., McCormack, K., & Stock, J. H. | 2020 | O | (OM) Other | |
| The Impact of Management Systems on technical change: The adoption of pollution prevention techniques | Economic Change and Restructuring | Deltas, G., Khanna, M., & Ramirez-Harrington, D. |
2020 | O | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| The effect of NAFTA on internal migration in Mexico: A regional economic analysis | Applied Economics | Arends-Kuenning, M., Baylis, K., & Garduño-Rivera, R. |
2020 | O | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Worshipping the tiger: Modeling non-use existence values of wildlife spiritual services | Environmental and Resource Economics | Lopes, A. A., & Atallah, S. S. | 2020 | LW, O | (SM) System Modeling | |
| Treba li smanjiti ili povećati poreze u turizmu? | Libertas međunarodno sveučilište | A Bryan Endres | 2020 | O | N/A | |
| Unlocking amenities: Complementarity in public good consumption | Journal of Public Economics | Albouy, D., Christensen, P., & Sarmiento, I. |
2020 | SC, O | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Optimal monitoring and controlling of invasive species: The case of spotted wing drosophila in the United States | American Journal of Agricultural Economics | Fan, X., Gómez, M. I., Atallah, S. S., & Conrad, J. M. |
2020 | FA, O | (SM) System Modeling | |
| Agent-based modeling of moose-winter tick relationships in Northern New Hampshire | Ecological Complexity | Healy, C., Pekins, P. J., Atallah, S. S., & Congalton, R. |
2020 | O | (SM) System Modeling | |
| Fraccidents: The impact of fracking on road traffic deaths | Journal of Environmental Economics and Management | Xu, M., & Xu, Y. | 2020 | EE, O | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Incentives for Corporate Social Responsibility in India: mandate, Peer Pressure and crowding-Out Effects | Journal of Environmental Economics and Management | Bansal, S. and J. Sydlowski | 2020 | O | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Housing discrimination and the pollution exposure gap in the United States | Working Paper | Christensen, P., Timmins, C., & Sarmiento, I. | 2019 | O | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| National school lunch nutrition and cost profile: a case study of the Ghana School Feeding Programme | Food and Nutrition Bulletin | Goldsmith, P.D., Andrade, J., Cornelius, M, Asigbee, M., Atiim, P. & Tamimie, C. | 2019 | O | (OM) Other | |
| Smallholder food storage dynamics and resilience | Food Security | Waldman, K. B., Giroux, S., Blekking, J. P., Baylis, K., & Evans, T. P. |
2019 | FA, O | (IE) Impact Evaluation, (OM) Other | |
| The owner-renter incidence gap of gentrification - A perspective from downward mobility | Journal of Housing Economics | Zhang, Y., Christensen, P., Greenlee, A., & Hewings, G. |
2019 | O | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Every plate counts: Evaluation of a food waste reduction campaign in a university dining hall | Resources, Conservation and Recycling | Ellison, B., Savchenko, O., Nikolaus, C.J., & Duff, B.R.L. | 2019 | FA, O | (OM) Other | |
| Machine learning in agricultural and applied economics | European Review of Agricultural Economics | Storm, H., Baylis, K., & Heckelei, T. |
2019 | O | (OM) Other | |
| Temperature and production efficiency growth: Empirical evidence | Climatic Changes | Kumar, S., & Khanna, M. |
2019 | O | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Opportunities and challenges in conducting economic research on food loss and waste | Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy | Ellison, B., Muth, M.K., & Golan, E. | 2019 | FA, O | (OM) Other | |
| The social lives of married women: Peer effects in female autonomy and children’s food consumption | Journal of Development Economics | Kandpal, E., & Baylis, K. |
2019 | O | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Agro-climatic data by county: A spatially and temporally consistent U.S. dataset for agricultural yields, weather and soils | Data | Yun, S.D., & Gramig, B.M. | 2019 | FA, O | (OM) Other | |
| Suburbs or skyscrapers: The effect of China's land leasing market on housing decentralization | Land Economics | Christensen, P. |
2019 | O | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Bridging versus bonding social capital and the management of the firewood commons | Land Economics | Baylis, K, Gong, Y., & Wang, S. |
2019 | SC, O | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Agricultural market liberalization and household food security in rural China | American Journal of Agricultural Economics | Baylis, K., Fan, L., & Nogueira, L. |
2019 | O | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Are non-market values important to smallholders’ afforestation decisions? A psychometric segmentation and its implications for afforestation programs | Forest Policy and Economics | Baker, K., Baylis, K., Bull, G., & Barichello, R. |
2019 | LW, O | (VA) Valuation | |
| Phytosanitary Regulation of Washington Apple Producers under an Apple Maggot Quarantine Program. | Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics | Hong, Y., Gallardo, K., Fan, X., Atallah, S. S., Gómez, M. |
2019 | FA, O | (SM) System Modeling | |
| High cotton & low road: Unraveling Farm Bill Coalition | Drake Journal of Agricultural Law | Coppess, J. W. | 2019 | O | (OM) Other | |
| Sorting or steering: Experimental evidence on the economic effects of housing discrimination | NBER Working Paper | Christensen, P., & Timmins, C. |
2019 | SC, O | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Economic effects of environmental crises: Evidence from Flint, Michigan | Working Paper | Christensen, P., Keiser, D., & Lade, G. |
