Jian Zou
Ph.D. Student – Department of Economics
Period in CREATE: Aug 2021 – Aug 2024
E-mail: jianzou2@illinois.edu
Jian Zou is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Economics. His research focuses on economics of education, labor economics, and regional economics. His research topics include peer effects in students’ human capital formation and policy evaluations of a teacher licensure policy (edTPA) and a food program (CACFP) in US. He is currently engaged in an interdisciplinary research project investigating the capacity of domestic trade to mitigate the impacts of climate change on agriculture.
Noé J Nava
Ph.D. Student – Department of Agricultural & Consumer Economics
Period in CREATE: Jun 2018 – December 2021
E-mail: noejn2@illinois.edu
Noé J Nava is a Ph.D student in the department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics. Noé is interested in studying Food Systems and their implications for environment and health with a focus in the NAFTA (now USMCA) region. He strives to study empirical issues from a structural modelling approach to inform public policy. He works with large datasets of climatological, land use and economic indicators regarding U.S. farmers’ lands. He is also experienced in estimation of price and income elasticities using censored AIDS and QUAIDS, counterfactual simulations using general equilibrium models of trade and input-output structural decomposition analyses with regional and multi-regional databases. See more at his personal website: https://noejn2.github.io/ and Twitter: @normalEconomist
Andre Fernandes Tomon Avelino
Ph.D., Agricultural and Applied Economics
Period in REAL: Jan 2010 – Jun 2010 (Undergraduate), Aug 2011 – Jul 2018 (PhD), Aug 2018 – May 2019
E-mail: fernan17@illinois.edu
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/andreavelino
Andre is a Regional Economist with an interdisciplinary focus on human-environmental topics. His research encompasses environmental issues, economics of natural disasters and analysis of structural change. He is specialized in input-output analysis, regional econometric input-output models, spatial econometrics and integrated economic-environmental systems.
Chang Cai
Ph.D. Student – Department of Agricultural & Consumer Economics
Period in REAL: Jan 2016 – Present
E-mail: ccai5@illinois.edu
Chang Cai is a Ph.D. student in Agricultural and Consumer Economics. She holds an M.S. degree in Economics from the same university. Her research interests are applied econometrics, international trade, and regional economic development. She is now working on evaluating the socioeconomic impacts of climate uncertainty.
Federico Ceballos Sierra
Ph.D. Student – Department of Agricultural & Consumer Economics
Period in REAL: Jan 2017 – present
E-mail: fc3@illinois.edu
Federico Ceballos Sierra is a Ph.D. student in Agricultural and Consumer Economics. Federico’s main research fields are Regional and Development Economics: studying how coffee can be used as a development tool. Specifically, he is interested in (1) studying the effect of climate change in coffee yields, and how that is reshaping Colombia’s coffee producing region, and (2) the process of technology diffusion through informal channels of information and how this can be used to leverage the efficiency of extension services.
Maria Gerveni
M.S. Student – Department of Agricultural & Consumer Economics
Period in REAL: Aug 2017 – Jun 2019
E-mail: gerveni2@illinois.edu
Maria Gerveni is an MS student in the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics and Regional Development from Panteion University in Athens, Greece. Her main research interests lie in Regional Economics, Spatial Econometrics, Environmental Economics, and Development.
Yi Huang
Ph.D. Student – Department of Economics
Period in REAL: Jun 2018 – May 2020
E-mail: yihuang4@illinois.edu
Yi Huang holds a BA in Economics and an MA in Economics from University of British Columbia. Her current research focus is on housing price dynamics. She is interested in urban economics and environmental economics. She is also interested in behavioral economics.
Zhangliang Chen
Ph.D. Student – Department of Agricultural & Consumer Economics
Period in REAL: Jun 2015 – Jul 2019
E-mail: zchen105@illinois.edu
Zhangliang Chen’s research interests include climate change economics and spatial econometrics. He is most recently working on assessing the economic impacts of climate change on U.S. agriculture.