Mary K. Muth

Expertise

Food and Agricultural Industries
Food Safety
Industrial Organization
Economic Impact Analysis

Biography

Mary Muth, PhD, is director of RTI’s Food and Agricultural Policy Research Program and manages projects to provide support for and analyze the economic impacts of policies and regulations affecting the food and agricultural industries. She specializes in applications of industrial organization, applied welfare analysis, and econometrics in evaluating policy and providing information for policy development. These applications have included meat and poultry slaughtering and processing, food processing, vegetable oils and meals, oysters, dietary supplements, bioengineered foods, food labeling, and food safety. She also specializes in developing electronic models and databases to support economic impact analyses of regulations, developing industry survey instruments, and analyzing industry survey data. She has presented her work at the annual meetings of the Allied Social Science Associations, the American Agricultural Economics Association, and other conferences. Dr. Muth is also an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at North Carolina State University.

Education

PhD, Economics, North Carolina State University; MS, Agricultural Economics, Cornell University; BS, Agricultural and Managerial Economics, University of California at Davis.

Selected Publications

Muth, M.K., Liu, Y., Koontz, S.R., & Lawrence, J.D. (April 2008). Differences in prices and price risk across alternative marketing arrangements used in the fed cattle industry. Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 33 (1):118-135.

Muth, M.K., Fahimi, M., Karns, S.A., & Li, Y. (November 2007). Analysis of food safety performance in meat and poultry establishments, Revised final report, Contract no. 53-3A94-03-12, Task order 18. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food Safety and Inspection Service.

Muth, M.K., Wohlgenant, M.K., & Karns, S.A. (Fall 2007). Did the pathogen reduction and hazard analysis and critical control points regulation cause slaughter plants to exit? Review of Agricultural Economics, 29 (3):596-611.

Muth, M.K., Kosa, K.M., Nielsen, S.J., & Karns, S.A. (July 2007). Exploratory research on estimation of consumer-level food loss conversion factors, Agreement No. 58-4000-6-0121, Final Report.

Muth, M. (2007). Testimony for the hearing 'Economic challenges and opportunities facing American agricultural producers today'. Presented at the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry, Washington, DC, April 18, 2007.

Muth, M.K., Siegel, P.H., & Zhen, C. (February 2007). ERS data quality study design, Contract 53-3K06-06-1301.

Muth, M.K., Cates, S.C., Coglaiti, M.C., Fahimi, M., Franklin, J., Karns, S., Kosa, K., Li, Y., Liu, Y., Paoli, N., Squires, R., Taylor, J., Viator, C., Del Roccili, J., Asher, M., Bradlow, E., Diebold, F., Kleindorfer, P., Koontz, S., Lawrence, J., Schroeter, J., Vukina, T., Piggott, N., Shin, C., Wohlgenant, M., Zheng, Z., Brester, G., Atwood , J., Marsh, J., & McNew, K. (January 2007). GIPSA livestock and meat marketing study, Contract No. 53-32KW-4-028, Volume 1: Executive summary and overview, Final report.

Muth, M.K., Beach, R.H., Karns, S.A., Van Houtven, G.L., & Viator, C.L. (February 2006). Regulatory impact analysis of the final BSE rulemaking using the beef sector facility-level model, Final report, Contract no. 53-3A94-03-12, Task order 19.

Muth, M.K., Rucker, R.R., Thurman, W.N., & Chuang, C.T. (Oct 2003). The fable of the bees revisited: Causes and consequences of the U.S. honey program. Journal of Law & Economics, 46 (2):479-516.

Muth, M.K., Karns, S.A., Anderson, D.W., & Murray, B.C. (Oct 2002). Effects of post-harvest treatment requirements on the markets for oysters. Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 31 (2):171-186.

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