Post-Doctoral Economist in Air Quality and Health Economics in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at Colorado State University. Ph.D.(Economics, Agricultural Economics, Public Health or Public Policy or related field). Two-year appointment. Research entails: (a) obtaining information on wildfire and prescribed fire smoke emissions in the western U.S.; (b) combining those data with data on related health effects (e.g., hospital admissions); (c) estimating the economic damages associated with the differential health effects associated with wildfire and prescribed burning; (d) manuscript preparation. Knowledge or skills in non-market valuation including averting behavior, cost of illness, damage cost method or defensive expenditures. Competence in multi-variate statistics or econometrics. Experience constructing large databases from multiple secondary sources. The application deadline is July 20th or until a suitable candidate is found. Send a hardcopy letter of application documenting your knowledge, skills and experience related to the required and desired requirements. Also provide hardcopy of graduate transcripts, vita and contact information for three references to: Dr. John Loomis, Dept. of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1172.
For a complete job announcement see: http://dare.colostate.edu/positions or 
http://dare.colostate.edu/positions/air_postdoc.pdf or http://www.fs.fed.us/rm/value/links.html
Colorado State University is an equal opportunity / affirmative action employer.
