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Kelvin Balcombe is affiliated with the University of Reading in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Economics, Econometrics and Finance. Within these broad domains, their work addresses subfields such as Economics and Econometrics, General Decision Sciences, Plant Science, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, and Food Science.

The research topics Kelvin Balcombe has contributed to include:

  • Economic and Environmental Valuation
  • Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
  • Organic Food and Agriculture
  • Agricultural Innovations and Practices
  • Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability
  • Environmental Sustainability in Business
  • Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling

Their publication record features articles in several journals, with repeated contributions in the Journal of Agricultural Economics, Q Open, and SSRN Electronic Journal. Other publication venues include the Journal of Applied Ecology and CentAUR (University of Reading).

Recent publications by Kelvin Balcombe include the following:

  • Do Consumers Really Care? An Economic Analysis of Consumer Attitudes Towards Food Produced Using Prohibited Production Methods, 2020, Journal of Agricultural Economics
  • Pollinator monitoring more than pays for itself, 2020, Journal of Applied Ecology
  • Determinants of Farm Households' Willingness to Accept (WTA) Compensation for Conservation Technologies in Northern Ghana, 2020, CentAUR (University of Reading)
  • Preference stability in discrete choice experiments. Some evidence using eye-tracking, 2021, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics
  • Valorisation of Natural Resources and the Need for Economic and Sustainability Assessment: The Case of Cocoa Pod Husk in Indonesia, 2020, Sustainability

Kelvin Balcombe collaborates frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Iain Fraser
  • Elizabeth Robinson
  • C. S. Srinivasan
  • Dylan Bradley
  • Yihong Ding

Best Publications

  • Pollination services in the UK: how important are honeybees?

    Tom D Breeze;Alison P. Bailey;Kelvin G. Balcombe;Simon G. Potts

  • Determinants of technical efficiency of crop and livestock farms in Poland

    Laure Latruffe;Kelvin Balcombe;Sophia Davidova;Katarzyna Zawalinska

  • Technical and scale efficiency of crop and livestock farms in Poland: does specialization matter?

    Laure Latruffe;Kelvin Balcombe;Sophia M. Davidova;Katarzyna Zawalinska

  • Bayesian Estimation and Selection of Nonlinear Vector Error Correction Models: The Case of the Sugar-Ethanol-Oil Nexus in Brazil

    Kelvin Balcombe;George Rapsomanikis

  • Traffic lights and food choice: a choice experiment examining the relationship between nutritional food labels and price

    Kelvin Balcombe;Iain M Fraser;Salvatore Di Falco

  • Threshold Effects in Price Transmission: The Case of Brazilian Wheat, Maize, and Soya Prices

    Kelvin Balcombe;Alastair Bailey;Jonathan Brooks

  • Consumer willingness to pay for in-flight service and comfort levels: A choice experiment

    Kelvin Balcombe;Iain Fraser;Liam Harris

  • Visual Attention and Attribute Attendance in Multi-Attribute Choice Experiments

    Kelvin George Balcombe;Iain Fraser;Iain Fraser;Eugene McSorley

  • Overcoming undesirable resilience in the global food system

    Tom H. Oliver;Emily Boyd;Kelvin Balcombe;Tim G. Benton

  • Measuring the consumer benefits of improving farm animal welfare to inform welfare labelling

    Ariane Kehlbacher;Richard Bennett;Kelvin Balcombe

  • Contract Cheating & the Market in Essays

    Dan Rigby;Michael Burton;Kelvin Balcombe;Ian Bateman

  • Model selection for the mixed logit with Bayesian estimation

    Kelvin Balcombe;Ali Chalak;Iain M Fraser

  • Application of a double bootstrap to investigation of determinants of technical efficiency of farms in Central Europe

    Laure Latruffe;Sophia M. Davidova;Kelvin Balcombe

  • An Application of the DEA Double Bootstrap to Examine Sources of Efficiency in Bangladesh Rice Farming

    Kelvin Balcombe;Iain Mcpherson Fraser;Laure Latruffe;Mizanur Rahman

  • Integrating spatial dependence into Stochastic Frontier Analysis

    Francisco Jose Areal;Kelvin Balcombe;Richard Tiffin

  • Pollinator Monitoring More than Pays for Itself

    Tom D. Breeze;Alison P. Bailey;Kelvin G. Balcombe;Tom Brereton

  • Understanding the impact of Cotton Subsidies on developing countries

    I Gillson;Colin Poulton;Kelvin Balcombe;S Page

  • An application of cointegration theory in the estimation of the almost ideal demand system for food consumption in Bulgaria

    Kelvin George Balcombe;J.R. Davis

  • Estimating technical efficiency of Australian dairy farms using alternative frontier methodologies

    iain mcpherson fraser;Kelvin Balcombe;jae kim

  • The nature and determinants of volatility in agricultural prices: an empirical study.

    K. Balcombe;A. Prakash

Frequent Co-Authors

Iain Fraser
Iain Fraser University of Kent
Laure Latruffe
Laure Latruffe INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Michael Burton
Michael Burton University of Western Australia
Colin Thirtle
Colin Thirtle Imperial College London
Ian J. Bateman
Ian J. Bateman University of Exeter
Salvatore Di Falco
Salvatore Di Falco University of Geneva
Stuart P. M. Roberts
Stuart P. M. Roberts Université Libre de Bruxelles
Emily Boyd
Emily Boyd Lund University
Georgina M. Mace
Georgina M. Mace University College London
Paul Hadley
Paul Hadley University of Reading

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