MADHU KHANNA

Educational Background and Academic Positions

• Ph.D., Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California at Berkeley, 1995
• Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics (ACE), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), 1995 – 2001
• Associate Professor, ACE, UIUC, 2001 to 2005
• Professor, ACE, UIUC, 2005 to date

Recent Honors and Awards

• Arnold O. Beckman Research Award, UIUC Research Board, 2002
• Hughes Teaching Enhancement Award, ACE, UIUC, 2003
• Member, Academy of Teaching Excellence, College of ACES, UIUC, since 2003
• University Scholar, University of Illinois, 2004 – 07
• North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture Teacher Fellow, 2005

Recent Service

Review Panels

Water Quality Strategic Research Initiative Peer Review Panel, Illinois CFAR, 2000.

USEPA Review Panel for the Science to Achieve Results (STAR) Program Graduate Fellowships in the area of Social Sciences -- Economics/Urban & Regional Planning, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2006.

Peer Review Panel, NSF/EPA, Decision-Making & Valuation for Environmental Policy program, 2001.

Illinois CFAR Internal Competitive Grant Review Panel, 2001, 2002.

Review Panel for ERS/USDA on Implementation of Multi-Objective Policies: Addressing Operational Challenges and Tracking Performance of Agri-Environmental Policies, 2003.

Member, Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES) Team for Comprehensive Program Review of Dept. of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, November 2004.

Editorship of Journals and Other Learned Publications

Associate Editor, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2006-2010.

Associate Editor, Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, 2001 – 2005

Member, Editorial Board, Choices, 2003 – 2004

Member, Editorial Council, Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2003 – 2006

Member, Editorial Board, Review of Agricultural Economics, 2004 – 2007

Guest Editor, Special Issue on Climate Change and Environmental Policy, Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, 9(4), October 2004.

Offices Held In Professional Societies

Member, Board of Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2004 – 2006

Chair, M.S. Outstanding Thesis Award Committee, Americ. Ag.Econ..Association, 2004-05.

Outreach Publications

Khanna, M., Effectiveness of the Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program in Illinois, Chapt. 9, in Herring, C. (ed.), The State of the State of Illinois, 2006. Institute of Government and Public Affairs. University of Illinois, Chicago and Urbana-Champaign, 127-139.

Selected Refereed Publications

Khanna, M. and D. Zilberman, “Barriers to Energy Efficiency in Electricity Generation in India,” The Energy Journal, 20(1): 25-41, January 1999.

Khanna, M. and D. Zilberman, “Freer Markets and the Abatement of Carbon Emissions: The Electricity-Generating Sector in India,” Resource and Energy Economics, 21:125-152, 1999.

Khanna, M. and D. Zilberman, “Adoption of Energy Efficient Technologies and Carbon Abatement: The Electricity Generating Sector in India,” Energy Economics, 23 (6): 637-658, 2001.

Khanna, M., “Sequential Adoption of Site-Specific Technologies and its Implications for Nitrogen Productivity: A Double Selectivity Model,” American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 83: 35-51, February 2001.

Isik, M., M. Khanna, and A. Winter-Nelson, “Sequential Investment in Site-Specific Crop Management under Output Price Uncertainty,” Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 26 (1): 212-229, July 2001.

Khanna, M. and D. Zilberman, “Adoption of Energy Efficient Technologies and Carbon Abatement: The Electricity Generating Sector in India,” Energy Economics, 23 (6): 637-658, 2001.

Isik, M. and M. Khanna, “Variable Rate N Application under Uncertainty: Implications for Profitability and Nitrogen Use,” Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 27(1): 61-76, 2002.

Khanna, M., M. Isik, and D. Zilberman, “Cost-Effectiveness of Alternative Green Payment Policies for Conservation Technology Adoption with Heterogeneous Land Quality,” Agricultural Economics, (21) 2: 157-174, August 2002. Also reprinted in Agro-Environmental Policy, edited by S. Batie and R. Horan, Ashgate Publishing Group, forthcoming.

Isik, M. and M. Khanna, “Uncertainty and Spatial Variability: Incentives for Variable Rate Technology Adoption in Agriculture,” Risk, Decision and Policy , 7 (3): 249-265, 2002. 

Isik, M. and M. Khanna, “ Stochastic Technology, Risk Preference and Adoption of Site-specific Technologies,” American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 85 (2): 305-317, May 2003.

Khanna, M., W. Yang, R.L. Farnsworth, and H. Önal, “ Targeting of CREP to Improve Water Quality: Determining Land Rental Offers with Endogenous Sediment Deposition Coefficients,” American Journal of Agricultural Economics , 85 (3): 538-553, August 2003.

Yang, W., M. Khanna, R.L. Farnsworth, and H. Önal, “Integrating Economic, Environmental and GIS Modeling to Target Cost Effective Land Retirement in Multiple Watersheds,” Ecological Economics, 46: 249-267, 2003.

Ramirez, D.T., M. Khanna, and D. Zilberman, “Conservation Capital and Sustainable Economic Growth,” Oxford Economic Papers, April 2005.

Yang, W., M. Khanna, R.L. Farnsworth, and H. Önal, “Is Geographical Targeting Cost-Effective? The Case of the Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program in Illinois,” Review of Agricultural Economics 27 (1), 70-88, 2005.

Dridi, C. and M. Khanna, “Irrigation Technology Adoption and Gains from Water Trading under Asymmetric Information,” American Journal of Agricultural Economics , 87 (2), 2005.

Yang, W., M. Khanna and R.L. Farnsworth, “Effectiveness of Conservation Programs in Illinois and Gains from Targeting” American Journal of Agricultural Economics , 87 (5), 1248-1255, 2005.

Khanna, M. and R.L. Farnsworth, “Economics Analysis of Green Payment Policies for Water Quality,” in Frontiers in Water Resource Economics, edited by R. Goetz and D. Berga, Kluwer Academic Publishers (accepted).