LAUREN CHENARIDES-HALL Updated: September 2016

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1 LAUREN CHENARIDES-HALL Updated: September 2016 Penn State University Armsby Building, Room University Park, PA, TEL. (914) sites.psu.edu/laurenchenarides EDUCATION Ph.D. Candidate Agricultural, Environmental, and Regional Economics 2011 Present DISSERTATION o The Economics of Food Availability and Food Deserts: Retailers Marketing Strategies, Competition, and Consumer Store Choice o Committee Members: Edward C. Jaenicke (Advisor, PSU), Stephan Goetz (PSU), Paul Grieco (PSU), Spiro Stefanou (UFL), Richard Volpe (CalPoly) RESEARCH INTERESTS Food Access, Food Retailing Landscape, Food Marketing, Scanner Data, Consumer Store Choice and Demand Modeling, Food and Health Economics, Applied Industrial Organization TECHNICAL SKILLS AND PROFICIENCIES o IRI InfoScan Data, IRI Consumer Network Panel, ACNeilsen Homescan Data, EmpowerIT Commissary Data, ERS Food Access Research Atlas, ERS Food Environment Atlas o Stata, SAS, SQL Server, ArcGIS, GeoDa, Matlab, LaTeX B.A., Mathematics College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA SUBMITTED MANUSCRIPTS Volpe, R., E.C. Jaenicke, and L. Chenarides-Hall. Store Formats, Market Structure, and Consumers Food Shopping Decisions. (second review, Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy). Bonanno, A., R.O. Cleary, L. Chenarides-Hall, and S.J. Goetz. Store Profits and Public Policies to Improve Food Access. (under review, American Journal of Agricultural Economics). MANUSCRIPTS IN PREPARATION Chenarides-Hall, L. and E.C. Jaenicke. Patterns of Product Assortment across the U.S. Food Retailing Landscape. (in preparation for Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy). Chenarides-Hall, L. and E.C. Jaenicke. Store Choice and Consumer Behavior in Food Deserts: An Empirical Application of the Distance Metric Method. (in preparation for American Journal of Agricultural Economics). Bonanno, A., L. Chenarides-Hall, and R. Volpe. The Size vs. Health Trade-off in Lower-Income Households' Food Choices: The Case of Fluid Milk. (Target journal: undecided)

2 INVITED PRESENTATIONS Chenarides-Hall, L.* and E.C. Jaenicke. Store Choice and Consumer Behavior in Food Deserts: An Empirical Application of the Distance Metric Method, Invited Paper. ASSA Session on Modeling Household Food Choice Behavior Using Store-Based and Household-Based Scanner Data, ASSA Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, January 6 8, Chenarides, L.*, E.C. Jaenicke, R. Volpe. Product Assortment, Price-Cost Margins, and Food Access across the U.S. Food Retailing Landscape, Invited Presentation. RTI/ERS Sponsored Workshop on Applying IRI Store and Household Scanner Data in Food Policy Studies, April 18, L. Chenarides*. The Economics of Food Access: A Discussion on Ethics, Policy, and Empirical Research, Invited Colloquium. College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA, February 11, L. Chenarides*. Investigating Food Retailer Marketing Strategies across the U.S. Food Retailing Landscape, Invited Presentation. Food for Thought Seminar Series, Economic Research Service, Washington, D.C., August 3, Bonanno, A.*, L. Chenarides, H. Etemadnia and S.J. Goetz. Limited Food Access as an Equilibrium Outcome: Some Theory and an Empirical Test, Invited Presentation. AESE/M.E. John Seminar Series, Penn State University, October, 5, Bonanno, A.*, L. Chenarides, H. Etemadnia and S.J. Goetz. Limited Food Access as an Equilibrium Outcome: Some Theory and an Empirical Test, Invited Presentation. University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, September 28, PAPERS/POSTERS PRESENTED AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS Chenarides-Hall, L.* and E.C. Jaenicke. Store Choice and Consumer Behavior in Food Deserts: An Empirical Application of the Distance Metric Method, Selected Paper. AAEA Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, July 31 August 2, Bonanno, A.*, R.O. Cleary, L. Chenarides-Hall, and S. J. Goetz. Store Profits and Public Policies to Improve Food Access, Selected Paper. AAEA Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, July 31 August 2, Chenarides-Hall, L. and E.C. Jaenicke*. Using the Distance Metric Method to Model Store Choice and Competition in Food Deserts, Selected Paper. NAREA Annual Meeting & Workshop, Bar Harbor, ME, June 19 22, Bonanno A., L. Chenarides*, and R. Lee. Assessing the Healthfulness of Food Purchases among Underserved Shoppers in the Northeast, Selected Paper NAREA/CAES Annual Meeting, Newport, RI, June 28 30, Chenarides, L.*, E.C. Jaenicke, and R. Volpe. Patterns of Product Assortment and Price-Cost Margins across the Food Retailing Landscape, Selected Paper. EAAE-AAEA Joint Seminar on Consumer Behavior in a Changing World: Food, Culture, Society, Naples, Italy, March 25 27, /5

