Curriculum Vitae - Simanti Banerjee

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Experimental and Behavioral Economics, Ecosystem Services Conservation & Management, Social Networks, Game Theory, Gender, Information, Risk, Communication, Survey & Experiments

EDUCATION 

• PhD, Department of AERS, Penn State University, US. 2010
• Master in Economics, Department of Economics, Jadavpur University, India. 2004
• Bachelor in Economics, Department of Economics, Jadavpur University, India. 2002

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS & APPOINTMENTS                                                    

• Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Nebraska – Lincoln, 2024 – current
• Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Nebraska – Lincoln, 2019 – 2024
• Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Nebraska - Lincoln. 2014 – 2019
• Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Oberlin College. 2013 – 2014
• Post-Doctoral Researcher, Division of Economics, University of Stirling, UK. 2010 – 2013
• Visiting Researcher, Environment & Natural Resources Institute, Penn State University. 2012 – 2013
• Research Intern, The Nature Conservancy. 2009

PUBLICATIONS (Total citations – 1356 as of December 2025)

Peer Reviewed Articles

1. Stamatina Kotsakou, Cory Walters, Simanti Banerjee, and Karina Schoengold. Safety-First? A Context-Rich Experimental Study of the Role of Safety-First Risk Preferences in a Post-Harvest Grain Marketing Setting. Agricultural Finance Review. Forthcoming.

1. Charalampos Mavroutsikos, Karina Schoengold, Emie Yiannaka, Simanti Banerjee, Konstantinos Giannakas and Tala Awada. The Role of Spatially Varying Descriptive Norms on Public Valuation of Ecosystem Services Associated with Improved Soil Health: A Discrete Choice Experiment on Nudging. Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics. Volume 50, Issue 3, September 2025. 

1. Hannah Legatzke, Brian C. Chaffin, Theresa M. Floyd, Simanti Banerjee, Sarah Church, Sabrina Gulab, Samantha Hamlin, Gwendwr R. Meredith, Alexander L. Metcalf, Holly K. Nesbitt, Emily Rowenf, Daniel R. Uden, Craig R. Allen.  2025. Governance of a landscape: The role of formal and informal organizations. Journal of Environmental Management. Volume 380, 124974.

1. Timothy Meyer, Lia Nogueira, Kathleen Brooks, Fabio Mattos, and Simanti Banerjee.  Exploring the Implementation of non-explicit Grading. Applied Economics Teaching Resources. First Published Online: June 25, 2025

1. Timothy Pape, Gwendŵr Meredith, David Sandahl, Md Faizul Kabir, Simanti Banerjee, Craig Allen, Elliott Dennis, Mitchell Stephenson. Actor-network analysis of partners facilitating regenerative ranching practices in the U.S. Northern Great Plains. Rangelands. Online February 22, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rala.2025.01.003

1. Hanin Hosni, Christopher Gustafson and Simanti Banerjee. 2025 The Impact of Health and Environmental Information on Consumer Valuation of Portion Sizes: Evidence from an Experimental Auction. 2025. Food Quality and Preference. Volume 127, June 2025, 105430. 

1. Timothy Pape, Gwendŵr Meredith, David Sandahl, Md Faizul Kabir, Simanti Banerjee, Craig Allen, Elliott Dennis, Mitchell Stephenson. 2024. Understanding the values that inform regenerative ranching in the Northern U.S. Great Plains. Agriculture and Human Values. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-024-10649-1 

1. Holly Nesbitt, Alex Metcalf, Theresa Floyd, Daniel Uden, Brian Chaffin, Sabrina Gulab, Simanti Banerjee, Sechindra Vallury, Samantha Hamlin, Elizabeth Metcalf, Dillon Fogarty, Dirac Twidwell and Craig Allen. 2024. Social networks and transformative behaviors in a grassland social-ecological system. People and Nature. https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.10695  

1. Zhaoyang Liu, Simanti Banerjee, Timothy N. Cason, Andreas Kontoleon, Jintao Xu, and Nick Hanley. 2024. Spatially Coordinated Conservation Auctions: A Framed Field Experiment Focusing on Farmland Wildlife Conservation in China. American Journal of Agricultural Economics. Volume 106(4), pp. 1354-1379. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajae.12447 

1. Leah H. Palm-Forster, Mykel Taylor, Simanti Banerjee and Lusi Xie. 2023. Factors Influencing Enrollment of Leased Cropland in the Conservation Stewardship Program in Kansas. Land Use Policy. Volume 135.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2023.106956 

1. Sergei Schaub, Jaboury Ghazoul, Robert Huber, Wei Zhange, Adelaide Sander, Charles Rees, Anne Dray, Simanti Banerjee and Robert Finger. 2023. The Role of Opportunity Costs And Behavioral Factors In Farmers' Adoption Of Voluntary Agri-Environmental Schemes: A Systematic Review. Journal of Agricultural Economics, Volume 74(3), pp. 617-660.

1. Banerjee, Simanti. 2022. Use of Experimental Economics in Policy Design and Evaluation: An Application to Water Resources and other Environmental Domains. In H. Shugart (Ed.), The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Environmental Science. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199389414.013.764 

1. Chelsea Arnold, Jisang Yu, Mykel Taylor, Leah Palm-Forster, and Simanti Banerjee. 2022. The Role of Risk in Farmland Contract Choices. Journal or Agricultural and Resource Economics. Volume 48(2), pp. 398-411. doi: 10.22004/ag.econ.320681

1. Sechindra Vallury, Ada Smith, Brian C. Chaffin, Holly Nesbitt, Sapana Lohani, Sabrina Gulab, Simanti Banerjee, Theresa Floyd, Alex Metcalf, Elizabeth Metcalf, Dirac Twidwell, Daniel Uden, Matthew Williamson, and Craig R. Allen. 2022. Adaptive Capacity Beyond the Household: A Systematic Review Of Empirical Social-Ecological Research. Environmental Research Letters, Volume 17(6).

