J. Edward Taylor

Farmers' Subjective Valuation of Subsistence Crops: The Case of Traditional Maize in Mexico (2008)

Arslan, Aslihan, Taylor, J. Edward

Shadow prices guide farmers' resource allocations, but for subsistence farmers growing traditional crops, shadow prices may bear little relationship with market prices. We econometrically estimate...

Valuing the Numismatic Legacy of Alexander the Great (2007)

Taylor, J. Edward

The conquests of Alexander III ("The Great") transformed the economic as well as political landscape of ancient Greece and Persia. It produced a prolific coinage, part of which survives today. This...

Does Agricultural Liberalization Reduce Rural Welfare in Less Developed Countries? The Case of CAFTA (2007)

Taylor, J. Edward, Yunez Naude, Antonio, Jesurun-Clements, Nancy

Conventional economic wisdom and findings from aggregate economy-wide models suggest that removing tariffs on agricultural imports is detrimental to rural welfare in less developed countries. This...

Migration and Income Diversification Evidence from Burkina Faso (2006)

Wouterse, Fleur, Taylor, J. Edward

This paper uses limited-dependent variable methods and new data from Burkina Faso to test the impact of inter-continental and continental migration on activity choice and incomes in rural households....

Migration and the Sending Economy: A Disaggregated Rural Economy Wide Analysis (2006)

Taylor, J. Edward, Dyer, George

Most economic research on migration impacts in source economies focuses on the households that send migrants and receive remittances, ignoring linkages that transmit migration's influences to others...

Does Natural Resource Extraction Mitigate Poverty and Inequality? Evidence from Rural Mexico and a Lacandona Rainforest Community (2006)

Lopez-Feldman, Alejandro, Mora, Jorge, Taylor, J. Edward

The potential importance of natural reosurces for the livelihood of poor rural households has long been recognized but seldom quantified and analyzed. In this paper we apply poverty and inequality...

Labor Allocation to Non-Timber Forest Products Extraction: The Case of a Lacandona Rainforest Community (2006)

Lopez-Feldman, Alejandro, Taylor, J. Edward

The commercial extraction of non-timber forest products (NTFP) from tropical forests has been considered as a strategy to promote forest conservation and at the same time alleviate poverty. However,...

Ecotourism and Economic Growth in the Galapagos: An Island Economy-wide Analysis (2006)

Taylor, J. Edward, Hardner, Jared, Stewart, Micki

This paper raises questions about the compatibility of "ecotourism" and conservation in the unique environment of the Galapagos Islands. It updates a 1999 economy-wide analysis that predicted that...

Pollicy Reforms and the Gender Dynamics of Rural Mexico-to-U.S. Migration (2005)

Richter, Susan M., Taylor, J. Edward

The supply of immigrant workers from Mexico is critical to both agricultural and non-agricultural sectors in the United States. Approximately one half of all Mexican immigrants are females who...

Impacts of Policy Reforms on the Supply of Mexican Labor to U.S. Farms: New Evidence from Mexico (2005)

Boucher, Stephen R., Smith, Aaron, Taylor, J. Edward, Yúnez-Naude, Antonio

The availability of immigrant farm-workers from Mexico is a critical factor affecting the fresh fruit and vegetable sector in the United States. This paper uses a retrospective panel data set from...

A Gain with a Drain? Evidence from Rural Mexico on the New Economics of the Brain Drain (2005)

BOUCHER, STEPHEN R, Stark, Oded, Taylor, J. Edward

Evidence is presented in support of the "brain gain" view that the likelihood of migrating to a destination wherein the returns to human capital (schooling) are high creates incentives to acquire...

Remittances, Inequality and Poverty: Evidence from Rural Mexico (2005)

Taylor, J. Edward, Mora, Jorge, Adams, Richard, Lopez-Feldman, Alejandro

Economic research has produced conflicting findings on the distributional impacts of migrant remittances, and there has been little research on the effects of changes in remittances on poverty. This...

