Min-Fang Wei
Ph.D. in Agricultural and Applied Economics (May 2023)
Field: Food Assistance Policy, Food Insecurity, Household Economics
mfwei2@illinois.eduEducation
Ph.D., Agricultural and Applied Economics, Expected May 2023
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
M.S., Agricultural Economics, 2015
B.S., Agricultural Economics and B.A., Political Science (Minor), 2012
National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Dissertation Information
Thesis Advisor(s)
Teaching Experience
Instructor (Full teaching responsibility)
ACE 300 Intermediate Applied Microeconomics* - Summer 2022
Teaching Assistant (Teaching and facilitating weekly discussion section)
ACE 310 Natural Resource Economics - Fall 2022
ACE 300 Intermediate Applied Microeconomics* - Fall 2020-Spring 2022
ACE 100 Introduction to Applied Microeconomics* - Fall 2019-Spring 2020
* University-wide List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2022, Summer 2022
Publications
Wei, M.-F. 2022. “Does Migration Matter? The Impacts on Senior Food and Nutrition Security in Rural China.” International Journal of Food and Agricultural Economics 10(1), 1-21. https://doi.org/ 10.22004/ag.econ.319340
Chang, Y.-C., M.-F. Wei, and Y.-H. Luh. 2021. “Choice of modern food distribution channels and its welfare effects: Empirical evidence from Taiwan.” Agriculture 11(6), 499. https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture11060499
Wei, M.-F., Y.-H. Luh, Y.-H. Huang and Y.-C. Chang. 2021. “Young generation’s mobile payment adoption behavior: analysis based on an extended UTAUT model.” Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research 16(4), 618-637. https://doi.org/10.3390/jtaer16010001
Luh, Y.-H., and M.-F. Wei. 2019. “Distributional Effect of the Farmer Pension Program in Taiwan: A Regression-Based Decomposition Analysis.” China Agricultural Economic Review 11(1), 180–205. https://doi.org/10.1108/caer-05-2017-0104
WORKING PAPERS
Wei, M.-F. and C. Gundersen. “Income and food insecurity among SNAP recipients: A consideration of the SNAP benefit formula.” Job Market Paper. Revise and Resubmit, European Review of Agricultural Economics
Wei, M.-F. and C. Gundersen. “Ascertaining who is eligible for SNAP: Are we using the correct metric?”
Wei, M.-F. and C. Gundersen. “Does the choice of eligibility metric influence the relationship between SNAP and food insecurity?”
References
Craig Gundersen, Ph.D.
Snee Family Endowed Chair
Baylor Collaborative on Hunger and Poverty
Professor
Department of Economics
Baylor University
Craig_Gundersen@baylor.edu
Jonathan Coppess, J.D. (Policy reference)
Associate Professor
Department of ACE
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
jwcoppes@illinois.edu
Renata Endres, Ph.D. (Teaching reference)
Teaching Assistant Professor
Department of ACE
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
rendres@illinois.edu
