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The following presentations are the results of research that RTI International has conducted in food and agricultural policy.

Austin, D., & Beach, R.H. (2005).
Tobacco Control Promises Deferred: Distribution of Master Settlement Agreement Funds in North Carolina.
Presented at the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, December 10, 2005.
Based on statements made by those negotiating the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) between 46 states and the major tobacco companies, public health advocates (and the general public) had reason to believe that a substantial share of over $200…
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Beach, R.H., & Zhen, C. (2008).
Media coverage of avian influenza and consumer purchasing behavior.
Presented at the SAEA Annual Meetings, Dallas, Texas, February 2-5, 2008.
Beach, R.H. (2008).
Effects of the tobacco buyout on production, farmer attitudes, and future intentions in North Carolina.
Presented at the 43rd Tobacco Workers’ Conference, Savannah, Georgia, January 14-17, 2008.
Beach, R.H. (2007).
Private landowners and timber supply.
Presented at the Southern Forest Resource Assessment Consortium Organizational Meeting, Greensboro, GA, March 28, 2007.
Beach, R.H., Poulos, C., & Pattanayak, S.K. (2007).
Agricultural household response to avian influenza prevention and control policies.
Presented at the Annual Meetings of the Southern Agricultural Economics Association, February 3-6, 2007, Mobile, Alabama, 2007.
Beach, R.H., Jones, A.S., Austin, W.D., & Crankshaw, E.C. (2006).
Tobacco farmer attitudes towards tobacco manufacturers: Divergence of interests in a rapidly changing market?.
Presented at the American Public Health Association Annual Conference, November 2006.
Tobacco farmers have traditionally been an important ally of the tobacco manufacturing industry (TMI), wielding considerable political power in tobacco-producing states. While their interests have not always entirely coincided with the TMI, farmers…
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Beach, R.H., Poulos, C., & Pattanayak, S.K. (2006).
The economics of preventing and controlling avian influenza.
Presented at the CAES-FLP-CATPRN Joint Workshop 2006: Crises in Agriculture and Resource Sectors: Analysis of Policy Responses, October 15-17, 2006, Calgary, Canada, 2006.
Beach, R.H., Pattanayak, S.K., Murray, B.C., Yang, J.C., & Abt, R. (2006).
Private forest investment and management.
Presented at the Southern Forest Resource Assessment Consortium Annual Meeting, Research Triangle Park, NC, September 19-20, 2006.
Beach, R.H., DeAngelo, B., Rose, S., Salas, W., Li, C., & DelGrosso, S. (2006).
Cost and mitigation potential for agricultural greenhouse gas emissions around the globe.
Presented at the 26th Conference of the International Association of Agricultural Economists, Gold Coast, Australia, August 12-16, 2006.
Beach, R.H., Sills, E.O., Liu, T., & Pattanayak, S.K. (2006).
The influence of forest management on vulnerability to severe weather.
Presented at the Advances in Threat Assessment and Their Application to Forest and Rangeland Management, July 18-20, Boulder, Colorado, 2006.
Beach, R.H., Richmond, D.W., Austin, W.D., & Jones, A.S. (2006).
How will tobacco farmers respond to the quota buyout? Findings from a survey of North Carolina tobacco farmers.
Presented at the 38th Annual Meeting of the Southern Agricultural Economics Association, February 5-8, 2006, Orlando, Florida, 2006.
Beach, R.H., Jones, A.S., Richmond, D.W., & Tooze, J.A. (2006).
Analysis of tobacco farmer income diversification.
Presented at the 42nd Tobacco Workers Conference, January 16-19, 2006, Charleston, South Carolina, 2006.
Beach, R.H., Richmond, D.W., Austin, W.D., & Jones, A.S. (2006).
Expected responses to the quota buyout: Findings from a survey of North Carolina tobacco farmers.
Presented at the 42nd Tobacco Workers Conference, January 16-19, 2006, Charleston, South Carolina, 2006.
Beach, R.H., & Johnston, S.A. (2005).
Tobacco Farmer Diversification: Implications for Tobacco Control.
Presented at the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, December 10, 2005.
In recent years, public health advocates have shown heightened interest in issues affecting tobacco farmers and tobacco-dependent communities. Even before the recent termination of the tobacco quota program, major changes had been taking place in…
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Beach, R.H., Jones, A.S., & Johnston, S.A. (2005).
Tobacco Farmer Interest and Success in Diversification.
Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Agricultural Economics Association, Providence, RI, July 2005.
Beach, R.H., & Ross, M. (2004).
General Equilibrium Assessment of Regional Climate Change Policy.