Subsistence Response to Market Shocks (2005)

Dyer, George A., BOUCHER, STEPHEN R, Taylor, J. Edward

Micro-economic models posit that transaction costs isolate subsistence producers from output market shocks. We integrate microeconomic models of many heterogeneous households into a...

ARE Update Volume 5, Number 6 (2002)

Sumner, Daniel A., Ward, Michael B., Shimshack, Jay P., Perloff, Jeffrey M., Harris, J. Michael, Guilin, Alfonso, ...

Implications of the 2002 Farm Bill for Commodity Markets and Trade: A California Focus; Price, Promotion and Differentiation Effects of the Private-Label Invasion; Immigration and the Changing Face...

Structural adjustment and market imperfections: a stylized village economy-wide model with non-separable farm households

HOLDEN, STEIN T., TAYLOR, J. EDWARD, HAMPTON, STEPHEN

Village economies and peasant households represent the main link between the economy and the environment in sub-Saharan Africa. The links from the macro level and down to the household level and...

Missing markets and crop diversity: evidence from Mexico

VAN DUSEN, M. ERIC, TAYLOR, J. EDWARD

Recent micro-economic studies of in situ conservation of crop diversity focus on competition between modern and traditional varieties of major food crops. Our paper offers a different, crop system,...

Does natural resource extraction mitigate poverty and inequality? Evidence from rural Mexico and a Lacandona Rainforest Community

MORA, JORGE, TAYLOR, J. EDWARD

The potential importance of natural resources for the livelihood of poor rural households has long been recognized but seldom quantified and analyzed. In this paper, we apply poverty and inequality...

Does migration reshape expenditures in rural households? Evidence from Mexico

Taylor, J. Edward, Mora, Jorge

Migration reshapes rural economies in ways that may go beyond the contribution of migrant remittances to household income. Consumption and investment expenditures by migrant-sending households may...

Relative deprivation and migration : theory, evidence, and policy implications

Stark, Oded, Taylor, J. Edward

The authors examine the importance of absolute income and relative deprivation incentives for internal and international migration in developing country households. Empirical results, based on...

Migration Incentives, Migration Types: The Role of Relative Deprivation.

Stark, Oded, Taylor, J Edward

The importance of absolute income and relative deprivation incentives is examined for internal and international migration in developing country households. Empirical results, based on Mexican...

The use of farm level data for policy analysis

Adelman, Irma, Taylor, J. Edward

Agricultural policies; Agriculture; Consumption; Econometrics; Economic development; Family farms; Household firm

Impacts of Policy Reforms on the Supply of Mexican Labor to U.S. Farms: New Evidence from Mexico

Stephen R. Boucher, Aaron Smith, J. Edward Taylor, Antonio Yúnez-Naude

The availability of immigrant farm-workers from Mexico is a critical factor affecting the U.S. fresh fruit and vegetable sector. This paper uses retrospective panel data from rural Mexico to examine...

Subsistence Response to Market Shocks

George A. Dyer, Steve Boucher, J. Edward Taylor

Microeconomic models posit that transaction costs isolate subsistence producers from output market shocks. We integrate microeconomic models of many heterogeneous households into a general...

The Returns from Schooling in a Diversified Rural Economy.

Taylor, J Edward, Yunez-Naude, Antonio

Controlling for the endogeneity of activity choice and considering both household-head and family schooling, we find evidence of high returns from schooling in both crop and noncrop activities. As...

Does Migration Make Rural Households More Productive? Evidence from Mexico

J. Edward Taylor, Alejandro López-Feldman

The migration of labor out of rural areas and the flow of remittances from migrants to rural households is an increasingly important feature of less developed countries. This paper explores ways in...

Human capital: Migration and rural population change

Taylor, J. Edward, Martin, Philip L., B. L. Gardner, G. C. Rausser

The movement of labor out of agriculture is a universal concomitant of economic modernization and growth. Traditional migration models overlook many potential interactions between migration and...

A crop population perspective on maize seed systems in Mexico

Dyer, George A., Taylor, J. Edward

Improvement of local germplasm through artificial selection is regarded as the main force behind maize evolution and diversity in Mexico, the crop's center of origin. This perspective neglects the...

