Biography
Jing Liu is Research Economist at the Department of Agricultural Economics,
Purdue University. Jing works on issues at the interface between humankind
and environment. Her research seeks to improve the understanding of the
economic impacts of environmental changes and to better understand our
ability to adapt to those impacts. Jing is specialized in using computational
and statistical tools to analyze interactions between food production system,
land and water. She has also worked across a spectrum of applied economic
topics including economic damages of natural disasters, international trade,
as well as health and nutrition. Her recent project investigates alternative
polices to abate nitrogen loss exported to the Gulf of Mexico via the
Mississippi river basin. She contributed to developing a fine-resolution
simulation model to study local responses to socio-economic and physical stressors at various scales.