Publications

• Cuffey, Joel, Wenying Li, Yang Yu, and Ruiqing Miao. 2023. “Retail Food Environment and Household Food Waste: An Empirical Study,” Food Policy, 117: 102457. [Link]

• Scharadin, Benjemin, Yang Yu, and Edward C. Jaenicke. 2021. “Household Time Activities, Food Waste, and Diet Quality: The Impact of Non-Marginal Changes Due to COVID-19,” Review of Economics of the Household, 19: 399–428. [Link]

• Yu, Yang and Edward C. Jaenicke. 2021. “Progress and Challenges in Empirical FoodWaste Research–Authors’ Response to Comment.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 103(1): 26-29. [Link]

• Yu, Yang. and Edward C. Jaenicke. 2020. “The Effect of Sell-by Dates on Purchase Volume and Food Waste.” Food Policy. [Link] [SSRN link]

• Yu, Yang, and Edward C. Jaenicke. 2020. “Estimating Food Waste as Household Production Inefficiency,” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 102(2): 525-547. [Link] [pre-print at SSRN]

Featured in the [AAEA] and [Penn State] Press Releases. Media Coverage in [U.S. News], [Forbes], CNBC, and other outlets.

Working Papers

• Yu, Yang, and Linlin Fan. 2023. "Evaluating Food Assistance Programs in the Presence of Food Waste: The Case of SNAP." [SSRN]

  • Previously circulated as working paper entitled "How Does SNAP Affect Household Food Waste?"

• Yu, Yang and Brian E. Roe, "Shelf Life, Consumption Uncertainty, and Food Waste." [SSRN]

• Yu, Yang. "Rational Food Waste and Consistent Estimation of Consumer Demand."

• Yu, Yang. "Optimal Government Subsidy for Achieving Healthy Eating."

Work in Progress:

• Simandjuntak, Daniel P., Edward C. Jaenicke, and Yang Yu, "Who’s Wasting Food? Profiles of Most- and Least-Wasteful Households."

• "Calibrating Actual Consumption in Demand Models: A Toolkit."

• "Endogenous Shelf-Lives of Perishable Products: Market Power and Regulation."