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Gerald Shively

Gerald Shively (born 1962) is an American economist and Professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics at Purdue University[1]. He teaches and publishes research articles and books related to contemporary policy-related issues in economic development. His specializations are in poverty, food security and sustainable development[2].

Education and Career

Shively received his B.A. in Economics in 1984 and his M.A. in Economics in 1985, both from Boston University. He received his Ph.D. in Agricultural and Applied Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1996. Shively began his career as an assistant professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics at Purdue University in 1996, where he served as Associate Department Head and Director of the Graduate Program in Agricultural Economics from 2008-2018.[1] From 2007-2015 he also served as an Adjunct Professor in the School of Economics and Business at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) in Ås, Norway. During the 2003-2004 academic year, he was a visiting researcher and Honorary Fellow in the Department of Economics and the Asian Economics Centre at the University of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia. In 2008, Shively became a Purdue University Faculty Scholar and is currently a faculty affiliate in the Purdue Policy Research Institute (PPRI).[3]

Over his career, Shively has authored or co-authored more than 200 scholarly contributions, including more than 100 peer-reviewed items. These include scholarly articles in academic journals including the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, the Journal of Development Economics, the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, and World Development. Among Shively's contributions to the popular press is his chapter in the 2017 book How to Feed the World.[4] His early research on smallholder-led deforestation was profiled in the story A Shifting Equation Links Modern Farming and Forests, which appeared in the November 12, 1999 issue of Science.[5] In 2010, he was interviewed as part of an Australian Radio National and BBC World Service radio program “Buzzing with Beans” about the growth of coffee production in Vietnam.[6]

Awards

In 2018, Shively was named an Honorary Life Member (Fellow) of the International Association of Agricultural Economists. He is also a Fellow of the African Association of Agricultural Economics.[7] He received the 2018 Distinguished Graduate Teaching Award from the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.[8]

Articles and Books

Agricultural Change, Rural Labor Markets, and Forest Clearing: an Illustrative Case from the Philippines. Land Economics 77(2001):268-284. doi: 10.2307/3147094[9]

Cropland Allocation Effects of Agricultural Input Subsidies in Malawi. (2012). World Development 40(1):124-133. With C. Chibwana and M. Fisher. doi: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2011.04.022[10]

Food Price Variability and Economic Reform: An ARCH Approach for Ghana. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 78(1996):126-136. doi: 10.2307/1243784[11]

Infrastructure mitigates the sensitivity of child growth to local agriculture and rainfall in Nepal and Uganda. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States 114(2017):903-908. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1524482114[12]

Land Use Change in Tropical Watersheds: Evidence, Causes, and Remedies. Wallingford (UK): CAB International. Co-Edited with I. Coxhead. ISBN: 9780851999128[13]

Spatial Integration, Arbitrage Costs, and the Response of Local Prices to Policy Changes in Ghana. (1998). Journal of Development Economics 56(2):411-431. With O. Badiane. doi: 10.1016/S0304-3878(98)00072-8[14]

References

  1. ^ "profile". Retrieved 2018-09-07.
  2. ^ "Google Scholar". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2018-09-07.
  3. ^ Institute, Purdue Policy Research. "Purdue Policy Research Institute - Purdue University". www.purdue.edu. Retrieved 2018-09-07. {{cite web}}: |first= has generic name (help)
  4. ^ Eise, Jessica; Foster, Ken (2018-03-15). How to feed the world. Eise, Jessica,, Foster, Kenneth A., 1959-. Washington, DC. ISBN 9781610918831. OCLC 1007036695.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  5. ^ Helmuth, Laura (1999-11-12). "A Shifting Equation Links Modern Farming and Forests". Science. 286 (5443): 1283. doi:10.1126/science.286.5443.1283. ISSN 0036-8075.
  6. ^ "Buzzing with beans". Radio National. 2009-12-10. Retrieved 2018-09-07.
  7. ^ "Honorary Distinguished Fellows - 2016 - African Association of Agricultural Economists". African Association of Agricultural Economists. Retrieved 2018-09-07.
  8. ^ "Over 40 Awarded at 2018 AAEA Annual Meeting | Agricultural & Applied Economics Association". www.aaea.org. Retrieved 2018-09-07.
  9. ^ Shively, Gerald E. (2001). "Agricultural Change, Rural Labor Markets, and Forest Clearing: An Illustrative Case from the Philippines". Land Economics. 77 (2): 268–284. doi:10.2307/3147094. ISSN 0023-7639. JSTOR 3147094.
  10. ^ Chibwana, Christopher; Fisher, Monica; Shively, Gerald (2012). "Cropland Allocation Effects of Agricultural Input Subsidies in Malawi". World Development. 40 (1): 124–133. doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2011.04.022. ISSN 0305-750X.
  11. ^ Shively, G. E. (1996). "Food Price Variability and Economic Reform: An ARCH Approach for Ghana". American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 78 (1): 126–136. doi:10.2307/1243784. ISSN 0002-9092. JSTOR 1243784.
  12. ^ Shively, Gerald E. (2017). "Infrastructure mitigates the sensitivity of child growth to local agriculture and rainfall in Nepal and Uganda". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114 (5): 903–908. doi:10.1073/pnas.1524482114. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 5293016. PMID 28096416.
  13. ^ Land use change in tropical watersheds : evidence, causes and remedies. Coxhead, Ian A., Shively, Gerald. Wallingford, UK: CABI Pub. 2005. ISBN 978-1845930141. OCLC 133165463.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  14. ^ Badiane, Ousmane; Shively, Gerald E. (1998). "Spatial integration, transport costs, and the response of local prices to policy changes in Ghana". Journal of Development Economics. 56 (2): 411–431. doi:10.1016/s0304-3878(98)00072-8. ISSN 0304-3878.

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