Di Fang
Associate Professor
Di Fang is an Associate Professor in the Food and Resource Economics Department at the University of Florida. She is an associate editor for the American Journal of Agricultural Economics and managing editor for The Agricultural and Resource Economics Review (ARER). Fang has a BS in Economics from Nankai University in China and a Ph.D. in Agribusiness from W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. Dr. Fang's research focuses on food security and health economics. She has been published, among others, in the AJAE, Southern Economic Journal, American Journal of Public Health, and JAMA Network Open. Her research has been funded by the USDA's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI), the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF).
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Research
Di Fang's research centers on exploring the health and nutritional implications of food and the environment. Using a combination of secondary and primary data, she investigates the causal impact of policies and explores the associations between the food environment and health outcomes.
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Teaching
- AEB 4343 International Agribusiness Marketing – Undergrad Level
- AEB 6675 International Agribusiness Marketing – Master Level
- AEB 6933 Special Topics in Health Economics – PhD Level
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Education
- Ph.D. in Business Administration(Agribusiness) from W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University
- B.S. in Economics from Nankai University in China.
- Publications