Jennifer Alix-Garcia

Jennifer Alix-Garcia is a microeconomist with interests in economic development and the environment. Her work includes analysis of land use change and policies to address it, the impacts of forced migration, and the use of satellite data in economic analysis. She has published over 35 peer-reviewed papers in the journals of environmental economics, economic history, public economics, development economics, and economic geography, as well as in general interest economics journals and major science outlets. She is a former editor of the Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists and is also on the editorial board of the Review of Environmental and Resource Economics. She received a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in 2005, and has since worked at the University of Montana, the University of San Francisco, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is currently a professor in the Department of Applied Economics at Oregon State University.