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Food Economics

A resources site for the open-access textbook on Food Economics: Agriculture, Nutrition and Health

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Month: March 2025

March 28, 2025 Will Masters

Why is breakfast so expensive?

This blog post first appeared in the C-FARE newsletter for March 2025. Grocery prices are back in the headlines. Food

Blog posts

Academic life
Advice
Econ-o'food
Econofood Potlucks
Fun experiments
Student posts
Students' start-of-class essays
Uncategorized

Job listings

Friedman careers center postings
Friedman alumni group on LinkedIn
Sustainable Food Jobs (mostly U.S.)
Nutrition-related jobs (ASN)
Devex (US and international)
Economics-related jobs (search “food”)
Policy-related jobs (APPAM)
Boston-area intl. dev. jobs & news (BNID)
Daybook of policy jobs in the US (search “food”)
Idealist job listings (search “food”)
Intl. ag and nutrition jobs+news (Ag2Nut)
TABLE job listings (UK-based but global)
Intl. development jobs (search “food”)
Global health & poverty (80,000 hrs)
Zoe Plakias’s applied econ listings
Barbara Rotger’s thinking food jobs

Helpful newsletters

Food Fix – insider scoops on US policy
Politico – US food & ag policy
Farm Policy News – from Univ. of Illinois
ANH Academy – mostly Africa & Asia
Boston Network for Intl. Dev.
Ag2nut – international nutrition
Chicago Council – global food & ag
Grist-food & agriculture news
Food dive – specialist journalism about the food industry
Food Safety News – nasty stuff to avoid
Dani Nierenberg’s Food Tank
Jeremy Cherfas – food culture
Gro Intel – deep dives into data
FERN’s ag insider news
Rudd Center – obesity policy
David Allison – obesity research
Econofact – US economic policy
Best of EconTwitter – in digestible form

Data & resources

JPAL how-to research resources
WB DIME data analysis handbook
Grad school advice (for econ, but applicable to others)
My list of resources (experimental)
USDA Econ. Res. Service (ERS) data
USDA Food & Nutr. program data
NCCOR – all US food-health data
World Bank data
FAO Statistics (FAOSTAT)
UNICEF statistics
WHO – child heights and weights
WHO – global obesity and BMI
UN system data
HDX – humanitarian crises
The dataverse
IHSN – household surveys
IPUMS – accessible data (incl. IDHS)
Euromonitor – branded foods (library subscription)
Gro Intelligence data
UNCTAD – international trade

Favorite blogs on ag, food & health etc.

Noah Smith – economics of everything
Ethan Mollick – LLMs & AI in higher ed
Ugo Gentilini – social protection
Parke Wilde – food policy
Econofact – US econ policy
Jess Fanzo – food systems
Marc Bellemare – ag & food econ
Chris Blattman – dev econ
Jayson Lusk – ag & food econ
Diane Coyle – economics books
Marion Nestle – food politics
Tamar Haspel – food & ag
World Bank – impact evaluation
BITSS – research methods
Susan Dynarski – education policy

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