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Working Papers

2025

1. Cropland use change impacts of water conservation assets built under a large public works program in India
   2025 AAEA & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting, July 27-29, 2025, Denver, CO, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association
2. Evaluating the role of mixed-cropping for managing production risks on small farms: An application of BetaIV framework for input-conditional crop yield density estimation
   2025 AAEA & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting, July 27-29, 2025, Denver, CO, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association
3. Labor market impacts of water conservation under a national-scale public works program in India
   2025 AAEA & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting, July 27-29, 2025, Denver, CO, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association

2023

4. Soil quality perceptions: Characterizing bias and linkage with farming decisions for rice- growers in India
   2023 Annual Meeting, July 23-25, Washington D.C., Agricultural and Applied Economics Association

2022

5. A rank similarity test for quantile treatment effects in conjunction with propensity score matching: An application to crop yield impacts of agricultural credit
   2022 Annual Meeting, July 31-August 2, Anaheim, California, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association
6. Estimation of crop yield density conditional on input choices for smallholder farms using a BetaIV framework
   2022 Annual Meeting, July 31-August 2, Anaheim, California, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association
7. Grassland Easement Acquisition: Conversion Hazard Rate, Additionality, and Spatial Spillover
   2023 Allied Social Sciences Association (ASSA) Annual Meeting, January 6-8, 2023, New Orleans, Louisiana, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association View citations (1)
   Also in 2022 Allied Social Sciences Association (ASSA) Annual Meeting (Virtual), January 7-9, 2022, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (2022) View citations (1)
8. Over-perception about Land Use Changes: Assessing Empirical Evidence and Linkage with Decisions and Motivated Beliefs
   ISU General Staff Papers, Iowa State University, Department of Economics View citations (2)
   Also in Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD) Publications, Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD) at Iowa State University (2021)
   See also Journal Article Over-Perception about Land Use Changes: Assessing Empirical Evidence and Linkage with Decisions and Motivated Beliefs, Land Economics, University of Wisconsin Press (2022) View citations (3) (2022)
9. Spatial Auto-correlation in Groundwater Levels
   2022 Annual Meeting, July 31-August 2, Anaheim, California, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association

2021

10. Agricultural Input Use and Index Insurance Adoption: Concept and Evidence
    2021 Conference, August 17-31, 2021, Virtual, International Association of Agricultural Economists
    Also in 2020 Annual Meeting, July 26-28, Kansas City, Missouri, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (2020) View citations (1)
11. The impact of agricultural credit on farm yield risk: A quantile regression approach in conjunction with propensity score matching
    2021 Annual Meeting, August 1-3, Austin, Texas, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association
12. Well-level Missingness Mechanisms in Administrative Groundwater Monitoring Data for Uttar Pradesh (UP), India, 2009-2018
    2021 Annual Meeting, August 1-3, Austin, Texas, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association

2017

13. Determinants of Motives for Land Use Decisions at the Margins of the Corn Belt
    ISU General Staff Papers, Iowa State University, Department of Economics View citations (9)
    See also Journal Article Determinants of Motives for Land Use Decisions at the Margins of the Corn Belt, Ecological Economics, Elsevier (2017) View citations (15) (2017)

2016

14. Crop Competitiveness and Future Climate Change in the Northern Great Plains
    2016 Annual Meeting, July 31-August 2, Boston, Massachusetts, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association View citations (1)
15. Land Use Change and Policy in Iowa’s Loess Hills
    ISU General Staff Papers, Iowa State University, Department of Economics
    Also in Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD) Publications, Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD) at Iowa State University (2015) View citations (2)
    See also Journal Article Land Use Change and Policy in Iowa’s Loess Hills, Sustainable Agriculture Research, Canadian Center of Science and Education (2016) (2016)
16. Role of Ethanol Plants in Dakotas Land Use Change: Incorporating Flexible Trends in the Difference-in-Difference Framework with Remotely-Sensed Data
    Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD) Publications, Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD) at Iowa State University View citations (7)
17. Strategic Grasslands Conversions and Conservation Easement Acquisitions in the Dakotas: Analysis using Remotely Sensed Data
    2016 Annual Meeting, July 31-August 2, Boston, Massachusetts, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association

2015

18. Characterizing and Comprehending Land Use Change in the Loess Hills Region
    Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD) Publications, Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD) at Iowa State University View citations (3)
19. Role of Ethanol Plants in Dakotas’ Land Use Change: Analysis Using Remotely Sensed Data
    2015 AAEA & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting, July 26-28, San Francisco, California, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association View citations (1)
    Also in 2015 AAEA & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting, July 26-28, San Francisco, California, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (2015) View citations (1)

Undated

20. Characterizing behaviour in production decisions: The case of smallholder Indian farmers
    2019 Annual Meeting, July 21-23, Atlanta, Georgia, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association View citations (2)
21. Farmers’ Rankings of the Determinants of Land Use Decisions at the Margins of the Corn Belt
    2016 Annual Meeting, July 31-August 2, Boston, Massachusetts, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association
22. Past and future weather: Farmers’ perceptions and their roles in land use decisions
    2019 Annual Meeting, July 21-23, Atlanta, Georgia, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association
23. Socioeconomic and Biophysical Drivers of Cropland Use Intensification in India: Analysis using satellite data and administrative surveys
    2019 Annual Meeting, July 21-23, Atlanta, Georgia, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association

Journal Articles

2023

1. Grassland easement acquisition: Conversion hazard rate, additionality, spatial spillover, and heuristics
   Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 2023, 45, (2), 928-946 View citations (3)

2022

2. Over-Perception about Land Use Changes: Assessing Empirical Evidence and Linkage with Decisions and Motivated Beliefs
   Land Economics, 2022, 98, (2), 254-273 View citations (3)
   See also Working Paper Over-perception about Land Use Changes: Assessing Empirical Evidence and Linkage with Decisions and Motivated Beliefs, ISU General Staff Papers (2022) View citations (2) (2022)

2021

3. The impact of production network economies on spatially-contiguous conservation– Theoretical model with evidence from the U.S. Prairie Pothole Region
   Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2021, 107, (C) View citations (9)

2020

4. Evidence of climate change impacts on crop comparative advantage and land use
   Agricultural Economics, 2020, 51, (2), 221-236 View citations (23)

2018

5. Land Resilience and Tail Dependence among Crop Yield Distributions
   American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2018, 100, (3), 809-828 View citations (3)

2017

6. Determinants of Motives for Land Use Decisions at the Margins of the Corn Belt
   Ecological Economics, 2017, 134, (C), 227-237 View citations (15)
   See also Working Paper Determinants of Motives for Land Use Decisions at the Margins of the Corn Belt, ISU General Staff Papers (2017) View citations (9) (2017)

2016

7. Land Use Change and Policy in Iowa’s Loess Hills
   Sustainable Agriculture Research, 2016, 05, (4)
   See also Working Paper Land Use Change and Policy in Iowa’s Loess Hills, ISU General Staff Papers (2016) (2016)