Gary Thompson

Professor & Department Head, Agriculture and Resource Economics

My research continues to focus on consumer demand for all sorts of products from residential water to organic foods. I am currently working on projects analyzing consumer demand for fruits and vegetables, food safety, and health concerns. I thoroughly enjoy applying microeconometric methods for analyzing these food and resource questions.

My relevant peer-reviewed publications are:

Wang, Xiangrui, Jukwan Lee, Jia Yan, and Gary Thompson. 2018. Testing the Behavior of Rationally Inattentive Consumers in a Residential Water Market. Journal of Envrionmental Economics and Management 92: 344-59

Clarke, Andrew, Bonnie Colby and Gary Thompson. 2017. Household Water Demand Seasonal Elasticities: A Stone-Geary Model under an Increasing Block Rate Structure. Land Economics 93 (4): 6008–30.

Degree(s)

  • Ph.D. Agricultural Economics, UC Davis, 1986