Assistant Professor
Ontario Agricultural College
Email:
james.ji@uoguelph.ca
Office:
JH 126
Website links:
Academic Unit:
Department of Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics
Xinde (James) Ji
- Ph.D. Virginia Tech, 2014-2018.
- M.S. State University of New York - College of Environmental Science and Forestry, 2011-2013.
- B.S. Fudan University, 2007-2011.
- University of Florida Global Fellow, 2024-2025
- Runner-up, APEC Healthy Women Healthy Economy (HWHE) Research Prize, 2024
- Burruss Fellowship, Virginia Tech, 2017
- Temasek Foundation LEaRN Scholarship, National University of Singapore, 2010
- Assistant Professor, 2022-2025, Food and Resource Economics Department, University of Florida
- Lecturer, 2021-2022, Department of Economics, Brandeis University
- Florence Levy Kay Fellow in Environmental Economics, 2019-2021, Department of Economics and the Environmental Studies Program, Brandeis University
- Postdoctoral Research Associate, 2018-2019, Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation, Virginia Tech,
- Unintended carbon cost of automation technology in transforming economies: The role of capital dependence and structure change (with Shangze Dai) Ecological Economics (2026): 108951
- Technology Import and Biased Technological Progress in Transforming Economies: Evidence From China (with Shangze Dai and Haichao Yu) Review of Development Economics (2025)
- Ocean Salinity, Early-Life Health, and Adaptation (with Amanda Guimbeau, Nidhiya Menon, and Liz Long) Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (2024) 125: 102954
- The Economic Value of Clarifying Property Rights: Evidence from Water in Idaho's Snake River Basin (with Oliver Browne) Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (2023) 119: 102799.
- Short-Term Exposure to Air Pollution and Cognitive Performance: New Evidence from China’s College English Test (with Zhenyu Yao, Wei Zhang, and Weizhe Weng) Environmental and Resource Economics (2023) 85:211–237.
- Mining and Women’s Agency: Evidence on Acceptance of Domestic Violence and Shared Decision-making in India. (with Amanda Guimbeau, Nidhiya Menon, and Yana Rodgers) World Development (2023):162: 106135
- The Effect of Prior Appropriation Water Rights on Land-allocation Decisions in Irrigated Agriculture. (with Kelly Cobourn, Sian Mooney, and Neil Cresenti) American Journal of Agricultural Economics (2022) 104: 947-975
- The Labor Productivity Consequences of Exposure to Particulate Matters: Evidence from a Chinese National Panel Survey. (with Qi He) International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (2021) 18(23): 12859
- Weather Fluctuation, Expectation Formation, and the Short-run Behavioral Responses to Climate Change. (with Kelly Cobourn) Environmental and Resource Economics (2021) 78:77-119
- A Satellite-driven Hydro-economic Model to Support Agricultural Water Resources Management. (with Maneta et al.) Environmental Modelling and Software (2020) 134: 104836