Dave Abler, Ph.D.

Dave Abler, Ph.D.

  • Department Head, Ag Economics, Sociology, and Education
  • Professor of Agricultural, Environmental and Regional Economics and Demography
103C Armsby
University Park, PA 16802

Areas of Expertise

  • Economic and environmental sustainability of agriculture
  • Global food and agricultural markets
  • Natural resource economics
  • Climate change adaptation and mitigation

Education

  • Ph.D., Economics, University of Chicago, 1987
  • B.A., Economics and Mathematics, Macalester College, 1982

Research Interests

My research interests include the economic and environmental sustainability of agriculture, global food and agricultural markets, natural resource economics, and climate change adaptation and mitigation. My country expertise includes work in China, Costa Rica, France, India, Mexico, Nepal, the Netherlands, Nicaragua, Peru, the United Kingdom, and Venezuela.

Current/Recent Courses

  • AGBM 408: Financial Decision Making for Agribusiness

Recent Selected Publications

Mohammadpour, P., C. Grady, L. Wainger, J. Kaye, D. Abler, and C. Raj. 2026. Systems approach to nitrogen modeling in the Chesapeake Bay: Advancing production chain analysis under future changes. Journal of Environmental Quality, 55, e70142.

Jeon, Y., W. Thompson, J.I. Miller, H. Hoang, and D. Abler. 2025. Revealing Fundamental Demand Parameters: A New Theoretically Consistent Meta-Regression Approach to US Food Demand Elasticities. Food Policy, 136, 102951.

Gomez, M., C. Grady, L. Wainger, R. Cibin, D. Abler, D. Bosch, and J. Kaye. 2024. Impacts of Future Scenarios on the Nitrogen Loss from Agricultural Supply Chains in the Chesapeake Bay. Environmental Research Letters, 19:084039.

Jeon, Y., H. Hoang, D. Abler, and W. Thompson. 2024. A Meta-Analysis of U.S. Food Demand Elasticities to Detect the Impacts of Scanner Data. Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 46:760-780.

Rasool, A., and D. Abler. 2023. Heterogeneity in US Farms: A New Clustering by Production Potentials. Agriculture, 13:258.

Zhang, Z., and D. Abler. 2023. Dairy Pricing Policy, Production, and Water Quality: Application to the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. Journal of the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association, 2:350-365.

Recent Graduate Students

Rasool, A. 2024. Three Essays in Applied Economics: Topics in Agricultural Economics and Public Finance. Ph.D., Energy, Environmental, and Food Economics.

Sharma, S. 2024. Balancing Economic Growth and Environmental Stewardship: Quantifying Trade-Offs in Forest and Agricultural Land Management. Ph.D., Forest Resources.