Refereed Publications (^ graduate students)

2024

1. "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

2. "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

3. "Intrahousehold Resource Allocation and Child Food Poverty in the United States" with  ^Wanqi Liang, Qingxiao Li and Shuoli Zhao, Accepted. Review of Economics of the Household

4. "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

5. "Virtual Water Trade: Does Bilateral Tariff Matter?", with Rui Chen, ^Derick Adu, and Norbert Wilson, 2024. Ecological Economics, 222, 108216

6. "Diet in China during Substantial Economic Growth: Quality, Inequality, Trends, and Determinants", with ^Siqi Gao, Joel Cuffey, and Gucheng Li, 2024. China Economic Review, 86, 102208

7. "Does the Advertising of Plant-based Burger Attract Meat Consumers? The Influence of New Product Advertising on Consumer Responses" with Lingxiao Wang, and Yuqing Zheng, 2024. Agribusiness, 40(3), 680-698 

8. "Asymmetric Price Volatility Spillover Between Capture Fisheries and Aquaculture Markets" with ^Prokash Deb, 2024. Aquaculture Economics & Management, 28(1), 56-81

9. "Trade and Development Implications of the U.S. African Growth and Opportunity Act", with ^Derick Adu and Wendiam Sawadgo, Forthcoming. Applied Economics

10. "U.S. Trade Policy and Public Health: Heterogeneous Effects from the North American Free Trade Agreement", with ^Derick Adu, and Wendiam Sawadgo, Forthcoming. Public Health Nutrition

11. "Consumer Spending on Plant-Based Meat Alternatives" with Joel Cuffey, Lauren Chenarides, and Shuoli Zhao, Forthcoming. Choices

12. "2024 Q1 Agricultural Trade Series: US-China Trade Trends and Opportunities for Alfalfa Exports" with ^Peibin Hou, Bochen Shen, Xiangwen Kong, and Wendiam Sawadgo, Oct. 2024. Plains Press: Highlights in Agricultural Research

2023

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

2. "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

3. "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

4. "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). 

5. "Price Volatility Modelling for Lumber Futures Market: A GARCH-MIDAS Approach" with ^Prokash Deb, and Noel Perceval Assogba, 2023. Forest Science, 69(5), 510-519

6. "Impact of Internet Usage on the Subjective Well-being and Social Mobility of Urban and Rural Households: Evidence from Vietnam" with ^Wanqi Liang, 2023. Telecommunications Policy, 47(3), 102518 

7. "What Drives Land Use Change in the Southern U.S.? A Case Study of Alabama" with ^Eugene Adjei, Lana Narine, and Yaoqi Zhang, 2023. Forests, 14(2), 171. (SCI)

2022

1. "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

• Media Coverage:  Auburn Agriculture (Link). 

2. "Are Declining Auction Prices a Result of Bidder Behavior or Auctioneer Strategy? Evidence from Cattle Auctions" with Jeffrey Dorfman and ^Jingfang Zhang, 2022. Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, 1(4), 459-475. 

3. "Cross-hedging in the classroom: Engaging Students in Developing Scholarly Extension Output" with Joel Cuffey, Wendiam Sawadgo, and Adam Rabinowitz, 2022. Applied Economics Teaching Resources, 4(2), 59-68. 

4. "What Drives the Change in Employment in the U.S. Logging Industry? — A Directed Acyclic Graph Approach" with ^Mingtao He, Mathew Smidt, and Yaoqi Zhang, 2022. Forest Products Journal, 72(4), 265–275. (SCI)

5. "Nowcasting of Lumber Futures Price with Google Trends Index Using Machine Learning and Deep Learning Models" with ^Mingtao He, Brian Via, and Yaoqi Zhang, 2022. Forest Products Journal, 72(1): 11-20. (SCI)

2021

1. "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), AAEA Press Release (Link), Auburn Agriculture (Link).

2. "Logging Industry in the United States: Employment, Firms, Technology, and Profitability" with ^Mingtao He, Mathew Smidt, and Yaoqi Zhang, 2021. Forests, 12(12), 1720. (SCI)

3. “Marketing Tools: Cross-Hedging.” with Marline Syribeys, Raeann Folds, Nolan Sasser, Brock Barrontine, Joel Cuffey, and Wendiam Sawadgo, 2021. The Alabama Cooperative Extension System (Alabama A&M University and Auburn University). Report No. ANR-2809. July 2021. 

2020 

1. "Beauty Burst during Economic Decline: An Empirical Test of the Lipstick Effect" with Chen Zhen and Jeffrey Dorfman, 2020. Applied Economics, 52(25), 2694-270. 

2019

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

2. "Dynamically Changing Cattle Market Linkages with Supply-Side-Controlled Transitions" with Yunhan Li and Jeffrey Dorfman, 2019. Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 51(3), 472-484. 

2018

1. "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.