Progress 10/01/19 to 09/30/20
Outputs
Target Audience:There are numerous target audiences for this project. They include local businesses, state legislators and state government workers, federal employees, and members of Congress. Changes/Problems:Substantial effort has gone into revising and revamping the Great Challenges Curriculum (GCC) course: 'World Food Problems: Agronomics, Economics, and Hunger" to be taught online during the COVID-19 pandemic. What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?Course work for undergraduates and graduate students. Substantial effort has gone into revising and revamping the Great Challenges Curriculum (GCC) course: 'World Food Problems: Agronomics, Economics, and Hunger" to be taught online during the COVID-19 pandemic. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?My approach will be, as in the past, wide-ranging qualitative and quantitative analysis of trade flows and policy, environmental data, and agricultural indicators. In the area of choice over time, I may attempt to design behavioral economic experiments with graduate research assistantsand am running neuroscience simulations with David Redish. Impacts will be felt by Minnesota farmers, consumers, and policymakers. I will produce publishable articles, present seminars, and give talks to local groups and to my classes on the subjects covered. I am a consulting author to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). I expect to publish the results in major journals. Promising new collaboration with David Redish in the Neurosciences Department at the University of Minnesota has been established. Through classroom instruction and presentations to academic and public forums and publications. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?Continue to teach courses, conduct research, work with graduate students, make presentations to academic and public audiences, publish academic research, and non-academic public policy analysis. I will continue to work closely with my colleagues at the Institute on the Environment, in the Department of Applied Economics, and in the Department of Neurosciences in the Medical School to advance my research projects and find publication outlets as well as continuing to develop a collaborative research program. I continue to advise five active graduate students: Barbara Cole (PhD), Haseeb Ali (PhD), Shuai An (PhD), Linnea Graham (MS), and Orges Ormanidhi (PhD). On the teaching front, I am teaching one undergraduate Grand Challenges Curriculum (GCC) course with agronomist Peter Morrell in Fall 2020 (approximately 40 students): "World Food Problems: Agronomics, Economics, and Hunger." Together, Professor Morrell and I have completely revised the course so that it can be effectively taught online using Zoom. We have made major efforts to better incorporate issues of diversity and the relevance of COVID-19 to world food problems. I taught one undergraduate course: ApEc 3007, "Applied Macroeconomics: Policy, Trade and Development" to 25 students in Spring 2019 and will again in spring 2021. I will also teach ApEc 5711, "Agricultural and Environmental Policy" in Spring 2021.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
This year has seen the development of a new and strengthening research relationship with the Department of Neuroscience (David Redish), the Institute on the Environment (IonE)(Jamie Gerber), and a second-year graduate student (Shuai An) who is working with all of these institutional elements. Together with Redish, I have completely revised the manuscript to reflect his work in the neuroscience of decision making applied to natural disasters arising from climate change. This work in progress concludes the manuscripts noted above, A Neuroscience-Based Analysis of Climate Change Impacts on the Housing Market, which will be submitted to PNAS. In addition, in 2020 I published two additional refereed journal articles. The first, an offshoot of earlier work on medical decision making on obesity, "Cost-Effectiveness of MRI-Based Identification of Pre-Symptomatic Autism in a High-Risk Population," was published in Frontiers in Psychiatry, a first-line medical journal. The second is an implementation of the idea of choice over time, with MS student Linnea Graham, "Hunger as a Weapon of War: Hitler's Hunger Plan, Native American Resettlement and Yemen," published in April in Food Policy, the primary food policy journal in the applied economics literature. I gave seminars on this last paper in the Department of Applied Economics and IonE. In September 2020, I published a peer-reviewed essay in the Journal of Economic Literature on a new biography, Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers, by Cheryl Misak.
Publications
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2020
Citation:
Cost-Effectiveness of MRI-Based Identification of Presymptomatic Autism in a High Risk Population.
Williamson, Ian O., Elison, Jed T., Wolff, Jason J., Runge, Carlisle Ford.
IN: Frontiers in Psychiatry, v.11, Article 60. doi:10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00060. February 16, 2020.
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2020
Citation:
Book review of "Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers" by Cheryl Misak. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2020.
Runge, Carlilse Ford.
IN: Journal of Economic Literature, v.58, no.3, pp.793-798. DOI:10.1257/jel.58.3.793. 2020.
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2020
Citation:
Viewpoint: Hunger as a Weapon of War: Hitlers Hunger Plan, Native American Resettlement and Starvation in Yemen.
Runge, C. Ford, Graham, Linnea.
IN: Food Policy, Viewpoint. v.92. doi: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2020.101835, April 2020.
- Type:
Other
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2020
Citation:
The good, the bad, and the gullible.
Runge, C. Ford.
IN: MinnPost online, December 11, 2020.
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Progress 10/01/18 to 09/30/19
Outputs
Target Audience:I will produce publishable articles, present seminars and give talks to local groups and to my classes on the subjects covered. I have also been asked to join as a consulting author to the forthcoming Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Changes/Problems:The major change in my research program involves the integration of computational neuroscience with economic analysis and evaluation of changes in asset values, especially land and real estate, in the face of climate change. This includes my participation as a contributing author to the forthcoming report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?
