Dr. Kelly Cobourn is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Economics. She recently received her Ph.D. in Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Davis. Dr. Cobourn's research focuses on environmental and natural resource economics with an emphasis on agri-environmental systems modeling and spatial econometrics.
Articles
Environmental Conservation on Agricultural Working Land: Assessing Policy Alternatives Using a Spatially Heterogeneous Land Allocation Model, American Journal of Agricultural Economics (2005)
The growth in federal conservation programs has created a need for policy modeling frameworks capable...
Unpublished Papers
An Individual Grower’s Incentives to Control a Pest: The Relationship between Insecticide Use and Harvest Timing Decisions (with Rachael E. Goodhue and Jeffrey C. Williams) (2009)
This paper examines pest control incentives facing individual growers. The objective is to examine grower...
Implications of Simultaneity in Pest Damage Functions (with Hannah J. Burrack, Rachael E. Goodhue, Jeffrey C. Williams, and Frank G. Zalom) (2008)
The prevalent approach to formulating a damage function, which links biological and economic systems, defines...
Presentations
Pests and Agricultural Commodity Losses: Evaluating Alternative Approaches to Damage Function Estimation (with Rachael Goodhue, Jeffrey Williams, and Frank Zalom), 2008 Annual Meeting American Agricultural Economics Association (2009)
Estimating the economic impact of a pest requires linking biological and economic systems via a...
The Role of Harvest Timing in Pest Management: Grower Response to Infestation by the California Olive Fruit Fly (with Rachael E. Goodhue and Jeffrey C. Williams), Agricultural and Applied Economics Association Annual Meeting (2009)
Other
Incentives for Individual and Cooperative Management of a Mobile Pest: An Application to the Olive Fruit Fly in California (Dissertation) (2009)
Institutions for collective action can effectively mitigate a harmful externality. However, the viability of such...
Environmental Conservation on Agricultural Working Land: Assessing Policy Alternatives Using a Spatially Heterogeneous Land Allocation Model (M.S. Thesis) (2004)
Multifunctionality refers to the ability of agricultural systems to produce an array of non-market goods...