UC Davis Agricultural and Resource Economics

Schaefer's Dissertation and Valdes-Donoso's Thesis Named ARE Department's Best of 2017

Jan. 30, 2018

Aleks Schaefer completed the best Ph.D. dissertation and Pablo Valdes-Donoso completed the best M.S. thesis in 2017, as voted by an ARE faculty committee.

Each year, a faculty committee reviews all of the dissertations and theses submitted. The best of each is nominated for AAEA Outstanding Dissertation and Thesis Awards. The best dissertation also receives the departmental Gordon A. King Award.

BEST DISSERTATION & GORDON A. KING AWARD:
Aleks Schaefer: The Economics of Artemisinin and the Global Spread of Malaria (Chair: Rachael Goodhue)

BEST THESIS:
Pablo Valdes-Donoso: Collective Strategies to Control PRRS, a Non-Reportable, Endemic Swine Disease (Chair: Tu Jarvis)

 

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