Recent Graduates

2024
NamedegreeThesis/Dissertation
Tatum R. BrunkowM.S.Government Program Decision Analysis in Nebraska at the Farm Level
Samuel Olusesi OlumideM.S.Linking Risk Preference, Women’s Empowerment, Farm Investment and Household Well-Being

Gerald H. Van Tassell

 

M.S.Utilizing Extreme Value Theory to Uncover Yield Distributions from Farm and County Level Historical Corn Yields
2023
NamedegreeThesis/Dissertation
Shara AkatM.S.US Public School Demand for Locally Produced Meat and Poultry
Manita AleM.S.Assessing Determinants of Participation in Conservation Programs in the U.S.
Sagar DahalM.S.Exploring the Presence of Nonlinear Deterministic Dynamics in Commodity Prices
Andrew M. HavensM.S.Regenerative Farming Practices: How Much Carbon Do They Sequester?
TaraLee HudsonB.S.The Role and Implications of Negotiation in Fed Cattle Transactions
Ishani LalM.S.Irrigation-as-a-Service for Smallholder Farmers
Adauto B. Rocha Jr.Ph.D.Biological Capital Estimation for the United States: Data sets for Adauto Rocha dissertation
Jerin TeKolsteM.S.The Effect of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Exhaust Emissions Standards on Diesel Tractor Fuel Efficiency
Isadora Vercesi BethlemM.S.Economic Analysis of Western Corn Rootworm Injury to Continuous Corn in Northeast Nebraska
2022
NamedegreeThesis/Dissertation
Diya GangulyPh.D.Essays on Conservation Outcomes on Rented Farmland-Role of Gender
Austin HarthoornM.S.What is the Value of Ethanol to Nebraska Corn Producers?
Jedidiah HewlettM.S.Analyzing Flexibility as a Risk Management Strategy in Agricultural Systems
Wilman IglesiasPh.D.Essays on Socioeconomic Shocks and Policies in Agriculture
Shunkei KakimotoM.S.Causal Forest Approach For Site-Specific Input Management via On-Farm Precision Experimentation
Jared StaufferM.S.CECL for Financial Institutions: An Analysis of the SCALE Method
Olivier TuyizereM.S.The Role of Intertemporal Preferences, Active Consideration of Health Outcomes, and Simple Health Prompts on the Nutritional Quality of Food Choices
2021
NamedegreeThesis/Dissertation
Dmitry Kalashnikov AdamsM.S.Corn Co-product Logistics: An Application of Linear Programming
Cicely BatieM.S.Determinants of Discretionary Agricultural Policy Adoption: The Case of the Livestock Friendly County Program in Nebraska
Qianqian DuM.S.Economically Optimal Nitrogen Side-Dressing Based on Vegetation Indices from Satellite Images Through On-Farm Experiments
Daniel E. GertnerM.S.Distillers' Grains: Past, Present, and Future Economic Analyses
Logan KalkowskiM.S.Nebraska Cow-Calf Operations: Use of Pricing Tools and Market Diversification Strategies to Manage Market Risk
Badri KhanalPh.D.Essays on the Designs and Benefits of Land Conservation Programs
Amanda L. KowalewskiM.S.Perceptions of Future Community and Individual Well-Being in Rural Nebraska
Pedro QueirozPh.D.Essays on Agricultural Technology, Resource Allocation and the Value of Information
Kara ZimmermanM.S.Impacts of Crop Insurance and Intra-season Hedging on Long-run Net Income Risk
2020
NamedegreeThesis/Dissertation
Iyore EronmwonM.S.The Role of Myopic Loss Aversion in Pre-harvest Grain Marketing
Shane J. RobertsM.S.The Role of Quality Characteristics in Pricing Hard Red Winter Wheat
2019
NamedegreeThesis/Dissertation
Charalampos MavroutsikosPh.D.On the Economics of Crop Insurance

Pratiksha Baishya

M.S.How Does Identifying as Gluten-Free Impact Information Choice Regarding the Gluten-Free Diet?
Eric R. CoufalM.S.Modeling and Economic Analysis of a Crop-Livestock Production System Incorporating Cereal Rye as a Forage
Kaitlyn L. CummingM.S.Examining the Capacity of Nebraska Rangelands for Cattle Production and Evaluating Drought Management Strategies
Zhengzheng GaoM.S.The Impact of Different Data Processing Methods on Site-specific Management Recommendation
Grant Edward GardnerM.S.The Economic Evaluation of Input Use Prescription Maps: Are You Paying to Make Less Profit?
Taylor T. KausM.S.An Empirical Long-Run Competitive Equilibrium Model of Subsidized Crop Insurance and Farm Industry Structure
Emmanouil PetrakisM.S.Which Credence Production Attributes Do Consumers Prefer? The Case of Milk
Brooks RonspiesM.S.Measuring Impacts of Uncertainty, Irreversibility, and Loss Aversion on the Adoption of Crop Canopy Sensors Among Nebraska Corn Producers
Paloch SuchatoM.S.The Potential for Moral Hazard Behavior in Irrigation Decisions under Crop Insurance
Qianyu ZhangM.S.
The Effects of Economic Factors and Groundwater Policies on the Timing of Well Drilling

 

 

