Wendong Zhang

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Wendong Zhang is an associate professor in the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, part of the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business. His research and extension program seeks to better understand US farmland market, Chinese agriculture, as well as the interplay between agriculture and the environment.

Zhang is currently an associate editor of the Journal of Soil and Water Conservation and was an associate editor of American Journal of Agricultural Economics from 2020 to 2023. He is also faculty affiliate at Cornell Center for China Economic Research, faculty fellow at Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability, and a 2023-2025 fellow with the Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research.

Prior to joining Cornell, Zhang was a tenured associate professor in the Department of Economics and the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development at Iowa State University. He obtained his PhD in agricultural, environmental and development economics from Ohio State University in 2015.

Experience

  • 2021–present
    Associate Professor, Iowa State University
  • 2022–present
    Assistant Professor, Cornell University
  • 2015–2021
    Assistant Professor, Iowa State University

Education

  • 2015 
    The Ohio State University, Agricultural and Environmental Economics
  • 2009 
    Fudan University, Environmental Science

Publications

  • 2018
    What Have We Learned from China's Past Trade Retaliation Strategies?, Choices Magazine
  • 2018
    Do US Anglers Care About Harmful Algal Blooms?A Discrete Choice Experiment of Lake Erie Recreational Anglers, American Journal of Agricultural Economics
  • 2018
    Current Farm Downturn vs. 1920s and 1980s Farm Crisis: An Economic and Legal Comparison, Agricultural Finance Review

Grants and Contracts

  • 2019
    Quantifying the Transmission of U.S.-China and Global Policy Impacts through a New Commodity-Specific International General-Equilibrium System
    Role:
    co-PI
    Funding Source:
    U.S. Department of Agriculture

Professional Memberships

  • Agricultural & Applied Economics Association
  • American Economic Association
  • Chinese Economists Society

Research Areas

  • Agricultural Economics (140201)
  • Applied Economics (1402)

Honours

2019 AAEA Bruce Garner Memorial Prize for Applied Policy Analysis Award; 2023 Distinguished Service to Agriculture Award by ASFMRA Iowa Chapter; 2022 Young Professional Achievement Award by Ohio State CFAES Alumni Society

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  • Consulting / Advising
  • Research collaboration