Keith S. Evans
Marine Resource Economics
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I am an associate professor of marine resource economics in the School of Economics (SOE) at the University of Maine. I specialize in environmental and natural resource economics. In particular, I am interested in rights-based fisheries management, cooperation in the commons, marine aquaculture, marine policy, and non-market valuation methods. I use microeconomics and applied econometric approaches to study how resource management decisions impact resource users, public preferences for resource policy and products, and how the seafood economy responds to change.
I often collaborate with colleagues in economics and with natural and social scientists interested in the coastal and marine environment.
About me
I grew up in northern California along the Sacramento River. I received my Bachelors degree with Honors in Economics from California State University, Chico where I first gained an interest in environmental economics. I moved to Iowa State University to complete my graduate work and earn a Ph.D. in Economics. During my last year at Iowa State, I moved to Arizona State University to participate as pre-doctoral research fellow where I worked on measuring environmental effects using equilibrium sorting models. Before joining the faculty at the University of Maine in 2014 I was faculty in the Department of Economics at St. Lawrence University (a liberal arts college in upstate New York) where I taught courses in intermediate microeconomics, environmental economics, and econometrics.
Current Projects
Papers in progress
Rights-Based Management and Efficiency in Common Pool Resources with Quinn Weninger and Carl Lian.
Middleman Reputation in a Two-sided Market with Brian Chezum, Emily Plant, and Jill Stowe.
