Dr. Maria Bampasidou [email protected] 225-578-2367
Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness 234 Martin D. Woodin Hall Louisiana State University/ LSU AgCenter Baton Rouge, LA
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Food and Resource Economics Fall 2012 University of Florida Field: Applied Microeconometrics, Production Economics Dissertation: Unbundling the Degree Effect in a Job Training Program for Disadvantaged Youths
M.Sc in Economic Theory Spring 2008 Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece Specialization: Industrial Organization Thesis: Signaling and Product Quality.
B.Sc in Mathematics Fall 2006 National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece Specialization: Applied Mathematics
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Assistant Professor 2015-current Louisiana State University, LSU AgCenter Creating scholarly articles, supervising students, undergraduate and graduate course development, preparing grant proposals and reviews. Lecturer 2013-2015 University of Florida, Food and Resource Economics Department Course creation, teaching undergraduate core courses, supervising students, UF Scholar and CALS honors adviser. Adjunct Assistant Professor 2013 Santa Fe College, Business and Economics Department Teaching microeconomics courses, creating online homework and supporting material. Adjunct Faculty 2013 University of Florida, Food and Resource Economics Department Teaching quantitative methods courses, creating online homework and supporting material. Teaching Assistant 2008-2012 University of Florida, Food and Resource Economics Department Teaching classes, grading, tutoring and preparing homework and exams Research Assistant 2008-2010 University of Florida, Food and Resource Economics Department NSF project on econometric estimation of causal net and mechanism effects. RESEARCH
Short Description I completed my Ph.D. in Food and Resource Economics at the University of Florida in Fall 2012. My fields of expertise are applied microeconomics and econometrics, and program evaluation. In my dissertation, Unbundling the Degree Effect in a Job Training Program for Disadvantaged Youths, I am using a novel nonparametric technique to identify and estimate the effect of attaining a GED, high school diploma or vocational degree to participants’ labor market outcomes including earnings and employment probability.
Currently my research projects are in the areas of Agricultural Finance, Risk Management, Labor Supply and Production Economics. The overall objective of my research program is to evaluate and assess the impact of (farm) policies on the economic decision making of farmers, their households and farm operations and how they subsequently affect the well-being of rural communities. I actively seek to establish clear economic formulations that will explain the impact of policies on farm household labor allocation decisions, labor supply on and off-the farm, participation in government sponsored programs, farmland values, risk mitigation, and financial performance of (farm) operations. I am also interested in purely abstract results related to the new and growing field of Big Data with applications in finance.
My research is incorporated into my teaching methods, and vice versa. The employment of active learning techniques and flipped classrooms create a perfect environment to discuss well founded theories and also test new ideas.
PUBLICATIONS
Bampasidou, Grogan, Clark, Sandberg. Career Skills: Perceptions of Importance and High Impact Learning Activities for Skill Development in Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness Programs, NACTA Journal, 2016 forthcoming.
Bampasidou, Flores, Flores-Lagunes, Parisian. The Role of Degree Attain- ment in the Differential Impact of Job Corps on Adolescents and Young 2014 Adults, Research in Labor Economics, Vol 40, pp 113-156.
Published Abstracts
Gillespie, Bampasidou. Undergraduate Agricultural Business and Agricul- tural Economics Programs: How do we identify? To appear at the North 2016 American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture 2016 conference proceedings.
Mishra, Bampasidou. Importance of Modeling to Assess the Impact of Smallholder Farms In Food Security. Paper presented at Local Level Food and Nutrition Security and the Role of Subsistence/Smallholder Farms. 2015 European Commission, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (EU-IPTS), Seville, Spain. PAPERS UNDER REVIEW
Mishra, Bampasidou. Examining the Effect of Health Insurance Coverage on Off-farm Labor Supply of Beginning Farmers in the U.S. Submitted to Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics
WORK IN PROGRESS
Bampasidou, Mishra, Moss. Modeling Debt Choice in Agriculture: The Effect of Endogenous Asset Values. Prepared for the NC 1177 special issue in Agricultural Finance Review
Modeling Collaborations with Persistent Homology, preprint available on arxiv (with Thanos Gentimis)
Unbundling the Degree Effect in a Job Training Program for Disadvantaged Youths.(with A. Flores-Lagunes and C. A. Flores)
Women, Family and Training: Is it too late for learning?
