Rebecca Wasserman-Olin

PhD Student, Agricultural and Resource Economics

Presentations


Below is a selected list of academic, professional, and outreach presentations. A full list appears in my CV.


2025

  • Functional Form Specification and Its Impact on Optimal Replacement Models. Organizer, Track Session, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association Annual Meeting.
  • Public Food Procurement as a Policy Lever: Exploring School and Food Assistance Opportunities. Panelist, Organized Symposium "Policy Innovations Spurred by Regional Economic Dynamics" at AAEA Annual Meeting.
  • Exploring Careers in Academia, Extension, and Government. Moderator and organizer, AAEA Annual Meeting Panel.
  • Driving Competition for Public Food Procurement Contracts Through Price Incentives: An Application to New York City. Agriculture and Food Systems Graduate Student Seminar, Colorado State University.
  • The Relationships Between Generation, Virus Loads, and Yield in U.S. Sweetpotatoes: Final Results From a Multi-State Trial. National Sweetpotato Collaborators Meeting.

2024

  • A Taste for Change: Understanding Current New York City Food Procurement to Inform a Shift to Values-Based Public Procurement. Food Distribution Research Society Annual Conference.
  • New York City's Grocery Budget: An In-Depth Look at Public Food Procurement and Who Benefits Throughout the Supply Chain. Agricultural and Applied Economics Association Annual Meeting.
  • Taking a Cut Out of Wheat Profits: Estimating the Economic Losses from Wheat Stem Sawflies. Western Agricultural Economics Association Conference.
  • The City Food Policy Project: The Initial Research Phase. Agriculture and Food Systems Graduate Student Seminar, Colorado State University.

2023

  • Improving Wholesale Local Food Procurement: A Farmer Choice Experiment. Agricultural and Applied Economics Association Annual Meeting.
  • Understanding the Influence of Seed Generation on Potyvirus Load and Yield in Sweetpotatoes Across U.S. Production Areas. National Sweetpotato Collaborators Meeting.

Earlier Highlights

  • Digging for Donations. Food Pantries for the Capitol District Food Summit, 2019.
  • Ecological and Societal Impacts of Transitioning to More Sustainable Agro-ecosystem Management: The Case of Beef Production Systems. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, 2017 (presented by Marcia DeLonge).

Invited Talks

  • Driving Competition for Public Food Procurement Contracts Through Price Incentives: An Application to New York City. Miguel Gómez Research Group, Cornell University, 2024.
  • "What If" Your Way to Success. Moses Organic Farming Conference, 2018.
  • Conservation Minded Agricultural Rotations: Protecting Water Quality and Your Bottom Line. St. Croix River Association Annual Meeting, 2017.
  • Calculating the Financial Costs and Benefits of Conservation Cropping, 2016.