Faculty
Stephen Smith
Head of the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology and Professor of Agricultural and Regional Economics
(Ph.D., Agricultural Economics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1974)
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Email address: smsmith@psu.edu Telephone: 1-814-865-5461 Fax: 1-814-865-3746 Office address: 103-C Armsby University Park, PA 16802 |
Research Interests
Dr. Smith divides his research between the study of rural economic change in the U.S. and agricultural development in third world countries. He was among the first researchers to examine the role of service industries in the rural U.S. Current research includes rural development policy, economic transitions of rural communities, and rural employment. International research areas include small and peasant farm development, agrarian reform and land institutions, markets for traditional crops, and rural development. Dr. Smith has worked in Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, Mexico, Peru, Spain and Venezuela. He has worked with the World Bank, the International Tropical Agriculture Center (CIAT), and was in the Peace Corps. In 1998-99, he was a Senior Fulbright Scholar at the Institute for Peruvian Studies in Lima, Peru.
Current/Recent Courses
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AEREC 533: Rural Economic Development Theories and Analytical Methods
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International Agriculture 100: Introduction to International Agriculture
Recent Selected Publications
Smith, S.M. “Policy Research in the Review of Regional Studies.” Presidential Address, Review of Regional Studies. Vol. 35, No. 1, 2005, pp. 1-7.
Larson, Janelle M., Stephen M. Smith, David G. Abler and Carolina Trivelli. "An economic analysis of land titling in Peru". Quarterly Journal of International Agriculture. 42, No. 1, 2003, pp. 79-97.
Smith, S. M., and Carolina Trivelli. 2001. “El consumo urbano de alimentos andinos tradicionales”. Monograph published by the Institute of Peruvian Studies and COSUDE, Lima, Peru.
Larson, J.M., S.M. Smith, D.G. Abler, C. Trivelli. “Titulacion de Tierras en el Peru: Se Esta Cumpliendo la Promesa?”
Debate Agrario. Vol. 32, febrero 2001, pp. 49-66.
Larson, J. M., J. L. Findeis, and S. M. Smith. (2001) “Agricultural Adaptation to Urbanization in Southeastern Pennsylvania”. Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 30 (1): 32-43.
Smith, S. M., and K. Miller. (2001) “Successful Adaptation to Economic Restructuring in the Nonmetro Northeast: 1950-1990". The Review of Regional Studies, 31 (2): 121-147.