Migration and Income Diversification:: Evidence from Burkina Faso

Wouterse, Fleur, Taylor, J. Edward

Summary This paper uses limited-dependent variable methods and new data from Burkina Faso to test the impact of inter-continental and continental migration on activity choice and incomes in rural...

Impacts of Policy Reforms on Labor Migration From Rural Mexico to the United States

Susan M. Richter, J. Edward Taylor, Antonio Naude

Using new survey data from Mexico, a dynamic econometric model is estimated to test the effect of policy changes on the flow of migrant labor from rural Mexico to the United States and test for...

Farmers' Subjective Valuation of Subsistence Crops: The Case of Traditional Maize in Mexico

Aslihan Arslan, J. Edward Taylor

Shadow prices guide farmers' resource allocations, but for subsistence farmers growing traditional crops, shadow prices may bear little relationship with market prices. We econometrically estimate...

Gender Impacts of U.S. Immigration Policies

Richter, Susan M., Taylor, J. Edward, Yunez-Naude, Antonio

Using Mexican survey data, a dynamic econometric model is estimated to test the effect of IRCA, NAFTA and border control expenditures on the flow of female and male migrant farm and non-farm labor...

Remittances, Inequality and Poverty: Evidence from Rural Mexico

Taylor, J. Edward, Mora, Jorge, Adams, Richard

Economic research has produced conflicting findings on the distributional impacts of migrant remittances, and there has been little research on the effects of changes in remittances on poverty. This...

Does Natural Resource Extraction Mitigate Poverty and Inequality? Evidence from Rural Mexico

Lopez-Feldman, Alejandro, Mora, Jorge, Taylor, J. Edward

The potential importance of natural resources in poor rural household livelihoods has long been recognized but seldom quantified and analyzed. In this paper we examine distributional and poverty...

CAFTA AND MIGRATION: LESSONS FROM MICRO ECONOMY-WIDE MODELS AND THE NEW ECONOMICS OF LABOR MIGRATION

Materer, Susan M., Taylor, J. Edward

This article uses economy-wide modeling techniques to offer an intra-regional perspective on the impacts of trade reforms on rural economies and migration for five Central American countries (Costa...

THE IMPACT OF MIGRATION AND REMITTANCES ON RURAL INCOMES IN CHINA

De Brauw, Alan, Taylor, J. Edward, Rozelle, Scott

New Economics of Labor Migration (NELM) theory posits a complex relationship between migrants and household income generation. This paper uses NELM and original survey data to examine the impacts of...

IMPACTS OF POLICY REFORMS ON THE SUPPLY OF MEXICAN LABOR TO U.S. FARMS: NEW EVIDENCE FROM MEXICO

Taylor, J. Edward, Boucher, Stephen, Smith, Aaron, Yunez-Naude, Antonio

The availability of immigrant farmworkers from Mexico critically shapes fruit, vegetable, and horticultural (FVH) production in the United States. We test the impact of recent policy reforms on the...

TRANSITION POLICY AND THE STRUCTURE OF THE AGRICULTURE OF MEXICO

Taylor, J. Edward, Yunez-Naude, Antonio, Paredes, Fernando Barceinas, Dyer, George

This paper has three main objectives. The first is to review major changes in Mexico's agricultural policies in the context of trade liberalization. The second is to explore econometrically the...

Does Agricultural Liberalization Reduce Rural Welfare in Less Developed Countries? The Case of CAFTA

Taylor, J. Edward, Naude, Antonio Yunez, Jesurun-Clements, Nancy

Conventional economic wisdom and findings from aggregate economy-wide models suggest that removing tariffs on agricultural imports is detrimental to rural welfare in less developed countries. This...

Ecotourism and Economic Growth in the Galapagos: An Island Economy-wide Analysis

Taylor, J. Edward, Hardner, Jared, Stewart, Micki

This paper raises questions about the compatibility of "ecotourism” and conservation in the unique environment of the Galapagos Islands. It updates a 1999 economy-wide analysis that predicted that...

