Nicholas Rada

Deputy Chief Economist

Dr. Nicholas Rada is the Deputy Chief Economist at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Dr. Rada’s research at the USPTO has focused on the relationship between intellectual property and economic growth.  He joined the USPTO in 2019 from the Economic Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. There, Dr. Rada investigated the nexus between science policy, food security, and total factor productivity (TFP) growth in rapidly emerging agricultural competitors Brazil, Russia, India, Indonesia, and China. Dr. Rada started his career by receiving a B.S. in Economics and an M.S. in Agricultural Economics from West Virginia University, and a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from Oregon State University.

nicholas.rada@uspto.gov

 

Selected publications

Gender and agricultural productivity: Econometric evidence from Malawi, Tanzania, and Uganda (With J. Julien and B. Bravo-Ureta). World Development 171, 2023.

Disequilibrium effects from misallocated markets: An application to agriculture (With F. Badau) Agricultural Economics 53 (4): 592-604, 2022.

Where are U.S. women patentees? Assessing three decades of growth (With M. Saksena and L. Cook) IP Data Highlights Number 6, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), 2022. Available at https://www.uspto.gov/sites/default/files/documents/oce-women-patentees-report.pdf 

Intellectual property and the U.S. economy: Third edition (With A.A. Toole and R. Miller) IP Economic Report, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), 2022. Available at https://www.uspto.gov/sites/default/files/documents/uspto-ip-us-economy-third-edition.pdf

Accounting for climatic effects in measuring U.S. field crop farm productivity (With S.L. Wang, R. Williams, and D. Newton) Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy 44(4): 1975-1994, 2022. Available at https://www.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/aepp.13289

Disequilibrium effects from misallocated markets: An application to agriculture (With F. Badau) Agricultural Economics 53(4): 592-604, 2021. Available at: https://www.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/agec.12691 

Productive efficiency and farm size in East Africa (With J. Julien and B. Bravo-Ureta) Agrekon 60(3): 153-164, 2021. Available at: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03031853.2021.1960176?journalCode=ragr20 

Evaluating Agricultural Productivity and Policy in Russia (With W. Liefert and O. Liefert), Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2021. Available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/1477-9552.12338

New Perspectives on Farm Size and Productivity (With K. Fuglie), Food Policy 84 147-152, 2019. Available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2018.03.015

Agricultural Productivity Growth in Brazil: Large and Small Farms Excel (With S. Helfand and M. Magalhães) Food Policy 84 176-185, 2019. Available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2018.03.014

Assessing Farm Performance by Size in Malawi, Tanzania, and Uganda (With J. Julien and B. Bravo-Ureta) Food Policy 84 153-164, 2019. Available at  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2018.03.016

Evaluating Research and Education Performance in Indian Agricultural Development (With D. Schimmelpfennig), Agricultural Economics 49(3) 395-406, 2018. Available at https://doi.org/10.1111/agec.12424
 
Brazilian Agriculture: Is it all about the Large Farms? (With S. Helfand and M. Magalhães) EuroChoices 16(1) 17-22, 2017. Available at https://doi.org/10.1111/1746-692X.12145

India’s Post-Green Revolution Agricultural Performance: What is Driving Growth? Agricultural Economics 47(3) 341-350, 2016. Available at https://doi.org/10.1111/agec.12234

Subsidy or Market Reform? Rethinking China’s Farm Consolidation Strategy (With C. Wang and L. Qin) Food Policy 57 93-103, 2015. Available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2015.10.002

Impacts of Migration on Household Production Choices: Evidence from China (With C. Wang, L. Qin, and S. Pan) Journal of Development Studies 50(3) 413-425, 2014. Available at https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2013.866221

Assessing Brazil’s Cerrado Agricultural Miracle. Food Policy 38 146-155, 2013. Available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2012.11.002

Hired-Labor Demand on Chinese Household Farms (With C. Wang and L. Qin) Journal of Agribusiness in Developing & Emerging Economies 2(2) 115-129, 2012. Available at https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/20440831211272580/full/html

Agricultural Policy and Productivity: Evidence from Brazilian Censuses (With S. Buccola). Agricultural Economics 43(4) 353-365, 2012. Available at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1574-0862.2012.00588.x

Government Policy and Agricultural Productivity in Indonesia (With S. Buccola and K. Fuglie). American Journal of Agricultural Economics 93(3) 863-880, 2011. Available at https://doi.org/10.1093/ajae/aar004