Madeline Reed-Jones joined USDA’s Economic Research Service (ERS) as a research agricultural economist for the Food Assistance Branch in the Food Economics Division. Her research focus encompasses topics related to healthcare, health outcomes, and food security. Madeline’s research includes estimating the food insecurity risk among demographic and geographic subgroups within States. She joined ERS in August 2023, after completing her Ph.D. in consumer science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her dissertation investigated the effect of liquidity on healthcare decision-making.

Ph.D. in consumer science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, B.S. in economics from Hillsdale College.

Rabbitt, M.P., Reed-Jones, M., Hales, L.J., & Burke, M.P. (2024). Household food security in the United States in 2023 (Report No. ERR-337). U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.

Rabbitt, M.P., Reed-Jones, M., Hales, L.J., & Burke, M.P. (2024). Statistical supplement to household food security in the United States in 2023 (Report No. AP-124). U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.

Bartfeld, J., & Reed-Jones, M. (2024). Can the American Community Survey provide new insight into household food security? An illustration of cross-survey multiple imputation.” Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy 1–19.

Nishtala, M.V., Reed, M., Schumacher, J., Hanlon, B., Venkatesh, M., Collins, M., & Zarzaur, B.L. (2023). Catastrophic health expenditure in nonneurological injury due to motor vehicle crash. Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, 95(2), 172–180.