Impact of the Reclamation Act on Agricultural Development and Population Dynamics in the Western United States (joint with Mani Rouhi Rad, Rodolfo M. Nayga Jr., Aaron Hrozencik, and Gabriela Perez-Quesada), revise-and-resubmit at American Journal of Agricultural Economics.
Presented at SAEA 2025, AERE Summer Conference 2025, Texas Water Day (poster),
Texas A&M AGEC Graduate Symposium (1st place), Texas A&M AGEC DEPAL Seminar

Upstream Advantage: The Economic Value of Water Security Under Riparian Rights in Eastern U.S. Agriculture (joint with Mani Rouhi Rad)
Presented at AAEA 2025, UCOWR/NIWR Annual Water Resources Conference

The Cost of Drought: Farm-Level Evidence on Adjustment and Adaptation in U.S. Agriculture
Presented at AAEA 2026

The Health Benefits of Large-Scale Water Infrastructure Investment: Evidence from the Clean Water Act Construction Grants Program (joint with Taewon Hwang)

Economic Costs and Mechanisms of the Summer 2023 Heat Wave and Drought in Texas (joint with Mani Rouhi Rad, Javier Abella-Gutiérrez, Jay Banner, John Nielsen-Gammon, Kijin Seong, Andrew E. Dessler, Shahin Bahrami, Robert E. Mace, Nicole Medina, Briana M. Wyatt, Taro Mieno, Mark Cook, Ali Fares, and Lindsey Schlichting.) revise-and-resubmit at the Texas Water Journal.

Kang, N., C. Sims, P. Armsworth, J. Mingie, G. Zhu, and SH. Cho. (2024) “Accounting for the upper limits in returns to conservation investments in risk diversification strategies.” Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 49(2), pp. 332–349.

Cho, SH, N. Kang, and Lee, J., (2024). “Risk tolerance towards research and development investment: the role of firm size and technology intensity.” Applied Economics, pp.1-14.

Cho, SH.., N. Kang, and Zhu, G. (2023) “Examining how risk diversification for conservation is influenced by the probability assigned to uncertainty scenarios.” Environmental Conservation, 50(4), pp. 220–229.

Cho, SH., J. Mingie, N. Kang, G. Zhu, S. Upendram. “Understanding the differences between single- and multiobjective optimization for the conservation of multiple species.” Natural Resource Modeling (2023): 36(1), e12356.

Kang, N., C. Sims, and SH. Cho. “Spatial and taxonomic diversification for conservation investment under uncertainty.” Environmental Conservation (2022): 1-8. 

The Nonlinear Impacts of Temperature and Precipitation on U.S. Farm Activities