Assistant Professor, Agricultural & Applied Economics
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| Telephone: | (608) 262-4499 |
| Fax: | (608) 262-4376 |
| Office Address: | 417 Taylor Hall
427 Lorch St.
Madison, WI 53706 |
Research Interests
I am an applied microeconomist with interests which bring together the fields of development and environmental economics. I currently have three general research areas: deforestation and programs to mitigate it in developing countries; the impact of humanitarian crises on local communities, including their environment; and the determinants of civic participation and its importance in the provision of public goods and government programs. Although these areas are in many ways very distinct, they are tied together methodologically through the use of spatial analysis, often explicitly using geographic information systems (GIS), or implicitly by their focus on community analysis.
Education
Ph.D., Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Berkeley, 2005
MALD, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, 2000
BS, BA, Resource Ecology and Management, French, University of Michigan, 1995