Cesar L. Escalante

Professor Agricultural & Applied Economics

Contact Information cescalan@uga.edu 706-542-0740 706-542-0739

Mailing Address Athens, CAES Campus 313E Conner Hall, 147 Cedar St., Athens, GA 30602

Shipping Address Athens, CAES Campus 313E Conner Hall, 147 Cedar Street, Athens, GA 30602

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Agricultural Finance: Analysis of lenders' risk rating systems and risk management strategies; application of migration framework to farm credit risk analysis
Agribusiness Management: Analysis of farmers' financial structure decisions and business strategies for financial growth, risk management and debt repayment
Immigration, farm labor, and health economics-related issues
Development and microfinance

Farm financial management, including farm business planning, record-keeping, financial analysis

2022 Outstanding Mentoring Award, Professional and Applied Sciences, Graduate School, University of Georgia
2021 Distinguished Teaching Award (Ten Years and Less Category), Agriculture and Applied Economics Association
2020 Outstanding Mentoring Award, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association
2020 Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award, College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, University of Georgia
2020 President’s Martin Luther King Fulfilling the Dream Award
2019 First Year Odyssey Teaching Award
2019-2024 Diversity Advisory Council
2018-2019 University Aspire Fellow
Outstanding Faculty Member, given by the Graduate Student Association of the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 2009-2010, 2008-2009, 2005-2006
Team Adviser, UGA Graduate Agribusiness Case Study Team, 2nd Place (2012), Honorable Mention (2016, 2010, 2009), Finalist (2008) in the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA) annual competitions
Adviser, AAEA Graduate Extension Competition, 1st Place (2015), 2nd (2017), 3rd (2016, 2014)
2014 Faculty Diversity Award, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, University of Georgia
Gamma Sigma Delta Honor Society in Agriculture's 2007 Award for Junior Achievement in Research
Major Professor, Outstanding Master's Thesis Award
- Uthra Raghunathan, American Agricultural Economics Association, 2009
- Mark M. Byrd, Southern Agricultural Economics Association, 2006

10th Anniversary Best Paper Award (Energies Journal), ““Ethanol, Corn, and Soybean Price Relations in a Volatile Vehicle-Fuels Market.” February 2018. (with Zibin Zhang, PhD)
Outstanding Conference Paper: “The U.S. Immigrant Farm Workers’ Relative Access to Health Services” International Conference on Business & Information, Nagoya, Japan, July 2016 (with Tianyuan Luo, PhD)
Outstanding Conference Paper: “Is There Gender Bias in Federal Farm Lending Decisions?” International Conference on Business and Information, Seoul, South Korea, July 2008 (with Uthra Raghunathan, MSc)
Outstanding Journal Article Award for 2000 (Review of Agricultural Economics), “Lease Pricing for Farm Real Estate.” American Agricultural Economics Association (AAEA) Annual Conference, Chicago, Illinois, August 7, 2001

University of Georgia Faculty Research Foundation Award (competitive research grant) for Junior Faculty Members, 2002
Colvin and Agricultural Finance Program Fellowships, Dept. of Agricultural & Consumer Economics, University of Illinois (1999-2000)
Departmental SODEN Scholarship Award for Academic Excellence given by the Ontario Agricultural College, University of Guelph (1995)

Editor, Journal of Agribusiness (2014-2015), Co-Editor (2009-2013)
Editorial Council member, Journal of Agricultural & Applied Economics (JAAE): 2003-2006

Luo, T., C.L. Escalante, and C.E. Taylor. "Labor Market Outcomes of Granting Full Professional Independence to Nurse Practitioners." Journal of Regulatory Economics 60,1 (2021): 22-54

Pena-Levano, L. and C.L. Escalante. “Oil consumption, air quality, and health risks during the COVID-19 pandemic.” Environmental and Resource Economics. 76(2020):465-470
M. Zheng, C.L. Escalante, and C.E. Taylor. “Did Aggressive Business Growth Strategies Lead to Bank Failures? Lessons from the Late 2000s Great Recession.” Journal of Applied Finance and Banking. 10,6 (2020): 135-151
Ghimire, J., C.L. Escalante, R. Ghimire, and C. Dodson. “Do Farm Service Agency Borrowers’ Double Minority Labels Lead to More Unfavorable Loan Packaging Terms?” Agricultural Finance Review. 80,5 (2020): 633-646
Quansah, J., C.L. Escalante, A. Kunadu, F. Saalia, and J. Chen. “Pre- and Post-harvest Practices of Urban Leafy Green Vegetable Farmers in Accra, Ghana and Their Association with Microbial Quality of Vegetables Produced" Agriculture – Open Access—MDPI. 10,1 (2020): 18

Dhakal, Chandra, C.L. Escalante, and C. Dodson. “Heterogeneity of Farm Loan Packaging Term Decisions: A Finite Mixtures Approach.” Applied Economics Letters. 26:18 (2019): 1528-1532

Luo, T. and C.L. Escalante. “The Emigration of Adult Children and Smoking Behaviors of Parents" China Agricultural Economic Review. 11,2 (2019): 317-335

Luo, T. and C.L. Escalante. “Health care service utilization of Documented and Undocumented U.S. farm workers.” European Journal of Health Economics, 19,7 (2018): 923-934

Escalante, C.L., A. Osinubi, C. Dodson, and C.E. Taylor. "Looking Beyond Farm Loan Approval Decisions: Loan Pricing and Non-Pricing Terms for Socially Disadvantaged Farm Borrowers." Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 50,1 (2018):129-148

Luo, T. and C.L. Escalante. "Employer-Provided Health Benefits and Employment Decisions of U.S. Farm Workers.” Agricultural Finance Review. 77,3 (2017): 358-375

Luo, T. and C.L. Escalante. “US farm workers: What drives their job retention and work time allocation decisions?” Economic and Labour Relations Review. 28,2 (2017): 270-293

Jones, G., C.L. Escalante, and H. Rusiana. "Reconciling Information Gaps in Organic Farm Borrowers' Dealings with Farm Lenders." Agricultural Finance Review. 75,4 (2015): 469-483