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Working Papers

2024

1. IDS and AIDS Models for Recreation Demand: Application to Aggregate Beach Visitation
   2024 Annual Meeting, July 28-30, New Orleans, LA, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association
2. Misreporting of SNAP receipt in the Current Population Survey (CPS): Implications for Food Security Research
   2024 Annual Meeting, July 28-30, New Orleans, LA, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association

2023

3. Dietary Quality by Food Source and Demographics in the United States, 1977-2018
   USDA Miscellaneous, United States Department of Agriculture View citations (1)
4. Trends in U.S. Whole-Grain Intakes 1994–2018: The Roles of Age, Food Source, and School Food
   USDA Miscellaneous, United States Department of Agriculture

2019

5. Did the New School Meal Standards Improve the Overall Quality of Children’s Diets
   2019 Annual Meeting, July 21-23, Atlanta, Georgia, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association View citations (1)
   See also Journal Article Did the New School Meal Standards Improve the Overall Quality of Children's Diets?, Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, John Wiley & Sons (2021) View citations (7) (2021)
6. The Effect of Food Security Status on Labor Supply Decisions
   2019 Annual Meeting, July 21-23, Atlanta, Georgia, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association
7. The Effects of Unemployment on Food Security Status
   2019 Annual Meeting, July 21-23, Atlanta, Georgia, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association

2018

8. America’s Eating Habits:Food Away From Home
   Economic Information Bulletin, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service View citations (30)
9. Distributional Impacts of WIC on Dietary Quality of Children: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design
   2018 Annual Meeting, August 5-7, Washington, D.C., Agricultural and Applied Economics Association View citations (1)
10. Do Environmental Conditions Impact Family Relations and Mental Health? A Longitudinal Study
    2018 Annual Meeting, August 5-7, Washington, D.C., Agricultural and Applied Economics Association
11. Expert Panel on Technical Questions and Data Gaps for the ERS Loss-Adjusted Food Availability (LAFA) Data Series
    Contractor and Cooperator Reports, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service View citations (1)
12. How Does SNAP Participation Affect Rates of Diabetes?
    2018 Annual Meeting, August 5-7, Washington, D.C., Agricultural and Applied Economics Association

2017

13. Has the weather got you down? The impact of temperature on mental health
    2017 Annual Meeting, July 30-August 1, Chicago, Illinois, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association
14. How Did the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) Impact the Material Well-being of SNAP Participants? A Distributional Approach
    2017 Annual Meeting, July 30-August 1, Chicago, Illinois, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association

2016

15. Do SNAP Beneficiaries Pay Different Prices throughout the Benefit Month?
    2016 Annual Meeting, July 31-August 2, Boston, Massachusetts, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association

2015

16. Does Ethnicity Matter For Food Choices? An Empirical Analysis of Asian Immigrant Time Use
    2015 AAEA & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting, July 26-28, San Francisco, California, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association View citations (1)
17. Impact of Farm to School Programs on Students’ Consumption of Healthful Foods: An Empirical Analysis in Georgia
    2015 AAEA & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting, July 26-28, San Francisco, California, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association
18. The Evolving Role of Food Sourced Outside the Home on Diets in the U.S.: 1977-2010
    2015 AAEA & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting, July 26-28, San Francisco, California, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association

2014

19. Generalized Quantile Regression in Stata
    2014 Stata Conference, Stata Users Group View citations (7)

2013

20. "Billions and Billions Served" Heterogeneous Effects of Food Source on Child Dietary Quality
    2013 Annual Meeting, August 4-6, 2013, Washington, D.C., Agricultural and Applied Economics Association
21. The Effects of Age and Birth Cohort on Dietary Quality in the United States
    2013 Annual Meeting, August 4-6, 2013, Washington, D.C., Agricultural and Applied Economics Association View citations (2)

2012

22. Distributional Changes in U.S. Dietary Quality 1989-2008
    2012 Annual Meeting, August 12-14, 2012, Seattle, Washington, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association View citations (1)

2011

23. How Americans Rate Their Diet Quality: An Increasingly Realistic Perspective
    Economic Information Bulletin, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service View citations (5)

2010

24. Effects of Taxing Sugar-Sweetened Beverage and Subsidizing Milk: Beverage Consumption, Nutrition, and Obesity among US Children
    115th Joint EAAE/AAEA Seminar, September 15-17, 2010, Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany, European Association of Agricultural Economists View citations (3)
25. Local Food Systems: Concepts, Impacts, and Issues
    Economic Research Report, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service View citations (179)
    Also in MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany (2010) View citations (193)
26. Taxing Caloric Sweetened Beverages: Potential Effects on Beverage Consumption, Calorie Intake, and Obesity
    Economic Research Report, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service View citations (55)
27. The Effects of a Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Tax: Consumption, Calorie Intake, Obesity, and Tax Burden by Income
    2010 Annual Meeting, July 25-27, 2010, Denver, Colorado, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association View citations (7)

2009

28. Access to Affordable and Nutritious Food: Measuring and Understanding Food Deserts and Their Consequences: Report to Congress
    Administrative Publications, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service View citations (47)
29. Emerging Issues in the U.S. Organic Industry
    Economic Information Bulletin, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service View citations (17)
30. How Much are Consumers Paying for Organic Baby Food?
    2009 Annual Meeting, January 31-February 3, 2009, Atlanta, Georgia, Southern Agricultural Economics Association

