HIROMI OUCHI, "Japanese Consumer Preferences for Biotechnology and Food Safety," Washington State University, Jill McCluskey, Advisor
Honorable Mention
KRISTEN KIESEL, "Consumer Response to Biotech Food Labeling: The Effects of Voluntary RBGH-Free Labels on Fluid Milk Demand," Montana State University, Vincent Smith and David Buschena, Co-chairs of Thesis Committee
Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation
CHAD MEYERHOEFER, "The Econometrics of Non-Standard Structural Deman Modeling: Applications to Transition Country Data," Cornell University, David Sahn, Advisor
Honorable Mention
MONICA FISHER, "Explaining Forest Degradation in Malawi: Asset Poverty, Income Shocks, and Activity," Purdue University, Gerald Shively and William Masters, Advisors
KENNETH A. BAERENKLAU, "Promoting Voluntary Adoption of Conservation Technologies: The Case of Agricultural Nonpoint Source Pollution Control," University of Wisconsin, William Provencher, Advisor
RENOS NICOS VIKAS, "The Impact of Market Failures on Household Behavior: Explaining Labor Market Segmentation, Technology Adoption Patterns and Transaction Costs in Rural Peru," University of California at Berkeley, Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet, Advisors
Distinguished Teaching
Less Than Ten Years' Experience
ALLEN F. WYSOCKI, University of Florida
Undergraduate Teaching, More Than Ten Years' Experience
JAMES BEIERLEIN, Pennsylvania State University
Graduate Teaching Award, More Than Ten Years' Experience
PAUL PRECKEL, Purdue University
Distinguished Extension Program
Individual
CHRIS HURT, Purdue University
Group
JOE L. OUTLAW, JAMES W. RICHARDSON, DAVID P. ANDERSON, STEVEN L. KLOSE and JAMES D. SARTWELLE, III, members of the Texas A&M University "2002 Farm Bill Education Program" team
Distinguished Policy Contribution
MARC RIBAUDO, USDA, Economic Research Service
Quality of Communication
BRUCE L. GARDNER, University of Maryland, American Agriculture in the Twentieth Century; How It Flourished and What It Cost, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2002
Honorable Mention
TIM C. HAAB, The Ohio State University, and KENNETH E. MCCONNELL, University of Maryland, Valuing Environmental and Natural Resources: The Econometrics of Non-Market Valuation, Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc., Northampton, Massachusetts, 2002
Quality of Research Discovery
HANAN J. JACOBY, The World Bank, GUO LI, and SCOTT ROZELLE, University of California at Davis, "Hazards of Expropriation: Tenure Insecurity and Investment in Rural China," American Economic Review, 92(5) (December 2002): 1420-1447
Outstanding Journal Article: AJAE
JEAN-PAUL CHAVAS and DANNIEL MULLARKEY, "On the Valuation of Uncertainty in Welfare Analysis," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 84 (February): 23-38
Outstanding Journal Article: RAE
ALFONS WEERSINK, SCOTT JEFFREY and DAVID PANNELL, "Farm-Level Modeling for Bigger Issues," Review of Agricultural Economics, 24(1): 123-140
Honorable Mention
KATHLEEN M. PAINTER, ROBERT DOUGLAS II, PHILIP R. WANDSCHNIEDER and KENNETH CASAVANT, "Using Contingent Valuation to Measure User and Nonuser Benefits: An Application to Public Transit," Review of Agricultural Economics, 24(2): 394-409
Outstanding CHOICES Article
STEVEN C. BLANK, University of California at Davis, "Is Agriculture a 'Way of Life' or a Business?," Choices (Summer, 2002)
Publication of Enduring Quality
GERSHON FEDER, RICHARD E. JUST and ANDREW SCHMITZ, "Futures Markets an the Theory of the Firm Under Price Uncertainty'
CATHERINE KLING, SYLVIA SECCHI, LYUBOV KURKALOVA, HONGLI FENG and PHIL GASMAN, CARD, Iowa State University, "Spatial Water Quality Tradeoffs: The Case of Hypoxia and the Upper Mississippi River Basin"
2nd Place
HEATHER NIVENS, Center for Agribusiness Excellence; TERRY KASTENS and KEVIN DHUYVETTER, Kansas State University, "Using Satellite Imagery in Predicting Crop Income"
3rd Place
PATRICIA SOTO, LONNIE VANDEVEER, STEVEN HENNING and HUIZEN NIU, Louisiana State University, "Rural-Urban Fringe Land Areas: A Spatial Snapshot"
Graduate Student Case Competition
1st Place
JING ZHANG, CINDY WANG, and MICHAEL HABTEYONAS, University of Alberta
2nd Place
JIANG LUO, SRINIVASA KONDURU, and JASON FRANKEN, University of Missouri
3rd Place
JOHN MICHAEL RILEY and LANIER NALLEY, Mississippi State University
