Sanford School of Public Policy
Duke University
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Books
- Schmitz, A; Wilson, NL; Moss, CB; Zilberman, D. The Economics of Alternative Energy Sources and Globalization. December, 2011. [doi] [abs]
Journal Articles
- Folta, SC; Wilson, N; Wensman, J; Zoubek, S; Fryling, H; Wilde, P. "Control Over Food and Autonomy in Life: A Qualitative Study With Low-Income Consumers.." Health education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education 53.1 (February, 2026): 35-43. [doi] [abs]
- Lange, MC; Li, R; Apolzan, JW; Huber, PR; Steliotes, E; Robertson, K; Wilson, NLW; Jain, K; Ramnath, R; Roe, BE; Spang, ES. "Ontologies relevant for improving data interoperability for food loss and waste: A review and research agenda." Cleaner and Responsible Consumption 19 (December, 2025). [doi] [abs]
- Wood, A; Daly, J; Folger, J; Xie, R; Wilson, NLW. "Cultivating an ethos of “everyday convergence”: insights from the Multiscale RECIPES Network for food waste reduction." Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 12.1 (December, 2025). [doi] [abs]
- Krobath, DM; Wilson, NLW; Cuevas, AG; Naumova, EN; Sacheck, JM; Tyler, SA; Economos, CD. "Nonrandom Missingness in Child Race and Ethnicity Records and the US Federal Data Standards: Pooled Analysis of Community-Based Child Health Studies.." JMIR public health and surveillance 11 (November, 2025): e65660. [doi] [abs]
- Muhammad, A; López Barrera, E; Wilson, NLW. "Global Food Demand: Overcoming Challenges to Healthy and Sustainable Diets." Annual Review of Resource Economics 17.1 (October, 2025): 41-64. [doi] [abs]
- Wilson, WD; Melton, M; Wilson, NLW. "Ministry Within Wounds: A Practical Theological Ethic of Congregational Care to Address Maternal Mental Health." Anglican Theological Review 107.3 (August, 2025): 232-244. [doi] [abs]
- Wilson, NLW; Miao, R. "Food waste, date labels, and risk preferences: An experimental exploration." Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy 47.3 (July, 2025): 1029-1057. [doi] [abs]
- Fretes, G; Wilson, NLW; Corvalan, C; Economos, CD; Cash, SB. "Front-of-pack labels and young consumers: An experimental investigation of nutrition and sustainability claims in Chile." Food Quality and Preference 127 (June, 2025). [doi] [abs]
- Zhao, Y; Fan, L; Wilson, NLW; Valderrama, AV; Wilde, P. "Variations on the Thrifty Food Plan: Model diets that satisfy cost and nutrition constraints." Food Policy 130 (January, 2025): 102781-102781. [doi] [abs]
- Spear, MJ; Vaughan, JA; Barker, C; Faitak, B; Cole, J; Fleischhacker, S; Garcia, A; Heam, C; Langston, K; Martin, KS; McElfish, PA; McElwee, TM; Olamiposi, O; Sperduto, N; Wawrzaszek, A; Wilson, N; Woods, H; Long, CR. "Daily reality of food insecurity: A PhotoVoice study of food insecure residents in a rural, Southern state.." Journal of hunger & environmental nutrition 20.4 (January, 2025): 643-659. [doi] [abs]
- Ashton, WS; Sungu, A; Davis, L; Agarwalla, V; Burke, M; Benavides, ED; Espat, S; Harper, K; Knight, A; Labruto, N; Shea, M; Verba, S; Wilson, NLW. "Whither convergence? Co-designing convergent research and wrestling with its emergent tensions." Ecology and Society 29.4 (November, 2024). [doi] [abs]
- Wilson, NLW; Hochhaus, N. "Have agricultural and applied economists lost sight of the land-grant mission? A textual analysis of Presidential Addresses and Invited Papers from 1919–2022." Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy 46.3 (September, 2024): 845-864. [doi] [abs]
- Ruggiero, CF; Luo, M; Zack, RM; Marriott, JP; Lynn, C; Taitelbaum, D; Palley, P; Wallace, AM; Wilson, N; Odoms-Young, A; Fiechtner, L. "Perceived Discrimination Among Food Pantry Clients in Massachusetts.." Preventing chronic disease 21 (September, 2024): E70. [doi] [abs]
- Krasovskaia, E; Rickard, BJ; Ellison, B; McFadden, B; Wilson, N. "Food labeling: Ingredient exemptions and product claims." Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 53.2 (August, 2024): 298-319. [doi] [abs]
