Happy to be co-hosting with Parke Wilde a webinar recognizing the 25 years of US household food security measurement on April 4. This event will include presentations by participants in a small grant program supported by USDA. Join us! Mizzou Truman School of Gov't & Public Affairs

From our April 4 conference -- 25 Years of Food Security Measurement: Answered Questions and Further Research -- here is an overview video. youtube.com/watch?v=AnIpel…

Today was graduation day at Mizzou. Very proud of Christal Hamilton an her accomplishments. Congrats Christal!

In other countries around the world, children die because of diseases; in our country, the major cause of death for children 1-19 years of age is firearm-related injuries; it was motor vehicle crash for more than 60 years....not anymore. nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

Thank you to Institute of Human Development and Social Change for supporting our efficacy trial of Dost Education w/Irma Arteaga Andy de Barros Sneha Sheth! It is wonderful to have a center at New York University NYU Steinhardt that supports interdisciplinary research, collabs w/n and beyond NYU, and junior scholars.

Glad to have presented my work at the 2022 RDC annual conference at the Kansas City Fed a couple of days ago. Excellent presentations and insightful conversations! census.gov/about/adrm/fsr…

When not going to preschool was normal    blogs.iadb.org/desarrollo-inf…

Stories like this exemplify why I became an economist. Massive reductions in childhood poverty driven largely by policies economists have long pushed for (EITC etc). Many see us as shills for capitalism, but I think this is why most of us do what we do. nytimes.com/2022/09/11/us/…

Congratulations to the 2022 American Society of Hispanic Economists Dissertation Award Recipient, Sergio E Barrera! Sergio is an Assistant Professor at Virginia Tech Economics who researches racial, ethnic, & socioeconomic inequality in labor market, education, and criminal justice outcomes.

Very excited to co-administer the Research Innovation and Development Grants in Economics (RIDGE) program with Parke Wilde Tufts Nutrition and Tatiana Andreyeva UConn Rudd Center

Friends, take a look at our RFP for research on federal nutrition assistance programs at ridge.nutrition.tufts.edu

Friends, join us this coming Monday January 9 at an informational webinar for the 2023 RIDGE grants.

Looking forward to seeing you all at #2023APPAM!

Parke Wilde and I also chatted with the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (JAND), Linda Snetselaar to talk about Food Security Measurements. Listen to it at jandonline.org or YouTube channel at: youtube.com/watch?v=vam_I0…

Dear colleagues, are you looking for #funding to support innovative research on food and nutrition assistant programs? With support from USDA Nutrition, the RIDGE program is now accepting proposals! More: ridge.nutrition.tufts.edu

This is a friendly reminder that we are going to have our informational webinar for the 2024 RIDGE program cycle today at 12:00pm CT/ 1:00 pm ET. More: ridge.nutrition.tufts.edu. Here is the webinar's registration link: tufts.zoom.us/webinar/regist…