Dr. Timothy Beatty is an associate professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at The University of California, Davis. Born and raised in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Tim received his Ph.D. from the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at UC Berkeley. His research looks at consumption behavior, in particular as it relates to poverty and health, with a particular focus on food consumption and the demand for nutrition and health at both the household and aggregate levels.

Tim started his career as a Canada Research Chair in the Food and Resource Economics Group at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada), followed by tenured faculty positions at the University of York (U.K.), and the University of Minnesota. Over the years, he has held visiting positions at the Statistics Norway, BI Norwegian Business School, and the University of Bologna. Tim has a long involvement with the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, serving in leadership roles in the Food Safety and Nutrition section and the Econometrics section. He was recently appointed as one of the four co-editors of the American Journal of Agricultural Economics.

Tim and his wife Josephine have three children: Max, Finn, and Hazel.

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