- Chen, R; Adu, DT; Li, W; Wilson, NLW. "Virtual water trade: Does bilateral tariff matter?." Ecological Economics 222 (August, 2024). [doi] [abs]
- Chacón, V; Chung, M; Folta, SC; Hennessy, E; Macfarlane, H; Roberto, CA; Tovar, A; Wilson, NLW; Economos, CD. "The longitudinal association between caregivers' perceived competence and autonomy and children's dietary consumption before and 10 months into the COVID-19 pandemic.." Appetite 195 (April, 2024): 107205. [doi] [abs]
- Flores-Lagunes, A; Jales, HB; Liu, J; Wilson, NL. "Moving policies toward racial and ethnic equality: The case of the supplemental nutrition assistance program*." American Journal of Agricultural Economics 106.2 (March, 2024): 573-594. [doi] [abs]
- Wilson, NLW; Walters, LM; Wade, T; Reynolds, K. "The distribution of competitive research grants from the National Institute for Food and Agriculture: A comparison of 1862 land grant universities, 1890 land grant universities, and other institutions." Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy 46.1 (March, 2024): 76-94. [doi] [abs]
- Chacón, V; Folta, SC; Hennessy, E; Leak, TM; Macfarlane, H; Roberto, CA; Tovar, A; Wilson, N; Economos, CD. "Are Caregivers' Feeding Competence and Autonomy Associated with Healthier Restaurant Food Purchases for Their Child at Fast Food or Counter Service Restaurants? A Cross-Sectional Study in a Diverse Sample of U.S. Caregivers.." Nutrients 16.4 (February, 2024): 479. [doi] [abs]
- Fretes, G; Corvalán, C; Economos, CD; Wilson, NL; Cash, SB. "Ultra-processed food consumption is associated with variations in daily routines in elementary schoolchildren during the COVID-19 pandemic in Chile.." Public health nutrition 26.10 (October, 2023): 1956-1967. [doi] [abs]
- Braga, BC; Cash, SB; Sarson, K; Chang, R; Mosca, A; Wilson, NLW. "The gamification of nutrition labels to encourage healthier food selection in online grocery shopping: A randomized controlled trial.." Appetite 188 (September, 2023): 106610. [doi] [abs]
- Braga, BC; Cash, SB; Sarson, K; Chang, R; Mosca, A; Wilson, NLW. "The creation of an online grocery store for experimental purposes: A pilot study." Food Quality and Preference 109 (July, 2023). [doi] [abs]
- Krobath, DM; Naumova, EN; Cuevas, AG; Sacheck, JM; Wilson, NLW; Economos, CD. "Use of Bland-Altman Analysis to Examine the Racial and Ethnic Representativeness of Study Populations in Community-Based Pediatric Health Research.." JAMA network open 6.5 (May, 2023): e2312920. [doi] [abs]
- Fretes, G; Corvalán, C; Reyes, M; Taillie, LS; Economos, CD; Wilson, NLW; Cash, SB. "Changes in children's and adolescents' dietary intake after the implementation of Chile's law of food labeling, advertising and sales in schools: a longitudinal study.." The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity 20.1 (April, 2023): 40. [doi] [abs]
- Wilson, NLW. "Norbert Lance Weston Wilson." American Journal of Agricultural Economics 105.2 (March, 2023): 392. [doi]
- Wilson, NLW. "A call for justice work in agricultural and applied economics." American Journal of Agricultural Economics 105.2 (March, 2023): 393-408. [doi] [abs]
- Ellison, B; Fan, L; Wilson, NLW. "Is it more convenient to waste? Trade-offs between grocery shopping and waste behaviors." Agricultural Economics United Kingdom 53 (November, 2022): 75-89. [doi] [abs]
- Marriott, JP; Fiechtner, L; Birk, NW; Taitelbaum, D; Odoms-Young, A; Wilson, NL; Clay, LA; Zack, RM. "Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Food Pantry Use and Barriers in Massachusetts during the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic.." Nutrients 14.12 (June, 2022): 2531. [doi] [abs]
- Folta, SC; Anyanwu, O; Pustz, J; Oslund, J; Penkert, LP; Wilson, N. "Food Choice With Economic Scarcity and Time Abundance: A Qualitative Study.." Health education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education 49.1 (February, 2022): 150-158. [doi] [abs]
- Fan, L; Ellison, B; Wilson, NLW. "What Food waste solutions do people support?." Journal of Cleaner Production 330 (January, 2022): 129907-129907. [doi] [abs]
