AAE PhD candidate Rachel Frattarola spent two years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Panama from 2011 to 2013. It was as a Volunteer in Panama that she observed that many small shops found in rural …
Year: 2017
Morbidity Costs of Air Pollution
AAE graduate student Austin Williams and his advisor Dan Phaneuf have been working on understanding the role that air pollution plays in expenditures on respiratory ailments. Spending on these ailments totals nearly $75 billion in the …
The cost of too many deer
In Wisconsin, we know all too well the perils of the deer population, especially on country roads at night. An estimated one million deer-vehicle collisions (DVCs) occur every year in the United States, causing 20,000 …
What if Ag Recruiting is too late?
Putting a value on natural assets: the BP Oil Spill
AAE’s Rich Bishop is lead author, with Kevin Boyle (AAE Ph.D. 1985) and others, on a new study published in Science magazine, that values the damages caused by the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon drilling explosion, …
Six Charts that Illustrate the Divide Between Rural and Urban America
Nick Parker talks to BBC about conflict minerals legislation
Fast track master's preps students for careers in energy analysis
Investing in Innovation
AAE Professors Tessa Conroy and Steve Deller explore the need for innovation and “quality competition” and their role in the future success of the state of Wisconsin.
Foundational Environmental Economics Textbook Released
After more than ten years in the making, Dan Phaneuf and his co-author Till Requate have published A Course in Environmental Economics: Theory, Policy and Practice, the first graduate-level textbook that integrates the empirics, theory and policy of this maturing …