FACULTAD DE
AGRONOMÍA y SISTEMAS NATURALES

• Ph.D. Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California at Berkeley, 1987.
• M.Sc., Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Maryland, 1981.

• Anriquez, G., Foster, W., Ortega, J., Santos Rocha, J. 2020. In search of economically significant food losses: Evidence from Tunisia and Egypt. Food Policy, art. no. 101912. Online. DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2020.101912
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• Anríquez, G., Foster, W.E., Ortega, J. 2020. Rural and agricultural subsidies in Latin America: Development costs of misallocated public resources. Development Policy Review, 38 (1):140-158. DOI: 10.1111/dpr.12389
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• Perez-Silva, R., Partridge, M.D., Foster, W.E. 2019. Are foreign-born researchers more innovative? Self-selection and the production of knowledge among PhD recipients in the USA. Journal of Geographical Systems, 21(4):557-594. DOI: 10.1007/s10109-018-0281-6.
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• Fercovic, J., Foster, W.E., & Melo, O. 2019. Economic development and residential water consumption in Chile. Environment and Development Economics, 24(1):23-46. DOI:10.1017/S1355770X18000463.
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• Modrego, F., P. McCann, W. Foster and R. Offert. 2017. Location and entrepreneurship in Chile: Insights from a spatially-explicit occupational choice model. Journal of Regional Science, 57(4):669-697. DOI: 10.1111/jors.12323.
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• Foster, W.E., G. Anríquez, O. Melo, D. Yupanqui, and J. Ortega. 2016. Geographic disparities in rural land appreciation in a transforming economy: Chile, 1980 to 2007.
  Land Use Policy 57:655-668.
• Modrego, F., McCann, P., Foster, W.E. and Olfert, M. R. 2015. Regional entrepreneurship and innovation in Chile: a knowledge matching approach. Small Business Economics 44:685-703.

Capítulo de libro

• Foster, W.E. and O. Melo. 2018. Chile. pp. 358-383. In Anderson, K., & Pinilla, V., eds. Wine globalization: a new comparative history. Cambridge University Press. Cambrigde. 546 p. ISBN 978-1-107-19292-8.
• Valdés, A., Foster, W.E. 2018. Agricultural and Rural Policies in Chile. pp. 291-308. In William H. Meyers and Thomas Johnson, eds. Handbook of International Food and Agricultural Policies: Policies for Agricultural Markets. World Scientific Publishing.

Libro

• Valdés, A., Foster, W.E. 2015. La reforma agraria en Chile: historia, efectos y lecciones. Ediciones UC, ISBN: 9789561416819. 114 páginas.

• 2019-2021. Capitalizing Trade Opportunities in the Trade of Agrifood Products: Opportunities and Threats within the EU-Chile Trade Agreement. Fondo Concursable AGCI/WBI Wallonia. Coinvestigador.
• 2013-2016. The development of a hedonic model of farmland values: an application to chilean agriculture and the potential impacts of climate change, FONDECYT - FONDECYT-REGULAR, Código 1130540. Investigador Responsable.