- Bell, W; Coates, J; Fanzo, J; Wilson, NLW; Masters, WA. "Beyond price and income: Preferences and food values in peri-urban Viet Nam.." Appetite 166 (November, 2021): 105439. [doi] [abs]
- Zheng, Y; (Jason) Zhao, J; Buck, S; Burney, S; Kaiser, HM; Wilson, NL. "Putting grocery food taxes on the table: Evidence for food security policy-makers." Food Policy 101 (May, 2021). [doi] [abs]
- Ellison, B; McFadden, B; Rickard, BJ; Wilson, NLW. "Examining Food Purchase Behavior and Food Values During the COVID-19 Pandemic." Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy 43.1 (March, 2021): 58-72. [doi] [abs]
- Cuevas, AG; Chen, R; Slopen, N; Thurber, KA; Wilson, N; Economos, C; Williams, DR. "Assessing the Role of Health Behaviors, Socioeconomic Status, and Cumulative Stress for Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Obesity.." Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) 28.1 (January, 2020): 161-170. [doi] [abs]
- Kannam, A; Wilson, NLW; Chomitz, VR; Ladin, K. "Perceived Benefits and Barriers to Free Summer Meal Participation Among Parents in New York City.." Journal of nutrition education and behavior 51.8 (September, 2019): 976-984. [doi] [abs]
- Wang, P; Tran, N; Chan, CY; Dao, D; Wilson, NLW. "An analysis of seafood trade duration: The case of ASEAN." Marine Resource Economics 34.1 (January, 2019): 59-76. [doi] [abs]
- Traore, TM; Wilson, NLW; Fields, D. "What explains specialty coffee quality scores and prices: A case study from the cup of excellence program." Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 50.3 (August, 2018): 349-368. [doi] [abs]
- Chen, R; Hartarska, V; Wilson, NLW. "The causal impact of HACCP on seafood imports in the U.S.: An application of difference-in-differences within the gravity model." Food Policy 79 (August, 2018): 166-178. [doi] [abs]
- Wilson, NLW; Miao, R; Weis, C. "Seeing Is Not Believing: Perceptions of Date Labels over Food and Attributes." Journal of Food Products Marketing 24.5 (July, 2018): 611-631. [doi] [abs]
- Lusk, JL; McFadden, BR; Wilson, N. "Do consumers care how a genetically engineered food was created or who created it?." Food Policy 78 (July, 2018): 81-90. [doi] [abs]
- Flores-Lagunes, A; Jales, HB; Liu, J; Wilson, NL. "The Differential Incidence and Severity of Food Insecurity by Racial, Ethnic, and Immigrant Groups over the Great Recession in the United States." AEA Papers and Proceedings 108 (May, 2018): 379-383. [doi] [abs]
- Wilson, NLW; Just, DR; Swigert, J; Wansink, B. "Food pantry selection solutions: a randomized controlled trial in client-choice food pantries to nudge clients to targeted foods.." Journal of public health (Oxford, England) 39.2 (June, 2017): 366-372. [doi] [abs]
- Wilson, NLW; Rickard, BJ; Saputo, R; Ho, S-T. "Food waste: The role of date labels, package size, and product category." Food Quality and Preference. 55 (January, 2017): 35-44. [doi] [abs]
- Denny, RCH; Worosz, MR; Wilson, NLW. "The Importance of Governance Levels in Alternative Food Networks: The Case of Red Meat Inspection Rules." Rural Sociology 81.4 (December, 2016): 601-634. [doi] [abs]
- Wilson, N. "When the cupboards are bare: Nudging food pantry clients to healthier foods." Journal of the Association for Consumer Research 1.1 (January, 2016): 125-133. [doi] [abs]
- AFFUSO, E; HITE, D; WILSON, NWL. "A STOCHASTIC FRONTIER ANALYSIS TO EXAMINE RESEARCH PRIORITIES FOR GENETICALLY ENGINEERED PEANUTS." Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 47.3 (August, 2015): 359-381. [doi] [abs]
- Wilson, AP; Wilson, NLW. "The economics of quality in the specialty coffee industry: Insights from the Cup of Excellence auction programs." Agricultural Economics United Kingdom 45.S1 (November, 2014): 91-105. [doi] [abs]
- Ding, M; Wilson, NLW; Garza, KB; Zizza, CA. "Undiagnosed prediabetes among food insecure adults.." American journal of health behavior 38.2 (March, 2014): 225-233. [doi] [abs]
- Wilson, NLW; Worosz, MR. "Zero tolerance rules in food safety and quality." Food Policy 45 (January, 2014): 112-115. [doi] [abs]
