J. Edward Taylor
· Professor of Agricultural and Resource EconomicsVerifiedUniversity of California, Davis · Technology and Operations Management
Active 1812–2025
About
J. Edward Taylor is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Agricultural and Resource Economics Department at the University of California, Davis. His fields of interest include Economic Development, Population and Resources, Labor Economics, and Economywide Modeling and Applied Microeconomics. He has a comprehensive academic background with a Ph.D. in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of California, Berkeley, earned in 1984, along with a Master's degree in the same field from Berkeley in 1982, and a Bachelor's degree in Economics from the University of California, Riverside, in 1979. Professor Taylor's research focuses on economic development, labor markets, and resource management, with notable contributions to understanding the economic impacts of social programs and farm labor issues. He has been involved in local economy-wide impact evaluation and social cash transfer programs in Africa, and has co-authored a book titled 'The Farm Labor Problem: A Global Perspective.' His work includes applying microeconomic theory and econometric methods to real-world problems, and he actively engages in research that informs policy and development strategies.
Research topics
- Political Science
- Business
- Economics
- Economic growth
- Geography
- Natural resource economics
- Economy
- Development economics
- Market economy
- Labour economics
Selected publications
Workforce Implications From Farm Automation
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy · 2025-07-23
articleSenior authorABSTRACT US agriculture is evolving rapidly, especially with the development of new and more complex labor‐saving technologies. This study overviews the workforce implications of agricultural automation, including those for employment, wages, job quality, and more. Contrary to beliefs that automation reduces employment, we show that automation can raise employment and wages by increasing farm production and creating higher‐paid and more desirable jobs in complementary sectors. These workforce implications are mediated by the factors that drive adoption and how effects permeate across the agri‐food system, suggesting that governments play a key role in ensuring positive workforce outcomes through policymaking and funding allocations.
2024-10-28 · 1 citations
book-chapterOpen accessAbstract Local labor market outcomes are often overlooked in integrated assessment models. Yet labor markets have become increasingly relevant in recent decades as evidence of diminished labor mobility has emerged in the United States and other developed countries. We use the SIMPLE-G modeling framework to investigate the impacts of a global commodity price shock and a local sustainable groundwater use policy in the United States. We compare the impacts of each of these shocks under two contrasting assumptions: perfect mobility of agricultural labor and relatively inelastic labor mobility. We supplement the numerical simulations with analytical results from a stylized two-input model to provide further insights into the impacts of local and global shocks on agricultural labor, crop production, and resource use. In the perfect labor mobility scenario, the impact of a commodity price boom is overestimated relative to the restricted labor mobility case. In the case of groundwater sustainability policy, the perfect labor mobility scenario overestimates the reduction in crop production and employment in directly targeted grids as well as overestimates the spillover effects that increase employment in other grids. For both shocks, impacts on agricultural wages are completely overlooked if we ignore rigidities in agricultural labor markets.
IT Leadership: Balancing Competing Tensions in a Rapidly Digitizing World
Foundations and Trends® in Information Systems · 2024-11-04
article1st authorCorrespondingIn modern organizations, Information Technology (IT) leaders wear many hats. They are technicians responsible for overseeing specialized tools that organizations use to conduct operations, defenders protecting the organization from outside threats, teambuilders developing specialized talent to support organizational needs, strategists leveraging emerging technology to disrupt markets, and administrators overseeing large capital and operating budgets. Additionally, technology evolves rapidly such that IT leaders must frequently make decisions about products and approaches that have no generally accepted best practices, regarding topics where much of the publicly available information is produced by the providers of the very technology under consideration. The study of IT leadership provides unique value to the Information Systems (IS) discipline in three distinct ways. First, it can provide IT leaders with practical insights regarding emerging phenomena through analysis conducted by scholars without the conflicts of interest that are inherent in the information provided by vendors of IT products and services. Second, the study of IT leadership can conceptualize and address IS related questions and issues from the perspective of an administrative leader. Third, the study of IT leadership can help identify ways that IT leaders can grow, develop, and improve as business professionals. This monograph provides a summary of the extant research literature concerning IT leadership and the unique challenges that those professionals face.
