Wei Zhang: Connecticut College
April 24, 2014
Wei Zhang will join the faculty of the Department of Economics at Connecticut College in fall 2014. Wei is an applied economist whose work focuses on the decision making of firms and farms under environmental or agricultural policies and how these policies affect economic performance. Her dissertation was on the economics of environmental regulation of agricultural and food production, with a focus on the dairy industry in California. Wei's dissertation committee members are Julian Alston (Chair), Cynthia Lin, and Daniel Sumner.