Steve Boucher
Associate Professor
Agricultural and Resource Economics
The University of California Davis
United States of America
Biography
Associate Professor, 2008-present, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California-Davis.
Research Interest
Microeconomics of Agricultural Development, Rural Credit Markets, Agrarian Contracts, Economics of Information and Uncertainty
Publications
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Travis Lybbert, Francisco Galarza, John McPeak, Chistopher Barrett, Stephen Boucher, Michael Carter, Sommarat Chantarat, Aziz Fadlaoui and Andrew Mude, “Dynamic Field Experiments in Development Economics: Risk Valuation in Morocco, Kenya, and Peru,†Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 2010, 39(2), 176-192.
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Stephen R. Boucher, Oded Stark and J. Edward Taylor, “A Gain with a Drain? Evidence from Rural Mexico on the New Economics of the Brain Drain,†in János Kornai, László Mátyás, and Gérard Roland (eds.), The Political Economy of Productive Factors. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
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Stephen R. Boucher and Conner Mullally, “Evaluating the Impact of Index Insurance on Cotton Farmers in Peru,†Chapter 9 in Paul Winters, Lina Salazar and Alessandro Maffiolo (eds.) Designing Impact Evaluations for Agricultural Projects, 2011, Inter American Development Bank, Washington D.C.
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J. Edward Taylor, Stephen R. Boucher, Aaron Smith, Peri L. Fletcher and Antonio Yunez-Naude, “Immigration and the US Farm Labor Supply,†Migration Letters, 2012, 9(1): 87 – 99.
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Conner Mullally, Steve Boucher and Michael Carter, “Encouraging Development: Randomized Encouragement Designs in Agriculture,†American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2013, 95(4), first published online June 20, 2013 doi:10.1093/ajae/aat041
