Black Agricultural Economists in the Labor Market: Theoretical and Empirical Issues

Davis, Carlton George; Allen, Joyce E.

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“…In the 1980s and 1990s, Ralph Christy, a former AAEA president and Fellow; Alfred Parks, AAEA Fellow; Joyce Allen; and other members of the Committee on the Status of Blacks in Agricultural Economics (COSBAE) led a series of papers that addressed race. These early papers explored the agricultural economics labor market (Davis & Allen, 1983; Ihnen, 1983; Jones et al, 1983; Robbins & Evans, 1983), rural poverty with an emphasis on Black rural poverty (Allen & Thompson, 1990; Christy & Figueroa, 1990; Rochin, 1990) and limited resource farmers, who are frequently farmers of color (Dagher et al, 1991; Davis, 1991; Gebremedhin, 1991; Jones, 1991; Nelson et al, 1991; Williamson, 1991).…”

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A call for justice work in agricultural and applied economics

Wilson¹

2023

American J Agri Economics

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This presidential address calls the membership to explore ways of doing justice work in their research, teaching, extension, and outreach activities. By sharing my story and developing a content analysis of presidential addresses and invited papers published in the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association journals, I demonstrate how race has shaped my work and the need for additional work in this area. Through this example, I hope that members of the profession will find new inspiration to do justice work.

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A call for justice work in agricultural and applied economics

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2023

American J Agri Economics

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“…Studies of the numbers and experiences of Black agricultural economists go back at least as far as the early 1980s. A 1983 AJAE Proceedings Issue included three papers (Davis & Allen, 1983;Jones et al, 1983;Robbins & Evans, 1983) and a discussion on "Black Agricultural Economists". In the discussion, Ihnen (1983) lists the estimated number of Blacks holding PhD degrees in agricultural economics as 17 in 1970, 18 in 1981 and 25 in 1983. The Employment Services Committee (ESC) of the AAEA conducted surveys in 1988, 1990, 1993, and 1996(Zepeda & Marchant, 1998 with the aim of collecting degree recipients, student placement, salaries by rank and age, (Marchant & Williamson, 1994).…”

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Doctoral degrees awarded to Blacks in agricultural economics: 1999–2019

Moser

2021

Applied Eco Perspectives Pol

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This paper looks at 21 years of data on doctoral degrees granted across the US and compares agricultural economics to economics and other fields. While the percentage of doctoral degrees awarded to Blacks is generally higher than that in economics, both the percent and the number of Blacks completing their degrees have decreased slightly over time in agricultural economics. The number and percent of doctoral degrees across all fields awarded to Black students increased over the same period. The paper also reviews studies related to diversity in the economics and agricultural economics professions and discusses possible reasons for the disparities.

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“…That is, the majority of The educational attainment and opportunstudies have tended to treat economists and ities of black agricultural economists stand agricultural economists as homogenous prodin striking contrast to that of the profession ucts and the market as perfectly competitive. in general (Davis and Allen, 1983). Davis and Recent studies on the role and status of women Allen analyzed black agricultural economists in the two professions report findings which listed among those on the Illinois Department suggests that, at least in the view of emof Labor and American Agricultural Economployers, male and female members of the two ics Association Registry.…”

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“…In 1955, Carter; Chandler; Clague and Levine; Helm-the first year in which a distinction was made berger; Reagan; and Schotzko. Works relating between United States citizen recipients and specifically to the agricultural economics foreign recipients, 57 United States citizens profession included the works of Davis; Davis received Ph.D.'s compared to 13 foreign reandAllen, 1983Allen, , 1985Hathaway;Ihnen; cipients. In 1971, when the peak of awarded Jones et al; Lane; Lee; Peck and Babb; Red-degrees occurred, 145 were United States man; Robbins and Evans; Strauss and Tarr; citizens and 72 were foreign.…”

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Human Capital Needs of Black Land-Grant Institutions

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Robbins

1985

J. Agric. Appl. Econ.

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There is a growing concern among leaders the theoretical issues relating to the segof our nation about the impending human mented labor markets of black agricultural capital shortage in agriculture. The United economists and the black land-grant insti-States, a nation that leads the world in the tutions. production of agricultural products, is seriously threatened by deepening shortages of SUPPLY/DEMAND RELATIONSHIPS OF highly qualified scientists, managers, and AGRICULTURAL SCIENTISTS technical professionals-including agricul-An examination of the supply/demand retural economists. The U.S. agricultural syslationships of agricultural scientists reveals tem, which contributes some 20 percent to that there is growing evidences of deficits of the nation's gross national product, 23 percollege-educated agricultural scientists. Surcent to the nation's employment, and 19oulter and Stanton (1980 1983) percent of export earnings, increasingly inthe Resident Instruction Committee of the tegrates advanced technologies and intensive National Association of State Universities and capital invest t (l C-Land-Grant Colleges, and others, have pretee). This challenge was dramatized in a forum dicted that quantity demanded will exceed dieted that quantity demanded will exceed entitled, "Investing in Brain Power: Keeping quantity supplied by as much as 50 percent U.S. Agriculture's Competitive Edge," jointly in some occupational areas, Table 1 and figsponsored by the U.S. Department of Agriures 1 and 2 culture and the National Research Council's Board on Agriculture. At that conference, in framing the challenge to the group, John a Block, Secretary of Agriculture, called for a /\

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Black Agricultural Economists in the Labor Market: Theoretical and Empirical Issues

Cited by 6 publications

References 8 publications

A call for justice work in agricultural and applied economics

A call for justice work in agricultural and applied economics

Doctoral degrees awarded to Blacks in agricultural economics: 1999–2019

Human Capital Needs of Black Land-Grant Institutions

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