Elina T. Page

Agricultural Economist
elina.t.page@usda.gov

Briefly

Elina Tselepidakis Page is an agricultural economist in the Diet, Safety, and Health Economics Branch of the Food Economics Division. Her research investigates the array of factors that impact household food choices, including food safety, food labels, and food access. Elina works extensively with household-level data, including the Information Resources, Inc. (IRI) Consumer Network and the National Household Food Acquisition and Purchase Survey (FoodAPS).

Background

Elina joined the Economic Research Service in September of 2014 after working for five years as a graduate research assistant in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Maryland, College Park. Prior to graduate school, she worked for the Department of Justice as an environmental law paralegal.

Education

Elina received Ph.D. and M.S. degrees from the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Maryland, College Park. She has a B.A. degree in Economics and Environmental Studies, with a minor in Mathematics, from Washington University in St. Louis.

Development of the Food-at-Home Monthly Area Prices Data Assessment and Adjustment of Body Weight Measures in Scanner Data The Market for Chicken Raised Without Antibiotics, 2012–17 Estimating Prices for Foods in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey: The Purchase to Plate Price Tool Linking USDA Nutrition Databases to IRI Household-Based and Store-Based Scanner Data

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Researchers Adjust Self-Reported Estimates of Obesity in Scanner Data Consumers’ Interpretation of Food Labels with Production Claims Can Influence Purchases USDA’s Purchase to Plate Price Tool Estimates Food Costs for National Food Intake Data Lettuce Help: USDA data on shipments of romaine lettuce can inform foodborne illness outbreak investigations and public health advisories New Data Linkages Provide Healthfulness Measures for American Grocery Store Sales

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FoodAPS National Household Food Acquisition and Purchase Survey