2012 Research Innovation and Development Grants in Economics (RIDGE) Conference

The RIDGE Program encourages new and innovative research on food assistance and nutrition issues and broadens the participation of social science scholars in this important research area. The annual conference is held to provide a forum for grant recipients and attendees to discuss results of recently funded grants on topics including food assistance program participation, food insecurity among vulnerable populations, and community influence on food assistance and dietary choices. RIDGE is administered in partnership with the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Mississippi State University.

Location and date:

Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities (APLU)
1307 New York Avenue
NW, Washington, DC
October 4, 2012

Research Innovation and Development Grants in Economics (RIDGE) Conference

Location: APLU, 1307 New York Avenue, NW, Washington, DC
Date: October 4, 2012

8:15 - 8:45 Registration and continental breakfast

8:45 - 8:55 Opening remarks

Alex Majchrowicz (Director), RIDGE Program, ERS

Mary Bohman (Administrator), ERS

Morning session

8:55 - 9:00 Comments from the RIDGE Center for Targeted Studies at the Southern Rural

Development Center

Lionel J. "Bo" Beaulieu (Director), Mississippi State University

9:00 - 9:30 Employment Instability and Food Insecurity of Rural North Carolinians during the

Recession

Allison DeMarco, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

9:30 - 10:00 South Carolina Farm-to-School Program and Children's and Parents' Food Choices

Sonya Jones, Amy Teixeira, Casey Childers, and Jacqueline Ball,

University of South Carolina

10:00 - 10:15 Session break

10:15 - 10:20 Comments from the RIDGE Center for National Food and Nutrition Research at the

Institute for Research on Poverty

Judi Bartfeld (Director), University of Wisconsin-Madison

10:20 - 10:50 Does the Neighborhood Food Environment Influence the Relationship between

Food Stamp Program Participation and Weight-Related Outcomes?

Diane Gibson, Baruch College, City University of New York

10:50 - 11:20 SNAP Participation, Food Choices, Nutritional and Health Outcomes among

Low-Income Women

Zhou Yang, Emory University

11:20 - 11:50 Studying Non-Use of Food Assistance among Low-Income San Franciscans

David B. Grusky and Christopher Wimer, Stanford University

11:50 - 1:15 Lunch on your own

Afternoon session

1:15 - 1:45 Food Stamps, Food Insufficiency, and Diet-Related Diseases among the Elderly

Nadia Greenhalgh-Stanley, Kent State University and Katie Fitzpatrick,

Seattle University

1:45 - 2:15 Food Assistance and Children's Eating Patterns, Food Insecurity, and Obesity: The

Influence of Local Food Prices

Taryn Morrissey and Alison Jacknowitz, American University

2:15 - 2:45 Identifying Food Deserts in the Rural South: A Comparison of Food Access Measures

Angela Liese, Sarah Battersby, and Bethany Bell, University of South Carolina

2:45 - 3:00 Session break

3:00 - 3:30 The Food Desert: Economic and Space Remedies

Gayaneh Kyureghian and Rodolfo M. Nayga, Jr., University of Nebraska-Lincoln

3:30 - 4:00 An Analysis of the Relationship between School Meal Programs, Childhood Health

and Academic Performance

Kristen Capogrossi and Wen You (Supervising Professor), Virginia Tech University

4:00 - 4:30 The "Heat or Eat" Dilemma: Energy and Food Consumption Patterns of Low-Income

Households

Anthony G. Murray and Bradford F. Mills, (Supervising Professor),

Virginia Tech University

4:30 - 4:45 Closing remarks and adjournment

David Smallwood (Branch Chief), Food Assistance Branch, ERS