Associate Professor
Michigan State University
446 West Circle Drive
East Lansing, MI 48824
About
Dr. Caputo is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics, at Michigan State University (MSU). Her research centers on how consumers make food choices and how these choices impact the food system, supply chains, and policy. Part of her work focuses on modeling consumer preferences and demand for novel food products and new food technologies integrating various disciplines such as economics, marketing, neuro-economics, behavioral economics, and sensory science.
She is currently working on various grants focused on consumer demand for novel food products and new food technologies including a USDA-NIFA -AFRI grant researching consumer choice behavior and demand for alternative genetically engineered foods (gene-edited, transgenic GMO, and cisgenic GMO) using a neuro-economics approach, and the Food Marketing Institute (FMI) Foundation grant investigating consumers choice behavior toward plant-based and animal-based gene-edited foods.
She has presented her research works in more than 50 academic conferences and published peer reviewed articles in numerous peer-reviewed journals including American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, European Review of Agricultural Economics, Economic Inquiry, Journal of Choice Modeling, Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural Economics, Food Policy, among others. For more information about Dr. Caputo click https://www.canr.msu.edu/people/vincenzina_caputo
Projects
| GNC21-337 | Consumer demand for cannabis-infused beverages and its impact on the economic sustainability of local farms and craft beverage producers |