Will Davis

Department of Agricultural Economics Mississippi State University 300 Lloyd Ricks Bldg, Room 355 Mississippi State, MS 39762 Phone: (662)325-0128 Email: [email protected] Homepage: DavisEconomics.com

Research Interests Applied Microeconomics, Health Economics, Causal Inference, Policy Evaluation, Government Nutri- tion Assistance Programs, and Bayesian Econometrics.

Education Ph.D. Economics: State University (2020). Dissertation: “Essays on the Economic Determinants of Health". Committee: Rusty Tchernis (chair), Charles Courtemanche, Jonathan Smith, and Daniel Millimet. M.A. Economics: Georgia State University (2019). Area of Concentration: Health Economics. B.S. Economics: Collat School of Business, at Birmingham (2015). Area of Concentration: Mathematical Economics.

Research Publications Qiu, Q., Sung, J., Davis, W., and R. Tchernis “Using Spatial Factor Analysis to Measure Human Devel- opment", Journal of Development Economics (2018), doi: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2017.12.007. Working Papers Davis, W. “Should Kids Have Their School Lunch and Eat it Too? Estimating the Effect of Universal Free School Meals on Child Health". Davis, W., and T. Musaddiq “Estimating the Effects of Subsidized School Meals on Child Health: Evidence from the Community Eligibility Provision in Georgia Schools". Davis, W., Gordan, A. and R. Tchernis “Measuring the Spatial Distribution of County Health in the United States" (Under Review Health Economics). Davis, W., Musaddiq, T., and D. Kreisman “The Effect of Free School Meals on BMI and Student Atten- dance" (Under Review Journal of Health Economics). Will Davis 2

Sung, J., Qiu, Q., Davis, W., and R. Tchernis “Suicidal Risk Index: Modeling Area-Level Rankings" (Under Review Regional Science and Urban Economics). Works in Progress Davis, W., Gregory, C., and R. Tchernis “A Flexible Model of Food Security: Estimation and Implications for Prediction". Davis, W. “Estimating the Relationship Between Food Insecurity and Adult Health Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics". Davis, W. “Bayesian Estimation of Continuous Treatment Effects in Cases of Incomplete Information". Davis, W., and J. Gibson “Keeping Up with the Joneses You Know: The Effect of External Consumption Valuation and Bequests in a Life Cycle Model with Heterogeneous Agents".

External Research Funding and Awards Research Funding Fellowship: Center for the Economic Analysis of Risk ($5,000) (2019 – 2020). Cooperative Agreement: United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service ($30,000) (2018 – current). Awards Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant Award (2019). Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant Award (2018). Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant Award (2017). Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant Award (2016). Outstanding Student in Economics Award (2015).

Teaching Experience Instructor Introduction to Food and Resource Economics (Honors), Mississippi State University (Fall 2020). Econometrics and Applications, Georgia State University (Spring 2018). Teaching Assistant: Ph.D. Courses Econometrics 1: Statistical Foundations, Georgia State University (Fall 2019). Econometrics 1: Statistical Foundations, Georgia State University (Fall 2018). Econometrics 1: Statistical Foundations, Georgia State University (Fall 2017).

Seminars Invited Presentations Southern Economic Association Annual Conference, Fr. Lauderdale FL (2019). Western Economic Association International Annual Conference, Graduate Student Workshop, San Francisco CA (2019). Will Davis 3

Association for Education Finance and Policy Annual Conference, Portland OR (2018). American Society of Health Economics Annual Conference, GA (2018). Southern Economic Association Annual Conference, Washington DC (2018). Attendee The Center for the Economic Analysis of Risk/Huebner Foundation for Insurance Education Sum- mer Risk Institute, Atlanta GA (2019). The National Bureau of Economic Research Summer Institute, Cambridge MA (2018). Center for Human Capital Studies 9th Annual Employment Conference, Atlanta GA (2018).

Invited Peer Review Referee Health Economics (2020). Economics and Human Biology (2020). The Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (2018).

Mentorship Graduate Student Mentor: Mentorship program for students interested in economics and public policy graduate studies who belong to historically underrepresented groups, Georgia State University (2017-2019).

Skills Programming STATA, MATLAB, Python, R, LaTeX, Excel

References

Rusty Tchernis Charles Courtemanche Jonathan Smith Department of Economics Department of Economics Department of Economics Georgia State University Georgia State University 55 Park Pl, Room 655 550 South Limestone, Room 223B 55 Park Pl, Room 652 Atlanta, GA 30303 Lexington, KY 40506 Atlanta, GA 30303 Phone: (404)-413-0154 Phone: (859)-323-7990 Phone: (404)-413-0174 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]

Last updated: October 22, 2020