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Below is the list of pERE alumni and their places of employment.

Name Dissertation Title Employment

Xiaolin Ren

Ph.D. Agricultural & Consumer Economics, 2010

Bioproducts and Environmental Quality: Biofuels, Greenhouse Gases, and Water Quality

National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO

Shahnila Islam

M.S. Agricultural & Applied Economics, 2010

Estimating the Value of Groundwater in Irrigation

Institute for Water Policy, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Kiyoshi Mino

M.S. Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, 2010

Ethanol Production of Sugarcane in India: Viability, Constraints and Implications

Practical Farm Training Program, The Farm School, Athol, MA

Min-Yang Lee

Ph.D. Agricultural & Applied Economics, 2009

Three Essays on Fisheries Economics

National Marine Fisheries Service, Northeast Fisheries Science Laboratory (Woods Hole)

Payal Shah

M.S. Agricultural & Applied Economics, 2009

Demand Side Factors in Optimal Land Conservation Choice

Ph.D. student, University of Illinois

Luiz P. C. Freitas

M.S. Agricultural & Applied Economics, 2009

Household Adoption of Green Technologies: The Case of Chicago Rain Barrels

Industrial Economics, Boston, MA

Taro Mieno

M.S. Agricultural & Applied Economics, 2009

Water Demand in the Chicago Metropolitan Area

Ph.D. student, University of Illinois

Amanda Palazzo

M.S. Agricultural & Applied Economics, 2009

Farm-level Impacts of Alternative Spatial Water Management Strategies for the Protection of Instream Flows

International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington DC

Hongshuang (Alice) Li

M.S. Agricultural & Applied Economics, 2009

Evaluating Sampling Biases in Policy Analysis of Environmental Markets

PhD Student, University of Maryland

DooHwan Won

Ph.D. Agricultural & Consumer Economics, 2008

Essays on the Economic Value of Environmental Cleanup

Department of Economics, Sungshin Women's University, Seoul, Korea

Mariano Rabassa

Ph.D. Agricultural & Consumer Economics, 2008

On the Allocation of Environmental Enforcement Effort

World Bank, Washington DC

Jesse Dotterer

M.S. Agricultural & Consumer Economics, 2008

The Economic Effect of Colony Collapse Disorder

Crown Research Institute AgResearch, New Zealand

Cameron Speir

Ph.D. Agricultural & Consumer Economics, 2008

Economic Models of Recreational and Commercial Fishing and their Impact on the Great Lakes Ecosystem

National Marine Fisheries Service, Southwest Fisheries Science Center

Basanta Dhungana

Ph.D. Agricultural & Consumer Economics, 2007

Economic Modeling of Bioenergy Crop Production and Carbon Emission Reduction in Illinois

Senior Statistician, Nestle Inc., Oakland, CA

Gwendolyn Ball

Ph.D. Economics, 2006

Privatization of Public Services: Market Structure, Analysis of Performance and Implications for Anti-trust

Department of Economics, Bradley University, Peoria, IL

Xiaoxuan Chen

Ph.D. Agricultural & Consumer Economics, 2006

Three Essays on Land Conservation Program

Senior Analyst, HSBC North America, Chicago, IL

Farzad Taheripour

Ph.D. Agricultural & Consumer Economics, 2006

Welfare Impacts of Alternative Public Policies for Environmental Protection in Agriculture in an Open Economy: a General Equilibrium Framework

Department of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

Jeff Savage

M.S. Agricultural & Consumer Economics, 2006

An Empirical Investigation of Land Use Choice in the Leuser Ecosystem, Indonesia using Discrete Choice Models

Ph.D. student, University of Illinois

Jason Wright

M.S. Agricultural & Consumer Economics, 2006

Economic and Ecologic Impacts on Fisheries due to Invasive Species: A Spatial Analysis of Asian Carp in the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers

Financial analyst, Chicago, IL

Wallapak Polasub

Ph.D. Agricultural & Consumer Economics, 2005

Natural Resource Damage Policy: Political Economy and Optimal Assessment Accuracy

Department of Economics, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand

Keith Brouhle

Ph.D. Economics, 2005

Information and Markets for Credence Goods

Department of Economics, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA

Aparajita Bhattacharyya

Ph.D. Agricultural & Consumer Economics, 2004

Environmental Risk Choices: An Empirical Analysis of EPA’s Pesticides Rules

Research Analyst, Magnify Inc., Chicago, IL

Chokri Dridi

Ph.D. Agricultural & Consumer Economics, 2004

Essay on Water Allocation and Trading: Adverse Selection and Technology Adoption

Department of Rural Economy, University of Alberta , Edmonton, Canada

Donna Theresa Juan Ramirez Harrington

Ph.D. Agricultural & Consumer Economics 2004

Voluntary Environmental Initiatives, Pollution Prevention and Product Quality : the Role of Strategic Competition, Consumer Information and Regulation

