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Valerie Kilders

Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Purdue University West Lafayette

OpenAlex ORCID
Early career · publishing since 2017Rising activity
Economic and Environmental ValuationOrganic Food and AgricultureAgriculture Sustainability and Environmental ImpactGenetically Modified Organisms ResearchBioeconomy and Sustainability Development

Publications

42

Citations

218

Est. group size

~2

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

10

Publishing since 2017

Research summary
AI-generated

Valerie Kilders works in economics with a focus on how consumers form trust and perceptions around food and agricultural technologies, such as gene-edited foods and organic products, as well as how public and social media sentiment relates to attention and behavior in financial markets like stocks, crypto, and gold. Her research combines consumer behavior analysis with data drawn from social media and online sources to study decision-making and sentiment trends over time.

Consumer trust and food system perceptionsGene-edited and genetically modified foodsOrganic food and agricultural sustainabilitySocial media sentiment and market attentionFinancial asset behavior (stocks, crypto, gold, currency)

Publication output was low and sporadic from 2017-2020, rose notably in 2021 and again from 2023 onward, with a large spike in 2026 largely driven by multiple linked data-descriptor outputs.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 6.6/year recently
2017: 1 publication1718192020: 1 publication202021: 7 publications21222023: 4 publications232024: 5 publications242025: 3 publications252026: 21 publications2126
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Figshare×17
  • AgEcon Search (University of Minnesota, USA)×7
  • American Journal of Agricultural Economics×2
  • Food Policy×2
  • Food Quality and Preference×2
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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