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Elizabeth Gooch

Elizabeth Gooch

  • Economist
  • 202-694-5296
  • elizabeth.gooch@ers.usda.gov

Background

My current research focuses are on China’s infrastructure development and how that has influenced China-US agricultural trade and Venezuelan food insecurity.  Additionally, I am interested in development economics and economic history.

Education

Economics Ph.D., Georgia State University, 2014
Economics-Mathematics, B.A. Agnes Scott College, 2005

Selected Publications

Gooch, E. 2017. “The impact of reduced incidence of malaria and other mosquito-borne diseases on global population,” Journal of Development Economics 124:214-228.

Gooch, E. 2017. “Estimating the long-term impact of the Great Chinese Famine (1959-61) on Modern China,” World Development 89:140-151.

Gooch, E., and F. Gale. 2015. “Get ready for Chinese overseas investment in agriculture,” Choices 30(2), 2nd Quarter.