Member Profiles: Eldon Ball

V. Eldon Ball
Senior Economist
USDA-Economic Research Service

AAEA Activities: 2011 AAEA Fellow

A New Focus on Mentorship for AAEA

AAEA has recently made engaging younger members a priority in an effort to ensure the long-term stability of the association. This has resulted in initiatives including cheaper membership rates for graduate students, a new member type for young professionals, and the young professionals networking reception in Pittsburgh, which received quite a bit of positive feedback.

2011 AAEA Award Winners Available Online

In Pittsburgh, AAEA presented its 2011 awards, recognizing work in research, extension, and teaching. You can find the complete list of winners in the Awards section of the AAEA website.

In addition, AAEA presented recognized six members with the designation of AAEA Fellow. You can click the links below to learn more about each of the new Fellows:

Member Profiles: David Bessler

David Bessler
Regents Professor
Texas A&M University

AAEA Activities:

• 2011 AAEA Fellow
• Publication of Enduring Quality Committee, 1985-1987; 2006-08 (Chair 2008)
• Outstanding PhD Dissertation Committee 2007

AEPP Call: Special Issue on Long-Term Care

AEPP is publishing a special issue titled "New Developments in the Economics of Long-Term Care" and is looking for paper submissions. This issue will attempt to address questions regarding the role of market forces in providing and funding long-term care, the ways to overcome market failures and information asymmetries, incentives to expand the provision of long term care as well as financing schemes to balance out efficiency, access, and quality goals. The deadline to submit a paper is August 31, 2011.