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 health economics. And our award-winning faculty produces groundbreaking research that impacts how we approach our world.
Assistant Professor in Health Economics - Deadline to apply is November 10, 2023
The Department of Resource Economics is pleased to release our 2023 annual newsletter. Click on the image to learn more about what's new in the department, including our growth - we are now home to almost 400 undergraduate majors!
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Gazi Uddin, Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
Faculty Sponsor: Nathan Chan
The department of Resource Economics is pleased to present the Fall 2023 seminar series. All seminars will be available in person in Stockbridge 303 unless stated otherwise below.
Friday, September 29, 10:30am - 12:00pm | Tara Watson
Department of Economics, Williams College
Speciality: Applied microeconomics, health economics
Friday, October 6, 10:30am - 12:00pm | Sarah Jacobson
Department of Economics, Williams College
Specialty: Environmental economics, Experimental economics, Microeconomics
Friday, October 27, 10:30am -12:00pm | Nathan Miller
Department of Economics, Georgetown University
Specialty: Industrial Organization, Antitrust Economics
Title: "Technology and Market Power: The United States Cement Industry, 1974-2019"
Friday, November 3, 10:30am - 12:00pm | Luca Maini
Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School
Specialty: Competition and regulation in healthcare markets
Title: Mergers that Matter: The Impact of M&A Activity in Prescription Drug Markets
Friday, November 10, 10:30 - 12:00pm | Sarthak Gaurav
Economics Area, Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management
Specialty: Development Economics, Applied Econometrics
Title: "Accidental Gamblers: Risk and Vulnerability in Vidarbha Cotton"
Friday, December 1, 10:30am -12:00pm | Remy Levin
Department of Economics, University of Connecticut
Specialty: Behavioral Economics, Environmental Economics
Thursday, October 5, 12:00 - 1:00pm | Sarah Miller
Department of Business Economics & Public Health, University of Michigan
Thursday, October 26, 12:00 - 1:00pm | Christopher Ruhm
Public Policy & Economics, University of Virginia
As high temperatures become more frequent and intense due to climate change, UMass Amherst scientists are developing interdisciplinary research aimed at helping communities increase resilience to extreme heat by monitoring physiological, mental and behavioral health factors.
Tauhidur Rahman, assistant professor of computer and information sciences, and social scientist Jamie Mullins, assistant professor of resource economics,received a $75,000 planning grant from the National Science Foundation’s Smart and Connected Communities program to fund their project.
Resource Economics associate professor Christine L. Crago is co-PI on two grants totaling $6.3 million from the National Science Foundation. The grants will fund a new graduate training program, ELevating Equity VAlues in the Transition of the Energy System (ELEVATE) which aims to ensure that the transformation of the electric grid is both sustainable and benefits all members of society equitably, an aspect of energy transition not often considered in policymaking or public discourse. “I’m really excited to be looking at equity and distributional impacts of the renewable energy transition,” says Dr. Crago. “As we promote an energy system dominated by renewable energy, we want to carefully consider the impact of more renewables on energy prices and control of energy assets, and their subsequent impacts on equity.”