Yuyuan Che

Assistant Professor
Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics
Texas Tech University

Peer-Reviewed Publications

  1. Che, Y., D. A. Hennessy, and H. Feng. 2025. Seeding Rate Responses to Markets, Resources and Technologies. Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics (forthcoming) Link

  2. Zhang, Y., Y. Che, R.M. Rejesus, M. Cavigelli, K. White, S. Aglasan, L.G. Knight, C. Dell, D. Hollinger, and E.D. Lane. 2024. Medium-term economic impacts of cover crop adoption in Maryland. Soil Security 17: 100170. Link

  3. Che, Y., H. Feng, and D. A. Hennessy. 2023. Will Adoption Occur if a Practice is Win-Win for Profit and the Environment? An Application to a Rancher’s Grazing Practice Choices. Ecological Economics 209: 107826. Link

  4. Lu, X., Y. Che, R. M. Rejesus, B. K. Goodwin, S. K. Ghosh, and J. Paudel. 2023. Unintended Environmental Benefits of Crop Insurance: Nitrogen and Phosphorus in Water Bodies. Ecological Economics 204: 107657. Link

  5. Che, Y., R.M. Rejesus, M. Cavigelli, K. White, S. Aglasan, L.G. Knight, C. Dell, D. Hollinger, and E.D. Lane. 2023. Long-Term Economic Impacts of No-Till Adoption. Soil Security 13: 100103. Link

  6. Che, Y., H. Feng, and D. A. Hennessy. 2022. Assessing Peer Effects and Subsidy Impacts in Conservation Technology Adoption: Application to Grazing Management Choices. Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association 1(3): 285–303. Link

  7. Park, B., R. M. Rejesus, S. Aglasan, Y. Che, S. C. Hagen, and W. Salas. 2022. Payments from Agricultural Conservation Programs and Cover Crop Adoption. Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy 1-24. Link

  8. Hennessy, D. A., A. J. Lindsey, Y. Che, L. E. Lindsey, M. P. Singh, H. Feng, E. M. Hawkins, S. Subburayalu, R. Black, E. A. Richer, and D. S. Ochs. 2022. Characterizing the Decision Process in Setting Corn and Soybean Seeding Rates. The Journal of Extension 60(1): 3. Link

  9. Che, Y., H. Feng, and D. A. Hennessy. 2020. Recency Effects and Participation at the Extensive and Intensive Margins in the U.S. Federal Crop Insurance Program. The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance-Issues and Practice 45(1): 52-85. Link

  10. Wang, T., H. Jin, U. Kreuter, H. Feng, D. A. Hennessy, R. Teague, and Y. Che. 2020. Challenges for Rotational Grazing Practice: Views from Non-adopters across the Great Plains, USA. Journal of Environmental Management 256: 109941. Link

  11. Yu, Y., H. Li, Y. Che, and Q. Zheng. 2017. The Price Evolution of Wind Turbines in China: A Study Based on the Modified Multi-factor Learning Curve. Renewable Energy 103: 522-536. Link

Working Papers

  1. Landscape Complexity, Crop Insurance Losses, and Resilience to Extreme Weather Events. (with Roderick M. Rejesus, Serkan Aglasan, and Emily K. Burchfield)

  2. On Whether and Where Private-Excess Nitrogen Application Occurs in U.S. Maize Production: Evidence, Price Responsiveness, and Efficiency. (with Hongli Feng, David A. Hennessy, and Chaoqun Lu)

  3. Estimating Stochastic Production Functions with Linear Inequality Constraints. (with Sujit K. Ghosh, and Roderick M. Rejesus)

  4. Cover Crops and Climate Risks: An Application of Causal Random Forests. (with David Quigley, Mahmut Yasar, and Roderick M. Rejesus)

  5. An Economic Analysis of Climate Resilience of Irrigated Cotton-Based Cropping Systems in the Texas High Plains Region. (with Reymark Alcantara, Chenggang Wang, Phil Johnson)

Work in Progress

  1. Irrationality of Recency Effects on U.S. Crop Insurance Program Participation. (with Hongli Feng and David A. Hennessy)

  2. Crop Insurance Participation and Landscape Complexity (with Roderick M. Rejesus, Serkan Aglasan, and Emily K. Burchfield)

  3. Federal Crop Insurance Participation and Irrigation Water Use in U.S. Agriculture (with Reymark Alcantara)

  4. Optimizing Irrigation for Cotton Profitability in Texas High Plains (with Dany Résolus, Reymark Alcantara, Chenggang Wang, Wenxuan Guo, and Oluwatola Adedeji)