Barrett Kirwan
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Barrett E. Kirwan |
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| Assistant Professor | ||
| Phone: 301-405-7205 | Office: 2120 Symons Hall | |
| E-mail: bkirwan@arec.umd.edu |
UMD Experimental Economics Lab |
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| Education: | Ph. D. in Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005
B.A. in Economics with Honors, Brigham Young University, 1998 |
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| Research: | Agricultural Policy; Obesity | |
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Courses: |
AREC 250 -- Introduction to Agricultural Economics AREC 624 -- Econometrics
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| Recent Publications: | “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).
WORKING PAPERS AND RESEARCH IN PROGRESS “The Incidence of U.S. Agricultural Subsidies on Farmland Rental Rates” “The Distribution of U.S. Agricultural Subsidies” Submitted to the American Enterprise Institute working paper series: Agricultural Policy for the 2007 Farm Bill and Beyond “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 “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 “Food Aid and Poverty: Evidence from a Cross-Section of Countries” with Margaret McMillan. Accepted as part of the Causes of and Constraints to Agricultural and Economic Development Principal Paper session at the 2007 AAEA meeting.
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