Research

· 1^st research to rigorously explore the link between livestock health, human food consumption and human nutritional status

· Led a multinational and interdisciplinary research team

· Estimated a 14-equation demand system with seemingly unrelated regression (SAS, GAUSS)

· Managed a novel data platform with 200,000 observations and hundreds of variables

· Generated 2 conference and seminar papers and 1 technique report

· Developed a theoretical model to evaluate the effectiveness of generic advertising in an imperfectly competitive market

· Simulated and predicted the economic return of advertising (SAS, GAUSS)

· Produced 1 professional report and 1 working paper for publication

· Modelled producer remove/plant decision using generalized method of moments (SAS)

· Solved challenges including autocorrelation, contemporaneous correlation, and endogeneity amongst variables

· Generated 1 working paper and 1 conference paper

· Collected data from laboratories, research institutes and state government

· Designed a comprehensive survey

· Resulted in an accurate and thorough estimate of the cost

· Summarized vast literature in nutrition, U.S. food policies and health issues

· Modelled intra-household resource allocation decision with a multivariate Tobit model (SAS, STATA)

· Provided marketing strategies and policy deliberations by investigating socio-economic factors that alter consumption behaviors

· Improved statistical efficiency using a multivariate sample selection system (SAS, GAUSS)

· Published 2 first-author journal articles and presented in 2 conferences

· Conducted survey experiments at Portland, OR, Minneapolis, MN and Boston, MA

· Found a higher willingness to pay when providing information on biomass to consumers