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Craig Gundersen

B.A., Economics, University of Notre Dame, 1990

Ph.D., Economics, University of California, Riverside, 1996

ACE 270: Consumer Economics ACE 261: Applied Statistical Methods

Program evaluation (especially food assistance programs); The determinants of poverty, food insecurity, and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (Food Stamp Program) participation; Food assistance and food insecurity measurement issues; The relationship between stress, food insecurity and childhood obesity; Food insecurity among the elderly

Gundersen, C. and B. Kreider. “Bounding the Effects of Food Insecurity on Children's Health Outcomes.” Journal of Health Economics, v28, 971–983. 2009.

Gundersen, C., D. Jolliffe, and L. Tiehen. “The Challenge of Program Evaluation: When Increasing Program Participation Decreases the Relative Well-Being of Participants.” Food Policy, v34, 367– 376. 2009.

Gundersen, C., S. Garasky, and B. Lohman. “Food Insecurity is not Associated with Childhood Obesity as Assessed using Multiple Measures of Obesity.” Journal of Nutrition, v139, 1173-1178. 2009.

Gundersen, C., B. Lohman, S. Garasky, S. Stewart, and J. Eisenmann. “Food Security, Maternal Stressors, and Overweight among Low-Income U.S. Children: Results from NHANES 1999-2002.” Pediatrics, v122, e529–e540. 2008.

Gundersen, C. and B. Kreider. “Food Stamps and Food Insecurity: What Can Be Learned in the Presence of Nonclassical Measurement Error?” Journal of Human Resources, v43(2), 352-382. 2008.

Gundersen, C. “Measuring the Extent, Depth, and Severity of Food Insecurity: An Application to American Indians in the United States.” Journal of Population Economics, v21(1), 191-215. 2008.

Gundersen, C. and S. Offutt. “Farm Poverty and Safety Nets.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics, v87(4), 885–899. 2005.