Gerald E.
Shively
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I am an
applied economist with more than two decades of higher education experience.
I lead international efforts in one of the top colleges of agriculture in the
world, and teach and conduct policy-oriented research with a focus on
improving human nutrition and the productivity and sustainability of
smallholder agriculture. I strive to maintain a positive perspective and to
provide a constructive, collaborative, and evidence-based approach to
confronting global grand challenges. |
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Global |
Much
of my recent research was conducted as part of the USAID Feed the Future Nutrition
Innovation Lab, now superseded by the Food Systems for Nutrition
Innovation Lab, which has its home in the Friedman School of Nutrition at Tufts
University. These collaborative activities, involving many institutions
and investigators, focus on discovering how innovations and policy
interventions can most effectively achieve large-scale improvements in human
nutrition. Many of my published papers from the project, including this
PNAS paper on infrastructure, child growth, and rainfall in Nepal and
Uganda, and
a more recent paper on
altitude and early child growth in 47 countries, are available as
open-access thanks to USAID support. |
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Poverty
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One
of my long-standing interests is the connection between poverty and the
environment. This interest originates with my dissertation fieldwork, which I
conducted in the
Philippines more than 20 years ago with the support of a Fulbright grant and a Boren Fellowship. I
continue to work with scientists worldwide to better understand the
connections between agriculture, forest use and household livelihoods. Some
of my past work in this area included collaboration with CIFOR’s PEN project. |
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Courses |
In recent
years, I have taught a multidisciplinary course at Purdue on World Food Problems. You can read
about it here.
This was a team-taught, writing-intensive course for graduate and upper-level
undergraduate students My other recent
teaching responsibilities have included AGEC 406 Environmental and Natural Resource Economics;
AGEC 640 Agricultural Development and Policy; and AGEC 654 Economic Dynamics. For many years,
I served as an Adjunct Professor in the School of Economics and Business at
the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, where I still maintain
research contacts. |
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Graduate
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I
am the former Chair of Purdue’s graduate program in Agricultural Economics.
Our MS and PhD programs offer a wide range of opportunities for students interested
in Applied Economics. If you are interested in graduate study in Agricultural
Economics at Purdue, please visit the department's graduate program home page.
If you are a graduate student considering an academic career, read Strategy and Etiquette for Graduate Students Entering
the Academic Job Market. If you are a PhD student working on your
dissertation, read my 22 writing tips and
check out these words of wisdom, encouragement
and advice from one of my early mentors in the Economics Department at Boston University,
Michael Manove.
Finally, keep in mind what Michelangelo wrote (in
Italiano, of course): “Every block of stone has
a statue inside it, and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.” So,
too, it goes with dissertations and graduate research. Keep chipping away at
that block of stone! |
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