Department of Economics, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT

Arianto A. Patunru

Ph.D. Agricultural & Consumer Economics, 2004

Three Essays on Choice-Based Estimations of the Economic Benefits of Contaminated Site Cleanup

Department Economics & Institute for Social & Economic Research, University of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia

Anne Gosselin Horne

M.S. Agricultural & Consumer Economics, 2004

A Comparative Study of Single-Family Dwelling and Multi-Family Dwelling Recycling Behavior

Audubon Naturalist Society and University of Maryland-Baltimore County

Nazmiya Balta

Ph.D. Urban and Regional Planning, 2004

Institutions, Efficiency and Equity in The European Union Climate Change Policy

Current employment unknown

Pornchanok Yanprechaset

M.S. Agricultural & Consumer Economics, 2004

Designing a Nature Preserve Network with Ecological, Economic and Social Considerations

Fiscal Policy Research Institute Foundation, Bangkok, Thailand

Rogério C. Pereira Araújo

Ph.D. Agricultural & Consumer Economics, 2001

Joint Hedonic Travel Cost Method Combining Revealed and Stated Preference Data to Estimate Demand for Attribute Quality of Sport Fishing in Illinois

Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Ceara Fortaleza, Brazil

Chao-Ning Liao

Ph.D. Agricultural & Consumer Economics, 2001

An Economic Analysis of the Emission Reduction Market System (ERMS) in Chicago

Taiwan Institute of Economic Research, Taipei, Taiwan

Ariaster Chimeli

Ph.D. Economics, 2001

Environmental Quality and Economic Development

Department of Economics, Ohio University, Athens, OH

Mursaleena Islam

Ph.D. Economics, 2001

Floodplain Resource Management: An Economic Analysis of Policy Issues in Bangladesh

Abt Associates, Bethesda, MD

Wilma Rose Q. Anton

Ph.D. Agricultural & Consumer Economics, 2001

Environmental Management Systems: The Motivations for Adoption and Implications for Toxic Releases and Economic Performance

National Aeronautics & Space Administration, Houstan, TX

Roderick Rejesus

Ph.D. Agricultural & Consumer Economics, 2001

Towards a Behavioral Theory of Farmer Decision-Making: The Value of Site-Specific Information in Agricultural Production

Department of
Agricultural & Applied Economics, Resource Economics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC

Murat Isik

Ph.D. Agricultural & Consumer Economics, 2000

Incentives for Adoption of Site-Specific Technologies Under Uncertainty: Economic and Environmental Implications

Current employment unknown

Wanhong Yang

Ph.D. Agricultural & Consumer Economics, 2000

Cost Effective Targeting of Land Retirement Programs to Improve Water Quality


Department of Geography
University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada

Sang-Min Lee,

Ph.D. Agricultural & Consumer Economics , 2000

Implicit Environmental Value of Old Growth on the U.S. National Forests in Western Washington

Konkuk University, Korea

Varunthat Dulyapurk

Ph.D. Agricultural & Consumer Economics, 1999

An Economic Analysis of Effort Trading in Fishery Management Under Open Access

Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand

Rick Hirschi

Ph.D. Agricultural & Consumer Economics,1999

An Economic Analysis of Flood Easements: The Case of the Illinois River

Department of Economics, Brigham Young University, Ricks, ID

Davis A. Evans

M.S. Agricultural & Consumer Economics, 1999

An Analysis of the Emissions Reduction Market System

National Center for Environmental Economics, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington DC

Bhavani Shankar

Ph.D. Agricultural & Consumer Economics, 1998

Stochastic Technology, Risk Preferences, and the Use of Polluting Inputs

School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, University of London, London, England (eff. 1/2011)

Melvin Jeffrey Wagner

Ph.D. Economics, 1998

Economic Aspects of Radioactive Waste Management

Department of Economics, Rochester Institute of Technology , Rochester, NY

Darci Westergard

M.S. Agricultural & Consumer Economics, 1998

A Cost-Benefit Analysis of A Proposed Multifamily Curbside Recycling Program in Champaign and Urbana, Illinois