2008

31. Organic Premiums of U.S. Fresh Produce
    2008 Conference, April 21-22, 2008, St. Louis, Missouri, NCCC-134 Conference on Applied Commodity Price Analysis, Forecasting, and Market Risk Management View citations (24)

Journal Articles

2024

1. Aging out of WIC and child nutrition: Evidence from a regression discontinuity design
   American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2024, 106, (2), 904-924

2023

2. Children Were Only Age Group Improving Whole-Grain Intakes—School Foods Are a Key Factor
   Amber Waves:The Economics of Food, Farming, Natural Resources, and Rural America, 2023, 2023
3. Food Insecurity in the United States: Measurement, Economic Modeling, and Food Assistance Effectiveness
   Annual Review of Resource Economics, 2023, 15, (1), 279-303

2022

4. From paper to plastic: How the transition to EBT affected SNAP enrollment
   Economics Letters, 2022, 220, (C) View citations (1)
5. The effects of aging services and the supplemental nutrition assistance program on food insecurity among older Georgians: 2018–2020
   Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 2022, 44, (2), 635-652 View citations (4)

2021

6. Did the New School Meal Standards Improve the Overall Quality of Children's Diets?
   Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 2021, 43, (4), 1366-1384 View citations (7)
   See also Working Paper Did the New School Meal Standards Improve the Overall Quality of Children’s Diets, 2019 Annual Meeting, July 21-23, Atlanta, Georgia (2019) View citations (1) (2019)
7. Do SNAP Households Pay Different Prices throughout the Benefit Month?
   Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 2021, 43, (3), 1051-1075 View citations (2)
8. Household Food Waste and Inefficiencies in Food Production
   American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2021, 103, (1), 4-21 View citations (11)
9. “Progress and Challenges in Empirical Food Waste Research” – Authors' Response to Comment
   American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2021, 103, (1), 30-34

2020

10. Can Internet Surveys Mimic Food Insecurity Rates Published by the US Government?
    Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 2020, 42, (2), 187-204 View citations (4)
11. How Did The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Affect the Material Well‐Being of SNAP Participants? A Distributional Approach
    Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 2020, 42, (3), 455-476 View citations (3)
12. Schoolchildren Consumed More Whole Grains Following Change in School Meal Standards
    Amber Waves:The Economics of Food, Farming, Natural Resources, and Rural America, 2020, February 2020, (01)
13. Temperature and self-reported mental health in the United States
    PLOS ONE, 2020, 15, (3), 1-20 View citations (9)

2019

14. Demand for Household Food Waste
    Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 2019, 41, (1), 20-36 View citations (15)
15. Salience, Food Security, and SNAP Receipt
    Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2019, 38, (1), 124-154 View citations (12)
16. What is driving increases in dietary quality in the United States?
    Food Policy, 2019, 86, (C), - View citations (6)

2017

17. Do School Food Programs Improve Child Dietary Quality?
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2017, 99, (2), 339-356 View citations (25)

2016

18. Linking Federal Food Intake Surveys Provides a More Accurate Look at Eating Out Trends
    Amber Waves:The Economics of Food, Farming, Natural Resources, and Rural America, 2016, (05), 1 View citations (1)
19. Smith, Travis. "Distributional Analyses on Diet Quality in the United States." PhD Dissertation, University of Minnesota. Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2016, 98, (2), 659-660
20. The Effects of Benefit Timing and Income Fungibility on Food Purchasing Decisions among Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Households
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2016, 98, (2), 564-580 View citations (32)

2014

21. Is Diet Quality Improving? Distributional Changes in the United States, 1989-2008
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2014, 96, (3), 769-789 View citations (16)

2012

22. Consumers Willing To Pay a Premium for Organic Produce
    Amber Waves:The Economics of Food, Farming, Natural Resources, and Rural America, 2012, 2 View citations (1)

2011

23. Measuring weight outcomes for obesity intervention strategies: The case of a sugar-sweetened beverage tax
    Economics & Human Biology, 2011, 9, (4), 329-341 View citations (53)

2010

24. Americans Are More Realistic About the Quality of Their Diets
    Amber Waves:The Economics of Food, Farming, Natural Resources, and Rural America, 2010, 1 View citations (2)
25. Taxing Caloric Sweetened Beverages To Curb Obesity
    Amber Waves:The Economics of Food, Farming, Natural Resources, and Rural America, 2010, 6 View citations (3)
26. Tracking Changes in Dietary Awareness and Food Choices
    Amber Waves:The Economics of Food, Farming, Natural Resources, and Rural America, 2010, 2

2009

27. Does Price or Income Affect Organic Choice? Analysis of U.S. Fresh Produce Users
    Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 2009, 41, (3), 14 View citations (18)
    Also in Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 2009, 41, (3), 731-744 (2009) View citations (12)
28. Got Data? Multiple Data Souces Track U.S. Food Consumption
    Amber Waves:The Economics of Food, Farming, Natural Resources, and Rural America, 2009, 3
29. Growth and Development in the U.S. Retail Organic Food Sector
    Sustainability, 2009, 1, (3), 1-19 View citations (1)
30. U.S. Demand for Organic and Conventional Fresh Fruits: The Roles of Income and Price
    Sustainability, 2009, 1, (3), 1-15 View citations (15)

2005

31. The use of performance analysis technology to monitor the coaching environment in soccer
    International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport, 2005, 5, (3), 126-138

Software Items

2016

1. GENQREG: Stata module to perform Generalized Quantile Regression
   Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics
2. QREGPD: Stata module to perform Quantile Regression for Panel Data
   Statistical Software Components, Boston College Department of Economics View citations (1)