Best Paper Award

Best Economics Paper: Food Safety and Nutrition

Each year at its business meeting, the FSN section makes an award for the best paper on the economics of food safety and human nutrition published in the previous year. Theoretical and applied research is equally acceptable. Reviewers will look for innovative original research with a high impact. Authors do not need to be members of AAEA or the Section to be considered. In order to be eligible, a paper must have been published in an English-language peer-reviewed journal with a publication date in the year prior to the award. A call for nominations, including self nominations, is issued each spring.  

Please check back for more information regarding the 2013 Call for Nominations.

Past Award Winners

Chen Zhen, Michael K. Wohlgenant, Shawn Karns, and Phillip Kaufman, "Habit Formation and Demand for Sugar-Sweetened Beverages" American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2011.

Wen You and George Davis, "Household Food Expenditures. Parental Time Allocation, and Childhood Overweight." American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2010.

Sharon Maccini and Dean Yang, “Under the Weather: Health, Schooling, and Economic Consequences of Early-Life Rainfall.” American Economic Review, 2009.

Honorable Mention: Carlos Arnada, Linda Calvin, and Fred Kuchler. 2009. “Consumer Response to a Food Safety Shock: The 2006 Foodborne Illness Outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 Linked to Spinach.” Appl. Econ. Perspect. Pol., 2009.

Christiane Schroeter, Jayson Lusk and Wallace Tyner, “Determining the Impact of Food Price and Income Changes on Body Weight”. Journal of Health Economics, 2008.

Jay Shimshack, Michael Ward and Timothy Beatty, “Mercury Advisories: Information, Education, and Fish Consumption”. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2007.

David Hennessy and GianCarlo Moschini, “Regulatory Actions Under Adjustment Costs and the Resolution of Scientific Uncertainty”. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2006.

Marianne Bitler and Janet Currie, “Does WIC work? The effects of WIC on pregnancy and birth outcomes”. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2005.