Peer-reviewed Journal Publication
(* denotes graduate students advised)
Won, S. and Taylor, M. (2026). Population Growth and Farmland Option Value in Alabama. Journal of the ASFMRA (Accepted)
Lin, Y.*, Taylor, M, and Won, S. (2026). The Impacts of Non-Local Buyers on Farmland Market in Alabama. Journal of the ASFMRA (Accepted)
Won, S., Cho, S. H., and Taylor, M. (2025). Assessing Soil Carbon Sequestration Through Cover Crops: The Role of Implicit Costs in Alabama Cotton Fields. Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy. https://doi.org/10.1002/aepp.70019
Ling, K.* , Won, S., and Li, W. (2025). Investigating Production Cycles in the US Softwood Lumber Industry: 1965–2017. Journal of Forest Economics, 40 (4), 383-404. http://dx.doi.org/10.1561/112.00000598
Won, S., Rejesus, R. M., Goodwin, B. K., and Aglasan, S. (2024). Understanding the Effect of Cover Crop Use on Prevented Planting Losses. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 106(2), 659-683. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajae.12396
Award: 2025 Outstanding Research Award, AAEA Agricultural Finance and Management
Won, S., Rejesus, R. M., Poncet, A. M., Aglasan, S., Thapa, R., Tulley, K. L., ... and Mirsky, S. B. (2024). Understanding the yield impacts of alternative cover crop families and mixtures: Evidence from side‐by‐side plot‐level panel data. Agrosystems, Geosciences & Environment, 7(4), e70012. https://doi.org/10.1002/agg2.70012
Selected Working Papers
(* denotes graduate students advised)
"Spatial Models for Estimating Systemic Yield Risk: Corn Yield in the Corn Belt, 1951-2023 ", with Barry Goodwin and Sujit Ghosh
"Understanding the Relationship Between Irrigation and Crop Insurance in the Southeastern U.S."
"Evaluating the Impact of Climate Change on the Expansion of Cropland: A Case Study of Corn and Soybean in North and South Dakota" with Seunghyun Lee and Seong-Hoon Cho
"Understanding the Role of Extreme Weather in Corn and Soybean Basis Formation Across Production and Transportation Pathways"
"Decomposing Moral Hazard in Prevented Planting" with Seungki Lee and Jisang Yu
"The Impact of Cover Cropping on Crop Yield Resilience to Extreme Weather Events: Evidence from High-Resolution Remote Sensing" with Ruiqing Miao and Emir Malikov
"Exploring a new dimension of agri-food sector safety: The role of livestock farming on food foodborne illness" with Barry Goodwin and Kathryn Boys. (Under review, Food Policy)
Selected Work In Progress
(* denotes graduate students advised)
"The Effect of Crop Insurance Subsidy Intensity on Farmers’ Net Indemnity: Evidence from Cotton and Peanuts in the U.S. Southeast" with Daniel Bolorunduro*
"Property Tax, Land Use Transition and Carbon Sink Dynamics: Evidence from Parcel-Level Data in Alabama" with Md Sariful Islam*, Daowei Zhang, and Mykel Taylor
"How Does Climate Change Influence Mango Production? Empirical Evidence from Taiwan " with Yingyun Lin* and Mykel Taylor
"When it rains, it pours? Effect of rainfall shocks on wages of male agricultural labor in India" with Roshan Saha* and Mykel Taylor
"Land Tenure and Cover Crop Adoption" with Roderick Rejesus and Serkan Aglasan
"How Does Climate Change Influence Mango Production? Empirical Evidence from Taiwan" with Yingyun Lin* and Mykel Taylor
"Investigating the Impact of Historical Weather Events on Climate-Smart Practice Adoption using Machine Learning" with Kai Ling*