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Curriculum Vitae

Selected Professional Service

• Co-Editor, Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 2024 - Date

• Editorial Board, Journal of Integrative Agriculture, 2022 - Date

• Honor Council Member, Texas A&M University, 2020 - Date

Education

• Ph. D. in Economics, Texas A&M University, 2010

• Ph. D. in Biology, Duke University, 2004

-  Graduate Certificate in Nonlinear and Complex Systems

-  Graduate Certificate in Ecology

• B. S. in Life Sciences, Peking University, 1998

-  Major in Plant Molecular and Developmental Biology

Research Interests

Behavioral Economics, Experimental Economics, Food Economics, Production Economics, Applied Econometrics, Environmental Economics, Neuroeconomics, Bioeconomics

Selected Honors & Awards

• Uma Lele Mentor Award, Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA), 2023

• Outstanding Contribution, Journal of Integrative Agriculture, 2020

• Superior Service Team Award, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension, 2019

• Faculty Guest Coach, TAMU Men’s Basketball Team, NCAA Tournament (TAMU vs. University of South Carolina, Jan 15, 2014), Invited by Center for Student Athlete Services, Texas A&M University, 2014  

Publications (Graduate students advised*)

1. 1. Liu, M.*, Jia, R.*, Zhang, Y. Y. (2025). Curbing Brain Drain: Incentive Programs and Economic Fundamentals in College Students’ Job Location Decisions. Economic Analysis and Policy, accepted.

1. 2. Mwinyiheria, N. Y.*, Salin, V., Zhang, Y. Y., Lin, B., & Chewee, C. (2024). Multi-level marketing system with industrial food processing in Africa: smallholder tomato farmers in Tanzania. International Food and Agribusiness Management Review, 27(2), 217-236.

1. 3. Wang, T., Yi, F., Wu, X., Liu, H., & Zhang, Y. Y. (2024). Calamitous weather, yield risk and mitigation effect of harvest mechanisation: Evidence from China's winter wheat. Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 68(2), 386-412.

1. 4. Su, W.*, Zhang, Y. Y., & Sheng, J. (2024) Consumers’ willingness to pay for alternative protein food products: taste preference, health, and environmental concerns. Applied Economics, accepted.

1. 5. Marwah, P.,* Chen, Q.*, Hou, Y.*, Zhang, Y. Y., Qin, H., & Gu, M. (2024). Impact of COVID-19 on Consumer Behavior in Home Gardening. Horticulturae, 10(12), 1373.

1. 6. Su, W.*, Zhang, Y. Y., Li, S., & Sheng, J. (2024). Consumers’ Preferences and Attitudes towards Plant-Based Milk. Foods, 13(1), 2.

1. 7. Chen, S.*, Li, Q., Wang, Q,. & Zhang, Y.Y. (2023) Multivariate Models of Commodity Future Markets: A Dynamic Copula Approach. Empirical Economics. 64, 3037–3057. 

1. 8. Chen, S.*, Zhang, Y. Y., & Jin, S. (2023). Spousal dependence and intergenerational transmission of body mass index. Applied Economics, 55(43), 5081-5096.

1. 9.  Saboori, B., Radmehr, R., Zhang, Y. Y., & Zekri, S. (2022). A new face of food security: A global perspective of the COVID-19 pandemic. Progress in Disaster Science, 100252.

1. 10. Zhang, Y. Y. (2022). Nonparametric estimation of first price auctions via density–quantile function. Economics Letters, 216, 110560.

1. 11. Melo, G., Monteza, D., Colson, G., & Zhang, Y.Y. (2022). How to Assess? Student preferences for methods to assess experiential learning: a best-worst scaling approach. PLoS One, 17(10), e0276745.

1. 12. Marwah, P.*, Zhang, Y. Y., & Gu, M. (2022). Impacts of Crapemyrtle Bark Scale on Consumers and the Horticulture Industry. Sustainability, 14(3), 1857.

1. 13. Gatson, S. N., Cisneros, M., Brown, R., Aitkenhead-Peterson, J. A., & Zhang, Y. Y. (2021). Urban Networks, Micro-agriculture, and Community Food Security. Circular Economy and Sustainability, 1-13.

1. 14. Marwah, P.*, Zhang, Y. Y., & Gu, M. (2021). Impacts of COVID-19 on the Green Industry. Horticulturae, 7(10), 329.

1. 15. Marwah, P.*, Zhang, Y. Y., & Gu, M. (2021). Investigating Producers’ Preferences for Crapemyrtle and Their Perceptions Regarding Crapemyrtle Bark Scale. Horticulturae, 7(6), 146.

1. 16. Huang, Q., Zhang, Y. Y., Chen, Q., & Ning, M. (2021). Does Air Pollution Decrease Labor Supply of the Rural Middle-Aged and Elderly?. Sustainability, 13(5), 2906.

1. 17. Zhang, Y. Y., Zheng, Q., & Wang, H. (2021). Challenges and Opportunities Facing the Chinese Economy in the New Decade: Epidemics, Food, Labor, E-Commerce, and Trade. The Chinese Economy, 54(6), 373-375.

1. 18. Wu, W., Wu, X., Zhang, Y. Y., & Leatham, D. (2021). Gaussian process modeling of nonstationary crop yield distributions with applications to crop insurance. Agricultural Finance Review. 81(5),767-783.

1. 19. Zhao, K.*, Shi, H., Zhang, Y.Y., & Sheng, J. (2021). Fresh produce e-commerce and online shoppers’ purchase intention. The Chinese Economy, 54(6), 415-429.

