Students
Courses, Programs & Degrees
CEnREP faculty are engaged in teaching a variety of natural resource and environmental policy courses at the undergraduate and graduate level. A field specialization in Natural Resources and Environmental Economics is available through the PhD program in Economics.
Undergraduate Courses:
ARE336, Introduction to Resource and Environmental Economics
Graduate Courses:
ECG515, Environmental and Resource Policy (MA-level course)
ECG715, Environmental and Resource Economics (PhD-level course)
ECG716, Topics in Environmental and Resource Economics (PhD-level course)
In addition to courses at NCSU, graduate students at NCSU, Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill may take courses at the other two institutions at no additional cost. PhD students interested in natural resource and environmental economics from Duke and UNC are frequently enrolled in ECG715 and ECG716, fostering a community among the students in the Triangle region.
Graduate students also regularly participate in Camp Resources and attend the Triangle Resource and Environmental Economics Seminar Series with faculty. CEnREP also sponsors a bi-monthly luncheon colloquium in which faculty and students with interests in environmental and resource economics informally present research to receive early feedback on their projects.
CEnREP Affiliated Graduate Students
- Xiaomei (Barbara) Chen, Ph. D Candidate, Department of Economics
Expected graduation date: May 2013
Dissertation Title: Natural Resource Economics Confronts CAPM: A Study of Energy Resources
Supervisor: Drs. Michael J. Roberts and Laura O. Taylor
- Steven Dundas, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Economics
Expected graduation: May 2015
Project Title: WTP across Time and Space: An Application to Coastal Recreational Fishing along the Atlantic Cost, 1985-2011
Supervisor: Dr. Roger von Haefen
- Jonathan Eyer, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Economics
Expected graduation: May 2012
Dissertation Title: The Effect of Weather on Natural Gas Consumption: With Implications for Climate Change
Dissertation Committee Chair: Michael J. Roberts
- Sanja Lutzeyer, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Economics
Expected graduation: December 2012
Dissertation Title: Essays on Green Energy and the Public Crowding Out of Private Conservation Efforts
Dissertation Committee Chair: Dr. Laura O. Taylor
- Steven E. Major, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Economics
Expected graduation: December 2012
Dissertation Title: A Generalized Expected Utility Model of Labor Market Risk
Supervisor: Dr. Laura O. Taylor
- Xingyi Puckett, Ph.D Candidate, Department of Economics
Expected graduation date: December 2012
Dissertation Title: A Simulation Approach for Evaluating Hedonic Wage Model's Ability to Recover Marginal Values for Risk Reductions
Supervisor: Dr. Laura O. Taylor
- Evan Rogers, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Economics
Expected graduation: May 2014
Project Title: Impacts of Environmentally Contaminated Properties on their Communities
Supervisor: Dr. Laura O. Taylor
- Marwa Salem, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Economics
Expected graduation: December 2012
Project Title: Assessing the Welfare Impact of Price and Non-price Policies for Water Conservation
Supervisor: Drs. Laura O. Taylor and Roger H. von Haefen
- A. Nam Tran, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Economics
Expected graduation date: December 2012
DissertationTitle: Essays on Agricultural and Environmental Economics
Supervisors: Drs. Michael J. Roberts and Laura O. Taylor
Student Placement
Undergraduate students who have worked with CEnREP faculty have gone on to graduate programs at NCSU and the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill in a variety of fields including
- Business Administration
- Economics
- Engineering
- Public health
- Social work.
Past graduate students and post-doctoral researchers affiliated with CEnREP have accepted positions at:
- Arizona State University
- Brigham Young University
- Claremont McKenna College
- East Carolina University
- RTI International (multiple)
- The Ohio State University
- Oklahoma State University
- Oregon State University
- Pennsylvania State University
- University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
- University of Kentucky
- University of Missouri, Columbia
- University of Nevada-Reno
- University of Richmond
- University of Tennessee
- US EPA, National Center for Environmental Economics (multiple)
- Virginia Tech
- Washington State University
- Williams College
and have been offered opportunities at:
- Appalachian State University
- University of Central Missouri
- University of New Mexico
Student Opportunities
Doctoral candidates engage with CEnREP faculty in current research projects, many of which fund the student's progress toward their degree or fund the data collection necessary for their dissertation work.
In addition, graduate students affiliated with CEnREP have received funding directly through the USDA National Needs Fellowship, the National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant, the NCSU Alumni Fellowship Award, the Department of Housing and Urban Development Doctoral Dissertation Grant, and the Benjamin Stevens Graduate Fellowship administered by the Regional Science Association. Graduate students have also received PERC Summer Interships.
Doctoral students also have opportunities for teaching in the department of agricultural and resource economics and the department of economics, and CEnREP affiliated students have taught ARE336: Introduction to Environmental Policy.
CEnREP also provides office space and computing facilities within the CEnREP suite for a limited number of students engaged in, and funded by, CEnREP activities.
