Prof. Katrina Jessoe

I am a professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at UC Davis, where I specialize in environmental, resource and energy economics. Much of my research centers on the design and evaluation of pricing and conservation polices in the water and electricity sectors. In my research, I often collaborate with electric and water utilities, as well as state agencies. Some recent and ongoing projects include a framed field experiment to understand the water and energy impacts of water conservation instruments, the estimation of the price elasticity of demand for agricultural groundwater and land use, the design of water markets, the impacts of environmental change on externalities in common pool resources, and the effects of time variant electricity pricing in the agricultural sector. I am a co-editor for the Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists and serve on the Board of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists.  I received a BA from Princeton University in 2002 and a PhD in Environmental and Resource Economics from Yale University in 2009.