William Clifton Ridley

Associate Professor

Additional Campus Affiliations

Associate Professor, Agricultural and Consumer Economics
Co-Director of Graduate Placement, Agricultural and Consumer Economics
Office of Research Fellow, College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences

Recent Publications

Mo, T., Dall'erba, S., Ridley, W., Xu, Y., & Yim, H. (2026). The Impact of Autonomous Truck Technology on US Interstate Trade. Journal of Regional Science. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/jors.70067

Valdebenito, R., Ridley, W., Arends-Kuenning, M., & Dall'Erba, S. (2026). Migration of high school graduates for higher education: the role of degree type and field of study. Education Economics, 34(4), 571-593. https://doi.org/10.1080/09645292.2025.2565355

Dall'erba, S., Chagas, A., Ridley, W., Xu, Y., & Yuan, L. (2025). Difference-in-differences with endogenous externalities: Model and application to climate econometrics. Papers in Regional Science, 104(6), Article 100125. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pirs.2025.100125

Dhoubhadel, S. P., & Ridley, W. (2025). China's meat sector growth and U.S. grain and oilseed exports. Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 47(1), 275-303. https://doi.org/10.1002/aepp.13462

Howard, J., Maskus, K. E., & Ridley, W. (2025). The Impacts of Intellectual-Property Related Preferential Trade Agreements on Bilateral Patent Applications. Review of International Economics, 33(2), 466-485. https://doi.org/10.1111/roie.12783

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