Research
Research Interests & Expertise
Applied Areas
Consumer Nutrition & Household Purchasing Patterns
Health Economics
Production Agriculture
Specialty Crop Economics
Agricultural Finance
Input Market Demand & Price Analysis
Industrial Organization and Agribusiness Marketing & Management
Social Network Externalities & Technology Adoption Diffusion
Technical Matters
Game Theory
Econometric Methods
Empirical Inferences & Simulation Tests
Spatial Econometric Modeling
Accepted & Published
Selected Publications
Young, Jeffrey S., McCarty, T., Lancaster, S., & Bish, M. 2023. "Modeling Soybean Planting Decisions with Network Diffusion: Does Herbicide Drift Affect Farmer Profitability and Seed Selection?" Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 1-20.
Binkley, James K. & Jeffrey S. Young. 2023. "The Chow Test with Time Series-Cross Section Data." Journal of Statistical & Econometric Methods, 12(1), 35-53.
Young, Jeffrey S. & Tanner J. McCarty. 2022. "Adapting network theory for spatial network externalities in agriculture: A case study on hemp cross-pollination." American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1-27.
Young, Jeffrey S. 2021. “Measuring Palatability as a Linear Combination of Nutrient Levels in Food Items.” Food Policy, 104, 102146. (OA preprint version)
McCarty, Tanner J. & Jeffrey S. Young. 2020. “Hemp Production Network Effects: Are Producers Tipped Towards Sub-Optimal Varietal Selection by Their Neighbors?” Journal of Applied Farm Economics, 3(2), 30-41.
Guffey, Kristie B. & Jeffrey S. Young. 2020. “Recruitment and Retention of Agriculture Teachers in the Southeast: An Empirical Analysis of the STAR Program.” Journal of Agricultural Education, 61(4), 203-213.
Young, Jeffrey S. 2020. “No Honor Among Cheaters: A ‘Prisoner’s Dilemma’ Approach to Reduce Cheating in Online Classes.” Applied Economics Teaching Resources, 2(5), 12-17.
Young, Jeffrey S. 2019. “From the Editor.” [Editorial] Journal of Agricultural Hemp Research, 1(1), 1-2.
Presentations
AAEA Annual Meeting (2014, 2016^, 2020*, 2022^)
AERUS Annual Midwest Graduate Student Summit (2015, 2016)
Kentucky Department of Agriculture Annual Hemp Meeting (2019^)
IFAMA Annual Meeting (2020*)
ERMANR Annual Meeting (2020*)
Annual No-Till Conference (2022 keynote)
Weed Science Society of America (2022*)
The symbol "*" indicates a virtual presentation
The symbol "^" indicates multiple presentations given at the same meeting
Memberships
Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA) --- 2014-present
National Social Science Association (NSSA) --- 2019-present
North American Regional Science Council (NARSC) --- 2015-2018
Editorial & Peer Review Service
Applied Economics Teaching Resources (AETR)
Food Policy
International Food and Agribusiness Management Review (IFAMR)
Agricultural Finance Review (AFR)
American Journal of Agricultural Economics (AJAE)
Journal of Applied Farm Economics (JAFE)
Journal of Agricultural Hemp Research (JAHR)
