Christine Ranney

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

Public Finance, Public Policy, Consumer Demand

351 Warren Hall
Ph: 607.255.3095
E-mail: ckr2@cornell.edu

Christine Ranney conducts research in the broad areas of public finance and public policy issues at the local, state, federal, and international levels. Her current research focuses on the role of government programs in alleviating poverty; the determinants of the overall distribution of income in the U.S., and an investigation of the extent to which U.S. consumers meet the recommended dietary guidelines, including implications for food production, processing, and marketing if the guidelines were met.

Teaching

AEM 4320: Public-Private Sector Economic Linkages
AEM 6700: Economics of Consumer Demand

Recent Publications

McNamara, P., and C. Ranney. Forthcoming 2002. Hired farm labor and health insurance coverage. In The dynamics of hired farm labor: Constraints and community response, edited by Jill Findeis.

Wilde, P., and C. Ranney. 2000. The monthly food stamp cycle: Shopping frequency and food intake decisions in an endogenous switching regression framework. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 82(1):200-13.

Wilde, P., P. McNamara, and C. Ranney. 1999. The effect of income and food programs on dietary quality: A seemingly unrelated regression analysis with one-way error components. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 81(4):959-71.

McNamara, P., and C. Ranney. 1999. The changing income distribution in New York State. In New York in the 21st century, edited by Thomas Hirschl. Greenwood Press.

McNamara, P., C. Ranney, L. Kantor, and S. Krebs-Smith. 1999. The gap between food intakes and the pyramid recommendations: Measurement and food system ramifications. Food Policy 24(2-3):117-33.

Wilde, P., and C. Ranney. 1996. The distinct impact of food stamps on food spending. Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 21(1):174-85.

Professional Activities

• Associate Dean, Graduate School, Cornell University, 1994-99
• Faculty Senate, Cornell University, 2001-present
• Graduate Admissions Committee, Dept. of Applied Economics and Management, 2000-present
• Visiting professor, Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, 1999
• AAEA/CWAE Board of Directors, 1997-2000
• NAREA Executive Committee, 1991-94

Education

Ph.D., University of California, Davis, 1983
M.S., University of California, Davis, 1980
B.S., Cornell University, 1978

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