David Sumner
Biographic Data
| ID | 792097 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Sumner |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Sumner |
| SIGNATURE | SUMNER D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Davis |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3839-6824 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
More Milk, Fewer Farms, and Regional Concentration: Mapping Transformations in California's Dairy Industry
The transformation of California’s dairy industry is a prime example of structural change in agriculture. The state has been on the leading edge of changes in the geography of food and agriculture for 150 years, and many characteristics of modern large-scale agriculture emerged—or reached their culmination—in California. We examine the spatial transformation of dairy production in California as a window into the potential futures for the dairy in…
Premium rates and selection in specialty crop insurance markets: Evidence from the catastrophic coverage participation
From Big Ag to Campus Cafeterias: Intersections of Food-Supply Networks as Technical Communication Pedagogy
This article presents a pedagogical approach to teaching technical and professional writing with an eye toward cultivating awareness and generating informed research among undergraduate students about food production and its various, intricate networks between Big Ag and campus cafeterias. Our pedagogy, influenced by interdisciplinary content, is designed to teach students to differentiate between food processes—such as production versus distribu…
Conservation agriculture and gendered livelihoods in Northwestern Cambodia: Decision-making, space and access
Differential impacts of country of origin labeling: Cool econometric evidence from cattle markets
American Farms Keep Growing: Size, Productivity, and Policy
Commercial agriculture in the United States is comprised of several hundred thousand farms, and these farms continue to become larger and fewer. The size of commercial farms is sometimes best-measured by sales, in other cases by acreage, and in still other cases by quantity produced of specific commodities, but for many commodities, size has doubled and doubled again in a generation. This article summarizes the economics of commercial agriculture…
Was there policy “reform”? Evolution of EU domestic support for processed fruits and vegetables
Agricultural technologies for climate change in developing countries: Policy options for innovation and technology diffusion
Farm subsidies and obesity in the United States: National evidence and international comparisons
Likely effects on obesity from proposed changes to the US food stamp program
Health effects resulting from the Chernobyl accident
This article reviews the health effects of the Chernobyl accident. The clearest effect to be seen to date is the dramatic increase in thyroid cancer in children. The evidence for increased leukaemia is less clear, but there are indications of increased leukaemia incidence in Russian clean-up workers. There is also evidence of increases in breast cancer, cataract and cardiovascular disease. However, to date the largest public health problem caused…
Consequences of further opening of the Korean dairy market
Contributions of D. Gale Johnson to the Economics of Agriculture
Commentary
Creation and Distribution of Economic Rents by Regulation: Development and Evolution of Milk Marketing Orders in California
Research Article| April 01 2000 Creation and Distribution of Economic Rents by Regulation: Development and Evolution of Milk Marketing Orders in California Daniel A. Sumner; Daniel A. Sumner Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Norbert L. W. Wilson Norbert L. W. Wilson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2000) 74 (2): 198–210. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-74.2.198 Cite Icon Ci…
Assessing the Food Situation in North Korea
Commentary
Restricting the Market for Quota: An Analysis of Tobacco Production Rights with Corroboration from Congressional Testimony
Regulatory programs that restrict output levels often impose restrictions on the transfer of rights to produce or to use particular inputs. In this paper, the authors use a unique cross-section, time-series data set from North Carolina to quantify the welfare effects of transfer restrictions for poundage quota under the U.S. flue-cured tobacco program. The authors find that the deadweight costs of such restrictions are small but that the distribu…
Rigidities in Rural Labor Markets--An Empirical Test
The presence of potentially binding constraints in rural labor markets is investigated by examining spillover effects on land market participation decisions. Farm and household data from ICRISAT village level surveys are used in a multinominial logit model that accounts for the simultaneous nature of the land and labor market participation decisions. Estimated parameters and likelihood ratio tests indicate that except for the presence of potentia…
Wage Rates in a Poor Rural Area with Emphasis on the Impact of Farm and Nonfarm Experience
Inflation and the Economic Well-being of the Elderly
Migration Plans and Hours of Work in Malaysia
Migration Plans and Hours of Work in Malaysia
