Agriculture Policy Conference 2021:

Agriculture Policy in the Age of COVID

October 14-15, 2021

2021 CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

Thursday, October 14th, 1 p.m. CST

PANEL ONE: The U.S. Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in a Time of Stress and Change

  • Minfang Wei, University of Illinois and Craig Gundersen, Baylor Collaborative on Hunger and Poverty (BCHP)
    Examining the Impact of the SNAP Benefit Formula on Food Insecurity

  • Travis Smith, University of Georgia; Chandra Dhakal, PhD Candidate, University of Georgia; and Chen Zhen, University of Georgia
    Purchase Efficiency among SNAP Beneficiaries

  • Hoa Hoang, Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute, University of Missouri; Patrick Westhoff, Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute, University of Missouri; Wyatt Thompson, Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute, University of Missouri; Younghyeon Jeon, Graduate Student, University of Missouri
    Federal Expenditures on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in the Context of Policy Responses and Reforms


Thursday, October 14th, 3 p.m. CST

PANEL TWO

  • James Sayre, Ph.D. Candidate, UC Berkeley ARE
    Farm to Firm: Clustering and Returns to Scale in Agricultural Exporting

  • Sunghun Lim, Texas Tech University
    Tariffs, Agricultural Subsidies, and the 2020 US Presidential Election

  • Will Martin, International Food Policy Research Institute
    Modeling Development Policies with Multiple Objectives

  • Joe Weinberg, The University of Southern Mississippi
    Keeping Score: The Two Dimensions of Trade Protection


Friday, October 15th, 10 a.m. CST

PANEL THREE

  • Nguyen Vuong, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    The Long-term Impact of Organochlorine Pollution in Soil and Groundwater on Academic Performance

  • Leah English, Ph.D. Candidate/Research Associate, University of Arkansas
    The Phosphate Paradox: Analysis of Struvite Recovery as a Potential Solution

  • Liza von Grafenstein, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Göttingen
    Information Source and Content–Drivers for Consumers’ Valuation of Fairly Traded Foods

  • Michel Robe, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Canary in the Coal Mine: COVID-19 and Soybean Futures Market Liquidity


Friday, October 15th, 1 p.m. CST

PANEL FOUR

  • Henry Thomson, University of Missouri
    Labor-Saving Technology and Rural Unrest: Evidence from Brazil

  • Ore Koren, Indiana University Bloomington
    Koren Food Prices, Social Conflict, and the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank

  • Chelsea Estancona, University of South Carolina
    From Cocaine to Avocados: Criminal Market Expansion and Violence

  • Jeffrey Michler, University of Arizona
    Family Ties: Understanding Household Labor Allocation for Mitigating Impacts of Disasters, Conflict, and COVID-19


To submit a full panel proposal, or if you have any questions about the research group or the conference, please contact me directly.

Cheers,

Joe Weinberg 
Associate Professor of Political Science
The University of Southern Mississippi
Joseph.Weinberg@usm.edu