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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: August 2025

Academic life Econ-o'food

August 16, 2025 Will Masters

Veggie prices in the news

Universities try hard to get their faculty quoted in the media, which happens sometimes through news about our research and

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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