Papers & Publications

Farm Policies and Added Sugars in US Diets
John C. Beghin and Helen H. Jensen
Ames, IA: Iowa State University, Center for Agricultural and Rural Development
CARD Working Paper 08-WP 462
February 2008

Proposed Modifications to the Food Stamp Program: Likely Effects and Their Policy Implications
Conner C. Mullally, Julian M. Alston, Daniel A. Sumner, Marilyn Townsend and Stephen A. Vosti.
Chapter to appear in a book edited by Elliott Blass (U. of Mass.) entitled Obesity: Causes, Mechanisms, and Prevention, published by Sinauer Associates, Inc., Sunderland, MA.
Revised: May 8, 2007.

Public funding for research into specialty crops 328 kB
Julian M. Alston and Philip G.Pardey,
St. Paul, MN: University of Minnesota, Department of Applied Economics,
Staff paper P07-09.
InSTePP paper 07-03, 2007.

Are Agricultural Policies Making Us Fat? Likely Links between Agricultural Policies and Human Nutrition and Obesity, and Their Policy Implications
Julian M. Alston, Daniel A. Sumner and Stephen A. Vosti.
Review of Agricultural Economics, Fall 2006.