| About | Current Students | Alumni | Contact |
| Current Students |
 |
Rebecca Toseland (Job Market Candidate)
toseland [at] econ [dot]
ucsb [dot] edu
Rebecca is an Economics PhD candidate and an Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology Masters student at UCSB. Her dissertation research examines the evolution and efficacy of two fisheries management policy approaches: rights-based management (catch shares) and spatial management (marine reserves). She was a Pre-Doctoral Fellow in Environmental and Resource Economics at Arizona State University in 2013, a summer graduate fellow at the Property and Environment Research Center (PERC) in 2010, and a summer graduate student researcher at the National Center for Environmental Economics (NCEE) at EPA in 2008. Rebecca did her undergraduate studies at Yale University where she double majored in Environmental Studies and Economics
| |
 |
Ashwin
Rode (Job Market Candidate)
rode [at] umail [dot] ucsb
[dot] edu
Ashwin Rode is a PhD student in the department of economics. His research interests span the fields of environmental economics, political economy, and econometric methods. His work in econometrics deals with the identification and estimation of treatment effects when there is interference among subjects. His projects in environmental economics explore the political economy of emissions trading and the resource curse phenomenon. Ashwin holds a B.A. degree in economics from the University of Chicago and an M.S. degree in economics from the University of Texas at Austin.
| |
 |
Daniel Argyle (Job Market Candidate)
danielargyle [at] umail [dot] ucsb
[dot] edu
Daniel is a graduate student in
Economics at the University of California,
Santa Barbara with broad interests in
Econometrics and Labor Economics. His current
research focuses on econometric methods to
analyze network data, with applications to
congressional voting, peer effects in
education, and migration patterns.
Additionally, he is interested in the
economics of education, especially the effects
of school competition through charter schools.
| |
 |
Ryan Abman
abman [at] econ [dot] ucsb
[dot] edu
Ryan Abman is a PhD student in the
department of Economics. His research
interests include the implementation of
environmental regulation, the political
economy of natural resources and protected
areas, as well as the economics of computer
security.
Ryan holds a B.A. in International Affairs
and Economics from the University of Colorado, Boulder.
| |
 |
Valerie Bostwick
vkbostwick [at] umail [dot] ucsb
[dot] edu
Valerie Bostwick is a Ph.D. student in Economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research interests are in the fields of labor economics and econometrics with a focus on the economics of education. Valerie's current work in econometrics deals with inference in nonlinear models with clustered data when the number of clusters is limited. She also has a working paper titled "Obtaining Critical Values for Test of Markov Regime Switching" (with Doug Steigerwald), which provides Stata code for a test for Markov regime switching.
| |
 |
Jenna Stearns
stearns [at] umail [dot]
ucsb
[dot] edu
Jenna Stearns is a Ph.D. student in the department of Economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her broad research interests are in the areas of labor and applied econometrics, with a focus on issues related to education and health. She is currently examining the impact of policies that promote maternity leave in the United States on birth outcomes, and also the effects of raising standards on performance in college.
Jenna holds a B.A. in Economics from Whitman College.
| |
 |
Chris Severen
cseveren [at] econ [dot] ucsb
[dot] edu
Chris Severen is a PhD Student at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is pursuing a his dissertation through the Department of Economics as well as the Bren School of Environmental Management, completing a special emphasis Economics and Environmental Management. His research focuses on the role of uncertainty in environmental management, the impacts of uncertainty and dynamic information on economic agents, and how these topics interact with different property right regimes. In addition to pursuing theoretical research in these topics, Chris is attempting to better bridge the predominantly theoretic world of information economics and more empirical environmental applications.
| |