Jill J. McCluskey

Director and Regents Professor

• CV

FIELDS OF INTEREST

• Product quality and Industrial organization
• Consumer preferences for food, technology, and information
• Environmental quality and energy

EDUCATION

• Ph.D., 1998, Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley

SELECTED CURRENT HONORS, AFFILIATIONS, EDITORIAL & SERVICE POSITIONS

• Alumna of the Year, Dept. of Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, 2022.
• Fellow, Agricultural and Resource Economic Review, 2022.
• Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2021.
• Editor, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2021-
• Fellow, Western Agricultural Economics Association, 2019
• Fellow, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, 2018
• Member, Board on Agricultural and Natural Resources, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, 2017-present
• President-Elect 2014-15, President 2015-16, Past President 2016-17, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association
• Faculty Associate, Robert Mondavi Center for Wine Economics, University of California, Davis, 2009 – present.
• Editorial Board, Journal of Wine Economics, 2006 – present.

CURRENT  DOCTORAL ADVISEES

• PhD expected 2023: Joseph Navelski, Kennedy Odongo
• PhD expected 2025: Koroles Awad
• PhD expected 2026: Qingwei Qiao

CURRENT  GRANTS

• “Impact of Food Retailers’ Presence and Composition on Nutritional Equity and Health Outcomes in the United States with Machine Learning” USDA NIFA, S. Badruddoza Principal Investigator (PI), J. McCluskey co-PI, total $332,148.
• “Nutrition Access, Outcomes, and Racial Equity,” USDA, ERS cooperative agreement, J. McCluskey, PI (10/21-9/23) total $30,000.
• “Social Interaction and Consumer Acceptance of Genome Editing in Domestic Livestock”, USDA NIFA, J. McCluskey, PI (9/20-9/23) total $441,819.
• “Analysis of Disruptions in Specialty Crop Markets from Covid-19”, USDA ERS, cooperative agreement, J. McCluskey, PI (8/20-7/23) total $50,000.

BOOKS

• DeGorter, H., J.J. McCluskey, J.F.M. Swinnen, D. Zilberman. Modern Agricultural and Resource Economics and Policy: Essays in Honor of Gordon C. Rausser. Springer, New York: Springer Publishing.
• Huffman, W.E. and J.J. McCluskey, 2020. New Technology and Conflicting Information: Assessing Consumers’ Willingness to Pay for New Foods. Hackensack, NJ: World Scientific Publishing.
• McCluskey, J.J. and J.A. Winfree, eds., 2017. The Economics of Reputation. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing.

RECENT SELECTED JOURNAL ARTICLES

• McCluskey, J.J. 2022. “Nutrition Access, Income, and Race.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 104(2): 493–501
• Offutt, McCluskey, J. 2021. “How women saved agricultural economics.” Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy 1–19, https://doi.org/10.1002/aepp.13183.
• Zhang, Q., J.J. McCluskey R.K. Gallardo, and M. Brady, 2021. “Avoidance Behaviors Circumventing the Sugar-Sweetened Beverages Taxes,” Food Policy.
• Amin, D., S. Badruddoza, and J.J. McCluskey, 2021. “Predicting access to healthful food retailers with machine learning,” Food Policy 99: article 101985.
• Grant, K.R., R.K Gallardo, and J.J. McCluskey, 2021. “Consumer Preferences for Foods with Clean Labels and New Processing Technologies,” Agribusiness 37(4):764–781.
• Berning, J.P., H.H. Chouinard, K. Kiesel, J.J. McCluskey, and S.B. Villas-Boas, 2020. “Consumer and Strategic Firm Response to Nutrition Shelf Labels,” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 102(2): 458–479.