We use a variety of well-tested and novel approaches to understanding how to balance economic, social and environmental objectives. From cost-benefit analysis to machine learning, CEOS members use and advance methods to model complex social-environmental systems, estimate impact of interventions and design optimal policy solutions to enable us to build a more sustainable society.
Research Output
| Title | Publication | Authors | Year Published | Category | Method | Status | 
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Corporate Social Responsibility: Motivations and Effectiveness in Developing Countries | International Review of Environmental and Resource Economics | Sangeeta Bansal, Madhu Khanna | 2024 | O | (OM) Other | (PR) Peer Reviewed | 
| Conservation agrivoltaics for sustainable food‐energy production | Plants, People, Planet | Alson Time, Nuria Gomez‐Casanovas, Paul Mwebaze, Wilgince Apollon, Madhu Khanna, Evan H DeLucia, Carl J Bernacchi | 2024 | O | (OM) Other | (PR) Peer Reviewed | 
| Decision-Making Behavior Evaluation Framework for LLMs under Uncertain Context | NeurIPS | Jingru Jia, Zehua Yuan, Junhao Pan, Paul McNamara, Deming Chen | 2024 | O | (OM) Other | (PR) Peer Reviewed | 
| Breakthroughs at the disciplinary nexus: Rewards and challenges for applied economists | American Journal of Agricultural Economics | Khanna, M. | 2022 | O | (OM) Other | (PR) Peer Reviewed | 
| The price of biodiesel RINs and economic fundamentals | American Journal of Agricultural Economics | Irwin, S. H., McCormack, K., & Stock, J. H. | 2020 | O | (OM) Other | |
| Smallholder food storage dynamics and resilience | Food Security | Waldman, K. B., Giroux, S., Blekking, J. P., Baylis, K., & Evans, T. P.  | 
                                                                      2019 | FA, O | (IE) Impact Evaluation, (OM) Other | |
| Machine learning in agricultural and applied economics | European Review of Agricultural Economics | Storm, H., Baylis, K., & Heckelei, T.  | 
                                                                      2019 | O | (OM) Other | |
| Every plate counts: Evaluation of a food waste reduction campaign in a university dining hall | Resources, Conservation and Recycling | Ellison, B., Savchenko, O., Nikolaus, C.J., & Duff, B.R.L. | 2019 | FA, O | (OM) Other | |
| High cotton & low road: Unraveling Farm Bill Coalition | Drake Journal of Agricultural Law | Coppess, J. W. | 2019 | O | (OM) Other | |
| Opportunities and challenges in conducting economic research on food loss and waste | Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy | Ellison, B., Muth, M.K., & Golan, E. | 2019 | FA, O | (OM) Other | |
| Agro-climatic data by county: A spatially and temporally consistent U.S. dataset for agricultural yields, weather and soils | Data | Yun, S.D., & Gramig, B.M. | 2019 | FA, O | (OM) Other | |
| National school lunch nutrition and cost profile: a case study of the Ghana School Feeding Programme | Food and Nutrition Bulletin | Goldsmith, P.D., Andrade, J., Cornelius, M, Asigbee, M., Atiim, P. & Tamimie, C. | 2019 | O | (OM) Other | |
| Uncertainty in forecasts of long-run productivity growth | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Christensen, P., Gillingham, K., & Nordhaus, W. | 2018 | O | (OM) Other | |
| Water impacts of U.S. biofuels: Insights from an assessment combining economic and biophysical models | Plos One | Teter, J., Yeh, S., Khanna, M., Berndes, G., & Chen, X. | 
                                                                      2018 | O | (OM) Other | |
| Examining household food waste decisions: A vignette approach | Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy | Ellison, B., & Lusk, J.L. | 2018 | FA, O | (OM) Other | |
| The evolution towards peer-reviewed invited papers in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics | American Journal of Agricultural Economics | Khanna, M. | 
                                                                      2018 | O | (OM) Other | |
| Wasted food: A qualitative study of U.S. young adults' perceptions, beliefs and behaviors | Appetite | Nikolaus, C.J., Nickols-Richardson, S.M., & Ellison, B. | 2018 | O | (OM) Other | |
| A perspective on agricultural policy in the age of nutrient loss | Drake Journal of Agricultural Law | Coppess, J. W. | 2018 | O | (OM) Other | |
| Fault Lines of Farm Policy | University of Nebraska Press | Coppess, J. W. | 2018 | O | (OM) Other | |
| Variable soils, variable fertilizer quality, and variable prospects | Tropical Conservation Science | Michelson, H. | 2017 | FA, O | (OM) Other | |
| Which livestock production methods matter most to consumers and why? | Agriculture and Human Values | Ellison, B., Brooks, K., & Mieno, T. | 
                                                                      2017 | FA, O | (VA) Valuation, (OM) Other | |
| Nitrogen application decision-making under climate risk in the U.S. corn belt | Climate Risk Management | Gramig, B. M., Massey, R., & Do Yun, S.  | 
                                                                      2017 | FA, O | (OM) Other | |
| A multiple metrics approach to prioritizing strategies for measuring and managing reactive nitrogen in the San Joaquin Valley of California | Environmental Research Letters | Horowitz, A. I., Moomaw, W. R., Liptzin, D., Gramig, B. M., Reeling, C., Meyer, J., & Hurley, K.  | 
                                                                      2016 | O | (OM) Other | |
| Using a team survey to improve team communication for enhanced delivery of agro-climate decision support tools | Agricultural Systems | Prokopy, L. S., Hart, C. E., Massey, R., Widhalm, M., Klink, J., Andresen, J., ... & Gramig, B. M. | 
                                                                      2015 | O | (OM) Other |