Research

Publications

Dorfman, Jeffrey H., Jared D. Grant, and Julian M. Worley. “Using Truck-to-Trunk Programs to Increase Food Security and Help Support Farm Incomes.” Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 44 (2022): 1440-1447. (Link to Paper)

Research in Progress

Jared D. Grant, Michel Lachaud, and Daniel Solis. An Overview of the History, Role, Struggles, and Future of Agricultural Economics and Business Programs at 1890 Land-Grant Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU). (Under Review)

Craig Gundersen, Jared D. Grant, Jeffrey H. Dorfman. The Geography of Black-White Differences in Food Insecurity in the United States. (Under Review)

Jared D. Grant and Jeffrey H. Dorfman. Staples in the Community: A Trust Game Approach for Establishing Grocery Stores in Underserved Areas. (Under Review)

Jeffrey H. Dorfman, Jared D. Grant, and Craig Gundersen. The Relative Strength of Relationships between Food Access Components and Food Insecurity.

Jared D. Grant and Jeffrey H. Dorfman. Grocery Store Grand Openings and Racial/Ethnics Disparities: Bayesian Trust Game Outcomes from Merged Data Sources.

Jared D. Grant. Survival Analysis of SNAP Allowable Retailers.

Jared D. Grant and Joel Cuffey. Equity and Access to GusNIP Retailers: Analyzing GusNIP Locations in Underserved Communities.

Presentations

Grant, J. D, “Survival Analysis of SNAP Allowable Retailers” Paper presented at the SNAP Healthy Eating Incentives Workshop, Auburn, AL., October, 2023.

Grant, J. D, “Raising the Chance of Successful Grocery Store Openings: Survey-based Application of Bayesian Trust Games” Paper presented at the Auburn University Academic Seminar, Auburn, AL, September, 2023.

Grant, J. D, “Moving Toward a Continuous Local Food Access Measure.” Paper presented at the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association Meeting, Washington D.C., July, 2023.

Grant, J. D, “Food Security, Food Accessibility, and Trust: Analyzing Racial/Ethnic Disparities in the Los Angeles Metro Area.” Paper presented at the Conference on Economics of Inequity in Agricultural, Food, and Environmental Systems, Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN, May, 2023.

Grant, J. D, “Raising the Chance of Successful Grocery Store Openings: Survey-based Application of Bayesian Trust Games.” Paper presented at Nourish. Food & Trust. 18th Annual Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference, Milwaukee, WI, April, 2023.

Grant, J. D, “Characterizing a Bayesian Equilibrium in Food Access with Varying Levels of Trust and Incomplete Information.” Paper presented at the Southern Economic Association Annual Meeting, Fort Lauderdale, FL, November, 2022. 

Grant, J. D, “Trust Games and Food Accessibility: Characterizing A Bayesian Nash Equilibrium in Food Access with Varying Levels of Trust and Prices.” Paper presented at Energy and Environmental Economics and Policy Initiative Seminar, Pennsylvania State University, September, 2022.

Dorfman, J. H., J.D. Grant, and J. M. Worley, “Using Truck-to-Trunk Programs to Increase Food Security and Help Support Farm Incomes.” Paper presented at the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association Meeting, Austin, TX, July, 2021.

Grant, J.D., and J. H. Dorfman, “Rethinking the Definition of Food Deserts: Modernizing the Concept of Food Access.” Paper presented at the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association Meeting, Atlanta, GA, July, 2019.

Grant, J. D, “Does the Severity of Food Deserts Affect Food Insecurity?” Paper presented at the 33rd Annual Minorities in Agriculture, Natural Resources and Related Sciences National Conference Graduate Oral Research Division II Competition, Greensboro, NC, April, 2018.

2021 AAEA Presentation

This video shows Dorfman, Grant, and Worley, (2022) presented at the 2021 AAEA invited paper virtual session on Food Assistance Programs in the Time of COVID-19.