Sean B. Cash
Faculty Associate
Email: scash@wisc.edu
Office: 324 Middleton Building
Web site:
Department of Consumer Science
School of Human Ecology
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Middleton Buiding
1305 Linden Drive
Madison, WI 53706
Phone: 608-262-5498
Sean B. Cash, Ph.D., Faculty Associate, Department of Consumer Science, and Associate Professor (on leave), Department of Rural Economy, University of Alberta. His M.S and Ph.D. are in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of California, Berkeley. His work experience includes working as a researcher in the regulatory practice of a large Washington, D.C. law firm; internships in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and at D.C. think tanks; and consulting on food and resource issues.
His research focuses in part on how food and nutrition policies affect consumers. Current and recent projects in this area include the use of food price interventions to address public health concerns; the role of agricultural policies on nutrition; the relationship between food security and obesity; and how consumers value social aspects of food relative to other attributes. He also conducts research in the areas of environmental regulation and resource conservation, including projects on household valuation of water system improvements in Mexico; invasive species management; and resource use in households impacted by AIDS in Uganda. He serves on the executive committees of the Food Safety and Nutrition Section of the American Agricultural Economics Association, and recently served on the boards of the Canadian Agricultural Economics Society, the Alberta Agricultural Economics Association and Growing Food Security in Alberta.
