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Professor of Economics

Research areas include economics of human capital (education, health, information, and migration), technical change (consumers’ willingness to pay for new goods and farmers’ adoption of new technology), agricultural science policy (impacts of public agricultural research on agricultural productivity, funding and management of science), agricultural household models, experimental economics, and applied econometrics.

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Research areas include economics of human capital (education, health, information, and migration), technical change (consumers’ willingness to pay for new goods and farmers’ adoption of new technology), agricultural science policy (impacts of public agricultural research on agricultural productivity, funding and management of science), agricultural household models, experimental economics, and applied econometrics.

Present	Professor, Iowa State University ‐ Department of Economics
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Agricultural and Resource Economics, Econometrics, and Health Economics

Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics, Health Economics, Human Resources Economics, and Econometrics

460E Heady

518 Farm House Ln

Ames, IA 50011

Phone: 515-294-6359

Fax: 515-294-0221

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Contribution to Book

Household Production Theory and Models

The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Food Consumption and Policy (2011)

Wallace E. Huffman

This article presents a brief review of empirical studies of food demand, especially linkages to household production theory and models. ...

Contribution to Book

The Welfare Effects of Implementing Mandatory GM Labelling in the ...

Consumer Acceptance of Genetically Modified Foods (2004)

Wallace E. Huffman, Matthew Rousu, Jason F. Shogren and Abebayehu Tegene

Although genetic engineering is a prom1Smg tool for crop varietal development, genetically modified foods continue to be controversial. Many groups ...

Contribution to Book

Public Acceptance of and Benefits from Agricultural Biotechnology: a Key ...

Market Development for Genetically Modified Foods (2002)

Wallace E. Huffman and Abebayehu Tegene

The on-going genetically modified (GM) food and genetically modified organism (GMO) conaovccsy threaten to destroy the near-term market for agbiotech ...

Contribution to Book

Research, Extension, and Education Policy

The 2002 Farm Bill: Policy Options and Consequences (2001)

Wallace E. Huffman and Marc A. Johnson

The present-day set of research-teachingextension institutions serving U.S. agriculture and households have enjoyed relatively long lives. The leading institution is ...

Contribution to Book

Labor Markets, Human Capital, and the Human Agent's Share ...

The Economics of Agriculture: Papers in Honor of D. Gale Johnson (1996)

Wallace E. Huffman

Labor, or the time of the human agent, is one of the most important inputs in production. Labor services in ...

Contribution to Book

Immigration and Agriculture in the 1990s

Immigration Reform and U.S. Agriculture (1995)

Wallace E. Huffman

The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (!RCA) contained provisions having the intent of changing the supply and demand ...

Contribution to Book

Implications of the North American Free Trade Agreement for Long-Term ...

NAFTA and Agriculture: Will the Experiment Work? (1994)

Bryan Melton and Wallace Huffman

North America is in the midst of forming one of the world's largest free trade areas. The Canada-U.S. Free Trade ...

Contribution to Book

An Assessment of the Process Underlying RAW Calculations

Appendix 1: Case studies and research reports prepared for the Commission on Agricultural Workers, 1989-1993 (1993)

Wallace E. Huffman

The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, Public Law 99-603 (commonly referred to as IRCA), contained provisions having the ...

The Value of Consumers of Genetically Modified Food Labels in ...

Economic Staff Paper Series (2001)

Wallace E. Huffman, Jason F. Shogren, Matthew Rousu and Abe Tegene

When a food item might be genetically modified (GM) and divergent information about risks and benefits exists, do U.S. consumers ...

GM Food Labeling Policies of the U.S. and Its ...

Economic Staff Paper Series (2001)

Matthew Rousu and Wallace E. Huffman

Much of the international controversy of GM foods is due to labeling policies. Countries around the wOrld have chosen differentpoliciesto ...

Migration, Fixed Costs, and Location Specific Amenities: A Hazard Rate ...

Economic Staff Paper Series (2001)

Wallace E. Huffman and Tubagus Feridhanusetyawan

Return Migration as an Individual's Optimal Utility Maximizing Behavior

Economic Staff Paper Series (2000)

Yang Li and Wallace E. Huffman

The paper presents a model of location behavior of a multi-period finite-life utility maximizing individual who consumes leisure, purchased goods, ...

Human Capital, Education, and Agriculture

Economic Staff Paper Series (2000)

Wallace E. Huffman

Education is widely recognized as the most important form of human capital, and health as the second most important form. ...

Private R&D Investments in Agriculture: The Role of Incentives and ...

Economic Staff Paper Series (1999)

Oscar Alfranca and Wallace E. Huffman

This paper presents econometric evidence of the effects of economic incentives and institutions on national aggregate private agricultural R&D investments. ...

An Overview of Immigration and the Changing Face of Rural ...

Economic Staff Paper Series (1999)

Wallace E. Huffman

This paper examines the aggregate performance of California agriculture relative to Florida and U.S. agriculture, 1960-1993, the economics of the ...

Health, Binge Drinking, and Labor Market Success: A Longitudinal Study ...

Economic Staff Paper Series (1999)

Shao Hsun Keng and Wallace E. Huffman

Health, like schooling, is a form of human capital and can be expected to be positively related to labor productivity ...

Human Capital: Education and Agriculture

Economic Staff Paper Series (1999)

Wallace E. Huffman

This chapter presents a review and synthesis of effects of education in agriculture, summarizes major contributions, and suggests major research ...

Setting Efficient Incentives for Agricultural Research: Lesson from Principal-Agent Theory ...

Economic Staff Paper Series (1999)

Wallace E. Huffman and Richard E. Just

At least since the 1950s, studies have shown unusually high productivity of public agricultural research (e.g., Griliches; Huffman and Evenson; ...

New Insights on the Organization of Agricultural Research: Theory and ...

Economic Staff Paper Series (1999)

Wallace E. Huffman

Public and private R&D are important sources of advances in knowledge leading to new technologies for and products from agriculture ...

International Re-Migration Analysis: Evidence from Puerto Ricans

Economic Staff Paper Series (1999)

Yang Li and Wallace E. Huffman

Geographical human migration, including international, interregional, and interstate moves, is a very important form of human capital investment, and it ...

Finance, Organization, and Impacts of U.S. Agricultural Research: Future ...

Economic Staff Paper Series (1999)

Wallace E. Huffman

The objective of this paper is to review key conceptual issues in the finance, management, and economic impact analysis of ...

Convergence in U.S. TFP Growth for Agriculture: Implications of ...

Economic Staff Paper Series (1998)

Alan McCunn and Wallace E. Huffman

This paper examines state agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) data, 1950- 1982, for evidence of convergence, i.e., TFP growth rates ...

Setting Efficient Incentives for Agricultural Research: Lessons from Principal-Agent Theory

Economic Staff Paper Series (1998)

Wallace E. Huffman and Richard E. Just

This paper presents a conceptual analysis of important issues in management of agricultural research drawing on principal-agent theory and derives ...

The Organization of Agricultural Research in Western Developed Countries

Economic Staff Paper Series (1998)

Wallace E. Huffman and Richard E. Just

This paper reviews agricultural research structural and organization changes in western developed countries, examines new financing prospects for agricultural research, ...

An Examination of Profit Inefficiency of Rice Farmers in Northern ...

Economic Staff Paper Series (1998)

Awudu Abdulai and Wallace E. Huffman

This paper employs a stochastic frontier model to examine profit inefficiency of rice farmers in the Northern Region of Ghana ...