- Trần, N; Nguyẽ̂n, A; Wilson, NLW. "The Differential Effects of Food Safety Regulations on Animal Products Trade: The Case of Crustacean Product Trade." Agribusiness. 30.1 (January, 2014): 31-45. [doi] [abs]
- Shepherd, B; Wilson, NLW. "Product standards and developing country agricultural exports: The case of the European Union." Food Policy 42 (October, 2013): 1-10. [doi] [abs]
- Wilson, NLW; Wilson, A; Whitttingham, K. "Helping consumers "know who grows" their coffee: The case of THRIVE farmers coffee." International Food and Agribusiness Management Review 16.3 (September, 2013): 177-194. [abs]
- Trần, N; Bailey, C; Wilson, N; Phillips, M. "Governance of Global Value Chains in Response to Food Safety and Certification Standards: The Case of Shrimp from Vietnam." World development. 45 (May, 2013): 325-336. [doi] [abs]
- Tran, N; Wilson, N; Hite, D. "Choosing the best model in the presence of zero trade: A fish product analysis." Frontiers of Economics and Globalization 12 (January, 2013): 127-148. [doi] [abs]
- Wilson, N. "Discussion: Causes of Agricultural and Food Price Inflation and Volatility." Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 44.3 (August, 2012): 423-425. [doi] [abs]
- Worosz, MR; Wilson, NLW. "A Cautionary Tale of Purity, Labeling and Product Literacy in the Gluten-Free Market." Journal of Consumer Affairs 46.2 (June, 2012): 288-318. [doi] [abs]
- Wilson, NLW. "Food Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know." American Journal of Agricultural Economics 93.5 (October, 2011): 1406-1408. [doi]
- Wilson, N; Hall, T; Fields, D. "Measuring retail service quality in farm supply cooperatives." International Food and Agribusiness Management Review 14.1 (May, 2011): 1-22. [abs]
- Wilson, NLW; Nelson, RG. "A laboratory science approach to teaching in the agricultural economics curriculum." Review of Agricultural Economics 31.2 (May, 2009): 331-343. [doi] [abs]
- Wilson, N. "L'examen des effets sur les échanges de certaines procédures douanières et administratives." (January, 2009): 57-87. [doi]
- Wilson, N. "Examining the Effect of Certain Customs and Administrative Procedures on Trade." (January, 2009): 51-79. [doi]
- Wilson, NLW; Antón, J. "Combining risk assessment and economics in managing a Sanitary-Phytosanitary risk." American Journal of Agricultural Economics 88.1 (February, 2006): 194-202. [doi] [abs]
- Sumner, DA; Wilson, NLW. "Capitalization of farm policy benefits and the rate of return to policy-created assets: Evidence from California dairy quota." Review of Agricultural Economics 27.2 (June, 2005): 245-258. [doi] [abs]
- Wilson, NLW. "Cape Natural Tea Products and the U.S. market: Rooibos rebels ready to raid." Review of Agricultural Economics 27.1 (March, 2005): 139-148. [doi] [abs]
- Wilson, NLW; Sumner, DA. "Explaining variations in the price of dairy quota: Flow returns, liquidity, quota characteristics, and policy risk." Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 29.1 (April, 2004): 1-16. [abs]
- Nelson, RG; Wilson, NLW. "“It's for Teaching, not Believing”: Comments on Teaching, Learning, and Problem Solving Through Economic Experiments." Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 35.2 (August, 2003): 361-370. [doi] [abs]
- Brooks, J; Matthews, A; Wilson, N. "Do developing countries need a development box?." Eurochoices 2.2 (January, 2003): 18-23. [doi] [abs]
- King, JL; Wilson, NLW; Naseem, A. "A tale of two mergers: What we can learn from agricultural biotechnology event studies." Agbioforum 5.1 (December, 2002): 14-19. [abs]
- Wilson, NLW. "Linking globalization, economic growth and poverty: Impacts of agribusiness strategies on sub-Saharan Africa: Discussion." American Journal of Agricultural Economics 83.3 (January, 2001): 733-735. [doi]
- Sumner, DA; Wilson, NLW. "Creation and Distribution of Economic Rents by Regulation: Development and Evolution of Milk Marketing Orders in California." Agricultural History 74.2 (March, 2000): 198-210.