Explaining Differences in Farmland Values based on Quality of Land: A Cointegration Analysis of Indiana Farmland Values (with C. B. Moss)
Estimating the Greening Effect on Floridas citrus (with C. B. Moss)
Capturing the Effect of Supportive Services of Job Corps on Women Participants (with E. Laboissoniere)
GRANTS
Bampasidou, Hatch. Enhancing Louisiana Agritourism: Managing Finan- cial and Legal Liabilities. Southern Extension Risk Management Education, 2016-2017 2016 Education Projects
Teaching Enhancement Fund, Lousiana State University F2016
INVITED TALKS AND PRESENTATIONS
Louisiana State University, Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness De- partment Jan. 2015
Radford University, Economics Department May 2012 University of Florida, Food and Resource Economics Department, Graduate Student Organization Seminar series Spring 2011
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
North America Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture (NACTA), Hawai’i Jun. 2016 Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA), TLC Panel, San Francisco Jul. 2015
European Commission, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (EU-IPTS), Seville, Spain Sep. 2015
Southern Economic Association (SEA), Atlanta Nov. 2014 Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA), Minneapolis (poster) Jul. 2014
Western Economic Association International (WEAI) 89th Annual Confer- ence, Colorado Jun. 2014
Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA), Minneapolis (poster) Mar. 2014
University of Florida, Graduate Student Research Day, Gainesville (poster) Oct. 2012 Western Economic Association International (WEAI) 87th Annual Confer- ence, San Francisco Jun. 2012
Eastern Economic Association (EEA) Annual Meetings, Boston Mar. 2012
Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA), Pittsburgh Jul. 2011
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Undergraduate Level: LSU AGEC 4273: Agricultural Price Analysis S16 Undergraduate Level: Previous employers
AEB 3103: Principles of Food and Resource Economics (UF) F13, S14
AEB 3281: Agricultural Macroeconomics (UF) F13, Su14, F14
AEB 3510: Quantitative Methods in FRE(UF) S13, S14, F14, S15
AEB 3550: Agricultural Data Analysis (UF) S15
AEB 4334: Price Analysis (UF) S14
ALS 4909: Undergraduate Honors Project (UF) S14, F14
ECO 2023: Principles of Microeconomics (Santa Fe College) S12
Graduate Level: LSU AGEC 7313: Agricultural Production and Labor Supply F15 Graduate Level: Previous Employers
AEB 6106: Microeconomic Principles and Analysis (UF) F11 Mathematics Proficiency Course –Math Camp Su12 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS
Dean’s Teaching Conference, LSU College of AGriculture 2016 Teachers College, IFAS, UF 2014 Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Group, IFAS,UF 2014 AAEA Mentorship Program 2014-2015 AAEA Role of Agricultural and Applied Economics in Supporting Macroe- conomic Literacy 2014
IMA, Topological Systems: Communication, Sensing, and Actuation work- shop 2014
CALS Teaching Enhancement Symposium 2014 Teaching workshop, Flipping 101 workshop, Easy Tech for Better Prep and New Class Activities 2013
Evaluation methods workshop, Fourth Annual Meeting of the Impact Evaluation Network (IEN, LACEA), University of Miami, FL 2010
Teaching Assistant Development seminar series, University of Florida
AWARDS AND HONORS
Educator of the Year, Ag-Econ/Gator NAMA club, University of Florida Spring 2015 Teachers College, IFAS, University Of Florida Fall 2014 AAEA Travel Scholarship Fall 2012
UNIVERSITY SERVICE
Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness, LSU: Undergraduate Committee, Member 2016-present Departmental Seminar, Coordinator 2016-present Annie’s Project Advisory Committee, Member 2016-present
Food and Resource Economics, UF:
Academic (Quiz) Bowl, Academic Adviser 2014-2015 Website Development Committee, Co-chair 2014-2015 Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, Member 2014-2015 Convocation, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Group discussion leader 2014
UF Scholars Program, Mentor 2014-2015 Scholarships Committee, Member 2014 Search and Screen Committee Lecturer position, Member 2014
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
AAEA–Risk and Uncertainty, Topic Leader 2016–2018 AAEA–Membership Committee, Member 2015–present SAEA Undergraduate Quiz Bowl, co-chair 2016–2017
SS-AAEA Adviser (4 year commitment) 2014–present NC-1177 multistate project 2016–present Agricultural Economics, Reviewer 2015–present
Discussant at the Eastern Economic Association (SEA), Atlanta Nov. 2014 Discussant at the Western Economic Association International (WEAI) 89th Annual Conference, Colorado Jun. 2014
AFFILIATIONS AND ACTIVITIES
SS-AAEA adviser 2014-present AAEA ARA, AEM, AFM, CWAE, TLC member 2014-present SAEA member 2013-present WEAI member 2011-present AEA member 2011-present
SKILLS:
Software: C++, Fortran, LATEX, Mathematica, Matlab, Office, Pascal, R, Stata, Winbugs, JMulti Languages: Greek(Native), English (Fluent), French (Conversational), German REFERENCES
Rod Clouser, Professor and Interim Chair, Food and Resource Economics University of Florida, 1161 McCarty Hall A P.O. Box 110240 IFAS Phone: (352) 294-7623 Email: rclouser@ufl.edu
Alfonso Flores-Lagunes, Professor, Department of Economics and Center for Policy Research Syracuse University, 426 Eggers Hall Syracuse, NY13244-1020 Phone: (315)-443-9045 Email: afl[email protected]
Charles C.B. Moss, Professor and Research Coordinator, Food and Resource Economics University of Florida, 1167 McCarty Hall A P.O. Box 110240 IFAS Phone: (352) 392-1826 Email: cbmoss@ufl.edu
John Vansickle, Professor, Food and Resource Economics University of Florida, 1185 McCarty Hall A P.O. Box 110240 IFAS Phone: (352) 294-7634 Email: sickle@ufl.edu
Al Wysocki, Professor and Associate Teaching Dean, Food and Resource Economics University of Florida, 2001 McCarty Hall D P.O. Box 110240 IFAS Phone: (352) 392-1963 Email: wysocki@ufl.edu