Published Research from FARE
Timely, published research in food, agricultural and resource economics
Recent Published Research at FARE
- Dai, Shangze, and Xinde James Ji. "Unintended carbon cost of automation technology in transforming economies: The role of capital dependence and structure change." Ecological Economics 244 (2026): 108951.
- Ji, Xinde James, Qingran Li, Stephen J. Lee, Max Luke, and Filippo Mavrothalassitis. "Cleaner bills, cleaner air: The environmental co-benefits of stringent Renewable Portfolio Standards policy design." Cleaner Air: The Environmental Co-Benefits of Stringent Renewable Portfolio Standards Policy Design. Forthcoming at Energy Economics.
- Dahal, B., Hailu, G., & Jayasundara, S. (2026). Environmentally adjusted productivity growth and shadow prices for dairy farms. Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/ Revue Canadienne D'Agroeconomie.
- Soneye, O (2026). A self-employed pure altruist can donate both time and money. Economic Letters, 260.
- Deaton, B. J. (2026). Back to the land…again: Ownership matters! 2025 CAES fellows lecture. Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1111/cjag.70012
- Danielle Roy, Tongzhe Li. (2026)."Network Information and Nudging: Experimental Insights into Agricultural Runoff Management". Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics
- Erin Daly, David Burton, Graham K MacDonald, Kari Dunfield, Tongzhe Li, Alfons Weersink, Mario Tenuta, Kate Congreves, Roberta Helgason, Tristan Skolrud, Thomas Andrew Black, Henrique Da Ros Carvalho, Willemijn M Appels, Adam Gillespie, Herman Simons, and Claudia Wagner-Riddle. (2025). “canN2Onet—a Canadian nitrous oxide collaboration network to meet greenhouse gas emission reduction targets.” Environmental Research Letters, 20.
- Naylor, J., Deaton, B. J., & Ker, A. (2025). On the pass-through rate of the Nutrition North Canada subsidy. Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d'agroeconomie, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1111/cjag.70004
- Nuño-Ledesma, J. G. (2025). “Incentive Alignment and Effort Provision in Multitask Contracts: A Basic Test of the Theory.” Journal of Agricultural & Food Industrial Organization.
- Nuño-Ledesma, J. G., Wu, S.Y. & Balagtas, J.V. (2025). “Soda Taxes versus Cup Sizes when the Retailer Practices Nonlinear Pricing: An Experiment.” Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics.
- Sylvanus Kwaku Afesorgbor, Lukas Kornher, Fabio G. Santeramo. (2025). "The Impacts of Economic Sanctions on Food (Prices) Security: Evidence From Targeted Countries." The World Economy.
- Sappor, O. T., De Laporte, A., Tariq, A., Weersink, A., Grant, B., Smith, W., & Wagner-Riddle, C. (2025). Inclusion of the social costs of N2O emissions increases the financial benefits from N inhibitor use on corn production in Ontario, Canada. Field Crops Research, 332 (Oct) 110026.
- B. James Deaton, Nicholas Bannon, Alexander Scholz, and Jamie Naylor. (2025). "Farmland Price-Rent Surveys: Opportunities for Outreach and Teaching." Applied Economics Teaching Resources: 1-13.
- Hailu, G., Weersink, A., & Minten, B. (2025). "Rural institutions and the technical efficiency of teff production in Ethiopia." Journal of Co-operative Organization and Management, 13(1), 100259.
- Nikolai Cook, Hugo Cordeau, Tongzhe Li, Taylor Wright. (2025). “The economic effects of long-term climate change: Evidence from the Little Ice Age: Replication.” Economic Inquiry, 1–9.
- Tongzhe Li, Yong Liu, Alfons Weersink, and Claudia Wagner-Riddle. (2025). “Guiding policies for agricultural nitrous oxide emission reduction with behavioral insights and experimentation.” npj Sustainable Agriculture, 3(31).
- Eckert, K. F., Agostinelli, J., Laila, A., Alexander, C., Parizeau, K., Von Massow, M., ... & Haines, J. (2025). "Feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary impact of “Supper Heroes”, a family-based sustainable diet intervention." Appetite, 206, 107849.
- Tongzhe Li, Collin Weigel, Paul Ferraro, and Kent Messer. (2025). "Underpowered studies and exaggerated effects: A replication and re-evaluation of the magnitude of anchoring effects." Economic Inquiry, 63(2), 387 – 402.
