Cesar Escalante

Cesar Escalante is a Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics at the University of Georgia, where he has been affiliated since at least 2002. His work spans agricultural finance, agribusiness management, and policy analysis related to farm labor and health economics.

• Ph.D., Agricultural Economics, University of Illinois (2001)
• M.S., Agricultural Economics, University of Guelph (1996)
• B.A., Economics, Ateneo de Manila University (1983)

Research Interests:

• Agricultural Finance: Risk assessment in lending systems, farm credit risk analysis using migration frameworks
• Agribusiness Management: Financial structures, business strategies for risk mitigation
• Immigration & Health Economics: Farm labor dynamics, health service access disparities

Recent Publications focus on topics such as immigration policy impacts, agricultural banking resilience, and labor risk dynamics, with a strong emphasis on empirical modeling and policy evaluation.

Scientific Awards:

• Outstanding Mentoring Award (2022, 2020)
• Distinguished Teaching Award (2021)
• President’s Martin Luther King Fulfilling the Dream Award (2020)
• University Aspire Fellow (2018-2019)
• Gamma Sigma Delta Award for Junior Achievement in Research (2007)

Advising & Grants: Mentored award-winning student research (e.g., Tianyuan Luo’s 2018 Energies Journal award), secured grants including the University of Georgia Faculty Research Foundation Award (2002), and contributed to editorial leadership as Editor of the Journal of Agribusiness (2014-2015).