Brady Deaton
- Office
- Room 321
- Phone Number
- ext. 52765
- Name
- Brady Deaton
- Position
- Associate Professor
- Specialization
Natural Resource & Environmental Economics; Land Economics; Property Rights; Environmental Valuations
- Profile
Brady Deaton’s research focuses on two key themes: (1) Land and Property and (2) Food and Agricultural Standards. He currently directs the Greenbelt Project whose mission is to support the independent study of the economic effects of Ontario’s recently enacted Greenbelt. (More information about the Greenbelt Project is available at http://www.uoguelph.ca/fare/projects/urban-rural-land-use-greenbelt-project.)
He received his Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics, from Michigan State University, in 2002, and worked as a Post-Doctoral associate from 2002-2004 at the Institute for Food and Agricultural Standards (IFAS) at Michigan State University.
Brady has worked and conducted research in a number of different settings. From 1995-1997 he directed a non-profit project that provided grants to low-income households in rural Kentucky. During this time he also coordinated a project that led to the creation of a county-wide water and sewer district in Letcher County, Kentucky.
From 1993-1995 he was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Lesotho where he lived and worked as a school teacher and a community organizer. In Lesotho he initiated a number of projects including projects that led to the development of water supply infrastructure and the marketing of sheep.
Websites -
FARE Talk - Podcasts Worth Sharinghttp://www.uoguelph.ca/fare/projects/urban-rural-land-use-greenbelt-project
http://www.uoguelph.ca/fare/projects/urban-pressure-spatial-measures
http://www.uoguelph.ca/fare/projects/first-nations-lands-and-economies
- Presentations
Paul Krugman's Geography and Trade - Reviewed by Zachary Daly (Video)
- Research Interests
Resource Economics, Property in Land, Food and Agricultural Standards, Anticommons, Hedonic Methods
- Teaching Interests
Environmental and Natural Resource Economics.
- Select Publications
Deaton, B. James. 2012. "A Review and Assessment of the Heirs' Property Issue in the United States." Journal of Economic Issues XLVI(3): 615-631.
Deaton, B. James and Ekaterina Niman. 2012. "An empirical examination of the relationship between mining employment and poverty in the Appalachian region." Applied Economics. 44: 303-312.Deaton, B. James and Richard Vyn. 2010. "The effect of strict agricultural zoning on agricultural land values: the case of Ontario's Greenbelt." American Journal of Agricultural Economics 92(4): 941-955. [Authorship equally shared as indicated in article]
Deaton,B. James, Lawrence Busch, Warren J. Samuels, and Paul B. Thompson. 2010. "A note on the economy of qualities: attributing production practices to agricultural practices." Journal of Rural Social Sciences 25(3):99-110.
Deaton,B. James, Jamie Baxter and Carolyn Bratt.2009. “Assessing the consequences of heir property.” Ecological Economics 68: 2344-2353.
Ahmed, Irina, B. James Deaton, Rakhal Sarker. 2008. “Wetland ownership and management in a common property setting: A case study of Hakaluki Haor in Bangladesh.” Ecological Economics: 68(1): 429-436.
Cranfield, John, B. James Deaton, Shreenivas Shellikeri. 2008. “Evaluating Consumer Preferences for Organic Food Production Standards. Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics.” Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics 57(1):99-117. [Authorship equally shared as indicated in article]
Deaton, B. James, Anastasia M. Lintner, and Donna R. Harrington. 2008. “Evaluating an Environmental Right: Information Disclosure, Public Comment, and Government Decision Making in Ontario.” Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics 56: 277-294.
Deaton, B. James. 2007. "Intestate Succession and Heir Property: Implications for Future Research on the Persistence of Poverty in Central Appalachia." Journal of Economic Issues,vol. XLI (December): 927-942.
Deaton, B. James, John P. Hoehn, and Patricia E. Norris. 2007. "Net Buyers, Net Sellers, and Agricultural Landowner Support for Agricultural Zoning." Land Economics 83(2): 153-165.
Deaton, B. James. 2005. "Land-in-Heirs: Building a hypothesis concerning tenancy in common and the persistence of poverty in Central Appalachia," Journal of Appalachian Studies 11: 83-94.
Deaton, B. James, and John P. Hoehn. 2005. "The Social Construction of Production Externalities in Contemporary Agriculture: Process Versus Product Standards as the Basis for defining 'Organic'." Agriculture and Human Values 22: 31-38.
Deaton, B. James. 2004. "A Theoretical Framework for Examining the Role of Third Party Certifiers," Food Control 15: 615-619.
Deaton, B. James and John P. Hoehn. 2004. "Hedonic Analysis of Hazardous Waste Sites in the Presence of Other Urban Disamenities." Environmental Science & Policy 7: 499 -508.
Deaton, B. James, Patricia E. Norris, and John P. Hoehn. 2003. "Setting the Standard for Farmland Preservation: Do preservation Criteria Motivate Citizen Support for Farmland Preservation?" Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, October: 272-281.
Deaton, B. James and Patricia E. Norris. 2001. "Factors Influencing Support for Rural Land Use Control: A Comment," Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, October: 208-211.