Research

Peer-Reviewed Publications

• Weather, cropland expansion, and deforestation in Ethiopia (With Zhenshan Chen). Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0095069621001327

• Political and Economic Determinants of Export Restrictions in the Agricultural and Food Sector. He, X. (2022). Agricultural Economics onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/agec.12684

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

Final version; Appendix; Data and code; Open access version;

• US Agricultural Exports and Labor Market Adjustments, He, X. (2020). Agricultural Economics. 51(4), 609-621.

Final version; Appendix; Data and code;

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

Media Coverage: BenefitsPro; ScienceDaily; EurekAlert;

2020 AAEA Health Economics Section Best Paper Award

• Stochastic Frontier Estimation of Market Power in the Food Industries, Lopez, R. A., He, X., & Azzam, A. (2018). Journal of Agricultural Economics 69(1), 3-17

• What Drives China’s New Agricultural Subsidies, Lopez, R. A., He, X., & De Falcis, E. (2017). World Development 93, 279-292

• Unitary or Noncooperative Intrahousehold Model? Evidence from Couples in Uganda, Fiala, N., & He, X. (2017). The World Bank Economic Review 30(Supplement-1), S77-S85.

• Are Online and Offline Advertising Substitutes or Complements? Evidence from US Food Industries, He, X., Lopez, R., & Liu, Y. (2017). Journal of Agricultural & Food Industrial Organization 15(2).

• Buyer and/or seller power? An application to the Brazilian milk market. Scalco, P. R., Lopez, R. A., & He, X. (2017). Applied Economics Letters 24(16), 1173-1176.

Working Papers and Paper Under Review

• COVID-19 and Regional Economy in China: A General Equilibrium Modelling using GAMS (With Edward Balistreri, Gyu Hyun Kim, Wendong Zhang). Revise and resubmit at Journal of Productivity Analysis.

• How Exposure to Conservative, Liberal, and Neutral Media Affects U.S. Midwest Farmers’ Reactions to the U.S.-China Trade Conflict (Minghao Li, Wendong Zhang, Lulu Rodriguez, James M Gbeda, Shuyang Qu) Under Review.

• China’s Growing Feed Imports: Projections from the CARD Agricultural Modeling Approach (With Dermot Hayes, Miguel Carriquiry, Amani Elobeid, Wendong Zhang, Minghao Li) Under Review at Agribusiness

Work in progress

• Roads, Trade, and Development: Evidence from the Agricultural Boom in Brazil (with Gil Depaula and Wendong Zhang)

• Agricultural Trade Impacts of RCEP: an Integrated Partial Equilibrium and General Equilibrium Assessment (With Edward Balistreri, Anton Yang, Wendong Zhang)

• Distributional Impacts of Dams on Agricultural Production and Poverty: Evidence from China

• Agricultural Imports, Self-selected Migration, and Income Inequality in Rural China

• Upstream and Downstream Concentration in the U.S. Agro-food Industries.

• How Does SNAP Affect Diet Quality? Evidence from FoodAPS