I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics at The Ohio State University.

My research programs address issues at the interface of commercial agricultural production and the environment. My work often leverages administrative surveys and spatial data from citizen science projects and remote sensing products to study the production of food and agricultural commodities through sustainable means. Some ongoing projects include examining how concentrated livestock production affects farmland and rural housing markets and the effectiveness of regulations in addressing the environmental externalities, as well as evaluating the biodiversity returns on investment in the Conservation Reserve Program.

I obtained my Ph.D. in Economics at Iowa State University, and was a postdoctoral research associate at the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University prior to joining AEDE.

Feel free to reach out to me at chen.13041@osu.edu.