Jean Kinsey

Professor Emerita
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Education

Ph.D., University of California, Davis, 1979
Consumption economics, food industry structure and distribution 

M.S., University of California, Davis, 1966

B.A., St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN, 1963

Areas of Interest

Consumer Behavior & Preferences, Consumer Economics, Behavioral Economics, Food & Nutrition Policy, Food Consumption & Demand, Food Security, Food Marketing, Food Safety, Food Supply, Retail Management, Retail Stores, Supply Chains

Research

Conducting research on consumers' preferences for characteristics and safety features of food (meat), food safety issues including pesticides, the welfare effects of nontariff trade barriers resulting from health and safety regulations, and product quality and government regulations, trends in food consumption and retail food sales, structure of the food industry and the effect of electronic technology on efficiency. 

Published in American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Journal of Consumer Affairs, Food Policy, Choices, Cereal Foods World, Agribusiness: An International Journal, Journal of Travel Research, China Economic Review, Journal of Nutrition and several book chapters. 

She was Chair of the Board of Directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis 1996-1997; coauthor of book Food Trends and the Changing Consumer,1991, President of American Agricultural Economics Association 2001-2002.

Honors and Awards

Received an Outstanding Ph.D. Alumni Award, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Davis, 2015.

Received the St. Olaf Alumni Achievement Award on November 6, 2009 in a special ceremony at St. Olaf College's Founders' Day.  Jean was honored for her influential role at the intersection of consumer economics, agriculture and public policy.

Elected Fellow of The American Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, 2000.

Elected Fellow of The American Council on Consumer Interests, 1997