Featured Researcher: Jean Paul Chavas
Jean Paul Chavas was elected to the NBER's Board of Directors in September to represent the American Agricultural Economics Association (AAEA). He is a Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Born in France, where he received his undergraduate degrees, Chavas holds an M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Missouri, Columbia. Prior to joining the faculty of the University of Wisconsin in 1982, he taught at Texas A&M University. He was at the University of Maryland in College Park in 2003-4. In addition to his teaching and research, he has served as a consultant on USAID projects in Tunisia and Burkina Faso.
Chavas's research interests are production economics, risk, quantitative methods, and welfare analysis. He has received a number of awards in recent years for Outstanding Research, and was elected a Fellow of the AAEA in 1994. He enjoys traveling.
