The Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA) is a not-for-profit association serving the professional interests of members working in agricultural and broadly related fields of applied economics.
About 1,400 participants are expected to attend the 2023 AAEA Annual Meeting in Washington DC at the Marriott Marquis, July 23-25, 2023. The Annual Meeting is made up of Invited Paper Sessions, Invited Case Study Papers, Organized Symposia, Selected Presentation Lightning Sessions, Selected Presentations, and Track Sessions.
Each year, many members of our Friedman School community attend and present their work. In the selected schedule below, you'll find their paper presentations, symposia, lightning sessions, and track sessions devoted to common interest areas. You can visit the AAEA Annual Meeting site for more details about the overall schedule. If you are participating and you'd like to be included below, please email sarah.cronin@tufts.edu.
| Date | Time | Presenter/Role | Presentation Title and Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7/22 | 1PM - 3PM | Parke Wilde |
AAEA PRE-Conference Workshop for grantees of the National Institute for Food and Agriculture. USDA-NIFA AFRI Project Directors Meeting. Agricultural Economics and Rural Communities Programs. |
| 7/22 | 4PM - 7PM |
Shijun Gao (co-organizer) |
Conferencing Like a Pro: Strategies for a Successful Conference Experience (PC 16) |
| Date | Time | Presenter/Role | Presentation Title and Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7/23 | - | - | - |
| Date | Time | Presenter/Role | Presentation Title and Type | Co-Authors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7/24 | 1:00 - 2:30PM | Yue Zhan, PhD Candidate | The unintended consequence of school meals on childhood overweight and obesity: Evidence from a subsidized preschool meal pilot in China | |
| 7/24 | 2:45 - 4:15PM | Leah Costlow | Using least-cost diets to measure food access globally: Results and implications (Oral presentation in track session 3721) | |
| 7/24 | 2:45 - 4:15PM | Rachel Gilbert | Trade policy, retail food prices and access to healthy diets (Session 3639: Markets and Policy Lightning Session) |
William A. Masters, Steve Block, Leah Costlow, and Julia Matteson (Tufts University), Ekaterina Krivonos and Jakob Rauschendorfer (Markets and Trade Division, FAO) |
| Date | Time | Presenter/Role | Presentation Title and Type | Co-Authors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7/25 | 10:00AM | Wenhui Feng, PhD, MPP | Household Food Purchasing Behavior in Dollar Stores and Body Mass Index, 2010-2018 | Zhan Yue (Tufts), Yongyi Pan (Tufts), and Elina Page (USDS-ERS), and Sean Cash (Tufts) |
| 7/25 | 10:00AM | Kathy Fuller, PhD | Are Consumers Willing to Pay for an FDA Healthy Label? | Julia Reedy, Sean Cash, and Dariush Mozaffarian |
| 7/25 | 10:00 - 11:30AM | Shijun Gao (Co-Organizer and Moderator) | Exploring the Effectiveness of Nudging tools and information Provision on Consumer Food Choice (Track Session) | |
| 7/25 | 10:00 - 11:30AM | Shijun Gao | U.S. consumer preferences for different quality grade labels | |
| 7/25 | 10:00 - 11:30AM | Elena Martinez | Retail prices for sustainable, healthy diets: are foods with lower environmental impacts and healthier nutritional profiles also more expensive? (Selected paper in lightning talk session 3622) | Nicole T. Blackstone, Parke E. Wilde, William A. Masters |
| 7/25 | 10:00 - 11:30AM | William A. Masters | Food Prices and Nutrition: Using Least-Cost Healthy Diets to Monitor and Improve Global Food Security (Oral presentation in track session 3669) | |
| 7/25 | 10:00 - 11:30AM | Aishwarya Venkat | Supply Chain Resilience to Extreme Weather: Evidence from Early Warning Systems (Selected paper in lightning talk session 3632) | William A. Masters |
| 7/25 | 1:00 -2:30PM | Parke Wilde (co-organizer) | Food Prices in Federal Nutrition Assistance Programs (Track Session 3713) | |
| 7/25 | 1:00 -2:30PM | Yiwen Zhao, Penn State | Making Healthy Food More Affordable (paper presentation) | Linlin Fan, Penn State; Norbert Wilson, Duke University; Parke Wilde, Tufts |
| 7/25 | 1:00 -2:30PM | Shijun Gao | "Effect of product and country image on U.S. consumers’ domestic beef preferences" | |
| 7/25 | 2:45 - 4:15PM | Sean B. Cash, PhD | “Cost of Grocery Foods Consumed by US Adults in NHANES" (Part of organized session 3720) | Jessie Jie Lan (Tufts); Katherine Fuller (Tufts); Lu Wang (Tufts); Nicole T. Blackstone (Tufts); Andrea C. Carlson; Nicola McKeown; Patrick Webb (Tufts); Sean B. Cash (Tufts); Fang Fang Zhang (Tufts) |
| 7/25 | 2:45PM | Kathy Fuller, PhD |
A Cross-Country Choice Experiment on Naming Effects for Cellular Agricultural Meat Products |
Caroline Andrews, and Sean Cash |
| 7/25 | 2:45PM | Kathy Fuller, PhD | Marketing Sustainably Grown Pecans by Means of Water Footprint | |
| 7/25 | 2:45 - 4:15PM | Suzannah Gerber | "Marketing Plant-Based versus Animal-Sourced Foods in Online Grocery Stores: A Comparative Content Analysis of Sustainability and Other Product Claims in the United States" (Alternative agri-food products to tackle climate change track session) | Additional Tufts-affiliated presenters for this session are Sean Cash, Katherine Fuller, and Shijun Gao |
| Date | Time | Presenter/Role | Presentation Title and Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7/26 | 1:30 - 3:00PM | Parke Wilde (panelist) | Publishing Applied Economic Research on Health and Nutrition |