V Training Course

LACEEP'S V Environmental and Resource Economics Training Course "Impact Evaluation"

The Latin American and Caribbean Environmental Economics Program (LACEEP) is organizing its V Environmental and Resource Economics Training Course, titled “Impact Evaluation” which will be carried out at CATIE’s headquarters in Turrialba, Costa Rica from July 18 - 27, 2011.

Some of the topics that will be covered are:
1. What has program evaluation found in relation to environmental policy? The role of evaluation in environmental policy.

2. Foundations of econometric methods in program evaluation.

3. Practical training in evaluating environmental policies.

The course is aimed at junior researchers who are citizens of any country in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region.  Applicants should have a thorough technical knowledge and command of English.  LACEEP will cover all expenses for the participants (course fee, materials, air ticket, airport taxes and terrestrial transportation), lodging and meals during the days of the event.

Course Instructors:

Paul J. Ferraro is a Professor in the Department of Economics at Georgia State University's Andrew Young School of Policy Studies. He is a Senior Science Fellow at the World Wildlife Fund and a former member of Global Environment Facility's five-member Science Advisor Panel. Dr. Ferraro's research focuses on the design and evaluation of cost-effective environmental policies and institutions, and the use of experiments to study human behavior and decision-making. He received his PhD in economics from Cornell University, and also holds a BA in biology and history, and an MS in economics, from Duke University. He is a collaborating author on the 2005 Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, and his research appears in journals such as Conservation Biology, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Land Economics, PLoS Biology, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Science, and Trends in Ecology Evolution (see http://www2.gsu.edu/~wwwcec/ for more details).

Rodrigo Arriagada is Assistant Professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in Santiago, Chile.  Dr. Arriagada is also an associated research fellow for Environment for Development (EfD) initiative in Central America and ecoSERVICES Group at Arizona State University.  His fields of specialization are environmental economics, program evaluation econometrics, applied microeconomics and development economics.  Dr. Arriagada's current research interests focus on environmental economics and policy, the use of experimental and quasi-experimental program evaluation methods on conservation interventions, deforestation and land use, issues at the intersection of economic development and environmental protection.  He received his Ph.D. from North Carolina State University in 2008 and worked as a Post-Doctoral fellow at the ecoSERVICES Reserch Group at Arizona State University.  His dissertation titled "Private provision of public goods: applying matching methods to evaluate payments for ecosystem services in Costa Rica". His research has been published in AMBIO, Journal of Sustainable Forestry, Agricultural Economics and Land Economics.

Application:

Please fill out LACEEP's attached application form (including one page abstract (maximum 500 words) of a research topic that you would be interested in developing under the support of LACEEP) and short CV to: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it before June 1st, 2011.

 Application Form