Summer Research Fellowships Support 20 Graduate Students
Departmental News
Posted: May 20, 2026
The Department of Economics is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2026 Summer Research Fellowship. The Fellowship provides a stipend to doctoral students to help them make progress on their field papers and dissertations. Members of the public can engage with the fellows during a poster session as part of the department’s Research Day.
Name | Project Title | |
Stephania | Alarcon | Applying the Water Values Landscape Conceptual Framework to the Middle Rio Grande Basin |
Sujaan | Aryal | Dynamic Bioeconomic Model of Pathogen Management in Controlled Environment Agriculture |
Samuel | Asare | Trends in Consumptive Water Use in the Middle Rio Grande Basin: Evidence from OpenET and Policy Implications |
Ben | Cornelius | Valuing Outdoor Water Use under Increasing Block Rate Structures |
Rashmi | Dhakal | Climate Driven Extreme Precipitation, Floods/Landslides, and Maternal Health Service Access in Nepal |
Ziyadkhan | Gurbanli | Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital from Maternal Health to Child Educational Outcomes |
Shakhaout | Hossain | Optimal Clean Cooking Subsidy with Heterogeneous Biomass Access and Health Damages in Bangladesh |
Ahmed Amine | Jawhari | Who Bears the Burden? Wildfire Smoke Exposure, Social Vulnerability, and Welfare Losses in the Western US. |
Pem | Lama | Community Forestry in the Shadow of the State: Dose-Response Evidence from Bhutan |
Casey | Leek | Duty Calls, Careers Wait: Do Veteran Spouses Recover? An Analysis of Veteran Spouse Labor Market Outcomes |
Jinyang | Liu | Policy Induced Heterogeneity in the U.S. Commercial Driving Labor Market: Evidence from Demographic Shifts, Border Exposure, and State Level Variation |
Constanza | Mier y Teran Ruesga | Toxic Dust from the Great Salt Lake |
Ana | Milan Hinostroza | Evaluating Alcohol Taxation and Treatment Policies: Essays on Consumption, Traffic Fatalities, and Treatment Outcomes |
Refat | Mishuk | A Nonlinear Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition of Racial and Ethnic Differences in BMI: Evidence from Ordered Logit Models |
Wilfred Osei | Padmore | Return Migration and Human Capital Investment in Ghana |
Nahid | Samimi | Hedonic Pricing of Energy Efficiency Improvements in U.S. Residential Housing |
Jane | Sawerengera | Willingness of agricultural water users to participate in Environmental Water Leasing Program in the Middle Rio Grande Basin |
Alix | Walkup | Mental Healthcare Utilization in the Wake of Dobbs: Evidence from Private Health Insurance Claims |
Ziqing | Xie | A Bioeconomic model: optimal management of aquaponics farms |
Jiaqing | Zhao | Energy Rebound Effect of Residential Solar Adoption |
