Lisa Schulkind
Lisa Schulkind
Associate Professor, Economics
Professor, Public Policy Doctoral Program
Lisa Schulkind joined the Belk College of Business in August 2014. Before joining the Belk College, Dr. Schulkind earned her Ph.D. in economics from the University of California at Davis and began her career as an assistant professor of economics at Trinity College in Hartford, CT. Dr. Schulkind’s research focuses on understanding how parents’ decisions and circumstances affect their children and using this knowledge in order to make policy recommendations to improve intergenerational mobility. Her research on the effect of birth timing manipulation on infant health has been published in the Journal of Health Economics. Other current research projects examine the effect of information about one’s own academic ability on educational attainment, the health impacts of Women Infants and Children (WIC), the intergenerational transmission of health, and the economic returns to education for teenage mothers.
Degree(s):
Ph.D. in Economics, University of California, Davis
M.A. in Economics, University of California, Davis
B.A. in Economics Cum Laude, Union College
Expertise:
Economics
Health Economics
Recent Publications:
- Hudak, K. M., Racine, E. F., & Schulkind, L. (2021). An increase in SNAP benefits did not impact food security or diet quality in youth. Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, 121(3), 507-519.
- Racine, E. F., Schorno, R., Gholizadeh, S., Bably, M. B., Hatami, F., Stephens, C., Schulkind, L., … & Paul, R. (2022). A college fast-food environment and student food and beverage choices: developing an integrated database to examine food and beverage purchasing choices among college students. Nutrients, 14(4), 900.
- Alfaro-Hudak, K. M., Schulkind, L., Racine, E. F., & Zillante, A. (2022). SNAP and cardiometabolic risk in youth. Nutrients, 14(13), 2756.
- Bitler, M., Currie, J., Hoynes, H., Ruffini, K., Schulkind, L., & Willage, B. (2023). Mothers as insurance: Family spillovers in WIC. Journal of Health Economics, 91, 102784.
- Bitler, M., Currie, J., Hoynes, H. W., Ruffini, K. J., Schulkind, L., & Willage, B. (2023). Mothers Experience Greater Food Insecurity When Children Age Out of WIC. children, 69, 82-96.
- Durrance, C., Guldi, M., & Schulkind, L. (2024). The effect of rural hospital closures on maternal and infant health. Health services research, 59(2), e14248.
- Racine, E. F., Ademu, L. O., Dahl, A. A., Fandetti, S. M., & Schulkind, L. (2024). The impact of fast-food energy posting on college students’ food purchases. The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 120(5), 1207-1214.
- Ademu, L. O., Racine, E. F., Schulkind, L., Dahl, A., & Fandetti, S. (2024). Examining the Impact of Calorie Menu Labelling on University Students’ Food Choices. Current Developments in Nutrition, 8.
- Bitler, M., Currie, J., Hoynes, H., Ruffini, K., Schulkind, L., & Willage, B. (2025). Effects of school meals on nutrition: Evidence from the start of the school year. Food Policy, 134, 102901.