1. Hilsenroth Jana, Anna Josephson, Kelly A. Grogan, Lurleen M. Walters, Zoë T. Plakias, Leah H. Palm-Forster, Simanti Banerjee, and Tara Wade. 2021. Past, Present, and Future: Status of Women and Minority Faculty in Agricultural and Applied Economics. Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, Volume 44(1), pp. 71-91. 

1. Banerjee Simanti, Timothy N. Cason, Frans P. deVries, and Nick Hanley. 2021. Impact of different spatial bonus payments on conservation auction performance, Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Volume 8(5), pp. 1013-1049.

1. Streletskaya Nadia A., Samuel D. Bell, Maik Kecinski, Tongzhe Li, Simanti Banerjee, Leah H. Palm-Forster, and David Pannell. 2019. Agriculture Adoption and Behavioral Economics: Bridging the Gap. Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy. Volume 42(1), pp. 54-66.

1. Czap Natalia, Hans Czap, Simanti Banerjee, and Mark Burbach. 2019. Encouraging Farmers’ Participation in the Conservation Stewardship Program: A Field Experiment. Ecological Economics, Volume 161, pp. 130-143

1. Secchi Silvia, and Simanti Banerjee. 2019. A Dynamic Semester-Long Social Dilemma Game for Economic and Inter-Disciplinary Courses. Journal of Economic Education, Volume 50(1), pp. 70-85.

1. Kotsakou Stamatina, Cory Walters, Jessica Groskopf, Robert Tigner, and Simanti Banerjee.[*] 2018. A Unique Marketing Educational Tool: Marketing in a New Era Simulation Game. Journal of Extension. Volume 56(6), Article # 6TOT4. 

1. Banerjee Simanti and Marc Conte. 2018. Information Access, Conservation Practice Choice, and Rent Seeking in Conservation Procurement Auctions: Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment. American Journal of Agricultural Economics. Volume 100(5), pp. 1407-1426

1. Banerjee Simanti. Improving Spatial Coordination Rates under the Agglomeration Bonus Scheme: A Laboratory Experiment with a Pecuniary and a Non-Pecuniary Mechanism. 2017 American Journal of Agricultural Economics. Volume 100(1), pp. 172-197 

1. Banerjee Simanti, Timothy N. Cason, Frans P de Vries, and Nick Hanley. 2017. Transaction Costs, Communication and Spatial Coordination in Payment for Ecosystem Services Schemes, Journal of Environmental Economics & Management, Volume 83, pp. 68-89 

1. Banerjee Simanti, Anthony M. Kwasnica, and James S. Shortle. 2015. Information & auction performance: A laboratory study of conservation auctions for spatially contiguous land management, Environmental & Resource Economics, Volume 61(3), pp. 409-431 

1. Banerjee Simanti, Frans P de Vries, Nick Hanley, and Daan van Soest. 2014. The impact of information provision on Agglomeration Bonus performance: An experimental study on local networks, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Volume 96(4), pp. 1009 – 1029 

1. Banerjee Simanti, Silvia Secchi, Joseph Fargione, Stephen Polasky, and Steven Kraft. 2013. How to sell ecosystem services: a guide for designing new markets. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment Volume 11, pp. 297 – 304 

1. Hanley Nick, Simanti Banerjee, Gareth D. Lennox, and Paul R. Armsworth. 2013. How should we incentivize private landowners to "produce" more biodiversity? Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Volume 28(1), pp. 93 – 113

1. Banerjee Simanti, Anthony M. Kwasnica, and James S. Shortle. 2012. Agglomeration Bonus in Small and Large Local Networks: A Laboratory Examination of Spatial Coordination. Ecological Economics, Volume 84, pp. 142 – 152 

Book Chapters

1. Hanley Nick, Simanti Banerjee, Gareth D. Lennox, and Paul R. Armsworth. 2014. Incentives, Private Ownership, and Biodiversity Conservation, in Nature in the Balance: The Economics of Biodiversity, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199676880.001.0001

Refereed Conference Proceedings and Papers

1. Banerjee Simanti, Timothy N. Cason, Frans P de Vries and Nick Hanley. 2018. Spatial Coordination and Joint Bidding in Conservation Auctions, World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists, Gothenburg, Sweden. 

1. Banerjee Simanti and Savi Maharaj. 2014. Strategic interactions and information exchange on networks: an agent-based simulation model of landowner behavior in conservation incentive schemes, in Proceedings of the Social Science Simulation Conference 2014, in DDD-UAB Digital Repository (extended abstract). Available at: http://ddd.uab.cat/record/125597 

Non- Refereed Publications

1. Managing Undesirable Vegetation Transitions on the Landscape: A Study of Perceptions of Conservation Professionals in Nebraska and Montana. Cornhusker Economics, August 6^th, 2025. https://go.unl.edu/aike 
2. Conservation Decision Making and Agricultural Land Leasing - An Experimental Investigation of the Role of Gender. Cornhusker Economics, August 7^th, 2024. https://tinyurl.com/22c8svhj 
3. Assessing Determinants of Participation In Conservation Programs In The U.S. Cornhusker Economics, August 9^th, 2023. https://tinyurl.com/ktv6stnc 
4. Role of Social Network on Technology Adoption: Application to Nebraska Producers in the Face of Undesirable Vegetation Transitions. Cornhusker Economics, January 4th, 2023 https://tinyurl.com/btezys8s  
5. Joint Bidding in Conservation Auctions: An Experimental Study of Policy Design and Performance, Cornhusker Economics, July 14th 2021. https://tinyurl.com/3fzbwjr8  
6. Safety First Risk Preferences and Post-Harvest Grain Marketing A Context-rich Lab Experiment. Cornhusker Economics, March 4th, 2020. https://tinyurl.com/yck8y2ms  
7. Role of Information and Communication on Spatial Conservation Auction Performance: Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment. Cornhusker Economics, July 13, 2018 https://bit.ly/2mj60p2
8. Complexity and Efficiency in Conservation Auctions: Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment, Cornhusker Economics, April 4, 2018. https://bit.ly/2KVlv5v 
9. Efficient Diffusion of Sustainable Environmental Practices through Green Networks, Cornhusker Economics, April 12, 2017. https://bit.ly/2LbHNPH
10. Successful Extension Meetings and Innovative Economic Research: Grain Marketing Simulations, Cornhusker Economics, October 19, 2016. https://bit.ly/2tiy4fn 
11. Understanding the Economic Characteristics of a Developing Country Marine Fishery— A Case Study of the Digha-Shankarpur Fishery in Eastern India, Cornhusker Economics, September 22, 2016. https://bit.ly/2LcgvbL 
12. Role of Social Networks and Individual Endowments in Meeting Fundraising Targets: An Economic Experiment, Cornhusker Economics, March 30, 2016. https://bit.ly/2uysw12
13. Increasing Ecosystem Services Benefits through Spatially Coordinated Land Management: Role of Transaction Costs and Communication in an Experimental Setting, Cornhusker Economics, August 26, 2015. https://bit.ly/2NkOE6N 
14. Czap, Natalia V., Simanti Banerjee, Hans J. Czap, Mark E. Burbach and Thomas Franti. (2015, July). Empathy conservation: A field experiment on encouraging farmer’s participation in the Nebraska Conservation Stewardship Program. School of Natural Resources, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Open-File Report 129. 
15. Towards Sustainable Agricultural Systems: Scope for Economic Experimentation, Cornhusker Economics, December 10, 2014. https://bit.ly/2uDQbgs 

