Staff Biographical Page: Stephen Vogel

Briefly

Stephen Vogel is an agricultural economist in the Rural Economy Branch, Food and Rural Economics Division. His current research focus is in two areas. The first area is concerned with the macroeconomic and general equilibrium effects of food assistance programs as automatic stabilizers on poor households. The second area is concerned with the general equilibrium effects farm programs have on factor markets and their policy implications for regional and rural economies.

Current Projects

• General equilibrium effects of farm programs on rural and regional economies.
• General equilibrium effects of federal safety net programs with a special focus on the programs’ indirect linkages to low income households and labor income.

Education

Stephen has a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from the University of California, Berkeley and a B.A. in Latin American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin.

Professional Affiliations

Stephen is a member of the Southern Regional Science Association and the American Economics Association.

Publications

ERS publications by this author

Sullivan, P., Hellerstein, D., McGranahan, D., and Vogel, S. Farmland Retirement's Impact on Rural Growth, Amber Waves, Vol. 2, Issue 5, November 2004.

Vogel, S., with Many Others. The Conservation Reserve Program: Economic Implications for Rural America. Washington DC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, Agricultural Economic Report No. 834. 2004.

Other Recent Publications

Vogel, S.J., Hanson K., Price, J.M., and Schluter, G. Putting Bounds on Estimating Economywide Impacts From Adopting the Renewable Fuels Standard. AgBioForum 5(3):2003 101-104.

Hanson, K., Golan, E., Vogel, S., and Olmsted, J. Tracing the Impacts of Food Assistance Programs on Agriculture and Consumers: A CGE Model. Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Report Number 18. 2002.

Vogel, S.J. and Hanson, K. Falling Prices & National Farm Policy: The Northern Great Plains. Agricultural Outlook, June-July 2001/AGO-282. 2001.

Golan, A. and Vogel, S. "Estimation of Non-Stationary Social Accounting Matrix Coefficients with Supply-Side Information." Economic Systems Research, 12(4):447-471. 2000.

Golan, E.H., Vogel, S.J., Frenzen, P.D. and Ralston, K.L. Tracing the Costs and Benefits of Improvements in Food Safety: The Case of HACCP for Meat and Poultry. Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Economic Report No. 971. 2000.

Frisvold, G. and Vogel, S. "Financing Agricultural Research with Prior Distortionary Taxes and Subsidies" in Public-Private Collaboration in Agricultural Research: New Institutional Arrangements and Economic Implications by Keith Fuglie and David Schimmelpfennig, Iowa State University Press. 2000.