William K. Jaeger

Assistant Professor of Economics

Education

Ph.D., Stanford University, 1985

B.A., Washington State University, Economics, 1976

Fields

Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, Environment and Development in the Third World, Economics of Global Warming, and Technological Change

Selected Work Experience

1. Visiting Scholar
   University of Washington, Institute for Environmental Studies, 1994 - 1995
2. Economist
   World Bank, 1985 - 1989

Country Experience

Burkini Faso, Senegal, Cameroon, Nigeria

Publications and Working Papers

• William Jaeger, "Optimal Environmental Taxation," Economics Department Research Paper No. 173., Williams College, revised September 1996, submitted for publication.
• __________, "Fisheries Bioeconomics Reconsidered," August 1996, submitted for publication.
• __________, "Improving Salmon Management in the Pacific Northwest by Combining Technical and Institutional Innovations," August 1996, submitted for publication.
• __________, "Smallholder Wood Production and Population Pressure in East Africa: Evidence of an Environmental Kudnets Curve?," (with S. Patel and T. Pinckney) Land Economics, November 1995.
• __________, "Is Sustainability Optimal?: Examining the Differences Between Economists and Environmentalists," Ecological Economics, Vol. 15, October 1995.
• __________, "The Welfare Cost of a Global Carbon Tax When Tax Revenues Are Recycled," Resource and Energy Economics, Vol. 17 (1), March 1995.
• __________, "The Causes of Africa's Food Crisis," World Development, Vol. 20, No. 11, November 1992.
• __________, "The Effects of Economic Policies on African Agriculture: From Past Harm to Future Hope," World Bank Discussion Paper #147, Washington: World Bank, March 1992.
• ___________, "Utilization, Profitability, and the Adoption of Animal Draft Power in West Africa," (with Peter Matlon) American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 72, No. 1, February 1990.
• __________, Agricultural Mechanization: The Economics of Draft Animal Power in West Africa, Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1986.

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