2019 | SC, O | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Examining household food waste decisions: A vignette approach | Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy | Ellison, B., & Lusk, J.L. | 2018 | FA, O | (OM) Other | |
| Fault Lines of Farm Policy | University of Nebraska Press | Coppess, J. W. | 2018 | O | (OM) Other | |
| Water impacts of U.S. biofuels: Insights from an assessment combining economic and biophysical models | Plos One | Teter, J., Yeh, S., Khanna, M., Berndes, G., & Chen, X. |
2018 | O | (OM) Other | |
| Wasted food: A qualitative study of U.S. young adults' perceptions, beliefs and behaviors | Appetite | Nikolaus, C.J., Nickols-Richardson, S.M., & Ellison, B. | 2018 | O | (OM) Other | |
| The evolution towards peer-reviewed invited papers in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics | American Journal of Agricultural Economics | Khanna, M. |
2018 | O | (OM) Other | |
| Modeling uncertainty in climate change: A multi-model comparison | Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economics | Gillingham, K., Nordhaus, W., Blanford, G., Bosetti, V., Christensen, P., McJeon, H., Reilly, J., and Sztorc, P. |
2018 | O | (SM) System Modeling | |
| Uncertainty in forecasts of long-run productivity growth | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Christensen, P., Gillingham, K., & Nordhaus, W. | 2018 | O | (OM) Other | |
| Presentation matters: Number of attributes presented impacts estimated preferences | Agribusiness | Byrd, E. S., Widmar, N. J. O., & Gramig, B. M. |
2018 | FA, O | (VA) Valuation | |
| Does a nutritious diet cost more in food deserts? | Agricultural Economics | Fan, L., Baylis, K., Gundersen, C., & Ploeg, M. V. |
2018 | O | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| A perspective on agricultural policy in the age of nutrient loss | Drake Journal of Agricultural Law | Coppess, J. W. | 2018 | O | (OM) Other | |
| Variable soils, variable fertilizer quality, and variable prospects | Tropical Conservation Science | Michelson, H. | 2017 | FA, O | (OM) Other | |
| Influence of neighbor experience and exit on small farmer market participation | American Journal of Agricultural Economics | American Journal of Agricultural Economics | 2017 | O | (SM) System Modeling | |
| Finding the right value: Framing effects on domain experts | Political Psychology | Andrews, A. C., Clawson, R. A. & Gramig, B. M. | 2017 | O | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Environmental hazards and mortgage credit risk: Evidence from Texas pipeline incidents | Real Estate Economics | Xu, M., & Xu, Y. | 2017 | EE, O | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| A note on modeling household food waste behavior | Applied Economics Letters | Lusk, J.L., & Ellison, B. |
2017 | O | (SM) System Modeling | |
| Nitrogen application decision-making under climate risk in the U.S. corn belt | Climate Risk Management | Gramig, B. M., Massey, R., & Do Yun, S. |
2017 | FA, O | (OM) Other | |
| Specification of spatial dynamic externalities and implications for strategic behavior in disease control | Land Economics | Atallah, S. S., Gómez, M. I., & Conrad, J. M. |
2017 | FA, O | (SM) System Modeling | |
| Which livestock production methods matter most to consumers and why? | Agriculture and Human Values | Ellison, B., Brooks, K., & Mieno, T. |
2017 | FA, O | (VA) Valuation, (OM) Other | |
| Inducing pollution prevention: Effectiveness of the 33/50 voluntary environmental program | Journal of Environmental Planning and Management | Bi, X., & Khanna, M. |
2017 | O | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Can peers improve agricultural revenue? | World Development | Songsermsawas, T., Baylis, K., Chhatre, A., & Michelson, H. | 2016 | O | (IE) Impact Evaluation, (SM) System Modeling | |
| The effects of oil price on regional trade in the united states | Journal of Economic Geography | Szewerniak, W., Xu, Y., & Dall'erba, S. | 2016 | O | (SM) System Modeling | |
| Putting the organic label in context: Examining the interactions between the organic label, product type, and retail outlet | Food Quality and Preference | Ellison, B., Duff, B., Wang, Z., & White, T.B. |
2016 | O | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| A multiple metrics approach to prioritizing strategies for measuring and managing reactive nitrogen in the San Joaquin Valley of California | Environmental Research Letters | Horowitz, A. I., Moomaw, W. R., Liptzin, D., Gramig, B. M., Reeling, C., Meyer, J., & Hurley, K. |
2016 | O | (OM) Other | |
| The influence of retail outlet and FSMA information on consumer perceptions of and willingness to pay for organic grape tomatoes | Journal of Economic Psychology | Ellison, B., Bernard, J., Paukett, M., & Toensmeyer, U.C. |
2016 | FA, O | (IE) Impact Evaluation, (VA) Valuation | |
| Goldilocks and the raster grid: Choosing a unit of analysis for evaluating conservation programs | PlosOne | Avelino, A. F. T., Baylis, K., & Honey-Rosés, J. |
2016 | LW, O | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Days suitable for fieldwork in the US corn belt: Climate, soils and spatial heterogeneity | Working Paper | Gramig, B. M., & Yun, S. D |
2016 | FA, O | (SM) System Modeling | |
| Using a team survey to improve team communication for enhanced delivery of agro-climate decision support tools | Agricultural Systems | Prokopy, L. S., Hart, C. E., Massey, R., Widhalm, M., Klink, J., Andresen, J., ... & Gramig, B. M. |
2015 | O | (OM) Other |