Hi! Welcome to my website. I am Bowen Chen, an agricultural economist by training and earned my PhD (Dr. Nelson Villoria was my advisor) at the Kansas State University in 2019.
I currently work for Bunge at its global headquarter located in Saint Louis as a data scientist. Before joining Bunge, I worked for Bayer Crop Science as a data scientist co-op and also worked for the Gramig Lab led by Dr. Benjamin Gramig at the University of Illinois as a postdoctoral scholar.
My fields of interests are international trade and production economics. My past academic works were mostly applied research at the intersection of international trade, development, agricultural policy, and the environment. The research goal was to understand the roles of international trade and conservation practices in mitigating climate change impacts on the global agriculture. I have dealt extensively with fine-scale geospatial and temporal data with applications to modern statistical models, econometrics, and data science tools. By joining Bunge, I seek to better understand the challenges facing the global food supply chain and to learn more advanced tools to address those challenges.
Latest work:
- usdampr: Request for Livestock Mandatory Reporting data. Accepted by CRAN
- CropScapeR: Access the U.S. cropland data from Cropland Data Layer. Accepted by CRAN
Conference paper:
- “A Causal Analysis of the Effect of Conservation Tillage on U.S. Corn and Soybean Yield and Profitability” (AAEA Annual Conference, 2020); Paper, Slides
Papers under review:
- “Weather Impacts the Agricultural Production Efficiency of Wheat: The Emerging Role of Precipitation Shocks”.
- “Conservation Tillage Mitigates Drought Induced Soybean Yield Losses in the US Corn Belt”.