About Me

I am a Ph.D. candidate in Agricultural and Resource Economics at UC Davis with extensive training in environmental and natural resource economics, structural econometrics, and development economics. My dissertation research focuses on viable control in natural resource economics, which applies to a policy objectives concerned with limiting the risk of disastrous events. I am currently developing new theory and techniques to address this important class of problems.

Before UC Davis, I studied physics at Rochester Institute of Technology. In my capstone project, I examined how some relatively simple math models of climate could approximate several of the results from larger numerical simulations.

I am currently on the job market. (JEL codes C6, Q2, Q5). Feel free to contact me by email at donovan@ucdavis.edu with any questions.