MANUSCRIPTS[†]                                                                                                                          

1. Who Benefits, Who Pays? Fairness and Spatial Preferences in Public Support for Multi-Service Soil Health Programs (with Karina Schoengold, Lana Awada, Emie Yiannaka, Charalampos Mavroutsikos, Konstantinos Giannakas and Tala Awada) Submitted
2. Attitudes of conservation professionals to ecological transitions in rangelands (with Emily Rowen, Gwendwr Meredith, Theresa Floyd, Brian Chaffin, Samantha Hamlin, Holly Nesbitt and Sabrina Gulab) Submitted
3. Influences of ecological change and social networks on conservation professionals’ and producers’ risk assessments of a vegetation transition (with Hannah Legatzke, Theresa Floyd, Brian Chaffin, Sabrian Gulab, Sapana Lohani, Gwendŵr R. Meredith, Alex Metcalf, Holly Nesbitt, Emily Rowen, Daniel R. Uden, Craig R. Allen) Revise and Resubmit
4. Meso-scale relationships between cattle, human and tree populations in Nebraska, U.S.A. (with Hannah Legatzke, Theresa Floyd, Brian Chaffin, Sabrian Gulab, Sapana Lohani, Gwendŵr R. Meredith, Holly Nesbitt, Emily Rowen, Daniel R. Uden, Craig R. Allen) Submitted
5. Assessing Determinants of Participation in Multiple Incentive-based Conservation Programs: A Survey of Crop Producers in Three U.S. Mid-western States (with Manita Ale, Karina Schoengold)^*  Submitted
6. Role of gender in conservation contracting – role of landowners and tenants (with Diya Ganguly and Chris Gustafson)*  In Preparation
7. Role of social networks, and risk attitudes and perceptions in adoption of land use behaviors: An application to rangeland management (with Sabrina Gulab, Holly Nesbitt, and Theresa Floyd)^* Submitted
8. Testing new conservation auctions in the presence and absence of priming: A lab experiment (with Nick Hanley) In preparation
9. Coalition Formation for Targeted Environmental Benefits Provision: Tensions in Spatial Procurement Auction Design (with Marc Conte and Nick Hanley) In preparation
10. Corporate Social Responsibility and Activism – An inter-country lab experiment (with Anubrata Deka and Emie Yiannaka)^*In preparation
11. The Role of Information in Shaping Pre-Harvest Hedging Decisions in Grain Marketing (with Iyore Eronmwon, Cory Walters and Emie Yiannaka)* In preparation
12. Rancher Preferences for Grassland Conservation Reserve Programs in the Northern U.S. Great Plains (with Faizul Kabir, Elliott Dennis, Gwendwr Meredith, Craig Allen, Mitch Stephenson, David Sandahl and Timothy Pape)* In preparation
13. Comparing Willingness to Pay for Environmental Policy Implementation on Privately owned Farmland – Comparing valuations of general public and producers (with Kaouter Essakkat, Karina Schoengold, Lana Awada, Emie Yiannaka Charalampos Mavroutsikos, Konstantinos Giannakas and Tala Awada) In preparation
14. Pruning the Tree: Dead Topics and New Growth in Environmental Economics Teaching A Commentary on the AERE Teaching Panel at the 2025 Midwest Economic Association (with Anna Klis, April Athnos, Richard Melstrom and Guilherme DePaula) In preparation

CURRENT RESEARCH[‡]                                                                              

1. Consensus among Environmental Economists: A Global Analysis (with Lea-Rachel Kosnik)
2. Participation in Conservation Programs in the U.S. Midwest: Looking Under the Hood
3. Preference Elicitation for Rotational Grazing and Grasslands Conservation Reserve Program (with Faizul Kabir, Elliott Dennis, Gwendwr Meredith, Craig Allen, Mitch Stephenson and Timothy Pape)*
4. Factors determining transition of row-crop and livestock producers to integrated operations (with Omid Tarashtwal, Kelly Grogan and Jay Parsons)*
5. Public Perceptions about Soil Health and Regenerative Agriculture (with Emie Yiannaka, Karina Schoengold, Lana Awada, Konstantinos Giannakas and Tala Awada) 
6. Conservation Professionals’ Preferences and Priorities for Environmental Policy to Manage Vegetation Transitions in the Northern Great Plains (with Anubrata Deka and Theresa Floyd)
7. Measuring the Value of Ecosystem Services Generated from Soil Health Improvements Across Space (with Karina Schoengold, Charalampos Mavroutsikos, Emie Yiannaka, Konstantinos Giannakas and Tala Awada) 
8. The Role of Social Activism in the Food Sector (with Anubrata Deka and Emie Yiannaka)
9. Information Avoidance and Grain Marketing: An experimental investigation (with Iyore Eronmwon, Cory Walters and Emie Yiannaka)*
10. Tenant landowner bargaining in Conservation Stewardship Program contract negotiation and participation in Kansas: An artefactual field experiment (with Mykel Taylor and Leah Palm-Forster)

