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Would our understanding of poverty and food insecurity improve if people studying the topic had firsthand experience with economic hardship and hunger?
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A grant program created by a Duke-UNC research center hopes to show that it can.
Carolyn Barnes, who joined the Sanford School of Public Policy as an assistant professor on July I, is the first recipient of a New Perspectives Fellowship from the Duke-UNC USDA Center for Behavioral Economics and Healthy Food Choice Research (BECR Center).
“Poverty and welfare were never abstract research interests for me, but rather, an acute reality,” said Barnes, who comes to Duke from the University of Chicago.
“While growing up, my family was dependent on a range of private and public programs to make ends meet. Unfortunately, the social safety net was insufficient in alleviating deep poverty for my family.”
Barnes’ research will complement the center’s efforts to discover ways to motivate healthy food choices, particularly among low-in