- Sarah Garvey, Eric Davidson, Claudia Wagner-Riddle, Adrian Collins, Matthew Houser, Tongzhe Li, Graham K. MacDonald, Mario Tenuta, David Kanter, Page Kyle, Nianqiang Wu, Kate A. Congreves, Yulei Wang, Laura Cardenas, and Xin Zhang. (2025). "Emerging opportunities and urgent research questions for green ammonia adoption in agriculture." Nature Reviews Clean Technology, 1, 10 – 11.
- Nicholas Bannon, B. James Deaton, Jamie Naylor, Alexander Scholz (2025) "Are farmland prices too high? Exploring the rent-to-price ratio and farmer perceptions." Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics 73(2): 147-154.
- Dahal, B., Kimmerer, C., & Hailu, G. (2024). "Value added to agricultural commodities. In Future Food Systems (pp. 89-107)." Academic Press.
- Fasakin, I., & von Massow, M. (2024). "Consumer's preferences and willingness to pay for immune enhanced dairy products in Canada." Appetite, 196, 107156.
- Anna L. Abatayo and Tongzhe Li. (2024). "Public goods and bads with vulnerable individuals: How information and social nudges change behaviour." Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, 57, 556 – 587
- Bannon, Nicholas, Christopher Kimmerer, and B. James Deaton. "The Effect of Climate Change on Canadian Farmland Values: A Ricardian Approach." Land Economics 101.2 (2025): 201-217. https://le.uwpress.org/content/wple/101/2/201.full.pdf
- Chenyang Xu and Tongzhe Li. (2024). "Are Teams Conditionally Cooperative? Experimental Evidence from a Public Goods Game." Economics Letters, 239, 111763.
- Tongzhe Li, Leah H. Palm-Forster, Siddika Bhuiyanmishu*. (2024). "Transaction Costs, Participation, and the Cost-Effectiveness of Reverse Auctions: Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment." Environmental and Resource Economics, 88(2), 397 – 424.
- Ying Zhou*, WooMi Jo, Joan Flaherty, and Tongzhe Li. (2024). " How Travel Vlogs Contribute to Destination Marketing: A Comparison with DMO Promotional Videos and the Moderating Role of Destination Competitiveness." International Journal of Tourism Research, 26, e2755.
- Laila, A., Gallant, M., Bain, M., Alexander, C., Reis, L., Welboren, A., Mike von Massow , Kate Parizeau , Kathryn Walton , , David W.L. Ma & Haines, J. (2024). "Household Food Waste Intervention Is Feasible, Acceptable, and Effective." Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, 56(2), 110-117.
- Julia Höhler, Jesús Barreiro‐Hurlé, Mikołaj Czajkowski, François J Dessart, Paul J Ferraro, Tongzhe Li, Kent D Messer, Leah Palm‐Forster, Mette Termansen, Fabian Thomas, Katarzyna Zagorska, Kahsay Haile Zemo, and Jens Rommel. (2024). “Perspectives on stakeholder participation in the design of economic experiments for agricultural policymaking: Pros, cons, and twelve recommendations for researchers.” Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 46(1), 338 – 359.
- De Laporte, A., Schuurman, D., Skolrud, T., Slade, P., & Weersink, A. (2024). "Business risk management programs and the adoption of beneficial management practices in Canadian crop agriculture." Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics, 72(3), 309-324.
- Anna L. Abatayo and Tongzhe Li. (2024). "Unequal Returns to Public Goods and Bads: How Information and Social Nudges Change Behavior." Canadian Journal of Economics.
- Pérez Pérez, J., & Nuño-Ledesma, J. G. (2024). “Workers, Workplaces, Sorting, and Wage Dispersion in Mexico.” Economía LACEA Journal, 23(1), 311–332.
- Sylvanus Kwaku Afesorgbor, Dela-Dem Doe Fiankor, Binyam Afewerk Demena (2023). "Do regional trade agreements affect agri-foodtrade? Evidence from a meta-analysis." Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy.
- Canbolat, M. S., Wesolowsky, G. O., & Massow, M. V. (2023). "Locating a rectangular barrier facility on the plane: a bi-objective approach." International Journal of Operational Research, 48(1), 117-139.
- José G. Nuño-Ledesma and Michael von Massow (2023). "Canadian food inflation: International dynamics and local agency." Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics, 71, 393-406.