Northern Paiutes of the Malheur: High Desert Reckoning in Oregon Country
Journal of American History · 2024-09-01
article1st authorCorrespondingAgriculture automation and control · 2023-01-01
book-chapterSenior authorCorrespondingLabor markets: A critical link between global-local shocks and their impact on agriculture
Environmental Research Letters · 2023-01-10 · 34 citations
articleOpen accessAbstract Labor markets can shape the impacts of global market developments and local sustainability policies on agricultural outcomes, including changes in production and land use. Yet local labor market outcomes, including agricultural employment, migration and wages, are often overlooked in integrated assessment models (IAMs). The relevance of labor markets has become more important in recent decades, with evidence of diminished labor mobility in the United States (US) and other developed countries. We use the SIMPLE-G (Simplified International Model of agricultural Prices, Land use, and the Environment) modeling framework to investigate the impacts of a global commodity price shock and a local sustainable groundwater use policy in the US. SIMPLE-G is a multi-scale framework designed to allow for integration of economic and biophysical determinants of sustainability, using fine-scale geospatial data and parameters. We use this framework to compare the impacts of the two sets of shocks under two contrasting assumptions: perfect mobility of agricultural labor, as generally implicit in global IAMs, and relatively inelastic labor mobility (‘sticky’ agricultural labor supply response). We supplement the numerical simulations with analytical results from a stylized two-input model to provide further insights into the impacts of local and global shocks on agricultural labor, crop production and resource use. Findings illustrate the key role that labor mobility plays in shaping both local and global agricultural and environmental outcomes. In the perfect labor mobility scenario, the impact of a commodity price boom on crop production, employment and land-use is overestimated compared with the restricted labor mobility case. In the case of the groundwater sustainability policy, the perfect labor mobility scenario overestimates the reduction in crop production and employment in directly targeted grids as well as spillover effects that increase employment in other grids. For both shocks, impacts on agricultural wages are completely overlooked if we ignore rigidities in agricultural labor markets.
Journal of Development Effectiveness · 2023-01-02 · 5 citations
articleSenior authorWe present findings from a study of the local-economy impacts of Lesotho’s Child Grants Programme and of a multi-faceted rural development intervention. We designed a micro-data parameterised general equilibrium model and used it to simulate the direct and indirect impacts of the two interventions, considering income and production spillovers. The Child Grants Programme, alone and in combination with the rural development programme, generates total discounted benefits that exceed discounted programme costs. Local-economy spillovers amplify the benefit-cost ratio of both cash transfers and productive interventions. By better integrating with outside markets, it is possible to attain substantial cost-effective income gains for local economies.
The River That Made Seattle: A Human and Natural History of the Duwamish. By BJ Cummings
Western Historical Quarterly · 2023-05-03
article1st authorCorrespondingJournal Article The River That Made Seattle: A Human and Natural History of the Duwamish. By BJ Cummings Get access The River That Made Seattle: A Human and Natural History of the Duwamish. By BJ Cummings (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2020. xv + 222 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. $19.95, paper.) Joseph E Taylor, III Joseph E Taylor, III Simon Fraser University, Greater Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada joseph_taylor@sfu.ca Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, whad069, https://doi.org/10.1093/whq/whad069 Published: 03 May 2023
Economic impact of giving land to refugees
American Journal of Agricultural Economics · 2023-01-19 · 12 citations
articleOpen accessSenior authorCorrespondingAbstract This paper adds to a sparse but growing literature on the economic costs and benefits of hosting refugees, including a unique policy of providing refugees with access to cultivable land. We construct a general equilibrium model from microsurvey data to simulate the spillover effects of giving land to refugees on income and production in the host‐country economy surrounding a refugee settlement in Uganda. Reduced‐form econometric analysis of land allocations at the refugee settlement, robust to several specifications, confirms the simulation finding that providing refugees with agricultural land significantly improves their welfare and self‐reliance. Simulations reveal that refugee aid and land allocations generate positive income spillovers in the local economy out to a 15‐km radius around the refugee settlement. Host‐country households benefit significantly from the income spillovers that refugee assistance creates, and host‐country agriculture is the largest beneficiary among production sectors.
Centralization, Resistance, and the North of England in <i>A Gest of Robyn Hode</i>
Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2022-12-08
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingChapter 5 investigates the fifteenth-century ballad A Gest of Robyn Hode as protest literature set against the encroachment of government centralization on the political autonomy of the North of England. Robin Hood’s theft and murder of government officials ironically informs the outlaw’s own expressed love for the king, calling to mind the relationships between the crown and the northern magnates, such as the Percy earls of Northumberland, in the later Middle Ages. In one striking scene from the Gest, King Edward and Robin Hood ride out of the forest together, dressed in Robin’s livery of Lincoln green. This juxtaposition of the king of England with the king of outlaws implies the complexities with which the poem contemplates law and sovereignty, complexities attendant to the remarkable development of sovereign theory from the early-thirteenth century in western Europe. Foregrounding the exceptional powers of the sovereign that would inform the political theory resonate in the later work of Bodin and Hobbes, the Gest laments the dwindling regional autonomy of the North, with its once-great barons, and the increasing pull of law and authority to London and Westminster.
Frequent coauthors
- 25 shared
Thomas J. Espenshade
Princeton University
- 23 shared
Susan Richter
- 19 shared
Antonio Yúnez–Naude
College of Mexico
- 18 shared
Diane Charlton
Montana State University
- 17 shared
Antonio Yúñez Naude
- 15 shared
George A. Dyer
Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Epidemiología y Salud Pública
- 15 shared
Philip Martin
AstraZeneca (Japan)
- 14 shared
Mateusz Filipski
University of Georgia
Education
- 1984
Ph.D., Agricultural and Resource Economics
University of California, Berkeley
- 1982
M.S., Agricultural and Resource Economics
University of California, Berkeley
- 1979
B.S., Economics
University of California, Riverside
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