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What Interests Environmental and Resource Economists? A Comparison of Research Output in Agricultural Economics versus Environmental Economics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2016

Therese C. Grijalva  and
Clifford Nowell
Therese C. Grijalva*
Affiliation:
Department of Economics at Weber State University
Clifford Nowell
Affiliation:
Department of Economics at Weber State University
*
Correspondence: Weber State University, 3807 University Circle, Ogden UT 84408–3807, Phone 801.626.7567, Email tgrijalva@weber.edu.
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Abstract

We compare the research productivity of faculties housed in departments offering doctoral degrees in agricultural economics (AgEcon) with faculties housed in departments offering doctoral degrees in economics (Econ) that specialize in environmental and resource economics. Rankings are based on faculty publications in EconLit between 1985 and 2010. We find that AgEcon departments publish more papers and rate higher overall on productivity measures than Econ departments but that average productivity is greater for Econ departments. AgEcon publications dominate the Journal of Economic Literature's (JEL's) agriculture (Q1) subdiscipline while Econ and AgEcon departments publish evenly in the other Q subdisciplines.

Keywords

agricultural economicsdepartment rankingsenvironmental and natural resource economicsresearch output
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Research Article
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Agricultural and Resource Economics Review , Volume 43 , Issue 2 , August 2014 , pp. 209 - 226
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Copyright © 2014 Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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