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
Expanding Horizons: Can Women’s Support Groups Diversify Peer Networks in Rural India? (with Eeshani Kandpal), American Journal of Agricultural Economics (2013)
Policy Risk in the Canadian Dairy Industry (with Lia Nogueira, Richard Barichello, and Hayley Chouinard), Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy (2012)
The distributional effects of NAFTA in Mexico (with Rafael Garduno-Rivera and Gianfranco Piras), Regional Science and Urban Economics (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)
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
Bridging vs. Bonding Social Capital and the Governance of Common Pool Resources (with Yazhen Gong and Shun Wang) (2012)
Empowering Women Through Education and Influence: An Evaluation of the Indian Mahila Samakhya Program (with Eeshani Kandpal and Mary Arends-Kuenning) (2012)
Risk Aversion and Farm Input Choice: Evidence from Field Experiments in China (with Yazhen Gong, Jintao Xu, Robert Kozak, and Gary Bull) (2012)
Something Fishy in Seafood Trade? The Relationship between Tariff and Non-Tariff Barriers (with Lia Nogueira and Kathryn Pace) (2012)
Spatial Analysis of Illinois Agricultural Cash Rents (with Shannon Woodard, Nicholas Paulson, and Joshua Woodard) (2012)
Other Publications
The Bee Informed Partnership: Using beekeepers’ real-world experience to solve beekeepers’ real-world problems (with Dennis vanEngelsdorp, David R. Tarpy, Marla Spivak, Dewey M. Caron, Joseph Connel, Kieth Delaplane, Susan Donohue, Wayne Esias, Brian Gross, Jerry Hayes, Eugene Lengerich, Jeffrey Pettis, Karen Rennich, Robyn Underwood, Robyn Rose, John Skinner, and James Wilkes), American Entomologist (2012)
Potential for carbon offsets from anaerobic digesters in livestock production (with Nicholas Paulson) (2011)