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Graduate Fellows 2006
Joo-Kyung Sung is pursuing her Ph.D. in Economics at North Carolina State University, where she is a research assistant and an instructor. Her special fields are environmental economics and applied econometrics. Her dissertation focuses on the effect of snowmobile regulations on the winter visitation to Yellowstone National Park using revealed and stated preference modeling. At PERC, she examined the impact of a temporary winter use plan on heterogeneous snowmobile riders and guide service providers. Her research experience at PERC was enriched by helpful comments from seminar participants, a couple of visits to the park, and interviews with managers of guiding companies and the National Park Service staff. Her paper was selected best paper of the year.
Tony Cookson holds a B.S. in Economics (May 04) and a M.S. in Applied Economics (May 06), both from Montana State University. In the fall of 2006, he will begin the master's program in statistics at Montana State University; he expects to graduate in May 2008, and proceed to a doctorate program in economics or a joint-degree program in law and economics. Originally from Butte, Montana, a historic mining community, Tony's research interests include understanding the influence of law and politics on economic development, especially in the context of developing countries and rural communities. His early research reflects this interest. For both his master's thesis and PERC graduate fellowship research, Tony inquired into how stable legal and political institutions matter for investment and economic development on American Indian reservations.
Zachary R. Donohew is pursuing a Master's in Environmental Science at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, where his focus is on natural resource economics, particularly water scarcity issues. His research interests reflect his conservation experience before graduate school, which includes field work with the Montana Conservation Corps and policy work with Ducks Unlimited in Washington, D.C. At PERC, Donohew examined the use of free market tools by water trusts to reallocate water rights in-stream so as to improve water quality and fish habitat. Born and raised in Sand Springs, Oklahoma, he earned his B.A. in Political Science at the University of Oklahoma in 2002. He has served as regional director for a U.S. Senate campaign and as a reporter with the Cleveland American in his home state. A French minor in college, Donohew studied for a year at the Universite Blaise Pascal in Clermont Ferrand, France, and interned with the Bureau of European Affairs in the U.S. State Department.
Angela Redding is a graduate research assistant at Utah State University where she is pursuing a Master's degree in public policy with an emphasis in natural resources. Born in Colorado and raised in Utah, Angela received her Bachelor's degree in International and Comparative Politics at Utah State University. Prior to receiving her degree she taught English in China, worked in Glacier National Park, married and traveled. While at PERC, Angela studied how institutional differences between countries affect conservation methodology and implementation, as well as environmental organization accountability. She is currently working with other volunteers to organize and hold the 13th annual International Symposium on Society and Resource Management in Park City, UT.