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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, and natural resource economics. And our award-winning faculty produces groundbreaking research that impacts how we approach our world.

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UMass ADVANCE Honors Angela De Oliveira with Faculty Mentoring Award

Angela De Oliveira, Associate Professor of Resource Economics and Chancellor’s Leadership Fellow

The UMass ADVANCE team is delighted to announce the seven faculty who are the inaugural winners of their College’s Faculty Mentoring Award for 2020, including Angela De Oliveira, Associate Professor of Resource Economics and Chancellor’s Leadership Fellow. Their mentoring ensures that faculty members excel in their careers, and it helps develop a more inclusive environment at the university.

“Despite its importance,” points out Joya Misra, PI of the UMass ADVANCE grant, “faculty mentoring is often invisible or seen as a labor of love.”

Article on Improved Air Quality in National Parks Cites Study by David Keiser

As COVID-19 continues its spread and shelter-in-place orders keep people at home throughout the United States, the pandemic's effect on pollution has been one of the few silver linings in a bad situation. While initial reports of dolphins swimming in Venice's canals may not have been accurate, it's true that virus-related shutdowns are cleaning up air pollution around the globe, with satellite imagery showing drops in certain pollutants of up to 40% in some areas.

Now, there's evidence that the air may be getting cleaner not just in cities, but in nature as well.

Bachelor’s of Science (B.S) in Managerial Economics

The UMass Department of Resource Economics is pleased to offer a new program, a Bachelor’s of Science (B.S) in Managerial Economics. This new program will help students better market their economic, quantitative, analytic, and managerial skills to prospective employers and graduate schools.

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Ezgi Cengiz, Manuel Estay Montecinos and Felipe Quezada Escalona win Vijay Bhagavan and Carolyn Harper Graduate Student Awards

Ezgi Cengiz (left) received the Vijay Bhagavan Teaching Assistant of Distinction Award for being a model teaching assistant. Manuel Estay Montecinos (center) and Felipe Quezada Escalona (right) were awarded the Carolyn Harper Fund and Fellowship for scholarly achievement and exemplifying concern for social and environmental issues, and racial and gender justice.

Case Competition Winners Explore the Economics of How Teams Should Function

Two SBS students Aarat Satyavolu, Resource Economics, and Teja Kadewari, Economics were part of the winning team at the recently held ILS Case Competition Inclusive Leadership Summit (ILS) The competition, hosted by the Isenberg School of Management on October 30, challenged participants to demonstrate best practices in diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace. >>More

New Economic Inquiry Study Finds Marijuana Access Leads to Reductions in Opioid-related Deaths

A new study led by Nathan Chan finds that access to marijuana reduces opioid-related deaths.

The study examined how the changing legal status of marijuana has impacted mortality in the United States over the past two decades. Investigators found that legalization and access to recreational marijuana reduced annual opioid mortality in the range of 20% to 35%, with particularly pronounced effects for synthetic opioids (e.g., fentanyl).

Spring 2020 Seminars

For more information contact Christine Crago, 413-545-5738.

Who wants to be a politician? Running for office in West Bengal village councils
Friday February 28, 2020
10:30-12:00 | 303 Stockbridge Hall
Ananish Chaudhuri, The University of Auckland
Dr. Chaudhuri's primary research area is experimental economics with an emphasis on the role of trust, reciprocity and altruism as well as the role of social norms in economic interactions.

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*Wednesday March 11, 2020
12:30-2:00 | Room 804-808 Campus Center
Andreas Lange, University of Hamburg
Dr. Lang's research includes theoretical, experimental and applied work on issues in public and environmental as well as behavioral economics. Recently, he conducted studies on international environmental agreements, on emissions trading systems, and on policy decisions under risk and uncertainty. His current research comprises work on the voluntary provision of public goods, auctions, as well on climate policy, all combining theoretical and experimental studies.

CANCELLED
Bargaining and International Reference Pricing in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Friday March 27, 2020 (Rescheduled from Friday March 6)
Pierre Dubois, Toulouse School of Economics
Dr. Dubois' work includes research on industrial organization, demand models, household behavior, health and pharmaceuticals, food demand, development economics and applied econometrics.

CANCELLED -- Friday April 3, 2020
Kathleen Segerson, University of Connecticut
Dr. Segerson’s research focuses on the incentive effects of alternative environmental policy instruments, with particular emphasis on the application of legal rules and principles to environmental problems.

CANCELLED - Friday April 17, 2020
Enrique Fatas, Loughborough University
behavioral economics, public economics, organizational behavior, industrial organization and the economics of conflict

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