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College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

# overview
Grace Melo is an Accountability, Climate, Equity, and Scholarship (ACES) Faculty Fellow

in the Department of Agricultural Economics. She is interested in policy-oriented research questions involving individual choices and preferences. In the past, she has studied Hispanic preferences for immigration policy attributes and students' preferences for learning assessments in Latin America. Her current research focuses on food security and diet quality of households from underrepresented groups in the US. She has mentored undergraduate and graduate minority students.

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Online Purchasing Pilot Snap Food Sufficiency Food Security Covid-19 Pandemic

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Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (snap)

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Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (snap)

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Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (snap)

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University of Georgia - (Athens, Georgia, United States)

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University of Georgia - (Athens, Georgia, United States)

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Hispanic Immigrants' Opinions towards Immigration and Immigration Policy Reform

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Hispanic American Opinions toward Immigration and Immigration Policy Reform Proposals

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In immigration reform, undocumented immigrants value work visas and family visits more than access to healthcare and social security

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The Impact of NuVal Shelf Nutrition Labels on Food Choices: Evidence from Frozen Dinner Purchases

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Agricultural and Applied Economics Association

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Does a Comprehensive Food Policy affect Household Demand Behavior

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Agricultural and Applied Economics Association

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Driving Factors of Rural-Urban Migration in China

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Agricultural and Applied Economics Association

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Censored QUAIDS estimation with quaidsce

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COVID-19: Effects on U.S. Labor, Supply Chains and Consumption Imagery Article

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Agricultural and Applied Economics Association

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QUAIDSCE: Stata module to estimate censored almost-ideal demand systems

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The Path Forward: U.S. Consumer and Food Retail Responses to COVID-19

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Agricultural and Applied Economics Association

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The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Online Purchasing Pilot's impact on food insufficiency

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Global Changes In Harvested Area In Corn, Sugarcane And Oilseeds: The Econometric Estimation Of The Role Of Biofuel Production, Foreign Direct Investment, Income And Population Growth

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Navigating the shift to online learning: student experiences of inclusivity, efficiency, and study efforts in Chile

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Letting low-income Americans buy groceries online in 2020 with SNAP benefits decreased the share of people without enough food  new research

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Calcium homeostasis during pregnancy and lactation in primiparous and multiparous women with sub-adequate calcium intakes

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Does point-of-sale nutrition information improve the nutritional quality of food choices?

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Food Choices of SNAP/WIC Participants at Convenience Stores and Larger Stores

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Agricultural and Applied Economics Association

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Valuing Groundwater Quality: Does Averting Behavior Matter?

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Interaction of biofuel, food security, indirect land use change and greenhouse mitigation policies in the European Union

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Agricultural and Applied Economics Association

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How to assess? Student preferences for methods to assess experiential learning: A best-worst scaling approach.

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Survey Evidence on Legal and Illegal Hispanic Immigrants Perceptions of Living and Working in US Agriculture

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Extra food assistance cushioned the early pandemics blow on kids mental health

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The Retailer Choice of SNAP Participants for Fill-In Purchases

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Identifying the Effect of Shelf Nutrition Labels on Yogurt Sales Using a Natural Experiment

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Agricultural and Applied Economics Association

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Identifying the effect of shelf nutrition labels on consumer purchases: results of a natural experiment and consumer survey.

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What does the Pandemic Mean for Experiential Learning? Lessons from Latin America

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Agricultural and Applied Economics Association

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The Impact of NuVal Shelf Nutrition Labels on Consumption:  Evidence from Cold Cereal Purchases

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Theme Overview: COVID-19 and the Agriculture Industry: Labor, Supply Chains, and Consumer Behavior

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Agricultural and Applied Economics Association

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Adaptation of Teaching Strategies During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Did mental and emotional health of SNAP families' children improve during the COVID-19 pandemic?

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Fruitful changes? Exploring household fruit purchase decisions following comprehensive food policy regulations in Chile.

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Folate and cobalamin uptake by human placenta in complicated pregnancies: Prematurity, preeclampsia and fetal neural tube defects

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Structural responses to the obesity epidemic in Latin America: what are the next steps for food and physical activity policies?

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Food Choices of SNAP and WIC Participants at Convenience Stores and Supermarkets

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Tufts University - (Medford, Massachusetts, United States)

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Tufts/UConn Research Innovation and Development Grants in Economics (RIDGE) Program

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Ambiguity, Learning, and Health Information: Evidence from an Experiment

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Comision Nacional de Investigacion Cientifica y Tecnologica - (Santiago, Chile)

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Increasing Sales by Promoting the Attributes of Pecan through a Systematic Science-Based Marketing Strategy

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United States Department of Agriculture - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)

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Can taxes improve the dietary quality in Chile?

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Pontifical Catholic University of Chile - (Santiago, Region Metropolitana de Santiago, Chile)

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Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

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College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

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College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

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3.	¿Pueden los impuestos mejorar la calidad nutricional de la dieta en Chile?