Background
GARDNER, Bruce L. was born in 1942 in Solon Mills, Illinois, United States of America.
GARDNER, Bruce L. was born in 1942 in Solon Mills, Illinois, United States of America.
Bachelor of Science University Illinois, 1964. Doctor of Philosophy University Chicago, 1968.
Assistant Professor, Association Professor of Economics, North Carolina State University, 1968-1975. Senior Staff Economics, United States President"s Council Economics Advisers, Washington, District of Columbia, 1975-1977. Professor Agriculture Economics, Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University, 1977-1980.
Visiting Fellow, Center Study of the Economics and the State, University Chicago, 1980-1981.
Professor Agriculture and Resource Economics, University Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America, since 1980. Association Editor, American Journal of Agricultural Economics,
1983-1985.
My work has been entirely in agricultural economies, broadly defined, but has migrated over time to different areas in this field The first area involves human resources in agriculture. I have published empirical findings on fertility behaviour and rural family size, the effects of agricultural minimum wages and the bracers programme.
The second area is agriculture as an aggregated sector of the economy, where I have published empirical results on off-farm migration, the distribution of income in agriculture and the effects of inflation and recession on the farm sector. Thirdly, I have worked on the construction and evaluation of economic data for agriculture, particularly on economic well-being and on agricultural productivity. Fourthly, I have published conceptual work on the
farm-retail marketing margin and on supply elasticities in interdependent markets.
Fifthly, in recent years I have written assessments of several United States agricultural commodity programmes, in particular tobacco, grains, sugar and wool. The most extensive such work involved grain storage and price stabilisation programmes. In addition I have been attempting to explain why we get the farm policies that we observe.
Finally, I have published works bearing on futures, commodity options, and risk. This has primarily involved using futures to aid in analysing the structure of commodity markets and options to throw light on policy issues.