Topic：Matching Food with Mouths: A Statistical Explanation to the Abnormal Decline of Per Capita Food Consumption in Rural China

Time： April 16, 2018, 10:00-11:30AM

Venue：SPPM 322

Speaker：Dave Abler

Dave Abler is a professor of Agricultural, Environmental & Regional Economics and Demography at Penn State University, and the Associate Head of the Department of Agricultural Economics, Sociology, and Education at Penn State. He obtained a B.A. degree in economics and mathematics from Macalester College in 1982 and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago in 1987. His research focuses on agriculture and the environment, global food and agricultural markets, and international economic development. 

Organizer: Institute for Contemporary China Studies, Tsinghua University