Zachariah Rutledge

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Assistant Professor

  • Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics
  • Michigan State University

Zachariah Rutledge is an Assistant Professor at Michigan State University. He earned his Ph.D. in Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Davis, in 2020. His research focuses on topics in the fields of immigration, farm labor, and agricultural economics. He has served as a consultant to the World Bank Group, the Hoover Institution, and Migration Dialogue and has collaborated on projects with the California Farm Bureau Federation, the Economic Policy Institute, and the Cato Institute. Rutledge served two years as a student administrative coordinator for the U.C. Davis Global Migration center (formerly known as the U.C. Davis Migration Research Cluster) conducting a quarterly call for papers for graduate students to present interdisciplinary research related to migration. If you would like to learn more about Dr. Rutledge, please visit his personal website at: https://www.zachrutledge.com

Documents

Zachariah Rutledge's content

Farmworkers: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
Viewpoint: The future of work in agri-food
Authors: Luc Christiaensen (World Bank), Zachariah Rutledge, J. Edward Taylor // Date: October 2020 // Journal: Food Policy
Economic Assimilation of Mexicans and Central Americans in the United States
Authors: Giovanni Peri, Zachariah Rutledge
Proposed changes to the H-2A program would affect labor costs in the United States and California
Author(s): Philip L. Martin, Zachariah Rutledge
Evolving agricultural labor markets
Authors: Diane Charlton, Zachariah Rutledge, J. Edward Taylor
The H-2A Temporary Agricultural Worker Program in 2020
Daniel Costa, Philip Martin, and Zacariah Rutledge featured in the Produce Blue Book
Giovanni Peri and Zachary Rutledge published in Sciendo
Taylor, Charlton and Rutledge on Evolving Agricultural Labor Markets
Philip Martin and Zachariah Rutledge for California Agriculture
Job Market Paper: "No Farm Workers, No Food? Evidence From Specialty Crop Production"
Revisiting Economic Assimilation of Mexican and Central American Immigrants in the United States
COVID-19, Farm Labor, and the Agri-Food System
COVID-19 and Farm Workers: Challenges Facing California Agriculture
Recent Mexican and Central American Immigrants Have Performed Well in the Labor Market, but There is Room for Improvement
Working Paper by Zachariah Rutledge Released
Giovanni Peri & Zachariah Rutledge's Discussion Paper Released in IZA Institute for Labor Economics
Giovanni Peri and Zachariah Rutledge's paper "Revisiting Economic Assimilation of Mexican and Central Americans Immigrants in the United States" was recently released as an IZA discussion paper.
J. Edward Taylor, Zachariah Rutledge, and Diane Charlton's Article Published on Farm and Dairy News
Professor J. Edward Taylor, Assistant Professor Diane Charlton, and PhD Student Zachariah Rutledge's article titled "Innovations for shrinking agricultural workforce" was recently published on Farm and Dairy news.
Zachariah Rutledge Interviewed by the Western Farm Press About Farm Labor Issues in California
“As a Ph.D. student I had already worked on some immigration issues in my studies, and when this topic surfaced I began looking deeper into the issue and realized that we lacked a lot of good information to properly examine and fully explore the issue,” Rutledge told Western Farm Press in a telephone interview. “I contacted the California Farm Bureau which had conducted a survey in 2017. I felt like we needed to add additional questions to the survey to get a broader picture of the issue, and the CFB agreed to partner with us to conduct the 2019 updated survey.”
Zachariah Rutledge Interviewed by the Sacramento Business Journal About his Recent Work on Farm Employee Availability
"Although there is evidence that some of the farmers are switching acreages, in my opinion, it doesn't seem to be happening at an alarming rate," Zachariah Rutledge, a UC Davis researcher and one of the paper's co-authors said. "But the trend is going upward."