Welcome to Resource Economics
At the Department of Resource Economics, we tackle complex questions about how to use our environmental, natural and human resources. By researching important societal problems and gathering and analyzing data, we offer policy solutions that move the needle on today’s most pressing issues. Our undergraduate and graduate programs focus on industrial organization, environmental economics, natural resource economics, and consumer and family economics. And our award-winning faculty produces groundbreaking research that impacts how we approach our world.
Tenure Track Job Openings
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Applied Health Economics Assistant Professor Position
Applied Microeconomics/Econometrics Assistant Professor Position
Jung Hwan Koh, Kelly Hellman and Irene Mussio win Vijay Bhagavan and Carolyn Harper graduate student awards
Jung Hwan Koh received the Vijay Bhagavan Teaching Assistant of Distinction Award for being a model teaching assistant. Kelly Hellman and Irene Mussio were awarded the Carolyn Harper Fund and Fellowship for scholarly achievement and exemplifying concern for social and environmental issues, and racial and gender justice. Read More.
Nathan Chan awarded 2018-19 Mutual Mentoring Micro Grant
Nathan Chan, assistant professor of resource economics, has been awarded a 2018-19 Mutual Mentoring Micro Grant from the Institute for Teaching Excellence & Faculty Development (TEFD). Read More.
Volunteer for Upcoming Experiments
Register for experiments conducted at Willis Experimental Economics Laboratory. Participants will be compensated, and no prior economics training is necessary. To register please visit the Experimental Economics Online Recruitment System.
For more information and to access the Willis Lab FAQs, please visit the Experimental Economics Website.
Fall 2018 Seminars
For more information contact Christine Crago (ccrago "at" resecon.umass.edu, 545-5738).
Efficiency and Foreclosure Effects of Vertical Rebates: Empirical Evidence
September 14, 2018
3:30-5:00 pm | 303 Stockbridge Hall
Julie Mortimer, Professor, Department of Economics, Boston College
Empirical Industrial Organization
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Luck or Skill: How Women and Men Attribute Successes and Failures
September 21, 2018
3:30-5:00 pm | 303 Stockbridge Hall
Olga Shurchkov, Associate Professor of Economics and Director of Knapp Social Science Center, Department of Economics, Wellesley College
Behavioral and experimental economics, with emphasis on labor market outcomes; information, belief formation, and learning; and culture and institutions
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Motivating contributions to public information goods: A field experiment at Wikipedia
October 5, 2018
3:30-5:00 pm | 303 Stockbridge Hall
Yan Chen, Daniel Kahneman Collegiate Professor of Information, School of Information, University of Michigan
Behavioral and experimental economics, market and mechanism design, and public economics
Sufficient Statistics for the Cost of Climate Change
October 12, 2018
3:30-5:00 pm | 303 Stockbridge Hall
Derek Lemoine, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Arizona
Environmental and Energy Economics, Climate Change, Decision-Making Under Uncertainty and Over Time, Technological Change
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October 26, 2018
3:30-5:00 pm | 303 Stockbridge Hall
Emek Basker, Principal Economist, Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau
Industrial Organization, Innovation, Productivity, Retail
November 2, 2018
3:30-5:00 pm | 303 Stockbridge Hall
James Bushell, Professor, Department of Economics, University of California, Davis
Energy and Environmental Economics, Industrial Organization and Regulation, Energy Policy