About
I am an assistant professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Economics at Montana State University. My research interests lie at the intersection of labor, migration, agriculture, and development.
Recent work identifies a downward trend in the probability that rural Mexicans work in agriculture, indicating that rural Mexico is transitioning out of farm work just as the United States did in the mid-twentieth century. This implies that the United States and Mexico will have to compete for a shrinking farm labor supply. I also investigate some of the causes of the agricultural transition in rural Mexico and the effects of a diminishing farm labor supply on agricultural production and rural communities in the United States.
Recent work identifies a downward trend in the probability that rural Mexicans work in agriculture, indicating that rural Mexico is transitioning out of farm work just as the United States did in the mid-twentieth century. This implies that the United States and Mexico will have to compete for a shrinking farm labor supply. I also investigate some of the causes of the agricultural transition in rural Mexico and the effects of a diminishing farm labor supply on agricultural production and rural communities in the United States.
Photo: Veracruz, Mexico 2015
