The EEFE program was approved as new Penn State degree granting program in 2017. The degree builds on prior degrees in Agricultural Environmental and Regional Economics (AEREC) offered by the College of Agricultural Sciences, and Energy and Mineral Engineering (EME Energy Policy Option) offered by the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences. The table below lists M.S. and Ph.D. thesis titles for recent AEREC and EME (Energy Policy Option) students.
| Student | Degree | Grad Date | Thesis Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rasool, Asif | PHD | 5/2024 | Three Essays in Applied Economics: Topics in Agricultural Economics and Public Finance |
| Zhou, Pei | PHD | 12/2023 | Three Essays on Food Safety, Health, and Food Marketing |
| Feng, Jinglin | PHD | 8/2023 | Three Essays on Food Assistance, Environmental Stressor, and Food Choices |
| Simandjuntak, Daniel Perdana | PHD | 8/2023 | Three Essays on Consumer and Retailer Food Responses to Natural Disasters and Disruptive Events |
| Traore, Abdelmoumine | PHD | 5/2023 | Essays on the Mitigation of Climate-Related Stochastic Losses through Investment and Insurance |
| Jayasekera, Deshamitthra | PHD | 8/2022 | Three Essays on Household Location Choice and Internal Migration in the United States |
| Huang, Xuetao | PHD | 5/2021 | Three Essays on the Effects of the Minimum Wage on Labor Market Outcomes of Immigrants in the United States |
| Teti, Zachary | PHD | 5/2021 | By Show of (Which) Hands: An Empirical Analysis of Regional Transmission Organization Stakeholder Voting |
| Yu, Yang | PHD | 8/2020 | Essays on Food Waste and Consumer Demand Analysis |
| Choi, Byunghee | PHD | 8/2020 | Economics of Adaptation: Generalized Optimal Switching |
| Peklak, Darrah | MS | 8/2020 | The Quantile Treatment of the Treated After Hurricane Ike: An analysis of the Houston, TX housing market |
| Chen, Xuan | PHD | 5/2020 | Three Essays on Consumer Demand, Health, and Retail Competition |
| Mitchell, Gregory | MS | 5/2020 | Greening the Steel City:Testing for Environmental Gentrification in Allegheny County |
| Dong, Zefeng | PHD | 12/2019 | THREE ESSAYS ON CONSUMER DEMAND, HEALTH AND FOOD ENVIRONMENT |
| Arora, Rashmit | MS | 8/2019 | Assessing the Viability of Meat Alternatives to Mitigate the Societal Concerns Associated with Animal Agriculture in India |
| Zhang, Bo | PHD | 8/2019 | Agricultural, Environmental and Regional Economics |
| Cook, Aaron Matthew | PHD | 5/2019 | Economic Issues in Nutrient Pollution Control |
| Chau, Truong Nhut | PHD | 12/2018 | Essays on Atricultural Risk Management and Water Use; and Recreational Fishing Participation After Ecological Distruption by an Invasive Species |
| Shu, Jingjing | MS | 8/2018 | The Link Between Diet Quality and Organic Food Purchases for U.S. Households |
| Irani Kermani, Roozbeh | PHD | 8/2018 | Three Essays on Structural State- Dependent MArketing Variables |
| Chen, Yunsi | PHD | 5/2018 | Three Essays on Demand Analysis with Food Spoilage |
| Hoy, Kyle Adam | PHD | 12/2017 | Three Essays on Energy and Food Policy |
| Rimsaite, Renata | PHD | 12/2017 | Three Essays on U.S. Water Rights Markets: Price Efficiency, Welfare Gains, and Institutions |
| Tyagi, Ashish | PHD | 8/2017 | Essays on Greenhouse Gas Emissions Policies in India and Gains from Reforming Water Allocation Institutions |
| Shr, Yau Huo | PHD | 8/2017 | Essays on Non-Market Valuation: Survey Soliciting Method, Model Selection Strategy, and a Hedonic Pricing Application on Flood Risks |
| Scharadin, Benjamin Paul | PHD | 8/2017 | Three Essays on Household Committed Activities and Diet Quality |
| Li, Minghao | PHD | 8/2017 | Three essays on intergenerational mobility |
| Dang, Chi Kim | MS | 12/2016 | The Influence of Household Assets and Community Assets on Rice Farmers' Adaptation Decisions to Climate Change in Viet Nam |
| Wu, Yingxian | PHD | 12/2016 | Essays on consumers' purchase behavior for fresh fruits and vegetables |
