Associate Professor, Agricultural and Consumer Economics

Additional Campus Affiliations

Associate Dean, International Programs, College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences
Professor, Agricultural and Consumer Economics
Professor, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Professor, Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies
Professor, Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Professor, Center for the Study of Global Gender Equity
Professor, Center for Global Studies

Recent Publications

De Maria, I. C., Guimarães, M. D. F., Dechen, S. C. F., Melo, T. R., Ribeiro, M. R., Arends-Kuenning, M., & Telles, T. S. (Accepted/In press). Research on soil erosion under natural rainfall in Brazil: A meta-analysis. Advances in Agronomy. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.agron.2025.08.002

Valdebenito, R., Ridley, W., Arends-Kuenning, M., & Dall'Erba, S. (Accepted/In press). Migration of high school graduates for higher education: the role of degree type and field of study. Education Economics. https://doi.org/10.1080/09645292.2025.2565355

Arends-Kuenning, M. P., Baylis, K., & Garduño-Rivera, R. (2024). The effect of NAFTA on Mexico's wage gap. Annals of Regional Science, 73(3), 1241-1267. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00168-024-01287-w

Parré, J. L., Chagas, A. L. S., & Arends-Kuenning, M. P. (2024). The effect of farm size and farmland use on agricultural diversification: a spatial analysis of Brazilian municipalities. Agricultural and Food Economics, 12(1), Article 27. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40100-024-00323-9

Ceballos-Sierra, F., Arends-Kuenning, M. P., & Hewey, A. (2023). Technology diffusion within families: experimental evidence from Nicaragua. Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 29(3), 309-326. https://doi.org/10.1080/1389224X.2022.2043918

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