POSTPONED: How Place and Poverty Intersect: Evidence about Lack of Retail and Low Nutrition Assistance Take Jason Cook, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Pittsburgh
Jason is an assistant professor in the economics department at
the University of Pittsburgh. He studies topics at the
intersection of public and labor economics with a special
emphasis on assessing the causes and consequences of inequity.
His past work studies charter schools, school teacher experience,
and school segregation. Current work focuses on assessing
inequities in geographic access to food assistance programs as
well as the labor supply effects of food assistance program
rules.