TEACHING                                                                                                                                                          

• University of Nebraska-Lincoln:

Behavioral and Experimental Economics (AECN 818) (previously called AECN 896-002)

Resource and Environmental Economics I (AECN-NREE 265) 

• University of Reading UK: 2021

Invited masterclass on Experimental and Behavioral Economics

• Oberlin College:

Principles of Economics (ECON 101)

Environmental Economics (ECON 231) – 2 times

Environmental Issues & Methodologies (ECON 333)

• University of Stirling:

The Economics of Climate Change (EGMP28) – 2 times, 

Energy Economics (EGMP18)

STUDENTS & POST-DOCs[§]                                                                                                                                                           

• University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Current Students

1. Allison Barg* (Committee member): PhD
2. Bruno Bezerra (Committee member): PhD
3. Md Faizul Kabir (Advisor): PhD
4. Rita Khadka (Committee member): PhD
5. Anupam Ghosh* (Committee member): PhD
6. Rebecca Jack* (Committee member): PhD
7. Omid Tarashtwal (Advisor): MS
8. Sushil C. Sapkota (Committee member): PhD

• University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Past Students

1. Iyore Eronmwon (Committee Member): PhD – 2025 

Dissertation: Information and Pre-Harvest Grain Marketing: Three Essays

1. Samuel Olusesi Olumide (Committee member): MS – 2024 

Thesis: Linking Risk Preference, Women’s Empowerment, Farm Investment And Household Well-Being

1. Kaouter Essakat (Committee member): PhD – 2024

Dissertation: Exploring Producers' Willingness to Pay For Ecosystem Services: Three Essays On Soil Health, Location Preferences, And Cover Crop Adoption

1. Manita Ale (Advisor): MS – 2023

Thesis: Assessing Determinants of Participation in Conservation Programs in the U.S.

1. Sabrina Gulab (Advisor): PhD – 2023

Dissertation: Essays on Social Networks and Technology Adoption

1. Corrin Winter* (Committee member): 2023

Thesis: Understanding the Factors Affecting Nebraskan Farmers’ and Landowners' Decision to Adopt Precision Agricultural Technologies and Programs

1. Hanin Hosni (co-Advisor): PhD – 2022 

Dissertation: Essays on Portion Size, Obesity and Food Waste

1. Olivier Tuyizere (Committee member): MS – 2022

Thesis: The Role of Intertemporal Preferences, Active Consideration Of Health Outcomes, And Simple Health Prompts On The Nutritional Quality Of Food Choices

1. Morgan Register (Committee member): MS – 2022 

Thesis: Understanding Conservation Specialists’ Role in the Adoption of Precision Agriculture in Nebraska

1. Anubrata Deka (Committee member): PhD – 2022

Dissertation: The Role of Social Activism in the Food Sector

1. Diya Ganguly (co-Advisor): PhD – 2021 

Dissertation: Essays on Conservation Outcomes on Rented Farmland – Role of Gender

1. Badri Khanal (Committee member): PhD – 2021 

Dissertation: Essays on the Designs and Benefits of Land Conservation Programs

1. Iyore Eronmwon (Co-Advisor): MS – 2020

Thesis: The Role of Myopic Loss Aversion in Pre-Harvest Grain Marketing

1. Brooks Ronspies (Co-advisor): MS – 2019

Thesis: Measuring Impacts of Uncertainty, Irreversibility, and Loss Aversion on the Adoption of Crop Canopy Sensors among Nebraska Corn Producers

1. Nadeeka Weerasekara (Advisor): MS – 2017 

Thesis: An Economic Analysis of a Total Allowable Catch-Individual Transferable Quota System in a Developing Country Heterogeneous Fishery: An Application to the Digha Fishery in West Bengal, India

1. Stamatina Kotsakou (Co-advisor): MS – 2017 

Thesis: Successful Extension Meetings and Innovative Economic Research: Grain Marketing Simulations

1. Mazbahul Ahamad (Committee Member): MS– 2016 

Thesis: Ex-post Livestock Diseases, and Pastoralists' Averting Decisions in Tanzania

• University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Post-docs

1. Charalampos Mavroutsikos (LTAR)
2. Timothy Pape (USDA FSA)
3. Samantha Hamlin (NSF – EPSCoR & USDA FSA)

• University of Montana: Post-docs

1. Sechindra Vallury (NSF – EPSCoR)
2. Hannah Legatzke (NSF – EPSCoR)

• University of Stirling, UK: 

1. Diego Senoner (2011) 
2. Henrikus Odendal (2012)

• Other Mentoring: Avya Sood (Flame University, India) 2024

FUNDED GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS (Total over $2 million as PI and Co-PI)[**]