3 Bonanno, A., L. Chenarides*, A. Palmer and K. Clancy Perceived Barriers to Purchasing Healthy Foods vs. Access in Underserved Areas across the Northeast, Selected Poster. AAEA Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, July 27 29, Bonanno, A., L. Chenarides*, and R. Volpe The Size vs. Health Trade-off in Lower-income Households' Food Choices: The Case of Fluid Milk, Selected Paper. AAEA & CAES Joint Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., August 4 6, Bonanno, A.*, L. Chenarides, and S. J. Goetz. Food Deserts as Equilibrium Outcomes: An Empirical Analysis, Selected Paper. AAEA/EAAE Conference on Food Environment: The Effects of Context on Food Choice. Tufts University, Boston, MA, May 30 31, [* INDICATES PRESENTER] EXTERNAL GRANTS/FUNDS USDA-AFRI-NIFA Predoctoral Fellowship Grant Program : $68,000, The Economics of Food Availability and Food Deserts: Retailers Marketing Strategies, Competition, and Consumer Store Choice (January December 2016), Project Director. (Co- Investigator/Mentor: Edward C. Jaenicke, PSU). Agriculture and Food Research Initiative Global Food Security USDA: $4,999,000, Enhancing Food Security in the Northeast with Regional Food Systems (July December 2014), Research Assistant (Project Director: Stephan J. Goetz, NECRD and PSU). PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Ph.D. Candidate August 2011 Present Coursework and training focused on theoretical and applied economics, econometric and quantitative methods, and applied research. Successfully passed comprehensive exams and Ph.D. proposal defense in May Food Economics Division Intern May 2013 August 2013 Economic Research Service, Washington, DC Provided support to Food Markets Branch economists. Successfully merged IRI Store Scanner Database with Empower Commissary Database in an effort to measure the impact of market power on food retailer price margins in the U.S. Supported public policy research and extension on empirical applications to food access and food security. Documented ongoing data needs and defining resources needed to carry out future economic research and analysis using scanner data in conjunction with publicly available data sources. Associate Consultant July 2008 June 2011 Fidelity Investments, New York, NY Provided benefits consulting and outsourcing services to Fortune 500 companies. Supported senior consultants with the development of client strategies related to health and welfare, retirement, and employee benefits communications projects. 3/5

4 RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Predoctoral Fellow, AFRI-NIFA December 2014 Present Experience in successfully writing and securing grant funding to support doctoral dissertation research. The overall objective of my research is to investigate food access and underserved areas in the U.S. Specifically, my dissertation research covers the following: First, I begin by documenting how price-cost margins and product assortment vary across different food retailing landscapes and place these findings in context with existing food-desert literature. Second, I develop an equilibrium model of store choice that relates both the demand and supply side to store characteristics, including price-cost margins and product assortment. Third, I investigate the resulting welfare changes to consumers and food retailers by simulating changes in the retail food landscape based on hypothetical policy-informed scenarios. These objectives are accomplished by using state of the art techniques to model the behavior of food retailers and consumers using micro-level scanner data, such as IRI's InfoScan and Consumer Network Panel, to create a more complete picture of the U.S. food retailing landscape. Results from this research are intended to inform policy initiatives aimed at addressing poor food access issues. Research Assistant, Consumption Team, AFRI Global Food Security Project July 2011 December 2014 Research assistant on a five-year, multi-disciplinary research project funded by USDA's Agriculture and Food Research Initiative. Documented current and potential community-level constraints and identified opportunities for improving access to regionally-produced healthy food for people in lowincome communities in the Northeast. Held lead responsibilities for the following research duties: (1) data familiarization and resolution using ACNielsen Homescan Database, (2) extensive data mining and analysis of consumer purchasing behavior, (3) development and construction of demand models for certain healthy and non-healthy market basket items using scanner data, and (4) research analysis using store intercept surveys. Through the project, I worked alongside members of the team and outside experts to communicate our findings to community leaders to identify ways to overcome poor food access and related challenges. TEACHING EXPERIENCE Instructor, Penn State University Course: AG BM 302, Food Products Marketing (Undergraduate Level) Spring 2013 (In Residence), SRTE: 5.35/7; Spring 2016 (World Campus) Teaching Assistant, Penn State University Course: AG BM 302, Food Products Marketing (Undergraduate Level) Fall 2012 Guest Lecturer, Penn State University Course: AEREC 511, Econometrics I (Graduate Level) Fall /5

5 ACADEMIC SERVICE AND AWARDS MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS o Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, January 2013 Present o American Economic Association, September 2016 Present o Northeast Agricultural and Resource Economics Association, February 2014 Present o National Honors Society in Agricultural Economics (ΓΣΔ), April 2014 Present MODERATOR OF CONCURRENT SESSIONS o 2016 AAEA Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, July 31 August 2, SERVICE FOR ACADEMIC JOURNALS o Editorial Assistant, Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, Fall 2014 Summer 2015 AWARDS o Predoctoral Fellow, Agricultural and Food Research Initiative, National Institute of Food and Agriculture, January 2015 December 2016 o Travel Grant Recipient, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, 2016 o College of Agricultural Sciences Travel Award, Penn State University, 2016 o College of Agricultural Sciences International Tag Along Fund Program Recipient, Penn State University, 2015 o Student Scholarship Recipient, Northeast Agricultural and Resource Economic Association, /5