Books
Book-length guides I am writing on agricultural risk management and policy research. Both are under active development; links to read each will appear here as they are published.
A Field Guide to Federal Crop Insurance Research
Understanding the program, its data, and some Stylized methods
Under development
An understanding-first guide to researching the U.S. Federal Crop Insurance Program (FCIP): the program and its institutions, the public data landscape, and stylized methods for recovering research primitives from RMA administrative records.
A Practitioner’s Guide to Index Insurance Research and Development for Agriculture
Under development
A practical guide to the research and development of index-based agricultural insurance: data foundations, basis risk, product design and evaluation, and the path from prototype to deployment.