Professor of Economics GianCarlo Moschini has been named a recipient of the 2020 Quality of Research Discovery Award from the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA).

Moschini was nominated with Federico Ciliberto of the University of Virginia and Edward Perry of Kansas State University for their paper "Valuing product innovation: genetically engineered varieties in US corn and soybeans" (Rand Journal of Economics 50(3):615-644).

The Quality of Research Discovery Award is granted to encourage excellent publications in fields consistent with the AAEA Vision Statement. Entries must demonstrate excellence in research methodology.