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

  • Sapana Pokhrel presents her research

    Students from across the college share their research at Fall 2024 symposium

    December 03, 2024 | Written by Nya Wynn
    The Fall 2024 Student Research Symposium showcased more than 40 student researchers in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources. Students presented their research in a diversity of fields with an emphasis on how their research will contribute to a more sustainable future.
  • UD online master’s program in applied statistics alumna Anaise Higgins took the unconventional path to data science

    November 21, 2024 | Written by Nya Wynn
    Anaise Higgins, a UD Class of 2023 graduate of the online master’s program in applied statistics, successfully transitioned into a data science career after completing her degree. The program's flexibility allowed her to work full time while gaining essential skills in areas such as machine learning and statistical methods, which she now uses as a data scientist with a top national insurance company.
  • 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.

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