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Announcements/honors:

Sandy Dall’Erba –

2024                 President of the North American Regional Science Council

2024                Faculty on the list of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students for Fall 2023.

2023                Martin Beckmann Best paper award for “The Impact of preemptive investments on natural disasters” published in Papers in Regional Science.

2022-2023       Fulbright-Schuman European Union scholarship for research stay in Zaragoza (Spain) and Toulouse (France): “The Global Food Value Chain”.

2021                Emerald publishing award – Outstanding 2021 Paper for “Premium Misrating in Federal Crop Insurance: Scale, Geography, and Fiscal Impacts”

2021-2023    Regional Science Association International, Council Board member.

2021              Emerald publishing award – Outstanding 2021 Paper for “Premium Misrating in Federal Crop Insurance: Scale, Geography, and Fiscal Impacts” (co-authored with Z. Chen and B. Sherrick)

Grants:

  • Ridley: Devadoss, S., J. Luckstead, and W. Ridley (co-PI). “Impacts of Domestic and Trade Policies on Agri-Food Markets.” USDA Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) Economics, Markets and Trade. $649,970 (2022–2025).
  • 2024-2025: The Supply Chain of Agricultural and Food Commodities across Illinois Counties, UIUC, ACES Extension Collaboration Grant (with M. White, W. Ridley, Z. Kennedy, J. Malual, G. Mashange, O. Roberts), PI, $50,000.
  • 2022-2023: The impact of driverless trucks on national- and state-level trade and welfare, Smart Transportation Infrastructure Initiative, UIUC Dept. of Civil Engineering (with W. Ridley and Y. Xu), PI, $ 49,982.
  • Dall’erba: Identifying the key international supply-chain linkages in the output and water consumption growth of the agriculture and food sectors,USDA ERS/Cornell/Colorado State ASTAR program (with A. Franco Solis, C. Montania and D. Bock), PI, 2022-2023.
  • Dall’erba: Global Virtual Water Trade: Unraveling complexity in the international food-water nexus, identifying impacts of climate change and of COVID-19, and evaluating opportunities to save domestic water resources, OECD Cooperative Research Program, PI, 2022-2023.
  • Dall’erba: AI Institute for Climate Resilience (ACRE), Strategic Research Initiative, UIUC College of Engineering (with P. Kumar, A. Banerjee, R. Mehta, A. Tartakovsky, N. Jiang, J. Shamma, V. Kindratenko, K. Karahalios, S. Wang, A. Sharma), co-PI, 2022-2023.
  • Dall’erba: Identifying the key international supply-chain linkages in the output and water consumption growth of the agriculture and food sectors,USDA ERS/Cornell/Colorado State ASTAR program (with A. Franco Solis, C. Montania and D. Bock), PI, 2022-2023.
  • Dall’erba: Global Virtual Water Trade: Unraveling complexity in the international food-water nexus, identifying impacts of climate change and of COVID-19, and evaluating opportunities to save domestic water resources, OECD Cooperative Research Program, PI, 2022-2023.

Invited Lectures / Keynote speaker:

Sandy Dall’Erba –

  • Dept. of Economics, University of Bologna, Italy, online, Dec. 2023
  • Normandy Business School, France, Dept. of Applied Economics, June 2023
  • Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain, Dept. of Applied Economics, June 2023
  • University of Georgia, Dept. of Applied and Agricultural Economics, Jan. 2023
  • Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change, Graz, Austria, Dec. 2022.
  • 2nd IZA Workshop (Institute of Labor Economics): Climate Change and Human Wellbeing, online, Sept. 2022.
  • Center for Environmental and Resource Economic Policy, NCSU, Feb. 2022.
  • Regional Research Institute, West Virginia University, Jan. 2022.
  • DPI CURES Community Project lab, University of Illinois, Springfield, Dec. 2021.
  • AgroSup, Dijon (France), online, Sept. 2021.
  • Rochester Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, online, Sept. 2021.
  • Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Dept. of Social Science, online, Sept. 2021.
  • ICESI University (Cali, Colombia), Dept. of Economics, online, Sept. 2021.
  • University of Oklahoma, Dept. of Economics, online, April 2021.
  • MIT, Sloan School of Management, online, April 2021.

William Ridley –

  • University of Arkansas, Department of Economics, March 2022.
  • University of Connecticut, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, October 2021.

Conference presentations :

Sandy Dall’Erba –

  • 70th Meeting of the North American Regional Science Conference, San Diego, November 2023.
  • 47th Annual Meeting of the Spanish Regional Economics Association, Granada, Spain, Oct. 2022.
  • 61st Annual Meeting of the European Regional Science Association, Pecs, Hungary, Aug. 2022
  • 61st Annual Meeting of the Southern Regional Science Association, Austin, April 2022.
  • 68th Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International, online, November 2021.
  • 9th Italian Society for Climate Sciences Annual Conference, online, Sept. 2021.
  • UCLA’s Climate Adaptation Research Symposium, online, Sept. 2021.
  • Fifth Conference on Econometric Models of Climate Change, online, Aug. 2021.
  • 60th Annual Meeting of the Southern Regional Science Association, online, April 2021.
  • 60th Annual Meeting of the Western Regional Science Association, online, February 2021.
  • European Commission’s Conference on New Techniques and Technologies for Statistics, online, February 2021.|

December 2023

  • Hyungsun Yim, Taejun Mo and Sandy Dall’erba are invited keynote speaker to a seminar at the University of Bologna, Italy, and present their work on climate change impact on the agrifood supply chain.

September 10, 2021

  • ACE/CREATE seminar by John Reilly, MIT, on “How Agriculture Can Be Part of the Climate Solution.” 

September 9, 2021

  • Sandy Dall’erba presents “Interstate Trade Will Mitigate the Negative Impact of Climate Change on Crop Profit” (co-authored with Z. Chen and N. Nava) at the Climate Adaptation Research Symposium, UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation. 

August 26, 2021

  • Sandy Dall’erba presents “Instrumental Variable Network Difference-in-Differences (IV-NDID) estimator: model and application” (co-authors: Andre Chagas, William Ridley, Yilan Xu and Lilin Yuan) at the 5th Conference of Econometric Models of Climate Change, August 26-27, 2021, Online. 

August 11, 2021