Conservation
The lab focuses on tools that economics can offer to 1) assess social and ecological impacts of conservation efforts, 2) more effectively use budgets to achieve conservation goals, and 3) understand how well market-based approaches work. We are interested in a range of types of conservation, including that by communities who responsibly manage the ecosystems on which they depend.Â
Examples of the lab's work in this area
When and where to protect forests
Nature (2022)
IH Luby, SJ Miller, S Polasky
Causal forest estimation of heterogeneous and time-varying environmental policy effects
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (2020)
S Miller
Protecting marine ecosystems: Regulation versus market incentives
Marine Resource Economics (2017)
SJ Miller, RT Deacon