Presented at the National IMPLAN User’s Conference, Shepherdstown, WV, October 2004.
Beach, R.H., Muth, M.K., & Heller, K. (2003).
Benchmark Report for North Carolina Agriculture: Historical Trends and Outlook.
Presented at the North Carolina Rural Partners Forum, Raleigh, NC, October 2003.
Beach, R.H., Murray, B.C., Piggott, N.E., & Wohlgenant, M. (2002).
Interaction Effects of Promotion, Research and Price Support Programs for U.S. Cotton.
Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Agricultural Economics Association, Long Beach, CA, July 2002.
Beach, R.H., & Holt, M.T. (1999).
Incorporating Quadratic Scale Curves in Inverse Demand Systems. Annual Meeting of the Agricultural Economics Association.
Cates, S.C., & Durocher, B.L. (2003).
Changes in Swine and Cattle Production Practices Since the 1996 PR/HACCP Final Rule.
Presented at the International Association for Food Protection Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, August 2003.
With the implementation of the 1996 Pathogen Reduction Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (PR/HACCP) Systems Final Rule there has been Program and Abstract Book — 115 increased emphasis on on-farm food safety. These initiatives include the…
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Crankshaw, E., Beach, R.H., Austin, W.D., Weitzenkamp, D., Altman, D., & Jones, A.S. (2006).
Economic dependence on tobacco and changes in attitudes toward tobacco control among North Carolina tobacco growers.
Presented at the American Public Health Association Annual Conference, November 2006.
Study rationale: History of partnership between tobacco industry and tobacco growers in opposing tobacco control efforts; evidence that economic dependence influences attitudes. Hypothesis: As growers become less dependent on tobacco, they will…
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DeAngelo, B., Weitz, K., Bahner, M., Zapata, A., Murray, B.C., & Beach, R.H. (2005).
Near-Term Trends and Mitigation Options for Black and Organic Carbon Emissions from Major Source Regions.
Presented at the Fourth International Symposium on Non-CO2 Greenhouse Gases, Utrecht, The Netherlands, July 2005.
DeAngelo, B., Rose, S., Beach, R.H., Sommer, A.J., Salas, W., & Li, C. (2005).
Estimates of Joint Soil Carbon, Methane, and N2O Mitigation from World Agriculture.
Presented at the Fourth International Symposium on Non-CO2 Greenhouse Gases, Utrecht, The Netherlands, July 2005.
Jones, A.S., Austin, W.D., Beach, R.H., & Altman, D.G. (2006).
Information asymmetry between tobacco farmers and manufacturers: Implications for future public health advocacy partnerships.
Presented at the American Public Health Association Annual Conference, November 2006.
The purpose of this research was to investigate the underlying historical and present-day economic and political forces that have shaped the relationship between the tobacco manufacturing industry (TMI) and tobacco farmers (TFs); to examinehow this…
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Kendall, D., Ritzert, A., Viator, C.L., Karns, S.A., & Durocher, B.L. (2003).
Modeling the Effects of Food Handling Practices on the Incidence of Foodborne Illness.
Presented at the International Association for Food Protection Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, August 2003.
Each year millions of cases of foodborne illness occur in the United States. Preceding most cases of foodborne illness is contamination of food by pathogens and failure of retail food establishments or households to destroy or sufficiently control…
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Kendall, D., & Viator, C.L. (2003).
Modeling the Effects of Food Handling Practices on the Incidence of Foodborne Illness.
Presented at the Food and Drug Administration, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, College Park, MD, May 2003.
Muth, M. (2007).
Testimony for the hearing 'Economic challenges and opportunities facing American agricultural producers today'.
Presented at the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry, Washington, DC, April 18, 2007.
Muth, M.K., Karns, S.A., & Coglaiti, M.C. (2007).
Expert elicitation on the relative risks of processed meat and poultry products.
Presented at the Public Meeting on Risk Based Inspection (RBI)-Expert Elicitation, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC, June 26, 2007.
Muth, M.K., Del Roccili, J., Koontz, S., Taylor, J., & Vukina, T. (2006).
A Comparative Assessment of Marketing Arrangements Employed in Livestock and Meat Industry Supply Chains.
Presented at the AAEA FAMPS Section 2006 Annual Policy Conference: Guiding Food and Agricultural Marketing Policy in the Face of Changing Marketing Structures, Arlington, VA, March 2006.
Muth, M.K. (2006).
Alternative Marketing Arrangements in the Livestock and Meat Industries.
Presented at the Agricultural Outlook Forum, Arlington, VA, February 2006.
