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, Institutional Economics, and Technological Change

Selected Work Experience

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

Country Experience

Burkini Faso, Senegal, Cameroon, Nigeria

Publications and Working Papers

William K. Jaeger, "Better Salmon Management in the Pacific Northwest by Combining Technical and Institutional Innovations," Natural Resources Journal, Vol. 37, No. 4, Fall 1997, forthcoming.
__________, "On the double dividend of environmental taxation," Economics Department Research Paper, Oct. 1997.
__________, "Optimal Environmental Taxation," Economics Department Research Paper No. 173., Williams College, revised June 1997.
__________, "The Welfare Cost of a Global Carbon Tax When Tax Revenues Are Recycled," Resource and Energy Economics, Vol. 17 (1), March 1995.
__________, "Is Sustainability Optimal?: Examining the Differences Between Economists and Environmentalists," Ecological Economics, Vol. 15, October 1995.
__________, "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.
__________, "The economics of social status," manuscript, revised August 1996.
__________, "Developing countries and the net welfare cost of a global carbon tax," Economics Department Research Memorandum No. 144. Williams College, 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.

Williams

Economics