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Jill Caviglia-Harris
Jill Caviglia-Harris is a Professor of Economics. Her areas of
expertise include environmental and natural resource economics.
She was awarded Salisbury University’s Distinguished Faculty Award
for excellence in teaching and research in 2004, as well as the
2010 Maryland Board of Regent’s Award for excellence in teaching,
the SU 2010 Outstanding Mentor Award, and the 2010 Southern Economic
Association Kenneth G. Elzinga Teaching Award. Caviglia-Harris’s
research is focused on understanding the nexus between land use
change and welfare in the Brazilian Amazon. Her approach includes
the collection and analysis of survey, geographical information
systems (GIS), and remote sensing data at the household level to
create a spatial panel used to investigate multiple issues as they
relate to welfare and deforestation trajectories over time. She
has published in Environment and Development Economics,
Economic
Development and Cultural Change, Agricultural and Resource Economics
Review, Agricultural Economics, Ecological Economics, and the
Review
of Regional Studies, among others. This research has been funded
by the National Science Foundation and other organizations for the
past 15 years. A second dimension of her research includes the investigation
of best practices for teaching economics and program assessment.
For more information, visit
http://facultyfp.salisbury.edu/jlcaviglia-harris .
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