Do Government Economists Value AAEA Conferences?

Joseph Cooper () and Daniel Hellerstein

Review of Agricultural Economics, 2009, vol. 31, issue 4, 914-930

Abstract: This article examines the importance and value of attending the annual summer conference of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA) by U.S. Federal government economists. A choice-based conjoint analysis of government funding of five research-facilitating resources, including travel and nontravel resources, shows that respondents have a clear preference for their government agency funding the travel-related resources over the other resources. Furthermore, using the contingent valuation method, we find that these economists would have been willing to pay $195 to $620 to have attended their last AAEA conference, with the bounds on this range depending on modeling assumptions. Copyright 2009 Agricultural and Applied Economics Association

Date: 2009
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