Assistant Professor, Agricultural & Applied Economics
| E-Mail Address: |
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| Telephone: |
(608) 262-4499 |
| Fax: |
(608) 262-4376 |
| Office Address: |
417 Taylor Hall
427 Lorch St.
Madison, WI 53706 |
| Interests: |
Environment and development; applied microeconomics; spatial analysis |
| Office Hours: |
Thursdays 11:00-12:30 or by appointment |
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
Recent Publications
- Naughton, Lisa, Jennifer Alix-Garcia, and Colin Chapman. 2011. "Parks and Poverty: Lessons from a decade of forest loss and economic growth around Kibale National Park, Uganda" Proceedings of the National Academies of Science 108(34):13919-13924
- Alix-Garcia, Jennifer and David Saah. 2009. "The Effect of Refugee Inflows on Host Country Populations: Evidence from Tanzania" World Bank Economic Review 24(1):148-170
- Alix-Garcia, Jennifer. 2008. "An Exploration of the Positive Effect of Inequality on Common Property Forest" Journal of Development Economics 87(1):92-105
- Alix-Garcia, Jennifer. 2007. "A Spatial Analysis of Common Property Land Use" Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 53(2):141-147