1. National Science Foundation CRISES Concept Outline. (Role: Project Partner), Building Collective Action for Sustainable Habitats with Gary Brase, Aaron Mittelstet, et al. ($100,000), 08/01/2024-07/31/2025
2. UNL Grand Challenges Planning Grant. (Role: Co-PI), Building Community Connections for Improved Climate Resilience and Food Security: A Tribal Non-Tribal Partnership Investigating the Role of Artificial Intelligence in Affecting Behavior Change, with Mohammad Rashedul Hasan, Mary Emery, Theodore Hibbeler, Julia McQuillan, Jordan Soliz, and Tonya Haigh, ($95,366)
3. Centre for Behavioral and Experimental Agri-Environmental Policy – CBEAR Grant (Role: PI), Nudging for Empathy Conservation: A Field Experiment on the USDA Conservation Stewardship Program, with Natalia Czap, Hans Czap and Mark Burbach, ($80,258), My Portion: $43,813 01/2016 – 12/2018 
4. USDA-FSA Competitive Cooperative Agreement #146209 (Role: PI), Improving the Retention and Uptake of Tillable and Non-Tillable Grazing Land in the Conservation Reserve Program: A Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Economic and Environmental Factors, with Elliott Dennis, Gwendwr Meredith, Craig Allen and Mitchell Stephenson, ($499,868), 09/30/2022 – 09/29/2025
5. Nebraska Environmental Trust Grant (Role: C0-PI), NE Attitudes of Targeted Conservation, with Andrew Little, Andrea Basche, Crystal Powers, Chris Chizinski, and Joe Luck. A. ($257,418), 06/29/2020 – 06/30/2023
6. National Science Foundation EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Program: Track-2 Focused EPSCoR Collaborations (Role: Co-PI), Resilience Informatics for the Convergence of Critical Capacities to Address Regional-Scale Environmental Change, with Dirac Twidwell, Craig Allen, Daniel Uden, and Brian Chaffin, ($1,964,386), 09/01/2019 - 07/31/2024
7. Foundation of Food and Agriculture Research Grant (Role: Co-PI), Enhancing Animal Protein through Crops and Cattle, with James McDonald, Tala Awada, Humberto Blanco, Mary Drewnoski, Galen Erickson, Jane Okalebo, Jay Parsons, Daren Redfern and Andy Suyker, ($1,000,000), 07/01/2017 - 06/30/2022
8. University of Nebraska Collaboration Initiative Seed Grant (Role: Co-PI), Developing a MOOCocracy Prototype to Increase Public Understanding of Food Insecurity, with Jamie Loizzo, Lisa Pytlik-Zillig, Leenkiat Soh, Jenny Dauer, Denise Britigan, Jennie Hill, Sunnie Watson and William Watson, ($149,693), 07/01/2017 - 06/30/2019
9. USDA-NIFA Grant (Role: Co-PI), Northern Plains Regional Farm Business Management and Benchmarking Partnership, with Cory Walters, Brad Lubben, Jeff Stokes, Jay Olsen, Jared Hofer, BillieJo Shae, Tina Barrett and Michelle Greenlee, ($893,788 – combined funding), 09/01/2016 - 08/31/2018 (renewed multiple times)
10. USDA-NIFA-ERS Grant (Role: Co-PI), Enhancing enrollment of leased land in agri-environmental programs: an investigation of the Conservation Stewardship Program in Kansas, with Mykel R. Taylor and Leah H. Palm-Forster, ($250,000), 10/01/2016 – 09/30/2019 
11. USDA-NIFA Grant (Role: PI), The Impacts of Conservation Auction Design on Auction Performance and Community Welfare:  Evidence from Lab and Artefactual Experiments, with Marc Conte, ($498,641), 02/15/2016 – 02/14/2022
12. Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources International Impact Award, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Towards a Greater Understanding of the Economic and Behavioral Drivers of Sustainable Fisheries Management: An Evaluation of the Digha fishery, India, ($4500), 10/2015 – 9/2016
13. Maude Hammond Fling Faculty Research Fellowship, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Towards Successful Fundraising Campaigns: Social Networks and their Role in Threshold Public Goods Games, ($10,000), 01/2015 – 12/2016
14. Centre for Behavioral and Experimental Agri-Environmental Research - Methodological Advancements & Applications to Policy (CBEAR-MAAP) Workshop Travel Award ($500), 2017
15. Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources Travel Grant, University of Nebraska-Lincoln ($1300 total), 2018, 2015
16. RES, SIRE, AAEA & NAREA Travel Grants. 2017, 2012, 2011, 2009 
17. Competitive Grant Award, College of Agricultural Sciences, Penn State University ($2000), 2009 – 2010

AWARDS, RESPONSIBILITIES & DISTINCTIONS

1. Editor, Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, January 2024 – December 2026
2. Editor, Special Issue of Q Open titled “Assessing Factors Contributing to a Healthy Work Ecosystem in the Applied Economics Profession” 
3. AAEA Committee on Women in Agricultural Economics (CWAE) Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Senior Award, 2023-2024.
4. Editorial Board, Water Economics and Policy, January 2023 – December 2024
5. Board of Trustees, The Nature Conservancy, Nebraska Chapter, July 2022- June 2025.
6. Associate Editor, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, January 2020 – December 2023.
7. Centre for Behavioral and Experimental Agri-Environmental Research (CBEAR) Fellow, June 2018 – current
8. Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Graduate Student Association Faculty Award, 2017
9. Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources Faculty Spotlight, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, August 2015
10. Outstanding Contributions in Peer Review, Ecological Economics, 2015
11. Fellow: Research Development Fellows Program, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2014 – 2015
12. Wilson A. and Mae C. Cease Memorial Scholarship, College of Agricultural Sciences, Penn State University, 2009
13. Student Spotlight, Penn State Institutes of Energy and the Environment, Penn State University – 2008

