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.
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."
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."