Last updated on December 30, 2018
Today marks the eighth anniversary of this blog, so on top of wishing Happy New Year to all, I am also wishing this site Happy Blog Anniversary!
The most popular posts of 2018 were, starting with the most popular:
- ‘Metrics Monday: What to Do Instead of log(x +1)
- Between the Introduction and the Conclusion: The “Middle Bits” Formula for Applied Papers
- The Case for Writing Papers in Economics Using Fake LaTeX
- ‘Metrics Monday: Causality and Copenhagen Course, Lectures 1 and 2
- ‘Metrics Monday: Elasticities and the Inverse Hyperbolic Sine Transformation
Looks like there is a pent-up demand for econometrics, and so I will most likely keep writing about that topic, hopefully more frequently in 2019 than over the last few months, which have kept me busy with teaching. (On that, if you have any topic of an applied econometric nature to suggest, I’m all ears…)
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This has been another good year for me. In terms of research, I have published six new articles, including three on contract farming.
I have traveled internationally to Germany, Finland, Canada (three times), Denmark, Japan, and Italy; and within the US to Urbana-Champaign, IL, Phoenix, AZ, Starkville, MS, Berkeley, CA, Philadelphia, PA, Washington, DC (twice), Ames, IA, Ann Arbor, MI, West Lafayette, IN, and Kona, HI (this last one for a family vacation, thank goodness!)
This year, I had the honor of being elected to the executive board of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association. At Food Policy, my co-editor and I have seen our impact factor go up once again this year.
Finally, I have the College of Food, Agricultural, and Natural Resource Sciences’ 2018 Distinguished Teaching Award for Graduate Faculty.
Again this year, the most wonderful part of all this has been to meet so many interesting people, old and new, and to realize further that we are all one.
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Whether you have been reading this blog since its very beginning or you have only started recently, thank you from the bottom of my heart for making time to read what I write.
Happy New Year! I hope 2018 brings you joy, health, and prosperity.