Amelia B. Finaret

Amelia is a food economist. Food economics studies how resources are allocated across the food system from farm production to families in their home kitchens. She is particularly interested in how we choose foods, which is an economic decision that we make multiple times per day. She is also a registered dietitian who counsels patients on food choices for their medical conditions.

Her research is on child nutrition and dietary quality, dietary transitions, the economics of malnutrition, and data quality in large-scale household survey datasets. It has been published in journals including Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, Food Policy, The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, The Handbook of Agricultural Economics, Nature Communications, The Journal of Nutrition, Economics and Human Biology, The American Journal of Human Biology, Nutrition Reviews, Food Security, World Development, and Annual Review of Resource Economics. You can find her publications on Google Scholar.