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Trenton Smith

Trenton G. Smith, Ph.D.

UCLA International Institute
11343 Bunche Hall
Box 951487
University of California, Los Angeles
      Los Angeles, CA 90095-1487

e-mail: trent@international.ucla.edu

TEL: (310) 825-0517
FAX: (310) 825-4591
 



 
CURRENT POSITION
Global Fellow & Visiting Assistant Professor (September 2003-)
UCLA International Institute, University of California, Los Angeles

 EDUCATION
Ph.D., Economics, University of California, Santa Barbara, September 2002
Dissertation: "Toward a Unified Theory of Choice:  Case Studies in Dietary Preference" (abstract) (CV)
Thesis Advisor: Ted Bergstrom

M.S., Civil Engineering, Stanford University, 1993

B.A.S., Biological Sciences and Economics, Stanford University, 1990


RESEARCH PAPERS
The McDonald's Equilibrium: Advertising, Empty Calories, and the Endogenous Determination of Dietary Preferences,  forthcoming in Social Choice and Welfare.

A Theory of Natural Addiction (with A. Tasnadi), UCLA International Institute, Global Fellows Working Paper Series, December 2003.

Obesity and Nature's Thumbprint: How Modern Waistlines Can Inform Economic Theory, University of California, Santa Barbara Working Paper in Economics No. 18-02, August 2002.  Revised April 2003.

Last Updated: February 15, 2004