# Senarath Dharmasena

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**Parent**: https://agecon.tamu.edu/ms-agricultural-economics-thesis/

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:   Instructional Associate Professor

Office:
:   AGLS 214G

Email:
:   [[email protected]](https://agecon.tamu.edu/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#c4b7a0aca5b6a9a5b7a1aaa584b0a5a9b1eaa1a0b1)

Phone:
:   (979) 862-2894

## Education

Undergraduate Education
:   B.S. Agriculture, University of Peradeniya

Graduate Education
:   M.S. Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University
:   Ph.D. Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University

## Areas of Expertise

- Consumer Economics
- Applied Demand Analysis
- Agribusiness and Food Market Analysis and Forecasting
- Health and Nutrition Economics Economics of Food Security
- Food Environments and Obesity Causality Modeling and Causal Inference
- Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
- Data science
- Market Integration and Price Discovery
- U.S. Energy Demand Analysis
- Macroeconomics of Agriculture Simulation
- Risk Modeling

## Professional Summary

Senarath Dharmasena, Ph.D. is an instructional associate professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics. He also serves as an associate in the Agribusiness, Food and Consumer Economics Research Center (AFCERC), and associate editor for the Journal of Agribusiness in Developing and Emerging Economies (JADEE).

## Selected Publications

Guo Cheng, Oral Capps, Jr. and Senarath Dharmasena, “Demand Interrelationships of Peanuts and Tree Nuts in the United States” Journal of Agribusiness, Spring 2021, 39(1):15-38.

Christopher S. Rowland, James W. Mjelde, and Senarath Dharmasena “Policy Implications of Considering Pre-commitments in U.S. Aggregate Energy Demand System” Energy Policy, 102: 406-413, 2017

Senarath Dharmasena, David A. Bessler and Oral Capps, Jr., “Food Environment in the United States as a Complex Economic System.” Food Policy, 61: 163-175, 2016

Andres Silva and Senarath Dharmasena, “Considering Seasonal Unit Roots in a Demand System: An Empirical Approach.” Empirical Economics, 51(4):1443-1463, 2016

Senarath Dharmasena and Oral Capps Jr., “Intended and Unintended Consequences of a Proposed National Tax on Sugar-Sweetened Beverages to Combat the U.S. Obesity Problem” Health Economics, 21(6): 669-694; 2012