 I am an assistant professor of economics at Williams College, in Williamstown, MA. My department website is here. I am an applied microeconomist. I use experimental and empirical tools in the analysis of issues in environmental and behavioral economics. I have particular interests in public goods provision in general, voluntary conservation, and risk preferences. I earned my PhD in economics at Georgia State University's Andrew Young School of Policy Studies in May 2010. Are you a Williams student who would like to be in economics experiments? Sign up here! You earn cash for your participation, and you provide me (or whoever is running the experiment) with useful data. Teaching: In 2011-2, I will teach two sections of Econ 251 (Price & Allocation Theory, i.e. intermediate microecon) in fall, and then Econ 213 (Intro to Environmental and Natural Resource Econ) and 386/515 (Environmental Policy & Natural Resource Management) in spring. In 2010-2011, I taught two sections of Econ 251 and one section each of Economics 213 and Economics 386/515. All information about my classes is available on Glow. I have prepared a "white paper" about how to solve consumer choice problems, and while it's posted on the Glow sites of my classes, I provide it here as well. Publications:
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I prepared a "white paper" describing the economics PhD job market process with detailed advice for students from schools like my own alma mater, Georgia State University. I've updated the paper slightly as of July 2011. I provide it here with a general caveat emptor. Comments and suggestions would be very much appreciated. Note that it does not carry the imprimatur of any economics department, and is my own independent creation. To contact me: email me at sarah (dot) a (dot) jacobson (at) williams (dot) edu |