PRE-DOCTORAL PROGRAM
PRE-DOCTORAL PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
The Center for Environmental Economics and Sustainability Policy's Pre-Doctoral Program in Environmental and Resource Economics invites students who have completed their course work, passed field exams, and are starting dissertation research, to spend a semester at ASU. Stipends, and support for housing and travel will be provided. The program offers the opportunity to take specialty classes and to prepare one thesis essay with ASU faculty, taking advantage of ongoing research programs in:
- Balancing heat island effects and water conservation
- Partial identification and hedonic models
- Understanding how the technology of commercial fishing responds to policy
- Equilibrium sorting models and general equilibrium welfare measurement
- Calibrating macro models with environmental quality
- Care givers, health consequences of air pollution, and collective household models
- Designing tradable catch shares for a signature endangered species-Whales
2013 Program Syllabus (PDF)