| Tian, Jiachuan | PHD | 12/2016 | Commodity Price Dynamics: Discontinuity and Jumps |
| Cho, Wonjoo | PHD | 8/2016 | Bilateral Information Asymmetry in the Design of an Agri-Environmental Program: An Application to Peatland Retirement in Norway |
| Demko, Iryna | PHD | 8/2016 | Essays on U.S. Organic Food Trade and Credence Goods Consumption |
| Espinoza Hermoza, Mauricio | MS | 8/2016 | Breaking Land Inequality in Peru: Are Land Markets Enough? |
| Li, Jing | PHD | 8/2016 | Three Essays on the Health-Related Product Attributes and Consumer Purchasing Behavior: An Application to Ready-to-Eat Breakfast Cereal Market |
| Li, Xueyi | MS | 8/2016 | Barriers to Improving Implementation of Pennsylvania's Underground Injection Well Program |
| Puggioni, Daniela | PHD | 8/2016 | On Modeling and Evaluating the Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility |
| Roa Rodriguez, Monica | PHD | 8/2016 | Essays on Entrepreneurship and Credit in Colombia |
| Zaveri, Esha | PHD | 8/2016 | Essays on Adaptation Responses to Climate Variability in India |
| Liang, Jiaochen | PHD | 5/2016 | Three Essays on U.S. Regional Development and Economic Resilience |
| Marasteanu, Ioana | PHD | 12/2014 | Hotspots of Certified Organic Operations in the United States: Identification, Formation, and Impact |
| Wang, Haoying | PHD | 12/2014 | Essays on Land Development, Housing Markets and Environment |
| Yang, Qiong | PHD | 8/2014 | Measuring Technical Efficiency in Agricultural Extension Services |
| Chen, Danhong | PHD | 5/2014 | Three Essays on Food Environment, Food Demand, and Health |
| Salcedo Du Bois, Rodrigo | PHD | 5/2014 | Groundwater Games: Users' Behavior in Common-Pool Resource Economic Laboratory and Field Experiments |
| Adams, Riley | MS | 12/2013 | Natural Disasters and Proprietorships: A New Form of Creative Destruction |
| Salas Garcia, Vania | PHD | 12/2013 | Three Essays on Economic Development: International Migration, Social Networks, and Social Capital |
| Sen, Shonel | PHD | 12/2013 | Three Essays on the Quantity-Quality Model of Fertility for India: Theoretical Extensions and Empirical Testing |
| Sevilla, Luis | PHD | 12/2013 | Social Networks and the Exchange Economy in Rural Mozambique: A Study of Off-farm Labor and Crop Marketing Behaviors |
| Davlasheridze, Meri | PHD | 08/2013 | Hurrican Disaster Impacts, Vulnerability and Adaptation: Evidence from US Coastal Economy |
| Fan, Qin | PHD | 08/2013 | Climate Change Impacts on Household Location Choices in the U.S. and Economic Consequences |
| Mykoniatis, Nikolaos | PHD | 08/2013 | Three Essays on Bioeconomics of Renewable Resources: Management Regimes, Water Quality Implications and Habitat-fishery Interactions in the Chesapeake Bay |
| Bejarano, Hernan | PHD | 05/2013 | Participation, Pricing and Perception in Markets with Externalities |
| Meng, Xiao | PHD | 05/2013 | Strategic Marketing Behavior of Private Label and Organic Product Firms: A Case Study of the Pre-Packaged Salad Sector |
| Saborio-Rodriguez, Maria Del Milagro | PHD | 05/2013 | Two Essays about Environmental Externalities and One Essay on Trade Cost Measurement |
| Edmundson, Caitlyn | MS | 12/2012 | Marcellus Shale Natural Gas Drilling Operator's Choice of Wastewater Disposal Method |
| Li, Shujie | PHD | 12/2012 | Exploring the Mediating Effect of Social Capital on Human Capital in Economic Well-being: A Micro-analysis of Four Countries |
| He, Guanze | MS | 08/2012 | The Influence of Openness to World Trade and Policies for Technology Diffusion in Chinese State-owned Enterprises |
| Hu, Yong | PHD | 08/2012 | Three Essays on Technology Development and FDI in China: Regional Spillover, Factor Bias Spillover, and Change of Energy Intensity |
| Mahinchai, Montira | MS | 08/2012 | Telecommunications Market Disequilibrium in Southeast Asia |
| Oh, Soo Hyun | PHD | 08/2012 | Structural Estimation on Demand with Brand Choice and Quantity Adjustment: From Non-organic to Organic Food |
