Falin Sun - profile information
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- Ag Economics & Rural Sociology GRA
- Ag Economics & Rural Sociology GTA
- Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology
Short Bio
Falin Sun is a Ph.D. student in Applied Economics at Auburn University. He is currently working as a research and teaching assistant in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology. His research spans both the consumption and production sides of the agri-food system. On the consumption side, he focuses on estimating food demand and understanding how financial tools interact with household consumption decisions. On the production sides, he studies the determinants of a more sustainable agri-food system, including environmental regulation, firm behavior in food processing, and farmers' investment decisions such as irrigation adoption. His work aims to generate novel insights that inform evidence-based food and agricultural policy.
His research has been published in leading (Ag) Econ journals such as Economic Letters, Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, and Agricultural & Environmental Letters.
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Education
Ph.D. in Applied EconomicsAuburn University
MSc in Agricultural Business and EconomicsAuburn University
MSc in Agricultural Economics and ManagementRenmin University of China
BS in Economic StatisticsCentral University of Finance and Economics
Research
- "Why raw yield data are better than relative yield in informing agronomic and economic decisions." with Wenying Li, Joshua M. Duke, Joshua M. McGrath, and Vaughn Reed, Accepted.Agricultural & Environmental Letters
- "Unintended Innovation Consequences of Skirting the Environmental Regulation: Evidence from the Food Processing Industry in China." with Xiangwen Kong, Peibin Hou, and Huanguang Qiu, Accepted. Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics
- "The cost of raising a child: Equivalence scales in the United States." with Peibin Hou, Wendiam Sawadgo, Samir Huseynov, and Wenying Li, 2025. Economics Letters, 252, 112359
