J. Edward Taylor

About

J. Edward Taylor is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Agricultural and Resource Economics Department at the University of California, Davis. His fields of interest include Economic Development, Population and Resources, Labor Economics, and Economywide Modeling and Applied Microeconomics. He has a comprehensive academic background with a Ph.D. in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of California, Berkeley, earned in 1984, along with a Master's degree in the same field from Berkeley in 1982, and a Bachelor's degree in Economics from the University of California, Riverside, in 1979. Professor Taylor's research focuses on economic development, labor markets, and resource management, with notable contributions to understanding the economic impacts of social programs and farm labor issues. He has been involved in local economy-wide impact evaluation and social cash transfer programs in Africa, and has co-authored a book titled 'The Farm Labor Problem: A Global Perspective.' His work includes applying microeconomic theory and econometric methods to real-world problems, and he actively engages in research that informs policy and development strategies.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Business
• Economics
• Economic growth
• Geography
• Natural resource economics
• Economy
• Development economics
• Market economy
• Labour economics

Selected publications

• Viewpoint: The future of work in agri-food

  Food Policy · 2020 · 190 citations

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• The Future of Work in Agriculture: Some Reflections

  World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks · 2020 · 42 citations

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  As countries develop (and food saturation takes hold), agriculture's role as domestic employer declines. But the broader agri-food system also expands, and the scope for agriculture-related job creation shifts beyond the farm. Historically, technological revolutions have shaped and been shaped by these dynamics. Today, a digital revolution is taking hold, affecting agricultural labor and skill demands. In this process, societies evolve from having a surplus to a shortage of domestic farm labor,…

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• Labor markets: A critical link between global-local shocks and their impact on agriculture

  Environmental Research Letters · 2023-01-10 · 34 citations

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  Abstract Labor markets can shape the impacts of global market developments and local sustainability policies on agricultural outcomes, including changes in production and land use. Yet local labor market outcomes, including agricultural employment, migration and wages, are often overlooked in integrated assessment models (IAMs). The relevance of labor markets has become more important in recent decades, with evidence of diminished labor mobility in the United States (US) and other developed coun…

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• Evaluating sustainable development policies in rural coastal economies

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2020 · 30 citations

  Sustainable development (SD) policies targeting marine economic sectors, designed to alleviate poverty and conserve marine ecosystems, have proliferated in recent years. Many developing countries are providing poor fishing households with new fishing boats (fishing capital) that can be used further offshore as a means to improve incomes and relieve fishing pressure on nearshore fish stocks. These kinds of policies are a marine variant of traditional SD policies focused on agriculture. Here, we e…

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• Economic impact of giving land to refugees

  American Journal of Agricultural Economics · 2023-01-19 · 12 citations

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  Abstract This paper adds to a sparse but growing literature on the economic costs and benefits of hosting refugees, including a unique policy of providing refugees with access to cultivable land. We construct a general equilibrium model from microsurvey data to simulate the spillover effects of giving land to refugees on income and production in the host‐country economy surrounding a refugee settlement in Uganda. Reduced‐form econometric analysis of land allocations at the refugee settlement, ro…

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Frequent coauthors

• Thomas J. Espenshade

  Princeton University

  25 shared

• Susan Richter

  23 shared

• Antonio Yúnez–Naude

  College of Mexico

  19 shared

• Diane Charlton

  Montana State University

  18 shared

• Antonio Yúñez Naude

  17 shared

• George A. Dyer

  Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Epidemiología y Salud Pública

  15 shared

• Philip Martin

  AstraZeneca (Japan)

  15 shared

• Mateusz Filipski

  University of Georgia

  14 shared

Education

• Ph.D., Agricultural and Resource Economics

  University of California, Berkeley

  1984

• M.S., Agricultural and Resource Economics

  University of California, Berkeley

  1982

• B.S., Economics

  University of California, Riverside

  1979

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