CURRICULUM VITAE Bachir Kassas Food and Resource Economics Department, University of Florida 1177 McCarty Hall A, Gainesville, FL 32611 [email protected]

EDUCATION August 2018 Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics, GPA 4.0 Texas A&M University, College Station, TX. May 2014 M.S. in Economics, GPA 4.0 Texas A&M University, College Station, TX. February 2011 B.A. in Economics, American University of Beirut (AUB), Lebanon RESEARCH INTERESTS Experimental and Behavioral Economics, Consumer Behavior, Health-Related Behavior, Preference Elicitation Mechanisms, Social Preferences PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2018 – Present Assistant Professor, Food and Resource Economics Department University of Florida 2015 – 2018 Laboratory Manager, The Human Behavior Lab (http://hbl.tamu.edu) Agricultural Economics Department, Texas A&M University 2016 – 2018 Research Assistant, Agricultural Economics Department Texas A&M University, Dr. Marco A. Palma. Summer 2017 Lecturer, Economics Department Texas A&M University 2015 – 2016 Instructor for PhD Qualifier Exams, Agricultural Economics Department Texas A&M University 2014 – 2015 Teaching Assistant, Agricultural Economics Department Texas A&M University 2012 – 2014 Tutor, Center for Student Athlete Services Texas A&M University PUBLICATIONS Kassas, B., M.A. Palma, and D.P. Anderson “Fine-Tuning Willingness-to-Pay Estimates in Second Price Auctions.” Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (forthcoming) Huseynov, S., B. Kassas, M.S. Segovia, and M.A. Palma. “Incorporating Biometric Data in Models of Consumer Choice.” Applied Economics (forthcoming) Palma, M.A., M.S. Segovia, B. Kassas, L.A. Ribera, and C.R. Hall “Self-Control: Knowledge or Perishable Resource?” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 145, pp. 80-94, 2018 Kassas, B., M.A. Palma, and Y. Zhang “The Role of Incentives on Preference Revelations in Auctions Versus Rankings.” The Journal of Choice Modeling, 20, pp. 73-85, 2016 PAPERS UNDER EDITORIAL REVIEW Kassas, B. and M.A. Palma “Social Norms: First Impulse or Last Resort?” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization Kassas, B., M.A. Palma, and C.R. Hall “Self-Serving Motivations of High- and Low-Income Individuals in Voluntary Contributions Mechanisms.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics WORKING PAPERS Kassas, B. and M.A. Palma “Measuring Hypothetical Bias with Opt-Out Options: Evidence from Second Price Auctions and Willingness-to-Pay Mechanisms.” Kassas, B., M.A. Palma, and M. Porter “Happy to Take Some Risk: A More Accurate Assessment of the Dependency of Risk Preferences on Mood Using Biometric Data.” WORK IN PROGRESS Prosocial Motivations Behind Increased Willingness-to-Pay for Animal Welfare Promoting Products (with Marco A. Palma, Gesa Busch, and Antje Risius) Differential Giving Behavior Under Varying Affective States and Social Distance (with Marco A. Palma and Maria Porter) The Effect of Health-Related Labels on Consumer Willingness-to-Pay for Pecan Varieties (with Marco A. Palma) Tailoring Power Calculations to Different Experimental Environments (with Stephen Morgan) Experimental Analysis of Willingness-to-Pay for Tomato Varieties (with Lisa House) CONFERENCES AND PRESENTATIONS

