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George Davis |
George C. Davis is a Professor in the Department of Agriculture and Applied Economics and in the Department of Human Nutrition, Foods, and Exercise at Virginia Tech. Dr. Davis received his Ph.D. in Economics, with a minor in Statistics, from North Carolina State University. His research focus relates to food demand, health outcomes, econometrics, and methodology. A few of the specific areas he has conducted research in are the philosophical foundations of econometrics and model specifications, changing demand for meat in the United States, the demand for meat characteristics, the effectiveness of commodity promotion programs, tests for the consistent aggregation of commodities, and the impact of health information on nutrient intake. More recent research has turned toward understanding the affect parental time and income allocations have on children’s nutrient intake and obesity measures.
Dr. Davis is currently a Co-editor of the Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics. He has served on the editorial council of the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics and the Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics. He is a reviewer for American Economic Review, Economic Inquiry, Empirical Economics, International Economic Review, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, and Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, among others.
Dr. Davis has been awarded the Outstanding Alumnus North Carolina State University, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, the Excellence in Teaching at the Graduate Level Award from the Department of Agricultural Economics at Texas A&M University, and the Outstanding Faculty Member Under Ten Years Award from the Department of Agricultural Economics, at the University of Tennessee.
Recent Publications:
Davis, George C. and Wen You. “The Cost of Time in Food Preparation at Home: General and Food Stamp Profiles” Applied Economics (forthcoming).
Bryant, Henry and George C. Davis. “Revisiting U.S. Aggregate Meat Demand with a Bayesian Averaging of Classical Estimates Approach: Do We Need a More General Theory?” American Journal of Agricultural Economics. Vol. 90. No. 1: (February 2008): 103-116.
McIntosh, Alex, George C. Davis, Rodolfo Nagaya, Jr., Jenna Anding, Cruz Torres, Karen Kubena, Ernesto Perusquia, Genevieve Yeley, and Wen You. “Parental Time, Role Strain, and Children’s Fat Intake and Obesity-Related Outcomes.” USDA Contractor and Cooperator Report No. 19. June 2006.
Davis, George C. “The Significance and Insignificance of Demand Analysis in Evaluating Promotion Programs.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics. Vol. 87. No. 3. (August 2005):673-688.
Davis, George C. “Clarifying the ‘Puzzle’ Between the Textbook and LSE Approaches to Econometrics: A Comment on Cook’s Kuhnian Perspective of Econometrics.” Journal of Economic Methodology. Vol. 12. No. 1. (March 2005): 93-116.
Davis, George C. “Rejoinder on Cook and Response to Chao: Moving the Textbook/LSE Debate Forward” Journal of Economic Methodology. Vol. 12. No. 1. (March 2005): 137-48.
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