1. 20. Yang, X., Zhang, Y., & Li, Q. (2021). The role of price spillovers: what is different in China. Empirical Economics, 60(459–485).

1. 21. Lin, B. X., & Zhang, Y. Y. (2020). Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on agricultural exports. Journal of Integrative Agriculture, 19(12), 2937-2945.

1. 22. Yi, F., Zhou, M., & Zhang, Y. Y. (2020). Value of Incorporating ENSO Forecast in Crop Insurance Programs. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 102(2), 439-457.

1. 23. Wu, X., & Zhang, Y. Y. (2020). A local maximum likelihood model of crop yield distributions. Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics, 68(1), 117-125.

1. 24. Zhang, Y., Jin, S., Zhang, Y. Y., & Yu, X. (2020). How country of origin influences Chinese consumers' evaluation of imported milk?. China Agricultural Economic Review. 13(1), 150-172.

1. 25. Cai, Z., Li, Y., & Zhang, Y. Y. (2020). A network-based approach to examine the impact of within-city industry agglomeration on total factor productivity. Quality Technology & Quantitative Management, 17(6), 738-746.

1. 26. Yi, F., Ye, H., Wu, X., Zhang, Y. Y., & Jiang, F. (2020). Self-aggravation effect of air pollution: Evidence from residential electricity consumption in China. Energy Economics, 86, 104684.

1. 27. Lin, B., & Zhang, Y. Y. (2020). The Impact of Fiscal Subsidies on the Sustainability of China’s Rural Pension Program. Sustainability, 12(1), 186.

1. 28. Zhang, Y. Y., Nayga Jr, R. M., & Depositario, D. P. T. (2019). Learning and the possibility of losing own money reduce overbidding: Delayed payment in experimental auctions. PloS one, 14(5), e0213568.

1. 29. Zhang, Y. Y., Palma, M. A., Jin, S., & Yuan, X.* (2019). US consumer reactions to China's Shuanghui acquisition of Smithfield Foods and its neural basis. Agribusiness, 35(1), 69-83.

1. 30. Lin, B., Lin, Z., Zhang, Y. Y., & Liu, W. (2018). The impact of the new rural pension scheme on retirement sustainability in China: Evidence of regional differences in formal and informal labor supply. Sustainability, 10(12), 4366.

1. 31. Zhang, Y. Y. (2017). A density-ratio model of crop yield distributions. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 99(5), 1327-1343.

1. 32. Zhang, Y. Y. (2017). A shape constrained estimator of bidding function of first-price sealed-bid auctions. Economics Letters, 150, 67-72.

1. 33. Green, C., Li, Q., & Zhang, Y. Y. (2017). Nonparametric estimation of regression models with mixed discrete and continuous covariates by the K-nn method. Econometric Reviews, 36(1-3), 205-224.

1. 34. Kassas, B., Palma, M. A., & Zhang, Y. (2016). The role of incentives on preference revelations in auctions versus rankings. Journal of choice modelling, 20, 73-85.

1. 35. Zhang, Y. Y., Wu, X., & Li, Q. (2016). A Simple Consistent Nonparametric Estimator of the Lorenz Curve. In Essays in Honor of Aman Ullah. Emerald Group Publishing Limited.

1. 36. Zhang, Y. Y., Chang, M. S., & Fuller, S. W. (2015). Statistical analysis of vessel waiting time and lockage time on the Upper Mississippi River. Maritime Economics & Logistics, 17(4), 416-439.

1. 37. Liu, W., Zhang, Y. Y., & Li, Q. (2015). A semiparametric varying coefficient model of monotone auction bidding processes. Empirical Economics, 48(1), 313-335.

1. 38. Gao, Y., Zhang, Y. Y., & Wu, X. (2015). Penalized exponential series estimation of copula densities with an application to intergenerational dependence of body mass index. Empirical Economics, 48(1), 61-81.

1. 39. Depositario, D. P. T., Nayga Jr, R. M., Zhang, Y. Y., & Mariano, R. D. E. (2014). Revisiting Cash Endowment and House Money Effects in an Experimental Auction of a Novel Agri‐food Product in the Philippines. Asian Economic Journal, 28(2), 201-215.

1. 40. Sun, Y., Zhang, Y. Y., & Li, Q. (2015). Nonparametric panel data regression models. The Oxford handbook of panel data, 285-324.

1. 41. Zhang, Y. Y., Li, Q., & Li, D. (2011). Recent Developments in Semiparametric and Nonparametric Estimation of Panel Data Models with Incomplete Information: A Selected Review. Missing Data Methods: Cross-sectional Methods and Applications. Advances in Econometrics, 27, 41-62.

1. 42. Zhang, Y. Y., Gu, J., & Li, Q. (2011). Nonparametric panel estimation of online auction price processes. Empirical Economics, 40(1), 51-68.

1. 43. Vamosi, J. C., Zhang, Y., & Wilson, W. G. (2007). Animal dispersal dynamics promoting dioecy over hermaphroditism. The American Naturalist, 170(3), 485-491.

1. 44.  Bi, Y. M., Zhang, Y., Signorelli, T., Zhao, R., Zhu, T., & Rothstein, S. (2005). Genetic analysis of Arabidopsis GATA transcription factor gene family reveals a nitrate‐inducible member important for chlorophyll synthesis and glucose sensitivity. The Plant Journal, 44(4), 680-692.

1. 45. Uyenoyama, M. K., Zhang, Y., & Newbigin, E. (2001). On the origin of self-incompatibility haplotypes: transition through self-compatible intermediates. Genetics, 157(4), 1805-1817.