Jared Grant is an assistant professor in the Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics at The Ohio State University. Grant attended Florida A&M University as an USDA 1890s National Scholar and received his BS in Agribusiness with a minor in Economics. He went on to receive both his MS and PhD in Agricultural and Applied Economics from The University of Georgia. 

Grant’s research interests include food accessibility, food security, game theory, and behavioral economics. Broadly, he focuses on theorizing, visualizing, and modeling data that improves community well-being. His current work includes creating a variation of the Trust Game that implements a Bayesian game theoretic model that imbeds residents’ trust in government and store operators’ decisions to open and maintain a grocery stores in a low income and low food access area. Additionally, he applied his theoretic Trust Game to primary survey data and secondary data to measure the likelihood of a successful outcome given racial/ethnic disparities. More details are available on his personal website.