Douglas Almond is a 2025 PERC Lone Mountain fellow and a professor of economics and international and public affairs at Columbia University, where he co-directs the Center for Environmental Economics and Policy. His research focuses on health and environmental economics, particularly the long-term effects of early-life exposures on health and economic outcomes. Almond served asContinue reading “Douglas Almond”
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Lusi Xie
Lusi Xie is a PERC Lone Mountain fellow as well as an assistant professor at the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics at the University of Georgia. Her research focuses on providing a better understanding of human behavior involving the natural environment and designing incentives for water and land conservation. She collects data using economicContinue reading “Lusi Xie”
Daniel Kaffine
Daniel Kaffine is a 2025 PERC Lone Mountain fellow and professor in the Department of Economics and an institute fellow in the Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute at the University of Colorado Boulder. Recent and ongoing research projects examine the impacts of the rapidly increasing role of renewable energy in the electricity sector, the intersectionContinue reading “Daniel Kaffine”
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 third-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”