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I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Agricultural Economics at Purdue University, and expect to complete my degree by May 2026. I am interested in Food Security, Economics of Nutrition, and empirical Industrial Organization, with a focus on food access and affordability, nutrition-related policy evaluation, market power and competition in food and agricultural markets, and their implications for household welfare and nutritional outcomes.
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Food Security Dynamics in the United States: A Longitudinal Machine Learning Analysis
This paper studies how households move into and out of food insecurity in the United States using panel data from 1999–2023 and a longitudinal machine learning approach. I find that while most food-secure households remain secure, households that become food insecure face a high risk of staying insecure, suggesting the presence of an “insecurity trap.” The results show that these transitions are driven less by short-term income changes and more by structural burdens such as housing and health insurance costs, with important implications for policy design.
Education
Purdue University | Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics | Expected 2026 May
Binghamton University | M.A. in Economics | 2022
Shanghai Normal University | B.A. in Economics | 2019
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