Bruce Babcock

Dr. Bruce Babcock

Position
  • Emeritus Professor

Contact

Email
babcock@iastate.edu

Contact Info

Ames
,
IA
50011-1054

Education

  • Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, 1987
  • M.S., University of California at Davis, 1981
  • B.S., University of California at Davis, 1980

Affiliations

Selected Publications

  • Babcock, BA. “Explaining Anomalous Crop Insurance Purchase Decisions Using Prospect Theory.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics. Doi:10.1093/ajae/aav032
  • Pouliot, S., and B.A. Babcock. “Compliance Path and Impact of Ethanol Mandates on Retail Fuel Market in the Short Run.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics, doi: 10.1093/ajae/aav071.
  • Anderson, C., B. Babcock, P. Gassman, Y. Peng, T. Campbell. “Placing Bounds on Extreme Temperature Response of Maize" Environmental Research Letters 10(2015):124001.

Awards and Honors

  • Bruce Gardner Memorial Prize for Applied Policy Analysis from the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, for work analyzing the Renewable Fuel Standard, 2015
  • Lee R. Kolmer award for Excellence in Applied Research, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, Iowa State University, 2014
  • Fellow of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, 2013