A couple weeks ago, I was asked to talk to give a talk to the students in the Sanford School’s Masters of Public Policy (MPP) program about my research.
I do not teach a core MPP course, so the only MPP students I know are those who took my development seminar in the fall as well as my two teaching assistants in the core undergraduate microeconomics course I am teaching this semester… And even then, the intersection between these two sets is nonempty, which means that I know all too few MPP students.
Given that the topic of food prices has occupied much of my waking life since the end of 2010, I thus spoke today to an audience of MPP students and students in the  Masters of Arts in International Development Policy (MIDP) about food policy in developing countries. The title of my talk was “Food Prices in Developing Countries: Who Wins, Who Loses, and What Can We Do About It?” My slides are available here.
Hi Marc!
Thanks for posting! I follow somewhat regularly, but is nice to see all this condensed :)
Very interesting topic… wish I could come up with just one!
Thanks for your comment, Norma! I’m just glad someone’s reading all of this. Don’t worry about research topics. They are hard to come by at the beginning, but eventually you will have more research topics than you’ll have time to investigate them!