Chapters in Books
- Wilson, NLW; Calancie, L; Adkins, J; Folta, SC. "Understanding Micro-pantries as an Emergency Food Source During the COVID-19 Pandemic.." April, 2022: 299-310. [doi] [abs]
- Fretes, G; Corvalan, C; Reyes, M; Economos, C; Taillie, LS; Wilson, N; Cash, S. "Youth's Diets at School After Implementation of Chile's Food Labeling and Advertising Law." 2021: 194-194.
- Chacon, V; Folta, S; Hennessy, E; Macfarlane, H; Wilson, N; Roberto, C; Tovar, A; Economos, C. "Are Parents' Competence and Autonomy Associated to Healthier Child Feeding? A Cross-sectional Study." 2021: 58-58.
- Hsu-Flanders, AS; Gallagher, L; Wilson, NLW. "Strawberries Food loss and loss prevention opportunities." ECONOMICS OF FOOD LOSS IN THE PRODUCE INDUSTRY. 2020: 172-185.
- Gallagher, L; Hsu-Flanders, AS; Wilson, NLW. "From gleaning to for-profits Efforts to mitigate food loss and feed people." ECONOMICS OF FOOD LOSS IN THE PRODUCE INDUSTRY. 2020: 263-276.
- Bullock, DS; Wilson, NL. "Implications of TTIP and TPP for GM/non-GM Coexistence." January, 2017 [doi] [abs]
- Tran, N; Wilson, N; Hite, D. "5 Choosing the Best Model in the Presence of Zero Trade: A Fish Product Analysis." Frontiers of Economics and Globalization. Emerald Group Publishing Limited, June, 2013: 127-148. [doi]
- Tran, N; Wilson, NLW; Anders, S. "Standard harmonization as chasing zero (tolerance limits): The impact of veterinary drug residue standards on crustacean imports in the EU, Japan, and North America." January, 2012: 496-502. [doi] [abs]
- Wilson, NLW. "How the cookie crumbles: A case study of Gluten-free cookies and random utility." January, 2012: 576-582. [doi] [abs]
- Wilson, NLW; Diarrasouba, M. "Making the Most out of FDI in Africa." Financial Inclusion Innovation and Investments Biotechnology and Capital Markets Working for the Poor. January, 2011: 227-248. [doi]
- Christy, R; Mabaya, E; Wilson, N; Mutambatsere, E; Mhlanga, N. "Enabling environments for competitive agro-industries." Agro Industries for Development. August, 2009: 136-185.
- Sumner, DA; Wilson, NLW. "The capitalized value of policy: Effects of quota characteristics, liquidity, and policy default risk.." 2000: 721-721.
- Wilson, N; Sumner, D. "A static policy for a dynamic industry: The California young act of 1935.." 1999: 1310-1310.
- Sumner, DA; Wilson, NLW. "Policy risk: An empirical analysis of a market for a government-created asset.." 1998: 1178-1178.
- Wilson, N; Sumner, DA; Havenner, AM. "Time series analysis of a policy-created asset: The case of the California dairy quota.." 1997: 400-401.
- Sumner, DA; Wilson, NLW. "The dairy assessment refund program: What do differential milk taxes do and to whom?." 1996: 1393-1393.
Policy Briefs
- Wilson, N; Cacho, J. "Relations entre l'investissement direct étranger, les échanges et la politique commerciale." Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), March, 2007 [doi]
- "Linkage Between foreign Direct Investment, Trade and Trade Policy." Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), March, 2007 [doi]
- "Examining the Trade Effect of Certain Customs and Administrative Procedures." Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), January, 2007 [doi]
- "Facilitating Adjustment: Sector Experiences from Agriculture, Telecommunications and Chemicals." Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), October, 2006 [doi]
