Nathan D. DeLay

• CV

Education

• Ph.D., Agricultural Economics, Washington State University, 2018 (Expected).
  • Dissertation: Agricultural Risk Management Policy and Producer Decision Making.
  • Dissertation Summary
• M.A., Economics, University of Colorado Denver, 2013.
• B.S., Business Administration and Economics, Rocky Mountain College, 2009.

Fields of Interest

• Agricultural Policy, Risk Management
• Applied Econometrics
• Natural Resource Economics
• Environmental Economics

Work Under Review

• DeLay, Nathan D. “The Impact of Federal Crop Insurance on the Conservation Reserve Program.” (in submission to the Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics)
• DeLay, Nathan D., Hayley H. Chouinard, and Philip R. Wandschneider. “Categorizing Agritourism Operations and Identifying Barriers to Success.” (in submission to the Journal of Food Distribution Research)

Working Papers

• DeLay, Nathan D., Hayley H. Chouinard, Cory G. Walters, and Philip R. Wandschneider. “The Market Structure for Crop Insurance and the Effects on Insurance Contracts.” (job market paper)

Work in Progress

• DeLay, Nathan D. and Thomas L. Marsh. “Identifying Livestock Calving Intervals in
  Kenya: An Econometric Household Production Model.”

Research Experience

Research Assistant, School of Economic Sciences, Washington State University

• Dr. Thomas L. Marsh, Fall 2017.
• Dr. Hayley H. Chouinard, Fall 2016, Fall 2015, Summer 2015.

Teaching Experience

• Teaching Statement

Instructor, School of Economic Sciences, Washington State University

• EconS 404, Economics for Managers (Online), Summer 2017.
  • EconS 404 Summer 2017 Student Evals
• EconS 352, Business Management Economics (Pullman Campus), Spring 2017, Spring 2016.
  • EconS 352 Syllabus Spring 2017
  • EconS 352 Spring 2017 Student Evals
  • EconS 352-Sect1 Spring 2016 Student Evals
  • EconS 352-Sect2 Spring 2016 Student Evals

Teaching Assistant, School of Economic Sciences, Washington State University

• Master’s Level Econometrics (Online) course design with Thomas L. Marsh, Fall 2017.
• EconS 101, Fundamentals of Microeconomics, EconS 102, Fundamentals of Macroeconomics, Fall 2014, Spring 2015.

Conference Presentations

• “The Market Structure for Crop Insurance and the Effects on Insurance Contracts.”
  2017 School of Economic Sciences Seminar Series. Pullman, WA.
• “The Market Structure for Crop Insurance and the Effects on Insurance Contracts.” Poster Presentation. 2017 AAEA Annual Meeting. Chicago, IL.
• “The Impact of Federal Crop Insurance on the Conservation Reserve Program.” 2017 School of Economic Sciences GSA Poster Expo. Pullman, WA.
• “The Impact of Federal Crop Insurance on the Conservation Reserve Program.” 2016 Property and Environment Research Center (PERC) Summer Workshop Series. Bozeman, MT.
• “Categorizing Agritourism Operations and Identifying Barriers to Success.” 2016 WAEA/CAES Annual Meeting. Victoria, B.C.
• Session Moderator. 2016 WAEA/CAES Annual Meeting. Victoria, B.C. Selected Paper Session 11: Market Structures and Supply Chains.

Scholarships and Awards

• School of Economic Sciences Excellence in Teaching Award. Fall 2017. Pullman, WA.
• Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University PhD Scholarship. Fall 2017 – Spring 2018. Arlington, VA.
• School of Economic Sciences GSA Poster Competition Honorable Mention. Spring 2017. Pullman, WA.
• Property and Environment Research Center (PERC) Graduate Fellowship. Summer 2016. Bozeman, MT.
• WAEA Travel Grant recipient. 2016 WAEA/CAES Annual Meeting. Victoria, B.C.
• School of Economic Sciences Tesfaye Girma Deboch Graduate Fellowship. Summer 2016. Pullman, WA.
• Rocky Mountain College Full Tuition Scholarship. Fall 2005 – Spring 2009. Billings, MT.

References

• Dr. Hayley H. Chouinard (Co-Advisor), Professor and Department Head, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Colorado State University, hayley.chouinard@colostate.edu.
• Dr. Thomas L. Marsh (Co-Advisor), Professor, School of Economic Sciences, Washington State University, tl_marsh@wsu.edu.
• Dr. Vicki A. McCracken, Professor, School of Economic Sciences, Washington State University, mccracke@wsu.edu.
• Dr. Philip R. Wandscheider, Professor Emeritus, School of Economic Sciences, Washington State University, pwandschneider@wsu.edu.