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Lucy Page

Lucy Page is a 2025 PERC Lone Mountain fellow, as well as an assistant professor of economics at the University of Pittsburgh and an affiliated researcher at Inclusion Economics at Yale. Her research focuses on the design of payments for ecosystem services and collective action on climate change in the U.S. Before joining the UniversityContinue reading “Lucy Page”

Will Rafey

Will Rafey is a 2025 PERC Lone Mountain fellow and works as an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is also a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from MIT in 2020. His research focuses onContinue reading “Will Rafey”

Adam Daigneault

Dr. Adam Daigneault is a 2025 PERC Lone Mountain fellow and the director and associate professor of Forest Policy and Economics in the School of Forest Resources. He is a natural resource economist who has more than 20 years of experience researching and analyzing land use policy mechanisms, including those commonly applied to forest ecosystemsContinue reading “Adam Daigneault”

Annalise Helm

Annalise Helm is a 2025 PERC graduate fellow and a 2nd-year Ph.D. student in agricultural and applied economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has experience as an environmental economics consultant in Oregon and is developing dissertation research on the economic barriers to land use adaptation to climate change. 

Antonia Marcheva

Toni Marcheva is a 2025 PERC graduate fellow and a Ph.D. Candidate at Cornell Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management studying water management and climate change adaptation policy. Her current research explores how farmers in California respond to the government’s forecasts about surface water availability. She became interested in water management growing up inContinue reading “Antonia Marcheva”

Peri Brimley

Peri Brimley is a 2025 PERC graduate fellow and a 5th-year Ph.D. candidate at the University of Wyoming studying environmental economics and environmental policy. Her current research examines the way that federal wildfire management strategies develop in response to ecological outcomes and public preferences. She is passionate about developing policy that prioritizes the protection andContinue reading “Peri Brimley”

Yifei Liu

Yifei Liu is a 2025 PERC graduate fellow and a Ph.D. candidate in the Agricultural and Applied Economics program at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her research studies economic problems in energy infrastructure development, with a focus on the interconnection process, infrastructure permitting, and transmission planning in the United States. Prior to her doctoral studies, sheContinue reading “Yifei Liu”

Willard Robinson

Willard Robinson is a 2025 PERC graduate fellow as well as an economics Ph.D. student at North Carolina State University. His research interests lie at the intersection of the environment and market design. Motivated by improving access to outdoor recreation opportunities, his current research explores how changes to budget policy impact the resource management challengesContinue reading “Willard Robinson”

Conner Harwood

Conner Harwood is a research associate at PERC. He recently graduated from Montana State University with an MS in applied economics and holds a BS in economics from the University of Michigan. During graduate school, he was awarded the most outstanding thesis for his work studying the relationship between water scarcity and legal conflict inContinue reading “Conner Harwood”

Tony Schoonen

Tony Schoonen is the CEO of the Boone and Crockett Club.