Global Research Team
Snee Family Endowed Chair; Professor of Economics
Baylor University, Economics
Craig Gundersen is the Snee Family Endowed Chair at the Baylor Collaborative on Hunger and Poverty and a Professor in the Department of Economics at Baylor University. For nearly three decades, his research has focused on the causes and consequences of food insecurity and the evaluation of food assistance programs, particularly the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). He is also the creator of Feeding America's Map the Meal Gap project, a widely used tool for estimating local food insecurity rates across the United States.
A cross-national analysis of sociodemographic variation in suffering across 22 countries
Communications Medicine · 2025
Analysis of demographic variation and childhood correlates of financial well-being across 22 countries
Nature Human Behaviour · 2025
Childhood predictors of suffering in adulthood across 22 countries
Communications Medicine · 2025
The Global Flourishing Study: Study Profile and Initial Results on Flourishing
Nature Mental Health · 2025