Dr. Kelly Cobourn is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Economics. In 2009 Kelly received her Ph.D. in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of California, Davis. Her research focuses on environmental and natural resource economics with an emphasis on agri-environmental systems modeling and econometrics.
Articles
The Implications of Surface-Ground Water Hydrology for Optimal Conjunctive Management (with Neil F. Crescenti), Western Economics Forum (2011)
This article addresses the question: How does the hydraulic relationship between surface and ground water...
Implications of Simultaneity in a Physical Damage Function (with Hannah J. Burrack, Rachael E. Goodhue, Jeffrey C. Williams, and Frank G. Zalom), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (2011)
A modeler must often rely on highly simplified representations of complex physical systems when analyzing...
Unpublished Papers
The Role of Harvest Timing in Pest Management: Grower Response to Infestation and Sector-Level Shifts in the Distribution of Output Quality (with Rachael E. Goodhue and Jeffrey C. Williams) (2011)
A ubiquitous pest, such as the olive fruit fly, would seem to harm all producers....
Other
Incentives for Individual and Cooperative Management of a Mobile Pest: An Application to the Olive Fruit Fly in California (Ph.D. 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 (Published Abstract), American Journal of Agricultural Economics (2005)
The growth in federal conservation programs has created a need for policy modeling frameworks capable...
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...