Farmers' Subjective Valuation of Subsistence Crops: The Case of Traditional Maize in Mexico

Arslan, Aslıhan, Taylor, J. Edward

Shadow prices guide farmers' resource allocations, but for subsistence farmers growing traditional crops, shadow prices may bear little relationship with market prices. We econometrically estimate...

Does Natural Resource Extraction Mitigate Poverty and Inequality? Evidence from Rural Mexico

Lopez-Feldman, Alejandro, Mora, Jorge, Taylor, J. Edward

The potential importance of natural resources in poor rural household livelihoods has long been recognized but seldom quantified and analyzed. In this paper we examine distributional and poverty...

Regional Growth Linkages between Villages and Towns in Mexico: A Village-wide Modeling Perspective

Yunez-Naude, Antonio, Leal, George Dyer, Taylor, J. Edward

This paper measures linkages between farm and non-farm activities in rural Mexico using a multiplier model based on social accounting matrices (SAMs) from survey data for five villages at differing...

Migration and Income Diversification Evidence from Burkina Faso

Taylor, J. Edward, Wouterse, Fleur

This paper uses limited-dependent variable methods and new data from Burkina Faso to test the impact of inter-continental and continental migration on activity choice and incomes in rural households....

Structural adjustment and market imperfections: a stylized village economy-wide model with non-separable farm households

HOLDEN, STEIN T., TAYLOR, J. EDWARD, HAMPTON, STEPHEN

Village economies and peasant households represent the main link between the economy and the environment in sub-Saharan Africa. The links from the macro level and down to the household level and...

Welfare Reform in Agricultural California

Green, Richard, Martin, Philip, Taylor, J. Edward

When welfare reforms were enacted in 1996, a higher than average percentage of residents in the agricultural heartland of California, the San Joaquin Valley, received cash assistance. Average annual...

Farm Employment, Immigration, and Poverty: A Structural Analysis

Martin, Philip, Taylor, J. Edward

This study tests for structural change in the poverty-farm employment relationship between 1980 and 1990. Econometric findings from a partially simultaneous block triangular regression model...

The relationship between international migration, trade, and development: some paradoxes and findings

J. Edward Taylor

The interactions among trade, international migration, and economic development in migrant-sending areas are complex, and paradoxes abound. This paper summarizes global trends in world migration and...

Is off-farm income reforming the farm? Evidence from Mexico

Lisa Pfeiffer, Alejandro López-Feldman, J. Edward Taylor

Does access to off-farm income complement or compete with agricultural production? This article explores the effect of off-farm income on agricultural production activities, using data from the 2003...

Ecotourism and economic growth in the Galapagos: an island economy-wide analysis

TAYLOR, J. EDWARD, HARDNER, JARED, STEWART, MICKI

This study revisits and updates a 1999 economy-wide analysis predicting that increases in tourism would result in rapid economic as well as demographic growth on the Galapagos Islands. The following...

Farmers' Subjective Valuation of Subsistence Crops: The Case of Traditional Maize in Mexico

Arslan, Aslihan, Taylor, J. Edward

The material contained herein is supplementary to the article named in the title and published in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics.

Migration and the Sending Economy: A Disaggregated Rural Economy-Wide Analysis

J. Edward Taylor, George Dyer

Most economic research on migration impacts focuses on the households that send the migrants and get the remittances, ignoring linkages with others in the sending economies. This paper offers an...

Village Economies

Taylor,J. Edward, Adelman,Irma

Most of the world’s population and the vast majority of the world’s poor live and work in villages. Their activities are usually centred in households, but interactions among households shape the...

Village Economies

Taylor,J. Edward, Adelman,Irma

Most of the world’s population and the vast majority of the world’s poor live and work in villages. Their activities are usually centred in households, but interactions among households shape the...

Farmers' Subjective Valuation of Subsistence Crops: The Case of Traditional Maize in Mexico

Aslihan Arslan, J. Edward Taylor

Shadow prices guide farmers' resource allocations, but for subsistence farmers who grow traditional crops they may bear little relationship with market prices. We theoretically derive shadow prices...