This article describes characteristics of prospective migrants in the Malaysian Family Life Survey and investigates how planning to move affects hours of work. We use ideas about intertemporal substitution developed by M. Friedman and T. MaCurdy to discuss the response to temporary and permanent wage expectations on the part of potential migrants. The econometric section presents reduced-form estimates for wage rates and planned migration equatio…
Wage Functions and Occupational Selection in a Rural Less Developed Country Setting
ECONOMISTS are just beginning to develop empirical knowledge about the basic relationships that determine the distribution of incomes and allocation of resources in the poor rural regions of the world. Understanding interactions between agriculture and the rest of the economy is particularly important in this context. This paper empirically investigates the allocation of human resources between farm work and other jobs and the compensation receiv…
University of California, Davis
We develop a model of beekeeping that incorporates within- and between-year dynamics in the honey bee population. Our model assumes pollen and nectar are limiting resources for both bee growth and honey production, and that forage availability plays an important role in determining bee abundance. We show that the abundance of bees for pollinating one crop depends on the forage provided by other crops blooming at other periods of the year. Finally…
Agricultural technologies for climate change in developing countries: Policy options for innovation and technology diffusion
Conservation agriculture and gendered livelihoods in Northwestern Cambodia: Decision-making, space and access
Likely effects on obesity from proposed changes to the US food stamp program
American Farms Keep Growing: Size, Productivity, and Policy
Commercial agriculture in the United States is comprised of several hundred thousand farms, and these farms continue to become larger and fewer. The size of commercial farms is sometimes best-measured by sales, in other cases by acreage, and in still other cases by quantity produced of specific commodities, but for many commodities, size has doubled and doubled again in a generation. This article summarizes the economics of commercial agriculture…
Assessing the Food Situation in North Korea
Differential impacts of country of origin labeling: Cool econometric evidence from cattle markets
Farm subsidies and obesity in the United States: National evidence and international comparisons
Creation and Distribution of Economic Rents by Regulation: Development and Evolution of Milk Marketing Orders in California
Research Article| April 01 2000 Creation and Distribution of Economic Rents by Regulation: Development and Evolution of Milk Marketing Orders in California Daniel A. Sumner; Daniel A. Sumner Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Norbert L. W. Wilson Norbert L. W. Wilson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2000) 74 (2): 198–210. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-74.2.198 Cite Icon Ci…
More Milk, Fewer Farms, and Regional Concentration: Mapping Transformations in California's Dairy Industry
The transformation of California’s dairy industry is a prime example of structural change in agriculture. The state has been on the leading edge of changes in the geography of food and agriculture for 150 years, and many characteristics of modern large-scale agriculture emerged—or reached their culmination—in California. We examine the spatial transformation of dairy production in California as a window into the potential futures for the dairy in…
Premium rates and selection in specialty crop insurance markets: Evidence from the catastrophic coverage participation
From Big Ag to Campus Cafeterias: Intersections of Food-Supply Networks as Technical Communication Pedagogy
This article presents a pedagogical approach to teaching technical and professional writing with an eye toward cultivating awareness and generating informed research among undergraduate students about food production and its various, intricate networks between Big Ag and campus cafeterias. Our pedagogy, influenced by interdisciplinary content, is designed to teach students to differentiate between food processes—such as production versus distribu…
University of California, Davis
We develop a model of beekeeping that incorporates within- and between-year dynamics in the honey bee population. Our model assumes pollen and nectar are limiting resources for both bee growth and honey production, and that forage availability plays an important role in determining bee abundance. We show that the abundance of bees for pollinating one crop depends on the forage provided by other crops blooming at other periods of the year. Finally…
Wage Functions and Occupational Selection in a Rural Less Developed Country Setting
ECONOMISTS are just beginning to develop empirical knowledge about the basic relationships that determine the distribution of incomes and allocation of resources in the poor rural regions of the world. Understanding interactions between agriculture and the rest of the economy is particularly important in this context. This paper empirically investigates the allocation of human resources between farm work and other jobs and the compensation receiv…
Migration Plans and Hours of Work in Malaysia
Migration Plans and Hours of Work in Malaysia
