Barrett E. Kirwan

Barrett E. Kirwan

UMD Experimental Economics Lab

B.A. in Economics with Honors, Brigham Young University, 1998

Courses:

AREC 250 -- Introduction to Agricultural Economics

AREC 624 -- Econometrics

AREC 832 -- Agricultural Policy

C.V.:

Curriculum Vitae

“The Incidence of U.S. Agricultural Subsidies on Farmland Rental Rates,” Journal of Political Economy, 2009 117(1).

“Between the Corporation and the Household: Commodity Prices, Risk Management,and Agricultural Production in the United States” with Shawn Cole, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, forthcoming

“Food Aid and Poverty” with Margaret McMillan, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2007, 89(5). 

“How Cost Effective are Land Retirement Auctions? Estimating the Difference between Payments and Willingness to Accept in the Conservation Reserve Program” with Ruben Lubowski and Michael J. Roberts, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2005, 87(5).

“The Incidence of Government Payments on Agricultural Land Rents: The Challenges of Identification” with Michael J. Roberts and Jeffrey Hopkins, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2003, 85(3).

WORKING PAPERS AND RESEARCH IN PROGRESS

“The Distribution of U.S. Agricultural Subsidies” American Enterprise Institute working paper series: Agricultural Policy for the 2007 Farm Bill and Beyond, Bruce Gardner and Daniel Sumner, editors.

“The Wealth of U.S. Farmers and Developing Nations”

“Cash Flow and Agricultural Investments: Evidence from a Natural Experiment”

“Designing a More Efficient Land Retirement Auction” with Michael J. Roberts, Nathaniel Higgins, and Daniel Hellerstein

“Adversity and the Propensity to Fail: The Impact of Disaster Payments and Crop Insurance on U.S. Farm Exits”

“Heterogeneity, Empirical Distributions, and Aggregation” with David R. Just

“Pour Some Sugar on Me: The Contribution of U.S. Agricultural Policy to Obesity” with John Cawley