| University of Maryland |
| Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics |
| Barbara Burdick | 2200 Symons Hall |
| 301-405-1291 | College Park | MD | 20742-5535 |
| barbb@arec.umd.edu |
| www.arec.umd.edu | U.S.A. |
| General Statistics | Financial Information |
| Total MA/MS | 9 | Students with Aid | 60% |
| Total PhD | 64 | Average Stipend | $13,000 + tuition |
| MA/MS entering class | 2 | Teaching Assistant | 5% |
| PhD entering class | 10 | Research Assistant | 55% |
| Environmental and Resource Field Statistics |
| Distinct specialization | yes | #MA/PHD in classes | 10 |
| #grad courses | 6 | #degrees/year | 5 |
| Faculty in | Rimjhim Aggarwal | Nancy Bockstael | Ian Hardie |
| Environmental/ | Richard Just | Suzi Kerr | Erik Lichtenberg |
| Resources | John Horowitz | Doug Lipton | Ramon Lopez |
| Lori Lynch | Kenneth McConnell | Lais Olson |
| Doug Parker | Ivar Strand |
| Special resources | Joint PhD program with Economics Department, Proximity to U.S. government |
| agencies (EPA/USDA/NOAA), proximity to (World Bank, EPRI, Inter |
| American Development Bank), think tanks (RFF, WRI) |
| Job placements | University of Tennessee / World Bank / Seoul National University / East |
| Carolina University / Abt Associates / University of Chile / Utah State |
| University / NOAA / National Marine Fisheries / Industrial Economics / |
| University of Maine |
| Examples of | Amy Buss - The Backward-Bending Labor Supply of Commercial Fishermen |
| recent |
| dissertations | Sebastian Valdes - Non-Market Valuation of Recreation Resources: |
| Temporal Reliability in Contingent Valuation Studies and an Examination of |
| Benefits Transfer Procedures with Random Utility Models of Discrete Choice |
| Ellen Post - The Importance of State and Plant Characteristics in |
| Determining the Environmental Compliance Costs of Chemical |
| Manufacturing Plants |
| Timothy Haab - The Impact of Nonparticipants on Nonmarket Valuation of |
| Techniques |
| Quinn Weninger - The Effects of Alternative Management Policies on |
| Industry Structure in the Fishery: With Empirical Evidence from the |
| Mid-Atlantic Surf Clam and Ocean Quahog Fishery |
| Oh Sang Kwon - Three Essays on Natural Resource and Environmental |
| Economics |
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