Research
Working Papers
Publications
"Intellectual Property Portfolios and Energy Policy Outcomes: U.S. Renewable Portfolio Standards" (Revise and Resubmit)
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"A New Approach to Supply Chain Resilience" (With Liang Lu, Sam Bailey, Ryan Olver, and David Zilberman)
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"Reactor Accidents and Nuclear Power Innovation: An Event Study Using Patent Indicators"
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"Contractual Environment and Regime Survival" (With Jens Rudbeck)
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Kelly Nelson and Keith Fuglie, "Investment in U.S. Public Agricultural Research and Development Has Fallen by a Third Over Past Two Decades, Lags Major Trade Competitors" Amber Waves, [June 2022] [Link]
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Kelly Nelson, Lee C. Parton, Zachary S. Brown"Biofuels Policy and Innovation Spillovers: Evidence from Patent Indicators" Energy Policy 162 [March 2022]
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Jens Rudbeck, Erika Mukherjee, and Kelly Nelson. "When Autocratic Regimes Are Cheap and Play Dirty: The Transaction Costs of Repression in South Africa, Kenya, and Egypt." Comparative Politics 48.2 (2016)
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Kelly Nelson. "Agency, Perception, and the Economics of Internal Wars." International Journal of Development and Conflict 2.1(2012)
Presentations
NC1034 meeting, Anaheim, CA, July 2022,
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USDA Economic Research Service Seminar, Washington, DC, July 2021
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USDA Economic Research Service Seminar, Washington, DC, August 2020
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Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, Atlanta, GA, July 2019
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USDA Economic Research Service Seminar, Washington, DC, March 2019
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Economics of Agriculture, Trade, and Development Workshop, Raleigh, NC, December 2018
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Genetic Engineering and Society Center, Raleigh, NC, October 2018 [Video Link]
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North Carolina State University Graduate Research Symposium, Raleigh, NC, March 2018 (Poster)
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North Carolina State University Microeconomics Seminar Series, Raleigh, NC, April 2017
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Public Choice Society, Fort Lauderdale, FL, March 2016
Research and Laboratory Experience
Research Agricultural Economist, USDA Economic Research Service
Resource and Rural Economy Division
Structure, Technology and Productivity Branch
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Economist, USDA Agricultural Marketing Service
Transportation Services Division
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Research Assistant, Economics, City College of New York
Supervisor: Matthew Nagler, Professor
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Research Assistant, History, New York University
Supervisor: David Levering Lewis, Julius Silver Professor
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Laboratory Technician, Clarke
Supervisor: Andrew Lima, Regional Biologist