Jay Sayre

Education

B.S. Economics and Mathematics, University of Minnesota, 2016

Publications

Working Papers

Commodity Trade Matters (with Thibault Fally), NBER Working Paper No. 24965
ARE Update (Non-technical summary)

Work in Progress

Farm to Firm: Clustering and Returns to Scale in Agricultural Value Chains

Predicting Yields at Scale using Remote Sensing (with Joel Ferguson, Ritvik Iyer, and Victoria Sogomo)

The Promise of Crop Substitution Programs

The Long Run Impact of Colonization on Crop Choice (with Abdoulaye Cisse)

Honors and Awards

Weiss Fund for Research in Development Economics (with Abdoulaye Cisse), 2022
John L. Simpson Graduate Student Research Fellowship in International & Area Studies, 2021
Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics Mini-Grant (with Thibault Fally), 2021 and 2017
Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor, 2021
JPMCC International Commodities Symposium Best Paper Award, Commodity Trade Matters, 2019
J-PAL Crime and Violence Initiative Exploratory Grant, 2019
Data Science for the 21st Century (DS421) NSF Fellowship & Traineeship, 2017-2019

Recent Teaching:

GSI for:
Economics/EEP C181 -- International Trade; Spring 2020 and Spring 2021, Prof. Andrés Rodríguez-Clare
Economics/EEP C181 -- International Trade; Fall 2020, Fall and Spring 2018, Prof. Thibault Fally
Public Policy 275 -- Spatial Data and Analysis; Fall 2019, Prof. Solomon Hsiang

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Contact details

Jay Sayre

E-mail jsayre@berkeley.edu

Website

Personal Website

Curriculum Vitae:

JESayreVitae.pdf