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Working Papers

2025

1. 2023 Michigan Greenhouse Extension Labor Survey: Summary of Findings
   Agricultural Economic Report Series, Michigan State University, Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics

2024

2. Adapting to Farm Labor Scarcity Survey UC Davis and California Farm Bureau Federation Summary of Preliminary Findings
   Staff Paper Series, Michigan State University, Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics
3. Arizona State University, UC Davis, and California Farm Bureau Federation 2022 Farm Labor Survey Summary of Preliminary Findings
   Staff Paper Series, Michigan State University, Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics
4. NCAE Farm Labor Survey 2022 Summary of Preliminary Findings
   Staff Paper Series, Michigan State University, Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics
5. Summary of the 2023 Michigan State University Farm Labor Conference: Understanding and Addressing Agricultural Labor Challenges in the United States
   Agricultural Economic Report Series, Michigan State University, Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics
6. The 2023 FLC Employment Survey Report Summary of Preliminary Survey Findings for California Farm Labor Contractors
   Staff Paper Series, Michigan State University, Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics
7. The 2023 Farmer Employment Survey Report Summary of Preliminary Survey Findings for California Farmers
   Staff Paper Series, Michigan State University, Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics

2022

8. The H-2A Temporary Agricultural Worker Program in 2020
   Economic Information Bulletin, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service View citations (1)
   Also in USDA Miscellaneous, United States Department of Agriculture
   See also Journal Article The H-2A Temporary Agricultural Worker Program in 2020, Amber Waves:The Economics of Food, Farming, Natural Resources, and Rural America, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service View citations (1)

2021

9. The Impact of Minimum Wage Shocks on Low-Skilled Workers in the United States: Evidence from the H-2A Visa Agricultural Guestworker Program
   2021 Annual Meeting, August 1-3, Austin, Texas, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association View citations (1)

2020

10. No Farm Workers, No Food? Evidence from Specialty Crop Production
    2020 Annual Meeting, July 26-28, Kansas City, Missouri, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association
11. Revisiting Economic Assimilation of Mexican and Central Americans Immigrants in the United States
    IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (10)
12. The Future of Work in Agriculture
    World Bank Publications - Reports, The World Bank Group
13. The Future of Work in Agriculture - Some Reflections
    Jobs Group Papers, Notes, and Guides, The World Bank View citations (11)
    Also in Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank (2020) View citations (9)

Undated

14. Adverse Effect Wage Rates and US Farm Wages
    2024 Allied Social Sciences Association (ASSA) Annual Meeting, January 5-7, 2024, San Antonio, Texas, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association
15. Domestic Farm Employment and the H-2A Visa Program
    2024 Allied Social Sciences Association (ASSA) Annual Meeting, January 5-7, 2024, San Antonio, Texas, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association
16. Immigration and Economic Performance in the US: Evidence from the 50 States
    2018 Annual Meeting, August 5-7, Washington, D.C., Agricultural and Applied Economics Association
17. Summary of the 2024 Michigan State University Farm Labor Conference
    Agricultural Economic Report Series, Michigan State University, Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics
18. The Effect of Immigration on Native Workers: Evidence from the US Construction Sector
    2017 Annual Meeting, July 30-August 1, Chicago, Illinois, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association
19. The Short-Run Impacts of Immigration on Native Workers: A Sectoral Approach
    2019 Annual Meeting, July 21-23, Atlanta, Georgia, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association

Journal Articles

2025

1. Dollar store impact on local labor markets and retail activity
   Food Policy, 2025, 132, (C)
2. Labor shortages and farmer adaptation strategies
   Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 2025, 47, (3), 896-913

2024

3. Labor shortages and agricultural trucking rates
   Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d'agroeconomie, 2024, 72, (2), 105-129 View citations (1)
4. Whither the H-2A Visa Program: Expansion and Concentration
   Choices: The Magazine of Food, Farm, and Resource Issues, 2024, 39, (01)

2023

5. Farm labor supply and fruit and vegetable production
   American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2023, 105, (2), 644-673 View citations (9)
6. Food system labor and bargaining power
   Food Policy, 2023, 119, (C)

2022

7. Economic Assimilation of Mexicans and Central Americans in the United States
   IZA Journal of Development and Migration, 2022, 13, (1), 26

2021

8. Viewpoint: The future of work in agri-food
   Food Policy, 2021, 99, (C) View citations (14)

Undated

9. Can Wages Rise Quickly Enough to Keep Workers in the Fields?
   Choices: The Magazine of Food, Farm, and Resource Issues, 34, (2) View citations (14)
10. Innovations for a Shrinking Agricultural Workforce
    Choices: The Magazine of Food, Farm, and Resource Issues, 34, (2) View citations (12)
11. The H-2A Temporary Agricultural Worker Program in 2020
    Amber Waves:The Economics of Food, Farming, Natural Resources, and Rural America, 2022, (Economic Information Bulletin Number (EIB-238)) View citations (1)
    See also Working Paper The H-2A Temporary Agricultural Worker Program in 2020, Economic Information Bulletin (2022) View citations (1) (2022)
12. Trump 2.0 and Farm Labor
    Choices: The Magazine of Food, Farm, and Resource Issues, 40, (1)