David Abler, Ph.D.

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. I am the J. Lossing Buck Visiting Professor at Nanjing Agricultural University in China.

Current/Recent Courses

• AGBM 408: Financial Decision Making for Agribusiness

Recent Selected Publications

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.

Fang, P., Y. Wang, D. Abler, and G. Lin 2023. Effects of Aging on Labor-Intensive Crop Production from the Perspectives of Landform and Life Cycle Labor Supply: Evidence from Chinese Apple Growers. Agriculture, 13, 1523.

Sun, F., D. Abler, and X. Yu 2021. Crop Allocation and Increasing Returns to Fertilizer Use in China. Land Economics, 97:491-508.

Nie, W., D. Abler, and T. Li 2021. Grading Attribute Selection of China’s Grading System for Agricultural Products: What Attributes Benefit Consumers More? Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 93:101707.

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.

Huang, X. 2021. Three Essays on the Effects of the Minimum Wage on Labor Market Outcomes of Immigrants in the United States. Ph.D., Agricultural, Environmental and Regional Economics and Demography.

Tyagi, A. 2017. Essays on Greenhouse Gas Emissions Policies in India and Gains from Reforming Water Allocation Institutions. Ph.D., Agricultural, Environmental and Regional Economics and Demography.

Zaveri, E. 2016. Essays on Adaptation Responses to Climate Variability in India. Ph.D., Agricultural, Environmental and Regional Economics and Demography.