Burns & McDonnell Engineering, Kansas City, MO

Jurgen Wiesmann

Ph.D. Economics, 1998

Regulating China's Enterprises: Environmental Policy as a Bargaining Game

Caterpillar Corporation, Peoria, IL

Gregg Ibendahl

Ph.D. Agricultural & Consumer Economics, 1998

The Effects of Environmental Hazards
and Asymmetric Information on Agricultural Mortgages

Department of Agricultural Economics, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS

Richard Benjamin

Ph.D. Economics, 1997

The Effects of Fixed Factors on product in Optimal Growth Models

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Washington DC

Sudip Chattopadhyay

Ph.D. Economics, 1997

Hedonic Valuation of Environmental Amenities and Issues of Model Selection 

Department of Economics, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA

David Gerard

Ph.D. Economics, 1997

Institutions, Property Rights, and Transaction Costs in the Hardrock Mining Industry, 1866-1996

Department of Economics, Lawrence University, Appleton, WI

Claire E. Miller

Ph.D. Urban & Regional Planning, 1997

Managing Local Sustainability: A Game Theoretic Analysis of Natural Resource Conservation

Kimberly-Clark Corp., Neenah, WI

Changjin Sun

Ph.D. Agricultural & Consumer Economics, 1997

An Economic Analysis of Tropical Timber Concessions

Center of Ecological and Environmental , Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China

Dora Bojilova

M.S. Agricultural & Consumer Economics, 1996

Toxic Release Information and Environmental Protection

Ph.D. Student, University of Quebec 

Ki-Ju Han

Ph.D. Economics, 1996 

Environmental Regulation and International Competitiveness: Cross-Industry and Cross-Country Analyses 

Korea Institute for Industrial Organization & Trade, Seoul, Korea

Jaideep Mukherjee

Ph.D. Urban & Regional Planning, 1996

Environment and Development: A Study of North-South Conflict

Applications Services Manager, IT Department of Star of Hope Mission, Houston, TX

Vijay Muralidaran

Ph.D. Agricultural & Consumer Economics, 1996

A Hierarchical Decision Making Approach to Resource Management and Valuation: The Case of Conjunctive Water Use

Risk Management Team, American Express, Gurgaon, India

Randall Schillinger

M.S. Agricultural & Consumer Economics, 1996

Risk Averse Timber Harvesting with Planting Incentives and Price Fluctuations 

Weyerhouser Corp., Tacoma, WA

Oliver Fritz 

Ph.D. Economics, 1995

Essays on Industrial Pollution Generation and Structural Change in a Regional Economy

Institute of Technology and Regional Policy, Joanneum Research, Austria

Maria Cunhaesa 

Ph.D. Economics, 1994 

Essays in Environmental Economics: An Application to the Case of the Accumulation of Pollution

New University of Lisbon, Portugal

Bernardo Mueller

Ph.D. Economics, 1994

The Economic History, Political Economy and Frontier Settlement of Land in Brazil

Department of Economics, Universidad de Brasilia, Brazil

Daniel Holland

M.S. Agricultural Economics, 1993

Managing Fisheries without Restricting Catch or Effort: The Use of Marine Reserves for Inshore Fisheries

Economist, National Marine Fisheries Service, Seattle, WA

Wilson K. Yabaan

Ph.D. Agricultural Economics, 1993

The Productivity Trap in Kenya's Highland Agriculture:  A Bi-Level Programming Analysis of Capital and Wage Constraints

Department of Environmental Applied Social Sciences, Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya

Cosimo Ascente 

M.S. Agricultural Economics, 1992

A Consumer Tax vs. a Producer Tax to Correct an Externality:  Some Experimental Results

Instituto Professionale Alberghiero, Paola, Consenza, Italy

Roxanna Barrantes

Ph.D. Economics, 1992

Land Tenure Security and Resource Use in Peruvian Amazonia: A Case Study of the Ucayali Region

Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru , Lima, Peru

Noelwah Netusil

Ph.D. Economics, 1992 

Market and Bargaining Approaches to Nonpoint Source Pollution Abatement Problems

Department of Economics, Reed College, Portland, OR 

Matthias Ruth

Ph.D. Geography, 1992

Economic Processes and Environmental Repercussions:  Synthesizing Economics, Ecology and Thermodynamics 

School of Public Policy,
University of Maryland, College Park, MD

Khalid Abdul-Rahim

Ph.D. Agricultural Economics, 1989 

Trade & Welfare Effects of Unilateral Environmental Regulation: The Case of Malaysian Palm Oil

Department of Hospitality & Recreation, Faculty of Economics & Management Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia

 

 
   
 
 
 
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