Economics of Food and Agriculture
Researchers with a focus in food and agriculture apply economic principles, data analytics, and modeling to important questions related to food and agriculture. Research by faculty in this group informs policy and management issues related to farms, markets and consumers. Their work helps firms and people in the food system to thrive, and advances strategies for sustainable food and agriculture production. Topics include farm management and commodity markets, agricultural finance and policy, sustainable food and agriculture, food waste, food for health, food security and food marketing.
Work by this group strengthens farm resilience, improving sustainability, reducing waste, enhancing food security and promoting better health outcomes.
Recent publications
The Relationship between Bank Mergers and Acquisitions and Local Commercial Bank Lending to Agriculture: A County-Level Analysis
Ani Katchova and Abdoul Sam
Food inflation pass‐through from agricultural imports in a small open economy.
Seungki Lee
Nonclassical measurement error in farmland markets with implications for Ricardian analysis.
Margaret Jodlowski
The relative strength of relationships between food access components and food insecurity
Jared Grant
Do Agricultural Wages Exhibit Wage Compression? Evidence From Administrative and Worker-Level Data
Margaret Jodlowski
MFP and CFAP Official Announcement and Pre-official Announcement Effects on the Corn and Soybean Futures Market
Ani Katchova
Size-Based Regulations and Environmental Quality: Evidence from the U.S. Livestock Industry
Chen-Ti Chen and Gabriel Lade
The Future of Dispute Resolution in International Trade
Ian Sheldon
Agricultural and applied economists' views on pre‐registration and pre‐analysis plans for empirical research
Wuyang Hu
Farm-level agricultural productivity and adaptation to extreme heat
Alexis Villacis
Means and ends sustainability nudges, information effects, and consumer restaurant patronage
Wuyang Hu
Recent ‘Power-Based’ Bargaining by the United States: Implications for the WTO and Global Trade Flows
Ian Sheldon
The Value of Food Wasted by U.S. Short-term Rental Lodgers
Brian Roe
The Relationship Between Interest Rates and Agricultural Commodity Price Dynamics
Ani Katchova
Agricultural innovation for climate change: limited but positive impacts of commercialized drought-tolerant corn
Seungki Lee
Similarities in the US Department of Agriculture International Baseline Projections
Ani Katchova
Segmenting U.S. Consumers by Food Waste Attitudes and Behaviors: Opportunities for Targeting Reduction Interventions
Brian Roe
A machine learning-based exploration of resilience and food security
Alexis Villacis
An overview of the history, role, and struggles of agricultural economics and business programs at 1890 Land-Grant Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU)
Jared Grant
Genetically engineered varieties and applied pesticide toxicity in US maize and soybeans: Heterogeneous and evolving impacts
Seungki Lee
Aspirations, risk preferences, and investments in agricultural technologies
Alexis Villacis
A Simple but Powerful Simulated Certainty Equivalent Approximation Method for Dynamic Stochastic Problems
Yongyang Cai
The role of recall periods when predicting food insecurity: A machine learning application in Nigeria
Alexis Villacis
Food Choice Behavior of Adolescents under Parent-Child Interaction in the Context of US School Lunch Programs
Brian Roe
Ecosystem services and agricultural land rents: The producer cost of bat population crashes
Amy Ando
Meet the meatless: Demand for new generation plant‐based meat alternatives
Wuyang Hu
Sustainable Agricultural Production, Income and Eco-Labelling: What Can Be Learned from a Modern Ricardian Approach
Ian Sheldon
On the value of innovation and extension information: SCN‐resistant soybean varieties
Seungki Lee
Using truck-to-trunk programs to increase food security and help support farm incomes.
Jared Grant
Is ICE freezing US agriculture? Farm-level adjustment to increased local immigration enforcement
Margaret Jodlowski
On the money: Characterizing banking and lending in the California cannabis industry
Margaret Jodlowski
Programmatic support and networks
Researchers in this group secure major grants from sources such as the U.S. Department of Agriculture and National Science Foundation. Valuable support also comes from Endowed Chair programs and research collaboratives:
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The Farm Income Enhancement Program
Professor Ani Katchova
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The Andersons Program in International Trade
Professor Ian Sheldon
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Ohio State Food Waste Collaborative
Professor Brian Roe
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The C. Williams Swank Chair in Rural-Urban Policy
Associate Professor Gabriel Lade
Faculty researchers
Associate Professor
- Agricultural Productivity & Development Economics
Email bevis.16@osu.edu
Phone 614-292-8797
Assistant Professor
- Agricultural Production
Email chen.13041@osu.edu
Phone 614-292-3776
Assistant Professor
- Food Accessibility & Food Security
Email grant.829@osu.edu
Phone 614-292-2258
Assistant Professor
- Farm Labor & Farm Household
Email jodlowski.1@osu.edu
Phone 614-688-2938
Professor
Farm Income Enhancement Chair
- Agricultural Finance & Farm Income
Email katchova.1@osu.edu
Phone 614-292-6229
Professor
- Food Demand, Food System Modeling, & Agricultural/Urban Interface
Email klaiber.16@osu.edu
Phone 614-247-4914
Associate Professor
C. Williams Swank Chair in Rural-Urban Policy
- Agricultural, Environmental, & Natural Resource Economics
Email lade.10@osu.edu
Assistant Professor
- Agricultural Production & Technology Adoption
Email lee.10168@osu.edu
Phone 614-247-9170
VanBuren Professor
- Food Waste & Behavioral Economics
Email roe.30@osu.edu
Phone 614-688-5777
Professor
Andersons Chair
- Agricultural Trade & Industrial Organization
Email sheldon.1@osu.edu
Phone 614-292-2194
Assistant Professor
- Food, Social Welfare Implications, & Agricultural Production
Email villacis.9@osu.edu
Phone 614-292-6797
