Joseph L. Fisher Dissertation Winners

2008-2009

Hunt Allcott, a PhD student in the Department of Public Policy, Harvard University, will complete his research on energy demand, including household electricity demand and the response of the US auto industry to changes in Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards.

Chad Lawley, a PhD student in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Maryland, will complete his research on non-indigenous species and US trade policy to examine the extent to which border inspections are determined by protectionist versus risk-reduction motivations.

Heather Sander, a PhD student in the Department of Geography at the University of Minnesota, is completing her degree in conservation biology by using spatial modeling to examine the ecological and economic effects of changes in land use in the St. Paul, Minnesota metropolitan area.

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