- Sylvanus K. Afesorgbor and Sunghun Lim (2023). "Food inflation, agri‐food trade, and COVID‐19:Evidence from South Asia." Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
- José Nuño-Ledesma, Steven Y. Wu and Joseph V. Balagtas (2023). "Taxing sugar-sweetened beverages: A nonlinear pricing approach." American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1-15.
- Conoly, Y. K., von Massow, M., & Lee, Y. M. (2023). "Predicting locally grown food purchase intention of domestic and international undergraduate hospitality management students at a Canadian University." International Hospitality Review, 37(1), 8-27.
- B. James Deaton and Bethany Lipka (2023). "Cooperation Between First Nations and Municipalities: Do Water Sharing Arrangements Improve Drinking Water Quality?." Land Economics.
- Tongzhe Li, Laura A. Paul, Kent D. Messer, and Harry M. Kaiser. (2023). "It’s All Relative: Consistent Marginal Effects with Willingness to Pay and Willingness to Accept Framing in Experimental Auctions." Applied Economics, 56(45), 5329 – 5341.
- Kerr, J., De Laporte, A., Weersink, A., Vyn, R., & Van Eerd, L. L. (2023). Effects of cover crop, N and residue management on the financial sustainability of processing tomatoes in Southwestern Ontario. Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems, 38, e40 [15%]
- Lee, Y. N., Stortz, L., von Massow, M., & Kimmerer, C. (2023). "Impact of ‘‘high in” front‐of‐package nutrition labeling on food choices: Evidence from a grocery shopping experiment." Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d'agroeconomie, 71(3-4), 277-301.
- Trueman, C. L., Awrey, J. C., Delaporte, A., Kerr, J., Weersink, A., & Van Eerd, L. L. (2023). Long-term Cover Cropping Suppresses Foliar and Fruit Disease in Processing Tomatoes. Plant Disease, 107(7), 2160-2168 [10%]
- Hailu, G. (2023). "Reflections on technological progress in the agri‐food industry: past, present, and future." Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d'agroeconomie (Vol. 71, No. 1, pp. 119-141).
- Julia Höhler et al. 2023. "Perspectives on stakeholder participation in the design of economic experiments for agricultural policymaking: Pros, cons, and twelve recommendations for researchers." Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy.
- Hailu, Getu and Piedrahita, Natalia, Exporter Productivity Premium in Canadian Food Manufacturing: Internal and International Trade (February 09, 2025). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5130231 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5130231
- Rachael Vriezen, Mikayla Plishka, and John Cranfield. 2022. “Consumer willingness to pay for traceable food products: A scoping review” British Food Journal doi: 10.1108/BFJ-01-2022-0085
- A. Edwige Tia, B. James Deaton, Getu Hailu, and Hina Nazli ( 2022 ) An empirical assessment of rental markets in Rural Pakistan.
- Christina Semeniuk et al. 2022. "Innovating transcriptomics for practitioners in freshwater fish management and conservation: Best practices across diverse resource‐sector users." Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries, Vol 32, p. 921–939.
- Chen, H., Weersink, A., Beaulieu, M., & Lee, Y. N. (2022). Dynamics of farm entry and exit in Canada. Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 51(1), 86-104.
- Banton, S., von Massow, M., Pezzali, J. G., Verbrugghe, A., & Shoveller, A. K. (2022). Jog with your dog: dog owner exercise routines predict dog exercise routines and perception of ideal body weight. Plos one, 17(8), e0272299.
- B. James Deaton and Alexander Scholz ( 2022 ) Food security, food insecurity, and Canada’s national food policy: Meaning, measures and assessment.
- Sylvanus Kwaku Afesorgbor, Ruby Elorm Acquah, Yohannes Ayele ( 2022 ) Chinese Import Competition and Gendered Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Ethiopian Firm-Level Data
- Rakhal Sarker, Truc Phan, Yu Na Lee, Alfons Weersink ( 2022 ) Business Risk Management Program and risk-balancing in Ontario hog sector: An empirical analysis. Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d'agroeconomie, 70(4), 287-304.
- Shah, A., Weersink, A., & Vyn, R. (2022) Adoption of Beneficial Management Practices to Improve Soil Health. Canadian Journal of Soil Science, 102 (4): 825-834. [40%]
- David Worden, Getu Hailu, Kate Jones, Yu Na Lee ( 2022 ) The effects of bundling on livestock producers' valuations of environmentally friendly traits available through genomic selection. Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d'agroeconomie, 70(4), 263-286.
- Nuño-Ledesma, J.G. (2022). “A Portion Cap Rule with Two Products: An Experimental Evaluation.