Welcome to my webpage!

I will join the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics at Virginia Tech as an Assistant Professor in August 2022.

My primary fields are agricultural trade and food policy analysis, nutrition and health.

Email: xih@vt.edu


Selected publications

  • Weather, cropland expansion, and deforestation in Ethiopia (2022). (With Zhenshan Chen). Journal of Environmental Economics and Management.

  • Political and Economic Determinants of Export Restrictions in the Agricultural and Food Sector. He, X. (2022). Agricultural Economics.

  • Regional Trade Agreements and Excluded Countries. He, X. (2022). American Journal of Agricultural Economics.

  • Medicaid Expansion and Non-alcoholic Beverage Choices by Low-income Households, He, X., Lopez, R.,& Boehm, R. (2020). Health Economics 29(11), 1327-1342.