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Econofood Potlucks

Econ-o'food Econofood Potlucks 

Econo’food potluck 2025, back home edition

February 9, 2025February 10, 2025 Will Masters

Our 11th annual class potluck was back at home! To see the context, check out posts on previous events featuring

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Econ-o'food Econofood Potlucks 

Econo’food potluck 2023 — long awaited back in person

April 30, 2023April 30, 2023 Will Masters

After three years of you-know-what, we returned for a 9th edition of the econo’food potluck last week. One change for

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Econ-o'food Econofood Potlucks 

Econo’food potluck 20/20 — seeing clearly what we want

February 22, 2020February 23, 2020 Will Masters

Economic explanations can be like trying to explain why a joke is funny: it takes a long time, and by

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Econ-o'food Econofood Potlucks 

Econo’food potluck 2019 — theory meets practice

March 3, 2019August 28, 2024 Will Masters

Our 7th annual econ-of-food class potluck, new and improved: now with an original student recipe! If the blog post below

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Econ-o'food Econofood Potlucks 

Econo’Food potluck 2018

February 12, 2018February 22, 2020 Will Masters

This year’s class potluck was especially saboroso, with a delicious Sopa Paraguaya from Gabi Fretes — and a wild Puerto

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Econ-o'food Econofood Potlucks 

Econ o’Food potluck 2017 – practicing what we preach

February 24, 2017February 22, 2020 Will Masters

Our fifth annual class potluck this week was terrific.  We do love our food! For this year, we were able

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Econ-o'food Econofood Potlucks 

Econ o’Food potluck 2016 — a table of delights

March 3, 2016February 22, 2020 Will Masters

Our fourth annual Econ o’Food potluck was last night, the biggest ever and great fun. This year we had prizes

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Econ-o'food Econofood Potlucks 

Midterms done? Let’s eat!

March 14, 2015February 22, 2020 Will Masters

A fun feature of NUTR 238 is our annual econ-of-food potluck dinner, to celebrate the privileges of modern food culture. 

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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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