Recent Dissertations        
Year Student Dissertation Title Major Professor
 2009 Amin W. Mugera Productivity Growth, Convergence, and Attribution Dynamics in the Kansas Farm Sector Michael Langemeier
  Sreedhar Upendruam Irrigation Scheduling, Crop Choices, and Impact of Irrigataion Technology Upgrade on the Kansas High Plains Aquifer Jeff Peterson
       
 2008 Yun Ju Chen Consumer Preferences for Wool Production Attributes Hikaru Hanawa Peterson
  John Micheal Riley Producer Perception of Fed Cattle Price Risk  Ted Schroeder
  Alexandra Gregory Optimal Economic Design of Mail Surveys: An Application to Consumer Demand for Irradiated Foods  Sean Fox
       
 2007 L.Lanier Nalley The Genetic and Economic Impact of the CIMMYT Wheat Breeding Program: A Policy Analysis of Public Wheat Breeding  Andrew Barkley
  Zhifeng Gao Effects of Additional Quality Attributes on Consumer Willingness to Pay for Food Labels  Ted Shroeder
  Preceles Manzo Implementation of Tariff Rate Quotes in the Phillipines  Andrew Barkley
       
 2006  Luc Valentin Welfare Imacts of GMO Adoption on the Marketing Chain  Jeff Peterson
  Adriana Chacon-Cuscante The EU Banana Market: Demand Estimation and Evaluation of the New Import Regime  John Crespi
  Sarah Dorsey Measuring the Impact of Integration and Diversification on Firm Value in the Food Industry  Michael Boland
  Dustin Pendell Value of Animal Traceability Systems in Managing a Food and Mouth Disease Outbreak in Southwest Kansas  Ted Schroeder
  Glynn Tonsor Feedlot Cattle Crush: Joint Distribution Model Development, Evaluation, and Application  Ted Schroeder
       
 2005 Hanas Abdul Cader Rural Competitiveness in a Changing Economy: Information Technology, E-Commerce, Entrepreneurship, and Small Business Development  John Leatherman
  January Mafuru Utilizing a Sub-Sector Characteristcs Approach to Determining Adoption of Agricultural Technologies: The Case of Improved Sorghum Variation in Lake Zone, Tanzania  David Norman
  Brian Coffey Micro-Level Analysis of Consumer Meat Demand  Ted Schroeder
  Molly Brant Aymptotically Ideal Model: Applications to Agricultural Economics  Allen Featherstone
  Leah Tsoodle The Impact of Preferential Assessment of Agricultural Land on Housing Affordability  Allen Featherstone
  Bill Golden The Value of Water Rights in the Rattlesnake Creek Sub-Basin: A Spatial Hedonic Analysis  Terry Kastens
       
 2004 Ebenezer Ogunyinka An Examination of International Agricultural Productivity, Technological Bias, and Efficiency Gains  Michael Langemeier
  Kranti Mulik Geographical Indications and the Trade Related Property Rights (TRIPS): A Case Study of Basmati  John Crespi
  Odeh Oluwarotimi Agricultural Credit Institutions and Loan Default  Allen Featherstone