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.

Our mission is to cultivate learning and develop and share knowledge that benefits society. Our focus is to advance economics and statistics methods and theories, and apply them to various subjects, such as health, agriculture, natural resources, the environment, and data science.

Our undergraduate programs

Applied Economics and Statistics | College of Agriculture & Natural Resources | University of Delaware

Our graduate programs

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Faculty Spotlight

Kelly Davidson
Assistant Professor of Applied Economics
 

Dr. Davidson uses behavioral and experimental economics to evaluate food and agricultural policy.

Latest news

  • A grocery store aisle filled with snacks.

    Kamala Harris wants to ban grocery price gouging. What economists think of price controls

    October 22, 2024 | Written by Hanna Seariac | Deseret News
    University of Delaware Assistant Professor of Farm Management and Agricultural Economics Kofi Britwum is quoted in a Deseret News story about a proposed federal ban on food and grocery price gouging.
  • Climate conscious

    October 04, 2024 | Written by Molly Schafer
    Davidson Obilor Nwaonu, an agricultural and resource economics graduate student in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, wants to reduce agriculture’s contribution to climate change. His research seeks to understand how consumers make trade-offs between climate-smart attributes and health attributes while grocery shopping. Nwaonu is a scholar at the United States Department of Agriculture’s Graduate Student Climate Adaptation and Mitigation Partners, also known as USDA GradCAMP. Climate justice is important to Nwaonu, who came to UD from an area of Nigeria polluted by oil drilling.
  • Experimental economics undergrads

    October 04, 2024 | Written by Katie Peikes
    Undergraduate students reflect on UD Center for Experimental and Applied Economics research experience.
  • Meet our new faculty: Kofi Britwum

    September 30, 2024 | Written by Nya Wynn
    Kofi Britwum, assistant professor of farm management and agricultural economics at University of Delaware, returned to the University a few years after completing his Ph.D. at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He was drawn by his love for the state and the supportive atmosphere at UD's College of Agriculture and Natural Resources. He is developing new courses in farm business management and world food economies while conducting research at local, national and international levels. Britwum’s research focuses on consumer perceptions in the broader context of food marketing, extension education to local farmers, and food adoption in various countries. His passion lies in understanding how diverse perspectives on agricultural products shape economic behavior and preferences globally.

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