Ezgi Cengiz

Dr. Ezgi Cengiz is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at North Carolina State University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Her research integrates industrial organization, applied microeconomics, econometrics, and health economics to examine policy-relevant questions in food and beverage markets. She holds a PhD in Resource Economics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst (2022) and an MSc from the same institution (2018), complemented by a BA in Economics from Istanbul University (2011).

Research focuses on market responses to health policies, including advertising impacts, sweetened beverage taxes, and voluntary industry agreements for healthier products. She employs large-scale scanner data to analyze nutrient consumption patterns, product reformulation trends, and weather-related dietary variations. Recent work (2022-2024) demonstrates strong methodological focus on causal inference using barcode-level sales data to evaluate sodium/sugar reduction initiatives and tax policy effectiveness.