INVITED PRESENTATIONS 

1. Department of Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University, October 3^rd, 2025
2. Using Economic Experiments in Environmental Economics, University of Missouri, St. Louis, April 15^th, 2025. 
3. Topics That Have Become More and Less Relevant in The Classroom, Teaching Panel, Midwest Economics Association Annual Conference, Kansas City, Missouri, March 21^st, 2025 (Panel). 
4. Role of Gender on Leasing Contract and Conservation Effort Choice on Rented Farmland: A Lab Experiment. Department of Economics and Center for Economics & Public Policy, Flame University, India, December 8th, 2023
5. Role of Gender Identity on Conservation Effort and Leasing Contract Choice on Rented Farmland. Department of Applied Economics, Oregon State University. May 6th, 2022
6. Coalitions, Competition, and Conservation: Spatial Procurement Auction Design and Performance. Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, Auburn University. October 29th, 2021
7. Spatial Procurement Auction Design and Performance: Role of Information and Communication: A lab experiment. Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Missouri, November 11^th 2021
8. Spatial Procurement Auction Design and Performance: Role of Information and Communication: A Lab Experiment. Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, Auburn University, October 29^th, 2021
9. Using Social Media in Economics. Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University, November 23^rd, 2020
10. Coalitions, Competition, and Conservation: Spatial Procurement Auction Design and Performance. Department of Economics, Appalachian State University, November 6^th 2020
11. Using Economic Experiments to Study Human Behavior under Farmland Conservation Programs. O’Neill School of Policy and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University Bloomington, November 5^th 2020 
12. Using Economic Experiments to Study Human Behavior under Farmland Conservation Programs. Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, October 23^rd 2020
13. Women in Economics - Perspectives and New Initiatives from Five Professional Associations. Allied Social Science Associations (ASSA) Meetings, Selected Panel, San Diego, USA. January 3^rd 2020. (Panel)
14. Spatially Coordinated Agricultural Land Conservation through Payment for Ecosystem Services Schemes: An Experimental Economic Study. The 3rd HOKU (Honolulu Office of Kobe University) Symposium: Agricultural Science for Sustainable Global Development and Healthy Society, Institute for Promoting International Partnerships, Kobe University. November 16, 2018
15. Bidding & Performance in a Conservation Auction with Joint Bidding: A Laboratory Experiment. Departmental Seminar, Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota. October 24, 2018
16. Responding to New Mandates in Consumer and Producer Decision-making: Insights from Behavioral & Experimental Economics. International Conference of Agricultural Economists, Vancouver, Canada. July 29, 2018 (Panel)
17. Balancing Complexity and Rent-Seeking in Multi-Attribute Conservation Procurement Auctions: Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment. Joint Departmental Seminar, Department of Agricultural & Applied Economics and Department of Economics, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming. November 13, 2017.
18. Balancing Complexity and Rent-Seeking in Multi-Attribute Conservation Procurement Auctions: Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment. Departmental Seminar, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado. November 9, 2017
19. Improving Performance of the Agglomeration Bonus: An Experimental Study on Payoff Variation and Information Exchange. Departmental Seminar, Department of Applied Economics & Statistics, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware. May 11, 2016
20. Conservation Auctions in a Budget Constrained World: Interactions Between Economic Incentives & Behavioral Motivations. Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Weekly Lab Group Meeting, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Lab, University of Tennessee Knoxville, Web presentation. April 21, 2015
21. Participation and Spatial Coordination in Conservation Incentive Schemes: Role of Transaction Costs & Localized Communication. Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Workshop on Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. March 25, 2014
22. Participation and Spatial Coordination in Conservation Incentive Schemes: Role of Transaction Costs & Localized Communication. Invited Presentation at School of Information, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. January 29, 2014.
23. Role of Information on Agglomeration Bonus Performance: A Lab Study. Imperial College Conservation Science Group, Imperial College London, UK, November2012
24. Economics of Habitat Banking. Department of Applied Economics, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain, May 2012
25. Role of Information on Agglomeration Bonus Performance: A Lab Study. Department of Economics, University of Aberdeen, UK March 2012
26. Role of Agglomeration Bonus in Species Conservation. Department of Animal and Plant Science, University of Sheffield, UK, September 2008
27. Role of Agglomeration Bonus in Species Conservation. Division of Economics, University of Stirling, UK, September 2008

