Felipe Silva

Assistant Professor of Agribusiness
Agricultural Sciences Department

Office: 235 McAdams
Phone: 864-656-5764

Email: fdsilva@clemson.edu

Educational Background

PhD Agricultural Economics
University of Nebraska-Lincoln 2018

D.Sc. Applied Economics
Federal University of Viçosa 2017

M.Sc Applied Economics
Federal University of Viçosa 2012

B.Sc. Economics
State University of Feira de Santana 2010

Courses Taught

AGRB 4120/6120 - Regional Economic Development Theory and Policy
AGRB 4020/6020 - Production Economics
AGRB 4560/6560 - Prices
AGRB 8080/8081 - Empirical Methods for Agricultural Economists

Publications

Berg NL, Thayer AW, Silva FFD, Vassalos M, Wang Z, Smith NB. (2025) "The relationship between commodity diversification and the adoption of technological innovations for Southeast beef cattle producers." Agricultural and Resource Economics Review. Published online 2025:1-19. doi:10.1017/age.2025.5

Arnold, Jane; Silva, Felipe; Vassalos, Michael. (2025) "Exploring Consumer Motivations for Frequent Visits and High Spending at Farmers’ Markets." Accepted in the Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association

Ureta, Joan; Silva, Felipe; Vassalos, Michael; Strickland, George. (2024) “Effects of Organic and Origin Labels on Consumer Willingness to Pay for Kale: A Case Study in Southeastern US.” Journal of Food Distribution Research. Volume 55, Issue 2, pp. 96–120. https://www.fdrsinc.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/JFDR55.2_5_Ureta.pdf

Behler, Shane; Silva, Felipe; Vassalos, Michael; Ureta, Joan. (2024) “Consumer Willingness to Pay for Visually Imperfect Organic Kale.” Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics. Published online 2024:1-25. https://doi.org/10.1017/aae.2023.42

Hipolito, Bruno; Cardoso, Leonardo; Silva, Felipe. (2023) “Distributional Effects of Gasoline Tax in Brazil”. Applied Economic Letters. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2023.2289387

Silva, Felipe F.; Kaplan, Scott; Tobar, Freddy Arturo Magdama; Potts, Matthew D.; Martinez, Ramon Leonardo Espinel; and Zilberman, David. 2023. Estimating Worldwide Benefits From Improved Bananas Resistant to Fusarium Wilt Tropical Race 4. Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association 1– 15. https://doi.org/10.1002/jaa2.41

Keinath, A. P.; and Silva, Felipe. 2022. Economic impacts of reduced fungicide efficacy against downy mildew on slicing cucumber. Crop Protection 155:105934.

Silva, Felipe, Perrin, R. K., Fulginiti, L. E., Burbach, M. Can Engagement Improve Groundwater Management? Water Economics and Policy (2021) https://doi.org/10.1142/S2382624X21500089

Silva, Felipe, Fulginiti, L. E., Perrin, R. K., Braga, M. J. The increasing opportunity cost of sequestering CO2 in the Brazilian Amazon forest. Empirical Economics (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00181-021-02031-5

Freitas, C.O; Silva, Felipe; Braga, M. and Mateus Neves. (2021) The effect of rural extension on farm technical efficiency in Brazil. International Food and Agribusiness Management Review: 24 (2)- Pages: 215 - 232. DOI: https://doi.org/10.22434/IFAMR2020.0094

Neves, M., Freitas, C., Silva, F., Costa, D., & Braga, M. (2020). Does Access to Rural Credit Help Decrease Income Inequality in Brazil? Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 1-21. doi:10.1017/aae.2020.11

Silva, F., Fulginiti, L., Perrin, R., and Schoengold, K.. 2019. The Effects of Irrigation and Climate on the High Plains Aquifer: A County-Level Econometric Analysis. Journal of the American Water Resources Association 1– 17. https://doi.org/10.1111/1752-1688.12781.

Silva, F., Fulginiti, L., Perrin, R.. 2019. The Cost of Forest Preservation in the Brazilian Amazon: The “Arc of Deforestation”. Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 44(3):497–512

Silva, F. d., Perrin, R. K. and Fulginiti, L. E. 2019. The opportunity cost of preserving the Brazilian Amazon forest. Agricultural Economics, 50: 219-227. doi:10.1111/agec.12478