William A. Masters

William Alan Masters (born 1961) is an American economist, teaching and conducting research on agricultural economics and food policy in the Friedman School of Nutrition at Tufts University,[1] where he also has a secondary appointment in the Department of Economics.[2]

William Alan Masters
Born
Chicago, Illinois
CitizenshipAmerican
InstitutionTufts University
FieldFood policy and agricultural economics
Alma materStanford University,Yale University, and Deep Springs College

Education

William A. Masters was educated in the U.S. and France then attended Deep Springs College (1979-81) before transferring to Yale University for a BA (1984) in Economics & Political Science. He received his PhD (1991) in Applied Economics from Stanford University, through the Food Research Institute.[3]

Career

He served as a Research Associate and Lecturer at the University of Zimbabwe (1989-90), and then was a faculty member in Agricultural Economics at Purdue University (1991-2010), with leave years at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government (2000) and the Earth Institute at Columbia University (2003-04). He served as co-editor of the journal Agricultural Economics from 2006 to 2011,[4] and moved to Tufts in 2010 where he served as chair of the Department of Food and Nutrition Policy from 2011 to 2014. [3]

Awards

In 2020 he was elected a Fellow of the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA), from which had previously been awarded the Bruce Gardner Memorial Prize for Applied Policy Analysis (2013), the Publication of Enduring Quality Award (2014) and the Quality of Research Discovery Award (2019). He is also an International Fellow of the African Association of Agricultural Economists (2010), and as a student he was supported by a Harry S. Truman Scholarship (1981), a Fulbright Dissertation Research Grant (1988) among other awards.

Research and teaching

His dissertation work used two years of household surveys and other data to measure the role of trade and domestic policies on Zimbabwean farmers, and was ultimately published as a book entitled Government and Agriculture in Zimbabwe.[5] While on the faculty at Purdue University he conducted a variety of other studies in Southern, Eastern and Western Africa, including early use of climate data to identify the role of winter frosts in economic development.[6] After moving to Tufts he focused on the economics of nutrition, including pioneering work on the composition of infant foods,[7] and the development of new price indexes to measure the cost and affordability of healthy diets.[8] He is also co-author of a textbook entitled Economics of Agricultural Development: World Food Systems and Resource Use (4th edition, 2021).[9]

References
  1. "William A. Masters | Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy". nutrition.tufts.edu. Retrieved 2021-04-27.
  2. "Faculty | Department of Economics". as.tufts.edu. Retrieved 2021-04-27.
  3. "CV - William A. Masters".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. "William Masters | Agricultural & Applied Economics Association". www.aaea.org. Retrieved 2021-04-27.
  5. Masters, William A. (1994). Government and Agriculture in Zimbabwe. Praeger. ISBN 978-0-275-94755-2.
  6. ABC News (October 10, 2001). "Scientists: Global Economies Tied to Frost". ABC News. Retrieved 2021-09-26.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  7. McNeil, Donald G. (2016-12-19). "The Baby Is Getting Fed — but What?". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-09-26.
  8. Badash, Michelle (2021-02-18). "The Cost of a Healthy Diet". Tufts Now. Retrieved 2021-09-26.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  9. Norton, George W.; Alwang, Jeffrey; Masters, William A. (2021-08-02). Economics of Agricultural Development: World Food Systems and Resource Use (4 ed.). London: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780429316999. ISBN 978-0-429-31699-9. S2CID 241301030.
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