WORKSHOPS & CONFERENCES 

1. Deka, A, Banerjee, S., and Floyd, T. Midwest Economics Research Group Workshop, 2025, University of Missouri, St. Louis. “Conservation Professionals’ Policy Priorities To Manage Undesirable Landscape-level Vegetation Transitions In Nebraska And Montana – A Cross-Sectional Study”. August 2025.
2. Kabir, Md., F., Elliott, D., Banerjee, S., Meridith, G., Pape, T., Stephenson, M., and Alen, C. Agricultural and Applied Economics Annual Meeting, Denver, “Rancher Preferences for Grassland Conservation Reserve Programs in the Northern U.S. Great Plains”, August 2025.
3. Eronmwon, I., Walters, C., Yiannaka, A., and Banerjee, S. Agricultural and Applied Economics Annual Meeting, Denver, “The Role of Information in Shaping Pre-Harvest Hedging Decisions in Grain Marketing”. August 2025
4. Gulab, S., Floyd, T., Banerjee, S., Nesbitt, H., Chaffin, B., and Allen, C. Sunbelt 2024 Conference, Edinburgh. “Role of Social Networks in Technology Adoption Behavior: An ego-network study of rangeland operators in the United States.” June 2024
5. Floyd, T., Allen, C., Banerjee, S., Chaffin, B., Gulab, S.; Meredith, G., Nesbitt, H., and Rowen, E. Sunbelt 2024 Conference, Edinburgh. “Montana and Nebraska conservation professionals’ social networks, perceptions of vegetation transition, and collective efficacy”. June 2024
6. Ale, M., Banerjee, S, Schoengold, K., and Mieno, T., Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association Annual Meeting, Annapolis, “Exploring determinants of participation in conservation programs in the US.” June 2023 (poster)
7. Emily Rowen, E., Meredith, G., Nesbitt, H., Floyd, T., Hamlin, S., Banerjee, S., Gulab, S. and Chaffin. B., International Association for Society and Natural Resources Annual Meeting, Portland, “Woody Encroachment Management Mismatches between Producers and Conservation Professionals in Nebraska.” June 2023 (poster)
8. Banerjee, S. Conte, M., Agricultural and Applied Economics Annual Meeting, Anaheim, "Does community identity improve conservation auction performance? A lab experiment on a new auction mechanism", July 2022.
9. Liu, Z., Banerjee, S., Cason, T., Hanley, N., Kontoleon, A., Xu, J., Agricultural and Applied Economics Annual Meeting, Anaheim, "A lab-in-the-field experiment on joint bidding and agglomeration bonuses in conservation auctions", July 2022.
10. Deka, A., Yiannaka, A., Banerjee, S., Agricultural and Applied Economics Annual Meeting, Anaheim, "Corporate Social Responsibility, Social Activism and Market Fraud: An experimental approach", July 2022.
11. Schoengold, K., Mavroutsikos, C., Yiannaka, A., Banerjee, S., Giannakas, K., Awada, T. N., Agricultural and Applied Economics Annual Meeting, Anaheim, "Measuring the Value of Ecosystem Services Generated from Soil Health Improvements across Space", July 2022.
12. Ganguly, D., Banerjee, S., Gustafson, C., Agricultural and Applied Economics Annual Meeting, Anaheim, "Role of gender identity on conservation in an agricultural land leasing context: a lab experiment", July 2022.
13. Gulab, S., Nesbitt, H., Banerjee, S., Floyd, T., Schoengold, K., Agricultural and Applied Economics Annual Meeting, Anaheim, "Role of Social Risk Attitudes and Social Network Measures in The Adoption of Technology", July 2022.
14. Mavroutsikosis, C., Schoengold, K., Banerjee, S., Yiannaka, A., Giannakas, K., Awada, T. N., Agricultural and Applied Economics Annual Meeting, Anaheim, "Valuation of Ecosystem Services Associated with Soil Health Improvement in Nebraska: A Choice Experiment on the Role of Information Nudging​", July 2022(poster)
15. Hosni, H., Banerjee, S., Gustafson, C., Agricultural and Applied Economics Annual Meeting, Anaheim, "Would you downsize to save yourself and the planet? The impact of information framing on the choice of portion size.", July 2022.
16. Banerjee, Simanti (Author Only), Conte, Marc. (Presenter & Author), 21st Annual BioEcon Conference, Coalitions, Competition, and Conservation: Spatial Procurement Auction Design and Performance. Wageningen, The Netherlands. September 2019
17. Taylor, Mykel. R. (Presenter & Author), Palm-Forster, Leah. H. (Author Only), Banerjee, Simanti. (Author Only), Annual AAEA Meeting, Enhancing Enrollment of Leased Land in Agri-Environmental Programs: An Investigation of the Conservation Stewardship Program in Kansas. Washington D.C. August 6, 2018.
18. Conte, Marc. (Presenter & Author), Banerjee, Simanti. (Author Only), 2018 World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists, Information Access, Conservation Practice Choice, and Rent Seeking in Conservation Procurement Auctions: Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment. Gothenburg, Sweden. June 28, 2018.
19. Banerjee, Simanti. (Presenter & Author), Cason, Timothy. (Author Only), de Vries, Frans. (Author Only), Hanley, Nick. (Author Only), 2018 World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists, Spatial Coordination and Joint Bidding in Conservation Auctions: A Laboratory Experiment. Gothenburg, Sweden. June 26, 2018.
20. Conte, Marc. (Presenter & Author), Banerjee, Simanti. (Author Only), Annual ASSA Meetings, Auction Performance and Bidder Response to Quality Information and Conservation Action Choice in Multi-round Conservation Procurement Auctions. Philadelphia. Pennsylvania. January 5, 2018
21. Czap, Natalia. (Presenter & Author), Czap, Hans. (Presenter & Author), Banerjee, Simanti. (Author Only), Mark. Burbach. (Author Only), USDA CBEAR MAAP Workshop, Empathy Conservation in the Field: Encouraging Farmers’ Participation in the Conservation Stewardship Program. Shepherdstown, West Virginia. October 13, 2017.
22. Banerjee, Simanti. (Presenter & Author), Conte, Marc. (Author Only), USDA CBEAR MAAP Workshop, Information Provision & Communication in an Iterative Spatial Conservation Auction: A Lab Experiment. Shepherdstown, West Virginia. October 13, 2017.
23. Kotsakou, Stamatina. (Presenter & Author), Banerjee, Simanti. (Author Only), Walters, Cory. (Author Only), Schoengold, K. (Author Only), 2017 WAEA Annual Meeting, The Impact of Risk Preferences and Communication on Grain Marketing Decision-Making: Evidence from a Context-Rich Economic Experiment. Lake Tahoe, Nevada. July 9, 2017.^*
24. Czap, Natalia. (Presenter & Author), Czap, Hans. (Author Only), Banerjee, Simanti. (Author Only), Burbach, Mark. (Author Only), Midwest Economic Association (MEA) Annual Meeting, Empathy Conservation: Expanding Laboratory Experiments into the Field. Cincinnati, Ohio. March 2017.
25. Weerasekara, Nadeeka. D. (Presenter & Author), Banerjee, Simanti. (Author Only), Mukherjee, Zinnia. (Author Only), Heartland Environmental and Resource Economics Workshop, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Do Regulations on Fishery Resource Management Affect Spatial Competition among Processors and Price? Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. November 12, 2016.*
26. Czap, Natalia. (Presenter & Author), Czap, Hans. (Author Only), Banerjee, Simanti. (Author Only), Burbach, Mark. (Author Only), Lynne, G. (Author Only), SABE/IAREP Conference “Behavioral Insights in Research and Policy Making, Empathy Conservation: Expanding Laboratory Experiments into the Field. Wageningen, Netherlands. July 2016.
27. Banerjee, Simanti. (Author Only), Cason, Timothy. N. (Author Only), deVries, Frans. P. (Author Only), Hanley, Nick. (Presenter & Author), Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Spatial Coordination in Agglomeration Bonus Schemes with Transaction Costs and Communication: An experimental study. European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Zurich, Switzerland. June 22, 2016.
28. Banerjee, Simanti, Annual NAREA Meeting, Improving Performance of Farmland Conservation Programs with Spatial Targeting: An Experimental Study of Information Exchange within and Across Farming Communities. Bar Harbor, Maine. June 19, 2016.
29. Banerjee, Simanti, 2015 Heartland Environmental and Resource Economics Workshop, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Experimental Analysis of Information Spillovers within and across Groups: An Application to Incentivizing Spatially Coordinated Private Agricultural Land Management. Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. October 18, 2015.
30. Banerjee, Simanti. (Author Only), Hanley, Nick. (Presenter & Author), 17th Annual Bioecon Conference, The Effects of Peer Group Information and Group Size on Spatial Coordination in Agri-Environment Schemes: A Laboratory Experimental Study of the Agglomeration Bonus. Cambridge, UK. September 13, 2015.
31. Banerjee, Simanti. (Presenter & Author), Shortle, James. S. (Author Only), Joint Annual AAEA-WAEA Meeting, Informal Low-cost Methods for Increasing Enrollment of Environmentally Sensitive Lands in Farmland Conservation Programs: An Experimental Study. San Francisco, California. July 26, 2015
32. Kreitmair, Ursula. W. (Presenter & Author), Banerjee, Simanti. (Author Only), Walker, J. M. (Author Only), Joint Annual AAEA-WAEA Meeting, "Social Networks and their Role in Threshold Public Goods Games: An Experimental Study. San Francisco, California. July 26, 2015.

