Climate-smart farming
Exploring how to speed up farmers’ adoption of climate-smart agricultural practices
Analyzing the game
Analyzing athletics requires a keen eye and an affinity for numbers.
Getting beyond the ick
One of the most precious resources on Earth, water is getting more scarce
Food fanatic
Afua Dapaah discovers passion for food and agribusiness marketing and management
Athletic analytics
Statistics senior Brandon Wu dives into sports data with UD Athletics
WELCOME TO APPLIED ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS
Applied Economics and Statistics is concerned with agribusiness management, food marketing, the economics of environmental and resource management, and statistics.
Applied Economics courses are designed to provide a thorough background in the principles of organization and management of agribusiness firms, and includes study of financing agricultural business firms, marketing and international trade of agricultural products, price analysis, environmental economics, economics of land use, and agricultural and environmental policies.
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Research showcase
November 29, 2023 | Written by Dante LaPentaNearly 40 graduate students, post-doctoral researchers and undergraduate students descended upon the Townsend Hall Commons to showcase their research and internship work at the Fall 2023 College of Agriculture and Natural Resources (CANR) Student Research Symposium. The students summarized their findings to judges and curious University of Delaware faculty and staff. -
Engaging in applied economics
November 09, 2023 | Written by Katie PeikesThe field of economics historically has had disproportionately fewer women than men as well as a lack of minority representation. A 2020 economics panel at the Allied Social Science Associations annual meeting said reforms to introductory courses could help solve this problem. Work the University of Delaware’s Center for Experimental and Applied Economics is doing with students before college could be key to getting over this hurdle. -
Students explore statistics graduate programs at Graduate Data Science and Analytics Open House
October 19, 2023 | Written by AJ RubinettiProspective graduate students mingled with faculty members across an array of UD disciplines and took in presentations regarding their respective degrees. In our own college, the M.S. in Statistics and Online M.S. in Applied Statistics both provide flexible opportunities for students to obtain their master’s degrees in the ever-growing field of statistics. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, statisticians’ rosy career prospects include a 30 percent projected job growth rate this decade. -
Agricultural policy making
August 21, 2023 | Written by Katie PeikesUD’s Kent Messer and Leah Palm-Forster are co-authors on a paper that analyzed six research projects to argue that involving stakeholders in the process of creating economic experiments can lead to more acceptance of studies’ results.
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