Jayson Lusk

co-author of Agricultural Marketing and Price Analysis and author of Experimental Auctions: Methods and Applications in Marketing and Economic Research

November 4, 2015

Jayson Lusk is Professor and Willard Sparks Endowed Chair in the Department of Agricultural Economics at Oklahoma State University. He has previously served on the faculties of Purdue University and Mississippi State University.

Dr. Lusk earned a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from Kansas State University in 2000 and a B.S. in Food Technology from Texas Tech University in 1997, where he was named Outstanding Student in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences. Lusk conducts research related to consumer behavior and decision making, food and livestock marketing and policy, and non-market valuation.

Since 2001, Lusk has published more than 75 articles in peer reviewed journals, has won several published research awards including Outstanding Journal Article, Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, has received in excess of $2.7 million in external grants to support his research, and has been invited to present his research at over 20 Universities in the U.S. and abroad. Lusk's scientific works have been cited more than 300 times since 2001 according to the Social Science Citation Index and he was listed as one of the top 10 most productive researchers in agricultural economics graduating from 1987 to 2000 in a recent issue of the American Journal of Agricultural Economics. Lusk currently serves as associate editor for five journals including the American Journal of Agricultural Economics and the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management.

Lusk is past chair of the American Agricultural Economics Association's Food and Agricultural Marketing Policy Section and services on the executive board of the Western Agricultural Economics Association and the Southern Agricultural Economics Association. Lusk teaches two graduate level courses related to research methods. Lusk recently authored a book on experimental auctions published by Cambridge University Press, which has received acclaim from a recent Nobel Prize winner in Economics. Lusk is also a co-author of an undergraduate textbook on agricultural marketing and price analysis published by Prentice-Hall.

URL: https://library.okstate.edu/news/celebratingbooks/2009-honorees/jayson-lusk

Last Updated: 14 January 2021