This article describes characteristics of prospective migrants in the Malaysian Family Life Survey and investigates how planning to move affects hours of work. We use ideas about intertemporal substitution developed by M. Friedman and T. MaCurdy to discuss the response to temporary and permanent wage expectations on the part of potential migrants. The econometric section presents reduced-form estimates for wage rates and planned migration equatio…
Inflation and the Economic Well-being of the Elderly
Wage Rates in a Poor Rural Area with Emphasis on the Impact of Farm and Nonfarm Experience
Rigidities in Rural Labor Markets--An Empirical Test
The presence of potentially binding constraints in rural labor markets is investigated by examining spillover effects on land market participation decisions. Farm and household data from ICRISAT village level surveys are used in a multinominial logit model that accounts for the simultaneous nature of the land and labor market participation decisions. Estimated parameters and likelihood ratio tests indicate that except for the presence of potentia…
Restricting the Market for Quota: An Analysis of Tobacco Production Rights with Corroboration from Congressional Testimony
Regulatory programs that restrict output levels often impose restrictions on the transfer of rights to produce or to use particular inputs. In this paper, the authors use a unique cross-section, time-series data set from North Carolina to quantify the welfare effects of transfer restrictions for poundage quota under the U.S. flue-cured tobacco program. The authors find that the deadweight costs of such restrictions are small but that the distribu…
Commentary
Assessing the Food Situation in North Korea
Commentary
Creation and Distribution of Economic Rents by Regulation: Development and Evolution of Milk Marketing Orders in California
Research Article| April 01 2000 Creation and Distribution of Economic Rents by Regulation: Development and Evolution of Milk Marketing Orders in California Daniel A. Sumner; Daniel A. Sumner Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Norbert L. W. Wilson Norbert L. W. Wilson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2000) 74 (2): 198–210. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-74.2.198 Cite Icon Ci…
Contributions of D. Gale Johnson to the Economics of Agriculture
Consequences of further opening of the Korean dairy market
Health effects resulting from the Chernobyl accident
This article reviews the health effects of the Chernobyl accident. The clearest effect to be seen to date is the dramatic increase in thyroid cancer in children. The evidence for increased leukaemia is less clear, but there are indications of increased leukaemia incidence in Russian clean-up workers. There is also evidence of increases in breast cancer, cataract and cardiovascular disease. However, to date the largest public health problem caused…
Farm subsidies and obesity in the United States: National evidence and international comparisons
Likely effects on obesity from proposed changes to the US food stamp program
Was there policy “reform”? Evolution of EU domestic support for processed fruits and vegetables
Agricultural technologies for climate change in developing countries: Policy options for innovation and technology diffusion
Differential impacts of country of origin labeling: Cool econometric evidence from cattle markets
American Farms Keep Growing: Size, Productivity, and Policy
Commercial agriculture in the United States is comprised of several hundred thousand farms, and these farms continue to become larger and fewer. The size of commercial farms is sometimes best-measured by sales, in other cases by acreage, and in still other cases by quantity produced of specific commodities, but for many commodities, size has doubled and doubled again in a generation. This article summarizes the economics of commercial agriculture…
Conservation agriculture and gendered livelihoods in Northwestern Cambodia: Decision-making, space and access
From Big Ag to Campus Cafeterias: Intersections of Food-Supply Networks as Technical Communication Pedagogy
This article presents a pedagogical approach to teaching technical and professional writing with an eye toward cultivating awareness and generating informed research among undergraduate students about food production and its various, intricate networks between Big Ag and campus cafeterias. Our pedagogy, influenced by interdisciplinary content, is designed to teach students to differentiate between food processes—such as production versus distribu…
Premium rates and selection in specialty crop insurance markets: Evidence from the catastrophic coverage participation
More Milk, Fewer Farms, and Regional Concentration: Mapping Transformations in California's Dairy Industry
The transformation of California’s dairy industry is a prime example of structural change in agriculture. The state has been on the leading edge of changes in the geography of food and agriculture for 150 years, and many characteristics of modern large-scale agriculture emerged—or reached their culmination—in California. We examine the spatial transformation of dairy production in California as a window into the potential futures for the dairy in…
Economics (18 works) · Agriculture (8 works) · Business (8 works) · Economics of Agriculture and Food Markets (8 works) · Geography (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Agricultural economics (6 works) · Agricultural Economics and Policy (6 works) · Sociology (5 works)