Kathy Baylis
Assoc. Professor, Agricultural and Consumer Economics
Degrees
B.A. Economics 1991 University of Windsor
M.Sc Agricultural Economics 1999 University of Saskatchewan
Ph.D. Agriculture and Resource Economics 2003 UC Berkeley
Emphasis
Food Systems
- Sustainability
- Social/Economic
- Legal/Policy
Food Security
- Nutrition
- Stability of availability/access/utilization
Dr. Baylis studies how international agricultural and conservation policy affect household and environmental outcomes. Much of her work considers how these factors directly affect food security and other work evaluates land use and other environmental outcomes that affect food security through the future ability to sustain food and fiber production. In addition to the publications listed below, she has ongoing projects on the interaction among market access, credit, storage in India on farm household food security and household resilience.
Countries or regions of collaborations
India, Indonesia, China
Publication highlights
Agricultural policy, market institutions and farm outcomes:
Mallory, M. and K. Baylis. 2013. The Food Corporation of India and the Public Distribution System: Impacts on Spatial Market Integration in Wheat, Rice and Pearl Millet.? Agribusiness 30(2): 225-246.
Baylis, K., M.C. Jolejole-Foreman and M. Mallory. 2014. Impact of the Wheat and Rice Export Bans on Indian Market Integration.
Baylis, K., A. Chhatre, S. Prasanna and T. Songsermsawas. 2014. Friends or Traders: Do social networks affect the use of market mechanisms by farmers in India?? Working Paper.
Songsermsawas, T., K. Baylis, A. Chhatre and H. Michelson. 2014. ?Effects of Peers on Agricultural Productivity in rural Northern India.? CES-IFO Working Paper.
Baylis, K., L. Fan and L. Nogueira. 2014. Agricultural Market Reforms and Nutritional Transition in Rural China. Working Paper.
India female empowerment and household food security:
Kandpal, E. and K. Baylis. 2013. ?Expanding Horizons: Can Women?s Support Groups Diversity Peer Networks in Rural India?? American Journal of Agricultural Economics 95(2): 360-367.
Kandpal, E., and K. Baylis. 2014. Child Nutritional Outcomes and peer effects of household bargaining power. Working Paper.
Honey bee disease and food security:
vanEngelsdorp, D., E.J. Lengerich, A. Spleen, B. Dianat, J. Cresswell, K. Baylis, B.K. Nguyen, V. Soroker, Y. LeConte and C. Saegerman. 2013. ?Standard Epidemiological Methods to Understand and Improve Apis Mellifera Health? in Journal of Apicultural Research Vol. 52 (1).
vanEngelsdorp, D. D.R. Tarpy, K. Baylis, M. Spivak, D.M. Caron, J. Connell, K.S. Delaplane, S. Donohue, W. Esaias, B. Gross, J. Hayes Jr., E.. Lengerich, J. Pettis, K. Rennich, R. Underwood, R. Rose, J. Skinner, J. Wilkes. 2012. The Bee Informed Partnership: Using Beekeepers Real-World Experience to Solve Beekeepers? Real-World Problems,? American Entomologist. (Summer): 116-118.
Lee, K.V., N. Steinhauer, K. Rennich, M.E. Wilson, D.R. Tarpy, D.M. Caron, R. Rose, K.S. Delaplane, K. Baylis, E.J. Lengerich, J. Pettis, J.A. Skinner, J.T. Wilkes, D. vanEngelsdorp. 2014. ?A national survey of managed honey bee 2013-2014 annual colony losses in the USA: results from the Bee Informed Partnership? (Revise and resubmit at Apidologie)
Food trade and food safety:
Baylis, K., L. Nogueira and K. Pace. 2011. ?Food import refusals: Evidence from the European Union, American Journal of Agricultural Economics 93(2): 566-572.
Baylis, K., L. Nogueira and K. Pace. 2013. Something Fishy? Tariff versus Non-Tariff Barriers in Seafood Trade.
Land use and the agriculture and forest frontier:
Honey-Ross, J., K. Baylis and I. Ramrez. 2011. Do our Conservation Programs Work? A Spatially-Explicit Estimator of Avoided Deforestation, Conservation Biology 25(5):1032-1043.
Baylis, K., D. Fullerton and P. Shaw. 2014. What Drives Forest Leakage?
Baylis, K., J. Honey-Ross and I. Ramirez. 2014. Conserving Forest: Mandates, Management or Money
Shaw, P and K. Baylis. 2014. Evaluating the Impact of Protection on Deforestation in Indonesia. Working paper.