Nothing Reported
How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?My approach will be, as in the past, wide-ranging qualitative and quantitative analysis of trade flows and policy, environmental data and agricultural indicators. In the area of choice over time, I may attempt to design behavioral economic experiments with graduate research assistance, and am running neuroscience simulations with David Redish. Impacts will be felt by Minnesota farmers, consumers and policy makers. I will produce publishable articles, present seminars and give talks to local groups and to my classes on the subjects covered. I have also been asked to join as a consulting author to the forthcoming Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). I expect to publish the results in major journals. Promising new collaboration with David Redish in the Neurosciences Department at the University of Minnesota has been established. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?I will continue to work closely with my colleagues at the Institute on the Environment, in the Department of Applied Economics and in the Department of Neurosciences in the Medical School to advance my research projects and find publication outlets as well as continuing to develop a collaborative research program.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
This year has seen the development of a new and strengthening research relationship with the Department of Neuroscience (David Redish), the Institute on the Environment (IonE)(Jamie Gerber) and a second-year graduate student (Shuai An) who is working with all of these institutional elements. Together with Redish, I have completely revised the Retrospect and Prospect manuscript to reflect his work in the neuroscience of decision making applied to natural disasters arising from climate change. Work in progress includes a manuscript, The Role of Memory in Flood-Related Housing Asset Pricing: Implications of Retrospective and Prospective Considerations of Memory. In addition I have two other manuscripts under review, one an offshoot of earlier work on medical decision making on obesity, Cost-Effectiveness of MRI-Based Identification of Pre-Symptomatic Autism in a High Risk Population, under review at Frontiers in Psychiatry. The other is an implementation of the idea of choice over time, with MS student Linnea Graham, Hunger as a Weapon of War: Hitler's Hunger Plan, Native American Resettlement and Yemen, under review at Food Policy. I have given seminars on the last paper in the Department of Applied Economics and IonE. In addition, I have published a popular article on agricultural policy and trade in the Star Tribune: Tariffs are bad for export markets, and that's bad for Minnesota, and two articles in the online journal MinnPost: How the right sold out to Russia, and Tariffs, retaliation, and the flu.
Publications
- Type:
Other
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2019
Citation:
Tariffs, retaliation, and the flu. MinnPost, July 9, 2019.
- Type:
Other
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2019
Citation:
How the right sold out to Russia. MinnPost, February 27, 2019.
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Awaiting Publication
Year Published:
2020
Citation:
Cost-Effectiveness of MRI-Based Identification of Pre-Symptomatic Autism in a High Risk Population, under review at Frontiers in Psychiatry
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Under Review
Year Published:
2020
Citation:
Hunger as a Weapon of War: Hitlers Hunger Plan, Native American Resettlement and Yemen, under review at Food Policy.
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Other
Year Published:
2020
Citation:
The Role of Memory in Flood-Related Housing Asset Pricing: Implications of Retrospective and Prospective Considerations of Memory.
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Progress 10/01/17 to 09/30/18
Outputs
Target Audience:There are numerous target audiences for this project. They include local businesses, state legislators, and state government workers, federal employees and members of Congress. Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?Course work for undergraduates and graduate students. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?Through classroom instruction and presentations to academic and public forums. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?Continue to teach courses, conduct research, work with graduate students, make presentations to academic and public audiences, publish academic research and non-academic public policy analysis.
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
Seminars and presentations to academic and non-academic audiences were given. Scientific and public opinion articles were published. This was reflected in several articles on U.S. tariffs and retaliation by China and others published in the October 8, 2018 and July 20, 2018 Minneapolis Star Tribune: "Tariffs are bad for export markets, and that's bad for Minnesota," and "Trump's policies bite farmers in two ways: Tariffs have gotten most of the attention, but as important is the crimp on labor." This was also discussed in an article which appeared in the June 14, 2018 Omaha World-Herald: "Midland voices: Ethanol gives consumers a raw deal." Collaboration was undertaken with colleagues in the University of Minnesota Neurosciences Department. This type of decision making relating to neurobiology, as well as attention to the issue of obesity, was reflected in a jointly-authored refereed article in the September, 2018 journal, Public Health Nutrition, "The effect of proportional v. value pricing on fountain drink purchases: Results of a field experiment." One undergraduate and two graduate courses were taught. New curricula was developed to teach a Grand Challenge Course entitled, "World Food Problems: Agronomics, Economics and Hunger" in collaboration with Paul Porter of the University of Minnesota, Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics.
Publications
- Type:
Journal Articles
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2018
Citation:
The Effect of Proportional Versus Value Pricing on Fountain Drink Purchases: Results from a Field Experiment, Gollust, Sarah E., Tang, Xuyang, Runge, Carlisle Ford, French, Simone A.
Rothman, Alexander J. IN: Public Health Nutrition, v.21, no.13, pp.2518-2522.
- Type:
Other
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2018
Citation:
Midlands Voices: Ethanol gives consumers a raw deal. Runge, C. Ford. IN: Omaha World-Herald, June 14, 2018.
- Type:
Other
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2018
Citation:
State farmers would have much to lose in a U.S.-China trade war. Runge, C. Ford. IN: Star Tribune: Commentary, March 30, 2018.
- Type:
Other
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2018
Citation:
Tariffs are bad for export markets, and thats bad for Minnesota. Runge, C. Ford. IN: Star Tribune: Commentary, October 8, 2018.
- Type:
Other
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2018
Citation:
Trump's policies bite farming country in two ways. Runge, C. Ford. IN: Star Tribune: Opinion, July 22, 2018.
- Type:
Other
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2018
Citation:
Striking commonalities: McCarthy and Trump, Cohn and Cohen. Runge, C. Ford. IN: MinnPost online, June 8, 2018.
- Type:
Other
Status:
Published
Year Published:
2018
Citation:
We shouldn't forget to remember Tim Pawlenty. Runge, C. Ford. IN: MinnPost online, July 6, 2018.
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