I have authored 34 peer-reviewed journal articles in the economics of food, health, and nutrition in collaboration with colleagues and graduate students, with a selection highlighted below:

Selected Publications (^Graduate Students)

1. "Revising Income Eligibility for the National School Lunch Program: Evidence from Indifference Scales for Households with Children" with ^Wanqi Liang, ^Yunei Hua, and Jeffrey Dorfman, Accepted. American Journal of Agricultural Economics

2. "The Cost of Raising a Child: Equivalence Scales in the United States" with ^Peibin Hou, ^Falin Sun, Wendiam Sawadgo, and Samir Huseynov, 2025. Economics Letters, 252, 112359

3. "Global food expenditure patterns diverge between low-income and high-income countries", with ^Wanqi Liang, ^Pathmanathan Sivashankar and ^Yunei Hua, 2024. Nature Food, 5, 592-602

• Award: Outstanding Publication Award, College of Agriculture and Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Auburn University, 2024

4. "A Burning Issue: Wildfire Smoke Exposure, Retail Sales, and Demand for Adaptation in Healthcare" with Xianru Han and Haoluan Wang, 2024. Environmental and Resource Economics, 87, 3011-3039

5. "Nonlinear Effects of Conservation Reserve Program Rental Rates on Land Enrollment under Varying Crop Price Regimes", with ^Eugene Adjei, Jingfang Zhang, and Wendiam Sawadgo, 2024.  Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 46(3), 1038-1064

6. "Estimating the Unintended Impact of North American Free Trade Agreement on the U.S. Public Health" with ^Derick Adu and Wendiam Sawadgo, 2023. Social Science & Medicine, 333, 116140

• Award:  Best Publication Award, Health Economics Section,  Agricultural & Applied Economics Association, 2023

7. "Food for Thought: First place winners – Auburn Big Data." with ^Alex Knipper, ^Naman Bansal, Jingyi Zheng, and Shubhra Kanti Karmaker. Real World Data Science, August 21, 2023.

• Award:  Final Champion, and Winner of the First and Second Interim Challenges for Food for Thought Data Challenge: Using NLP and ML to Link Food and Nutrition Databases, 2022 Link

8. "Consumer Spending Patterns for Plant-Based Meat Alternatives" with Joel Cuffey, Lauren Chenarides, and Shuoli Zhao, 2023. Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 45(1), 63-85. 

• Media Coverage:  FOX28 (Link), AAEA Press Release (Link). 

9. "Retail Food Environment and Household Food Waste: An Empirical Study" with Joel Cuffey, Ruiqing Miao, and Yang Yu, 2023. Food Policy, 117, 102457

10. "Intended and Unintended Consequences of Salient Nutrition Labels" with Eric Finkelstein and Chen Zhen, 2022. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 104(2), 853-872. 

• Award: Best Economics Paper in Food Safety and Nutrition, Agricultural & Applied Economics Association, 2022

11. "Intrahousehold Economies of Scale with Application to Food Assistance and Work Incentive Programs" with Jeffrey Dorfman, 2021. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 103(4), 1251-1267. 

1. • Award:  2021 Outstanding AJAE Article Award. Agricultural & Applied Economics Association

   • Media Coverage:  The Atlantic (Link)

12. "The Implications of Heterogeneous Habit in Consumer Beverage Purchases on Soda and Sin Taxes" with Jeffrey Dorfman, 2019. Food Policy, 84, 111-120. 

13. "Identifying the Effect of Shelf Nutrition Labels on Consumer Purchases: Results of a Natural Experiment and Consumer Survey" with Eric A Finkelstein, Grace Melo, Kiersten Strombotne, and Chen Zhen, 2018. The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 107(4), 647-651.