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
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Unpublished Papers
Implications of Simultaneity in a Physical Damage Function (with Hannah J. Burrack, Rachael E. Goodhue, Jeffrey C. Williams, and Frank G. Zalom) (2010)
When analyzing associated economic systems, the modeler must often rely on highly simplified representations of...
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...
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...