Faculty

I am an environmental economist with secondary interests in development economics. My research focuses on various aspects of policy implementation: monitoring and enforcement, manipulable thresholds, environmental justice, information, and environmental health. I examine these issues in the context of water pollution regulations but my work has implications for other media.

I am an economist specializing in industrial organization and my research mostly focuses on how firms choose what products to offer and how to sell them. I have analyzed topics such as competition in online markets; competition among retailers; the effect of new agricultural technologies on quality of offered food items; and changes of nutrition quality over time, among others.

Resource Economics Lecturer

Research areas: Environmental and Energy Economics, Public Goods, Green Markets, Prosocial Behaviors

Dr. Crago's research is motivated by the need to promote sustainable energy sources and consumption practices. Her current projects examine incentives for solar power adoption and motivators of energy conservation.
Other areas of active research include: economics of biofuels and regulation of environmental pollutants.

Behavioral/Experimental economist who explores how decision makers differ and how they make choices that affect others.

I am an Assistant Research Professor in the Resource Economics Department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. My primary research interests are in the fields of behavioral economics and industrial organization, and my applied work focuses on regional-scale agricultural markets.

My fields of research are Applied Game Theory, Behavioral and Experimental Economics and Applied Econometrics. My current researches use diversified methods, including mathematical modeling, experimental design and a wide range of statistical methods, to look at questions of methodological importance or policy relevance. I am particularly interested in investigating how people make decisions under risks in the areas of labor economics, health economics, and applied econometrics.

Research Areas: Micro-Econometrics, Applied Microeconomics, Labor Economics

Student Support Specialist

An environmental economist with a focus on the economics of water resources.

My interests revolve around product differentiation and strategic behavior in agri-food industries.

Research Areas: Health Economics, Industrial Organization, and Applied Econometrics.

Jamie earned his PhD in the Department of Economics at the University of California San Diego. He served as a Pre-Doctoral Fellow with the Center on Emerging and Pacific Economies and was a 2016 Lone Mountain Fellow with The Property and Environment Research Center. His research is focused primarily on applied topics in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics. His current work is related to human health and well-being, the perception of environmental risks, and climate change adaptation.

Industrial Organization, Environmental Economics, Applied Econometrics

Industrial Organization, Experimental & Behavioral Economics

Research in Progress: It Takes Two Hands to Clap: The Effects of Reputation and Search in Healthcare Markets, with Ming Ge, Christian Rojas; Partial Asset Integration in Allocation of Payments Across Time: Revisiting Convex Time Budget Experiments, with Takao Kusakawa, Sherry Gao, and Tatsuyoshi Saijo; Thinking of Risk and Future: Behavioral Preferences and Vaccination Decisions, with Sherry Gao; Does Health Belief Accuracy Depends on the Inference Group?, with Sherry Gao; Behavioral Preferences and Solar Adoption Decisions, with Christine Crago and Dhiroj Koirala; When Gossiper Meets Revenger

My research interests are in a field of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics (ENRE) with the primary focus on land use policy and water resources. Grounded in economic theory, I utilize advanced econometrics (Causal Inference, Panel Data, and Time Series) and data science tools (Python, R, Google Earth Engine, and BigQuery) to address critical applied research topics.

Research interests in Experimental and Environmental Economics

My research is focused on the design of environmental and natural resource policies, and the local governance of common pool natural resources in the developing world.

Specializations: Industrial Organization and Econometrics

My research focuses on the economics of innovation & digitization in health care markets (national and global), particularly in the biopharmaceutical and digital health industries. I am a co-founder and inaugural convener for the Digital Health Technology special interest group at the International Health Economics Association. My projects have been funded by Cornell, CUFE, Duke, Institute for Humane Studies, Max Planck Institute, National Ministry of Education of China, RWJF, UMass, among others.

I study how market structures, consumer behavior, and policies impact food choices and public health, with a focus on obesity prevention.