| She, Apurba | PHD | 08/2012 | Bounded Learning Efficiency and Sources of Firm Level Productivity Growth |
| Fleming, David | PHD | 05/2012 | Three Essays on Exogenous Shocks in Rural Areas: Land Conservation Policies and Natural Disasters |
| Yoo, Jin Woo | PHD | 12/2011 | Advances in Nonmarket Valuation Econometrics: Spatial Heterogeneity in Hedonic Pricing Models and Preference Heterogeneity in Stated Preference Models |
| Toommongkol, Worawan | PHD | 08/2011 | Product Quality in the Distribution Channel for Retail Food Products |
| Zhang, Lin | PHD | 08/2011 | Rural Labor Mobility, Agricultural Technology Diffusion, and Agricultural Land Leasing in the Process of Rural Economy Development: A Multi-Agent System Modeling Approach Representing Dynamic Household Decision-Making in South China |
| Jimenez-Maldonado, Alwin | PHD | 05/2011 | Developing Decision Rules for the Rainfall Index Insurance Program: An Application to Pennsylvania Producers |
| Kaufman, Zachary | MS | 05/2011 | Agricultural Best Management Practice Adoption Decisions and Spatial Dependence in Southeastern Pennsylvania Farms and Watersheds |
| Schaeffer, Lucas | MS | 05/2011 | SELF-EMPLOYMENT INCOME AND U.S. MIGRATION NETWORKS: IS THERE A RELATIONSHIP? |
| Tellioglu, Isin | PHD | 05/2011 | Implications of Food Safety and Quality Standards: Insights from Turkish Tomato Exports |
| Banerjee, Simanti | PHD | 12/2010 | Payments for Ecosystem Services Schemes for Spatially Coordinated Land Management: An Experimental Study (Supervised by Professors James Shortle and Anthony M. Kwasnica) |
| Wilson, Thomas | MS | 08/2010 | Life Cycle Emissions and GHG Abatement Costs of Densified Switchgrass for Heat and Power |
| Wu, Yingxian | MS | 08/2010 | Modeling and Testing Strategic Pricing, Product Positioning, and Couponing Behavior By Food Manufacturers and Retailers |
| Zhuang, Yan | PHD | 08/2010 | THREE ESSAYS ON ORGANIC MILK MARKETING AND CONSUMER PURCHASE BEHAVIOR |
| Salas Garcia, Vania | MS | 05/2010 | Subjective Well-Being: Effects of Internal Migration from Rural to Urban Areas |
| Wu, Ping-Chao | PHD | 05/2010 | Modeling and Testing Strategic Pricing, Product Positioning, and Couponing Behavior by Food Manufacturers and Retailers |
| Nguyen, Nga-Phuong | PHD | 12/2009 | A Stochastic Agent-Based Market Model for Water Quality Trading Using Evolutionary Simulation Techniques |
| Emvalomatis, Grigorios | PHD | 08/2009 | Parametric Models for Dynamic Efficiency Measurement |
| Ghosh, Gaurav | PHD | 08/2009 | Three Essays on Pricing in Socially-Optimal Markets for Differentiated Goods |
| Jin, Bei | MS | 08/2009 | Willingness-to-Pay for Safer Food Preservatives in Moon Cake: Evidence from a Consumer Survey in Beijing |
| Pu, Na | MS | 08/2009 | Measuring the Competitiveness of China's Vegetable Exports in the U.S. Market |
| Yenerall, Jacqueline | MS | 08/2009 | The Effects of Climate Change and Biofuel Policy on Agricultural Land Use in Pennsylvania |
| Yu, Xiaohua | PHD | 05/2009 | Essays on Consumer Behavior and Demand Analysis: Food Quality, Non-Market Goods, and Habit-Persistence |
| Chikasada, Mitsuko | PHD | 12/2008 | Three Essays on Demand for Organic Milk in the U.S., Environment and Economic Growth in Japan, and Life Expectancy at Birth and Socio-Economic Factors in Japan |
| Loiacono, Matthew | MS | 12/2008 | The Effects of Agricultural Conservation Easements on Residential Property Values |
| Minihan, Erin | MS | 12/2008 | The Impact of Ethanol Production on Agricultural Land Use in Pennsylvania |
| Yano, Yuki | PHD | 12/2008 | Incentives and Moral Hazard in Agri-Environmental Policy |
| Ghimire, Narishwar | MS | 08/2008 | Economics of Biodiesel Production from Microalgae |
| Balasubramanyam, Lakshmi | PHD | 05/2008 | Three Essays in United States Commercial Banking (Supervised by Professors Spiro E. Stefanou and Jeffrey R. Stokes) |
| Fleming, David | MS | 05/2008 | International Trade, Agricultural Productivity and Poverty: The Role of Product Tradability in the Chilean Case |