Muth, M.K., Viator, C.L., Karns, S.A., Beach, R.H., & Meekhof, R. (2005).
Analysis of the Economic Effects of BSE Regulations on Cattle Slaughter Plants.
Presented at the American Agricultural Economics Association, Providence, RI, July 2005.
Muth, M.K., Zorn, D., & Karns, S.A. (2004).
An Operational Model of Food Reformulation in Response to Regulation.
Presented at the American Agricultural Economics Association, Denver, CO, August 2004.
Muth, M.K., & Karns, S.A. (2004).
Modeling the decision to reformulate foods and cosmetics.
Presented at the Food and Drug Administration, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, College Park, MD, June 2004.
Muth, M.K., Zorn, D., & Kosa, K. (2004).
Discussions with Food Manufacturers and Restaurant Chains on Food Product Characteristics and Labeling.
Presented at the American Agricultural Economics Association's Food and Agricultural Marketing Policy Section, Economics of Obesity Conference, Washington, DC, March 2004.
Muth, M.K., & Karns, S.A. (2003).
A Multi-Step Evaluation of the Economic Effects of USDA’s 1996 HACCP Regulations on Meat and Poultry Plants.
Presented at the American Agricultural Economics Association, Montreal, Quebec, July 2003.
Muth, M.K., Wohlgenant, M.K., Karns, S.A., & Anderson, D.W. (2002).
Factors Affecting Plant Exit from the Meat Slaughter, Poultry Slaughter, and Processing Industries: Comparisons Across Industries.
Presented at the American Agricultural Economics Association, Long Beach, CA, July 2002.
Muth, M.K., Karns, S.A., Wohlgenant, M.K., & Anderson, D.W. (2001).
Plant Entry and Exit from the Meat Packing Industry During Pathogen Reduction and HACCP Implementation.
Presented at the American Agricultural Economics Association, Chicago, IL, August 2001.
Muth, M.K., Karns, S.A., Anderson, D.W., & Murray, B.C. (2000).
Economic Effects of Post-Harvest Treatment Requirements for Oysters.
Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Agricultural Economics Association, Tampa, FL, July-August 2000.
Pattanayak, S.K., Beach, R.H., Murray, B.C., Abt, R.C., & Yang, J. (2003).
Modeling Forest Investment and Management.
Presented at the SOFAC Workshop, RTP, NC, February 2003.
Pattanayak, S.K., Beach, R.H., Abt, R.C., Murray, B.C., & Yang, J. (2002).
Empirical Studies of Nonindustrial Private Forest Management: A Critical Review.
Presented at the Southern Forest Economics Workshop, Virginia Beach, VA, March 2002.
Pattanayak, S.K., Beach, R.H., Murray, B.C., Abt, R.C., & Yang, J. (2001).
Forest Investment and Management: A Research Update.
Presented at the SOFAC Workshop, Atlanta, GA, November 2001.
Ross, M., Beach, R.H., & Murray, B.C. (2004).
Distributional Implications of Regional Climate Change Policies in the U.S.
Presented at the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists Workshop, Estes Park, CO, June 2004.
Analyses of policy options to mitigate global climate change generally concentrate on national levels of governance. This is primarily due to the unique ability of centralized governments to set nationwide policy and engage in international…
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Rousu, M., Corrigan, J., & Beach, R.H. (2005).
Demand Curve Shifts in Multi-Unit Auctions: Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment.
Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Agricultural Economics Association, Providence, RI, July 2005.
Sulser, T., Rosegrant, M., Ringler, C., DeAngelo, B., Rose, S., & Beach, R.H. (2008).
Representing agricultural greenhouse gas mitigation and abatement alternatives in food policy models.
Presented at the Food Security and Environmental Change: Linking Science, Development, and Policy for Adaptation, Oxford, United Kingdom, April 2-4, 2008.
Van Houtven, G.L., & Yang, J. (2003).
Valuing Avoided Morbidity Using Meta-Analysis: What Can QALY Weights Tell Us About WTP.
Presented at the International Health Economics Association Meetings, San Francisco, CA, June 2003.
Zheng, X., & Zhen, C. (2007).
Estimating the consumer substitution effect between healthy and unhealthy foods and its relation to obesity: The cases of the United States and Japan.
Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Agricultural Economics Association, Portland, OR, July 29-August 1, 2007.
Zorn, D., Muth, M.K., & Kosa, K.M. (2004).
Challenges for Changing Food Offerings on the Way to Consumers: Conversations with Food Manufacturers and Restaurant Chains.
Presented at the FDA Science Forum, Washington, DC, May 2004.

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