Austin Landini
Research Consultant
University of Missouri
Austin Landini is a research consultant at the University of Missouri, with a joint appointment in the Social Impact Lab in the Department of Economics and the Division of Applied Social Sciences.
His research focuses on applied microeconomics, regional and spatial economics, demography, public economics, and geospatial analysis. His current work examines tobacco, e-cigarette, and cannabis retail markets, regenerative agriculture, renewable-energy development, and the local economic effects of regulation and demographic change.
Before becoming a research consultant, Landini was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Missouri. Earlier, he served as a graduate instructor and research assistant at Colorado State University, an economics instructor at the University of Iowa and Auburn University, and a game-theory instructor with the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth.
Landini has received the Colorado State University Dissertation Fellowship Award, the Charles Tiebout Best Graduate Student Paper Award from the Western Regional Science Association, and the Best Graduate Student Authored Paper Award from the Colorado State University Association for Graduate Economics.
He earned a Ph.D. in economics from Colorado State University, a master’s in economics from Auburn University, and a Bachelor of Business Administration in economics from the University of Iowa.