| Ghosh, Koel | PHD | 05/2008 | Three Essays on Environmental Decision Making Under Uncertainty (Supervised by James S. Shortle) |
| Leuer, Betty (Elizabeth) | MS | 05/2008 | Assessing the Profitability of Anaerobic Digesters on Dairy Farms in Pennsylvania: Real Options Analysis with Multiple Jump Processes (Supervised by Professor Jeffrey Hyde) |
| Pajic, Mirjana | MS | 05/2008 | The Impact of Tariff Reduction and Global Demand Growth on the U.S. Dairy Industry |
| Carriazo, Fernando | PHD | 12/2007 | Measuring Urban Amenities and Disamenities: A Spatial Hedonic Analysis in Bogota, Columbia (Supervised by Professors James Shortle and Richard Ready), 168 pp. |
| Emvalomatis, Grigorios | MS | 08/2007 | Distinguishing Technologies and Measuring Performance in Farm Production: The Case of Pennsylvania Dairy (Supervised by Professor Spiro E. Stefanou) |
| Ochai, Sule | MSAG | 08/2007 | An Empirical Analysis of Alternative Labor Participation, Labor Demand and Supply Decisions Among Adult Indian Male Farmers |
| Shrestha, Sundar | PHD | 08/2007 | Essays on Childhood Nutritional Deprivation in Nepal and Off-Farm Employment in the United States: Multi-Level and Spatial Econometric Modeling Approach |
| Bharadwaj, Latika | PHD | 05/2007 | Work Participation, Motivation, and Benefit Receipt From Off-Farm Work on U.S. Farms: A Household Bargaining Approach |
| Dressler, Jonathan | MS | 05/2007 | Mortgage Termination and Risk Rating Migration at Agchoice Farm Credit (Supervised by Professor Jeffrey Stokes) |
| Rossman, William | MS | 05/2007 | The Influence of Consumer Knowledge and Characteristics on Applesauce Selection: Evidence from a Survey of Pennsylvania Residents |
| Tunceli, Ozgur | PHD | 05/2007 | Labor Market Transitions of Involuntary Part-Time Workers: How Hard Is It to Get Back to Full-time Jobs? |
| Grassmueck, Georg | PHD | 12/2006 | The Role of Governmental Organizational Form in Economic Growth |
| Tellioglu, Isin | MS | 12/2006 | Tarrifs on U.S. Imports of Dairy Products: A Product Component Analysis |
| Wang, Li | PHD | 12/2006 | Spatial Econometric Issues in Hedonic Property Value Models: Model Choice and Endogenous Land Use |
| Williams, Jeffrey | MS | 12/2006 | Categorized Retail Land Use and Its Association with Residential Property Values in Berks County, Pennsylvania: A Hedonic Analysis |
| Wood, Jr., Lawrence | MS | 12/2006 | Broadband in Rural Pennsylvania: Narrowing the Digital Divide |
| Chatterjee, Amal | MS | 08/2006 | Rural Traffic Congestion and the Northeastern Boiler Industry |
| Jayaraman, Anuja | PHD | 08/2006 | Poverty Dynamics and Household Response: Disaster Shocks in Rural Bangladesh |
| Konovalchuk, Vladimir | PHD | 08/2006 | A Computable General Equilibrium Analysis of the Economic Effects of the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster |
| Lawton, Jennifer | MS | 08/2006 | Stated Respondent Uncertainty and Mitigation of Hypothetical Bias in Choice Experiments |
| Ward, Kelly | PHD | 08/2006 | Optimal Inter-Temporal Management of a Renewable Resource: A Policy Analysis |
| Mo, Xiugen | MS | 05/2006 | Sustainable Development and Rural Poverty in Pooer Communities of South China |
| Bae, Jeong | PHD | 12/2005 | The Welfare Consequences of Carbon Tax Reform in Open Economies: The Application of Computable General Equilibrium Model for Pennsylvania. |
| Du, Shengwu | PHD | 12/2005 | Commodity Futures in Asset Allocation. |
| Price, Jennifer | MS | 12/2005 | An Economic Analysis of Community Refuge Requirements for Insect Resistant Bt Corn |
| Ridout (Jamro), Erika | MS | 12/2005 | Valuing Watersheds and their Effect on Quality of Life: A Study of Two Pennsylvania Watersheds |
| Steward, Annette | MSAG | 12/2005 | Estimating the Economic Implications of Farm Management Decisions |
| Kipp, Mary | MS | 05/2005 | Estimating Preferences for Quality-of-Life Attributes Using the Stated Choice Method: A Survey of Cape May County, New Jersey Residents. |
