Julian M Alston
Biographic Data
| ID | 1455916 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julian M Alston |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julian M |
| FAMILY NAME | Alston |
| SIGNATURE | ALSTON J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Davis |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4727-5936 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Unpacking the Agricultural Black Box
Has the golden age of U.S. agricultural productivity growth ended? We analyze the detailed patterns of productivity growth spanning a century of profound changes in American agriculture. We document a substantial slowing of U.S. farm productivity growth, following a late mid-century surge-20 years after the surge and slowdown in U.S. industrial productivity growth. We posit and empirically probe three related explanations for this farm productivi…
Policy-oriented environmental research
GMO food labels in the United States
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, energy balance, and weight gain
Agriculture in the Global Economy
The past 50-100 years have witnessed dramatic changes in agricultural production and productivity, driven to a great extent by public and private investments in agricultural research, with profound implications especially for the world's poor. In this article, we first discuss how the high-income countries like the United States represent a declining share of global agricultural output while middle-income countries like China, India, Brazil, and …
Persistence Pays
Farm subsidies and obesity in the United States
Likely effects on obesity from proposed changes to the US food stamp program
Financing agricultural research
Estimating Elasticities with the Linear Approximate Almost Ideal Demand System
Julian M. Alston, Kenneth A. Foster, Richard D. Gree, Estimating Elasticities with the Linear Approximate Almost Ideal Demand System: Some Monte Carlo Results, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 76, No. 2 (May, 1994), pp. 351-356
Economic Impacts of the California One-Variety Cotton Law
The California One-Variety Cotton Law, introduced in 1924, was intended to guarantee cotton quality and to mitigate externalities in cotton production arising from mixing different seed varieties at the gin. This paper presents quantitative estimates of the economic welfare effects of a partial deregulation under a 1978 amendment to the law. The original regulation benefited some, perhaps even most, cotton growers but became increasingly harmful …
Accounting for Changes in Tastes
Health concerns are thought by many to have shifted consumption away from red meats, though econometric evidence is mixed. Testing for structural change is difficult, especially when on e time series is used for both estimating demand equations and testin g their stability. Specification errors may suggest a shift where non e has occurred. Using nonparametric demand analysis, the authors find that meat consumption patterns in the United States an…
Financing agricultural research
Agriculture in the Global Economy
The past 50-100 years have witnessed dramatic changes in agricultural production and productivity, driven to a great extent by public and private investments in agricultural research, with profound implications especially for the world's poor. In this article, we first discuss how the high-income countries like the United States represent a declining share of global agricultural output while middle-income countries like China, India, Brazil, and …
Likely effects on obesity from proposed changes to the US food stamp program
GMO food labels in the United States
Accounting for Changes in Tastes
Health concerns are thought by many to have shifted consumption away from red meats, though econometric evidence is mixed. Testing for structural change is difficult, especially when on e time series is used for both estimating demand equations and testin g their stability. Specification errors may suggest a shift where non e has occurred. Using nonparametric demand analysis, the authors find that meat consumption patterns in the United States an…
Unpacking the Agricultural Black Box
Has the golden age of U.S. agricultural productivity growth ended? We analyze the detailed patterns of productivity growth spanning a century of profound changes in American agriculture. We document a substantial slowing of U.S. farm productivity growth, following a late mid-century surge-20 years after the surge and slowdown in U.S. industrial productivity growth. We posit and empirically probe three related explanations for this farm productivi…
Farm subsidies and obesity in the United States
Economic Impacts of the California One-Variety Cotton Law
The California One-Variety Cotton Law, introduced in 1924, was intended to guarantee cotton quality and to mitigate externalities in cotton production arising from mixing different seed varieties at the gin. This paper presents quantitative estimates of the economic welfare effects of a partial deregulation under a 1978 amendment to the law. The original regulation benefited some, perhaps even most, cotton growers but became increasingly harmful …
Accounting for Changes in Tastes
Health concerns are thought by many to have shifted consumption away from red meats, though econometric evidence is mixed. Testing for structural change is difficult, especially when on e time series is used for both estimating demand equations and testin g their stability. Specification errors may suggest a shift where non e has occurred. Using nonparametric demand analysis, the authors find that meat consumption patterns in the United States an…
Estimating Elasticities with the Linear Approximate Almost Ideal Demand System
Julian M. Alston, Kenneth A. Foster, Richard D. Gree, Estimating Elasticities with the Linear Approximate Almost Ideal Demand System: Some Monte Carlo Results, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 76, No. 2 (May, 1994), pp. 351-356
Economic Impacts of the California One-Variety Cotton Law
The California One-Variety Cotton Law, introduced in 1924, was intended to guarantee cotton quality and to mitigate externalities in cotton production arising from mixing different seed varieties at the gin. This paper presents quantitative estimates of the economic welfare effects of a partial deregulation under a 1978 amendment to the law. The original regulation benefited some, perhaps even most, cotton growers but became increasingly harmful …
Financing agricultural research
Farm subsidies and obesity in the United States
Likely effects on obesity from proposed changes to the US food stamp program
Persistence Pays
Agriculture in the Global Economy
The past 50-100 years have witnessed dramatic changes in agricultural production and productivity, driven to a great extent by public and private investments in agricultural research, with profound implications especially for the world's poor. In this article, we first discuss how the high-income countries like the United States represent a declining share of global agricultural output while middle-income countries like China, India, Brazil, and …
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, energy balance, and weight gain
Policy-oriented environmental research
GMO food labels in the United States
Unpacking the Agricultural Black Box
Has the golden age of U.S. agricultural productivity growth ended? We analyze the detailed patterns of productivity growth spanning a century of profound changes in American agriculture. We document a substantial slowing of U.S. farm productivity growth, following a late mid-century surge-20 years after the surge and slowdown in U.S. industrial productivity growth. We posit and empirically probe three related explanations for this farm productivi…
Economics (11 works) · Agriculture (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Agricultural economics (4 works) · Agricultural Economics and Policy (4 works) · Economics of Agriculture and Food Markets (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Consumption (sociology (3 works)