In 2012, the Board of Directors of the Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association established the ARER Young Scholar award that is given annually to the graduate student who co-authored the best paper in ARER in the preceding year. The recipient of the ARER Young Scholar Award receives a $1,000 cash prize and plaque. To be eligible, the graduate students can be listed anywhere in the author list order, however, preference will be given to publications where the significant contributions of the graduate student are reflected in the author ordering.

2022 Winner – Francisco Flores Moreno (Cornell University) for The Role of Collective Food Identity in Local Food Demand by Francisco Moreno and Trey Malone in Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 50/1 (2021): 22-42.

Past winners

2021 Winner – Lauriane Yehouenou (University of Florida) for Improving BMP Cost-Share Enrollment Rates: Insights from a Survey of Florida Farmers by Lauriane S. Yehouenou, Kelly A. Grogan, Xiang Bi, and Tatiana Borisova in Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 49/2 (2020): 237-269.

2020 Winner – Yuhang Liu (Purdue University) for Food at Home and away from Home: Commodity Composition, Nutrition Differences, and Differences in Consumers by James K. Binkley and Yuhang Liu in Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 48/2 (2019): 221-252.