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
- Jake Brimlow, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Economics.
Expected graduation date: December 2008.
Dissertation title: Landowner Decisions to Provide Conservation through
Voluntary Land Use Restrictions.
Dissertation Committee Co-Chairs: Drs. Fackler and von Haefen
- Robert Darwin, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Economics.
Expected graduation date: May 2010.
Research Project: Pricing Weather Derivatives
Research Project Supervisor: Dr. Paul Fackler
- Brooks Depro, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Economics.
Expected graduation date: Fall 2008/Spring 2009.
Dissertation title: Essays in Environmental Migration
Dissertation Committee Chair: Dr. Raymond Palmquist
- Adam Domanski, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Economics.
Expected graduation: Summer 2009.
Dissertation title: Measuring Perceptions of Hazardous Waste and Industrial Accidents
Dissertation Committee Co-Chairs: Drs. Palmquist and von Haefen
- Allen Klaiber, Ph.D., Department of Economics, August 2008.
Dissertation Title: Valuing Open Space in a Locational Equilibrium Model
of the Twin Cities
Dissertation Committee Chair: Dr. Daniel Phaneuf
Placement: Post-doctoral researcher at the University of Arizona August 2008-09; Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Pennsylvannia State University beginning fall 2009.
- Alex Marten, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Economics.
Expected graduation date: 2009.
Project Topic: Applications of Real Option Theory in Environmental Economics
Dissertation Committee Chair: Dr. Paul Fackler
- Christopher Moore, Ph.D., Department of Economics, August 2008.
Dissertation Title: Using Empirical Benefit Estimates in a Bioeconomic Model to
Guide Control Strategies for Invasive Species
Dissertation Committee Chair: Dr. Daniel Phaneuf
Placement: National Center for Environmental Economics at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, D.C.
- Keri Perez, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Economics.
Expected graduation date: May 2009.
Dissertation Title: The Conservation Reserve Program: Determinants of the Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Enrollment and Landowners’ Supply of Conservation Services
Dissertation Committee Chair: Dr. Wally Thurman
- Joo-Kyung Sung, Ph.D., Department of Economics, May 2008.
Dissertation Title: On Snowmobiles, Geysers, and Grizzly Bears: Understanding
Winter Visitation to Yellowstone National Park Using Revealed and
Stated Preference Modeling.
Dissertation Committee Chair: Dr. Daniel Phaneuf
- Mykel Taylor, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Economics
Expected graduation date: May 2008
Dissertation Title: U.S. Household Demand for Meats and the Impacts of Food Safety
Information: Do Demographics Play a Role?
Dissertation Committee Chair: Dr. Nicholas Piggott (committee member: von Haefen)
Placement: Assistant Professor, Washington State University, Beginning Fall 2008.
- Nam Ahn Tran, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Economics
Expected graduation date: Summer 2011
Project Title: Land Use Changes in North Carolina
Supervison: Dr. Laura O. Taylor
- Levente Timar, Ph.D., Department of Economics, August 2008
Dissertation Title: A Random Utility Analysis of Recreational Boating and the
Spread of Zebra Mussels in Wisconsin
Dissertation Committee Co-Chair: Dr. Daniel Phaneuf
- Xingyi Su, Ph.D Candidate, Department of Economics
Expected graduation date: Summer 2012
Project title: Measuring Nutrient Reduction Benefits for Policy Analysis Using Non-market valuation and Environmental Assessment Models
Supervisors: Drs. Daniel Phaneuf and Roger von Haefen
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
- Research Triangle Institute.
- Oklahoma State University
- Pennsylvania State University
- University of Kentucky
- University of Missouri
- University of Nevada-Reno
- University of Tennessee
- US EPA, National Center for Environmental Economics
- 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.
