2026 Kathy Baylis: Economics and Finance Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Economics and Finance	38	2548	2305	1428	1254	169	6022

Overview

Kathy Baylis is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on Agricultural and Biological Sciences, where they have contributed to 50 publications. Within this field, subfields of their work include Economics and Econometrics, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Soil Science.

The scientist's main research topics encompass Agricultural Innovations and Practices, Agricultural Risk and Resilience, Economic and Environmental Valuation, Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, Child Nutrition and Water Access, Plant and Animal Studies, and Insect and Pesticide Research.

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Baylis include:

Agri-environmental Programs in the United States and Canada, 2022, Review of Environmental Economics and Policy
The impacts of agroforestry interventions on agricultural productivity, ecosystem services, and human well-being in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review, 2021, Campbell Systematic Reviews
Evidence for the impacts of agroforestry on ecosystem services and human well-being in high-income countries: a systematic map, 2022, Environmental Evidence
Agricultural decision making and climate uncertainty in developing countries, 2020, Environmental Research Letters
The benefits and limitations of agricultural input cooperatives in Zambia, 2021, World Development

Baylis has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Thomas Heckelei, Nicolás Gatti, Tom Evans, Pablo J. Ordóñez, and Jordan Blekking. These partnerships have contributed to a substantial part of their scholarly output.

Publication venues where Baylis's work appears most often include SSRN Electronic Journal, Environmental Research Letters, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Annual Review of Resource Economics, and Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy.

In addition to articles, Baylis has contributed to book publications, notably with Elsevier BV. One significant book is Cooperative Membership and Exposure to Role Models: Implications for Income and Asset Aspirations, published in 2023.

Best Publications

The effectiveness of payments for environmental services

Jan Börner;Kathy Baylis;Esteve Corbera;Driss Ezzine-de-Blas

526
Citations
Mainstreaming Impact Evaluation in Nature Conservation

Kathy Baylis;Jordi Honey-Rosés;Jan Börner;Esteve Corbera

467
Citations
Agri-environmental policies in the EU and United States: A comparison ☆

Kathy Baylis;Stephen Peplow;Gordon Rausser;Leo Simon

459
Citations
Fast-Food Consumption and the Ban on Advertising Targeting Children: The Quebec Experience

Tirtha Dhar;Kathy Baylis

315
Citations
Agricultural Policy, Agribusiness and Rent-Seeking Behaviour

Andrew Schmitz;W. Hartley Furtan;Kathy Baylis

276
Citations
Price Dispersion on the Internet: Good Firms and Bad Firms

Kathy Baylis;Jeffrey M. Perloff

234
Citations
Conservation agriculture and climate resilience.

Jeffrey D. Michler;Kathy Baylis;Mary Arends-Kuenning;Kizito Mazvimavi

221
Citations
A national survey of managed honey bee 2014–2015 annual colony losses in the USA

Nicola Seitz;Kirsten S. Traynor;Nathalie Steinhauer;Karen Rennich

210
Citations
Machine Learning in Agricultural and Applied Economics

Hugo Storm;Kathy Baylis;Thomas Heckelei

202
Citations
A spatially explicit estimate of avoided forest loss.

Jordi Honey-Rosés;Kathy Baylis;M. Isabel Ramírez

168
Citations
Evidence for the impacts of agroforestry on agricultural productivity, ecosystem services, and human well-being in high-income countries: a systematic map protocol

Sarah E. Brown;Daniel C. Miller;Pablo J. Ordonez;Kathy Baylis

167
Citations
Farmers’ risk preferences and pesticide use decisions: evidence from field experiments in China

Yazhen Gong;Kathy Baylis;Robert Kozak;Gary Bull

151
Citations
Participation in the world's first clean development mechanism forest project: The role of property rights, social capital and contractual rules

Yazhen Gong;Gary Bull;Kathy Baylis

147
Citations
How effective are biodiversity conservation payments in Mexico

Sébastien Costedoat;Esteve Corbera;Driss Ezzine-de-Blas;Jordi Honey-Rosés

133
Citations
Negative Leakage

Unknown

118
Citations
The impacts of agroforestry interventions on agricultural productivity, ecosystem services, and human well-being in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review

Sarah E. Castle;Daniel C. Miller;Pablo J. Ordonez;Kathy Baylis

115
Citations
Milk in the Data: Food Security Impacts from a Livestock Field Experiment in Zambia

Margaret Jodlowski;Alex Winter-Nelson;Kathy Baylis;Peter D. Goldsmith

103
Citations
Emerging Evidence on the Effectiveness of Tropical Forest Conservation.

Jan Börner;Kathy Baylis;Esteve Corbera;Driss Ezzine-de-Blas

99
Citations
Trade-Facilitated Technology Spillovers in Energy Productivity Convergence Processes across EU Countries

Jun Wan;Katherine R Baylis;Peter Mulder

96
Citations
The impacts of agroforestry on agricultural productivity, ecosystem services, and human well-being in low-and middle-income countries: An evidence and gap map

Daniel C. Miller;Pablo J. Ordoñez;Sarah E. Brown;Samantha Forrest

85
Citations
Food Import Refusals: Evidence from the European Union

Kathy Baylis;Lia Nogueira;Kathryn Pace

84
Citations
The distributional effects of NAFTA in Mexico: Evidence from a panel of municipalities

Katherine R. Baylis;Rafael Garduno-Rivera;Gianfranco Piras

78
Citations
Leakage, Welfare, and Cost-Effectiveness of Carbon Policy †

Kathy Baylis;Don Fullerton;Daniel H. Karney

46
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Gordon C. Rausser University of California, Berkeley

Tom Evans University of Arizona

Craig Gundersen Baylor University

Don Fullerton University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Jeffrey M. Perloff University of California, Berkeley

Thomas Heckelei University of Bonn

Megan Konar University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Esteve Corbera Autonomous University of Barcelona

Justin Sheffield University of Southampton

Jan Börner University of Bonn

External Links

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