Gerald E. Shively


Professor and Associate Head
University Faculty Scholar

Department of Agricultural Economics
Purdue University
403 West State Street
West Lafayette, IN 47907
voice: (765) 494-4218
fax: (765) 494-9176
shivelyg@purdue.edu

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My CV and a Google Scholar search of my publications

Working in collaboration with numerous students and colleagues I conduct research on a range of topics related to poverty, economic development, and the environment in developing regions of the world. My research has been funded by the National Science Foundation , USAID , the Ford Foundation , the World Bank and the International Food Policy Research Institute . My current focus is the use of panel data to study dynamic processes of household labor allocation and land use in environmentally sensitive areas of the humid and semi-humid tropics. I study the interactions between poverty and environmental degradation, so as to help eliminate both.

 

 

Natural
Capital

My newest project is Natural Capital and Poverty Reduction, a four-year collaboration among scientists worldwide to better understand the connections between agriculture, forest use and household livelihoods. The project is funded by USAID as part of the AMA BASIS CRSP project.

 

 

Journals

I currently serve as an Associate Editor for the journal Environment and Development Economics. I also serve with Will Masters as Co-Editor-in-Chief of Agricultural Economics, the flagship journal of the International Association of Agricultural Economists.

 

 

Courses

In most years I teach two courses:
     AGEC 406 Environmental and Natural Resource Economics (for undergrads)
     AGEC 654 Economic Dynamics (for Ph.D. students)

I am also an adjunct professor in the Department of Economics and Resource Management at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, where I teach an occasional summer short course.

 

 

Graduate
Study

I am the current Chair of Purdue’s graduate program in Agricultural Economics. Our MS and PhD programs offer a wide range of opportunities for students interested in Applied Economics. If you are interested in graduate study at Purdue, please visit the department's graduate program home page. If you are a graduate student considering an academic career, grab the paper Strategy and Etiquette for Graduate Students Entering the Academic Job Market .

 

 

Climate
Change

I also currently serve on the Executive Committee of the Purdue Climate Change Research Center, a multidisciplinary group of researchers at Purdue guided by the mission of better understanding the human and physical processes leading to global climate change and the implications of a changing climate on life on earth. If you are interested in the likely impacts of climate change on Indiana, here is some recent thinking on the subject.

 

 

Current
Working
Papers

Farm Productivity and Household Market Participation: Evidence from LSMS Data

Vulnerability, Income Growth and Climate Change

Food aid, food prices and producer disincentives in Ethiopia

How Might Environmental Restrictions Reduce Technical Efficiency?

Evidence from a Restricted-DEA Analysis of Coffee Farms in Vietnam