2018
NamedegreeThesis/Dissertation
Syed Imran Ali MeerzaPh.D.The Incidence of Fraud in the Agri-Food Marketing System
Felipe SilvaPh.D.Tradeoff Between Agriculture and Forest Preservation in the Brazilian Amazon
Sri Noor CholidahM.S.Testing Global Dietary Convergence
Vanessa De OliveiraM.S.Effects of China’s Trade Policies on the U.S. Distiller’s Dried Grains
Henriette GitungwaM.S.The Relationship of Male and Female Pastoralist Income with Household Food Security and Nutrition Status in Tanzania: Maasai, Sukuma, and Barabaig Ethnic Groups
Sabrina GulabM.S.Understanding Consumer Attitudes Towards Antimicrobial Risk Reducing Practices
James KeelerM.S.Estimating Adaptation to Climate Change in Groundwater Irrigation
Emily O'DonnellM.S.Irrigation Management, Environment, and Profits: Who Wins?
Nigina RakhmatullaevaM.S.How Do Restaurant Menu Calorie Labeling Requirements and Exercise Impact Consumer Food Decision Making?
Dylan RileyM.S.Using Regression Analysis to Determine Land Cover Impacts on Groundwater Levels in the High Plains

 

2017
NamedegreeThesis/Dissertation
Mustapha AlhassanPh.D.Three Essays in Nonmarket Valuation: Producers' Willingness to Supply Switchgrass; Smallholder Irrigation Farmers' and Residents' Preferences for Groundwater Protection
Kofi BritwumPh.D.Consumer Perceptions of Food Safety and Preferences for Food Safety Interventions
Ashlee CarlsonM.S.Demand and Risk Management Analysis of Rainfall Index Insurance
Ruskin GautamM.S.Label Position and Its Impact on Willingness to Pay for Products Containing Genetically Modified Organisms
Taylor HackbartM.S.The Impact of Groundwater and Well Characteristics on Irrigator Energy Contract Choice
Ulmaskhon KalandarovaM.S.Non-thesis option
Tina KotsakouM.S.The Role of Safety First Risk Preferences in Grain Marketing: A Laboratory Economic Experiment using a Grain Marketing Simulation Game
Jonathan SimsM.S.Econometric Estimation of Groundwater Depth Change for the High Plains Aquifer
Nadeeka WeerasekaraM.S.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
2016
NamedegreeThesis/Dissertation
Iuliia ProtopopPh.D.The Impact of the Timing of the Intergenerational Farm Transfer Initiation on the Terminal Wealth in the Business: Simulation Model
Mazbahul AhamadM.S.Ex-post Livestock Diseases, and Pastoralists' Averting Decisions in Tanzania
Jordyn BaderM.S.The Influence of Projection Bias in Outcomes of Healthcare Financial Incentive Programs
Mike CastleM.S.Has the Usage of Precision Agriculture Technologies Actually led to Increased Profits for Nebraska Producers?
Binod KhanalM.S.A Hedonic Analysis of Community Supported Agriculture Share Prices In Midwestern United States
Lee KottmeyerM.S.The Association of Southeast Asian Nations Agricultural Total Factor Productivity, 1961-2011
Jun LiM.S.U.S. Mushroom Import Demand Estimation with Source Differentiated AIDS and Rotterdam Models
Wen LiM.S.The Potential Water Saved When USA Households Pay a Water Bill
Matt PerlingerM.S.Impact of Healthy Food Labels on Consumer Choice and Valuation
2015
NamedegreeThesis/Dissertation
Subir BairagiPh.D.Ex-ante Economic Assessment of Research: High Omega-3 Soybean oil for Mariculture
Anil GiriPh.D.Relationships between weather variability, agricultural production variablilty and food security
Sunil DhoubhadelPh.D.Three Essays on Biofuels, Drought, Livestock, and the Environment
Federico TrindadePh.D.Essays on agricultural productivity and the environment
Brian MillsM.S.Does the Nebraska Livestock Friendly County Program Affect Livestock Expansion in the State?
Jilmar RobledoM.S.Economic Analysis of Eradication and Alternative Crop Policies for Controlling Coca Supply in Colombia
Ezequiel VillamilM.S.Export Taxes and Their Effects on Farmers' Profitability and Risk in Argentina
2014
NamedegreeThesis/Dissertation
Marianna KhachaturyanPh.D.Transboundary Waters: Using Game Theory in Theoretical and Experimental Studies to Analyze the Management of Upstream and Downstream Water Problems
Erica EssakaM.S.Non-Thesis Option
Ann Hunter-PirtleM.S.Economic Impacts of Increased Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) Standards
Sarah RehkampM.S.The Environmental and Health Costs of Alternative diets: A comparative Study of the U.S. diet Relative to the French, Japanese, Mediterranean, and Nordic Diets
Calvin ShaneyfeltM.S.Irrigation Demand in a Changing Climate: Using Disagrgregate Data to Predict Future Groundwater Use
Ana StepanovicM.S.Hay Supply in The U.S. Midwest
Zahra TayebiM.S.Agricultural Productivity in the Greater Middle East

2013
NamedegreeThesis/Dissertation
Diego AlvarezPh.D.Essays on the Efficiency of Electricity Generation in Nebraska
Federico Garcia SuarezPh.D.Essays on the Economic Value of the High Plains Aquifer
Tshepelayi KabataPh.D.Essays on Environmental Performance of the Agriculture Sector
Aziza KibongePh.D.Essays on Agricultural Productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa
Kepifri LakohPh.D.Three Essays on Renewable Energy
Dereje MegeressaPh.D.Impact of Biofuel Demand on Land and Water Use in the Great Plains
Preeti BharatiM.S.Agricultural Productivity in Mercosur
Elizabeth JuchemsM.S.Predicting Groundwater Trading Participation in the Upper Republican River Natural Resource District
Edward RubinM.S.Non-Thesis Option
Addisalem ZenebeM.S.The Impact of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA): An Empirical Analysis of Sub-Saharan African Agricultural Exports