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David Davis

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Title

Professor

Office Building

Harding Hall

Office

246

Mailing Address

Harding Hall 246
Economics-Box 2220
University Station
Brookings, SD 57007

Biography

David Davis is an empirical microeconomist. His research focuses on empirical industrial organization applied to food assistance programs, especially the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC).

Education

  • B.S. in economics | University of South Dakota
  • M.S. in economics | University of Oregon
  • Ph.D. in economics | University of Oregon | 1998

Academic Interests

  • The effect of WIC on the industrial organization of infant formula markets.
  • Food Prices and government policy.
  • Applications of panel data methods to empirical investigations of industrial organization and market power.
  • Cross-section and time-series data methods.

Academic Responsibilities

  • ECON - 201 Principles of Microeconomics
  • ECON - 431 Managerial Economics
  • ECON - 707 Research Methods in Applied Economics
  • ECON - 751 Advanced Managerial Economics
  • DSCI - 424 Operations Research

Committees and Professional Memberships

Committees

  • University Research and Scholarship Committee, chair 2016-2017
  • WIC Food Package Review Committee, National Academies of Science, 2014-2016 Review

Professional Memberships

  • American Economic Association
  • Western Economic Association International
  • Southern Economic Association
  • American Agricultural Economic Association
  • Western Agricultural Economic Association

Work Experience

  • 2009-present, associate professor, Department of Economics, South Dakota State University.
  • 2005-2008, assistant professor, Department of Economics, South Dakota State University.
  • 2001-2005, economist, Food Markets Branch, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, Washington, DC.
  • 1999-2001, senior agricultural economist, Competition Branch, Denver Regional Office, United States Department of Agriculture, Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyard Administration, Denver, CO.
  • 1998-1999, agricultural economist, Competition Branch, Denver Regional Office, United States Department of Agriculture, Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyard Administration, Denver, CO.
  • 1993-1998, graduate teaching fellow, Department of Economics, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon.

Areas of Research

  • Empirical Industrial Organization
  • Government Policy

Publications

  1. "Jahan, Nusrat, Leschewski, Andrea and Davis, David E.. "" Journal of Agricultural and Food Industrial Organization, vol. , no. , 2020, pp. 20200007. DOI: 10.1515/jafio-2020-0007
  2. Andrea M. Leschewski and David E. Davis (2020) The Nutritional Quality of Food Purchases at SNAP-Authorized and Unauthorized Non-Traditional Retailers, Journal of Hunger and Environmental Nutrition, 15:6, 851-865, DOI: 10.1080/19320248.2020.1787289
  3. David E. Davis, 2014 “Buyers Alliances as Countervailing Power in WIC Infant Formula Auctions, Review of Industrial Organization, vol. 45(2), 121-38.
  4. David E. Davis, 2012 “Bidding for WIC infant formula contracts: Do non-WIC customers subsidize WIC customers?” American Journal of Agricultural Economics, vol. 94(1), 80-96.
  5. Davis, David E., 2010, "Prices, Promotions and Supermarket Mergers," Journal of Agricultural and Food Industrial Organization, vol. 8 (1)
  6. Chouinard, Hayley H., David E. Davis, Jeffrey T. LaFrance and Jeffrey M. Perloff, 2010, "Milk Marketing Orders: Who Wins and Who Loses?" Choices, vol. 25(2).
  7. Chouinard, Hayley H., David E. Davis, Jeffrey T. LaFrance and Jeffrey M. Perloff, 2010, "Milk Marketing Order Winners and Losers", Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, vol. 32(1), 59-76.
  8. Chouinard, Hayley H., David E. Davis, Jeffrey T. LaFrance and Jeffrey M. Perloff, 2007, “Fat Taxes: Big Money for Small Change,” Forum for Health Economics and Policy, vol. 10(2).
  9. Davis, David E. and Gerald E. Schluter, 2005, "Labor-Force Heterogeneity as a Source of Agglomeration Economies in an Empirical Analysis of County-Level Determinants of Food Plant Entry," Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, vol. 30(3), December.
  10. Stewart, Hayden and David E. Davis, 2005, “Price Dispersion and Accessibility: A Case Study of Fast Food,” Southern Economic Journal, vol. 71(4), 784-799, April.
  11. Davis, David E. and Wesley, W. Wilson, 2003 “Wages in Rail Markets: Deregulation, Mergers and Changing Network Characteristics.” Southern Economic Journal, vol. 69(4), 865-885, April.
  12. Davis, David E. and Wesley W. Wilson, 1999 “Deregulation, Mergers and Employment in the Railroad Industry.” Journal of Regulatory Economics, vol. 15(1), 5-22 (lead article), January.

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