 Texas Experimental Association Symposium (TExAS). Trinity University, San Antonio, TX. March 2018. Kassas B., M.A. Palma “Social Norms: First Impulse or Last Resort?”  Symposium for Agricultural and Applied Economics Research (SAAER). Texas A&M University, College Station, TX. March 2018. Kassas B., M.A. Palma, C.R. Hall. “Self-Serving Motivations of High- and Low-Income Individuals in Voluntary Contributions Mechanisms.”  Research Seminar. University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, March 2018. Kassas B., M.A. Palma, C.R. Hall. “Self-Serving Deviations from Standard Behavior: Investigating Income and Relative Return Differentials in Voluntary Contributions Mechanisms.”  Research Seminar. Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, March 2018. Kassas B., M.A. Palma, C.R. Hall. “Self-Serving Deviations from Standard Behavior: Investigating Income and Relative Return Differentials in Voluntary Contributions Mechanisms.”  Experimental Economics Workshop. Utah State University, Logan, UT. Novermber 2017. Kassas B., M.A. Palma, C.R. Hall. “Self-Serving Deviations from Standard Behavior: Investigating Income and Relative Return Differentials in Voluntary Contributions Mechanisms.”  AGEC Seminar. Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, September 2017. Kassas B., M.A. Palma, D.P. Anderson. “Fine-Tuning Willingness-to-Pay Estimates in Second Price Auctions”.  2017 AAEA Annual Meeting. Chicago, IL, August 2017. Kassas, B., M.A. Palma, and D.P. Anderson. “Fine-Tuning Willingness-to-Pay Estimates in Second Price Auctions”. Huseynov S., B. Kassas, M.S. Segovia, M.A. Palma. “The Power of Biometric Data in Economic Choice Modeling”.  2017 SAEA Annual Meeting. Mobile, AL, February 2017. Kassas, B., M.A. Palma, and D.P. Anderson. “Testing The External Validity of Market Good Bids in Second Price Auctions.”  Conference on Methods in Experimental Economics Research (MEER). Texas A&M University, College Station, TX. October 2016 (attending only).  2016 AAEA Annual Meeting. Boston, MA, July 2016. Palma, M.A., M.S. Segovia, B. Kassas, L.A. Ribera, and C.R. Hall. “Self-Control: Skill, Knowledge, or Perishable Resource?”  Texas Experimental Association Symposium (TExAS). Rice University, Houston, TX. March 2016. Palma, M.A., M.S. Segovia, B. Kassas, L.A. Ribera, and C.R. Hall. “The Effects of Self- Control on Subsequent Purchasing Decisions.”  AGEC Seminar. Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, February 2016. Palma, M.A., Segovia, M.S., Kassas, B., Ribera, L.A., and Hall, C.R. “The Effects of Self-Control on Subsequent Purchasing Decisions.”  2016 SAEA Annual Meeting. San Antonio, TX, February 2016. Kassas, B., Palma, M.A., and Zhang, Y. “Preference Inconsistencies of a Rational Decision Maker.” WORKSHOPS AND EXHIBITIONS

 SXSW 2017, The Human Behavior Lab: Revealing the Emotional Brain. Austin, TX. March 2017.  Viva Fresh Conference. San Antonio, TX, March 2016. “The Human Behavior Lab.”  Workshop “Integrating Biometric Responses to Economic Experiments.” Economics Department, University of CEMA, Buenos Aires, Argentina. November 2016. (Designed Module for Workshop). COMPUTER SKILLS Proficient in STATA, Matlab, Qualtrics, Z-tree. Knowledge of SAS, R, NLOGIT5, NGENE.

SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS

 2018 Outstanding Paper Award, SAAER Symposium, Texas A&M University.  2017 Department of Agricultural Economics Travel Grant, Texas A&M University.  2014 Competitive, Merit-Based Scholarship. Economics Department, Texas A&M University.  2006 Honors List Award. American University of Beirut, Lebanon. (granted twice)  2006 Competitive, Merit-Based Scholarship. American University of Beirut, Lebanon. PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS American Economic Association (AEA) (2016-Present) Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA) (2013-Present) Economic Science Association (ESA) (2015-Present) Southern Agricultural Economic Association (SAEA) (2015-Present) Royal Economics Society (RES) (2017-Present) SERVICE Graduate Student Committee, Southern Agricultural Economics Association (2017-Present) Reviewer for AAEA Annual Meeting 2018