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The Department of Economics at Iowa State University offers a comprehensive graduate field in Environmental and Resource Economics that prepares students for top-level careers in research universities, liberal arts teaching colleges, government, policy centers, and private consulting firms.
Graduate training in environmental economics at Iowa State begins with a core grounding in modern micro- and macroeconomic theory as well as training in state-of-the-art econometric and statistical methods. Upon completion of the preparatory theory and econometrics courses, students move into the field classes in environmental and resource economics where research faculty teach the fundamental topics of the field, including mechanism design for environmental policy, environmental valuation, trade and the environment, and the theory of nonrenewable and renewable resource use.
Faculty and graduate students at Iowa State have written and published research and policy analyses covering such broad and critical environmental concerns as wetlands, superfund sites, fisheries, nonpoint source pollution, and greenhouse gases.
Funding Opportunities
Iowa State University offers generous financial support to qualified students, with research opportunities in the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development as well as funding for teaching assistantships within the Department of Economics.
Graduate Studies Office
Department of Economics
260B Heady Hall
Ames, IA 50011-1070
Telephone: 515-294-2701
Fax: 515-294-4545
E-mail: grad@econ.iastate.edu
Recent Graduates and Placements
Daniel Phaneuf, Ph.D., 1998, Assistant Professor,
North Carolina State University
John Crooker, Ph.D., 1998, Assistant Professor,
Central Missouri State University
Paul Mitchell, Ph.D., 1999, Assistant Professor,
Texas A&M University
Silvia Secchi, Ph.D., 2000, Assistant Scientist
Center for Agricultural and Rural Development,
Iowa State University
Hongli Feng, Ph.D., 2001, Assistant Scientist,
Center for Agricultural and Rural Development,
Iowa State University
Christopher Azevedo, Ph.D., 1999, Assistant Professor,
Central Missouri State University
Terrence Hurley, Ph.D., 1995, Assistant Professor,
University of Minnesota
Jay Corrigan, Ph.D., 2002, Assistant Professor,
Kenyon College
Faculty
Joseph Herriges has been a professor of economics at Iowa State University since 1999. He received his bachelor's degree in statistics and economics at Marquette University in 1978 and his master's and Ph.D. in economics in 1982 and 1983, respectively, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In addition to his research, Dr. Herriges has been managing editor of the Journal of Environmental and Economics Management since 2001.
Catherine L. Kling, professor of economics at Iowa State University, serves as the division head of the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development's (CARD) Resource and Environmental Policy Division. She received a bachelor's degree in business and economics from the University of Iowa and a doctorate in economics from the University of Maryland. In addition to her research at CARD, Dr. Kling organizes the annual Heartland Environmental and Resource Economics (HERE) workshop.
John A. Miranowski has been a professor of economics at Iowa State University since July 2000. Previously, he was a professor and chair of the Department of Economics at ISU since January 1995. He was director of the Food and Consumer Economics Division (1994-95) and director of the Resources and Technology Division (1984-94), and Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture in Washington, D.C. He also served as a special assistant and executive coordinator of the Secretary's Policy Coordination Council in the Office of the Secretary of Agriculture (1990-91). Before joining the USDA, Dr. Miranowski was an associate professor of economics at ISU.
Quinn Weninger is an assistant professor of economics and has been at ISU since July 2000. Before coming to ISU, he was an assistant professor of economics at Utah State University. Dr. Weninger received his bachelor's degree in forest science from the University of Alberta in 1989. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Maryland in 1995.
Jinhua Zhao, an assistant professor of economics, came to ISU in 1997. He received his bachelor's degree in industrial engineering as a distinguished graduate from the University of Science and Technology, Beijing in 1987, and his Ph.D. in agricultural and resource economics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1997. Dr. Zhao serves on the editorial council of the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management and the Review of Development Economics.