OUTREACH PRESENTATIONS

• 2023: Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska Lincoln, (invited panel titled “A Troubling Future: A Discussion of Climate Change and Climate Anxiety”)
• 2020: Field to Market Online Presentation 
• 2018: Agricultural Builders of Nebraska, Institute of Agriculture & Natural Resources, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Nebraska Council of Nephrology Social Workers, Lincoln, Kiwanis Club (University of Nebraska Speakers Bureau)
• 2017: Lincoln Executive Club, Lincoln Sertoma Club (University of Nebraska Speakers Bureau)
• 2016: Center for Grassland Studies Citizens Advisory Council Meeting, Eureka Conference, Institute of Agriculture & Natural Resources, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Lincoln Golden Kiwanis, Lincoln Executive Club, Lincoln Sertoma Club (University of Nebraska Speakers Bureau)
• 2015: Faculty Brown Bag Series, Ranch Management In-Service Workshop, Institute of Agriculture & Natural Resources, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE 

Journal Reviewer (Disciplinary and Inter-disciplinary journals): 

Agricultural Economics, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Applied Economics Perspectives and Policies, Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Biodiversity and Conservation, Conservation Biology, Ecological Economics, Economic Inquiry, Ecology and Society, Environmental & Resource Economics, European Review of Agricultural Economics, Experimental Economics, Frontiers in Ecology & the Environment, Games and Economic Behavior, Land, Land Use Policy, Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Journal of Applied Ecology, Journal of Environmental Economics & Management, Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Journal of Public Economics, Q Open, Resource and Energy Economics, Review of Economic Design, Strategic Behavior and the Environment, Sustainability

Grants Panels & Conference Abstract Reviewer: 

• Topic Leader, Behavioral Economics, WAEA (2018-2019)
• Topic Leader, Institutional and Behavioral Economics, AAEA (2018-2020)
• Dynamics of Integrated Socio-Environmental Systems (DISES) (DISES), NSF
• Conference on Behavioral & Experimental Agri-Environmental Research: Methodological Advancements & Applications to Policy (CBEAR-MAAP)
• Environmental and Natural Resource Economics Area, NIFA-AFRI
• Economics, Markets and Trade. NIFA-AFRI
• Dynamics of Coupled Natural and Human Systems (CNH), NSF
• Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA) Annual Conferences 
• Irish Research Council
• Iowa Nutrient Research Center, Iowa State University
• Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS-KNAW)
• Dynamics of Coupled Natural and Human Systems (CNH), NSF
• Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR)
• Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada

Conference Session Moderator/Discussant:

• Joint Annual Meeting of Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA) and Western Agricultural Economics Association (WAEA), US (2015)
• 10th Bioecon Conference, Cambridge, UK (2008)

Leadership Positions and Committee Appointments:

• AERE@AAEA Program Committee – 2025-2027
• NAREA Career Advancement and Mentorship Program (CAM) Mentor – Cohort 2021
• AAEA Nominating Committee, AAEA Publications Committee 
• AAEA EXECON Section Leadership (Chair Elect: 2018-19, Chair: 2019-20, Past Chair: 2020 – 21)
• AAEA CWAE Section Leadership (Chair Elect: 2017-18, Chair: 2018-19, Past Chair: 2019-20)
• AAEA IBES Section Leadership Committee (Member at Large: 2017-18)
• AAEA Sexual Harassment Task Force

University of Nebraska-Lincoln:

• Member, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee, IANR (2020 – 2023) 
• Faculty Senate Representative, Department of Agricultural Economics (2017 – 2019)
• Search Committee, Associate Vice Chancellor for Research (2018)
• Departmental Graduate Student Admissions Committee (2014 – current)
• Search Committee, Office of Proposal Development (2017)
• Departmental Search Committee, Professor of Practice (2015-16)
• World Food Prize Nebraska Youth Institute Expert Reviewer (2016)

AFFILIATIONS & MEMBERSHIPS 

• Affiliated Faculty, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Speakers Bureau (2016 – 2018)
• Water for Food Institute 2016 Faculty Fellow (2016 – current)
• Affiliated Faculty, “Through the Lens of Social Neuroscience: Toward a Richer Understanding of Decision-making Behavior in Important Domains of Life”, Planning Grant, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (2015-2016)
• Affiliated Faculty, The Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University (2014-2016)
• Association of Environmental and Resource Economics (AERE) – 2018-2019
• International Association of Agricultural Economists (IAAE) – 2018-2019
• Royal Economic Society – 2012-2013
• Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA) 2009-2012, 2015 – current 
• Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association (NAREA) – 2006-2010, 2016
• Gamma Sigma Delta (2006-2007)

MEDIA 

• AAEA Press Release, October 10, 2021 “Past, Present, and Future: Status of Women and Minorities in Agricultural and Applied Economics”
• PBS NOVA, July 1^st 2019 “Many cocoa farm workers aren’t reaping the benefits of Fairtrade certification” 
• Nebraska Radio Network, December 11^th 2017 (link)
• Ag News Daily, October 12^th 2017 “How do Farmers Make Decisions”
• UNL Streaming Science Podcast on Agricultural Economics & Behavioral Economics
• AAEA Member Profile, May 8, 2017 (link)
• AAEA Press Release, May 4, 2017, “Why Farmland Conservation Efforts May Not Be Growing”
• The Traders’ Dispatch, July 23, 2016, “UNL Receives Grants To Evaluate Land Conservation Stewardship”
• UNL Announce and IANR Media, May 24, 2016, “UNL Receives Grants To Evaluate Land Conservation Stewardship”

CONSULTANCY

• Carson+Co Global, 2021 – 2023; Florida A&M University, 2022 – 2023

[*] Indicates work with student

[†] Signifies work with graduate advisee

[‡] Signifies work with graduate student

[§] Signifies student from another department.

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