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andres.silva@ucentral.cl

Research areas:

Food disparities, sustainability, food waste, fruits and vegetables, food policy.

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Andres Silva

D. in Economics, University of Kent, UK. Agricultural Engineer from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Master in Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University, USA.

Associate Professor , Department of Economics, Government and Communications, Universidad Central de Chile. After earning a Bachelor’s degree in Chile, he completed a Master’s degree at Texas A&M University in 2007 and a PhD at the University of Kent in the UK in 2012. He conducts mainly quantitative research and his area of interest is consumer behavior with respect to food choices and their consequences on health and the environment. She leads a project analyzing fruit and vegetable consumption among university students, funded by the Universidad Central de Chile (CIP2019017, 2019-21). He is also the principal investigator of a project whose objective is to analyze and propose measures to prevent food waste in households in Santiago, funded by the National Agency for Research and Development (FONDECYT de Iniciación 11201115, 2020-23).

Pizarro-Mena, R., Duran-Aguero, S., & Silva, A. (2022). Social outbreak and its association with insomnia and daytime sleepiness in Chile. Sleep Science, 15(1), 26–33

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9153977/

Silva, A., Magana-Lemus, D., & Godoy, D. (2021). The effect of education on fruit and vegetable purchase disparities in Chile. British Food Journal. 123(8): 2756–2769.

https://doi.org/10.1108/BFJ-12-2020-1184

Silva, A., Jano, P., & Von Hausen, N. (2021). Obesity under full fresh fruit and vegetable access conditions. PloS One, 16(4), e0249333.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0249333

Caro, J., Valizadeh, P., Correa, A., Silva, A., & Ng, S. (2020). Combined fiscal policies to promote healthier diets: Effects on purchases and consumer welfare. Plos One, 15(1), e0226731.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0226731

Carreño, P., & Silva, A. (2019). Fruit and vegetable expenditure disparities: Evidence from Chile. British Food Journal, 121(6):1203–1219.

https://doi.org/10.1108/BFJ-06-2018-0365