Kathy Baylis is an assistant professor in Agriculture and Consumer Economics at the University of Illinois. She joined the department after several years as an assistant professor at the University of British Columbia where she is still an adjunct. She earned her PhD from the University of California at Berkeley in 2003, where she specialized in agriculture and trade issues. Kathy has worked in agricultural policy in both Canada and the United States. In 2001/02, she was the staff economist in charge of agriculture for the Council of Economic Advisors in the White House, and in the mid-1990s, she worked as Executive Secretary with the National Farmers Union in Canada. She has published a number of journal articles on agricultural trade and environmental policy and has coauthored a textbook on Canadian-U.S. agricultural policy.
Selected Articles
Policy Risk in the Canadian Dairy Industry (with Lia Nogueira, Richard Barichello, and Hayley Chouinard), Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy (2012)
Do our conservation programs work? A Spatially Explicit Estimate of Avoided Forest Loss (with Jordi Honey-Roses and Maria Isabel Ramirez), Conservation Biology (2011)
Fast-Food Consumption and the Ban on Advertising Targeting Children: The Quebec Experience (with Tirtha Dhar), Journal of Marketing Research (2011)
The distributional effects of NAFTA in Mexico (with Rafael Garduno-Rivera and Gianfranco Piras), Regional Science and Urban Economics (2011)
Food Import Refusals: Evidence from the European Union (with Lia Nogueira and Kathryn Pace), American Journal of Agricultural Economics (2010)
Books
Agricultural Policy, Agribusiness and Rent-Seeking Behaviour (with Andrew Schmitz and W. Hartley Furtan) (2002)
Book Chapters
Spatial Environmental and Natural Resource Economics (with Amy Ando), Handbook of Regional Science (2012)
Working Papers
Empowering Women Through Education and Influence: An Evaluation of the Indian Mahila Samakhya Program (with Eeshani Kandpal and Mary Arends-Kuenning) (2012)
Something Fishy in Seafood Trade? The Relationship between Tariff and Non-Tariff Barriers (with Lia Nogueira and Kathryn Pace) (2012)
Expanding Horizons: Can Women’s Support Groups Diversify Peer Networks in Rural India? (with Eeshani Kandpal) (2011)
Spread and Backwash Effects for Non-metropolitan Communities in the U.S. (with Joanna Ganning and Bumsoo Lee) (2011)
Standing Together: Peer Networks, Female Empowerment, and Child Welfare (with Eeshani Kandpal) (2011)
Other Publications
Potential for carbon offsets from anaerobic digesters in livestock production (with Nicholas Paulson) (2011)